“Sustainability” is a large concept, often difficult to grasp. Measuring it–knowing how sustainable our region is and whether or not its sustainability is improving–may be even harder to figure out. Lots of data is available, and still more can be gathered, but what data speaks to sustainability, how can we organize it in order to learn what we need to do now, and how can we afford to maintain and update this information?
The Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute has launched the Sustainability Indicators Project (SIP) in order to determine the best answers to questions of data availability and suitability, and to forge collaborations with other institutions in the region already engaged in parallel and overlapping efforts.
