SAVE THE DATE and register here for the People’s Great Salt Lake Summit on Saturday, December 10th from 11 am – 2 pm at Westminster College!! This summit will provide a foundational understanding of what’s happening to Great Salt Lake, how you can get involved, and how we can all work together toward solutions. During the event, after a State of the Lake, we’ll break out into groups to dream, discuss, and co-create a People’s Plan for Great Salt Lake that we’ll use as we head into 2023 legislative session and beyond. We’ll then break for lunch and come back together to share with the larger group before closing and providing actionable next steps. It’s time for the people’s voice to be heard. It’s time for us to come together, strategize, and plan strategies to hold stakeholders and legislators accountable to the ecological disaster being perpetuated at the Great Salt Lake. Join us for a space of dreaming the possible as we gather to organize, discuss, and grieve. This is an all-hands moment. In a legislative environment that seeks to silo our voices, we’re coming together to face this crisis as organizers, as concerned citizens, as organizations, and as artists. If you’ve been looking for a way to get involved to save the lake — this is your moment. We’d love for you to join us in person but if you’re not feeling well or can’t make it, we have an online option as well. Register here and please help us spread the word! In solidarity, The SOGSL Team

The LDS Action Team announcement: This will be holding a special monthly Zoom event titled: Gratitude Night Please join us as we look back in gratitude at the momentum and progress made this past year.  From the Katharine Hayhoe presentations to Presiding Bishop Gerald Causse’s wonderful General Conference message, we have much to celebrate and be grateful for.  Plus, we’ll be looking forward to dates, events, opportunities, and challenges.  We can change and become better stewards.  Invite a friend and join us! Also, as another friendly reminder—this coming Tuesday, November 29th, at 11:05 AM, BYU will be hosting Katharine Hayhoe at their Forum Address. Thousands will be in attendance, and it will be broadcast (and recorded for later viewing) on BYU-TV. As an Evangelical Christian and world-renowned climate scientist, Katharine works tirelessly to build a bridge between faith and science through education about climate change. She also speaks about how we can learn to discuss this vital subject better and talk in kinder ways, where we first look for common ground with our family, friends, and associates. The BYU Forum addresses will be accessible at: www.byutv.org/byu-forum  Here is the Zoom access to the upcoming meeting: https://citizensclimate.zoom.us/j/89072562621?pwd=b0lnenk4RERQUGhxMWU2YmwxSmptUT09 Meeting ID: 890 7256 2621 Passcode: 797406 We hope you can join us! The LDS Action Leadership Team Tom Cain, Dave Ryser, Craig Smith, Danielle Corbett, Ian Sandland, and Doug Evans

The Jordan River Commission organizes service projects on the second Saturday of each month. (Locations vary.) Details will be posted here as they become available.

The Future of the Great Salt Lake | March 16-17, 2023 The Stegner Center’s 28th annual symposium on March 16-17, 2023, will focus on the Great Salt Lake. One of the world’s largest hypersaline lakes, the Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse due to climate change, drought, and population pressures that have reduced inflows and shrunk the lake by more than two-thirds. The Great Salt Lake has been in the media lately, not only locally, but nationally and internationally given the unique nature of the lake and the grave risks to human health—referred to by the New York Timesas “Utah’s environmental nuclear bomb”—that would result from the toxic dust of a desiccated lakebed. Day one will consider the state of the lake and factors leading to its decline. We will then consider the risks to human health and the millions of migratory birds dependent on the lake, along with economic impacts, if this ecosystem collapses. Day two will focus on solutions to preserve the lake with presentations by scientists, water policy experts, politicians, community leaders, and others. The symposium will be hybrid, with speakers in person and attendees joining in person and online.

Featuring Darren Perry

Join with other groups to help clean up along the Jordan River. Click here for more details, and to register.

Volunteer to help with the Wasatch Community Garden Spring Plant Sale. Click here for more information.

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