Home Energy Efficiency Workshop
Thank you for your interest in the Congress Park 2017 Earth Day celebration! This year’s event will be held on Saturday, April 22 from 1:00 pm. – 5:00 p.m. outdoors at Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church (between Fillmore and Milwaukee on 11th Avenue). Participation in the event is free and open to the public.
This year’s theme is “Think Globally, Act Locally!” Join us for neighbor-to-neighbor learning and action to improve the sustainability of Congress Park Neighborhood, Denver and beyond.
Many residents of the Congress Park Neighborhood have experienced flooding, especially in the past few years. The neighborhood lies mostly within the Upper Montclair drainage basin, which stretches from Alameda Avenue on the south, to Colfax Avenue on the North. The City would like to develop a plan to fix or mitigate these flooding problems, and has set up a committee of residents to help do so. As a first step we are asking residents to give us some feedback about flooding personally encountered, over the past five or so years.
Setting your purple cart out for collection every-other-week is just the beginning of the recycling process. After collection, Denver Recycles trucks and crew members transport your recyclables to a recycling processor for sorting and distribution to re-manufacturing outlets. This transportation component in the recycling process is no small undertaking when you consider that more than 1,000,000 pounds of recyclables are collected from Denver homes each week. Each truck and driver collect upwards of 1,000 carts every day.
The Congress Park Neighbors Board represents the neighborhood with various groups whose
work impacts Congress Park neighborhood, such as INC, and the City Park and Botanic Gardens
neighborhood liaison groups. Some Congress Park Board members are also
members of INC and City Park Friends and Neighbors (CPFAN). They keep CPN, Inc. apprised
of issues as INC shares issues affecting large swaths of the city, and as CPFAN addresses
best practices for maintaining City Park as a green oasis for the city and its nearby neighbors.