The Center for Sustainable Communities received a $86,700 grant from the state’s Growing Greener program in April 2003 to spearhead a project entitled “Pointing Pennsylvania Toward a Sustainable Future: A Proposal in Support of the Sustainable Pennsylvania Partnership.”
Working with the Governor’s Green Government Council and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Futures Project, the researchers have developed a preliminary set of state sustainability indicators and measurement protocols, and a series of recommendations for moving Pennsylvania toward a more sustainable future.
The project was undertaken by the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy (PCIEP), a consortium of 43 colleges and universities, with Temple University — represented by the Center for Sustainable Communities — as the lead institution. Temple specifically focused on the “social indicators” such as adult literacy and health care for the project.
