[Last Updated: December 5, 2003]

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Sustainability Planning-related

Web Sites

The US Department of Energy maintains an excellent (resource-wise) web site titled Smart Communities Network.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) maintains a Compendium page of global indicator initiatives.

The International Sustainability Indicators Network (ISIN) has a resource page with useful links as well.

The Sustainability Report, affiliated with the York Center for Applied Sustainability at the York University, Ontario, is a very valuable resource as well.

The organization, Redefining Progress, maintains a web site with some very useful material (particularly as it pertains to their ecological footprint-related work, but lots of other good stuff as well). [See particularly their publications page.]

The National Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research has a site with some sustainability-relevant information.

The World Bank maintains a site pertaining to Environmental Economic Indicators.

A global perspective on sustainability indicators is provided at the Dashboard On Sustainability.

The Harvard Forum for Science & Technology for Sustainability maintains a useful web site as well.

Donella Meadows' papers on sustainability indicators can be accessed here.

INFORM is an "independent research organization that examines the effects of business practices on the environment and on human health."

Some other useful sustainability indicator-related web sites
(with thanks to Joy Hecht and members of the <Sustainabilityindicators@yahoogroups.com>, and in no particular order) are:

Ecosystem indicators from the Heinz Center:

http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/

The UN Division of Sustainable Development maintains a page for sustainability indicators at:

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/isd.htm

OECD has various environmental indicator reports at:

http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_34283_1_1_1_1_37465,00.html

The UNEP’s Cities Environmental Reports On the Internet (CEROI) maintains links to urban state of the environment reports worldwide at:

http://www.ceroi.net/

The International Council for Local Environment Initiatives maintains links to local governments implementing sustainable development:

http://www.iclei.org/

The US Department of Energy’s list of links to communities with sustainability indicators:

http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/measuring/meaction.shtml

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) maintains a statement of the Bellagio principles on assessment of sustainable development:

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/bellagio.pdf

London Sustainability Exchange:

http://www.lsx.org.uk/resources/ind-tk/indics/index.shtml

National Strategies for Sustainable Development - DFID/SIDA project:

http://www.nssd.net/index1.html

The US Conference of Mayors and The National Association of Counties maintain the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities web page at:

http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/sustainable/

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - research unit on sustainability indicators and environmental evaluation:

http://www.feem.it/web/resun/sim1.html

A comprehensive overview of sustainability indicators done for a Scottish local economic development corporation:

http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/library/pubs/set.html

Ontario, Canada's, Ministry of the Environment maintains a web site - Managing the Environment Report: A Review of Best Practices. [See, for instance, Paper No. 9. - Review and Analysis of Best Practices in Public Reporting on Environmental Performance, by Michael Keating]

Various place-linked indicator sets

A Southern California-based sustainability-related set of articles and resources are at the Southern California Studies Center's web site.

The New Jersey Sustainable State Institute maintains a page with its Goals and Indicators, along with their annual reports from previous years.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Strategic Projects and Planning has a report titled The Secretary's Quarterly Performance Report: Performance Measurement in the Department of Environmental Protection

The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance maintains a page with its various reports and publications at:

http://www.bnia.org/results/research_reports.html

The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) maintains a page with its State of the Region Reports.

Sustainable DC has a fortnightly e-mail newsletter that's worth a look at.
[Previous newsletters are archives, and each has a section with URLs to SD related sites.

The Hamilton City Council, Ontario, maintains links to its Vision 2020 sustainability reports and indicator sets at:

http://www.vision2020.hamilton.ca/

Finland:

http://www.vyh.fi/eng/environ/sustdev/indicat/riosta.htm

Fraser Basin Council:

http://www.fraserbasin.bc.ca/nf_indicators.html

Sunnybank, Australia:

http://www.uq.net.au/~zzrawill/sunnybank/community/indicators/

Central Texas:

http://www.centex-indicators.org/

South West Pennsylvania:

http://203.147.150.6/

There are also a lot of websites from consulting firms selling sustainability strategic planning services: