Love My Air
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 provide Denver’s diverse communities with visible, accessible, and actionable air quality information. 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 with schools, community organizations, and local health clinics, we leverage our sensor network to educate and empower Denver residents.
Healthcare Centers
Beginning in 2024, the Love My Air program is expanding to partner with three health care centers across the Denver metro area. Through a grant from the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Fund at The Denver Foundation, Love My Air will place AQSync air monitors at Tepeyac Community Health Center, Inner City Health, and Kaiser PermanenteEast Denver Medical Offices. These monitors will complement the existing sensor network by adding to the real-time,high-quality data on a wider range of air pollutants.
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