See How You Can Improve Maryland's Well-Being

We all can do our part for a more sustainable, prosperous Maryland. The challenge is to see just what sort of impact each of us can have if we ALL took action. Simply change the inputs of the indicators to see how changes in your home, your property, and your community could, if adopted by other Marylanders, impact the State’s well-being.

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ECONOMIC INDICATORS Info Enter Your
Number Here		 Resulting Value 2010 Value % Change Web Link
Personal Consumption Expenditures       185.0634    
Income Inequality       40.378    
Adjusted Personal Consumption       144.686    
Services of Consumer Durables

Life years of consumer durables:

 ? 33.011 %
Cost of Consumer Durables       19.607    
Cost of Underemployment       5.962    
Net Capital Investment       5.608    

ECONOMIC ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL:

 157.736 %  
 
ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS Info Enter Your
Number Here		 Resulting Value 2010 Value % Change Web Link
Cost of Water Pollution

Percent of streams, rivers and bay waters degraded:

       0.196    
Cost of Air Pollution

8-hour ozone exceeding days:

       0.785    
Cost of Noise Pollution

Percent change (+/-) in aggregate noise pollution:

       0.433    
Cost of Net Wetland Change

Net change (+/-) in acres:

       0.242    
Cost of Net Farmland Change

Net change (+/-) in acres:

       1.009    
Cost of Net Forest Cover Change

Net change (+/-) in acres:

       1.002    
Cost of Climate Change

Percent change (+/-) of CO2 emissions from consumption:

 ? 8.116 %
Cost of Ozone Depletion       8.956    
Cost of Nonrenewable Energy Resource Depletion

Percent change (+/-) of nonrenewables consumed:

 ? 20.309 %

ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL:

 -41.047 %  
 
SOCIAL INDICATORS Info Enter Your
Number Here		 Resulting Value 2010 Value % Change Web Link
Value of Housework

Daily hours of housework per capita:

 ? 32.667 %
Cost of Family Changes

Daily hours spent watching television per household:

 ? 1.577 %
Cost of Crime       1.345    
Cost of Personal Pollution Abatement

Tons of waste produced:

 ? 1.229 %
Value of Volunteer Work

Hours of volunteer work per capita:

 ? 3.345 %
Cost of Lost Leisure Time

Daily minutes of lost leisure time per worker:

 ? 12.648 %
Value of Higher Education

Percent of MD Citizens with a Bachelor's degree or higher:

 ? 21.627 %
Services of Highways and Streets       1.348    
Cost of Commuting

Minutes spent commuting to work per worker work day:

 ? 9.218 %
Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes       2.677    

SOCIAL ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL:

 30.293 %  
 

SUMMARY TOTAL 

 Resulting Value 2010 Value % Change  

ECONOMIC ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL: 

 157.735 %  

ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL: 

 -41.047 %  

SOCIAL ELEMENTS SUBTOTAL: 

 30.293 %  

GENUINE PROGRESS INDICATOR TOTAL: 

146.982 %