How We’re Using Data to Measure Progress on Sustainability

Perhaps nothing speaks more to the challenge of sustainably managing infrastructure systems than attempting to measure their performance. It’s a daunting task, at best, to merely inventory a city’s systems — water, energy, transportation and water, for example — much less to describe and catalogue their many functions and interdependencies. Adding verification that the systems are sustainably managed would seem to be virtually impossible.

by Bob Graves

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