Sustainable Community Indicators - Trainer's Workshop

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Table of Contents

Introduction . 8

How to Set Up . 9

Introductory Exercise .10

Optional Exercises 12

Section 1 - What is sustainability? . 14

A new way to look at the world 16

Training workshop agenda .18

Let’s define some terms22

What does sustain mean?.24

What is development?.26

What is carrying capacity?28

What is community capital? .30

What are weak and strong sustainability? 32

How do you define a community?34

What is an indicator? 36

Traditional measures .42

Interconnected measures .44

There are many different definitions of sustainability 46

Brundtland Commission .48

Brundtland Commission (continued) 50

Caring for the Earth 52

Indicators from Caring for the Earth.54

MACED 56

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.58

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Sustainable Seattle 60

Puget Sound/Sustainable Community Roundtable62

Co-op America .64

MACED Communities by Choice 66

Hawaii .68

Northwest Policy Institute .70

Indicators for sustainable communities .72

Sustainable business .74

Lowell Center for Sustainable Production .76

The Natural Step 78

Sustainable production indicators 80

Sustainable agriculture 82

Indicators for sustainable agriculture 84

Sustainability is a vision of the future 86

Recapping .88

Next . 90

Section 2 - What makes a good indicator? . 92

What are indicators for? 94

Showing Linkages .96

What makes a good indicator? .98

Not at expense of others 100

Environmental indicators . 102

Cultural/social indicators . 104

Economic indicators . 106

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Making a better indicator 108

Examples of national economic indicators 110

Gross National Product. 112

Genuine Progress Indicator 114

Ecological Footprint 116

Making measures that speak to people 118

Total water use 120

Water use per person 122

Water use vs. water available . 124

Measure cause and effect 126

Pressure - State - Response 128

Evaluating indicators . 130

Environmental indicators . 132

Economic indicators . 134

Transportation indicators 136

Land use indicators . 138

Recapping 140

Next . . 142

Exercises 144

Section 3 - Developing Indicators.146

Small Group Exercise . 147

Small group exercise. 150

Linking issues 154

Indicator checklist . 156

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Recapping 158

Next . . 160

Section 4 - Indicator Projects and Resources162

View of Community . 164

Economy, environment, society as interlocked circles 166

Economy in society in environment 168

Indicator frameworks . 170

Indicator themes . 172

Issues 174

Goals 176

Indicator criteria . 178

Examples . 180

How many indicators do we need? . 182

Data sources 184

Local and regional data sources . 186

National and international data sources 188

Who is working on sustainability?. 190

Where are they working on it? 192

How are they working on it? 194

Why are people working on it? . 198

Other resources 200

How do we get there? . 202

It’s time to measure what we want to be .204