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