🧠My Vision
I believe that Denver needs to be a city leader on reducing its emissions for other city to follow.
It’s also important that everyone in Denver has access to safe, clean green spaces. Universal access to city parks, community gardens, and other green spaces is correlated with physical and mental health benefits for residents, and better air quality, less noise, and heat mitigation for neighborhoods.
💡I Will Lead To Bring
🌎 Climate Action
- Commit to Denver’s 80×50 Climate Action Plan from 2018.
- Optimizing energy efficiency in buildings
- Obtain private funding to help subsidize green residential projects to accelerate the electrification of heating and cooling systems to improve energy performance and human health.
- Educational marketing programs to homeowners about reducing energy costs
- Enabling next-generation mobility
- Improving waste management
- Expand Denver’s green business and workforce with a just transition focus.
- Support and implement the Green Denver 2023 Platform which includes:
- Partner with Denver Public Schools (DPS) to change the narrative for our youth from climate crisis to one of bold action, innovation, and accountability. Recognizing that DPS represents the second largest entity in the City and County of Denver (by square footage), collaboration will be essential for Denver and DPS to achieve our collective climate action goals.
- Support and champion the vision and goals of the Denver One Water Plan (2021 especially those related to implementing integrated water management solutions, increasing resilience and climate change preparedness, and interagency and organization collaboration.
- Reduce water demand in City-managed properties and work with water providers and other partners to reduce water demand across the city by taking steps such as reducing irrigation of and replacing non-essential turf grass, and increasing use of recycled water in appropriate applications.
- Achieve fishable, swimmable status in Denver's waters and champion the South Platte River Project by committing and delivering the $350 million matching funds.
🌳 Green Spaces
- Employ regulations and policies that protect Denver communities from the harmful effects of ozone pollution.
- Explore and prioritize opportunities to make our denser, urban spaces greener and more climate resilient to support Denver’s human and ecological communities.
- Invest in, steward, and champion our treasured and unique Denver Mountain Parks in support of watershed health, wildfire risk mitigation, conservation, education, preservation, and recreation. (Green Denver 2023 Platform)