Comments on: Newcastle, Britain’s Most Sustainable City? http://www.citiesforpeople.net/newcastle-britains-most-sustainable-city Ideas and Inspiration about how we can make Cities for People Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:25:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ross http://www.citiesforpeople.net/newcastle-britains-most-sustainable-city/comment-page-1#comment-264 ross Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:02:37 +0000 http://www.citiesforpeople.net/?p=278#comment-264 very interesting article. I am heading to Newcastle next weekend and stumbled upon your blog. very interesting article. I am heading to Newcastle next weekend and stumbled upon your blog.

]]> By: Lars Lindgren http://www.citiesforpeople.net/newcastle-britains-most-sustainable-city/comment-page-1#comment-219 Lars Lindgren Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:02:42 +0000 http://www.citiesforpeople.net/?p=278#comment-219 Great posting and very interesting to read the Forum for the Future's ranking. By starting to measure these things I'm convinced things will move faster in the right direction and I'm sure the metrics will be improved as this progresses. Population growth is a very important metric although the key must be the average "sustainability" per person so in the end it shouldn't matter too much. Would be extremely interesting to see a global benchmark of this kind. The Global Reporting Initiative (http://www.globalreporting.org) includes suggestions for a multitude of measures to encourage companies and organizations to measure and report their "Sustainability score". The three main categories which in my opinion are equally important are "Economical", "Environmental", "Social". Each of these contains a number of sub categories and measures which altogether can help give a relevant picture of the Sustainability of a company. Great blog! /Lars Great posting and very interesting to read the Forum for the Future’s ranking. By starting to measure these things I’m convinced things will move faster in the right direction and I’m sure the metrics will be improved as this progresses.

Population growth is a very important metric although the key must be the average “sustainability” per person so in the end it shouldn’t matter too much.

Would be extremely interesting to see a global benchmark of this kind.

The Global Reporting Initiative (http://www.globalreporting.org) includes suggestions for a multitude of measures to encourage companies and organizations to measure and report their “Sustainability score”. The three main categories which in my opinion are equally important are “Economical”, “Environmental”, “Social”. Each of these contains a number of sub categories and measures which altogether can help give a relevant picture of the Sustainability of a company.

Great blog!
/Lars

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