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CEC OFFERS NEW SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS PUBLICATION AND OTHER FREE 
RESEARCH REPORTS ON WEBSITE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	
12/95	

INFORMATION: Michael Colin	
(805) 963-0583, x109
email: mcolin@rain.org

Santa Barbara, CA�The Community Environmental Council (CEC), a noted 
nonprofit environmental research, education and community service 
organization, recently announced the release of a new publication, 
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING. The 
publication is an analysis of two December 1994 workshops at the CEC 
Gildea Resource Center, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, which 
looked at how sustainability indicators can help California communities 
identify and monitor their economic, environmental and social goals and 
to make effective policy and planning decisions.  The purpose of the 
paper is to disseminate information on indicators projects, analyze the 
function of indicators and the roles individuals, organizations, 
government agencies and the private sector play in defining a 
sustainable community, and to engender development of methods by which 
indicators can be used to implement community policies and programs. 
Creating action from indicators and monitoring progress to achieve 
specific outcomes or results are critical to the long-term goal of 
community sustainability.

Authored by CEC Planning and Research Associate Jill Zachary, 
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING is the 
latest effort to emerge from over two decades of work by CEC and its 
associates on land use, water, energy, urban gardening, commercial and 
residential building, solid waste and other environmental sustainable 
development issues. In the 1990 policy paper, THE BOTTOM LINE: 
RESTRUCTURING FOR SUSTAINABILITY, CEC examined the history and effect of 
uncontrolled urban growth, and outlined a new decision-making framework 
for sustainable urban management that encompasses goals of economic 
opportunity, diversity, improved quality of life and greater equity.  
The 1992 seminar synopsis, BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY, looked at 
defining, structuring and implementing a planning framework based on the 
principles of sustainability. 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING can be 
downloaded at no cost from the CEC World Wide Web site at 
http://www.grc.org/cec/, as can several other CEC research reports. It 
is also available in hard copy from the CEC Publications Program, 930 
Miramonte Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. The publication is free, but 
requires $5 shipping and handling per copy. For more information call 
(805) 963-0583, x109 or email to grccom@rain.org.

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