A public dashboard for tracking progress on climate, sustainability, and comprehensive plans
Turn your plan into visible public progress.
ACTIONtracker helps communities share goals, metrics, emissions trends, action progress, and annual updates through a clear dashboard that can be embedded into an existing website.
- Purpose-built for climate plans, adaptable to others
- Designed to support small-team sustainability offices
- Supports annual and multi-year reporting
- Embeds into any website
The reporting challenge
Your plan was adopted. Can people see what happens next?
Communities invest significant time and resources in climate, sustainability, resilience, and related plans. Once a plan is adopted, progress information is often spread across departments, spreadsheets, annual reports, meeting materials, and webpages. That makes it difficult for residents—and sometimes staff—to understand how the plan is moving forward.
- Different goals need different reporting methods. Some goals can be measured with numbers; others need written context or action-status reporting.
- Progress can be hard to find. Important updates may be buried in technical reports or scattered across several sources.
- Dashboard software can be expensive. Many dashboard platforms are priced beyond the budgets of smaller and mid-sized communities.
- Dashboard maintenance can strain staff capacity. With plan implementation often led by one person or a small team, most dashboard platforms place too much demand on limited staff resources.
The ACTIONtracker solution
Turn information your community already tracks into a public story people can follow.
ACTIONtracker organizes agency-provided goals, indicators, emissions data, action status, and written updates into a consistent public dashboard.
Make progress visible
Give community members one clear place to review goals, accomplishments, trends, and next steps.
Support a variety of goals
Use measurable indicators, written progress narratives, action-status reporting, or a combination of approaches.
Keep reporting consistent
Preserve prior reporting periods and create a repeatable structure for future annual updates.
Use your existing website
Publish ACTIONtracker as a standalone page or embed dashboard views into the community’s existing website.
Connect progress with participation
Add optional “Actions You Can Take” resources that help community members understand practical ways to contribute.
Avoid starting from scratch
Use a dashboard platform designed specifically for climate and sustainability plan reporting—reducing the burden on limited staff time.
What the public can see
A clearer view of the plan, the progress, and the path ahead.
Your agency’s dashboard is customized around your adopted plan and available reporting information. Components may include:
Show where your community is headed.
Present community-wide goals, municipal goals, plan vision, target years, and the public context behind the work.
Show measurable change over time.
Display progress indicators, trends, baselines, targets, and reporting-year values when configured.
Explain progress that one number cannot capture.
Use plain-language progress narratives to describe policy work, partnerships, programs, challenges, and next steps.
Show how commitments are becoming action.
Summarize plan actions by status, such as not started, started, in progress, completed, or ongoing.
Why ACTIONtracker
Professional public reporting without a custom-dashboard budget.
ACTIONtracker uses a flexible framework tailored to each agency’s climate, sustainability, or comprehensive plan. It is designed to reduce the cost and complexity of making implementation progress visible.
How it works
A practical path from plan document to public dashboard.
Review the plan
paleBLUEdot reviews the plan structure, goals, sectors, actions, indicators, and available reporting information.
Configure the dashboard
The agency and paleBLUEdot confirm dashboard components, reporting methods, colors, and public content.
Prepare and verify
Agency-provided information is organized, uploaded, reviewed, and confirmed before public release.
Launch and update
The dashboard is published, embedded and automatically updated through simple spreadsheet uploads.
Annual pricing
Flexible support scaled to your community.
Choose the service level that best matches your staff capacity. ACTIONtracker is specifically designed for one-person sustainability offices and small municipal teams, with an affordable Self-Directed option, a Supported launch, and a Full-Service option for communities that want paleBLUEdot to manage the reporting process.
Self-Directed
paleBLUEdot establishes the agency account and provides a step-by-step user guide. Your team configures the plan, confirms the setup, enters baseline information, prepares the dashboard, and manages ongoing progress reporting.
Best for agencies seeking the lowest annual cost with staff available to configure and maintain the dashboard.Supported
paleBLUEdot configures the plan, prepares the initial baseline reporting, builds the dashboard, and leads one agency session covering baseline review and ongoing reporting process training. Your team manages future progress updates.
We configure and launch your dashboard. Your team handles future updates.Full-Service
paleBLUEdot manages initial setup, baseline reporting, dashboard launch, annual reporting updates, quality review, and standard dashboard maintenance. Each year, paleBLUEdot leads one update coordination meeting and one post-update review session. Your agency provides the required information and embeds or links to the dashboard.
Best for agencies that want to minimize staff time and rely on paleBLUEdot for both launch and ongoing reporting support.Ask about discounted ACTIONtracker pricing when paleBLUEdot also updates your greenhouse gas inventory.
Contact us for more informationSelf-Directed
paleBLUEdot establishes the agency account and provides a step-by-step user guide. Your team configures the plan, confirms the setup, enters baseline information, prepares the dashboard, and manages ongoing progress reporting.
Best for agencies seeking the lowest annual cost with staff available to configure and maintain the dashboard.Supported
paleBLUEdot configures the plan, prepares the initial baseline reporting, builds the dashboard, and leads one agency session covering baseline review and ongoing reporting process training. Your team manages future progress updates.
We configure and launch your dashboard. Your team handles future updates.Full-Service
paleBLUEdot manages initial setup, baseline reporting, dashboard launch, annual reporting updates, quality review, and standard dashboard maintenance. Each year, paleBLUEdot leads one update coordination meeting and one post-update review session. Your agency provides the required information and embeds or links to the dashboard.
