The following environmental topic areas present metrics and other information relating to several environmental topic areas. The Mayor’s Office will expand metrics shared on this dashboard in the future.
Many Metro departments contribute to the city’s sustainability and environmental stewardship efforts. The Mayor’s Office has created this dashboard to build an understanding of current environmental, sustainability, and resilience activities, priorities, and goals, and measurement of progress in achieving those goals, with the aim of increasing transparency and accountability. Measuring current and future indicators in these areas is foundational to highlighting the need for action and documenting measured improvement. Please direct questions or comments to Kendra Abkowitz.
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Kendra Abkowitz
Sustainability Chief
Environmental Topic Areas
Parks Dashboard
Trails and greenways provide recreation and transportation opportunities as well as environmental benefits.
Tree Canopy Dashboard
Trees provide numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits such as reduced air pollution, reduced stormwater runoff, reduced energy use, and increased property values.
Metro Nashville Public Schools Dashboard
Metro Nashville Public Schools is acting to reduce the environmental and cost impacts of its operations.
WeGo Dashboard
WeGo is Nashville’s public transit provider, operating highly efficient, cost-effective, and an environmentally-friendly alternative to use of single occupancy vehicles.
Water Dashboard
Efficient and reliable drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure provides critical public health, economic, and environmental benefits for Nashville.
Wastewater Dashboard
Environmental compliance in Water and Sewer is responsible for administering pretreatment wastewater entering the sewerage system.
Department of General Services Dashboard
General Services is helping make city operations, facilities, and vehicles more sustainable.
Solid Waste Management Dashboard
Metro is exploring innovative, affordable, sustainable, local and regional solutions to solid waste management to support continued livability and economic development.
Bikeways Tracker
Bikeways connect greenways, providing a healthy mode of transportation. To see the network of planned and existing bikeways, see this map.
Sidewalk tracker
Displays a map of Nashville Department of Transportation sidewalk projects providing cost, schedule, and location information