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Number of San Francisco enterprises adopting ISO 14000 standards.
Number of San Francisco neighborhoods with unemployment rates higher than the government-defined “full employment” rate.
Difference between the highest neighborhood unemployment rate and the full employment rate.
Number of San Francisco manufacturers using recovered secondary materials as raw material.
Percentage of people employed in San Francisco who live in San Francisco.

An upward-pointing arrow indicates that the measurement should rise if the City is moving in the right direction; a downward-pointing arrow indicates that the measurement should fall. These indicators, sampled on a regular basis, will give a bird’s-eye view of whether San Francisco is moving toward or away from a sustainable future. Of course, none of the topics are completely covered by the few listed indicators, and there are certainly infinitely more things that could be tracked. These ongoing measures are meant to give an overall indication of whether the City is moving in the right direction, and provide a way of measuring significant trends without entailing major new expense for data-collection. Baselines for these indicators have yet to be researched.