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Denver Climate Challenge

Porch Bulb Project

Strive to Not Drive

Home Energy Audits
and Upgrades

Neighborhood Energy Action Partnership

Healthy Climate Healthy Community

Solar America Initiative

Take Charge!

Denver Climate Challenge

While there are many efforts to push for local and national policy changes to address climate change, there is a lack of community-based action to address this problem. If the temperature rises as predicted, it will be the community that suffers from the general environmental degradation, food shortages and resulting increased cost-of-living, and economic decline. The health impacts of climate change are likely to fall disproportionately on the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and the uninsured.

Groundwork Denver initiated the Denver Climate Challenge to empower individuals and businesses to measurably reduce their impact on the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The program is delivered at the community level, utilizing local media, working through social networks, showcasing actions by neighborhood leaders, enlisting the participation of local businesses, and providing door-to-door outreach in low-income neighborhoods. Residents are educated about the connections between energy and water use, food packaging, and transportation and their carbon footprint, economic prosperity, and public health. They are provided with financial and technical resources to save energy and water in the home, use renewable energy, use alternative transportation modes, recycle, and plant trees to reduce their carbon footprint, save money, improve their health, and demonstrate civic responsibility.

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