Tutorial on Sustainability Indicators

The website below is an excellent tutorial on indicators of sustainable community: ways to measure how well a community is meeting the needs and expectations of its present and future members. One of the primary goals of the site is to explain what indicators are, how indicators relate to sustainability, how to identify good indicators of sustainability, and how indicators can be used to measure progress toward building a sustainable community.

Explore the following questions in detail at this link:

http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Indicators/index.html

What is an indicator of sustainability?

What are the characteristics of effective sustainability indicators?

Is there a checklist that a community can use to evaluate sustainability indicators?

How can you organize indicators; how many and what kind do you need?

What data sources are available for indicators?

Can you show me examples of good sustainability indicators?

Are there any training materials that explain indicators an d sustainability?