There's also the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - they also have a site for Climate Change and Public Health. I'm betting they'll have a Peak Oil and Public Health site up by the end of 2008 (their leader just published a great article on the subject in the Journal of the American Medical Association).

Lesa Dixon-Gray

First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi

It's good to have data, both quantitative and qualitative.

Here are some other thoughts for data points:

  • % of children who walk to school
  • farmers markets area by hours open per week in relation to population (gives some idea how good the informal, local food network is)
  • day versus night population
  • average walkscore (see walkscore.com, it would benefit from further refinements, but the concept is sound)
  • average household % of windows facing the equator and other passive solar factors (such a house is much more flexible when it comes to adjusting for heating fuel scarcity)
  • insolation (affects viability/cost of solar systems)
  • potential vegetable garden space relative to population
  • distance from source of public water supply

    I'm sure there are lots more.

    It would be a really neat idea to put together a series of lesson plans that could be used in schools so kids could gather neighborhood/household data and learn about sustainability that way. Statistics across the curriculum, anyone?