LDSES Global Fall Forum

Clarke Building at Utah Valley University

“This Beautiful World: Preserving our Planet for Future Generations” November 2, 2024 in the Fulton Library at Utah Valley University The LDSES Fall Forum is an annual, in-person event that promotes and celebrates environmental stewardship and allows others a chance to meet with fellow earth-minded Latter-day Saints. The theme of this year’s event is “This Beautiful World: Preserving our Planet for Future Generations”. Get free tickets here Doors open at 5pm, program starts at 6pm. Please reserve your spot by getting a free ticket (unticketed guests will be admitted if there is room.) Information about parking and exact room locations will be sent out to ticketed guests prior to the event.  This year the Fall Forum will be in the Clarke Building, rooms 510-511, at Utah Valley University. Our keynote speaker is Larry Echo Hawk, Emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and advocate for earth stewardship. Elder Echohawk has unique experience and background as a member of the Pawnee nation, the former Idaho state attorney general, and the former assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior. In conjunction with our program, we will also be hosting an art show, which includes a special children’s division. The theme of the Forum, “In This Beautiful World”, is derived from the LDS Primary song “My Heavenly Father Loves Me” which says, “I’m so glad that I live in this beautiful world Heavenly Father created for me.” Protecting the Earth for future generations is critical and as Elder Patrick Kearon recently said, “we will do better as we think of the future for our children and grandchildren. We will do what is best for us but also what will be best for them and their children.” We want to specifically showcase the creativity of children and what earth stewardship means to them as we look forward with faith.

Great Salt Lake Film Screening

Cathedral of the Madeleine 331 E. South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

  Join us at the historic Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City for a screening of two films, including “Listen to their Voices,” Directed by Gabe Brown of our LDSES SLC Chapter, and “The Last Resort,” directed by Michael Fleischner. Following the film screening, we will host a forum featuring both directors to discuss their filmmaking and take questions. This will be a fun and informative evening for all! Drinks and snacks will be served!

Wallace Stegner Center 30th Annual Symposium – Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 383 SOUTH UNIVERSITY STREET, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, United States

  The 2025 symposium will consider air pollution’s environmental and human health tolls—including the unequal burdens air pollution places on disadvantaged communities. Despite gains in many places, air pollution remains a vexing problem across the nation. In Utah, winters bring inversions and particulate matter pollution, and summers deliver increased ground-level ozone pollution. The Wasatch Front regularly exceeds national ambient air quality standards, exacerbated by the region’s unique geography and meteorology.   Finding solutions to these thorny problems becomes only more vital with each passing year. Emerging threats like dust from the shrinking Great Salt Lake and intensifying wildfire smoke further compound longstanding air pollution problems. Experts will share potential solutions, including those that have found success in other parts of the country.   LDSES will be tabling at this event.  Those supporting tabling get free admission to this event.  Please e-mail us at slc@ldsearthstewardship.org to volunteer.