ED Corner: September 2025
Pathways of Healing Practices We are navigating some deeply difficult times together as a human species. Much of what we are living through, at this moment in 2025, can stimulate…
Read MoreLocal Youth & Community Leading the Way for Environmental Change
This fall, our friends at The Denver Foundation met up with former Executive Director Cindy Chang and Youth Supervisor Greg Rodriguez-Medina to talk about Groundwork Denver and how youth like…
Read MoreHear from Green Team Youth for Change
At Groundwork Denver we partner with youth and community to build a healthy, equitable, and sustainable environment. This month, as we close out summer Green Team youth programming, we’re sharing…
Read MoreNew Analysis of Green Infrastructure Suitability in Bear Creek Watershed
August is Water Quality Month, and this particular August marks Groundwork Denver’s tenth year protecting the water along Lower Bear Creek. We’ve been monitoring the water for a decade here…
Read MorePor Nuestra Tierra
Groundwork Denver’s Sheridan Inspire Coordinator, Alex Tiscareño, created this poem inspired by Pride themes and what environmental justice means to him. Por Nuestra Tierra In the tapestry of my…
Read MoreWhat is Safety in a Racist Environment?
Ahead of Groundwork Denver’s Earth Day tree planting events in April, 2023, nearly 20 volunteers – including many high schoolers – knocked on more than 500 doors and spoke directly…
Read MoreTesting the Waters: Moving Towards Water Equity
Our lives depend on water, from drinking and sanitation to growing food and maintaining ecosystems. But water equity is a growing crisis in many parts of the country. Intensive farming…
Read MoreOur new mission, and what it means for us in our 20th year.
Twenty years ago, a group of community leaders came together to address the gap in engaging residents in community-based solutions to environmental issues in our metro area. When the founders…
Read More48 miles on a Purple Stallion
This story begins years ago, in the city of Sheridan as a young 19-year-old Joe Cordova wakes up just before 5 am for work. Why so early you ask? Joe…
Read MoreAAPI Statement of Solidarity
TRIGGER WARNING: The following contains discussion of violence against Asian, Asian American, and/or Pacific Islander presenting or identifying individuals and communities. No detailed or graphic descriptions are used. We are…
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