{"id":26531,"date":"2016-04-06T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/craig-high-school-student-joins-teens-as-voice-for-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:02:19","slug":"craig-high-school-student-joins-teens-as-voice-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/craig-high-school-student-joins-teens-as-voice-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig High School student joins teens as voice for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one teens from all across the state, from Barrow to Unalaska to Anchorage, convened in Juneau March 28-31 to talk to their legislators about environmental issues and other youth concerns. The teens culminated their time in Juneau with a \u201cYouth State of the State\u201d address to express their vision for a sustainable Alaskan future. Among them was Patrick Marshall, a youth trainer from Craig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the Summit because climate change has really impacted my old home in Craig and I want to see changes so my kids can experience what I had growing up,\u201d he said, according to AYEA.<\/p>\n<p>The teens represented 13 urban and rural Alaska communities at the summit, according to an email.<\/p>\n<p>The program was the annual Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) Civics &amp; Conservation Summit, \u201ca youth leadership training that brings teens from diverse regions of the state together to build skills in civic action, issue analysis, advocacy and statewide leadership through high-impact civic engagement lessons,\u201d according to the email. More information is available at akcenter.org\/ayea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one teens from all across the state, from Barrow to Unalaska to Anchorage, convened in Juneau March 28-31 to talk to their legislators about environmental issues and other youth concerns. The teens culminated their time in Juneau with a \u201cYouth State of the State\u201d address to express their vision for a sustainable Alaskan future. Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}