From Sunnyvale and Atherton to Encinitas and Redwood City, local California governments are using the KLA Dashboard to keep residents informed, engaged, and inspired to act.

Great to connect with so many California local climate leaders at the CCEC Forum!

How Communities in California Are Using The KLA Dashboard

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We ran a branding process with Atherton to organize their climate and sustainability action efforts under one umbrella brand.  
Atherton also run quick polls on their site to actively engage community members and gather feedback.
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Encinitas uses the dashboard as the hub for its 2025 Climate Action Plan update. Additionally, Encinitas uses the stacked area component to share their GHG pathways.
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Sunnyvale completely customized the layout and style of their dashboard. They designed it to align with the unique "playbook" format of their Climate Action Plan.
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Redwood City’s Dashboard development sparked meaningful collaboration across departments, with teams like Public Works, Sustainability, and others working together to gather data and review content.

Our online storytelling platform is developed specifically for local governments to more effectively share their climate, sustainability and resilience solutions with their communities. 

Communities across the country are using it to: 

  • Report Progress — Share real-time updates and data

  • Secure Buy-In — Build trust and transparency

  • Empower Community Action — Turn insight into impact

Key Features

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Storytelling Platform

The Dashboard is designed to showcase data points as stories to most effectively engage community members and lead them to action.

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Blog and News Feed

Keep community members informed about your progress, connect the dots on community goals and their actions, and tie it to current events.

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Compelling Graphics

Dazzle, inform and engage your community by going beyond plain text.

Atherton Climate Action Plan Dashboard

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Explore more on their site.

"Our dashboard provides residents, staff, and volunteers with a visual representation of our plans and goals.

It helps to facilitate conversations related to the Town’s sustainability initiatives, including carbon emission reduction, water conservation, and building electrification. By visualizing our focus areas and goals, the dashboard fosters meaningful conversations about environmental action, helping our community stay informed and engaged in local efforts.
 
Whether exploring data or collaborating on solutions, this tool empowers stakeholders to contribute to a greener, more resilient Atherton."
 
- Anthony Suber, Deputy City Manager

Enhanced Features

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Annual Report

Like a “print button” to easily produce reports on key content, graphs, images, and data visualizations that are already on your dashboard site.

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Action Plan Implementation Table

Showcase plan elements, goals, actions, and timeline to demonstrate progress. Mobile-friendly accordion style. 

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Data Visualization

Go beyond graphs with fun and creative data visualizations like the multi-image graph or a pictograph.

Additional Features

Calculators
Multi-question calculators to help community members determine costs for things like solar panels and electric vehicles.

Infographics
Turn more complicated, nuanced or multi-layered information into user-friendly visuals. 

Quick Polls
Get direct feedback and engagement from people with quick, interactive poll questions.

Resource Center
Make it easy for people to find local resources and take action. 

Story Maps
Share sustainability achievements or local resources (like EV charging stations) with maps and images. 

GHG Reduction Pathways/Wedge Analysis
Interactive chart allows users to click on and off different projects or sectors to see how emissions are affected if those are not implemented.

Think you might be interested in an online Community Dashboard?
Have a few questions about the cost, features or process?
Just want to ask a few simple questions before you sign up for a demo session? 

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Engaging. Customizable. Affordable.

Starting at less than $10,000 a year

Communities like Encinitas, Sunnyvale, Atherton and Redwood City use the KLA Community Dashboard platform for their climate and sustainability work.

Our clients enjoy:

  • Visuals that bring data to life
  • Unique storytelling structure for true engagement
  • Communications and social media support
  • Self- or full-service options

Set up an online demo where we'll walk you through the Dashboard and discuss how it could work for your needs.

Trusted by local governments:

Our objective to create our Dashboard was to better communicate progress towards our goals to the general public. We have found that it is valuable for internal engagement and communications as well.

On more than one occasion, we have been able to quickly respond to requests from City Councilors or staff from other departments regarding our progress toward goals by simply accessing our sustainability dashboard site. It’s especially helpful as the dashboard takes complicated data sets, stored in files that cannot be remotely accessed, and synthesizes them into an easy to understand story supported by data visualization.

This makes it easy for us to quickly find answers and share the site with others, ensuring everyone has access to the most up-to-date information anytime they need it.
Bronwyn Cooke
Former Sustainability Planner, City of Cambridge, MA
Working with Kim and her team has been so easy. They are experts in both Climate Action Planning and web design. The matchup is perfect when it comes to the development of our dashboard. I don’t have to explain our data or emissions reduction goals – KLA just knows! We’re really excited to see what the KLA team comes up with for our dashboard!
Crystal Najera
Climate Action Administrator, City of Encinitas, CA
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