{"id":5117,"date":"2019-09-05T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"freestyle-skier-kelly-sildaru-step-by-step-towards-a-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/05\/freestyle-skier-kelly-sildaru-step-by-step-towards-a-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Freestyle Skier Kelly Sildaru: Step By Step Towards A Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN\nEnvironment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estonian skiing phenomenon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly_Sildaru\">Kelly Sildaru<\/a>, 17, is the youngest-ever gold medalist at a Winter X Games event, and she\u2019s out to win not just more medals but also the hearts and minds of youth across the world: she wants to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with her younger brother, Henry, they dream of\nskiing on snow-covered mountains, but they\u2019ve also begun to acknowledge the\nimpact of their daily actions\u2014what they buy, what they eat, how often they\ntravel\u2014on the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to change youth behavior and raise their\nenvironmental awareness through giving simple recommendations and instructions\non how to become eco-friendly,\u201d says Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has already taken the first steps. In March\n2019,&nbsp;when Estonia presided at the United Nations Environment Assembly in\nNairobi, Kenya, Kelly delivered a keynote speech, and together with Henry they\nplanted trees in Estonia this summer to offset their carbon emissions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/freestyle-skier-kelly-sildaru-step-step-towards-positive-environmental\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Estonian skiing phenomenon\u00a0Kelly Sildaru, 17, is the youngest-ever gold medalist at a Winter X Games event, and she\u2019s out to win not just more medals but also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}