The Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University selected the Sugar House Park Arboretum Accreditation Start-up for the 2024 David R. Keller Sustainability Prize. The prize is given to a community organization in support of exceptional innovation and leadership on sustainability issues. The Center for the Study of Ethics (CSE) advances ethics education at Utah Valley University, and supports programs that engage critical questions in navigating the public, professional, and personal dimensions of human experience.
David R. Keller was the Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University from 1999 until his untimely passing in 2013. In memory of their colleague, the Center for the Study of Ethics hosts the annual David R. Keller Symposium on Environmental Ethics and the selection of the recipient of the David R. Keller Sustainability Prize.
Sugar House Park Authority will apply the $5,000 prize to partially match the $15,000 grant awarded from the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands 2024-2025 Utah Community Forestry Partnership earlier in 2024.
On October 31st, 2024, Roxy Christensen, Sugar House Park Authority Treasurer, and Dustin Wiberg, Certified Arborist and Park Development Project Manager with Salt Lake County Parks & Recreation, presented the project to the Eco Poetry Class lead by Associate Professor Brock Jones, Ph.D., on the Utah Valley University campus.
Sugar House Park Authority is honored to awarded the David R. Keller Sustainability PRize to support for our Arboretum Accreditation project. Thank you to the generous grant from the Keller Family Foundation.
Photo Credit: Utah Valley University
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