influenced city council members , principals , community leaders , and business leaders to receive 4,000 signatures in a petition to establish a climate action policy .
“ Everything from then on shifted dramatically in terms of the rate at which we ’ re implementing our sustainability initiatives ,” says Kittle . “ We put together a climate action plan and then also did a financial impact assessment to truly understand what it would take to decarbonise our built environment .”
The result of sustainability stewardship among DPS students The city and county of Denver are supportive of DPS ’ initiatives that develop both the organisation and its students ’ livelihoods . Through various funding avenues including grant funding , projects have been implemented to drive down the impact of its premises – include solar canopies , shade structures and rooftop installations – and reduces the impact of its communities through the creation of new gardens , the adoption of electric buses , district-wide LED retrofits , all supported by real-time data access through eGauges .
“ Community solar really touches on the piece that the students asked us to focus on with environmental justice , which is just the beginning for us ,” says Kittle . “ We recognise that there are many aspects to environmental justice that we need to
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