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Welcome to B-Sustainable

Knowing where we are helps us better understand our choices for getting to where we want to be.   B-Sustainable empowers sustainability advocates and practitioners with the information they need to take effective action – both independently and together.  Read more... 





Join the Dialogue

To share your experience and thoughts, tell us what you are doing or suggest actions to take, join B-Sustainable. 

Learn

Explore!

Check Out Site Content!

Learn about relationships and trends in our region for 20 sustainability goals in 4 environments – Natural, Built, Social and Personal.  B-Sustainable uses an innovative sustainability indicators framework to make a wealth of information meaningful, accessible, and actionable.

Just a few questions this site answers are: Natural Environment: How are salmon stocks doing?  Built Environment: What are the factors contributing to urban sprawl?  Social Environment: What are some of the disparities in health among different social groups?  Personal Environment: How safe do we feel? 

Tutorial on Navigating the Framework



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Contribute!

Add to Site Content!

Let others know about your strategies and actions, add new data or new resources, and share your experiences. 

Contributions by some of our partners include: Cascade Bicycle Club added bike and pedestrian counts to indicate the growth in bicycling and walking.  UW students used B-Sustainable to study income inequality, then posted their report on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in King County. 

Tutorial on Adding Content



Act

Take Action!

Link Information to Action!

Use B-Sustainable as a tool to make the case for change and inform your choices. 

Seattle City Club used B-Sustainable to learn about trends in social capital development and civic engagement and used that information in designing community dialogues. Over 30 dialogues were held.  The report based on the dialogues offers a telling look into our region's civic health, as well as suggestions for improving it. 

Neighborhood groups in Rainer Valley and Greenlake are using information from B-Sustainable as a starting point for action projects to improve their neighborhoods' quality-of-life.   

Tutorial on Linking Information to Action