Equinox Center Publishes 2010 Regional Sustainability Dashboard
There is a famous management maxim: You can't manage what you can't measure.
Equinox Center’s set of indicators is intended to be a quick and easily digestible snapshot, not unlike the set of gauges on a car’s dashboard that tell you how well your vehicle is running and when there is a problem.
Our dashboard is a new tool to help us better understand historical trends in the areas of energy, water, transportation, land use, waste and others, and provides us with a snapshot of where we are today. With this information, we can better manage our resources, care for our communities, and sustainably grow our economy.
Over time, as we implement new policies to address some of these issues, we'll be able to see whether new strategies are helping us to resolve some of the long term sustainability challenges of the region. If they are, we can celebrate our successes, and move on to other issues. If not, we'll know we need to continue to hunt for better solutions to our challenges. Either way, we need to know what works.
In the coming weeks, we'll be taking the dashboard data around the county to share it with decision makers, community leaders, and other interested groups and individuals. We will continue to participate in regional dialogue and to conduct additional research, analyze data, and identify best practices and possible solutions so that San Diego residents may all enjoy the quality of life we envision for future generations: healthy, prosperous, productive and exceptional.