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DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T GET ME STARTED Tesoro Refinery; Republican Spampaign Tricks.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND SLC climate change resolution; Tesoro refineries and your lungs; Lawsuit targets Utah

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BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG hen you receive dozens of emails a day, the subject line is everything.

One simply can’t read it all.

Yesterday one came with an intriguing title: “Facebook’s Influence on Beauty.”

I’d been thinking about that very thing lately. Practically everyone carries a camera connected to the internet. I’ve texted pictures of plumbing and was able to save my back entryway from flooding with the instructions I received in reply; determined whether I needed a tetanus shot based on crowd-sourcing a serious-looking leg wound (the answer was a unanimous yes); identified plants for curious friends. You probably have similar stories. But then there’s the people photography thing.

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my empty bucket for a full one that will fill my garden’s worms with joie de vivre.

Not something you’d want to post to strangers on a dating site.

You know those movie magazines with indignant captions to photos of famous people living ordinary moments, complete with unshaved pits and makeup-free, in their ratty comfort clothes? How dare they lack perfection! Nowadays we can all relate.

In professional photo sessions, sometimes 100 duds yield to one perfect image. And it’s really perfect after Photoshopping.

(You think those breasts on the photo of me in the chain-mail bra on CATALYST cover a few years ago existed in nature? Not quite.)

At the same time, I notice how Facebook photography is acclimating us to more intimate moments of people’s lives: impromptu but usually happy. Sometimes people look a little goofy. Bad posture! Fat day! My roots are showing!

Okay, we usually “untag” the unflattering ones, and in serious situations may hit “delete.” Maybe it’s because I had a bigdecade birthday this year that I’m easing up on caring so much how I’m perceived.

Maybe this is just a stage and I’ll grow out of it by next month.

I’d been thinking these thoughts since my friend Sunny Strasburg posted a photo of John and me taken at a recent dinner party. John looks great; I look like I just crawled out from under a bed where I’d been kept for a few months. But there was something in this photo. It was funny, ridiculous, and in its own way beautiful. I “owned” it. I did not untag myself.

(All these thoughts and I’d only gotten to the title. Now you know why it takes me so long to read my email.)

For some reason, I thought this press release would refer to someone’s new book about acceptance: accepting how we look—and who we are, accepting the multiplicity of angles and facets that offer interest if not a stereotypical definition of beauty. Obviously I thought that because that was what was on my own mind.

Instead I found this: Facebook has put a whole new twist on “photos”—people are feeling more pressure to look good now that everyone from their grammar school friends to their extended family views their photos.

I’ll admit it: I usually take a few casual girlie measures before heading to a place where I think my mug may get immortalized. But I also notice that people who love us don’t notice the same things that we might criticize about ourselves.

I continue reading: A plastic surgeon suggests tapping your lips and pinching your cheeks just before the camera clicks.

He can also comment on the newest beauty trends such as chin implants and lip lifts to get a sexier more youthful look.

Maybe someday. Right now, I opt for flexibility. Embrace the goofy. It’s probably good for the soul. u Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST. GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

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got a letter from the Republican party the other day. It lay in my inbox for a week before curiosity got the best of me. I opened it. It said they thought I was a sucker. It told me I was â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE of VOTERS residing in my district.â&#x20AC;? Their caps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After compiling and modeling demographic information for the thousands of activists in our database,â&#x20AC;? they told me, I had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;...selected to represent voters in your area in the OFFICIAL 2012 Presidential Platform Survey.â&#x20AC;?

They even included a pre-paid postage envelope with my registration number, 1017.10163365, pre-printed on the front.

Which is kind of strange, since it was a window envelope and the only place my name and address were printed out was on the first page of the enclosed four-page supplication. My guess is that the Republican party has 50 million â&#x20AC;&#x153;DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVEs of VOTERSâ&#x20AC;? on their spampaign list. My second guess is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;my districtâ&#x20AC;? consists of about a tenth of a block.

If a registered (I presume) Republican isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to spontaneously send a generous campaign donation in the Republican partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction by the time they get to the end of the survey, the last half page of the two-page survey is devoted to various â&#x20AC;&#x153;supportâ&#x20AC;? options. Starting at $35, ranging to $500, and, the big ask: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other $____.â&#x20AC;? I was thinking of contributing $1, but it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be worth the bank transaction fee.

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polluting at existing rates whenever pollution regulations are tightened.

This is called the “grandfather clause,” but it’s been better than Santa Claus to polluting industries like Tesoro and Rio Tinto, which recently got permission from the Utah Bureaucracy of Air Inequality (UBAIQ, names have been changed to protect the polluter’s accomplices) to cash in a big chunk of their banked pollution credits.

The irony, for many Utahns, is that it was pollution, from Tesoro and other polluters, that probably finished off their grandfathers.

Governor Gary Herbert can, if he has the backbone and the best interests of Utah’s citizens in mind, direct the Utah Bureaucracy of Air Inequality to put Utahns health ahead of the profit motive of polluters like Tesoro—who, by the way, expects a two-year return on investment on its $180 million. That means that in two years Tesoro will be making an approximately $90 million annual profit on area citizens’ lungs.

But I’ll bet $235,000 that he won’t— and, coincidently, so has the “energy industry.” That’s how much money they’ve donated to Governor Herbert, or rather to Governor Herbert’s campaign committee in the last 16 months.. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

life except for the one time I was running in a primary for the school board: The only other race on the ballot was a Republican primary race, but I needed to be a registered Republican to vote in that race so I decided to register as a Republican. That small act has been a reliable source of entertainment ever since.

Who says being a registered Republican doesn’t have its advantages? I was chuckling for a week until I realized that this is what “democracy” has come to in this country.

If I’m not feeling like a one-percenter right now as I read this letter, they’ve included an additional option to send in the filled-out “...Document” with a “...sponsoring contribution of $15 to help cover tabulating my Survey.”

Fifteen dollars to cover tabulation? Even if they’ve got a very slow pre-law intern (I mean lazy, not stupid) with a high billable rate opening the responses and it takes a nano-whisker of a computer’s time to”tabulate,” my part in this scam didn’t put the Republican party out more than a buck.

Oh flip, the P.S. says I have to return the survey to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus within seven days. I guess I’ve missed my big chance to change the course of the Republican party this year. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

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Never mind that the Wasatch Front has some of the worst air quality in the Nation, the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) keeps on issuing permits for even more pollution. Last year Rio Tinto (Kennecott) applied to increase in their pollution emissions by 54% to 65% to be able to expand their mining operations. Now Tesoro wants to expand its oil refinery in north Salt Lake City, adding even more pollution to Utah’s already dirty air. Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment warns that refinery emissions are particularly toxic and will increase childhood asthma and other illnesses, but alarmingly,

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DAQ says they can’t deny a permit because under Utah law the refinery is allowed to emit more pollution. Groups working to stop the refinery expansion include Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club.

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Lawsuit targets Utah nuke plant A coalition of environmental groups and individuals has filed a lawsuit arguing that State Engineer Kent Jones failed to uphold state law when he gave Blue Castle Holdings approval to take more than 50,000 acre feet of water from the Green River in order to cool their nuclear power project.

Currently there is no unappropriated water in the Green River, and sucking more water out of the river would have serious impacts on wildlife, farming and rafting. During drought periods (which are predicted to get worse according to climate change models) there may not be enough water in the river to cool a

Hinchey (NY-D) advocates for a less damaging alternative: “Though the BLM recognizes that Desolation Canyon is a wilderness resource, the area is managed under a significantly flawed plan finalized the last [i.e.

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Bryce Canyon The May/June 2012 issue of Sierra magazine offers an in-depth article about the proposed Alton Coal Mine strip mine expansion near Bryce Canyon National Park. The coal would be used to generate electricity for Los Angeles. The Sierra Club suggests this creative alternative: “Instead of destroying a national park to create dirty energy from coal, the sundrenched city of Los Angeles should create its own solar energy.”

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nuclear plant that could precipitate a Fukushima-style catastrophe. Jones dismissed these concerns with climate-change denial stating that he was “not aware that any available predictive model has been scientifically validated as a definitive predictor of future conditions.“ Environmental groups participating in the lawsuit include HEAL Utah, Uranium Watch, Living Rivers, Center for Water Advocacy and Utah Rivers Council.

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Desolation Wilderness drilling Nuclear power isn’t the only threat to Utah’s Green River. A storm of protest has arisen over a plan by Gasco, a Colorado company, to drill nearly 1,300 new natural gas wells near Desolation Canyon which is one of the one of the largest blocks of roadless BLM public lands within the continental United States, as well as a world-class river-rafting destination. A letter from Congressman Maurice

Matheson promotes Wasatch Wilderness In March Congressman Jim Matheson (UT-D-2) reintroduced the “Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act” to protect critical watershed in the Wasatch canyons above the Salt Lake Valley. The bill would create a Grandeur Peak wilderness area of 26,000 acres, also expanding existing wilderness protection for Mount Olympus, Twin Peaks and Lone Peak. Since the population of the Wasatch Front is predicted to grow by 1.4 million people (!) over the coming 30 years, Matheson says, “The alternatives to supply the burgeoning population would be costly recycling of water and extreme conservation measures.” The Act was originally introduced in 2010, but never received a vote.

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A visit to Jordan Valley’s Conservation Garden Park Museum, park and gardening expo in one

BY ADELE FLAIL tah is a desert state, attracting tourists from around the world to explore the state’s unique landscapes and geological features. But looking around at the grassy lawns of urban and suburban neighborhoods, our homes seem to bear little relationship to the landscapes celebrated on everything from postcards and license plates to fine art exhibitions.

We Utahns pay for the lush look found in wetter climates: About two-thirds of the water that flows into the pipes in your house flows right back out again—and into your yard, where plants seldom use it efficiently. This means a lot of water waste—and a lot of opportunity for improvement.

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The hands-on method of demonstrating the principles of conservation are so much fun it doesn’t feel like work—at least until you get home, fired up with ideas and ready to get diggin’.

• Get the full experience of visiting the Conservation Garden Park, then refer back to the park’s detailed website for steps, tips and tricks. Their “Find Plants” feature is a searchable database that allows you to get more info about the plants you like. It’s searchable by name, by affinity for water and light and by type. If you are ready to go hardcore waterwise, the database even has a feature that lets you constrain your search to Utah natives.

Images capture the appearance of the plants in all four seasons; you’ll be able to plan a garden that looks great all year. CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG/PLANTS • If you are looking for a helpful cheat-sheet to help water your lawn effectively, the Utah Division of Water Resources offers a weekly summary of how much lawns need, calculated for locations around the state. Find it here: TINYURL.COM/LAWNWATERCHEATSHEET • There are a few other locations around Utah where you can see similar exhibits—although the CGP is the largest. Check out the others here: SLOWTHEFLOW.ORG/INDEX.PHP/GARDENS Pictured: Lauren Springer Ogden, horticulturist and author, in her Colorado low-water-use garden. Ogden will speak at the Conservation Park Garden June 9. See website for times and other activities: CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG

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The Conservation Garden Park in West Jordan is run by an offshoot of Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, the wholesaler that treats and supplies water within Salt Lake County. (Dwellers in Salt Lake City get some of their water from this source, although the majority comes from elsewhere.) The mission of the Conservation Garden Park is to educate visitors about waterwise landscaping—but the hands-on method of demonstrating the principles of conservation are so much fun it doesn’t feel like work—at least until you get home, fired up with ideas and ready to get diggin’.

Helpful resources

Created in stages, the 10-acre site that houses the JVWCD headquarters saw the construction and planting of example gardens in 2001: Six plots, each containing sample landscapes designed around different themes, were used by homeowners as a 3D inspiration board to help them tweak their own yards. It quickly became clear that the opportunities for education on this subject were ample, and, in 2003, a plan was created for the entire site.

The nonprofit Jordan Valley Conservation Garden Foundation was formed to raise the funds needed to make that idea a reality—or at least, to realize an additional two and a half acres of that plan. Additional areas, completed in 2009, focus on the process rather than the product, allowing visitors to walk through each step from the initial analysis of their site to designing, installation and maintenance of their new waterwise landscape.

A third phase, the new Education Center, built to platinum LEED standards, will accommodate field trips as well as classes for homeowners and gardening enthusiasts.

The Education Center was completed over this last year, and the Park’s staff is already lining up some cool programs for the summer months (see the CATALYST Calendar in this issue for info about their classes and workshops happening this month).

To reach the park, you have to venture deep into the valley—the winding roads take you past a mixture of retail shops, residences, industrial parks and rural-esque plots into the heart of the Jordan River corridor. The park is situated back on the property, at the end of a long lane, but as you approach 8275 South on 1300 West, you may notice that the parking strip has been landscaped —the first example of waterwise planting. Even the parking lot of the new Education Center does its share: Look between your feet as you get out of your car—the permeable concrete and gravelfilled joints direct run-off from the parking lot and walkways through a series of biofilters and bioswales—the gravel as well as plants themselves—before returning it back into the stream that flows through the property.

But the real fun begins once you get into the Conservation Garden Park itself.

The exhibits will help even the most confused nouveau-landscapers understand how to right-size their own water use.

From a central plaza on the other side of the Education Center that serves as an informational trailhead, you’ll be able to choose paths that explore various areas related to waterwise planting.

As you walk, you may notice that the Conservation Garden is as much a museum as a park. The Garden exhibit paths, the expansion completed in 2009, live up their name: Focusing in turn on four areas— design, irrigation, planting and maintenance—these exhibits will help even the most confused nouveau-landscaper understand how to right-size their own water use. In these exhibits, visitors can handle the pieces needed to assemble an irrigation system, learn what to look for when shopping for healthy plants in a playhouse for grown-ups mockup of a nursery, and hold different types of mulch and soil amendments to get a feel for their properties.

While these resources are invaluable for tackling the details involved in conservation gardening, the example gardens comprising the original section may be the most important. Each of the six plots has a different focus: Waterwise Woodlands, as you might expect, recreates a forest retreat, while Prudent Perennials focuses on dependable flowers that brighten a yard. Each plot contains a small pergola to indicate the position of a house on the lot in order to give visitors a better understanding of how the groupings and arrangements will translate into a real yard. The plantings themselves, scattered through the exhibits, are like a living curio cabinet; each plant has a marker with its name, so you’ll easily be able to note your favorites when you head home.

Two plots focus on the ubiquitous lawn: The first, Traditional Yet Thrifty, prescribes modest changes to watering methods and schedule (new sprinklers or drip lines may be in order) to cut water use in half.

Traditional with a Twist shows how to cut water use up to 70% by switching Kentucky bluegrass and other thirsty turf—or any other plant not adapted to our arid climate

—with waterwise species that preserve the look. (For visitors who like a good head-to-head competition, a metered system on the Irrigation exhibit path tracks the different grass types’ water use over the season, so you can see conservation in action.)

The typical lawn requires 29 inches of water a year to thrive. Rainfall in the summer provides six inches on average, but many people will dump as much as 60 inches onto their lawns. The results of right-sizing irrigation is enough to help achieve the goal of cutting water use by 25% by 2050: “Our goal can be achieved without taking a single lawn out, if people water more infrequently and more efficiently,” says Eric Klotz of the Utah Division of Water Resources.

The Desert with an Altitude plot is perhaps the most inspirational.

Planted entirely with Utah natives or other extremely drought-tolerant plants, this plot was irrigated the first two years to help the plants get established, but no longer requires additional water. If the thought of cutting 60-70% of your water bill while having a landscape with style and bioregional integrity appeals to you, this plot could help you revolutionize your yard. Rather than barren and blasted, which may be the image that xeriscaping evokes for many, the plot shows off the rich and varied colors and interesting shapes that make up a desert-based landscape, and may tempt more people to re-invite the post-card pictureque landscapes that make Utah unique back into their homes.

With all of these educational and informational resources available to the public, the goal of 25% reduction is on track for the target date.

According to Linda Townes at the Conservation Garden Park, the conservation initiatives have already yielded close to 12% reduction in water use. “We’re definitely on track, although some of the credit does go to the wet years we’ve had recently,” she says.

Klotz is similarly optimistic with the progress of the conservation project, although he suspects they’ve already harvested the lowhanging fruit, and that the second half of the goal will take significantly more effort to achieve—but between the playground the park provides for the gardening-inclined and the events that the new Education Center will host for both school groups and adults, it should be impossible for Wasatch Front residents to resist

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Lauren Springer Ogden visits the CGP

Adele Flail is an artist and a burgeoning urban homesteader on SLC’s west side. She is also coordinator for The Leonardo. She recently illustrated a book forthcoming from Gibbs Smith publisher, The Nature Lover's Almanac.

f you’re getting ready to try your hand at waterwise landscaping but are looking for a little more guidance and some serious inspiration, join horticulturist and author Lauren Springer Ogden at the conservation garden to explore the design possibilities of waterconserving gardens and discover plants that will be at home in your yard.

Ogden has worked in a panoply of public gardens both in the United States and abroad as a horticulturalist and propagator (the person who coaxes one plant into becoming many plants through

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Once you’ve assembled a list of waterwise plants that suit your personal taste, it’s time to look for garden styles that you find similarly inspiring. cuttings, seeding, divisions—whatever it takes... or whatever will take), which has increased her appreciation for planting in tune with the local climate.

Originally from Philadelphia, Ogden has lived in Colorado for 25 years. She has noticed a change over the last two decades: When she first moved out west, drawn by the beauty of the landscape, her neighbors didn’t quite get her interest in native landscapes. Ogden says at first they were surprised that she was trying to grow the very native plants they were seeking to eradicate from their own yards.

Now, though, Ogden says, “People are becoming more open to it, partly because they have to be— more people are moving here, we’ve had a few droughts, and water is getting more expensive.”

But it may be the people moving in, rather than the long-established natives, who are embracing local climates and planting accordingly:

“The people who seemed the most concerned about it being a dry place were not from Colorado. The people who move to the west choose to come, and they embrace that it is a dry place... We don’t want it to look like Philadelphia or Indiana.” In fact, the tide of garden fashion now seems to be turning the other way, with people from wetter parts of the U.S. envying the bright colors and architectural structures of traditional desert plants. “Gardeners like the whole southwestern look, and they aren’t as insistent now on the English delphinium-and-rose thing.”

For the would-be waterwise landscaper, Ogden recommends looking at the plants themselves for inspiration: “Look for what really appeals to you: If you don’t like plants with orange flowers or you don’t like cactuses, you don’t have to have those.” Once you’ve assembled a list of waterwise plants that suit your personal taste, it’s time to look for garden styles that you find similarly inspiring.

Ogden’s newest book, Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens, can help you assemble your horticultural dream team. Unlike her other books, which are aimed more toward experienced gardeners, this book is meant to be broadly accessible, providing almost a shopping list of 200 plants that do well under low-water conditions. A handy key indicates how the flora will interact with the fauna, highlighting plants that will attract bees and butterflies, or will repel deer.

Once you know what you want, though, the next step is to find it at a nursery. While you’ll find more selection than ever before, there is room for improvement. Linda Townes, of the Conservation Garden Park, notes that you’ll come up against this issue sometimes when looking for native or other drought-tolerant plants here in Utah, but she and Ogden both stress that you have to be vocal about what you want, whether working with an independent nursery or a big-box home and garden center: “You have to ask,” says Townes, “or the nurseries will never know that people want native or low-water plants.”

Want to learn more? Join Lauren Ogden Springer at the Conservation Garden Park’s new Education Center. Cost is $20, and you can register online (try scanning the QR code below with your smartphone): TINYURL.COM/OGDENATCGP

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SUSTAINABILITY

Building Man Build skills for greener living this month at Scotty Soltronic’s Jenk Star Ranch near Green River

BY ALICE BAIN There’s got to be a better way.

Scott Whitaker, aka Scotty Soltronic, had a harsh epiphany that changed his life while he was attending the annual Burning Man festival out in the wilds of Nevada in 2006. He was standing in a group of thousands of spectators, watching a giant wooden art structure burn to the ground, and he was feeling betrayed and appalled at the flagrant waste of new materials by a group of people he had always respected. That defining event filled him with incredible inspiration and motivation: Six years later, Whitaker is running an annual eco-festival on his ranch in Green River, Utah, and is one of the area’s leading lights in renewable energy and reclaimed materials construction.

“Everything really came out of that one experience at Burning Man,” he says. That year, a collective of 40 Belgians known as the Uchronians built a huge structure, half cathedral and half bird’s nest, out of 93 running miles of grade 3 lumber rejects. “There were literally semi-trucks full of new lumber, huge stacks of wood. I thought, this is crazy. Since I did an LDS mission in Amsterdam, I speak Dutch and I could communicate pretty well, I asked them about the project. I got the clear impression that they were going to build this massive structure, and then not burn it, and instead donate the wood somewhere, and I thought that was so awesome.”

Uchronia, or the Belgian Waffle as it was affectionately known, was the hit of Burning Man that year. Uchronia went up in flames at the end of the week. “And as it burned, my whole world shifted,” Whitaker says. “I was a Burner, through and through, but when I saw that thing go up, it totally flipped things for me.”

The Belgian team reportedly reforested an equivalent area in Canada, where the low-grade lumber came from. Others shared Whitaker’s dismay and the next year the Burning Man organization began a wood-collecting effort in conjunction with building Habitat for Humanity houses in Reno. The sheer consumptiveness of the Uchronia project also catalyzed a major life change in Whitaker.

“When I came home I was sobbing. I literally couldn’t talk to anyone without crying. I understood that the Burners were lost, as lost as anyone else. They’re creating their own thing, but

“about the shift from burning everything to building everything.”

He calls Building Man the next version. This year’s Building Man workshops include Utah/ desert permacultural gardening, aquaponics, water catchment, composting toilets, Earth Ship™ rammed earth design construction, straw bale construction, adobe brick making, wilderness survival and fire bow workshops, making solar ovens, clean fuel vehicles, crocheting with plastic bags, off-grid solar photovoltaic technology, solar thermal technology, and composting methods and compost tumbler workshops. Presenters are James and Michelle Loomis, Martha Gilbert, Tanner Rosenthal, Jean Bokelmann, Mark Kriner, Galen Schuck, Tai Robinson, Maureen Brannely and Whitaker himself.

Want to learn how to build a solar concentrator? “It takes sunlight and focuses it on a point, so instead of turning sunlight into electricity, you’re turning it into heat. You can use it to run a turbine system or some other kind of engine, or to cook something.”He will demonstrate how to build three different versions of a solar water heater with reclaimed materials.

“The cost of this solar concentrator technology is next to nothing. For instance, you can take an old standard satellite dish, the small kind you put on your roof—everyone has these, they’re everywhere, and they just get thrown away all the time—you line it with mylar and then you can use it to heat water.” You may not be able to heat all the water we require in our modern lives, but you will learn concepts and how to apply them.

