Micah Smith joined the station in December 2018 and is Denver7's Social Equity Reporter
DENVER — Denver Urban Gardens , a nonprofit that promotes sustainable spaces, is receiving federal recognition for implementing solutions to the"heat island effect" in Denver’s underserved communities.
“Once you start putting in concrete and blacktop and buildings and glass and metal, the earth loses its ability to sort of absorb the heat, and instead it reflects it, and it raises the temperature," the executive director of Denver Urban Gardens, Linda Appel Lipsius, said."So when you go into downtown Denver or any city, or any place that doesn't have trees or greenery, there's a noticeable difference.
“Food forests are a really, really exciting development. So they're these dense plantings of perennial food producing trees, bushes and vines, and then you're also using land forms to capture water. And so considering the desert climate that we live in, it's just a really intentional way to plant food trees. So we're not just adding shade, but we're adding food to the system,” Appel Lipsius said.
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