Hitting the Press
Article written by Amelia Fernández Rodríguez
Chalkbeat Colorado
Chalkbeat, a non-profit news organization that covers education in America, featured a story on DPS Students for Climate Action and the process of creating school-wide climate policy. They interviewed Gabriel Nagel on the process of going from resolution to policy and incorporating climate action into schools at a community level. Check it out here! “Denver Public Schools has one electric school bus, solar panels in 46 locations, and 126 school and community gardens. But students are pushing the district to do more and become a national leader on climate action, sustainability, and environmental justice.”
Eco-Action Map
Youth Climate Collaborative (YCC) is a global community of young leaders and their allies collaborating to combat climate change (SDG 13) in connection with the other Sustainable Development Goals. Its mission is to make it easier for youth to get involved in climate action with its Eco-Action map, which shows 100+ organizations, non-profits, and projects worldwide. Its latest organization is, you guessed it, DPS Students for Climate Action! Check it out! (and feel free to leave us a review with your feedback; we love feedback :)
Electric School Bus Plan
Our inboxes are full of requests to speak at events around town. On March 23rd, Mariah Rosensweig spoke to support Gov. Polis' proposed budget for electric school buses.
This not only means electric school buses for DPS but for any school district or charter school that applies for the grant program! (Which would make Colorado a national leader in the electrification of our school bus fleet) Like the Colorado Energy Office said, “For many children, their highest exposure to pollution comes on and around dirty diesel buses; switching to electric completely eliminates this exposure. Added to this, electric buses will save school districts on fuel and maintenance costs.”
Included in this proposed budget Governor Polis also wants to reduce industrial pollution, a rebate program for electric bikes, replace diesel trucks, oil, and gas monitoring programs, and RTD passes for state employees. With that said, we need your support!
Find your legislator and write them a brief letter about the budget and why you care! They need to hear from us that this budget is imperative!
Hello, my name is ____, and I'm a ____. I support the Colorado budget for electric school buses proposed by Gov. Jared Polis because _____.
Climate Action Now
Climate Action Now is an app that enables you to easily take climate action on your phone in a matter of seconds or minutes. DPS Students for Climate Action has a lot of actions that you can do this Earth week! (Just go to search and look in Denver and Colorado actions) Download the app today in the App Store or Google Play.
FXB International
On April 12, Amelia, Caroline, and Farah presented our group to an organization called FXB (Association François-Xavier Bagnoud). We streamed live on their Facebook page and gave a lot of insight about how we started, our motives, what we’ve learned along the way, etc. Check it out!
East High School Tree-Plenish 9-News
East High School’s Sustainability Club planted trees across Boulder areas impacted by the Marshel Fires, with an emphasis on the DPS Students for Climate Action policy. They were interviewed by 9-News.