Whitaker says they are working with algae systems that use water as fuel, and other systems that use biomass as fuel. “I bought a gasifier from these Workshops like this one with Mark Kriner (center) implementing guys in Berkeley that is basically glass bottles and tires in home construction are offered. almost the same thing that was on the back of the DeLorean in the second Back To The theme. “I drove around and used it to power Future movie,” he says. “It takes biomass and other people’s camps and sound systems instead turns it into a useable fuel source.” Some of the of their generators, just generally spreading the new projects are being developed under patent. word of solar power,” he says.

Whitaker says the entire festival is run off wind The following year, instead of going to Burning and solar. “We have 60 batteries that are powering Man he took the Saucer to other events. He intethe sound system and the custom-built lights. We grated a sound system into the design and gathtook old halogen work lights and replaced the 50ered a small team. They supported various social watt bulbs with a 12V HID high-intensity car justice events and local music festivals that needed headlamp, which runs at 35 watts. We’re creating sound systems. This was the groundwork for the these lighting systems with one battery and one of birth of Building Man, which is, as Whitaker says, they don’t have any direction. Burning Man helps you step off the ‘program’ of the default world but what are you stepping onto?”

Whitaker had worked in Silicon Valley as a computer programmer and professional hacker.

Now he had a welding studio in downtown Salt Lake and made curious and beautiful sculptures out of discarded metal. In his mid-30s, divorced and raising a young son, Whitaker was living the life of an artist and inventor.

He came home from the event and started building. Within a few months he had created the Solar Saucer, a reclaimed-materials “flying saucer” art piece mounted on a trailer, integrating 1,000 watts of solar photovoltaic power into its design.

“I wanted to start building things that were sustainable,” he says.

He didn’t want to go back to Burning Man but a friend persuaded him to take the Saucer to the festival in 2007 for the Green Man environmental

Within a few months he had created the Solar Saucer, a reclaimed-materials “flying saucer” art piece mounted on a trailer, integrating 1,000 watts of solar photovoltaic power into its design.

“I wanted to start building things that were sustainable,” he says. these lights, and we can set them up all over. The old 500-watt lights used over 12 times the amount of power to get the same amount of light!”

Generators don’t automatically replace muscle. Whitaker wakes up when the sun comes up and moves the solar panels to capture sunlight, and then moves them again during the day to follow the sun.

In addition to the Solar Saucer, he has a box truck (“Big Blue”) with 4,000 watts of solar panels on it. If you have a deep-cycle battery system on a trailer or RV, Whitaker’s solar array can charge that up for you as well when you come down to camp there.

Building Man is family friendly and kid friendly, and as Whitaker says, “the people who come are focused on building things. A lot of them are going to bed pretty early.

The workshops start at 9 a.m., we do workshops until it gets too hot, and then we go to the beach and we play music and have fun and then do it again the next day.” Last year’s event had 300 attendees; he anticipates up to 500 this year. It’s held at the Jenk Star Ranch in Green River, which is built on a piece of land Whitaker bought many years ago. In June the ranch will host 3,000 visitors for Desert Rocks, a festival held

in previous years near Moab.

“The entire Jenk Star Ranch is built out of stuff we found in the garbage,” Whitaker says. “I’m an engineer by trade, but I spend my time in dumpsters. I make ridiculous things out of junk, but it makes my day when someone comes up and says ‘thank you for doing that!’”

For Whitaker, there is more to successful work than simply creation and inspiration—there has to be a practical and socially responsible side to things as well. “That’s part of the process,” he says.

“Everyone has their realization.” He has devoted his efforts to helping foster that realization and a more expansive environmental awareness among the people who attend Building Man. “In my opinion, the event stands to grow bigger and faster, because what we’re doing is resonating with more people.” The event gives attendees a forum to connect both personally and professionally. “What people really want is to meet a new group of friends and to have an amazing time and to be valued,” Whitaker says. Building Man provides just that. u

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SPIRITUAL ACTIVISTS

Activist, author & visionary Jonathan Talat Phillips is traveling the U.S. with an incredible story to tell.

BY TERRA CRONSHEY

onathan Talat Phillips is a bioenergetic healer, Reiki master, psychonaut and modern-day shaman. He cofounded the cutting edge web magazine, Reality Sandwich and the related Evolver Network and is also creator of the Ayahuasca Monologues storytelling show. From his home in New York City he blogs about religion for the Huffington Post online and coordinates 40 regional communities of conscious collaborators, utopian pragmatists and “hope fiends” throughout the country.

He is currently touring his new book, The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic, and will be in Salt Lake City for a public reading and book signing at the Salt Lake Main Library. He now goes by his Sufi name, Talat, which means “the ascending sun.” I met with Talat via phone, internet and in person to discuss his philosophy, his book, and his special relationship with Utah.

Your book is also your story and is filled with transformational moments. You say the chakras, when aligned, move prana or energy—creating

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“I’ve always been attracted to the liberating essence of revolution, whether it was French, American, psychedelic or sexual. Now, I look at it as also being spiritual.”

and propelling transformational inner-personal moments in life. Is this kind of transformation limited to the human experience or can this transformation be experienced on a planetary level?

The old alchemists have a saying, “as above so below” and I believe it’s the same with the energy web across the universe. Just as our human bodies have a “tree of life” of pranic meridians and psychic centers—chakras—we also have a “world tree of life” with a north and south chakra—the poles. The Earth even has her own aura, which can be seen in the luminous colors of the aurora borealis.

In my book, I make an argument that many yogis believe: We as a civilization are currently oriented in a third chakra consciousness,

which creates a certain vibrational reality for our species. This energy center is masculine, focused on willpower, achievement, marching forward in the world. In just 10,000 years, we went from planting seeds in the ground to splitting the atom. The destructive fires of the solar plexus are pushing us into the feminine heart chakra.

The heart is the alchemical center of the entire

energetic field. It carries the geometric vibration of love that unifies opposites and brings spirit into matter. It gives us access to entire new realms of divine healing and guidance. It’s what makes “miracles” occur. And given the current economic and environmental situation, that’s exactly what we need to manifest—one giant planetary miracle.

What role do humans have in this balancing?

Where can people learn more about this?

The ancient Christian Gnostics didn’t just walk out into the desert to get enlightened, they went through the initiatory process of the Mystery Schools to get properly trained. We are in a fortunate time these days where there are many places that teach advanced spiritual technologies—yoga, meditation, healing courses, ayahuasca schools.

The Santo Daime church is my main practice. It’s a Christian-based ayahuasca church.

Energetically speaking, we as a civilization are a house divided. Parasitic, hierarchical systems— political, financial, medical, economic—suck up most of our resources for the top few percent, creating vast amounts of scarcity and human suffering. Our role is to resurrect the warrior spirit of humanity, to remember our divine inheritance and internal and collective power as sons and daughters of the divine, to reclaim our lives and the sanctity of the natural world, to restructure our communities and resource distribution systems and to heal ourselves and our planet.

What does the ‘warrior spirit’ of humanity represent? How would one know a ‘warrior spirit’?

It’s the wild, authentic self that we carry within, the wisdom of the ancestors in our DNA, our luminous force and unique creative spark that can shuck off the limitations, corruptions and trappings of modern civilization to engage us in a truer, more passionate, connected and poetic life.

Have you always been religious, or was there a

‘conversion’ point?

I’ve always been spiritual, but I expressed that as a young man in the form of playful adventures and light-hearted tricksterism. Religion actually held down my spirit, whether it was the Methodist Church giving me structured rules on how one is to behave, or the Fundamentalist Church that had me fearing a bloody, impending apocalypse, which is no fun at all.

Much of my book focuses on rediscovering the beauty and mystery of the early Christian initiatory schools and their belief, not in rigid rules of engagement, but an exploration of gnosis—direct, revelatory knowledge of the divine through your own unique personal experience. Exploring this has been healing in my own path, and judging from emails I get from those who’ve read my book, it’s seemed to help others as well.

What role does art play in your life?

When I first started on my path of bioenergetic training, I focused heavily on learning every correct hands-on-healing position and energetic defense structure. But as art goes, once you have the fundamentals down, you then open up to your own unique style. These days, I find the magic of the celestial realms and forest of the Amazon from my work with Santo Daime has invigorated a new spirit into my healing art. Strangely gorgeous chants come through me as healing offerings for my clients, I embrace my own energetic signatures of electric and navy blues to connect with the dancing frequencies of my clients, helping them to illuminate their own creative power and manifest it throughout their life’s journey.

Each day, I awaken more and more to the poetry of nature, the universe and the cosmos within us.

You led an inspired group of street theatre activists, wearing sequinned costumes and staging political protests and flash mobs, bringing up serious political issues, while advocating for liberty. Where does your devotion to liberty stem from? How would you describe your political philosophy today?

I’ve always been attracted to the liberating essence of revolution, whether it was French, American, psychedelic or sexual. Now, I look at it as also being spiritual. These days I see activism being both multidimensional and interdimensional.

Like many, I’ve lost a lot of faith in our political structures—what hap-

pened to the change Obama promised?—so it’s up to us to design and build the new systems that can bring about societal transformation and create abundance for everyone.

I’m talking about the eco-villages, alternative currencies, permaculture gardens, gift economies, sustainable energy networks—all the things Occupy and the Evolver Social Movement [and CATALYST magazine] are working toward.

But also, the ancient Gnostics saw, much like the Buddhists, that our entire physical world is trapped in illusion. And they believed there to be dark energies—entities that prey upon us, trapping us in these denser material planes. Through my work with the Santo Daime, I’ve come to see there is a much larger, complex astral reality intersecting with ours. Because our culture doesn’t acknowledge spirit, we are playing with only a small part of the deck. These entities create addictions, anxiety, anger, depression and mental illness. The Daime actually works to illuminate these entities through alchemical healing. It can be tough work, but it’s incredible to see the transformation when these beings are lifted from our energy field. I believe society itself may be suffering from a larger form of spirit possession and we currently lack the the healing technology of the shaman or mystic to liberate ourselves. That’s what part of this awakening process is about—it’s taking the red pill to illuminate the Matrix around us.

How much direction or control can an individual have in regard to these dark influences and therefore over their own life?

We can gain full control, but it’s often a process of illuminating and clearing the energetic body. For instance, I struggled with severe panic attacks, depression, and even suicidal thoughts my whole life. Three years ago, I discovered this was caused by a “parasitic astral attachment”—you could call it an ancestral demon—dug into my back and abdomen. The Daime says recognizing this type of interfering is a first really big step. Once you distinguish that, you can then help the being detach through a process of forgiveness and illumination.

When they illuminate, you also receive a profound healing. Could you imagine what would happen if we could illuminate the demons in our political and financial systems?

It would be a powerful healing for us and the planet.

In The Electric Jesus, you describe Jesus as a kind of covert, ninja-type hero who sneaks into the Garden of Eden in the guise of a snake to convince the humans to taste of the fruits of knowledge, become enlightened and, ultimately, become liberated from this material world. This is a different take on the concept of ‘original sin.’ Can you elaborate?

I think original sin is the biggest plague and energetic thought-virus on this planet. It’s a corrupt, controlling frequency that tells us we are separate, isolated beings, that God doesn’t like us, and no matter what we do, we will never be worthy of love. It’s a lie, and a very big one, as it cuts off our most important connection—that to God, or source energy, and to ourselves. It leaves us in exile. In ancient Gnostic texts, Jesus comes in with the wisdom of the light, to remind humans of their noble heritage, as sons and daughters of the divine, bringing them back to their celestial home.

The trauma of original sin happens in the Fertile Crescent, the birthplace of agriculture, and spreads across the world with violent expansion of Western civilization. Our whole society has been contaminated. We can learn from the ancient Gnostics how to purge ourselves of these parasitic thought forms and reclaim our true divine nature.

Your book also mentions paraphenomena—balls of light, auras and aliens. Is it safe to say you believe humans, as sentient creative beings, are not alone in this Universe?

Let’s just jump into the most difficult aspect of writing this book— “coming out of the galactic closet.”

It wasn’t until the final draft when my editor and Evolver colleague Daniel Pinchbeck (author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl) told me the book wasn’t publishable in its current form. “You aren’t being honest. You have to share everything— your shadow side, your messy relationships.” For me, being honest meant saying the thing I never wanted to admit publicly—that most of my spiritual awakening experiences involved what you would call galactic contact with extraterrestrial spirit guides.

Surprisingly, this is the material that attracts most people to the book. They get really excited that there’s someone willing to discuss his experiences around a different kind of contact experience. We’re not talking clunky abduction narra-

“I think original sin is the biggest plague and energetic thought-virus on this planet. It’s a corrupt, controlling frequency that tells us we are separate, isolated beings, that God doesn’t like us, and no matter what we do, we will never be worthy of love.” tives with 1950s sci-fi tinfoil-looking ships. This is more shamanic and interdimensional, highlighted by the creative alchemy of slowly opening one’s eyes to what might be our galactic brothers and sisters. I get emails all the time from people having these experiences, so I guess I’m not alone here.

Your book also brings you to Utah. What is your experience of the Beehive State?

Well, the last chapter takes place at a ranch in Southern Utah, where I see my first UFO, connect with DMT, “the spirit molecule” and meet a digital multidimensional fairy, and nearly die in an action movie-worthy rollover car crash on I-15. Before Utah, I had a pretty boring ending to the book. Thanks to your state, it ends with a life-anddeath moment, literally. u Terra Cronshey, a native Salt Laker, has been director of a loud-sound art theme camp/village from Utah at Burning Man for the past three years. She is the festival accounting coordinator for Sundance Film Festival. TERRA@NEOGEOLOTUS.COM

Evolver Salt Lake, CATALYST Magazine and Desert Rocks present Jonathan Talat Phillips in Salt Lake for one night from New York. He will read from his book The Electric Jesus. Books will be available for signing.

Phillips Reading, May 17, 7p, Main Library, Level 4 Conference Room. WWW.SLCPL.ORG

Talat will return to Utah in June to present an energy healing workshop on chakra alignment as part of Desert Rocks Festival in Green River, Utah June 7-10.

WWW.DESERTROCKS.ORG. WWW.TALATHEALING.COM. WWW.EVOLVER.NET

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I sat down with Dr. Nancy Larsen DVM, owner of Dancing Cats Feline Health Center, to discuss feline nutrition. Much of what I learned was surprising, and challenges the murky information the cat food industry has fed us through the years.

Here’s what Dr. Nan had to say: Cats are obligate carnivores; their natural diet consists primarily of protein, animal fat, vitamins and minerals. A healthy diet is either all canned or raw food, no dry food.

Cats descended from desert felines who hunted mice, snakes, birds and insects. By nature they are not big water drinkers and got their moisture from eating their prey. Their urinary tracts are made to concentrate urine to conserve fluids. Dry diets do not provide the moisture cats need which leads to dehydration, urinary crystals and stones (feline lower urinary tract disease). Dry diets do not mimic a cat’s natural diet; they do not hunt corn, rice, wheat, etc... Dry diets also lead to obesity and its complications such as osteoarthritis, diabetes, lipidosis, allergies, diarrhea, vomiting and inflammatory bowel disease.

Since an all-canned diet can lead to plaque and tartar buildup, it is important to brush your cat’s teeth.

DANCINGCATSVET.COM has a link to a video from Cornell Feline Health Center that will help human caretakers learn how to do that. If you can’t brush your cat’s teeth, add a little dry food (10% or less), the kind formulated to make cats crunch the food apart before they swallow. Cats do not chew small kibble, they mostly swallow it whole as evidenced by that wet pile of vomitus that appears in the night. Another option is chicken gizzards; this tough organ requires shearing and tearing to devour, which helps keep the cat’s teeth and gums clean and strong. If starting out with a kitten, train it to let you brush its teeth.

BY CAROL KOLEMAN Regarding cat food ingredients: Watch out for carbohydrates and grains. Cats are not vegetarians so vegetarian and vegan diets are not appropriate, and in fact are a health hazard. Cats must have meat. They should eat a high protein, low carb diet.

Ingredients that need to be included are amino acids and vitamins that the cat’s body cannot manufacture for itself or does not manufacture in high enough quantities. Cats get these nutrients from eating not only the meat of its prey, but also the bones, organs, stomach, and stomach contents. Taurine is especially important as is arginine, vitamin A, vitamin D, niacin and arachadonic acid.

Making your own cat food is a good alternative to commercial food provided a good balanced recipe is followed that supplies all the cat’s dietary needs. Crucial ingredients for homemade food include appropriate vitamins, minerals, animal fats and supplements that require a variety of meat types, organs, enzymes, omega fatty acids, and supplements. If feeding a raw diet, I prefer commercially balanced products such as those available at Ma & Paw’s Bakery and The Dog’s Meow.

You can find good homemade recipes through several websites and books: CATINFO.ORG, Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide To Natural Health For Dogs and Cats, DRPITCAIRN.COM, and Celeste Yarnall’s website CELESTIALPETS.COM and book, The Complete Guide to Holistic Cat Care. There are also commercially available “basic supplements” for adding to raw meat such as Feline Instincts found at FELINEINSTINCTS.COM. I don’t think there is an ideal commercial cat food available, but if this is preferred, some of the brands I recommend are Nature’s Instinct, BG, Blue Buffalo, Merrick, Weruva and Wellness.

—Dr. Nan received her DVM from Colorado State University in 1993.

Unconvinced that western medicine was the best option for her practice, she became a Reiki master and veterinarian acupuncturist. She opened Dancing Cats Feline Health Center on 1760 S 1100 E, Utah’s first and only all-cats veterinary clinic, in 2004.

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

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Myth buster from Dr. Nan: Your cat needs a flea collar. False! Northern Utah does not have a significant flea problem because of our high altitude and cold winters. Flea collars are not necessary and in fact are dangerous; cats can get â&#x20AC;&#x153;hung upâ&#x20AC;? on these collars while doing their favorite activity, climbing. Even if we did have a flea problem here, flea collars are not very effective. Fleas love to run around near the tail and under rear legs, far from the effects of a flea collar.

News â&#x20AC;˘ The ASPCA has given a $100,000 grant to the Center for Science and Conservation in Billings, Montana for training and administering the Environmental Protection Agency approved PZP fertility control vaccine to wild horses.

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CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Art, Health, Spirit, Natural World, Music, Events/Festivals, Meetings, Exhibits, Education/Workshops.

See the full list of events and the ongoing calendar at www.catalystmagazine.net/events

CALENDAR

BY PAX RASMUSSEN

The Electric Jesus J. Talat Phillips will read from his book The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic. Phillips worked for the September 11th Fund, was a columnist for Music for America and spearheaded the activist media group Greene Dragon. He is a cofounder of Evolver.net and Reality Sandwich, and coordinates the Evolver Spores program. In The Electric Jesus, Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist—and unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival and miraculous energy healings that reshaped his skeptical worldview. Presented by Evolver and CATALYST Magazine.

J. Talat Phillips: The Electric Jesus, May 17, 7p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. EVOLVER.NET/GROUP/EVOLVER_SALT_LAKE

Get Out and Garden Summer’s on its way! It’s time to step it up in the garden. This month, learn to set up a drip system for your vegetable garden on May 12, 9a, at the Conservation Garden Park (8275 S 1300 W). Also at the CGP: Easy Herbs on May 17, 6:30-8p; Edible Lanscapes, May 19, 9-10a; Designing Successful Parkstrips, May 19, 10:30a-12p. Lifelong Learning at the U of U this month is offering Gardening in Containers, Thursdays, May 24-31, 6:308:30p and Grow Your Own Herbs, Tuesdays, May 8-15, 6:30-8:30p. Learn all about beekeeping and attracting pollinators to your yard at Wasatch Community Gardens (in conjunction with Tree Utah, at the Eco-Garden, 1575 W 1000 N) on May 19, 1-3p. Also at WCG (in their Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E) , learn how worms can eat your garbage at the vermicomposting workshop, May 19, 10a-12p.

CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG, CONTINUE.UTAH.EDU/LIFELONG, WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Lectures, Workshops & Seminars Solar Power 101 Large-scale solar power is important— economically, socially and environmentally.

Through legislative and regulatory processes in Utah, major progress has been made, but there is still a lack of public awareness and

knowledge of the technologies that can make renewable energy and energy efficiency a possibility. Learn about the history of distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) and find out about its advantages and benefits in relation to grid-provided electricity and other renewable resources. Get a basic overview of the way we can harvest electricity from sunlight, how solar power systems are engineered, state and federal incentives and financing options that can make solar power a possibility for you. Bring a printout of your electricity usage for the past year to help estimate the size of a solar power system that would meet your needs. Presented by Utah Solar Energy Assn.

Solar Power 101, May 10, 6-8p.

Sprague Branch library, 2131 S Highland Dr. Free.

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Great Salt Lake Issues Forum The GSL Issues Forum brings together researchers, government agencies, managers, industry and environmentalists working on Great Salt Lake and other saline lake systems in the western U.S. The conference will address key environmental stressors such as mineral extraction industries, waste streams and climate change. Pre-forum workshop about mercury is free to the public, featuring Dr. David Krabbenhoft: In 2003, work done by USGS and the US Fish & Wildlife Service with water and sediment samples from the deepest part of Great Salt Lake found the highest levels of methyl-mercury ever detected in the U.S. Tissue sam-

ples from fish and waterfowl around the state were also found to have extremely high concentrations of methyl-mercury.

Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, May 10-11. Free Pre-forum workshop, May 9, 9a-5p. Fort Douglas Officer’s Club, 150 Fort Douglas Blvd. FOGSL.ORG

Scandi Jam Learn the secrets of Scandinavian dance at this weekend workshop with Don Meyers and Kathi Ploeger of Skandia Folkdance Society (Seattle). Beginners can learn basic skills necessary for turning dancing and partnering for waltz, polka and other dances.

Experienced dancers can sharpen their skills. Partners not required. In a related workshop, accordionist Dave Sealander of Idaho Falls will teach techniques for playing Scandinavian dance music.

Scandi Jam, May 11-13. Columbus Community Center, 3495 S West Temple. $5-$40.

SALTLAKESCANDIDANCE.SHUTTERFLY.COM/SCANDIJAM2012

Festivals & Fundraisers Water Week The green of spring and snow slowly melting from our mountain peaks can make it easy to forget that we live in a desert climate. Head down to the City Library for films, demonstrations and activities that remind us of the important role water plays in every part of our lives. Sponsored by Brolly Arts, Institute for Figuring, Natural History Museum of Utah, SLC Ballet, SLC

Department of Public Utilities, Utah Film Center, Wasatch Community Gardens, Willard Bay Gardens and The City Library.

