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Session - Metrics to Prioritize & Measure Results
Convener: Ken Sandler, Sandler.Ken@epamail.epa.gov
Participants: Peter Wixted, PWixted@DOC.GOV
Leslie Cook, cook.leslie@epa.gov
Fran Mazarella, frances.mazarella@gsa.gov
Jean O'Donoghue, odonoghue.jean@dol.gov
Ed Pinero, ed.pinero@ofee.gov
Sara Hartwell, hartwell.sara@epa.gov
Liz Resek, Resek.Elizabeth@epamail.epa.gov
Cherre McClam Brown, cherie.mcclambrown@gsa.gov
David Sarokin, Sarokin.David@epamail.epa.gov
David Zimmerman, drzimmerman@tva.gov
Steve Lynott, steve.lynott@touchstone.com
Ken Sandler, Sandler.Ken@epamail.epa.gov
Headlines:
- Metrics need to be geared to the Agency's mission: how can we carry out our mission in a more sustainable way?
- Metrics are needed to justify our budgets, educate and convince management, insure accountability.
- There are many existing metrics (e.g., LEED, EO13123 regs to measure energy use) - we should see what we have first, and figure out how to aggregate them.
- How can we benchmark against, and borrow, measures in the private sector?
- Some variables are conflicting, while others are reinforcing.
- Einstein: All models are wrong, but some are useful. Metrics fall short of measuring reality accurately, but they raise the right questions.
- A national sustainability standard is an existing long-term goal, but in the meantime, work towards and measure sustainability in your program/agency/area.
- A list of variables to measure, and tools to do so, would be helpful to get agencies going and encourage consistency.
- EMSs show how you can bring mission, processes, and metrics together in one big plan and system.
- Take a look at existing sustainability metrics - e.g., those in OFEE's Report to the President - see how they fit together, how they might be aggregated, where the gaps are.
- What other variables are needed.
