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• Identify and facilitate state/local government opportunities to finance energy audits, retrofit projects and retro commissioning through the Guaranteed Energy Savings Program GESP), Local Energy
<br />Efficiency Program (LEEP), Energy Savings Partnership, state master contracts, or opportunities as applicable.
<br />• Engage employees to change commuting habits and to make energy and water saving behavioral changes at work and home.
<br />• Encourage reduction of vehicle miles traveled and improved air quality through safe routes to school, biking and walking initiatives (active living), improved vehicle and fleet efficiency, complete streets
<br />planning and implementation, education about multi -modal transportation, and facilitation of safety and infrastructure improvements.
<br />• Implement transportation projects with measurable outcomes that reduce vehicle miles traveled by substituting walking, biking, and public transit methods to reduce emissions and improve public
<br />health.
<br />• Promote and encourage the use of hybrid and electric vehicles through education and outreach and assisting with developing infrastructure for electric vehicles, including charging stations and
<br />workplace charging.
<br />• Provide electric vehicle information to fleet managers to encourage use in public fleets, including operation and maintenance cost savings.
<br />• Promote emission reductions to community members through educational campaigns that target practices and behaviors that alleviate air pollution (i.e., air alert education, carpooling, public transit,
<br />biking, car sharing), and those that contribute to air pollution (i.e., burn barrels, gas -powered lawn equipment, backyard fires, vehicle idling, single occupancy vehicles, and low -efficiency wood -burning
<br />boilers/stoves/fireplaces).
<br />• Assist facilities management and public works to incorporate best management practices for chloride (road salt) prevention (improved snow removal equipment), product storage, and application.
<br />• Conduct surveys or collect pre/post information from participants in trainings, events, workshops, etc., on commitments to change and changes in behavior with energy conservation and
<br />transportation -related practices.
<br />• As applicable, coordinate above activities with the implementation of buildings and lighting, transportation, renewable energy, and community resilience best practices, including those referenced in
<br />the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program.
<br />• Assist local governments and their partners with planning on how to institutionalize ongoing savings in energy and water usage and reductions in vehicle miles traveled and vehicle emissions through
<br />tracking and follow-up, revised building and vehicle operations and maintenance practices, program marketing, and continued employee engagement.
<br />• Identify, engage, and assist local governments in developing outreach on wood smoke reduction from recreational fires and/or wood heaters.
<br />Marginal functions (not to exceed 340 hours)
<br />• Mobilize volunteers to assist in the implementation of activities.
<br />• Assist with additional sustainability-related projects as outlined in the green infrastructure improvements, waste reduction, recycling and organics management, and community readiness and outreach
<br />position descriptions within the host site community. Host sites are required to outline these activities in the member's work plan.
<br />• Inform and educate host site employees, community organizations, and citizens about member projects and accomplishments via media and public outreach efforts.
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