See website for full schedule. Free.

Water Week, May 5-12. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. SLCCLASSIC.COM/UTILITIES/WATERWEEK.HTM, WATERWEEK.ORG

9th Annual SLAM Plan B will spend 23 hours slamming out five short plays—you spend the 24th hour seeing the results! Cash bar with finger food

by Cali’s Natural Foods. Featuring new short plays by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Elaine Jarvik, Julie Jensen, Jenifer Nii and Eric Samuelsen. Directed by John Graham, Alexandra Harbold, Kyle Lewis, Kay Shean and Christy Summerhays. Stage managed

by Jennifer Freed.

SLAM, May 12, 8p. Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W 300 S. $25/$10 students. PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

Living Traditions Festival The Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 27th Living Traditions Festival, a celebration of traditional folk and ethnic arts. Living Traditions brings people together to honor the diversity and cultural traditions of our community. Local ethnic artists—craftspeople, dancers, musicians and community groups—provide the framework for the festival. Food market, performing arts, kids’ events, bocce ball, live music and more.

Featured performers: Ana Tijoux, Mexican Institute of Sound, Bettye Lavette, Charlie Musselwhite.

Living Traditions, May 18-20, Washington Square City & County Building, 450 S 200 E. Free. LIVINGTRADITIONSFESTIVAL.COM

To be considered as a featured calendar in the print version, submit related photo or artwork by the 15th of the preceding month to EVENTS@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

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Peter Yarrow benefit for Peaceful Uprising Don’t miss this evening of words and music with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) to benefit climate justice group Peaceful Uprising (which recently suffered an $88,000 loss to embezzlement). Peaceful Uprising seeks to change the institutional and social status quo at the root of the climate crisis.

Peter Yarrow benefit, May 14, 6p. The State Room, 638 S State St. $60. PEACEFULUPRISING.ORG

Great Salt Lake Bird Festival The 2012 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival will spotlight the many great birding areas in Northern Utah and around the world-famous Great Salt Lake. Interact with live birds. Events will engage youth and families in birding, and provide detailed information for serious birders. Keynote speaker is birder Greg Miller, who is portrayed by Jack Black in the new comedy, “The Big Year,” about the world of competitive birding. For full schedule of workshops, hikes, outings and events, see website.

GSL Bird Festival, May 17-21. Davis County Legacy Events Center, 151 S 1100 W, Farmington.

Prices vary. GREATSALTLAKEBIRDFEST.COM

Holistic Wellness Fair Learn about various modalities of holistic healing at this all-day fair. Massage, counseling, aura photography, dream analysis, palmistry, foot baths, tarot, psychic readings and more.

Holistic Wellness Fair, May 19, 10a-5p. Inner Light Center, 4408 S 500 E. INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Sun Valley Wellness Festival The Sun Valley Wellness Festival is an annual gathering of the top speakers and practitioners of mind-body-spirit and environmental wellness—whose mission is to “inspire positive change.” This year’s festival focuses on the theme of Owning Your Energy and features Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, the author of the bestseller My Stroke of Insight, Alan Cohen, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, anti-aging pioneer Dr. Uzzi Reiss and yoga master Saul David Raye, along with more than 20 other speakers addressing body, mind and spiritual wellness. The festival also offers workshops, yoga classes, music and a Wellness Expo showcasing wellness-related products and services. If you haven’t entered the sweepstakes open only to CATALYST readers, go to SUNVALLEYWELLNESS.ORG/CATALYST_PROMOTION.PHP and do so now to win tickets and a lodging.

Sun Valley Wellness Festival, Sun Valley Inn, Sun Valley, ID. May 25-28. Prices vary, see website for schedule/tickets. SUNVALLEYWELLNESS.ORG

Fiesta!

Join the Utah Cultural Celebration Center for their 8th annual Fiesta—with authentic Mexican food, song, dance, art

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exhibitions and children’s activities (not to mention fireworks!).

Fiesta, June 2, 6p. Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W 3100 S. Free.

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Utah Pride Festival Get your gay on at the 29th annual Utah Pride Festival. Grown from a small, rather secretive gathering to a three-day festival with well over 20,000 participants, the Utah Pride Festival is a celebration of diversity and freedom. This year’s motto is “Changing Hearts and Lives.” Artists, music, huge parade, dance and more.

Utah Pride Festival, JUNE 1-3. Washington Square City & County Building, 450 S 200 E. $10, parade free. UTAHPRIDEFESTIVAL.ORG

Film How To Die in Oregon In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having fewer than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether— and when—to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue.

What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity. Post-screening Q&A via Skype with director Peter Richardson.

How To Die in Oregon, May 29, 7p. Main Library auditorium, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

A CELEBRATION OF SALT LAKE’S FOLK & ETHNIC ARTS SALT LAKE CITY & COUNTY BUILDING 5PM - 10PM

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On the Island Deserts Are Not Deserted The word desert comes from the word deserted. The truth, however, is that the desert landscape abounds with plants and animals specifically adapted to this harsher environment. Meet the Park naturalist in the visitor center parking lot for an easy onehour hike to explore and discuss the many wonders of this desert island.

Deserts Are Not Deserted hike, May 26, 10a.

Antelope Island State Park, 4528 W 1700 S. $9 vehicles, $3 cyclists/walk-ins.

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Transit of Venus Join park staff and members of the Ogden Astronomical Society for a rare event: a transit of Venus. The transit occurs when Venus passes directly between the sun and Earth.

The most recent transit of Venus was in 2004. This one will be the last until 2117.

Transit of Venus, June 5, 4:30p.

Antelope Island State Park, 4528 W 1700 S. $9 vehicles, $3 cyclists/walk-ins.

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Towel Day, in honor of Douglas Adams

logical value as well: “Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

Adams confides that a man carrying his towel is also presumed to be equipped with “a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc.”—clearly one to associate with in tough times.

An important thing we can do when faced with stress is to remember to try not to panic, and to trust in our towels if things get too much.

Seriously, they expect me to worry about that? That’s ridiculous!

Consistency in a sense of humor may be impossible to maintain, but the effort is vital. u

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ne of the best books I read as a teenager had the advice “DON’T PANIC!” printed on its cover in large friendly letters. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s signature blend of science fiction and comedy changed my life.

You are shocked by your own laughter. Planet Earth is destroyed by the end of chapter three, and the main character, Arthur Dent, is left to wander the Universe as a species orphan, surrounded and befuddled by aliens who are all much cooler and way more self-possessed than he is.

The book and its sequels are a hilarious paean to anxiety; their genius lies in their ability to acknowl-

dy was to joke about it.

The Cold War ended 20 years ago, but as a species we are still struggling with anxiety, replacing the great ideological dichotomy between the USA and the USSR with the more diffuse and hard-to-track threat of attacks by terrorist organizations. I have also spent my share of time in the hell-bardo of uncontrollable anxiety. After a while you become philosophical about being high-strung, and you get to know and understand your reaction to stress like you would a grumpy neighbor over your back fence. You might not like him very much, but you still have to get along.

In 2001, Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide

Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

This rectangle of absorbent cloth is more than just a security blanket—it is a multi-purpose tool to deal with anxiety-producing situations of all kinds. edge the crippling stress that Arthur Dent is experiencing, and to make light of it without seeming cruel. Dent may be hapless, but the hip and selfdeluded aliens around him are patently ridiculous.

Based on a radio series first aired by the BBC in 1978, the Hitchhiker’s Guide channeled a lot of Cold War anxieties through its pages. The UK at the time had a public alert system called the Four Minute Warning, intended to advise the populace of incoming Soviet missiles (the average time expected between liftoff of an ICBM from the Soviet bloc and atomic detonation in the UK was four minutes). The system operated from 1953 till the fall of the USSR in 1992.

I lived in the UK in the mid 1980s during my junior high years, and I vividly remember discussing the four minute warning with my classmates.

We all knew that theoretically, we were four minutes from a fiery death at any given time. The fact that our continued existence relied upon the diplomatic and governance skills of a group of politicians that nobody seemed to trust very much did not alleviate our anxiety. The only reme-

series, met his untimely death on a gym treadmill of a heart attack, presumably while intending to manage some of his own stress. Two weeks later, his legion of fans founded Towel Day, an annual memorial celebrated on May 25 of each year. Adams had extolled the virtues of the towel as “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” This rectangle of absorbent cloth is more than just a security blanket—it is a multi-purpose tool to deal with anxiety-producing situations of all kinds. As the book says, you can wrap it around you for warmth, sleep under it, use it as a sail, wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat, wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes (or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal), wave it as a distress signal in emergencies, and, of course, dry yourself off with it, if it’s still clean enough.

A towel carries immense psycho-

On May 25, you’ll recognize hardcore Douglas Adams fans by their proudly carried towels. International events include: a competition inviting creatives to animate a 1993 audio recording of Douglas Adams; the Towel Day Ambassador Contest; the release of Gbanga, a game combining a virtual world with reality that allows you to explore a hidden dimension using just your mobile phone (and a towel). The library at St Cuthbert's Catholic High School (United Kingdom) is counting down to Towel Day, with a quote every day.

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Fantastic Fabrications! and Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science Come to the Leonardo for the grand opening of two new exhibits. Fantastic Fabrications! features the character Boilerplate, created by Paul Guinan, a robot invented in an alternate history. The exhibit uses artifacts, images and tools from this imagined past to take visitors along on Boilerplateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures, as well as helping them get hands on to create their own shouldhave-been inventions in the tinkering studio. Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science contains a series of art installations created by Swiss artists as part of the Swiss governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intriguing Artists-inLabs program, which teams up artists and researchers for nine month collaborations.

Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science & Fantastic Fabrications opening weekend, May 4-6.

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Altered Books This class, held through the University of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Continuing Ed program at Pioneer Craft House will help you to create unique art. Use photography, text, drawing, collage, painting, transfers and magazine lifts to explore your own stories of memory, joy, heartbreak, and more to create to personalized altered books.

Altered Books, May 7-June 4, 7-9p (no class May 28). Pioneer Craft House, 3300 S 500 E. $209. TINYURL.COM/ALTEREDBOOKSPIONEER

The 10th annual fundraiser for Art Access will feature 100 established and emerging artists. All works are done using 11x10 inch plates (either aluminum, galvanized steel or plexiglas); each artist prepares small works in their recognizable style. Finished plates include everything from landscape to assemblage to pop art to photographic emulsion and more. Prices start at $75.

Previews of the pieces are available May 14-15, 10a-6p and May 16-17 10a-5p.

300 Plates, May 17, 6-9p. Art Access, 230 S 500W. $25/$35 after May 13. ACCESSART.ORG

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Dollar Daze Take an expedition through the construction on North Temple to Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts (housed inside Mestizo Coffee House) for the opening of Dollar Daze, a show employing sculpture, collage and sound elements to examine how present-day economics, immigration policy, labor issues and hybridization affect the condition of the U.S. working class. The artworks emphasize the importance of dreams and desire to overcome the struggle presented by everyday obstacles.

Dollar Daze Art Exhibit, May 18-June 8.

Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, 631 W North Temple, ste. 700.

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300 Plates fundraiser and exhibition

5 BJ $IJ Friday, May 4, 7-8:00PM

Third Saturdays at the UMFA are familyfriendly. This month explore the newly installed Modern and Contemporary Art gallery and see sculptures made from rubber, Plexiglas, cardboard and pins. Then head to the Emma Eccles Jones Education Center Classroom to create sculptures from everyday materials.

Third Saturday, May 19, 1-4p.

410 Campus Center Drive, UMFA. UMFA.UTAH.EDU

New Frontier UMOCA has been hosting Sundance Film Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Frontier since January, and this month marks your last chance to see 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offerings. New Frontier highlights work film, art, and new media technologies that attempt to push the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image.

New Frontier closing, May 19, 11a-6p. UMOCA, 20 S West Temple, WWW.UTAHMOCA.ORG

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URGYEN SAMTEN LING GONPA Tibetan Buddhist Temple

Giant Garage Sale to beneďŹ t a Nepali orphanage

Saturday, May 5, 7:00AM 1574 South 500 East

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; %JOOFS .PWJF /JHIU Screening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Compassion & Wisdomâ&#x20AC;? a documentary by James Zito

Friday, May 25, 6:00PM $20 (fundraiser for the Gonpa)

YOGA FOR ¡ VINYASA ¡ DIGESTION ¡ ATHLETES ¡ BACK & SPINE Individual Ayurvedic Health & Wellness Consultations ¡ BEGINNERS Ayurvedic Cooking Classes ¡ MOMMY & ME Complete Ayurvedic Pharmacy ¡ KIDS Classes and a variety of Ayurvedic Treatments, ¡ KALARI Abhyanga Massage, Shirodhara and more! ¡ ASHTANGA Jyotisha-Vedic Astrology Consultations and classes ¡ HATHA 2065 East 2100 South, SLC, UT 801.485.5933 www.shivacentreslc.com ¡ KUNDALINI

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News and ideas from near and far for a healthier, more sustainable future

BY PAX RASMUSSEN

Solar in the city Last month, the Wasatch Solar Challenge team announced plans to help significantly lower the cost and simplify the process for residential and commercial solar energy projects. The Challenge team, made of representatives from Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Midvale City, Park City, Summit County, West Valley City, Utah Clean Energy and the Utah Solar Energy Association, is one of 22 teams nationally to receive Rooftop Solar Challenge funding. The funds will be used to help clear a path for rapid expansion of solar energy—by increasing access to financing, standardizing permit processes, improving gridconnection standards and updating planning and zoning codes.

mix of residential and business districts and proximity to public transit and bicycling corridors. Residents can sign up online, and will receive a free pedometer, bicycle taillight and a one-week UTA pass, along with information and resources on alternative transportation, such as the Salt Lake bikeways map.

Community classes and programs, such as Intro to Bicycle Commuting and Shopping By Bike, are also available.

hemp, lime and water that is energyefficient, non-toxic and fire-resistant. Plus, growing the hemp sequesters carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The only problem? Growing hemp is illegal in most states, since it contains trace amounts of THC, the mind-altering chemical in marijuana. And we all know how dangerous marijuana is, don’t we?

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Props to U The past few years have seen a boom in University of Utah sustainability efforts—such as their wind power program and huge recycling effort. Last month, the U claimed third place out of 73 colleges and universities for eco-friendliness.

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SmartTrips for East Liberty

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Last month, Salt Lake City launched the SmartTrips program for East Liberty neighborhood residents (approximately 1,000 households)—a program that incorporates several approaches to help remove barriers that prevent residents from taking advantage of alternative transportation options.

East Liberty was chosen for its size,

Groovy house, man

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Where traffic comes from Ever wonder why no matter how many more roads we build, traffic never gets any better? Check out this cute video that explains why (spoiler: it’s because the more roads we have, the easier it is to use your car, so more people do use their cars, creating more traffic), and how to fix the problem (spoiler: it’s by investing in public transit and bikefriendly roads, not in more roads and oil subsidies). Vid is in Spanish, but subtitled.

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Cetner for a Livable Future at the Bloomburg School of Public Health published a study last month that analyzed how well drivers follow three-foot bicycle passing rules. The result? One out of six drivers break the rules. The good news? Bike lanes cause a 20% increase in safe passing. Makes me happy to see new bike lanes in SLC every year!

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A company in Santa Barbara, California, is set to build Cheech and Chong’s dream home: A house built of hemp. North Carolinabased construction company Hemp Technologies has developed a construction method using a material called Hempcrete, a mixture of

seems thoroughly stoned) explaining, in detail, the bike-oriented city of the future. It’s a trip.

Bill Nye on bikes What will the city of the future look like? According to Bill Nye (the Science Guy): Bikes, and lots of them. And tunnels that funnel wind so riders will always have a tailwind.

Check out this video of Nye (who

HFCS woes Regular readers of this column are aware that I take every opportunity to write about the evils of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Here’s another reason to ditch the soda: HFCS is linked to autism. In a new peer-reviewed study in Clinical Epigenetics, researchers show that HFCS can mess with the body’s uptake of dietary minerals—in this case, zinc. A protein that helps the body eliminate heavy metals from the body needs zinc to work right, and if it doesn’t get it, those heavy metals cause a number of problems, autism among them. They found the problem is especially worrisome during the fetal stage.

There’s some calcium/lead stuff going on, too.

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ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Clark’s Green Auto Garage 1/13 801.485-2858. 506 E. 1700 So. Clark’s auto is a local family-owned full service automotive repair facility. We are committed to doing our part to minimize the environmental impact of automotive service and repair, and to incorporating sustainability principles throughout our operation. SLC-certified E2 business. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CLARKSAUTO Schneider Auto Karosserie 7/12 801.484.9400. Fax 801-484-6623. Utah’s first green body shop. 27 years of making customers happy! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in Salt Lake City. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll work with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty. WWW.SCHNEIDERAUTO.NET DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION RHOdesigns,llc 4/13 801-971-2136, RHODESIGNSLLC@GMAIL.COM. Interior Design Services including space planning, color (interior & exterior), finish and materials selections; kitchen & bath design.

Introductory 2 hour consultation available.

Residential and commercial design experience.

Rosine H. Oliver, IIDA WWW.RHODESIGNSLLC.COM.

Residential Design FB Ann Larson 801-322-5122.

GARDENING The Reinvented Landscape 6/12 801-664-8662. PLANT, TRIM, MULCH, TIDY. Has your yard been the same for so long it’s become boring? Your yard should be your sanctuary! Let me help you make it so! Call for rates and schedule. KINGLET102@MSN.COM GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors 6/12 801-467-6636. 1900 S. 300 W., SLC We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing

hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, UNDERFOOTFLOORS@AOL.COM.

espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.

GREEN SERVICES Five-Step Carpet Care. FB 801.656.5259, PC: 435.640.2483.

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Cafe SuperNatural Organic, locally grown, gluten-free, fresh cooked to order, raw foods, fresh juices and smothies, superfood shakes, great food to go or dine-in.

Discounts for Prana Yoga participants. Located in Prana Yoga. Free convenient parking in Trolley Square’s 600 East parking garage. Mon-Sat 10a-9p: Sun 10-3p. Wifi.

HOUSING Wasatch Commons Cohousing 3/13 Vicky 801-908-0388. 1411 S. Utah St. (1605 W.) An environmentally sensitive community promoting neighborliness, consensus & diversity. Balancing privacy needs with community living. Homes now available for rent or sale.

Roommates wanted. Tours 4th Wed at 5p and 2nd Sat. at 1p.m. WWW.COHOUSING.ORG, WWW.ECON.UTAH.EDU/COHO

DINING Blue Star Juice and Coffee 2795 S. Canyon Rim (2300 E.) and 435 S. 400 W. SLC. 466-4280. Blue Star serves a wide variety of fresh vegetable and fruit juices.

Create your own combination or choose from house favorites! Full espresso bar and large selection of breakfast sandwiches are also available. Drive-thru available at both locations.

Wifi.

Café Solstice Cafe Solstice inside Dancing Cranes Imports offers a variety of loose teas, speciality coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Lunch features veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing Violet Mocha or Mango & Basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch.

SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside the former Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end

Kathmandu 212 S. 700 E. SLC 801-355-0454, and 3142 S. Highland Dr. 801-466-3504. The Kathmandu makes it easy to enjoy the delicacies of India and Nepal without actually having to visit these exotic places. Whether you are having a party or just a night out, Kathmandu is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a special meal with your friends and family. M-Sat 11:30a- 2:30; 5p10, Sun Noon-9 p. INFO@THEKATHMANDU.NET. Nostalgia 248 E. 100 S. 532-3225. Salt Lake’s best-damn coffee, sandwiches, salads, soups and fresh pastries. A great destination for casual business meetings or a relaxed environment to hang out with friends. Local artists also find a home to sell their work in a hip environment. Outdoor seating available. Beer from local breweries.

Free wifi. WWW.NOSTALGIACOFFEE.COM. Omar’s Rawtopia 2148 S.Highland Dr. 486-0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p.

Pago 878 S. 900 E. 532-0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate ecochic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List—City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American—Best of State. PAGOSLC.COM. Tue-Sun 11a-3p, 5p-close.

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Ruth’s Diner 4160 Emigration Canyon Rd. 582-5807. 2010 marks Ruth’s Diner’s 80th anniversary. Join us in our newly redecorated, cool canyon setting.

WWW.RUTHSDINER.COM M-Sun 8a-10p.

The Star of India 55 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7555. An award-winning Salt Lake institution since 1990.

Featuring a full bar, $10 lunch buffet with 20-25 delicious choices, salad, naan, and rice pudding.

Tandoori style cooking. Specializing in chicken curry, lamb, seafood, halal & goat meat and vegetable entrées. All food prepared fresh and on premises. Parking validation provided. Lunch M-Sat 11:30a-2:30p, Dinner M-Th 2:30p-10p, Fri-Sat 2:30-10:30p, Sun 3-9:30p.

WWW.STAROFINDIAONLINE.COM. Takashi 18 West Market St. 519-9595. Award-winning chef Takashi Gibo invites you to savor an incredible Japanese dining experience with Salt Lake’s best sushi, sashimi, small plates (Japanese tapas), and hot dishes from his tantalizing menu. Enjoy a beautiful presentation of classic sashimi or experiment with delicious creations from the sushi bar. Featuring an extensive selction of premium sakes, wines, Japanese and domestic beers, and signature cocktails. Mon-Fri from 11:30a.; Sat. from 5:30p.

HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 6/12 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S. Ste 101D, 801-521-3337. Acupuncture you can afford. Quality acupuncture on low sliding scale rates ($15-$40) makes health care affordable and effective. Relax in comfy reclining chairs in a healing community setting.

Acupuncture is good for allergies, back pain and more. Downtown SLC. WWW.SLCQI.COM Stevens Acupuncture 7/12 Keith Stevens L.Ac., 1174 E. 2760 S, Ste. 16.

801.467-2277, 209.617-7379 (cell). Specializing

Prices: 3 months ($180), 6 months ( $210), 12 months ( $360).

Listings must be prepaid in full and are non-refundable. Word Limit: 45. Deadline for changes/reservations: 15th of preceeding month.

26 in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Boardcertified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Cathy Pollock, M.AmSAT 3/12 801-230-7661. Certified Alexander Technique teacher with 17 years experience. Beyond good posture and body mechanics! Develop awareness. Let go of habitual tensions. Calm your nervous system. Embody dynamic ways of moving and performing. Learn to be easily upright and open. Breathe better, feel better, look better. Gain confidence and poise.

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Vedic Harmony 3/13 942-5876. Georgia Clark, certified Deepak Chopra Center educator. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial sound meditation, creating health workshops, Ayurvedic wellness counseling, Ayurvedic oils, teas and books, Jyotish (vedic astrology). Georgia has trained in the US and India. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933.

