The Minnesota GreenStep program, which focuses on sustainability and achieving quality-of-life goals, has recognized the City of Moorhead as a Step 4 city. Moorhead is one of 143 participating cities and tribal nations in the 11-year-old challenge, assistance, and recognition program.
“Step 4 is a major milestone. This recognition shows that Moorhead is taking great strides in sustainability. We are doing the right things,” said Dan Mahli, City Manager and GreenStep program lead with the City of Moorhead. “I am thrilled about Moorhead’s commitment to make our city, metro area, and all of Minnesota more resilient while also seeing our communities thrive.”
Moorhead continues to implement best practice actions within City operations to meet sustainability goals with support from the GreenStep program and peer cities. Actions taken within the program focus on cost savings, energy use reduction, resource conservation, climate change, and the encouragement of civic innovation.
To achieve Step 4, Moorhead collected sustainability data on a variety of metrics that can be used as a baseline to make future improvements. Step 4 metrics cover a wide variety of sustainability goals including walking/biking infrastructure, transit options, local food, water usage, renewable energy, and solid waste.
Many city departments – planning, public works, MPS, wastewater, GIS, forestry – collaborated to gather the data.
You can learn more about Moorhead’s efforts here.
About GreenStep: Minnesota GreenStep is a voluntary challenge, assistance, and recognition program to help cities and tribal nations achieve their sustainability and quality-of-life goals. This free continuous improvement program is based upon 29 best practices that are tailored to Minnesota cities and tribal nations. More at www.MnGreenStep.org.
