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"good" (1-star) level, "better" (2-star), or "best." Cities self-report howthey have completed an action, and GreenStep Cities staff mark each action <br />(in consultation with the city) as complete at a 1-, 2- or 3-star level. Guidance for what constitutes completion at different star levels is found on the <br />web site by clicking on the text of a best practice action and then clicking on the Guidance tab. This star guidance provides more detail than is <br />included in the action text, and sometimes clarifies that a city need do only one part of an action to have their work marked as complete at a 1-star <br />level. <br />The star guidance text is rarely absolute criteria for assignment of a star level for a particular action a city has completed. This is because the <br />guidance is continually being refined as cities report more actions, and report actions in more creative/unanticipated ways. Cities are encouraged to <br />attempt to complete an action at a 2- or 3-star level, but completion of all actions at a 1-star level is sufficient for cities that are recognized as Step <br />Two and Step Three cities. <br />Can my city calculate the benefits of a contemplated or completed action? <br />For many of the 163 GreenStep actions, yes. <br />Within each best practice sheet is a"Benefits" section that lists, where we have indentified them, web sites with calculators of environmental, <br />financial and social benefits of implementing the GreenStep actions, or similar actions. As of 2010 there e�asts one large, free, downloadable <br />spreadsheet - The Climate & Air Pollution Planning Assistant (CAPPA) — comprising over 100 separate calculators that are relevant to a majority of <br />the 163 GreenStep City best practice actions. CAPPA can provide useful estimates for planning purposes, but it might not be an appropriate <br />substitute to some other kind of ineasurement and verification in order to officially claim reductions. In some cases it appears that CAPPA simply <br />uses educated, best estimates for what sort of greenhouse gas reductions a specific action can achieve. <br />CAPPA has default settings for the degree to which a city government and/or a community would implement a specific action, and changeable <br />factors such as the price of electricity. Each calculator then produces numbers for money invested and saved, energy use reduced, carbon <br />reduced, calculations of criteria pollutants reduced, and other calculations dealing with, for e�mple, water. There is also an estimate, on a 1-5 <br />scale, of: <br />• Initial implementation cost <br />• Operation and maintenance costs <br />• Financial return on investment <br />• Implementationtimeframe <br />• Levelofeffortrequiredbylocalgovernmentstaff <br />• Degree of implementation conVol held bylocal government <br />Download the CAPPA spreadsheet and the CAPPA User Guide. For an annotated guide from the Great Plains Institute that correlates CAPPA <br />calculators with GreenStep actions, contact the GreenStep program coordinator. <br />Can I be certified as a green city, as opposed to being recognized as one? <br />The short answer is yes but not until 2011. <br />The STAR Community Index, to be launched later in 2010, is a national framework for gauging the sustainability and livability of U.S. communities. <br />The Index appears to be appropriate for large Minnesota cities that want to spend money measuring and more rigorously certifying their <br />sustainability achievements. It is being developed through a partnership between ICLEI USA, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the Center for <br />American Progress. What LEED certification has become for buildings, the Index aims to become for entire communities. When the Index is <br />completely up and running, it could be that certification under it would automatically constitute Step Three or Step Four GreenStep City recognition. <br />Minnesota Pollution Control Agency � Contact � Web site policy <br />
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