Schools in Salt Lake City are going big on retrofits to meet ambitious clean energy goals — largely thanks to the activism of students.
Salt Lake City schools are proof of the power of youth environmental activism.
Then in 2020, students and parents came together through grassroots advocacy and supercharged his efforts. They rallied their school board to unanimously pass a clean energyLibecci says the school board approved a performance The students did so, even in the middle of the pandemic, because they felt it was the right thing to do to address climate change.
Libecci says he has found there are creative ways to fund this kind of work — and it can end up paying for itself. “School systems are huge, complex organizations,” Hemming says. “They involve tens of thousands of people, sometimes hundreds of thousands of people, and no matter how much combating climate change is a priority for that system, if there's not someone in charge of moving the ball forward, it gets lost.”
The Salt Lake City School District didn't even have a sustainability officer 15 years ago, until Libecci says he advocated creating the role for himself, after years of working in sales.
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