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CEC OFFERS NEW SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS PUBLICATION AND OTHER FREE RESEARCH REPORTS ON WEBSITE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   12/95   INFORMATION: Michael Colin       (805) 963-0583, x109 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Santa Barbara, CA‹The Community Environmental Council (CEC), a noted nonprofit environmental research, education and community service organization, recently announced the release of a new publication, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING. The publication is an analysis of two December 1994 workshops at the CEC Gildea Resource Center, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, which looked at how sustainability indicators can help California communities identify and monitor their economic, environmental and social goals and to make effective policy and planning decisions.  The purpose of the paper is to disseminate information on indicators projects, analyze the function of indicators and the roles individuals, organizations, government agencies and the private sector play in defining a sustainable community, and to engender development of methods by which indicators can be used to implement community policies and programs. Creating action from indicators and monitoring progress to achieve specific outcomes or results are critical to the long-term goal of community sustainability. Authored by CEC Planning and Research Associate Jill Zachary, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING is the latest effort to emerge from over two decades of work by CEC and its associates on land use, water, energy, urban gardening, commercial and residential building, solid waste and other environmental sustainable development issues. In the 1990 policy paper, THE BOTTOM LINE: RESTRUCTURING FOR SUSTAINABILITY, CEC examined the history and effect of uncontrolled urban growth, and outlined a new decision-making _frame_work for sustainable urban management that encompasses goals of economic opportunity, diversity, improved quality of life and greater equity.   The 1992 seminar synopsis, BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY, looked at defining, structuring and implementing a planning _frame_work _base_d on the principles of sustainability. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INDICATORS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING can be downloaded at no cost from the CEC World Wide Web site at http://www.grc.org/cec/, as can several other CEC research reports. It is also available in hard copy from the CEC Publications Program, 930 Miramonte Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. The publication is free, but requires $5 shipping and handling per copy. For more information call (805) 963-0583, x109 or email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it PLEASE NOTE: THE CEC WEBSITE IS OPTIMIZED FOR USE WITH THE NETSCAPE BROWSER.