102 Community Gardens, Sustainable COS and Westside Community Center

If you’re looking for a place to grow delicious produce this summer, get the scoop here. Colorado Springs Sustainability Program Administrator Samantha Bailey provides an update on city sustainability initiatives and a new website to help you find a garden plot. She is joined by Westside Community Center’s Felicia Barnhart, who updates us on what’s happening there (including LOTS of available community garden space).

Samantha provides details about:

Sustainable COS (Sustainability Action Plan) – using the Pikes Peak Region 2030 Plan – to improve or create a more robust sustainability program for the city for the next 10 years.

COS Love My Air –we now have air quality monitoring stations in each council district measuring ozone and particulate matter. 

SmartCOS – using technology to increase efficiency and improve city life

 LINKS:

https://coloradosprings.gov/gardens

https://coloradosprings.gov/innovation

https://coloradosprings.gov/smartsustainability

https://coloradosprings.gov/westsidecommunitycenter

The following environment/sustainability organizations in the Pikes Peak region collaborate to produce the Peak Environment podcast about environmental stewardship, sustainable living and enlightened public policy in the Pikes Peak Region.

Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future https://www.peakalliance.co/

Pikes Peak Permaculture https://www.pikespeakpermaculture.org/

GrowthBusters https://www.growthbusters.org

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