Pacific Northwest 's Sustainability Report Card

The Cascadia Scorecard

The Cascadia Scorecard is the Pacific Northwest's sustainability report card. It tracks seven trends that are crucial to the region's future: health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution.

Each of these trends is backed up with graphs, charts, maps and more detailed information on sustainability in the Pacific Northwest at this link:

http://scorecard.sightline.org/

The latest update of the Scorecard, released in February 2009 shows that we are making slow and tentative progress towards our shared goals: long and healthy lives; shared economic prosperity; and a legacy of thriving nature.

Despite recent improvements, it will take at least 42 years, on average, to match the performance of real-world exemplars, cities and region around the world, that have already achieved robust human health, broadly shared economic security, efficiency in the use of land and energy, and thriving natural systems. Compared with international models, Cascadia does best on human health -- and worst, by far, on energy consumption.

How can we improve on our report card?