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Yoga Instructors!

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CHIROPRACTIC Great Basin Chiropractic, DC. 801-363-8899.

223 S. 700 East. GREATBASINCHIROPRACTIC.COM FB Integrated Chiropractic. 801-262-8400. 716 E. 4500 So., Ste. N250. MYINTEGRATEDHEALTH.COM FB CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY/COUNSELING Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/12 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E., Email: SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST. FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/12 805-907-6875. Private sessions and classes to regain self confidence to recover after injury, alleviate pain, improve posture and balance, move skillfully with ease. Offers excellent help for people with MS and stroke, as well as skilled athletes, musicians, actors, and you too.

Over 35 years experience. CAROLLESSINGER.COM

Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator.

801-898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM FB

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Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 150 S. 600 E., #3B. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. FB Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Feldenkrais®, Structural Integration and massage. Offering a unique blend of the 10 sessions with Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Discover the potential for learning and improvement at any age, as you come to inhabit your body with ease, vitality and integrity.

WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM HERBAL HEALING Millcreek Herbs, LLC 07/12 801-466-1632. Merry Lycett Harrison, RH (AHG), trained clinical herbalist, teacher, author and creator of Thrive Tonic Liquid Herbal Extract. Classes in medicinal and culinary herbs,

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herb gardening, ethnobotany, consultations, custom formulation, and wellness fair coordinator, professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. WWW.MILLCREEKHERBS.COM, WWW.THRIVETONIC.COM MASSAGE Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM

Conscious Journey FB 801-864-4545. CONSCIOUSJOURNEY.NET MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FB Todd Mangum, MD. 801-531-8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. www.WebOfLifeWC.com NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 9/12 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #202. Remember when doctors cared? Once, a doctor cared. He had that little black bag, a big heart, an encouraging smile. Once, a doctor actually taught about prevention. Remember “an apple a day”?

Dr. Cameron is a family practitioner. He takes care of you. He cares. WWW.DRTODDCAMERON.COM

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/12 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Drive #207. Dr. Knorr uses a multi-dimensional approach to healing. He can help optimize your health to live more vibrantly and support your natural healing ability. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation; gastrointestinal disorders and allergies. Detoxification, food allergy testing and comprehensive hormonal testing available. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM Full Circle Care; Leslie Peterson, ND 1/13 801.746.3555. 150 S. 600 E. #6B.Integrative and naturopathic medical clinic offering a unique approach to your health care needs.

Specializing in thyroid, adrenal and hormonal imbalances; food allergies and gluten testing; digestive health; nutritional IV therapy. Men, women and children welcome!

WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/12 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction.

This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider. WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/12 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586, or PPAU.ORG. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more.

ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Paul Wirth, Certified Rolfer™, LMT 1/13 801-638-0021. 3194 S. 1100 E. Move with ease, not pain. Working with the structural limitations in your body to help you feel stronger and more relaxed. MOSAICBODYWORK.COM Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM VISION CARE Wasatch Vision Clinic FB 801-328-2020. 849 E. 400 S. in Salt Lake across from the 9th East TRAX stop. Comprehensive eye care, eye disease, LASIK, contacts and glasses since 1984. We accept most insurance.

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MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Alliance Francaise of Salt Lake City 7/12

801-501-7514. P.O. Box 26203, SLC UT 84126 International cultural organization conducts French language classes. Beginners through advanced levels taught by experienced native teachers. Three semesters, 10 sessions each.

Also offers Children's classes, Beginner and Intermediate levels. Monthly social gatherings.

In addition, we sponsor French related concerts and lectures. WWW.AFSLC.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. FB MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/12 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments.

Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School FB

801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & weekend programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months.

8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG SPACE AVAILABLE For workshops, classes, ongoing groups 801-596-0147 Ext. 41, 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Center for Transpersonal Therapy. TWO large plush spaces. Bright & comfortable atmosphere, available for workshops, classes, or ongoing groups. Pillows, yoga chairs, & regular chairs provided, kitchenette area. Available for hourly, full day or weekend use. Two rooms available. 8/12 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Adopt-a-Native-Elder 6/12 801-474-0535. Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10 am-noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. We also need volunteers with trucks and SUVs, donating their expenses, to transport supplies for Spring and Fall Food Runs, Navajo reservation community events in southeast UT and northeast AZ.

HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY BUSINESS Contact Joyce or WWW.ANELDER.ORG

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Cameron Wellness Center Dr. Todd Cameron

MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE RDT Community School. 801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/12 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375.

Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and T’ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Children’s classes in Wing Chun KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell FB 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, noncompetitive environment since 1986. www.charlottebellyoga.com Songlines of the body ~ Mapping your way home 7/12 801-328-4456. Roz Newmark, 865 E. 500 So. Skillful yoga & joyful movement. Taught with an open hand and heart. Guided by a body seasoned with 30 years of experience as a professional dancer and dedicated yogi. Come join a class or call for more information. Rest in the clear voice of your body's wisdom. Tues. 4:30-6 p. (gentle yoga), Wed, 7:30-9a.

YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 1/13 68 K Street, SLC. 801-872-YOGA (9642).

Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. We offer classes for all body types and ability levels, from Yoga Nidra and Restorative, to Power, Flow, and Core. Free Intro to Yoga every Saturday at 11:45am.

Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited. www.avenuesyoga.com Bikram Yoga—Sandy 12/12 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Localsonly Intro: $39 for 30 days unlimited yoga. Our South Valley sanctuary, nestled below Little and Big Cottonwood canyons, provides a warm and inviting environment to discover and/or deepen your yoga practice. All levels are welcome. All teachers are certified. 38 classes, 7 days a week. See website for schedule and special classes. bikramyogasandyWWW.BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM

Centered City Yoga 9/12 801-521-YOGA (9642). 918 E. 900 S. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course). We offer more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hourteacher trainings, and monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

r. Todd Cameron of the Cameron Wellness Center is in service for those who are ready to take responsibility for their own health.

His naturopathic medical practice works with patients carrying diagnoses ranging from colds to cancer.

Many of his patients come to him for adrenal and thyroid balancing, orthomolecular intravenous therapy and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. “Naturopathic medicine takes the best of Western medicine and mixes it with the best of natural medicine,” he says.

Dr. Cameron began his medical career as an EMT responder, helping start a quick-response unit in Idaho to do search and rescue. Afterwards he went into nursing and did pediatric intensive care nursing for a while before he took his four-year naturopathic medicine degree. He returned to Salt Lake from Idaho in 1997 and has been practicing here ever since.

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to develop a treatment plan. “About a third of the time, this will involve IV treatments,” he says. Orthomolecular medicine, developed by Linus Pauling, increases the nutrient density in a patient’s blood by bypassing the gastrointestinal tract altogether and going right into the vein. “There’s a lot of good scientific evidence for the benefit of this. We have seen good outcomes from patients who are pretty debilitated—like you get with pneumonia or cancer diagnoses—and need a lot of help fast.”

He shares a number of cancer patients with oncologists, including some naturopathic oncologists in

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Arizona. “We’ve treated breast and prostate cancer successfully, and I have assisted with a multiple sclerosis patient who now no longer has any detectable lesions in her nervous system. We’ve kept a lot of people with walking pneumonia out of the hospital, and I’ve successfully helped people with adrenal and thyroid problems, too.” Dr. Cameron also treats people for chronic Lyme disease.

He is a former president of the Utah Assn. of Naturopathic Physicians, chair of the Naturopathic Licensure board for the State of Utah, and a current member of the Utah Assn. of Naturopathic Physicians.

—Alice Bain Contact the Cameron Wellness Center at DRTODDCAMERON.COM, 1945 South 1100 East, Suite 202, Salt Lake City, UT 84106. 801-486-4226, fax: 801-487-6856.

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH

Reach for the Sun Anjaneyasana

BY CHARLOTTE BELL s a child, Anjaneya was a tad over-confident. Considering his origins, this is hardly unexpected. Born to Anjana (a supernatural woman) and Kesari (king of the monkeys), he had magical powers and royalty in his genes.

On top of all that, he was godson to the wind god, Vayu, and was considered to be a reincarnation of Lord Shiva.

So when he gazed upward one day and mistook the sun for a glowing piece of fruit, he naturally decided to make a giant leap for it, hoping to snatch it out of the sky.

This he did repeatedly, unharmed by the sun’s scorching rays that would have dissolved mere mortals.

But when Suryadeva, the sun god, enlisted Indra, god among gods, to strike Anjaneya down, a power struggle of otherworldly proportions ensued.Vayu left in a huff, jeopardizing all life forms on Earth.

But unlike many members of Congress, even gods are willing to compromise. Indra agreed to make Anjaneya immortal if only Vayu

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Anjaneyasana combines grounding and expansion. Its skyward reach comes from its earthbound stability. would return to his post. Anjaneya was renamed Hanuman, the monkey god whose exploits I’ll reveal when I write about his famous namesake, Hanumanasana, a few months from now. Meanwhile, Anjaneya boasts his own pose. Anjaneyasana (Lunge Pose) expresses the human desire to leap up and capture that glowing fruit high in the sky.

Anjaneyasana combines grounding and expansion. Its skyward reach comes from its earthbound stability. It lengthens the quadricep and psoas muscles, extends the low back and expands the chest and abdomen. It energizes as it stabilizes balance.

I like to approach Anjaneyasana from Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog pose).

Begin on your hands and knees on a nonskid mat. Press your hands into the floor and lift your torso upward until your arms and legs are straight, your body forming an inverted “V” shape, with your sit bones at the apex. Take a few full breaths here.

Bend your knees, letting your weight settle into your feet, as if you’re preparing to jump forward.

Spring your right leg forward so that it lands between your hands. If your leg is not feeling especially springy, you may take however many steps you need in order to place your foot even with your hands. Allow your left knee to come to the floor. Make sure your right foot is evenly planted on the floor—heel to toe and inside to outside—and your heel is directly below your knee. Press the right foot and left knee into the floor, then stretch the right knee forward and the left knee back so that the distance between them lengthens. If your left knee feels as if it’s grinding into the floor, you may

place a blanket under it for padding.

Take care not to allow your left hip joint to hang toward the floor. This can irritate the hip flexor tendons and ligaments. Instead, draw the very top of your thigh slightly back toward your back thighs—millimeters—to stabilize your hip joint.

With your hands on the floor, take a few deep breaths, imagining the breath moving all the way down into the left thigh muscles. Again grounding the right foot and left knee, lift the torso to upright, and place your hands on your right thigh. Take a few deep breaths. If you like, you can now extend your arms up vertically, and if your back is willing, tilt your torso back slightly so that your chest is looking skyward. Ground your legs as you reach upward. Take a few full breaths before returning your hands to the floor, returning to Dog Pose and repeating on your other side.

It is helpful to remember that the power to spring skyward originates in a downward, rooting motion through your legs and feet. (Try jumping with straight legs, without first bending your knees and letting your weight sink into the ground.)

Grounding the legs also balances the heating and cooling qualities of the pose, protecting us from agitation and overheating as we reach for the sun.

In Anjaneyasana, the grounding of the front foot and back knee stabilizes our balance, and allows for the full flowering of the upper body.

It allows us mortal yoga practitioners to soak up Suryadeva’s luminous glow from the sustaining foundation of our own Mother Earth. u Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher, author and musician who lives in Salt Lake City. Visit her at www.charlottebellyoga.com

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AQUARIUM AGE

May 2012 Every May day is a passage into the next several years of transformation

BY RALFEE FINN ay 2012 is when the “tilt” begins—not in the axis of the Earth but in the routines of daily life, which include both the surface and the undercurrents of interactions, personal and collective.

May is not quite a planetary convergence (some might disagree, but I’m saving that moniker for June), but it is definitely a powerful

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times between June 2012 and March 2015, and over the course of the coming months and years, we will explore a multitude of meanings associated with its potent presence.

The Uranus/Pluto square signifies transformation, and its power is inexorable, especially its power to disrupt and disturb stagnant situations—attitudes, systems, structures, and habituations—that no

The key to safely navigating May’s maze is taking as much time as you need to adjust to the shifts, personal as well as collective, and as always, helping your fellow travelers to do the same. threshold that clearly delineates a “that was then; this is now” point of reference. I don’t want to start (or contribute to) any panic, but there is just no easy way to say that the entire month—every single day—is a passage into what lies ahead for the next several years of intense transformation. What’s more, the world we are entering into is skewed in so many directions simultaneously that many of us are likely to get dizzy just figuring out how to enter it.

The good news is that standing on the threshold isn’t particularly dangerous; the only likely consequence is that once you finally make up your mind what you want to jump into, trying to find your place and position is likely to be as difficult as trying to find a seat on a spacecraft after it’s taken off. The key to safely navigating May’s maze is taking as much time as you need to adjust to the shifts, personal as well as collective, and as always, helping your fellow travelers to do the same.

What starts the tilt is the most important planetary configuration of the month, as well as the next several years: a square between Uranus and Pluto that tightens its grip all month long, in preparation for its first exact contact on June 24.

This square will be exact seven

longer serve a positive or useful purpose. Be aware, that does not necessarily mean those systems will evaporate or that their proponents will capitulate. Quite the contrary: We’re likely to be in for several years of agitation; squares symbolize friction, and we can expect even more sparks to fly from the resistance and hostility of clashing agendas, again, personal and political.

Uranus and Pluto signatures are always present in times of revolution and evolution. Last summer, as these two planetary change agents came within close range of each other, we were given a preview of one facet of their combined effect. Protest thrives under this influence, and as the next several months unfold we are certain to see an increase in dissent. Expect those demonstrations to have more than a collective intent; personal revolutions are just as likely as individuals to chafe from restraints, real or imagined.

We are also under the influence of a month-long Venus/Saturn trine. As the goddess of love forms a positive alliance with the principle that allows us to distill wisdom from experience, May provides the potential for a sober sense of reality. But this sobriety is not necessarily based on a harsh, judgmental perspective. Venus softens the hard edges of Saturn’s critical eye. What’s

more, Venus is in Gemini, whose vast domain embraces all sorts of data; Saturn is in Libra, making its last pass in the sign of relating. As Venus and Saturn positively support each other, we have opportunities to do the same, especially where and when we are willing and able to incorporate important information into how we understand and approach our alliances.

Anticipate relationship issues—of every denomination, from friends to family to lovers to co-workers— to be a priority.

On May 15, Venus, the goddess of true value, goes retrograde in Gemini. (Yes…I know, you thought we were finally out of the retro-zone).

Venus starts to slow down on May 9, in preparation for her “course correction” and she’s retrograde until June 27. Venus personifies love and beauty, and as she retraces her path, she adds a deeper octave to the already ongoing relationship concentration of her trine to Saturn. Be prepared to revisit important partnerships, personal and/or professional. Because this retrospective occurs in Gemini, the sign of conversation, it’s likely that old lovers will be in touch and want to talk.

The presence of Saturn will skew these exchanges toward the deep.

Whether those tête-à-têtes fan old embers or spark new flames, what’s certain is that they will provide opportunities for insightful intimacy.

Also be aware, Gemini is the sign of siblings and cousins, which means several of these conversation could take place with family members.

Also anticipate that some of those Venus retrograde conversations will be quite surprising. A solar eclipse on May 20 also occurs in Gemini.

Eclipses always tend to reveal hidden knowledge, and Gemini just loves dispensing data; so be prepared to hear about things you might have suspected but never actually had any concrete way of verifying. During a solar eclipse, the New Moon overshadows the Sun. From an astrological perspective, this “reversal” of light can be interpreted as the power of the uncon-

scious drives to overshadow conscious concerns, and previously withheld feelings, yours or others’, see the light of day. You may already be in the eclipse effect, given that the manifestations of an eclipse are often felt several weeks before or after the actual event.

On a completely different note, a Sun/Jupiter conjunction, in Taurus, from June 3-23 lightens May’s days just a bit, as it provides not just the potential to be successful at all endeavors, but also an optimistic attitude that can easily serve as a remedy for the tightening tensions of the month. The core of this idealist combination is joyous vitality.

That vitality is amplified by a Mars/Pluto trine that also operates for most of the month. This is a powerful alliance that has the potential to provide the necessary physical strength and stamina to accomplish any task. And May 11-16, Mercury, also in Taurus, joins the team as it trines both Pluto and Mars. This Grand Trine aligns minds, but be aware that its intensity can also overstimulate nervous systems.

Make the most of May by using it to tend your personal garden.

Notice what patterns you’ve refused to surrender to a greater good. Bring awareness to your relationships—all your relationships, including your relationship with yourself. Be willing to stand in the truth of what you feel. While this honesty may be uncomfortable, it will build the necessary muscle for facing the changes that lie ahead. And most of all, keep in mind that all of us will be grappling with a similar intensity. It may not show itself in the same form or through the same responses, but that doesn’t matter, especially if we open our hearts to one another and learn to treat ourselves as well as our fellow travelers with greater applied compassion—something we are going to need to practice in preparation for the months and years ahead. u Visit Ralfee’s website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or email her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

Metaphors for the Month

Do your best don’t take it personally

by Suzanne Wagner

Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Compromise, Politics Medicine Cards: Weasel, Hummingbird Mayan Oracle: Polarity, Realm Shift Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Star, Death, Emperor Aleister Crowley Deck: Queen of Swords, Defeat, Abundance Healing Earth Tarot: Death, Five of Feathers Words of Truth: Fear, Integration, Denial, Stuck, Creator, Exhaustion

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ut on your hard hat and lace up those working boots. We are entering the Venus retrograde in Gemini/Solar eclipse “Danger Zone.”

You think I’m joking but it will not feel very funny. The grump factor is increasing to a level that many will snap; people who have been completely reasonable Dr. Jekylls may suddenly become Mr. Hydes.

Politics are going to heat up to a level that, if you have not already stopped watching the news, you might by the time the solar eclipse happens on May 20. A person can only take so much. Right now the “reasonable quota” for stress is so far off the Richter scale that some may just choose to remove themselves from the game of “he said, she said.”

That might not be a bad idea.

Spring is supposed to be about new beginnings, light returning, hope springing eternal, and the belief in abundance. But the “Words of Truth” cards instead predict: Fear, Integration, Denial, Stuck, Creator and Exhaustion. Whew!

There is an undercurrent of manipulation and a feeling that those who want to create havoc and pain will not stop until they get everyone pulled down to their level.

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Don’t go there.

What creates shifts in awareness is a consensus that “Enough is enough!” The tipping point is coming. However, it will probably be June or July before we see results. And I’m afraid no one is going to like how it looks.

Nature creates acts of destruction in order for rebirth. Whether we like it or not does not matter. It helps to remember in these moments that nature is not personal.

Learning to navigate big waves with honesty and authenticity is all anyone can really do.

The planet is going through a difficult time for the next few years. If we take it personally, it will be a long haul. These moments are here to awaken us to gifts that we forgot we had. Challenging moments force us to reach inside the deepest parts of our soul. Choosing to be proactive rather than reactive is very helpful right now. You can let yourself become consumed by fear, denial and exhaustion or you can stay present with the integration that is attempting to happen.

There are so many pieces in our lives that just do not seem to fit—so much randomness. Much of who we have been just does not belong anymore. We are looking for new tools to build a new reality. It is so unique and different from anything we have experienced that we feel confused and uncertain as to how to proceed.

There will be a moment of clarity. Do not jump prematurely. You are not ready until you are ready. The universe is creating a calculated delay to get you to check and recheck before you jump. It is not trying to create a problem. It is trying to prevent a bigger mistake.

The key is to find what your heart and soul are calling you to do. Then, even if what you are being called to do is difficult, you do not mind so much. If you are doing something that you love and that uplifts and inspires others, who cares if it is a bit uncomfortable? Stretch. Move beyond the old comforts.

This month, would you rather be free or safe? Would you rather be open or constricted? Would you rather be fully feeling or numb and indifferent? Each of you gets to choose. No one knows you better than you know yourself. You know the kinks, twists, turns and backtracks you must experience in order to grow and flower. So listen. Allow something deeper to emerge.

You are a seed that is sprouting, a seed buried deeply in the ground waiting for the perfect conditions. And that moment has arrived. The seed grows toward the light of the sun and emerges from the darkness that has protected it. It is perfect. You are ready. You are strong. Trust the part that knows how to get there better than your mind. You will find the way and the light will come. Keep going and know that this is a perfect moment. u Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. suzwagner.com

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MAY 15 Harvest leaf lettuce when the outer leaves are four to six inches long; heading varieties when heads are fairly firm.

Harvest greens in the morning, and don’t wash or dry. Store in a baggie with holes punched in it; toss in a paper towel to absorb moisture.

MAY 23 Starbucks is now using ground cochineal, a type of scale insect, to color Strawberry Frappuccinos. Cochineal is safer than artificial coloring and is already used in lots of other food products. Cochineal live in Mexico and subtropical South America, and feed on cactus plants.

May 16 Time to start planting cantaloupe, corn, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, watermelon. Also cosmos, gladiolus, marigolds, mums, Shasta daisies, sunflowers, zinnias and other heat-loving flowers.

MAY 24 NEW MOON. Undersow vegetables with sweet clover, red clover, dwarf white clover or vetch, to retain moisture and enrich the soil.

MAY 17 Of the 260 species of gladiolus, 250 are native to South Africa, where they were originally pollinated by long-tongued anthrophorine bees. But hybridization of the plant has altered its structure, so other pollinators can do the job now, including sunbirds, moths, flies and wasps.

Here, they’re generally pollinated by hawk moths.

MAY 25 Mars is just above the waxing Moon tonight.

several mountain lion and coyote sightings up City Creek Canyon lately.

DAY B Y DAY IN THE HOME,GARDEN & SKY

BY DIANE OLSON DRAWING BY ADELE FLAIL MAY 1 FIRST QUARTER MOON. May Day/Beltane. The Sun rises at 6:25 a.m. today and sets at 8:24 p.m. May’s average maximum temperature is 72°; the minimum is 55°. Average snowfall is 1.1 inches; rainfall 1.8 inches.

MAY 2 Time to start hardening off warmweather seedlings: Set them outside, at first in the shade, for increasing periods of time; cover, or bring inside at night. It takes two to three weeks to safely harden off tender annuals.

MAY 6 Insanely cool astronomy app: Star Walk. Use it tonight to find Saturn, just above blue star Spica.

MAY 7 You can plant asparagus, basil, beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, celery, chard, cucumber, endive, kohlrabi, lettuce, peas, potatoes, shallots and spinach through midmonth.

MAY 8 Mayflies are hatching dancing, copulating, giving birth and dying—all in one day.

