Some civic efficiency issues, standards, examples, groups:

issues and positions:

• civic creativity
  • creative class
  • youth recreation
  • sustainable trades
  • industrial ecology
  • local tax shift
• municipal autonomy
  • municipal tax base
  • land value tax
  • green tax shift
• accountable elected officials: scrutiny and probity
  • strong mayor
  • value reporting
  • transparent municipalities
• accountable unelected officials: auditing and accounting
  • accounting reform
    • ecological and social indicators
    • throughput accounting
    • full cost accounting
    • Beyond GAAP
  • municipal Auditor General
  • municipal performance audit
• improving operations and processes
  • quality management in government
  • continuous municipal performance audit
  • greening of government operations
  • best practice exchange
  • green procurement
  • whistleblower
• specific infrastructural capital, waste as resource
  • environmentally sustainable municipal infrastructure
  • city signal infrastructure
    • zero e-waste hardware
    • healthy telecom
      • Green Bay box
  • green building,
• consumables
  • food supply
  • water supply
  • electricity supply
• waste diversion
  • solids
    • compost
    • toxic waste
    • recyclables
  • liquids
    • sewage treatment
    • stormwater
  • gases
    • GHG emissions
    • SO2 emissions

• exceptions and emergencies
  • municipal role in emergency response
  • municipal service continuity
  • community emergency response team
  • emergency preparedness
    • pandemic preparedness
    • evacuation
    • quarantine
    • looting

Globally applicable standards:

• ISO 19011
  • ISO 9000
  • ICLEI Triple Bottom Line report
  • ICLEI ecoBudget
  • ISO 14000
    • ISO 14064
• e-government and network infrastructure
  • ISO 15000
  • mesh networks
  • boot image control
• human well-being
  • Harmonious Living Index
  • GPI Atlantic
• human creativity
  • Bohemian Index
  • Gay Index

Clear examples of civic efficiency analysis and related commitments

• Toronto's real capital
• Imagine Halifax initiative
• London Health Observatory
• Montreal declaration
• Baltimore CitiStat
• 6C declaration
• InfraGuide.ca

NGO groups concerned with civic efficiency:

• local
  • Toronto Board of Trade
  • Halifax Chamber of Commerce
  • Bring Back New Orleans
• North America/global
  • Civic Innovation in America
  • Civic Efficiency Group
  • Sierra Club of Canada

Innovative proposals and projects (not implemented - yet)

• Civic Efficiency Collaborative
• City Signal Infrastructure Loan
• CEG recommendations to Infrastructure Canada, 2004-12-21
• open letter to Ralph Goodale from Civic Efficiency Group
• ECG global urban climate change strategy
• city that thinks
• Forest for the Trees
• Sharing Water

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