Title
Missoula Measures – information and inspiration for a sustainable community
Abstract
Arriving online in October 1999, Missoula Measures is an internet-based, Missoula County-specific information center, designed to assist efforts to maintain and build a healthy, sustainable community. Initiated by local government, this online resource grew out of a set of community indicator reports produced in 1997-98 by the Health Department, Office of Planning and Grants, and the City of Missoula. Missoula Measures is a tool that reflects and integrates the ongoing work and thinking of hundreds of people, and makes this information strategically more available to others for various purposes. Measures can be thought of in two ways: we measure what we value and we strive to take effective measures to work on what is important to us. In addition, this tool works to link and serve clusters of people with interests in particular Measures topics. A key goal is for the Measures to be used and useful.
Individual Measures topics are divided into three interrelated realms: environment, economy and social measures. Several Measures are watershed-related. There are currently more than 70 topics addressed.
Start Date
14-4-2000 12:00 AM
End Date
14-4-2000 12:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Missoula Measures – information and inspiration for a sustainable community
Arriving online in October 1999, Missoula Measures is an internet-based, Missoula County-specific information center, designed to assist efforts to maintain and build a healthy, sustainable community. Initiated by local government, this online resource grew out of a set of community indicator reports produced in 1997-98 by the Health Department, Office of Planning and Grants, and the City of Missoula. Missoula Measures is a tool that reflects and integrates the ongoing work and thinking of hundreds of people, and makes this information strategically more available to others for various purposes. Measures can be thought of in two ways: we measure what we value and we strive to take effective measures to work on what is important to us. In addition, this tool works to link and serve clusters of people with interests in particular Measures topics. A key goal is for the Measures to be used and useful.
Individual Measures topics are divided into three interrelated realms: environment, economy and social measures. Several Measures are watershed-related. There are currently more than 70 topics addressed.