Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sustainable Community Indicators Website

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

This announcement below showed up on our neighborhood list and
I thought it might be of interest to cohousing folks.
Fred

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From: Maureen Hart <mhart [at] TIAC.NET>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:30:05 -0400
Subject: Sustainable Community Indicators Website

 I thought this would be of interest to people on this list. I apologize
in advance for any cross postings received. 

After much prompting by a number of people, I have finally put The Guide
to Sustainable Community Indicators on to the web (with a lot of help from
my friend).  It can be found at: 

  http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators

The website is intended to be a place to go for ideas on sustainable
community indicators: what they are, why to use them, what indicators
people are actually using, what makes an indicators a good one.  The goal
is to educate and to inspire.  The more people see what indicators are
being used, the more creative they can become in developing even better
indicators. 

Although the website does not include the entire document, it does have
most of it.  It also includes all 400 indicatators listed in the appendix
that are currently being used by communities in North America. 

The site was designed for the volunteers and community members who are
working on issues of sustainability and developing indicators for their
communities.  Although 'experts'  will undoubtedly be interested, it is
intended to  be a source for the general public.

This website is not intended to be static.  I have many ideas of how to make
it even better.  Please let me know what you think and any improvements you
can suggest.  I am particularly interested in comments on its useability and
understandability for the non-expert.    Feel free to:

        pass the word on to other people who might be interested,
        mention it on lists that you are aware of,
        suggest places that I should announce it, and
        add links to it from your own web site

I am particularly interested in hearing about communities that have
developed indicators that would like to share them with the world by adding
them to the list that I already have.

I would appreciate knowing where the website does get mentioned or linked
up.  Thanks for all your helpful comments on the guide in the past and for
future suggestions on the website.

Regards,
Maureen Hart                      (508) 975-1988
mhart [at] tiac.net                   P.O. Box 361, North Andover, MA 01845

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