Redefining Progress, a nonprofit sustainability think tank, established the Regional Sustainability initiative in 2003 to serve the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

What's New?

Bay Area campaign seeks localization of food, energy, and finance

Redefining Progress has joined with Bay Localize, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, International Forum on Globalization and Center for Sustainable Economy in a campaign to localize the Bay Area economy. In a strategy paper unveiled today, the campaign calls for federal, state, and local government agencies to work with business leaders to end excessive reliance on the global economy for food, energy, manufactured goods, and financial capital and to build local capacity to meet these needs. ..

The campaign is a result of a special convening held May 10, 2006 of business and nonprofit leaders, public officials, and experts in the field discussed how to make the Bay Area the first major metropolitan region in the nation to formally adopt and implement a strategy for creating a strong local economy.

Learn more about the campaign for Bay Area localization:

• Press release: "Business and Environmental Groups Agree: Local is Better for the Economy" (pdf)
• Report: "Building a Resilient and Equitable Bay Area Economy: Toward a Coordinated Strategy for Economic Localization"
  • Executive summary (pdf)
  • Report (pdf)
• Campaign endorsers (pdf)

Community Indicators Handbook

The Second Edition of Redefining Progress' Community Indicators Handbook, a popular tool for building an indicator project to meet your community's needs, is now available. Visit www.rprogress.org/cihb for more information.

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