Memorial Day is just around the corner, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like summer! We have some great opportunities that connect to this sunny season, whether it’s by honing in your sprinkler system, exploring options for renewable cooling in your home, events to ride your bike, or increased awareness of daily air quality as you enjoy time outside. As always, thanks for being a part of making Superior a sustainable, resilient, and vibrant community.

- Town of Superior Sustainability Team

Electric Mower Vouchers Available to Residents
The Town of Superior has vouchers for $75 off an electric mower, no trade-in or recycling necessary (though you can always drop old lawn equipment off at CHaRM). Help our local air quality and sign up through Mow Down Pollution to receive your free voucher for a discount toward an electric mower while supplies last.

Transition Away From Lawn Maintenance
The Town will pay for you to remove 200 sq. ft or more of lawn! Apply by July 14 for the new Lawn Replacement Program and get discounts and incentives up to $500. Visit ResourceCentral.org/Lawn or call 303-999-3820 ext. 221

Save Water & Money With a Free Sprinkler Evaluation
The Town of Superior and Resource Central can help with a FREE sprinkler evaluation. Evaluations last about 75 minutes and could help you save thousands of gallons of water each year. Register at ResourceCentral.org/Sprinklers/ or call 303-999-3824.

Curious to check out electric vehicles, e-bikes, or other ways to get around town? The Electrify Your Ride EV Showcase is on June 27! This event is a partnership between Drive Clean Colorado, the City of Louisville, the City of Lafayette, and the Town of Superior. There will be an EV showcase, an EV ride and drive, and e-bikes on display!

Mark your calendar; June 28 is Bike to Work Day! Get your breakfast, coffee, and freebies by visiting a station in the morning, then take your handlebars out on the Town for discounts on your favorite food and drinks. Find stations near you and register to ride at BikeToWorkDay.co for the chance to win cool prizes!  

Millions of electric bikes are being ridden on roads and trails across the U.S., helping Americans replace car trips, reduce their personal carbon footprint, and access the countless benefits and joys of the great outdoors!

With those bikes, there are also millions of lithium-ion batteries that will need to be properly managed at their end of life. Learn more where and how you can recycle your e-bike battery locally through the Call2Recycle website.

The Colorado State legislative session adjourned on May 8, and the past few months saw a flurry of bills pass that are wins for the environment. These inlcuded bills to promote greenhouse gas reduction measures, including incentives for electric lawn and garden equipment, tougher regulations for ozone, limits on bee-killing pesticides, legislation to address high utility bills, a bill to streamline solar permitting, and the first farmer Right to Repair bill in the county.

Colorado Public Interest Reserach Group (CoPIRG) has some good user-friendly recaps of many of these bills.

We are coming into warmer weather, which also means increases in ozone levels and days with unsafe air quality here along the Front Range. Thanks to local Girl Scout Troop 75930, the Superior Community Center now has a daily flag display outside notifying residents of local air quality daily through a simple flag system. The Troop will raise a green, yellow, orange, red, or purple flag to inform residents of the daily Air Quality Index.

To stay in the know wherever you are, visit the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment daily air quality monitoring dashboard or get alerts for poor air quality days by texting "BETTERAIRCO" to 21000 or by signing up for e-mail alerts.

Boulder County has launched an innovative new program that simplifies the process of shopping for clean energy products like heat pumps, which can heat and cool your home, and solar panels. The free program provides residents easy access to transparent and informative online evaluation tools through the Energy Sage platform.

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