Love My Air

Empowering Denver’s communities to live better, longer by reducing air pollution and limiting exposure through behavior change, advocacy, and community engagement.

Program 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.

The Love My Air program, in partnership with Denver Public Schools (DPS), is creating a citywide air quality (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 widescale deployment and replicable in any municipality. The Love My Air program is also a Denver Smart City project. 

Partners

Denver’s Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) has spent the last two years developing it’s Love My Air program with 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.

Resources for Partner Schools

Programmatic Information

• Love My Air Program Information Sheet
• Engagement Toolkit - Coming Soon!
  The Engagement Toolkit will equip schools with various communication resources to engage the larger school community. The toolkit will include letters, flyers, social media posts, newsletter blurbs, and more.
• Meeting and Presentation Requests
  To request a meeting or presentation at your school, please contact:
  Aubrey Burgess, Community Engagement Coordinator
  aubrey.burgess@denvergov.org
  720-865-5517

Partner Agencies

• Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
• Denver Public Schools
• Tri-County Health Department

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

Presentations

• Public Health in the Rockies (PHiR)
• Colorado Environmental Health Association (CEHA)

Technology Contractors

• TD Environmental (AQ data platform, AQ curriculum developer, AQ sensor consultant)
• Montrose Air Quality Services (deployment/management contractor)
• Lunar Outpost (AQ sensor technology)
• Clarity Movement (AQ sensor technology)
• 2BTechnologies (AQ monitoring solution)