How You Can Use This Information

Local Governments

• Use the information to help identify priorities, facilitate long-term visioning, allocate resources, manage local environmental issues, and track your City's environmental performance.
• Evaluate land use policies and regulatory framework. Consider environmental conditions during updates of your General Plan.
• Enhance accountability of agencies or departments with primary responsibility for an area of environmental performance.

Businesses

• Use the information to understand how your company's actions impact the local environment.
• Benchmark your company's progress against regional performance.
• Reap the benefits of reduced environmental impacts, potentially including reduced costs and liabilities, enhanced community relations, and market access.

Community Organizations

• Communicate to the public and decision-makers about local environmental trends.
• Use the information to advance the goal of environmental sustainability.
• Hold organizations and individuals accountable for improved environmental performance.

Individuals

• Consider how your day-to-day activities can impact the environment.
• Make more informed purchasing decisions, voting choices, and everyday actions.
• Better understand environmental conditions in your community.

Educators & The Media

• Integrate environmental sustainability into school curricula.
• Include coverage of environmental indicators in the media.