Best for agencies that want to minimize staff time and rely on paleBLUEdot for both launch and ongoing reporting support.Ask about discounted ACTIONtracker pricing when paleBLUEdot also updates your greenhouse gas inventory.
Contact us for more informationSelf-Directed
paleBLUEdot establishes the agency account and provides a step-by-step user guide. Your team configures the plan, confirms the setup, enters baseline information, prepares the dashboard, and manages ongoing progress reporting.
Best for agencies seeking the lowest annual cost with staff available to configure and maintain the dashboard.Supported
paleBLUEdot configures the plan, prepares the initial baseline reporting, builds the dashboard, and leads one agency session covering baseline review and ongoing reporting process training. Your team manages future progress updates.
We configure and launch your dashboard. Your team handles future updates.Full-Service
paleBLUEdot manages initial setup, baseline reporting, dashboard launch, annual reporting updates, quality review, and standard dashboard maintenance. Each year, paleBLUEdot leads one update coordination meeting and one post-update review session. Your agency provides the required information and embeds or links to the dashboard.
Best for agencies that want to minimize staff time and rely on paleBLUEdot for both launch and ongoing reporting support.Ask about discounted ACTIONtracker pricing when paleBLUEdot also updates your greenhouse gas inventory.
Contact us for more informationCompare how responsibilities are divided
Each service level is designed for a different staffing approach. Supported offers the strongest balance of professional setup assistance and agency-managed updates.
| Responsibility | Self-Directed | Supported Best Value | Full-Service Best for Minimizing Staff Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency account creation | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Plan and goal configuration | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Initial baseline reporting | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Initial dashboard preparation and launch support | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Ongoing progress reporting | Agency | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Routine dashboard maintenance and quality review | Agency | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
*Pricing for Supported and Full-Service levels is based on agency-provided data and a minimum three-year subscription agreement. Pricing reflects the selected population tier and service level. Full-Service pricing includes one standard annual reporting cycle and routine dashboard support. Additional reporting cycles, extensive data cleanup, plan amendments, specialized integrations, custom development, or services outside the selected level can be quoted separately. Final scope and pricing are confirmed before implementation.
Developed by paleBLUEdot
Climate-planning experience behind the platform.
ACTIONtracker was developed by paleBLUEdot, a climate planning, sustainability, and community-engagement consulting firm. It reflects extensive, practical experience helping communities develop plans, establish measurable goals, organize implementation actions, and communicate progress.
paleBLUEdot unites climate planning, education, and engagement to build a more hopeful future.
Frequently asked questions
What communities usually want to know.
Does ACTIONtracker replace our climate or sustainability plan?
No. ACTIONtracker is designed to communicate implementation progress after a plan is adopted. It organizes public reporting around the goals, actions, indicators, and structure of the agency’s plan.
Can ACTIONtracker work with an existing plan?
Yes. ACTIONtracker is intended to work with adopted plans. paleBLUEdot reviews the plan and available reporting information to determine the most appropriate dashboard structure and setup scope.
Do we need a metric for every goal?
No. Goals may be reported through measurable indicators, written progress narratives, action-status summaries, or a combination of these approaches.
Can the dashboard be embedded into our existing website?
Yes. Public dashboard pages can be opened as standalone webpages or embedded into an agency’s existing website, subject to the website platform’s embed capabilities and implementation requirements.
Does ACTIONtracker support year-by-year comparison?
ACTIONtracker supports ongoing and multi-year reporting so earlier reporting periods can remain available for comparison and public context.
Does ACTIONtracker calculate our greenhouse gas inventory?
No. ACTIONtracker displays agency-provided or approved emissions information. It does not replace the technical process used to calculate a greenhouse gas inventory. paleBLUEdot can also support GHG inventory updates; ask about discounted ACTIONtracker pricing when these services are combined.
Can ACTIONtracker work for a one-person or small-team sustainability office?
Yes. ACTIONtracker is specifically designed for communities where one staff member, a small team, or employees balancing sustainability work with other responsibilities coordinate plan implementation and reporting.
Its structured, consistent and template-driven reporting process is designed to minimize staff time, while the three service levels allow each agency to choose how much work it manages internally and how much paleBLUEdot handles.
Actual staff time depends on the plan’s size and complexity, the condition of available information, the reporting frequency, and the selected service level.
Compare how responsibilities are divided
Each service level provides a different balance of agency responsibility and paleBLUEdot support. This allows one-person offices, small teams, and larger agencies to select an approach that fits their available staff capacity.
| Responsibility | Self-Directed | Supported Best Value | Full-Service Best for Minimizing Staff Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency account creation | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Plan and goal configuration | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Initial baseline reporting | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Initial dashboard preparation and launch support | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Ongoing progress reporting | Agency | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
| Routine dashboard maintenance and quality review | Agency | Agency | ✓ paleBLUEdot |
How long does setup take?
The schedule depends on plan complexity, data readiness, agency review time, and the level of paleBLUEdot support. In many cases, an ACTIONtracker dashboard can be ready in as little as 24 hours.
Is ACTIONtracker a fully custom dashboard?
ACTIONtracker’s platform, pricing, and service levels give agencies flexibility to meet their dashboard needs within a highly cost-effective structure. Agencies requiring specialized integrations, unique functionality, or custom development can also work with paleBLUEdot to create a customized ACTIONtracker solution.