A new community indicators report update, Spokane Vitals, is available, thanks to Greater Spokane Incorporated. (I have to pay a lot more attention to Spokane, Washington now, because that's where my wife is from -- about as far away as you can get from Jacksonville, Florida and still stay within the continental U.S.)
There's a nice synopsis of the report available at AmericanTowns.com, or you can download the full report here.
There's a lot of good work in community indicators happening in the Pacific Northwest, which is why the Community Indicators Consortium conference that will be held in Seattle this fall looks so inviting. (The latest news about the conference can be found in their April 2009 newsletter (PDF).)
One of the things I really like about the Spokane report is their inclusion of their peer metro areas, with map included:
I'd appreciate your thoughts on including this kind of frame of reference in your community indicators report. Good idea? How might you improve it?
Plastics banned in Hong Kong in an effort to reduce waste, scale
-
Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway
containers. For South…
*Tags:* garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post
4 hours ago
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment