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“ We wanted to really bring it down to a level people can see working with the city and county of Denver on that as well ”
LEEANN KITTLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR , OF SUSTAINABILITY thoughtful commercial and public growth . “ Students came forward ,” she says . “ We had 30 students from eight different schools together in a Zoom meeting during the pandemic . They didn ’ t know each other , but they pushed and urged our board of education to pass a climate action policy .”
This shows a testament to the culture fostered across the district . Over the course of two years or so , these students tenaciously influenced the organisation to take a measurable stance on climate change , which took persistence but also accelerated a number of skills that those students would carry into the workplace . Even before these students make it to the corporate environment , they have already
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