About Dave
Dave Gardner is a Colorado Springs native. His father worked for Colorado Interstate Gas and his mother for School District 11. Born at Penrose Hospital in 1955, Dave graduated from Wasson High School a National Merit Finalist in the top 10 of his class. He was a member of Boy Scout troop 23, which met at First United Methodist Church. Dave worked summer jobs bagging groceries at Empire Supermarket, processing library books for School District 11, and making deliveries for Ponca Wholesale. During his senior year in high school Dave worked as a disc jockey at KVOR radio.
After earning a BFA in Broadcast-Film Arts at Southern Methodist University, Dave remained in Dallas and charted a career as a producer/director/writer. He produced and directed the PBS series Here’s to Your Health, and eventually started his own production company, Visions West. Over the past 26 years Dave has produced award-winning films and videos for clients such as American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Radio Shack, Southwest Airlines, and IBM.
Dave moved back to Colorado Springs with his family in 1993. Dave is still active producing video projects for corporate clients across the country. In 2002 he founded SaveTheSprings, a grass roots group advocating sustainability and preservation of quality of life in Colorado Springs. He founded the non-profit Citizen-Powered Media in 2006 to lend his filmmaking expertise to grass roots causes.
Under the auspices of Citizen-Powered Media Dave has also been producing the documentary Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity. This film is based largely on his observations of growth mania in Colorado Springs, but the project will have a global audience and has taken him from coast to coast, documenting the challenges growth presents to communities, and interviewing experts on urban, population and economic growth.
This documentary is an outgrowth of Dave’s research and experience promoting movement toward sustainability in Colorado Springs. Since 2002 Dave has observed or participated in numerous meetings of City Council, Utilities Board, Utilities Policy Advisory Committee, Board of County Commissioners, and the Sustainable Funding Committee.
