Home   About   Table of Contents   Introduction   Evaluation   Indicators   Case Studies   Summary   Table of indicators   Indicators Workshop   Sources of Help   Case Study Contacts   Links   References   Downloads Links This appendix contains a list of web links where you can learn more about the case studies presented in this manual. It also includes a list of general web links that you can use to learn more about indicators. Many of these sites tell you about how different communities measure their success. Web Links for Case Study Groups Guest River Group: Guest River Restoration Project Homepage http://www.geocities.com/guestriver Upper Tennessee River Roundtable http://www.uppertnriver.org Clean Water Action Plan, Watershed Success Stories http://www.cleanwater.gov/success/guest.html Coalfield Progress article, "Local groups, school win national awards for environmental programs" http://www.appalachianfocus.org/_enviro1/0000002b.htm Southeast Watershed Forum http://www.epa.gov/win/forum/guestriver.html OSM News, "OSM Funds Virginia Appalachian Clean Streams Project Under New Watershed Cooperative Agreement Program" http://www.osmre.gov/news/062599.txt Potomac River, Virginia: Alexandria Seaport Foundation Homepage http://www.capaccess.org/asf Chattanooga Creek, Tennessee: EPA - Tennessee NPL Site Summaries (Chattanooga Creek) http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/npl/npltn/tennprtn.htm http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1409.htm The Trust for Public Land http://www.tpl.org/tier2_rl.cfm?folder_id=670 Army Corps of Engineers (Project Photographs) http://www.orn.usace.army.mil/coc/NVL/Proj_Pictures/Cht3_pic1/ University of Tennessee, Chattanooga http://www.utc.edu/~jtucker/EJ/chatcreek.htm PCSD Briefing Book:Cleaning up Chattanooga Creek http://www.chattanooga.net/sustain/pcsd_briefing_book/resources_chat_creek.html Clinch River, Virginia: The Nature Conservancy - Virginia http://www.cced.org/fwshps.htm General Web Links Sustainable Measures: http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/index.html This website includes an interactive database of indicators, an explanation of indicators, and training materials. Success Measures Guidebook: http://www.developmentleadership.net/smp/manual/toc.htm The Success Measures Guidebook takes you through a series of steps to develop an effective evaluation system for your programs. It includes suggested indicators for community members to develop and measure. Measuring Community Sustainability: http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/Community_Success/entry.html This is a website for the book Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook. It describes a process to help communities learn how to measure the local or regional impacts of economic and community development processes that enhance rural community sustainability. Indicators on the Web (numerous cases): http://www.rprogress.org/resources/cip/links/cips_web.html Links to community indicator projects on the web from around the world. Jacksonville Community Council Inc. & Missoula Measures: http://www.jcci.org/index.htm Regional indicators of quality of life used in Jacksonville and northeast Florida. Indicators Projects: http://www.sustainable.org/creating/indicators.html Gives examples of what communities are doing to prepare a community resource inventory and to identify local indicators in order to measure progress toward sustainability. It also contains a complete list of resource links. Sustainable Communities Network: http://www.sustainable.org/ The Network is intended to link citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities. It also contains a complete list of resource links. USEPA Green Communities: http://www.epa.gov/greenkit A step-by-step guide for planning and implementing sustainable actions. USEPA Community Based Approaches: http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/ This website introduces a new approach in environmental protection that focuses on ecosystem and community actions. The site contains information on community-based environmental protection. Community Toolbox: http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/ The core of the Tool Box is their how-to sessions, featuring tools for evaluating programs. Nature Conservancy - Compatible Economic Development: http://www.cced.org/Pathways.htm One of the first and best tools for community readiness is CCED's publication, Pathways: Building a Local Initiative for Compatible Economic Development. "The Community's Vision" document includes information on: drafting a vision statement, discussing and ratifying the vision at a community workshop, and considering indicators or benchmarks for measuring long term success. UN Methodology Sheets: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/indisd/english/english.htm Indicators of Sustainable Development: Framework and Methodology.