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Identify products that help you work towards achieving specific Housing Corporation policies.
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User Guide
How to use this Website

The Routes to Sustainability website allows you to search the database of products from a number of different entry points. Are you:

•  interested in meeting specific policy targets?
•  working on a particular policy area?
•  tackling sustainability indicators or themes?
•  working with one of the products featured?

The Routes to Sustainability Search Tools can help you to decide what product will help you to meet your goals.

1. The 4 search functions are detailed below:

Your Work
 The 'Your Work' function allows you to search for products specific to your job function and on general topics of interest or importance to you.
The Policies
 The 'Policies' Search function allows you to select products on the basis of which policies or policy areas they will help you to work towards
The Issues
 The 'Issues' Search indexes the products by key topics, themes, and indicators - simply select your area of interest
Products & Tools
 The 'Products & Tools' search is a simple function that allows you to search for products using particular keywords or phrases.

Note: The 'Issues' Search is particularly useful if you are already using the 'Toolkit of Sustainability Indicators' or working on 'Foundations for the Future' - as you can use it to search on the specific sustainability indicators and themes as defined in these products.


2. For each of these search options the following basic steps are taken:

Select your search parameters:
E.g. Policy area, keyword, job function and key policy, sustainability theme etc.

 >>>>>>>>> Search Results:
A list of suitable products will be displayed in brief. Click on any product in the list to view its datasheet and find out more ...		 >>>>>>>>>

Datasheet:
The product datasheet contains a wealth of information, such as:

• More about the product - how to obtain it, its aims, benefits and outputs

• Which policy areas it can help you work towards

• Which audiences it is aimed at

• Which other products can be used to complement it, to develop your work etc.

 

3. Printing the product data sheets.

To print any of the product datasheets featured in Routes to Sustainability simply click on the "Print Data Sheet" link at the bottom of each product page.

Trouble Shooting Tip: Some Internet Browsers have problems printing the product data sheet pages and will cut off the right hand side of the page (you may have already experienced this problem with other Internet sites). To overcome this problem go to the "File" heading in the menu bar at the top of your ordinary browser page and select "Page Set Up" from the drop down menu. Set all the page margins to zero and click on "OK". This should allow all pages to print in their entirety.

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