MAY 9 Remember not to plant sunflowers too near vegetables or other annuals, as their roots secrete toxins that stunt surrounding plants.

MAY 3 Average Last Frost Date.

Don’t rush to plant your tomatoes. Tomato plants set in cold soil can’t take up phosphorus (you can tell this is happening if the foliage turns purple). Wait at least another week to be safe, or protect them with a cloche or water well.

MAY 4 The Eta Aquid meteor shower, born from Halley’s comet, peaks in the predawn today. Halley’s was last visible in 1986 and will return in 2061.

MAY 5 FULL FLOWER MOON The Moon is going to be HUGE tonight, as it reaches perigee, its closest point to Earth, just before midnight.

MAY 10 “Blackberry winter,” a period of cold coinciding with the time when blackberries bloom, often occurs around now.

MAY 11 Cirque du Soleil has a show called Ovo, described as “an immersion into the teeming and energetic world of insects.”

MAY 12 LAST QUARTER MOON. The first truly great gardening app: Plant Planner, from Organic Gardening Magazine and Safer Brand. Download it now.

MAY 13 Let nature work for you: Plant poppies around rosebushes to attract lacewings, which then eat the aphids on the roses.

MAY 14 The spring songbird migration is reaching its peak. Bat, coyote, moose, mountain lion, muskrat, pika, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, red fox and skunk babies are being born. There have been

MAY 18 Demand for quinoa is so high, that the people in areas where it’s traditionally grown, like Bolivia, can no longer afford it.

Why not grow your own? Mix the tiny seeds with sugar for easier sowing, and refrigerate overnight.

Plant in full sun. Seedlings have trouble competing with weeds, so keep the planting bed well groomed. If you don’t harvest it, the birds gladly will.

MAY 19 Check out today’s Bee Keeping and Pollinators workshop, presented by Wasatch Community Gardens. tinyurl.com/wasatchgardensbees MAY 20 NEW MOON. SOLAR ECLIPSE. A partial solar eclipse will be visible this afternoon from 1:29 to 2:33 p.m. Be sure to protect your eyes.

The safest and most inexpensive way is to view it by projection. (Here’s how to make a pin-hole projector: tinyurl.com/makepinholeprojector.)

Otherwise, use number 14 welders glasses or a solar filter, which you can get at Amazon or an astronomy specialty store.

MAY 21 If you have an aquarium, dump the fish-poopy water on garden plants. They’ll love it.

MAY 22 Look for a thin sliver of Venus to the right of the slender crescent Moon.

MAY 26 Pick snow peas when the peas are just beginning to swell in the pods; snap peas when the pod is plump, but the skin is still shiny, not dull.

MAY 27 The Latin name for catnip, also called catmint is Nepeta cataria, likely named for the Italian town of Nepeta, where there must be many happy cats. The active ingredient in catnip is nepetalactone.

When sniffed, catnip is a stimulant; when it’s eaten, it’s a sedative. Sensitivity to catnip appears to be inherited, with about two-thirds of felines showing an affinity. The verdict is still out as to whether lions and tigers get off on it.

MAY 28 FIRST QUARTER MOON. The nepetalactone in catnip is also a very effective fly and mosquito repellent. Rats and mice dislike it, too, and will avoid places where it grows.

MAY 29 Ticks dislike rosemary and pennyroyal.

MAY 30 According to recent studies, some honeybees are thrill seekers, while others are pessimists.

MAY 31 The Sun rises at 5:59 a.m. today and sets at 8:52 p.m.

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world.

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One simply can’t read it all.

Yesterday one came with an intriguing title: “Facebook’s Influence on Beauty.”

I’d been thinking about that very thing lately. Practically everyone carries a camera connected to the internet. I’ve texted pictures of plumbing and was able to save my back entryway from flooding with the instructions I received in reply; determined whether I needed a tetanus shot based on crowd-sourcing a serious-looking leg wound (the answer was a unanimous yes); identified plants for curious friends. You probably have similar stories. But then there’s the people photography thing.

Each morning that I trudge off to my corner coffee shop, sometimes in garden gloves and yellow rubber boots (and jammies), for a cup of dark roast and an empty five-gallon pail to switch for one full of recently brewed grounds for my compost pile, hair usually astray and eyes mere early morning slits, I hope my visage remains on the down-low—a dim image between me and Madison, the darling young woman who admires my coffee mug of the day ($1 brew, with refills even, if you bring your own) and trades

my empty bucket for a full one that will fill my garden’s worms with joie de vivre.

Not something you’d want to post to strangers on a dating site.

You know those movie magazines with indignant captions to photos of famous people living ordinary moments, complete with unshaved pits and makeup-free, in their ratty comfort clothes? How dare they lack perfection! Nowadays we can all relate.

In professional photo sessions, sometimes 100 duds yield to one perfect image. And it’s really perfect after Photoshopping.

(You think those breasts on the photo of me in the chain-mail bra on CATALYST cover a few years ago existed in nature? Not quite.)

At the same time, I notice how Facebook photography is acclimating us to more intimate moments of people’s lives: impromptu but usually happy. Sometimes people look a little goofy. Bad posture! Fat day! My roots are showing!

Okay, we usually “untag” the unflattering ones, and in serious situations may hit “delete.” Maybe it’s because I had a bigdecade birthday this year that I’m easing up on caring so much how I’m perceived.

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Those who profit at the expense of the environment we live in believe the right to pollute exists and that those rights can be bought and sold, even banked. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure how that works. Do they get an annual bank statement with a positive balance of three dead grannies, a dozen cases of COPD and a hundred cases of asthma a year?

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polluting at existing rates whenever pollution regulations are tightened.

This is called the “grandfather clause,” but it’s been better than Santa Claus to polluting industries like Tesoro and Rio Tinto, which recently got permission from the Utah Bureaucracy of Air Inequality (UBAIQ, names have been changed to protect the polluter’s accomplices) to cash in a big chunk of their banked pollution credits.

The irony, for many Utahns, is that it was pollution, from Tesoro and other polluters, that probably finished off their grandfathers.

Governor Gary Herbert can, if he has the backbone and the best interests of Utah’s citizens in mind, direct the Utah Bureaucracy of Air Inequality to put Utahns health ahead of the profit motive of polluters like Tesoro—who, by the way, expects a two-year return on investment on its $180 million. That means that in two years Tesoro will be making an approximately $90 million annual profit on area citizens’ lungs.

But I’ll bet $235,000 that he won’t— and, coincidently, so has the “energy industry.” That’s how much money they’ve donated to Governor Herbert, or rather to Governor Herbert’s campaign committee in the last 16 months.. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

life except for the one time I was running in a primary for the school board: The only other race on the ballot was a Republican primary race, but I needed to be a registered Republican to vote in that race so I decided to register as a Republican. That small act has been a reliable source of entertainment ever since.

Who says being a registered Republican doesn’t have its advantages? I was chuckling for a week until I realized that this is what “democracy” has come to in this country.

If I’m not feeling like a one-percenter right now as I read this letter, they’ve included an additional option to send in the filled-out “...Document” with a “...sponsoring contribution of $15 to help cover tabulating my Survey.”

Fifteen dollars to cover tabulation? Even if they’ve got a very slow pre-law intern (I mean lazy, not stupid) with a high billable rate opening the responses and it takes a nano-whisker of a computer’s time to”tabulate,” my part in this scam didn’t put the Republican party out more than a buck.

Oh flip, the P.S. says I have to return the survey to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus within seven days. I guess I’ve missed my big chance to change the course of the Republican party this year. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

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A visit to Jordan Valley’s Conservation Garden Park Museum, park and gardening expo in one

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tah is a desert state, attracting tourists from around the world to explore the state’s unique landscapes and geological features. But looking around at the grassy lawns of urban and suburban neighborhoods, our homes seem to bear little relationship to the landscapes celebrated on everything from postcards and license plates to fine art exhibitions.

We Utahns pay for the lush look found in wetter climates: About two-thirds of the water that flows into the pipes in your house flows right back out again—and into your yard, where plants seldom use it efficiently. This means a lot of water waste—and a lot of opportunity for improvement.

The hands-on method of demonstrating the principles of conservation are so much fun it doesn’t feel like work—at least until you get home, fired up with ideas and ready to get diggin’.

• Get the full experience of visiting the Conservation Garden Park, then refer back to the park’s detailed website for steps, tips and tricks. Their “Find Plants” feature is a searchable database that allows you to get more info about the plants you like. It’s searchable by name, by affinity for water and light and by type. If you are ready to go hardcore waterwise, the database even has a feature that lets you constrain your search to Utah natives.

Images capture the appearance of the plants in all four seasons; you’ll be able to plan a garden that looks great all year. CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG/PLANTS • If you are looking for a helpful cheat-sheet to help water your lawn effectively, the Utah Division of Water Resources offers a weekly summary of how much lawns need, calculated for locations around the state. Find it here: TINYURL.COM/LAWNWATERCHEATSHEET • There are a few other locations around Utah where you can see similar exhibits—although the CGP is the largest. Check out the others here: SLOWTHEFLOW.ORG/INDEX.PHP/GARDENS Pictured: Lauren Springer Ogden, horticulturist and author, in her Colorado low-water-use garden. Ogden will speak at the Conservation P ark Garden June 9. See website for times and other activities: CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG

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The Conservation Garden Park in West Jordan is run by an offshoot of Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, the wholesaler that treats and supplies water within Salt Lake County. (Dwellers in Salt Lake City get some of their water from this source, although the majority comes from elsewhere.) The mission of the Conservation Garden Park is to educate visitors about waterwise landscaping—but the hands-on method of demonstrating the principles of conservation are so much fun it doesn’t feel like work—at least until you get home, fired up with ideas and ready to get diggin’.

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Created in stages, the 10-acre site that houses the JVWCD headquarters saw the construction and planting of example gardens in 2001: Six plots, each containing sample landscapes designed around different themes, were used by homeowners as a 3D inspiration board to help them tweak their own yards. It quickly became clear that the opportunities for education on this subject were ample, and, in 2003, a plan was created for the entire site.

The nonprofit Jordan Valley Conservation Garden Foundation was formed to raise the funds needed to make that idea a reality—or at least, to realize an additional two and a half acres of that plan. Additional areas, completed in 2009, focus on the process rather than the product, allowing visitors to walk through each step from the initial analysis of their site to designing, installation and maintenance of their new waterwise landscape.

A third phase, the new Education Center, built to platinum LEED standards, will accommodate field trips as well as classes for homeowners and gardening enthusiasts.

The Education Center was completed over this last year, and the Park’s staff is already lining up some cool programs for the summer months (see the CATALYST Calendar in this issue for info about their classes and workshops happening this month).

To reach the park, you have to venture deep into the valley—the winding roads take you past a mixture of retail shops, residences, industrial parks and rural-esque plots into the heart of the Jordan River corridor. The park is situated back on the property, at the end of a long lane, but as you approach 8275 South on 1300 West, you may notice that the parking strip has been landscaped —the first example of waterwise planting. Even the parking lot of the new Education Center does its share: Look between your feet as you get out of your car—the permeable concrete and gravelfilled joints direct run-off from the parking lot and walkways through a series of biofilters and bioswales—the gravel as well as plants themselves—before returning it back into the stream that flows through the property.

But the real fun begins once you get into the Conservation Garden Park itself.

The exhibits will help even the most confused nouveau-landscapers understand how to right-size their own water use.

From a central plaza on the other side of the Education Center that serves as an informational trailhead, you’ll be able to choose paths that explore various areas related to waterwise planting.

As you walk, you may notice that the Conservation Garden is as much a museum as a park. The Garden exhibit paths, the expansion completed in 2009, live up their name: Focusing in turn on four areas— design, irrigation, planting and maintenance—these exhibits will help even the most confused nouveau-landscaper understand how to right-size their own water use. In these exhibits, visitors can handle the pieces needed to assemble an irrigation system, learn what to look for when shopping for healthy plants in a playhouse for grown-ups mockup of a nursery, and hold different types of mulch and soil amendments to get a feel for their properties.

While these resources are invaluable for tackling the details involved in conservation gardening, the example gardens comprising the original section may be the most important. Each of the six plots has a different focus: Waterwise Woodlands, as you might expect, recreates a forest retreat, while Prudent Perennials focuses on dependable flowers that brighten a yard. Each plot contains a small pergola to indicate the position of a house on the lot in order to give visitors a better understanding of how the groupings and arrangements will translate into a real yard. The plantings themselves, scattered through the exhibits, are like a living curio cabinet; each plant has a marker with its name, so you’ll easily be able to note your favorites when you head home.

Two plots focus on the ubiquitous lawn: The first, Traditional Yet Thrifty, prescribes modest changes to watering methods and schedule (new sprinklers or drip lines may be in order) to cut water use in half.

Traditional with a Twist shows how to cut water use up to 70% by switching Kentucky bluegrass and other thirsty turf—or any other plant not adapted to our arid climate

—with waterwise species that preserve the look. (For visitors who like a good head-to-head competition, a metered system on the Irrigation exhibit path tracks the different grass types’ water use over the season, so you can see conservation in action.)

The typical lawn requires 29 inches of water a year to thrive. Rainfall in the summer provides six inches on average, but many people will dump as much as 60 inches onto their lawns. The results of right-sizing irrigation is enough to help achieve the goal of cutting water use by 25% by 2050: “Our goal can be achieved without taking a single lawn out, if people water more infrequently and more efficiently,” says Eric Klotz of the Utah Division of Water Resources.

The Desert with an Altitude plot is perhaps the most inspirational.

Planted entirely with Utah natives or other extremely drought-tolerant plants, this plot was irrigated the first two years to help the plants get established, but no longer requires additional water. If the thought of cutting 60-70% of your water bill while having a landscape with style and bioregional integrity appeals to you, this plot could help you revolutionize your yard. Rather than barren and blasted, which may be the image that xeriscaping evokes for many, the plot shows off the rich and varied colors and interesting shapes that make up a desert-based landscape, and may tempt more people to re-invite the post-card pictureque landscapes that make Utah unique back into their homes.

With all of these educational and informational resources available to the public, the goal of 25% reduction is on track for the target date.

According to Linda Townes at the Conservation Garden Park, the conservation initiatives have already yielded close to 12% reduction in water use. “We’re definitely on track, although some of the credit does go to the wet years we’ve had recently,” she says.

Klotz is similarly optimistic with the progress of the conservation project, although he suspects they’ve already harvested the lowhanging fruit, and that the second half of the goal will take significantly more effort to achieve—but between the playground the park provides for the gardening-inclined and the events that the new Education Center will host for both school groups and adults, it should be impossible for Wasatch Front residents to resist

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Lauren Springer Ogden visits the CGP

Adele Flail is an artist and a burgeoning urban homesteader on SLC’s west side. She is also coordinator for The Leonardo. She recently illustrated a book forthcoming from Gibbs Smith publisher, The Nature Lover's Almanac.

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f you’re getting ready to try your hand at waterwise landscaping but are looking for a little more guidance and some serious inspiration, join horticulturist and author Lauren Springer Ogden at the conservation garden to explore the design possibilities of waterconserving gardens and discover plants that will be at home in your yard.

Ogden has worked in a panoply of public gardens both in the United States and abroad as a horticulturalist and propagator (the person who coaxes one plant into becoming many plants through

Once you’ve assembled a list of waterwise plants that suit your personal taste, it’s time to look for garden styles that you find similarly inspiring. cuttings, seeding, divisions—whatever it takes... or whatever will take), which has increased her appreciation for planting in tune with the local climate.

Originally from Philadelphia, Ogden has lived in Colorado for 25 years. She has noticed a change over the last two decades: When she first moved out west, drawn by the beauty of the landscape, her neighbors didn’t quite get her interest in native landscapes. Ogden says at first they were surprised that she was trying to grow the very native plants they were seeking to eradicate from their own yards.

Now, though, Ogden says, “People are becoming more open to it, partly because they have to be— more people are moving here, we’ve had a few droughts, and water is getting more expensive.”

But it may be the people moving in, rather than the long-established natives, who are embracing local climates and planting accordingly:

“The people who seemed the most concerned about it being a dry place were not from Colorado. The people who move to the west choose to come, and they embrace that it is a dry place... We don’t want it to look like Philadelphia or Indiana.” In fact, the tide of garden fashion now seems to be turning the other way, with people from wetter parts of the U.S. envying the bright colors and architectural structures of traditional desert plants. “Gardeners like the whole southwestern look, and they aren’t as insistent now on the English delphinium-and-rose thing.”

For the would-be waterwise landscaper, Ogden recommends looking at the plants themselves for inspiration: “Look for what really appeals to you: If you don’t like plants with orange flowers or you don’t like cactuses, you don’t have to have those.” Once you’ve assembled a list of waterwise plants that suit your personal taste, it’s time to look for garden styles that you find similarly inspiring.

Ogden’s newest book, Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens, can help you assemble your horticultural dream team. Unlike her other books, which are aimed more toward experienced gardeners, this book is meant to be broadly accessible, providing almost a shopping list of 200 plants that do well under low-water conditions. A handy key indicates how the flora will interact with the fauna, highlighting plants that will attract bees and butterflies, or will repel deer.

Once you know what you want, though, the next step is to find it at a nursery. While you’ll find more selection than ever before, there is room for improvement. Linda Townes, of the Conservation Garden Park, notes that you’ll come up against this issue sometimes when looking for native or other drought-tolerant plants here in Utah, but she and Ogden both stress that you have to be vocal about what you want, whether working with an independent nursery or a big-box home and garden center: “You have to ask,” says Townes, “or the nurseries will never know that people want native or low-water plants.”

Want to learn more? Join Lauren Ogden Springer at the Conservation Garden Park’s new Education Center. Cost is $20, and you can register online (try scanning the QR code below with your smartphone): TINYURL.COM/OGDENATCGP

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Building Man Build skills for greener living this month at Scotty Soltronic’s Jenk Star Ranch near Green River

BY ALICE BAIN There’s got to be a better way.

Scott Whitaker, aka Scotty Soltronic, had a harsh epiphany that changed his life while he was attending the annual Burning Man festival out in the wilds of Nevada in 2006. He was standing in a group of thousands of spectators, watching a giant wooden art structure burn to the ground, and he was feeling betrayed and appalled at the flagrant waste of new materials by a group of people he had always respected. That defining event filled him with incredible inspiration and motivation: Six years later, Whitaker is running an annual eco-festival on his ranch in Green River, Utah, and is one of the area’s leading lights in renewable energy and reclaimed materials construction.

“Everything really came out of that one experience at Burning Man,” he says. That year, a collective of 40 Belgians known as the Uchronians built a huge structure, half cathedral and half bird’s nest, out of 93 running miles of grade 3 lumber rejects. “There were literally semi-trucks full of new lumber, huge stacks of wood. I thought, this is crazy. Since I did an LDS mission in Amsterdam, I speak Dutch and I could communicate pretty well, I asked them about the project. I got the clear impression that they were going to build this massive structure, and then not burn it, and instead donate the wood somewhere, and I thought that was so awesome.”

Uchronia, or the Belgian Waffle as it was affectionately known, was the hit of Burning Man that year. Uchronia went up in flames at the end of the week. “And as it burned, my whole world shifted,” Whitaker says. “I was a Burner, through and through, but when I saw that thing go up, it totally flipped things for me.”

The Belgian team reportedly reforested an equivalent area in Canada, where the low-grade lumber came from. Others shared Whitaker’s dismay and the next year the Burning Man organization began a wood-collecting effort in conjunction with building Habitat for Humanity houses in Reno. The sheer consumptiveness of the Uchronia project also catalyzed a major life change in Whitaker.

“When I came home I was sobbing. I literally couldn’t talk to anyone without crying. I understood that the Burners were lost, as lost as anyone else. They’re creating their own thing, but

“about the shift from burning everything to building everything.”

He calls Building Man the next version. This year’s Building Man workshops include Utah/ desert permacultural gardening, aquaponics, water catchment, composting toilets, Earth Ship™ rammed earth design construction, straw bale construction, adobe brick making, wilderness survival and fire bow workshops, making solar ovens, clean fuel vehicles, crocheting with plastic bags, off-grid solar photovoltaic technology, solar thermal technology, and composting methods and compost tumbler workshops. Presenters are James and Michelle Loomis, Martha Gilbert, Tanner Rosenthal, Jean Bokelmann, Mark Kriner, Galen Schuck, Tai Robinson, Maureen Brannely and Whitaker himself.

Want to learn how to build a solar concentrator? “It takes sunlight and focuses it on a point, so instead of turning sunlight into electricity, you’re turning it into heat. You can use it to run a turbine system or some other kind of engine, or to cook something.”He will demonstrate how to build three different versions of a solar water heater with reclaimed materials.

“The cost of this solar concentrator technology is next to nothing. For instance, you can take an old standard satellite dish, the small kind you put on your roof—everyone has these, they’re everywhere, and they just get thrown away all the time—you line it with mylar and then you can use it to heat water.” You may not be able to heat all the water we require in our modern lives, but you will learn concepts and how to apply them.

Whitaker says they are working with algae systems that use water as fuel, and other systems that use biomass as fuel. “I bought a gasifier from these Workshops like this one with Mark Kriner (center) implementing guys in Berkeley that is basically glass bottles and tires in home construction are offered. almost the same thing that was on the back of the DeLorean in the second Back To The theme. “I drove around and used it to power Future movie,” he says. “It takes biomass and other people’s camps and sound systems instead turns it into a useable fuel source.” Some of the of their generators, just generally spreading the new projects are being developed under patent. word of solar power,” he says.

Whitaker says the entire festival is run off wind The following year, instead of going to Burning and solar. “We have 60 batteries that are powering Man he took the Saucer to other events. He intethe sound system and the custom-built lights. We grated a sound system into the design and gathtook old halogen work lights and replaced the 50ered a small team. They supported various social watt bulbs with a 12V HID high-intensity car justice events and local music festivals that needed headlamp, which runs at 35 watts. We’re creating sound systems. This was the groundwork for the these lighting systems with one battery and one of birth of Building Man, which is, as Whitaker says, they don’t have any direction. Burning Man helps you step off the ‘program’ of the default world but what are you stepping onto?”

Whitaker had worked in Silicon Valley as a computer programmer and professional hacker.

Now he had a welding studio in downtown Salt Lake and made curious and beautiful sculptures out of discarded metal. In his mid-30s, divorced and raising a young son, Whitaker was living the life of an artist and inventor.

He came home from the event and started building. Within a few months he had created the Solar Saucer, a reclaimed-materials “flying saucer” art piece mounted on a trailer, integrating 1,000 watts of solar photovoltaic power into its design.

“I wanted to start building things that were sustainable,” he says.

