Effective Green Report Cards that Quantify the "Process" of Sustainability

Convener: Robney Pennywell (count: 12)

Headlines:

• Define what we are measuring
• Working to create a set of standards. Don't reinvent the wheel
• Identify what formal laws/ordinances need changing/to be made
• Annually apply measurement, evaluate, re-assess and modify actionable items
• How to use the carbon footprint as a quantifier of personal sustainability, municipal, county, state, etc . . . sustainability
• Apply carbon footprints components/model across all vectors of effect on green sustainable living

Next Steps: Required Actions

• Create a carbon footprint for discrete the geographic boundaries identified as the community
• Use now as a benchmark, measure success annually

Most urgent/compelling:

Educating ourselves and our public. Making behavioral changes (use report card to evaluate success!)