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Local Indictors:
Consumption
The indicators in the following list are those rated 5 or higher from Appendix A of the  The Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, Second Edition, by Maureen Hart, 1999.
Indicators from the Resource Use Category of Appendix A:
Energy Indicators
- Average annual residential electricity consumption
- Total energy consumption
- Electricity consumption from nonrenewables
- Renewable energy use
- Residential natural gas therms consumed per household
- Proportion of energy from fossil and non-fossil fuel sources
- Percent of energy supplied from renewable sources within the state
- Gasoline consumption per capita
- Nonrenewable energy use
- Commerical energy consumption per year
- Energy use (non mobile sources)
- Electricity consumption
- Electricity and natural gas use per person per year
- Heat loss of residential buildings
- Commercial/industrial natural gas therms consumed per total employment
- Fuel consumption
- Households per residential MWH consumed
- Per capita consumption of fossil fuel by motor vehicle transport
- Total employment per industrial and commercial MWH consumed
Materials Indicators:
- Accumulated depreciation of natural resources
- Materials consumption per capita
- Renewable resources used/total natural resources used
- Resource (material and energy) throughput/ end use output
Recycling Indicators:
- Percentage of solid waste recycled
- Percent of recyclable products actually recycled
- Average post-consumer recycled content of city office paper purchases
Renewable Indicators:
- The growth rate of timber compared to the rate of harvest
Water Indicators:
- Water use per capita
- Residential water consumption
- Commerical water consumption
- Gallons of water used daily per person
- Water resource depletion rates
- Reduce potable water use 20 percent
- Total water consumption
- Water demand and supply
- Water consumption versus total annual precipitation
Indicators from the Environment Category of Appendix A:
Land Use Indicators
- Land use patterns
- Agricultural land loss / total arable land
- Open land lost to development in square km
- Total area in significant land-use categories
- Rate of change of wilderness area
- Number of acres of major terrestrial ecosystems
- Acres of cropland that have been converted to developed land
Soil Indicators:
- Soil erosion per acre of cropland
- Average soil erosion on cultivated cropland as a proportion of tolerable rate
- Area of land affected by soil erosion and salinity
Related Topics:
http://www.sdi.gov/indicators/ci_consu.htm
Last Modified: 4/22/02
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