Love My Air

View of Denver building with Love My Air title

 

Love My Air's mission is to provide Denver’s diverse communities with visible, accessible, and actionable air quality information. 

As one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, Denver experiences significant construction and traffic congestion, worsening our air quality (AQ)—the 14th-worst among major US cities. Only 53% of residents realize the impacts of poor AQ, including that children are more susceptible to its effects, such as decreased lung function and missed days of school. While multiple factors influence exposure to air pollution, schools are an ideal intervention point for sensor deployment, education, and empowerment.

Founded in 2018, the Love My Air program’s goal is to reduce air pollution and limit exposure through behavior change, advocacy, and community involvement. As a winning city of the 2018 Bloomberg Mayors Challenge $1 million award, the Love My Air program, in partnership with Denver Public Schools (DPS), has created a citywide AQ monitoring network to provide real-time AQ data utilizing low-cost cutting-edge air pollution sensor technology, redeveloped with solar, battery storage and data connectivity to make it useful for wide-scale deployment and replicable in any municipality.  Love My Air program is also a Denver Smart City project. 

 

Partners

Denver’s Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE)'s Love My Air program has a goal of empowering our community with hyper local air quality data, cutting edge air sensor technology, education, and community outreach. Through close collaboration and funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies we have refined our idea and are looking to collaborate with other cities interested in the idea.

Current and Future Partners

Partner Schools Roster

2021-2022 Partner Schools
  • Academy of Urban Learning
  • CEC Early College
  • College View Elementary School
  • Collegiate Prep Academy
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College
  • John F. Kennedy High School
  • Kepner Beacon Middle School
  • Math and Science Leadership Academy
  • Merrill Middle School
  • Newlon Elementary School
  • Northfield High School
  • Palmer Elementary School
  • Rocky Mountain Prep - Southwest
  • STRIVE Prep - Kepner
  • STRIVE Prep - SMART
  • STRIVE Prep - Westwood
2019 - 2020 Partner Schools
  • Bruce Randolph School
  • Garden Place Academy
  • Gust Elementary School
  • Northeast Early College
  • PREP Academy
  • Sabin World School
  • South High School
  • Swansea Elementary School
  • University Prep Steele

2018 - 2019 Partner Schools

  • Centennial School for Expeditionary Learning
  • Columbine Elementary School
  • Downtown Denver Expeditionary School
  • Denver Montessori Junior/Senior High School
  • Emily Griffith High School
  • Farrell B Howell ECE-8 School
  • Hallett Science & Tech Academy
  • McAuliffe Manual Middle School
  • Manual High School
  • Joe Shoemaker School
  • University Park Elementary School

Resources for Partner Schools

Download the Love My Air Program Information Sheet(PDF, 12MB) for more information about Love My Air programs and resources. 

To request a meeting or presentation at your school, receive the full toolkit, or for any other questions, please contact:
Ephraim Milton
Love My Air Outreach Program Coordinator
Ephraim.Milton@denvergov.org

Replication in Other Municipalities

To empower more communities, Love My Air Denver has created a replication toolkit to provide a central location for outreach, education, and public health documents needed to launch the Love My Air program. The replication toolkit is comprised of an Engagement toolkit, Education toolkit, and Public Health toolkit.  

Download the Love My Air Replication Toolkit Summary(PDF, 12MB)

Download the Love My Air Replication Guide(PDF, 3MB)

Join the Love My Air Network to access the entire library of replication tools. 

Ephraim Milton
Love My Air Outreach Program Coordinator
Ephraim.Milton@denvergov.org

Video Archives

Downloads

(PDF, 2MB)Infographic- English(PDF, 2MB)

Infographic-Spanish(PDF, 2MB)

Rack Card- Vietnamese(PDF, 1MB)

Rack Card- English(PDF, 1MB)

Rack Card- Spanish(PDF, 1MB) (PDF, 272KB)

Bookmark- Vietnamese(PDF, 272KB)

Bookmark- English(PDF, 374KB)

Bookmark- Spanish(PDF, 132KB)

 

 

The Love My Air Beta App is here!

Download the Love My Air Beta app for iOS, Android, and desktop.

Air Quality Dashboards

View real-time air quality data for participating schools.

Check out the air quality dashboards

The Love My Air Newsletter

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Contact the Love My Air Program

For information on the program and how to become a partner, contact:

 

Ephraim Milton
Love My Air Outreach Program Coordinator
Ephraim.Milton@denvergov.org

 

Brendan Lawlor
Senior Air Quality Analyst
Brendan.Lawlor@denvergov.org

 

Bill Obermann
Air Policy Program Manager
William.Obermann@denvergov.org

 

Nancy Fitzgerald
Love My Air Program Analyst
Nancy.Fitzgerald1@denvergov.org

For media inquiries, email DDPHE.Communications@denvergov.org.

Partner Agencies

Technology Contractors

Awards

  • Bloomberg Philanthropies – Mayors Challenge 2018
  • Smart Cities Connect – Smart 50 Awards
  • Green Electronics Council – Catalyst Award (Finalist)
  • Colorado Public Health Association – Public Health in the Rockies – Technical Innovation in Public Health
  • Colorado Environmental Health Association – Environmental Health Innovation Award

 

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