Sustainability Spotlight - April 2026 - Update from Sustainable Wheat Ridge

This year comes with some changes to the focus of the Sustainable Wheat Ridge committee. We are transitioning into confusing more on our Sustainable Action Plan, or the SAP. The SAP is a collection of goals the committee set and that the City adopted (available on website). It focuses on eight different themes or focus areas; Water, Transportation, Solid Waste and Recycling, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Green Buildings, Business and Jobs, Communication and Engagement, Arts and Culture. While the committee is committed to completing all of the goals within the SAP, we have decided to start by focusing on three focus areas for this year. We have created smaller focus groups to work on the Water, Energy Efficiency and Green Building, and Communication and Engagement themes.

Water

The water group has decided to focus on working directly with the city on many of the SAP goals involving water. Many of these goals require actions from the city and even creating new policies to improve our current systems. While these goals have large scale effects on the community, we also recognize that they also require large scale effort and time. So for the short term, we are launching a community film screening and dialogue series to build awareness and engagement around watershed stewardship. While hoping to cultivate a growing network of local residents, volunteers, and partner organizations invested in the health of the Clear Creek watershed.

Communications and Engagement

The communications group is focusing on getting more information out to the community. We have just acquired space in the monthly Wheat Ridge Gazette to write articles regarding the sustainable efforts in Wheat Ridge and beyond. We are hoping to also acquire our own social media, in hopes of reaching a broader audience! We will be consistently working on these platforms to help reach more people with our goals and efforts. Along with our communication to the community, we are also trying to foster better relationships with different committees and city staff. Hoping that if we all work together we can make some big changes. The last focus of this group is to create a large city volunteer list, to help get more people out into the community making a difference. Anyone is always welcome at our events, we hope we can create a lasting group, dedicated to helping our community.

Please reach out to us if you have any project ideas, helpful information, or any questions!