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Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network (CSIN)
An alert reader pointed out that I had failed to list the Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network (CSIN) as a resource for indicators-minded people (since corrected.) I think many of you may be int...
Corporate Sustainability Indicator Reports: Case Study
Here's an interesting analysis in Ethical Corporation newsmagazine that takes Nestlé's "Creating Shared Value" report and examines it according to sustainability practices and indicators measured. Al...
Job Opening: Sustainable San Mateo
Project Coordinator - Sustainability Indicators Report Sustainable San Mateo County, San Mateo, CA Established in 1992, Sustainable San Mateo County (SSMC) is a nonprofit dedicated to the long-term h...
Vote for SCOPE!
Take a moment and vote for a great example of community change efforts stemming from community indicators -- and help fund the work. Here's the information you need:SARASOTA, FL … SCOPE is pleased ...
Comparing Measures of Sustainability of Nations
There's a working paper by J. Ram Pilarisetti and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh calledSustainable Nations: What Do Aggregate Indicators Tell Us? The paper, published by the Tinbergen Institute in the Ne...
Political Leadership and Sustainability
I read an interesting blog post this morning from Joe Swanson, who's apparently a candidate for political office in Wisconsin. I am not in Wisconsin, and do not publicly endorse candidates, and have n...
Musing on Indicators
Today seems like a good day to look around and see what other people are saying about indicators. A quick blog scan shows the following:Nancy Kress looks at quality of life indicators, their relations...
Environment and Public Health Indicators
A new study, Tracking Health and the Environment: A Pilot Test of Environmental Public Health Indicators looks at the relationship between environmental indicators and public health measures. In the s...
State of the World 2008 Released
Here's a press release from the Worldwatch Institute:Pioneering entrepreneurs, nongovernmental organizations, and governments around the globe are now inventing the Earth's first sustainable global ec...
Japan for Sustainability
While in Brussels, I had a chance to talk with Hiroyuki Tada, co-founder of Japan for Sustainability, http://www.japanfs.org/index.html. I've been a fan of their work for a while, and you remember we ...
Blog Action Day
Sometimes this blog focuses on the technical aspects of measurement issues, and points out articles like the Special Issue of Ecological Economics (Journal): Sustainability and Cost-Benefit Analysis,...
Greenest Countries and Cities
Matthew Kahn and Fran Lostys wrote the October 2007 Reader's Digest article, Living Green: Ranking the World's Best (and Worst) Countries.The title doesn't quite fit the article. Kahn and Lostys measu...
E-Conference on Sustainable Development, Indicators, and the Internet
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is hosting an E-conference on Internet Governance and Sustainable Development September 17 to 28.Their description follows:From September...
Hot-Mapping to Reduce Energy Use
We've seen efforts to identify people who consume water at high levels in the community and draw attention to that data to encourage conservation. We've seen similar efforts around electricity use, bu...
Blog Action Day
This site will be participating, and would like to invite other bloggers to join in.BLOGGERS TO UNITE ON BLOG ACTION DAYAll Blogs Invited to Take Part in Joining Voices to Help EnvironmentAn internati...
Corporate Sustainability Reports: Making the Grade
I saw an interesting report on Greenbiz.com by way of the folks at SocialFunds.com.More and more companies are publishing triple bottom line reports, and are submitting their reports for the Ceres-ACC...
Sustainable Community Indicators from AIA
Smart Growth Online has a quick heads-up about a new publication from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Center for Communities by Design. They've produced a first draft of a selection of prom...
Indicators of Energy Consumption
I was playing around with an interesting data source this week I thought I'd share. The Energy Information Administration of the U.S. government has a series of tables, charts, and graphs tracking ene...
Sustainability Blog
Curt Rosengren at Passion Catalyst International hosts a blog called The Sustainable Future. I'd like to direct your attention to the blog if you're interested in sustainability, and steer you to a co...
Triple Bottom Lines and Community Indicators
Triple Bottom Lines are efforts to include an "environmental bottom line" and a "social bottom line" to the financial bottom line companies report to their stakeholders. This usually results in compan...