[From an older edition of the Transition Primer. You can find the latest edition here.]
So how might you be able to tell that the resilience of your community is increasing? Resilience indicators might look at the following:
- percentage of food grown locally
- amount of local currency in circulation as a percentage of total money in circulation
- number of businesses locally owned
- average commuting distances for workers in the town
- average commuting distance for people living in the town but working outside it
- percentage of energy produced locally
- quantity of renewable building materials
- proportion of essential goods being manufactured within the community of within a given distance
- proportion of compostable “waste” that is actually composted
- percentage of local trade carried out in local currency
- ratio of car parking space to productive land use
- amount of traffic on local roads
- percentage of medicine prescribed locally that have been produced within a given radius.
- amount of 16 year olds able to grow 10 different varieties of vegetables to a given degree of competency
- percentage of local building materials used in new housing developments
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