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Where Are We Going? - Tools
Where Are We Now? | | Where Do We Want to Be? | How Do We Get There? | Let's Go! |Step Two
Trends Analysis
"The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly
unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world."
John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America
Socio-economic
- Measuring
Change in Rural Communities: A Workbook for Determining Demographic,
Economic, and Fiscal Trends
- Economic
Profile System (EPS)
- Summary of population measurement tools
- Recreational demand tools
- Forest Society-Cost of Growth
- How-to Manual for Community Economic Analysis [PDF, 97 pp., 230KB]
- Municipal Solid Waste Generation Projections
- U.S.
State & Local Gateway was developed to give state and local
government officials and employees easy access to federal information.
- Geographic
Aspects of Inequality and Poverty
- Inequality
Measurement and Decomposition
- Spatial
Mapping of Poverty and Inequality
- National Association for County Community
& Economic Development (NACCED)
- National Community Development
Association
- How To Do A Build-Out Analysis
Environmental
- Land Use Mapping as a Tool
- Water Quality Trends
- Reliable Sources on Water Protection
- A Citizen's Guide to Ground Water Protection
- The Tellus Institute
Energy Group
- SLATE: State,Local and Tribal Environmental Networks
- On the Road to Clean Cities
from the US Department of Energy
- Resources from FEMP,
the Federal Energy Management Program
Sustainability
- National
Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research
- Comparing Methodologies of Transportation and Air Quality Impacts of Brownfields and Infill Development. [PDF, 49 pp., 1.57MB]
- The Center For Global
Studies of the Houston Advanced Research Center
Indicators The outcome of answering "Where Are We Now?", is a Community Profile. Many of the indicators your community will use to answer "Where Are We Going?" can be selected from this original inventory. There are may different ways of thinking about and organizing indicators. Each community will come up with its own way of grouping indicators into categories that make sense, based on the community’s unique circumstances. Some indicators may not be appropriate for all regions.
Financial Tools Click here for Financial tools and alternative approaches for funding Green Communities' activities.
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