He didn’t want to go back to Burning Man but a friend persuaded him to take the Saucer to the festival in 2007 for the Green Man environmental

Within a few months he had created the Solar Saucer, a reclaimed-materials “flying saucer” art piece mounted on a trailer, integrating 1,000 watts of solar photovoltaic power into its design.

“I wanted to start building things that were sustainable,” he says. these lights, and we can set them up all over. The old 500-watt lights used over 12 times the amount of power to get the same amount of light!”

Generators don’t automatically replace muscle. Whitaker wakes up when the sun comes up and moves the solar panels to capture sunlight, and then moves them again during the day to follow the sun.

In addition to the Solar Saucer, he has a box truck (“Big Blue”) with 4,000 watts of solar panels on it. If you have a deep-cycle battery system on a trailer or RV, Whitaker’s solar array can charge that up for you as well when you come down to camp there.

Building Man is family friendly and kid friendly, and as Whitaker says, “the people who come are focused on building things. A lot of them are going to bed pretty early.

The workshops start at 9 a.m., we do workshops until it gets too hot, and then we go to the beach and we play music and have fun and then do it again the next day.” Last year’s event had 300 attendees; he anticipates up to 500 this year. It’s held at the Jenk Star Ranch in Green River, which is built on a piece of land Whitaker bought many years ago. In June the ranch will host 3,000 visitors for Desert Rocks, a festival held

in previous years near Moab.

“The entire Jenk Star Ranch is built out of stuff we found in the garbage,” Whitaker says. “I’m an engineer by trade, but I spend my time in dumpsters. I make ridiculous things out of junk, but it makes my day when someone comes up and says ‘thank you for doing that!’”

For Whitaker, there is more to successful work than simply creation and inspiration—there has to be a practical and socially responsible side to things as well. “That’s part of the process,” he says.

“Everyone has their realization.” He has devoted his efforts to helping foster that realization and a more expansive environmental awareness among the people who attend Building Man. “In my opinion, the event stands to grow bigger and faster, because what we’re doing is resonating with more people.” The event gives attendees a forum to connect both personally and professionally. “What people really want is to meet a new group of friends and to have an amazing time and to be valued,” Whitaker says. Building Man provides just that. u

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SPIRITUAL ACTIVISTS

Activist, author & visionary Jonathan Talat Phillips is traveling the U.S. with an incredible story to tell.

BY TERRA CRONSHEY

J

onathan Talat Phillips is a bioenergetic healer, Reiki master, psychonaut and modern-day shaman. He cofounded the cutting edge web magazine, Reality Sandwich and the related Evolver Network and is also creator of the Ayahuasca Monologues storytelling show. From his home in New York City he blogs about religion for the Huffington Post online and coordinates 40 regional communities of conscious collaborators, utopian pragmatists and “hope fiends” throughout the country.

He is currently touring his new book, The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic, and will be in Salt Lake City for a public reading and book signing at the Salt Lake Main Library. He now goes by his Sufi name, Talat, which means “the ascending sun.” I met with Talat via phone, internet and in person to discuss his philosophy, his book, and his special relationship with Utah.

Your book is also your story and is filled with transformational moments. You say the chakras, when aligned, move prana or energy—creating

“I’ve always been attracted to the liberating essence of revolution, whether it was French, American, psychedelic or sexual. Now, I look at it as also being spiritual.”

and propelling transformational inner-personal moments in life. Is this kind of transformation limited to the human experience or can this transformation be experienced on a planetary level?

The old alchemists have a saying, “as above so below” and I believe it’s the same with the energy web across the universe. Just as our human bodies have a “tree of life” of pranic meridians and psychic centers—chakras—we also have a “world tree of life” with a north and south chakra—the poles. The Earth even has her own aura, which can be seen in the luminous colors of the aurora borealis.

In my book, I make an argument that many yogis believe: We as a civilization are currently oriented in a third chakra consciousness,

which creates a certain vibrational reality for our species. This energy center is masculine, focused on willpower, achievement, marching forward in the world. In just 10,000 years, we went from planting seeds in the ground to splitting the atom. The destructive fires of the solar plexus are pushing us into the feminine heart chakra.

The heart is the alchemical center of the entire

energetic field. It carries the geometric vibration of love that unifies opposites and brings spirit into matter. It gives us access to entire new realms of divine healing and guidance. It’s what makes “miracles” occur. And given the current economic and environmental situation, that’s exactly what we need to manifest—one giant planetary miracle.

What role do humans have in this balancing?

Where can people learn more about this?

The ancient Christian Gnostics didn’t just walk out into the desert to get enlightened, they went through the initiatory process of the Mystery Schools to get properly trained. We are in a fortunate time these days where there are many places that teach advanced spiritual technologies—yoga, meditation, healing courses, ayahuasca schools.

The Santo Daime church is my main practice. It’s a Christian-based ayahuasca church.

Energetically speaking, we as a civilization are a house divided. Parasitic, hierarchical systems— political, financial, medical, economic—suck up most of our resources for the top few percent, creating vast amounts of scarcity and human suffering. Our role is to resurrect the warrior spirit of humanity, to remember our divine inheritance and internal and collective power as sons and daughters of the divine, to reclaim our lives and the sanctity of the natural world, to restructure our communities and resource distribution systems and to heal ourselves and our planet.

What does the ‘warrior spirit’ of humanity represent? How would one know a ‘warrior spirit’?

It’s the wild, authentic self that we carry within, the wisdom of the ancestors in our DNA, our luminous force and unique creative spark that can shuck off the limitations, corruptions and trappings of modern civilization to engage us in a truer, more passionate, connected and poetic life.

Have you always been religious, or was there a

‘conversion’ point?

I’ve always been spiritual, but I expressed that as a young man in the form of playful adventures and light-hearted tricksterism. Religion actually held down my spirit, whether it was the Methodist Church giving me structured rules on how one is to behave, or the Fundamentalist Church that had me fearing a bloody, impending apocalypse, which is no fun at all.

Much of my book focuses on rediscovering the beauty and mystery of the early Christian initiatory schools and their belief, not in rigid rules of engagement, but an exploration of gnosis—direct, revelatory knowledge of the divine through your own unique personal experience. Exploring this has been healing in my own path, and judging from emails I get from those who’ve read my book, it’s seemed to help others as well.

What role does art play in your life?

When I first started on my path of bioenergetic training, I focused heavily on learning every correct hands-on-healing position and energetic defense structure. But as art goes, once you have the fundamentals down, you then open up to your own unique style. These days, I find the magic of the celestial realms and forest of the Amazon from my work with Santo Daime has invigorated a new spirit into my healing art. Strangely gorgeous chants come through me as healing offerings for my clients, I embrace my own energetic signatures of electric and navy blues to connect with the dancing frequencies of my clients, helping them to illuminate their own creative power and manifest it throughout their life’s journey.

Each day, I awaken more and more to the poetry of nature, the universe and the cosmos within us.

You led an inspired group of street theatre activists, wearing sequinned costumes and staging political protests and flash mobs, bringing up serious political issues, while advocating for liberty. Where does your devotion to liberty stem from? How would you describe your political philosophy today?

I’ve always been attracted to the liberating essence of revolution, whether it was French, American, psychedelic or sexual. Now, I look at it as also being spiritual. These days I see activism being both multidimensional and interdimensional.

Like many, I’ve lost a lot of faith in our political structures—what hap-

pened to the change Obama promised?—so it’s up to us to design and build the new systems that can bring about societal transformation and create abundance for everyone.

I’m talking about the eco-villages, alternative currencies, permaculture gardens, gift economies, sustainable energy networks—all the things Occupy and the Evolver Social Movement [and CATALYST magazine] are working toward.

But also, the ancient Gnostics saw, much like the Buddhists, that our entire physical world is trapped in illusion. And they believed there to be dark energies—entities that prey upon us, trapping us in these denser material planes. Through my work with the Santo Daime, I’ve come to see there is a much larger, complex astral reality intersecting with ours. Because our culture doesn’t acknowledge spirit, we are playing with only a small part of the deck. These entities create addictions, anxiety, anger, depression and mental illness. The Daime actually works to illuminate these entities through alchemical healing. It can be tough work, but it’s incredible to see the transformation when these beings are lifted from our energy field. I believe society itself may be suffering from a larger form of spirit possession and we currently lack the the healing technology of the shaman or mystic to liberate ourselves. That’s what part of this awakening process is about—it’s taking the red pill to illuminate the Matrix around us.

How much direction or control can an individual have in regard to these dark influences and therefore over their own life?

We can gain full control, but it’s often a process of illuminating and clearing the energetic body. For instance, I struggled with severe panic attacks, depression, and even suicidal thoughts my whole life. Three years ago, I discovered this was caused by a “parasitic astral attachment”—you could call it an ancestral demon—dug into my back and abdomen. The Daime says recognizing this type of interfering is a first really big step. Once you distinguish that, you can then help the being detach through a process of forgiveness and illumination.

When they illuminate, you also receive a profound healing. Could you imagine what would happen if we could illuminate the demons in our political and financial systems?

It would be a powerful healing for us and the planet.

In The Electric Jesus, you describe Jesus as a kind of covert, ninja-type hero who sneaks into the Garden of Eden in the guise of a snake to convince the humans to taste of the fruits of knowledge, become enlightened and, ultimately, become liberated from this material world. This is a different take on the concept of ‘original sin.’ Can you elaborate?

I think original sin is the biggest plague and energetic thought-virus on this planet. It’s a corrupt, controlling frequency that tells us we are separate, isolated beings, that God doesn’t like us, and no matter what we do, we will never be worthy of love. It’s a lie, and a very big one, as it cuts off our most important connection—that to God, or source energy, and to ourselves. It leaves us in exile. In ancient Gnostic texts, Jesus comes in with the wisdom of the light, to remind humans of their noble heritage, as sons and daughters of the divine, bringing them back to their celestial home.

The trauma of original sin happens in the Fertile Crescent, the birthplace of agriculture, and spreads across the world with violent expansion of Western civilization. Our whole society has been contaminated. We can learn from the ancient Gnostics how to purge ourselves of these parasitic thought forms and reclaim our true divine nature.

Your book also mentions paraphenomena—balls of light, auras and aliens. Is it safe to say you believe humans, as sentient creative beings, are not alone in this Universe?

Let’s just jump into the most difficult aspect of writing this book— “coming out of the galactic closet.”

It wasn’t until the final draft when my editor and Evolver colleague Daniel Pinchbeck (author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl) told me the book wasn’t publishable in its current form. “You aren’t being honest. You have to share everything— your shadow side, your messy relationships.” For me, being honest meant saying the thing I never wanted to admit publicly—that most of my spiritual awakening experiences involved what you would call galactic contact with extraterrestrial spirit guides.

Surprisingly, this is the material that attracts most people to the book. They get really excited that there’s someone willing to discuss his experiences around a different kind of contact experience. We’re not talking clunky abduction narra-

“I think original sin is the biggest plague and energetic thought-virus on this planet. It’s a corrupt, controlling frequency that tells us we are separate, isolated beings, that God doesn’t like us, and no matter what we do, we will never be worthy of love.” tives with 1950s sci-fi tinfoil-looking ships. This is more shamanic and interdimensional, highlighted by the creative alchemy of slowly opening one’s eyes to what might be our galactic brothers and sisters. I get emails all the time from people having these experiences, so I guess I’m not alone here.

Your book also brings you to Utah. What is your experience of the Beehive State?

Well, the last chapter takes place at a ranch in Southern Utah, where I see my first UFO, connect with DMT, “the spirit molecule” and meet a digital multidimensional fairy, and nearly die in an action movie-worthy rollover car crash on I-15. Before Utah, I had a pretty boring ending to the book. Thanks to your state, it ends with a life-anddeath moment, literally. u Terra Cronshey, a native Salt Laker, has been director of a loud-sound art theme camp/village from Utah at Burning Man for the past three years. She is the festival accounting coordinator for Sundance Film Festival. TERRA@NEOGEOLOTUS.COM

Evolver Salt Lake, CATALYST Magazine and Desert Rocks present Jonathan Talat Phillips in Salt Lake for one night from New York. He will read from his book The Electric Jesus. Books will be available for signing.

Phillips Reading, May 17, 7p, Main Library, Level 4 Conference Room. WWW.SLCPL.ORG

Talat will return to Utah in June to present an energy healing workshop on chakra alignment as part of Desert Rocks Festival in Green River, Utah June 7-10.

WWW.DESERTROCKS.ORG. WWW.TALATHEALING.COM. WWW.EVOLVER.NET

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I sat down with Dr. Nancy Larsen DVM, owner of Dancing Cats Feline Health Center, to discuss feline nutrition. Much of what I learned was surprising, and challenges the murky information the cat food industry has fed us through the years.

Here’s what Dr. Nan had to say: Cats are obligate carnivores; their natural diet consists primarily of protein, animal fat, vitamins and minerals. A healthy diet is either all canned or raw food, no dry food.

Cats descended from desert felines who hunted mice, snakes, birds and insects. By nature they are not big water drinkers and got their moisture from eating their prey. Their urinary tracts are made to concentrate urine to conserve fluids. Dry diets do not provide the moisture cats need which leads to dehydration, urinary crystals and stones (feline lower urinary tract disease). Dry diets do not mimic a cat’s natural diet; they do not hunt corn, rice, wheat, etc... Dry diets also lead to obesity and its complications such as osteoarthritis, diabetes, lipidosis, allergies, diarrhea, vomiting and inflammatory bowel disease.

Since an all-canned diet can lead to plaque and tartar buildup, it is important to brush your cat’s teeth.

DANCINGCATSVET.COM has a link to a video from Cornell Feline Health Center that will help human caretakers learn how to do that. If you can’t brush your cat’s teeth, add a little dry food (10% or less), the kind formulated to make cats crunch the food apart before they swallow. Cats do not chew small kibble, they mostly swallow it whole as evidenced by that wet pile of vomitus that appears in the night. Another option is chicken gizzards; this tough organ requires shearing and tearing to devour, which helps keep the cat’s teeth and gums clean and strong. If starting out with a kitten, train it to let you brush its teeth.

BY CAROL KOLEMAN Regarding cat food ingredients: Watch out for carbohydrates and grains. Cats are not vegetarians so vegetarian and vegan diets are not appropriate, and in fact are a health hazard. Cats must have meat. They should eat a high protein, low carb diet.

Ingredients that need to be included are amino acids and vitamins that the cat’s body cannot manufacture for itself or does not manufacture in high enough quantities. Cats get these nutrients from eating not only the meat of its prey, but also the bones, organs, stomach, and stomach contents. Taurine is especially important as is arginine, vitamin A, vitamin D, niacin and arachadonic acid.

Making your own cat food is a good alternative to commercial food provided a good balanced recipe is followed that supplies all the cat’s dietary needs. Crucial ingredients for homemade food include appropriate vitamins, minerals, animal fats and supplements that require a variety of meat types, organs, enzymes, omega fatty acids, and supplements. If feeding a raw diet, I prefer commercially balanced products such as those available at Ma & Paw’s Bakery and The Dog’s Meow.

You can find good homemade recipes through several websites and books: CATINFO.ORG, Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide To Natural Health For Dogs and Cats , DRPITCAIRN.COM, and Celeste Yarnall’s website CELESTIALPETS.COM and book, The Complete Guide to Holistic Cat Care. There are also commercially available “basic supplements” for adding to raw meat such as Feline Instincts found at FELINEINSTINCTS.COM. I don’t think there is an ideal commercial cat food available, but if this is preferred, some of the brands I recommend are Nature’s Instinct, BG, Blue Buffalo, Merrick, Weruva and Wellness.

—Dr. Nan received her DVM from Colorado State University in 1993.

Unconvinced that western medicine was the best option for her practice, she became a Reiki master and veterinarian acupuncturist. She opened Dancing Cats Feline Health Center on 1760 S 1100 E , Utah’s first and only all-cats veterinary clinic, in 2004.

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

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Myth buster from Dr. Nan: Your cat needs a flea collar. False! Northern Utah does not have a significant flea problem because of our high altitude and cold winters. Flea collars are not necessary and in fact are dangerous; cats can get â&#x20AC;&#x153;hung upâ&#x20AC;? on these collars while doing their favorite activity, climbing. Even if we did have a flea problem here, flea collars are not very effective. Fleas love to run around near the tail and under rear legs, far from the effects of a flea collar.

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CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Art, Health, Spirit, Natural World, Music, Events/Festivals, Meetings, Exhibits, Education/Workshops.

See the full list of events and the ongoing calendar at www.catalystmagazine.net/events

CALENDAR

BY PAX RASMUSSEN

The Electric Jesus

J. Talat Phillips will read from his book The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic. Phillips worked for the September 11th Fund, was a columnist for Music for America and spearheaded the activist media group Greene Dragon. He is a cofounder of Evolver.net and Reality Sandwich, and coordinates the Evolver Spores program. In The Electric Jesus, Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist—and unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival and miraculous energy healings that reshaped his skeptical worldview. Presented by Evolver and CATALYST Magazine.

J. Talat Phillips: The Electric Jesus, May 17, 7p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. EVOLVER.NET/GROUP/EVOLVER_SALT_LAKE

Get Out and Garden Summer’s on its way! It’s time to step it up in the garden. This month, learn to set up a drip system for your vegetable garden on May 12, 9a, at the Conservation Garden Park (8275 S 1300 W). Also at the CGP: Easy Herbs on May 17, 6:30-8p; Edible Lanscapes, May 19, 9-10a; Designing Successful Parkstrips, May 19, 10:30a-12p. Lifelong Learning at the U of U this month is offering Gardening in Containers, Thursdays, May 24-31, 6:308:30p and Grow Your Own Herbs, Tuesdays, May 8-15, 6:30-8:30p. Learn all about beekeeping and attracting pollinators to your yard at Wasatch Community Gardens (in conjunction with Tree Utah, at the Eco-Garden, 1575 W 1000 N) on May 19, 1-3p. Also at WCG (in their Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E) , learn how worms can eat your garbage at the vermicomposting workshop, May 19, 10a-12p.

CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG, CONTINUE.UTAH.EDU/LIFELONG, WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Lectures, Workshops & Seminars Solar Power 101 Large-scale solar power is important— economically, socially and environmentally.

Through legislative and regulatory processes in Utah, major progress has been made, but there is still a lack of public awareness and

knowledge of the technologies that can make renewable energy and energy efficiency a possibility. Learn about the history of distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) and find out about its advantages and benefits in relation to grid-provided electricity and other renewable resources. Get a basic overview of the way we can harvest electricity from sunlight, how solar power systems are engineered, state and federal incentives and financing options that can make solar power a possibility for you. Bring a printout of your electricity usage for the past year to help estimate the size of a solar power system that would meet your needs. Presented by Utah Solar Energy Assn.

Solar Power 101, May 10, 6-8p.

Sprague Branch library, 2131 S Highland Dr. Free.

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Great Salt Lake Issues Forum The GSL Issues Forum brings together researchers, government agencies, managers, industry and environmentalists working on Great Salt Lake and other saline lake systems in the western U.S. The conference will address key environmental stressors such as mineral extraction industries, waste streams and climate change. Pre-forum workshop about mercury is free to the public, featuring Dr. David Krabbenhoft: In 2003, work done by USGS and the US Fish & Wildlife Service with water and sediment samples from the deepest part of Great Salt Lake found the highest levels of methyl-mercury ever detected in the U.S. Tissue sam-

ples from fish and waterfowl around the state were also found to have extremely high concentrations of methyl-mercury.

Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, May 10-11. Free Pre-forum workshop, May 9, 9a-5p. Fort Douglas Officer’s Club, 150 Fort Douglas Blvd. FOGSL.ORG

Scandi Jam Learn the secrets of Scandinavian dance at this weekend workshop with Don Meyers and Kathi Ploeger of Skandia Folkdance Society (Seattle). Beginners can learn basic skills necessary for turning dancing and partnering for waltz, polka and other dances.

Experienced dancers can sharpen their skills. Partners not required. In a related workshop, accordionist Dave Sealander of Idaho Falls will teach techniques for playing Scandinavian dance music.

Scandi Jam, May 11-13. Columbus Community Center, 3495 S West Temple. $5-$40.

SALTLAKESCANDIDANCE.SHUTTERFLY.COM/SCANDIJAM2012

Festivals & Fundraisers Water Week The green of spring and snow slowly melting from our mountain peaks can make it easy to forget that we live in a desert climate. Head down to the City Library for films, demonstrations and activities that remind us of the important role water plays in every part of our lives. Sponsored by Brolly Arts, Institute for Figuring, Natural History Museum of Utah, SLC Ballet, SLC

Department of Public Utilities, Utah Film Center, Wasatch Community Gardens, Willard Bay Gardens and The City Library.

See website for full schedule. Free.

Water Week, May 5-12. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. SLCCLASSIC.COM/UTILITIES/WATERWEEK.HTM, WATERWEEK.ORG

9th Annual SLAM Plan B will spend 23 hours slamming out five short plays—you spend the 24th hour seeing the results! Cash bar with finger food

by Cali’s Natural Foods. Featuring new short plays by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Elaine Jarvik, Julie Jensen, Jenifer Nii and Eric Samuelsen. Directed by John Graham, Alexandra Harbold, Kyle Lewis, Kay Shean and Christy Summerhays. Stage managed

by Jennifer Freed.

SLAM, May 12, 8p. Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W 300 S. $25/$10 students. PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

Living Traditions Festival The Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 27th Living Traditions Festival, a celebration of traditional folk and ethnic arts. Living Traditions brings people together to honor the diversity and cultural traditions of our community. Local ethnic artists—craftspeople, dancers, musicians and community groups—provide the framework for the festival. Food market, performing arts, kids’ events, bocce ball, live music and more.

Featured performers: Ana Tijoux, Mexican Institute of Sound, Bettye Lavette, Charlie Musselwhite.

Living Traditions, May 18-20, Washington Square City & County Building, 450 S 200 E. Free. LIVINGTRADITIONSFESTIVAL.COM

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Peter Yarrow benefit for Peaceful Uprising Don’t miss this evening of words and music with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) to benefit climate justice group Peaceful Uprising (which recently suffered an $88,000 loss to embezzlement). Peaceful Uprising seeks to change the institutional and social status quo at the root of the climate crisis.

Peter Yarrow benefit, May 14, 6p. The State Room, 638 S State St. $60. PEACEFULUPRISING.ORG

Great Salt Lake Bird Festival The 2012 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival will spotlight the many great birding areas in Northern Utah and around the world-famous Great Salt Lake. Interact with live birds. Events will engage youth and families in birding, and provide detailed information for serious birders. Keynote speaker is birder Greg Miller, who is portrayed by Jack Black in the new comedy, “The Big Year,” about the world of competitive birding. For full schedule of workshops, hikes, outings and events, see website.

