Wyoming joins ranks of GreenStep

Amy Doeun
Wyoming Reporter
The Wyoming City Council voted at Oct. 3 meeting to join the Greenstep initiative. Organization Metro Clean Energy Resource Team Director Diana McKeown gave a short presentation about the Minnesota GreenStep Cities Program.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“It is a voluntary program for cities looking at sustainability and best practices,” she said of the group.
GreenStep Cities is a partnership between the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and various other entities, including the League of Minnesota Cities. Currently, approximately 160 cities across Minnesota have joined the GreenStep movement.
“[The cities] are big and small, liberal and conservative, and all over the state,” McKeown said.
Locally, the cities of White Bear Lake, Stacy, Forest Lake and Scandia are already GreenStep Cities.
“It provides a template,” McKeown said of GreenStep’s goals. “You can choose what makes sense for your city. … It provides a framework for a city’s sustainability efforts.”broadstreet.zone(50962);
There are 29 GreenStep practices broken up into five categories: Buildings

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