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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Youth stage “countdown” demonstration for the Great Salt Lake, call on state leaders to take immediate action.

October 28, 2023. By Topaz Henderson, Adalayde Scott, Autumn Featherstone, Poppy Chamberlain, and Sophia Smith. Utah youth held a “countdown” demonstration at the Great Salt Lake, urging legislators to take direct action and highlighting what will happen if they fail to do so.

Young Utahns Suing State, Calling for Climate Action

May 4, 2023. By Alex Gonzales, Public News Service. Lola Maldonado grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah’s most populous metro area, nestled into the west side of the Wasatch Mountains, where the range’s highest peak, Mount Nebo, stands nearly 12,000 feet…

To be carbon neutral by 2040, here are the steps Salt Lake City schools are starting now

Oct. 13, 2022. By Sofia Jeremias, Salt Lake Tribune. Among other changes, solar panels are being installed at six schools as part of a $29.5 million project.

Highland students lead a Die-In mourning the Great Salt Lake

Sep. 29, 2022. By Nate Luthy, Highland Rambler. On an afternoon in early September, a group of students laid down to rest in the dry lakebed of the Great Salt Lake, surrounded by headstones. They were protesting the shrinking of the Great Salt Lake…

Utah’s youth climate activists held a funeral for the Great Salt Lake

Sep 16, 2022. By Caroline Tracey, High Country News. ‘Even though we’re the ones speaking up, the only landscape we know is something dead.’

Great Salt Lake a sovereign entity ‘worthy of legal rights,’ group says

Sep. 14, 2022. By Ben Winslow, Fox 13 News. New approach in law tries to puts natural resources and wildlife on the same legal footing as humans.

Utah youth hold mock funeral for Great Salt Lake in call to action for state legislators

Sep. 5, 2022. By Ryan Bittan, ABC4. Young organizers from Utah Youth Environmental Solutions (UYES) carried out a demonstration at the Great Salt Lake Saturday, holding a “funeral” for the lake which is rapidly approaching ecological collapse.

Utah youth hold “die-in” to mourn the decline of Great Salt Lake

Sep. 5, 2022. By Saige Miller, KUER 90.1. Over 100 people walked silently in a single file on the dry Great Salt Lake bed Saturday. They wanted to send a message to elected Utah leaders that a healthy Great Salt Lake is vital to the environment, residents and future generations.

Utah youths hold ‘die-in’ for Great Salt Lake, challenge elected leaders to take bolder action

Sep 4, 2022. By Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune. With the lake receding most of their lives, Wasatch Front students call out policymakers for leaving the burden of its fallout on their shoulders.

Youth group holds ‘die-in’ to illustrate dire situation of shrinking Great Salt Lake

Sep. 3, 2022. By Mythili Gubbi, Fox 13 Salt Lake City. A group of youth activists is hoping to make a change and is pushing for state leaders to address the Great Salt Lake crisis now — sooner rather than later.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Youth “drop dead” on dry lake bed, demanding action to protect Great Salt Lake

Sep. 3, 2022. By Maria Archibald and Muskan Walia, UYES. Today, young organizers from Utah Youth Environmental Solutions (UYES) gathered with roughly 100 community members to hold a funeral for the Great Salt Lake, which is rapidly…

Utah youth to hold funeral style demonstration for Great Salt Lake

Sep. 2, 2022. By Alejandro Lucero, KSL. Young Utahns with the Utah Youth Environmental Solutions Network plan to gather at the Great Salt Lake, on Sept. 3, to hold a “funeral-style” demonstration. The group plans to stage a “die-in”…

Why these students want Utah to make a change to climate education

Mar. 25, 2022. By Carter Williams, KSL. Natalie Roberts walked around the Utah State Board of Education building Friday afternoon with a stack of reports and a letter signed by students regarding how climate change is taught in Utah schools…

Want to see the faces fighting climate change? Check out these teenagers in Park City

Nov. 21, 2021. By Lee Benson, Deseret News. Park City High School students are responsible for getting the school district to set a goal of achieving 100% clean energy by 2030…

SLC Schools plans to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2030

Oct. 8, 2021. By Jason Nguyen, ABC4. Salt Lake City School District is now adopting a student plan to achieve 100% clean-renewable electricity by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2040. The district has 43 buildings, and students found they are the largest source…

Sustainability – Salt Lake City School District

By Gregory Libecci, Salt Lake City School District. During the June 2020, Salt Lake Board of Education meeting, students from Highland, East, and West high schools presented a Sustainability Resolution that was revised then unanimously approved!…

Salt Lake school board vows to create ‘more environmentally sustainable schools’

Jun. 20, 2020. By Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News. With the objective of establishing “healthier, more environmentally sustainable schools,” the Salt Lake City Board of Education has adopted a resolution that calls on the school district to meet all of its energy needs with…