GSL Bird Festival, May 17-21. Davis County Legacy Events Center, 151 S 1100 W, Farmington.

Prices vary. GREATSALTLAKEBIRDFEST.COM

Holistic Wellness Fair Learn about various modalities of holistic healing at this all-day fair. Massage, counseling, aura photography, dream analysis, palmistry, foot baths, tarot, psychic readings and more.

Holistic Wellness Fair, May 19, 10a-5p. Inner Light Center, 4408 S 500 E. INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Sun Valley Wellness Festival The Sun Valley Wellness Festival is an annual gathering of the top speakers and practitioners of mind-body-spirit and environmental wellness—whose mission is to “inspire positive change.” This year’s festival focuses on the theme of Owning Your Energy and features Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, the author of the bestseller My Stroke of Insight, Alan Cohen, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, anti-aging pioneer Dr. Uzzi Reiss and yoga master Saul David Raye, along with more than 20 other speakers addressing body, mind and spiritual wellness. The festival also offers workshops, yoga classes, music and a Wellness Expo showcasing wellness-related products and services. If you haven’t entered the sweepstakes open only to CATALYST readers, go to SUNVALLEYWELLNESS.ORG/CATALYST_PROMOTION.PHP and do so now to win tickets and a lodging.

Sun Valley Wellness Festival, Sun Valley Inn, Sun Valley, ID. May 25-28. Prices vary, see website for schedule/tickets. SUNVALLEYWELLNESS.ORG

Fiesta!

Join the Utah Cultural Celebration Center for their 8th annual Fiesta—with authentic Mexican food, song, dance, art

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exhibitions and children’s activities (not to mention fireworks!).

Fiesta, June 2, 6p. Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W 3100 S. Free.

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Utah Pride Festival Get your gay on at the 29th annual Utah Pride Festival. Grown from a small, rather secretive gathering to a three-day festival with well over 20,000 participants, the Utah Pride Festival is a celebration of diversity and freedom. This year’s motto is “Changing Hearts and Lives.” Artists, music, huge parade, dance and more.

Utah Pride Festival, JUNE 1-3. Washington Square City & County Building, 450 S 200 E. $10, parade free. UTAHPRIDEFESTIVAL.ORG

Film How To Die in Oregon In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having fewer than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether— and when—to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue.

What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity. Post-screening Q&A via Skype with director Peter Richardson.

How To Die in Oregon, May 29, 7p. Main Library auditorium, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

A CELEBRATION OF SALT LAKE’S FOLK & ETHNIC ARTS SALT LAKE CITY & COUNTY BUILDING 5PM - 10PM

NOON - 10PM

NOON - 7PM

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On the Island Deserts Are Not Deserted The word desert comes from the word deserted. The truth, however, is that the desert landscape abounds with plants and animals specifically adapted to this harsher environment. Meet the Park naturalist in the visitor center parking lot for an easy onehour hike to explore and discuss the many wonders of this desert island.

Deserts Are Not Deserted hike, May 26, 10a.

Antelope Island State Park, 4528 W 1700 S. $9 vehicles, $3 cyclists/walk-ins.

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Transit of Venus Join park staff and members of the Ogden Astronomical Society for a rare event: a transit of Venus. The transit occurs when Venus passes directly between the sun and Earth.

The most recent transit of Venus was in 2004. This one will be the last until 2117.

Transit of Venus, June 5, 4:30p.

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ne of the best books I read as a teenager had the advice “DON’T PANIC!” printed on its cover in large friendly letters. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s signature blend of science fiction and comedy changed my life.

You are shocked by your own laughter. Planet Earth is destroyed by the end of chapter three, and the main character, Arthur Dent, is left to wander the Universe as a species orphan, surrounded and befuddled by aliens who are all much cooler and way more self-possessed than he is.

The book and its sequels are a hilarious paean to anxiety; their genius lies in their ability to acknowl-

dy was to joke about it.

The Cold War ended 20 years ago, but as a species we are still struggling with anxiety, replacing the great ideological dichotomy between the USA and the USSR with the more diffuse and hard-to-track threat of attacks by terrorist organizations. I have also spent my share of time in the hell-bardo of uncontrollable anxiety. After a while you become philosophical about being high-strung, and you get to know and understand your reaction to stress like you would a grumpy neighbor over your back fence. You might not like him very much, but you still have to get along.

In 2001, Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide

OUTSIDE THE BOX logical value as well: “Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

Adams confides that a man carrying his towel is also presumed to be equipped with “a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc.”—clearly one to associate with in tough times.

An important thing we can do when faced with stress is to remember to try not to panic, and to trust in our towels if things get too much.

Seriously, they expect me to worry about that? That’s ridiculous!

Consistency in a sense of humor may be impossible to maintain, but the effort is vital. u Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

This rectangle of absorbent cloth is more than just a security blanket—it is a multi-purpose tool to deal with anxiety-producing situations of all kinds. edge the crippling stress that Arthur Dent is experiencing, and to make light of it without seeming cruel. Dent may be hapless, but the hip and selfdeluded aliens around him are patently ridiculous.

Based on a radio series first aired by the BBC in 1978, the Hitchhiker’s Guide channeled a lot of Cold War anxieties through its pages. The UK at the time had a public alert system called the Four Minute Warning, intended to advise the populace of incoming Soviet missiles (the average time expected between liftoff of an ICBM from the Soviet bloc and atomic detonation in the UK was four minutes). The system operated from 1953 till the fall of the USSR in 1992.

I lived in the UK in the mid 1980s during my junior high years, and I vividly remember discussing the four minute warning with my classmates.

We all knew that theoretically, we were four minutes from a fiery death at any given time. The fact that our continued existence relied upon the diplomatic and governance skills of a group of politicians that nobody seemed to trust very much did not alleviate our anxiety. The only reme-

series, met his untimely death on a gym treadmill of a heart attack, presumably while intending to manage some of his own stress. Two weeks later, his legion of fans founded Towel Day, an annual memorial celebrated on May 25 of each year. Adams had extolled the virtues of the towel as “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” This rectangle of absorbent cloth is more than just a security blanket—it is a multi-purpose tool to deal with anxiety-producing situations of all kinds. As the book says, you can wrap it around you for warmth, sleep under it, use it as a sail, wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat, wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes (or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal), wave it as a distress signal in emergencies, and, of course, dry yourself off with it, if it’s still clean enough.

A towel carries immense psycho-

On May 25, you’ll recognize hardcore Douglas Adams fans by their proudly carried towels. International events include: a competition inviting creatives to animate a 1993 audio recording of Douglas Adams; the Towel Day Ambassador Contest; the release of Gbanga, a game combining a virtual world with reality that allows you to explore a hidden dimension using just your mobile phone (and a towel). The library at St Cuthbert's Catholic High School (United Kingdom) is counting down to Towel Day, with a quote every day.

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Fantastic Fabrications! and Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science Come to the Leonardo for the grand opening of two new exhibits. Fantastic Fabrications! features the character Boilerplate, created by Paul Guinan, a robot invented in an alternate history. The exhibit uses artifacts, images and tools from this imagined past to take visitors along on Boilerplateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures, as well as helping them get hands on to create their own shouldhave-been inventions in the tinkering studio. Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science contains a series of art installations created by Swiss artists as part of the Swiss governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intriguing Artists-inLabs program, which teams up artists and researchers for nine month collaborations.

Think Artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Act Science & Fantastic Fabrications opening weekend, May 4-6.

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Altered Books This class, held through the University of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Continuing Ed program at Pioneer Craft House will help you to create unique art. Use photography, text, drawing, collage, painting, transfers and magazine lifts to explore your own stories of memory, joy, heartbreak, and more to create to personalized altered books.

Altered Books, May 7-June 4, 7-9p (no class May 28). Pioneer Craft House, 3300 S 500 E. $209. TINYURL.COM/ALTEREDBOOKSPIONEER

The 10th annual fundraiser for Art Access will feature 100 established and emerging artists. All works are done using 11x10 inch plates (either aluminum, galvanized steel or plexiglas); each artist prepares small works in their recognizable style. Finished plates include everything from landscape to assemblage to pop art to photographic emulsion and more. Prices start at $75.

Previews of the pieces are available May 14-15, 10a-6p and May 16-17 10a-5p.

300 Plates, May 17, 6-9p. Art Access, 230 S 500W. $25/$35 after May 13. ACCESSART.ORG

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Dollar Daze Take an expedition through the construction on North Temple to Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts (housed inside Mestizo Coffee House) for the opening of Dollar Daze, a show employing sculpture, collage and sound elements to examine how present-day economics, immigration policy, labor issues and hybridization affect the condition of the U.S. working class. The artworks emphasize the importance of dreams and desire to overcome the struggle presented by everyday obstacles.

Dollar Daze Art Exhibit, May 18-June 8.

Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, 631 W North Temple, ste. 700.

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Found Object Sculpture

300 Plates fundraiser and exhibition

5 BJ $IJ Friday, May 4, 7-8:00PM

Third Saturdays at the UMFA are familyfriendly. This month explore the newly installed Modern and Contemporary Art gallery and see sculptures made from rubber, Plexiglas, cardboard and pins. Then head to the Emma Eccles Jones Education Center Classroom to create sculptures from everyday materials.

Third Saturday, May 19, 1-4p.

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New Frontier UMOCA has been hosting Sundance Film Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Frontier since January, and this month marks your last chance to see 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offerings. New Frontier highlights work film, art, and new media technologies that attempt to push the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image.

New Frontier closing, May 19, 11a-6p. UMOCA, 20 S West Temple, WWW.UTAHMOCA.ORG

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News and ideas from near and far for a healthier, more sustainable future

BY PAX RASMUSSEN

Solar in the city

mix of residential and business districts and proximity to public transit and bicycling corridors. Residents can sign up online, and will receive a free pedometer, bicycle taillight and a one-week UTA pass, along with information and resources on alternative transportation, such as the Salt Lake bikeways map.

Community classes and programs, such as Intro to Bicycle Commuting and Shopping By Bike, are also available.

Last month, the Wasatch Solar Challenge team announced plans to help significantly lower the cost and simplify the process for residential and commercial solar energy projects. The Challenge team, made of representatives from Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Midvale City, Park City, Summit County, West Valley City, Utah Clean Energy and the Utah Solar Energy Association, is one of 22 teams nationally to receive Rooftop Solar Challenge funding. The funds will be used to help clear a path for rapid expansion of solar energy—by increasing access to financing, standardizing permit processes, improving gridconnection standards and updating planning and zoning codes.

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Props to U The past few years have seen a boom in University of Utah sustainability efforts—such as their wind power program and huge recycling effort. Last month, the U claimed third place out of 73 colleges and universities for eco-friendliness.

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SmartTrips for East Liberty

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Last month, Salt Lake City launched the SmartTrips program for East Liberty neighborhood residents (approximately 1,000 households)—a program that incorporates several approaches to help remove barriers that prevent residents from taking advantage of alternative transportation options.

East Liberty was chosen for its size,

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hemp, lime and water that is energyefficient, non-toxic and fire-resistant. Plus, growing the hemp sequesters carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The only problem? Growing hemp is illegal in most states, since it contains trace amounts of THC, the mind-altering chemical in marijuana. And we all know how dangerous marijuana is, don’t we?

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Bike lanes are better Researchers at Johns Hopkins Cetner for a Livable Future at the Bloomburg School of Public Health published a study last month that analyzed how well drivers follow three-foot bicycle passing rules. The result? One out of six drivers break the rules. The good news? Bike lanes cause a 20% increase in safe passing. Makes me happy to see new bike lanes in SLC every year!

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A company in Santa Barbara, California, is set to build Cheech and Chong’s dream home: A house built of hemp. North Carolinabased construction company Hemp Technologies has developed a construction method using a material called Hempcrete, a mixture of

Bill Nye on bikes What will the city of the future look like? According to Bill Nye (the Science Guy): Bikes, and lots of them. And tunnels that funnel wind so riders will always have a tailwind.

Check out this video of Nye (who

seems thoroughly stoned) explaining, in detail, the bike-oriented city of the future. It’s a trip.

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Where traffic comes from Ever wonder why no matter how many more roads we build, traffic never gets any better? Check out this cute video that explains why (spoiler: it’s because the more roads we have, the easier it is to use your car, so more people do use their cars, creating more traffic), and how to fix the problem (spoiler: it’s by investing in public transit and bikefriendly roads, not in more roads and oil subsidies). Vid is in Spanish, but subtitled.

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HFCS woes Regular readers of this column are aware that I take every opportunity to write about the evils of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Here’s another reason to ditch the soda: HFCS is linked to autism. In a new peer-reviewed study in Clinical Epigenetics, researchers show that HFCS can mess with the body’s uptake of dietary minerals—in this case, zinc. A protein that helps the body eliminate heavy metals from the body needs zinc to work right, and if it doesn’t get it, those heavy metals cause a number of problems, autism among them. They found the problem is especially worrisome during the fetal stage.

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ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Clark’s Green Auto Garage 1/13 801.485-2858. 506 E. 1700 So. Clark’s auto is a local family-owned full service automotive repair facility. We are committed to doing our part to minimize the environmental impact of automotive service and repair, and to incorporating sustainability principles throughout our operation. SLC-certified E2 business. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CLARKSAUTO Schneider Auto Karosserie 7/12 801.484.9400. Fax 801-484-6623. Utah’s first green body shop. 27 years of making customers happy! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in Salt Lake City. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll work with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty. WWW.SCHNEIDERAUTO.NET DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION RHOdesigns,llc 4/13 801-971-2136, RHODESIGNSLLC@GMAIL.COM. Interior Design Services including space planning, color (interior & exterior), finish and materials selections; kitchen & bath design.

Introductory 2 hour consultation available.

Residential and commercial design experience.

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GARDENING The Reinvented Landscape 6/12 801-664-8662. PLANT, TRIM, MULCH, TIDY. Has your yard been the same for so long it’s become boring? Your yard should be your sanctuary! Let me help you make it so! Call for rates and schedule. KINGLET102@MSN.COM GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors 6/12 801-467-6636. 1900 S. 300 W., SLC We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing

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Movement & Sport ~ Pets ~ Psychic Arts & Intuitive Sciences Psychotherapy & Personal Growth Retail ~ Spiritual Practice hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, UNDERFOOTFLOORS@AOL.COM.

espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.

GREEN SERVICES Five-Step Carpet Care. FB 801.656.5259, PC: 435.640.2483.

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Cafe SuperNatural Organic, locally grown, gluten-free, fresh cooked to order, raw foods, fresh juices and smothies, superfood shakes, great food to go or dine-in.

Discounts for Prana Yoga participants. Located in Prana Yoga. Free convenient parking in Trolley Square’s 600 East parking garage. Mon-Sat 10a-9p: Sun 10-3p. Wifi.

HOUSING Wasatch Commons Cohousing 3/13 Vicky 801-908-0388. 1411 S. Utah St. (1605 W.) An environmentally sensitive community promoting neighborliness, consensus & diversity. Balancing privacy needs with community living. Homes now available for rent or sale.

Roommates wanted. Tours 4th Wed at 5p and 2nd Sat. at 1p.m. WWW.COHOUSING.ORG, WWW.ECON.UTAH.EDU/COHO

DINING Blue Star Juice and Coffee 2795 S. Canyon Rim (2300 E.) and 435 S. 400 W. SLC. 466-4280. Blue Star serves a wide variety of fresh vegetable and fruit juices.

Create your own combination or choose from house favorites! Full espresso bar and large selection of breakfast sandwiches are also available. Drive-thru available at both locations.

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Café Solstice Cafe Solstice inside Dancing Cranes Imports offers a variety of loose teas, speciality coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Lunch features veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing Violet Mocha or Mango & Basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch.

SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside the former Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end

Kathmandu 212 S. 700 E. SLC 801-355-0454, and 3142 S. Highland Dr. 801-466-3504. The Kathmandu makes it easy to enjoy the delicacies of India and Nepal without actually having to visit these exotic places. Whether you are having a party or just a night out, Kathmandu is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a special meal with your friends and family. M-Sat 11:30a- 2:30; 5p10, Sun Noon-9 p. INFO@THEKATHMANDU.NET. Nostalgia 248 E. 100 S. 532-3225. Salt Lake’s best-damn coffee, sandwiches, salads, soups and fresh pastries. A great destination for casual business meetings or a relaxed environment to hang out with friends. Local artists also find a home to sell their work in a hip environment. Outdoor seating available. Beer from local breweries.

Free wifi. WWW.NOSTALGIACOFFEE.COM. Omar’s Rawtopia 2148 S.Highland Dr. 486-0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p.

Pago 878 S. 900 E. 532-0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate ecochic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List—City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American—Best of State. PAGOSLC.COM. Tue-Sun 11a-3p, 5p-close.

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Ruth’s Diner 4160 Emigration Canyon Rd. 582-5807. 2010 marks Ruth’s Diner’s 80th anniversary. Join us in our newly redecorated, cool canyon setting.

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The Star of India 55 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7555. An award-winning Salt Lake institution since 1990.

Featuring a full bar, $10 lunch buffet with 20-25 delicious choices, salad, naan, and rice pudding.

Tandoori style cooking. Specializing in chicken curry, lamb, seafood, halal & goat meat and vegetable entrées. All food prepared fresh and on premises. Parking validation provided. Lunch M-Sat 11:30a-2:30p, Dinner M-Th 2:30p-10p, Fri-Sat 2:30-10:30p, Sun 3-9:30p.

WWW.STAROFINDIAONLINE.COM. Takashi 18 West Market St. 519-9595. Award-winning chef Takashi Gibo invites you to savor an incredible Japanese dining experience with Salt Lake’s best sushi, sashimi, small plates (Japanese tapas), and hot dishes from his tantalizing menu. Enjoy a beautiful presentation of classic sashimi or experiment with delicious creations from the sushi bar. Featuring an extensive selction of premium sakes, wines, Japanese and domestic beers, and signature cocktails. Mon-Fri from 11:30a.; Sat. from 5:30p.

HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 6/12 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S. Ste 101D, 801-521-3337. Acupuncture you can afford. Quality acupuncture on low sliding scale rates ($15-$40) makes health care affordable and effective. Relax in comfy reclining chairs in a healing community setting.

Acupuncture is good for allergies, back pain and more. Downtown SLC. WWW.SLCQI.COM Stevens Acupuncture 7/12 Keith Stevens L.Ac., 1174 E. 2760 S, Ste. 16.

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Vedic Harmony 3/13 942-5876. Georgia Clark, certified Deepak Chopra Center educator. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial sound meditation, creating health workshops, Ayurvedic wellness counseling, Ayurvedic oils, teas and books, Jyotish (vedic astrology). Georgia has trained in the US and India. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933.

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223 S. 700 East. GREATBASINCHIROPRACTIC.COM FB Integrated Chiropractic. 801-262-8400. 716 E. 4500 So., Ste. N250. MYINTEGRATEDHEALTH.COM FB CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY/COUNSELING Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/12 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E., Email: SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST. FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/12 805-907-6875. Private sessions and classes to regain self confidence to recover after injury, alleviate pain, improve posture and balance, move skillfully with ease. Offers excellent help for people with MS and stroke, as well as skilled athletes, musicians, actors, and you too.

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Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 150 S. 600 E., #3B. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. FB Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Feldenkrais®, Structural Integration and massage. Offering a unique blend of the 10 sessions with Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Discover the potential for learning and improvement at any age, as you come to inhabit your body with ease, vitality and integrity.

WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM HERBAL HEALING Millcreek Herbs, LLC 07/12 801-466-1632. Merry Lycett Harrison, RH (AHG), trained clinical herbalist, teacher, author and creator of Thrive Tonic Liquid Herbal Extract. Classes in medicinal and culinary herbs,

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Conscious Journey FB 801-864-4545. CONSCIOUSJOURNEY.NET MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FB Todd Mangum, MD. 801-531-8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. www.WebOfLifeWC.com NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 9/12 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #202. Remember when doctors cared? Once, a doctor cared. He had that little black bag, a big heart, an encouraging smile. Once, a doctor actually taught about prevention. Remember “an apple a day”?

Dr. Cameron is a family practitioner. He takes care of you. He cares. WWW.DRTODDCAMERON.COM

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/12 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Drive #207. Dr. Knorr uses a multi-dimensional approach to healing. He can help optimize your health to live more vibrantly and support your natural healing ability. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation; gastrointestinal disorders and allergies. Detoxification, food allergy testing and comprehensive hormonal testing available. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM Full Circle Care; Leslie Peterson, ND 1/13 801.746.3555. 150 S. 600 E. #6B.Integrative and naturopathic medical clinic offering a unique approach to your health care needs.

Specializing in thyroid, adrenal and hormonal imbalances; food allergies and gluten testing; digestive health; nutritional IV therapy. Men, women and children welcome!

WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/12 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction.

This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider. WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/12 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586, or PPAU.ORG. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more.

ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Paul Wirth, Certified Rolfer™, LMT 1/13 801-638-0021. 3194 S. 1100 E. Move with ease, not pain. Working with the structural limitations in your body to help you feel stronger and more relaxed. MOSAICBODYWORK.COM Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM VISION CARE Wasatch Vision Clinic FB 801-328-2020. 849 E. 400 S. in Salt Lake across from the 9th East TRAX stop. Comprehensive eye care, eye disease, LASIK, contacts and glasses since 1984. We accept most insurance.

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MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Alliance Francaise of Salt Lake City 7/12

801-501-7514. P.O. Box 26203, SLC UT 84126 International cultural organization conducts French language classes. Beginners through advanced levels taught by experienced native teachers. Three semesters, 10 sessions each.

Also offers Children's classes, Beginner and Intermediate levels. Monthly social gatherings.

In addition, we sponsor French related concerts and lectures. WWW.AFSLC.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. FB MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/12 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments.

Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School FB

801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & weekend programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months.

8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG SPACE AVAILABLE For workshops, classes, ongoing groups 801-596-0147 Ext. 41, 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Center for Transpersonal Therapy. TWO large plush spaces. Bright & comfortable atmosphere, available for workshops, classes, or ongoing groups. Pillows, yoga chairs, & regular chairs provided, kitchenette area. Available for hourly, full day or weekend use. Two rooms available. 8/12 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Adopt-a-Native-Elder 6/12 801-474-0535. Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10 am-noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. We also need volunteers with trucks and SUVs, donating their expenses, to transport supplies for Spring and Fall Food Runs, Navajo reservation community events in southeast UT and northeast AZ.

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MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE RDT Community School. 801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/12 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375.

Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and T’ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Children’s classes in Wing Chun KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell FB 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, noncompetitive environment since 1986. www.charlottebellyoga.com Songlines of the body ~ Mapping your way home 7/12 801-328-4456. Roz Newmark, 865 E. 500 So. Skillful yoga & joyful movement. Taught with an open hand and heart. Guided by a body seasoned with 30 years of experience as a professional dancer and dedicated yogi. Come join a class or call for more information. Rest in the clear voice of your body's wisdom. Tues. 4:30-6 p. (gentle yoga), Wed, 7:30-9a.

YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 1/13 68 K Street, SLC. 801-872-YOGA (9642).

Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. We offer classes for all body types and ability levels, from Yoga Nidra and Restorative, to Power, Flow, and Core. Free Intro to Yoga every Saturday at 11:45am.

Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited. www.avenuesyoga.com Bikram Yoga—Sandy 12/12 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Localsonly Intro: $39 for 30 days unlimited yoga. Our South Valley sanctuary, nestled below Little and Big Cottonwood canyons, provides a warm and inviting environment to discover and/or deepen your yoga practice. All levels are welcome. All teachers are certified. 38 classes, 7 days a week. See website for schedule and special classes. bikramyogasandyWWW.BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM

Centered City Yoga 9/12 801-521-YOGA (9642). 918 E. 900 S. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course). We offer more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hourteacher trainings, and monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

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r. Todd Cameron of the Cameron Wellness Center is in service for those who are ready to take responsibility for their own health.

His naturopathic medical practice works with patients carrying diagnoses ranging from colds to cancer.

Many of his patients come to him for adrenal and thyroid balancing, orthomolecular intravenous therapy and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. “Naturopathic medicine takes the best of Western medicine and mixes it with the best of natural medicine,” he says.

Dr. Cameron began his medical career as an EMT responder, helping start a quick-response unit in Idaho to do search and rescue. Afterwards he went into nursing and did pediatric intensive care nursing for a while before he took his four-year naturopathic medicine degree. He returned to Salt Lake from Idaho in 1997 and has been practicing here ever since.

Dr. Cameron works with a patient

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to develop a treatment plan. “About a third of the time, this will involve IV treatments,” he says. Orthomolecular medicine, developed by Linus Pauling, increases the nutrient density in a patient’s blood by bypassing the gastrointestinal tract altogether and going right into the vein. “There’s a lot of good scientific evidence for the benefit of this. We have seen good outcomes from patients who are pretty debilitated—like you get with pneumonia or cancer diagnoses—and need a lot of help fast.”

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Arizona. “We’ve treated breast and prostate cancer successfully, and I have assisted with a multiple sclerosis patient who now no longer has any detectable lesions in her nervous system. We’ve kept a lot of people with walking pneumonia out of the hospital, and I’ve successfully helped people with adrenal and thyroid problems, too.” Dr. Cameron also treats people for chronic Lyme disease.

He is a former president of the Utah Assn. of Naturopathic Physicians, chair of the Naturopathic Licensure board for the State of Utah, and a current member of the Utah Assn. of Naturopathic Physicians.

—Alice Bain Contact the Cameron Wellness Center at DRTODDCAMERON.COM, 1945 South 1100 East, Suite 202, Salt Lake City, UT 84106. 801-486-4226, fax: 801-487-6856.

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The Work of Byron Katie 7/12 801-842-4518. Kathy Melby, Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. The Work is a simple way to access your own wisdom and lead a happier life. Specializing in developing loving relationships, relieving depression, and improving your outlook on life.

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Utah Twelve-Step Intergroup Network WWW.UTIN.ORG, 801-359-HEAL (4325). Salt Lake area meeting schedule. Are you trying to change your life? Looking for a 12-step anonymous (like AA) support group? Meeting schedules & contact information for: Adult children of alcoholics, codependents, debtors, eating disorders, nicotine, recovering couples, sexaholics, sex addicts, love addicts and workaholics. 6/12 THERAPY/COUNSELING Jeff Bell, L.C.S.W. 4/12 801-364-5700, Ext. 2, 1399 S. 700 E. Ste. 1,

SLC. Specializing in empowering relationships; cultivating hardiness and mindfulness; managing stress & compulsivity; alleviating depression/anxiety/ grief; healing PTSD & childhood abuse/ neglect; addictions recovery; GLBT exploration as well as resolving disordered eating, body image & life transitions. Individual, couples, family, group therapy & EMDR. Center for Transpersonal Therapy 8/12 801-596-0147. 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Denise Boelens, PhD; Heidi Ford, MS, LCSW, Chris Robertson, LCSW; Lynda Steele, LCSW; Sherry Lynn Zemlick, PhD, Wil Dredge LCSW, Nick Tsandes, LCSW. The transpersonal approach to healing draws on the knowledge from traditional science & the spiritual wisdom of the east & west. Counseling orientation integrates body, mind & spirit.

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Steven J. Chen, Ph.D., Lic. Psychologist 801-718-1609. 136 s. Main, Ste. 409 (Kearns Bldg). Healing techniques for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Treatment of trauma, abuse and stress. Career guidance.

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WWW.STEVENJCHEN.COM 9/12 Marianne Felt, MT-BC, LPC 9/12 801-524-0560, EXT. 3. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Licensed professional counselor, board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Red Rock Counseling & Education. Transpersonal psychotherapy, music therapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind, & spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts, & relationships that challenge & inspire our lives.

Teri Holleran, LCSW 8/12 Red Rock Counseling & Education, LLC 801524-0560. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Transformational therapy, consultation & facilitation. Discover how the investigation of loss, trauma, body symptoms, mood disturbances, relationship conflicts, environmental despair & the questions related to meaning & purpose initiate the transformational journey.

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH

Reach for the Sun Anjaneyasana

BY CHARLOTTE BELL

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s a child, Anjaneya was a tad over-confident. Considering his origins, this is hardly unexpected. Born to Anjana (a supernatural woman) and Kesari (king of the monkeys), he had magical powers and royalty in his genes.

On top of all that, he was godson to the wind god, Vayu, and was considered to be a reincarnation of Lord Shiva.

So when he gazed upward one day and mistook the sun for a glowing piece of fruit, he naturally decided to make a giant leap for it, hoping to snatch it out of the sky.

This he did repeatedly, unharmed by the sun’s scorching rays that would have dissolved mere mortals.

But when Suryadeva, the sun god, enlisted Indra, god among gods, to strike Anjaneya down, a power struggle of otherworldly proportions ensued.Vayu left in a huff, jeopardizing all life forms on Earth.

But unlike many members of Congress, even gods are willing to compromise. Indra agreed to make Anjaneya immortal if only Vayu

Anjaneyasana combines grounding and expansion. Its skyward reach comes from its earthbound stability. would return to his post. Anjaneya was renamed Hanuman, the monkey god whose exploits I’ll reveal when I write about his famous namesake, Hanumanasana, a few months from now. Meanwhile, Anjaneya boasts his own pose. Anjaneyasana (Lunge Pose) expresses the human desire to leap up and capture that glowing fruit high in the sky.

Anjaneyasana combines grounding and expansion. Its skyward reach comes from its earthbound stability. It lengthens the quadricep and psoas muscles, extends the low back and expands the chest and abdomen. It energizes as it stabilizes balance.

I like to approach Anjaneyasana from Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog pose).

Begin on your hands and knees on a nonskid mat. Press your hands into the floor and lift your torso upward until your arms and legs are straight, your body forming an inverted “V” shape, with your sit bones at the apex. Take a few full breaths here.

Bend your knees, letting your weight settle into your feet, as if you’re preparing to jump forward.

Spring your right leg forward so that it lands between your hands. If your leg is not feeling especially springy, you may take however many steps you need in order to place your foot even with your hands. Allow your left knee to come to the floor. Make sure your right foot is evenly planted on the floor—heel to toe and inside to outside—and your heel is directly below your knee. Press the right foot and left knee into the floor, then stretch the right knee forward and the left knee back so that the distance between them lengthens. If your left knee feels as if it’s grinding into the floor, you may

place a blanket under it for padding.

Take care not to allow your left hip joint to hang toward the floor. This can irritate the hip flexor tendons and ligaments. Instead, draw the very top of your thigh slightly back toward your back thighs—millimeters—to stabilize your hip joint.

With your hands on the floor, take a few deep breaths, imagining the breath moving all the way down into the left thigh muscles. Again grounding the right foot and left knee, lift the torso to upright, and place your hands on your right thigh. Take a few deep breaths. If you like, you can now extend your arms up vertically, and if your back is willing, tilt your torso back slightly so that your chest is looking skyward. Ground your legs as you reach upward. Take a few full breaths before returning your hands to the floor, returning to Dog Pose and repeating on your other side.

It is helpful to remember that the power to spring skyward originates in a downward, rooting motion through your legs and feet. (Try jumping with straight legs, without first bending your knees and letting your weight sink into the ground.)

Grounding the legs also balances the heating and cooling qualities of the pose, protecting us from agitation and overheating as we reach for the sun.

In Anjaneyasana, the grounding of the front foot and back knee stabilizes our balance, and allows for the full flowering of the upper body.

It allows us mortal yoga practitioners to soak up Suryadeva’s luminous glow from the sustaining foundation of our own Mother Earth. u Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher, author and musician who lives in Salt Lake City. Visit her at www.charlottebellyoga.com

Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 8/12 801-631-8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and soul work with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK.COM Daniel Sternberg, PhD, Psychologist 801-364-2779. 150 South 600 East, Bldg. 4B. Fax: 801-364-3336. Sensitive use of rapid release methods and EMDR to free you from unwanted emotions to allow you more effective control and happiness in your life. Individuals, couples, families, groups and businesses.

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Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 3/13 801-531-8051. Shamanic Counseling.

Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FB 801-209-1095. 508 E. So. Temple, #102.

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AQUARIUM AGE

May 2012 Every May day is a passage into the next several years of transformation

BY RALFEE FINN

M

ay 2012 is when the “tilt” begins—not in the axis of the Earth but in the routines of daily life, which include both the surface and the undercurrents of interactions, personal and collective.

May is not quite a planetary convergence (some might disagree, but I’m saving that moniker for June), but it is definitely a powerful

times between June 2012 and March 2015, and over the course of the coming months and years, we will explore a multitude of meanings associated with its potent presence.

The Uranus/Pluto square signifies transformation, and its power is inexorable, especially its power to disrupt and disturb stagnant situations—attitudes, systems, structures, and habituations—that no

The key to safely navigating May’s maze is taking as much time as you need to adjust to the shifts, personal as well as collective, and as always, helping your fellow travelers to do the same. threshold that clearly delineates a “that was then; this is now” point of reference. I don’t want to start (or contribute to) any panic, but there is just no easy way to say that the entire month—every single day—is a passage into what lies ahead for the next several years of intense transformation. What’s more, the world we are entering into is skewed in so many directions simultaneously that many of us are likely to get dizzy just figuring out how to enter it.

The good news is that standing on the threshold isn’t particularly dangerous; the only likely consequence is that once you finally make up your mind what you want to jump into, trying to find your place and position is likely to be as difficult as trying to find a seat on a spacecraft after it’s taken off. The key to safely navigating May’s maze is taking as much time as you need to adjust to the shifts, personal as well as collective, and as always, helping your fellow travelers to do the same.

What starts the tilt is the most important planetary configuration of the month, as well as the next several years: a square between Uranus and Pluto that tightens its grip all month long, in preparation for its first exact contact on June 24.

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longer serve a positive or useful purpose. Be aware, that does not necessarily mean those systems will evaporate or that their proponents will capitulate. Quite the contrary: We’re likely to be in for several years of agitation; squares symbolize friction, and we can expect even more sparks to fly from the resistance and hostility of clashing agendas, again, personal and political.

Uranus and Pluto signatures are always present in times of revolution and evolution. Last summer, as these two planetary change agents came within close range of each other, we were given a preview of one facet of their combined effect. Protest thrives under this influence, and as the next several months unfold we are certain to see an increase in dissent. Expect those demonstrations to have more than a collective intent; personal revolutions are just as likely as individuals to chafe from restraints, real or imagined.

We are also under the influence of a month-long Venus/Saturn trine. As the goddess of love forms a positive alliance with the principle that allows us to distill wisdom from experience, May provides the potential for a sober sense of reality. But this sobriety is not necessarily based on a harsh, judgmental perspective. Venus softens the hard edges of Saturn’s critical eye. What’s

more, Venus is in Gemini, whose vast domain embraces all sorts of data; Saturn is in Libra, making its last pass in the sign of relating. As Venus and Saturn positively support each other, we have opportunities to do the same, especially where and when we are willing and able to incorporate important information into how we understand and approach our alliances.

Anticipate relationship issues—of every denomination, from friends to family to lovers to co-workers— to be a priority.

On May 15, Venus, the goddess of true value, goes retrograde in Gemini. (Yes…I know, you thought we were finally out of the retro-zone).

Venus starts to slow down on May 9, in preparation for her “course correction” and she’s retrograde until June 27. Venus personifies love and beauty, and as she retraces her path, she adds a deeper octave to the already ongoing relationship concentration of her trine to Saturn. Be prepared to revisit important partnerships, personal and/or professional. Because this retrospective occurs in Gemini, the sign of conversation, it’s likely that old lovers will be in touch and want to talk.

The presence of Saturn will skew these exchanges toward the deep.

Whether those tête-à-têtes fan old embers or spark new flames, what’s certain is that they will provide opportunities for insightful intimacy.

Also be aware, Gemini is the sign of siblings and cousins, which means several of these conversation could take place with family members.

Also anticipate that some of those Venus retrograde conversations will be quite surprising. A solar eclipse on May 20 also occurs in Gemini.

Eclipses always tend to reveal hidden knowledge, and Gemini just loves dispensing data; so be prepared to hear about things you might have suspected but never actually had any concrete way of verifying. During a solar eclipse, the New Moon overshadows the Sun. From an astrological perspective, this “reversal” of light can be interpreted as the power of the uncon-

scious drives to overshadow conscious concerns, and previously withheld feelings, yours or others’, see the light of day. You may already be in the eclipse effect, given that the manifestations of an eclipse are often felt several weeks before or after the actual event.

On a completely different note, a Sun/Jupiter conjunction, in Taurus, from June 3-23 lightens May’s days just a bit, as it provides not just the potential to be successful at all endeavors, but also an optimistic attitude that can easily serve as a remedy for the tightening tensions of the month. The core of this idealist combination is joyous vitality.

That vitality is amplified by a Mars/Pluto trine that also operates for most of the month. This is a powerful alliance that has the potential to provide the necessary physical strength and stamina to accomplish any task. And May 11-16, Mercury, also in Taurus, joins the team as it trines both Pluto and Mars. This Grand Trine aligns minds, but be aware that its intensity can also overstimulate nervous systems.

Make the most of May by using it to tend your personal garden.

Notice what patterns you’ve refused to surrender to a greater good. Bring awareness to your relationships—all your relationships, including your relationship with yourself. Be willing to stand in the truth of what you feel. While this honesty may be uncomfortable, it will build the necessary muscle for facing the changes that lie ahead. And most of all, keep in mind that all of us will be grappling with a similar intensity. It may not show itself in the same form or through the same responses, but that doesn’t matter, especially if we open our hearts to one another and learn to treat ourselves as well as our fellow travelers with greater applied compassion—something we are going to need to practice in preparation for the months and years ahead. u Visit Ralfee’s website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or email her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

Metaphors for the Month

Do your best don’t take it personally

by Suzanne Wagner

Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Compromise, Politics Medicine Cards: Weasel, Hummingbird Mayan Oracle: Polarity, Realm Shift Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Star, Death, Emperor Aleister Crowley Deck: Queen of Swords, Defeat, Abundance Healing Earth Tarot: Death, Five of Feathers Words of Truth: Fear, Integration, Denial, Stuck, Creator, Exhaustion

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ut on your hard hat and lace up those working boots. We are entering the Venus retrograde in Gemini/Solar eclipse “Danger Zone.”

You think I’m joking but it will not feel very funny. The grump factor is increasing to a level that many will snap; people who have been completely reasonable Dr. Jekylls may suddenly become Mr. Hydes.

Politics are going to heat up to a level that, if you have not already stopped watching the news, you might by the time the solar eclipse happens on May 20. A person can only take so much. Right now the “reasonable quota” for stress is so far off the Richter scale that some may just choose to remove themselves from the game of “he said, she said.”

That might not be a bad idea.

Spring is supposed to be about new beginnings, light returning, hope springing eternal, and the belief in abundance. But the “Words of Truth” cards instead predict: Fear, Integration, Denial, Stuck, Creator and Exhaustion. Whew!

There is an undercurrent of manipulation and a feeling that those who want to create havoc and pain will not stop until they get everyone pulled down to their level.

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Don’t go there.

What creates shifts in awareness is a consensus that “Enough is enough!” The tipping point is coming. However, it will probably be June or July before we see results. And I’m afraid no one is going to like how it looks.

Nature creates acts of destruction in order for rebirth. Whether we like it or not does not matter. It helps to remember in these moments that nature is not personal.

Learning to navigate big waves with honesty and authenticity is all anyone can really do.

The planet is going through a difficult time for the next few years. If we take it personally, it will be a long haul. These moments are here to awaken us to gifts that we forgot we had. Challenging moments force us to reach inside the deepest parts of our soul. Choosing to be proactive rather than reactive is very helpful right now. You can let yourself become consumed by fear, denial and exhaustion or you can stay present with the integration that is attempting to happen.

There are so many pieces in our lives that just do not seem to fit—so much randomness. Much of who we have been just does not belong anymore. We are looking for new tools to build a new reality. It is so unique and different from anything we have experienced that we feel confused and uncertain as to how to proceed.

There will be a moment of clarity. Do not jump prematurely. You are not ready until you are ready. The universe is creating a calculated delay to get you to check and recheck before you jump. It is not trying to create a problem. It is trying to prevent a bigger mistake.

The key is to find what your heart and soul are calling you to do. Then, even if what you are being called to do is difficult, you do not mind so much. If you are doing something that you love and that uplifts and inspires others, who cares if it is a bit uncomfortable? Stretch. Move beyond the old comforts.

This month, would you rather be free or safe? Would you rather be open or constricted? Would you rather be fully feeling or numb and indifferent? Each of you gets to choose. No one knows you better than you know yourself. You know the kinks, twists, turns and backtracks you must experience in order to grow and flower. So listen. Allow something deeper to emerge.

You are a seed that is sprouting, a seed buried deeply in the ground waiting for the perfect conditions. And that moment has arrived. The seed grows toward the light of the sun and emerges from the darkness that has protected it. It is perfect. You are ready. You are strong. Trust the part that knows how to get there better than your mind. You will find the way and the light will come. Keep going and know that this is a perfect moment. u Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. suzwagner.com

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MAY 15 Harvest leaf lettuce when the outer leaves are four to six inches long; heading varieties when heads are fairly firm.

Harvest greens in the morning, and don’t wash or dry. Store in a baggie with holes punched in it; toss in a paper towel to absorb moisture.

MAY 23 Starbucks is now using ground cochineal, a type of scale insect, to color Strawberry Frappuccinos. Cochineal is safer than artificial coloring and is already used in lots of other food products. Cochineal live in Mexico and subtropical South America, and feed on cactus plants.

May 16 Time to start planting cantaloupe, corn, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, watermelon. Also cosmos, gladiolus, marigolds, mums, Shasta daisies, sunflowers, zinnias and other heat-loving flowers.

MAY 24 NEW MOON. Undersow vegetables with sweet clover, red clover, dwarf white clover or vetch, to retain moisture and enrich the soil.

MAY 17 Of the 260 species of gladiolus, 250 are native to South Africa, where they were originally pollinated by long-tongued anthrophorine bees. But hybridization of the plant has altered its structure, so other pollinators can do the job now, including sunbirds, moths, flies and wasps.

Here, they’re generally pollinated by hawk moths.

MAY 25 Mars is just above the waxing Moon tonight.

several mountain lion and coyote sightings up City Creek Canyon lately.

DAY B Y D AY IN THE HOME,GARDEN & SKY

BY DIANE OLSON DRAWING BY ADELE FLAIL MAY 1 FIRST QUARTER MOON. May Day/Beltane. The Sun rises at 6:25 a.m. today and sets at 8:24 p.m. May’s average maximum temperature is 72°; the minimum is 55°. Average snowfall is 1.1 inches; rainfall 1.8 inches.

MAY 2 Time to start hardening off warmweather seedlings: Set them outside, at first in the shade, for increasing periods of time; cover, or bring inside at night. It takes two to three weeks to safely harden off tender annuals.

MAY 6 Insanely cool astronomy app: Star Walk. Use it tonight to find Saturn, just above blue star Spica.

MAY 7 You can plant asparagus, basil, beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, celery, chard, cucumber, endive, kohlrabi, lettuce, peas, potatoes, shallots and spinach through midmonth.

MAY 8 Mayflies are hatching dancing, copulating, giving birth and dying—all in one day.

MAY 9 Remember not to plant sunflowers too near vegetables or other annuals, as their roots secrete toxins that stunt surrounding plants.

MAY 3 Average Last Frost Date.

Don’t rush to plant your tomatoes. Tomato plants set in cold soil can’t take up phosphorus (you can tell this is happening if the foliage turns purple). Wait at least another week to be safe, or protect them with a cloche or water well.

MAY 4 The Eta Aquid meteor shower, born from Halley’s comet, peaks in the predawn today. Halley’s was last visible in 1986 and will return in 2061.

MAY 5 FULL FLOWER MOON The Moon is going to be HUGE tonight, as it reaches perigee, its closest point to Earth, just before midnight.

MAY 10 “Blackberry winter,” a period of cold coinciding with the time when blackberries bloom, often occurs around now.

MAY 11 Cirque du Soleil has a show called Ovo, described as “an immersion into the teeming and energetic world of insects.”

MAY 12 LAST QUARTER MOON. The first truly great gardening app: Plant Planner, from Organic Gardening Magazine and Safer Brand. Download it now.

MAY 13 Let nature work for you: Plant poppies around rosebushes to attract lacewings, which then eat the aphids on the roses.

MAY 14 The spring songbird migration is reaching its peak. Bat, coyote, moose, mountain lion, muskrat, pika, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, red fox and skunk babies are being born. There have been

MAY 18 Demand for quinoa is so high, that the people in areas where it’s traditionally grown, like Bolivia, can no longer afford it.

Why not grow your own? Mix the tiny seeds with sugar for easier sowing, and refrigerate overnight.

Plant in full sun. Seedlings have trouble competing with weeds, so keep the planting bed well groomed. If you don’t harvest it, the birds gladly will.

MAY 19 Check out today’s Bee Keeping and Pollinators workshop, presented by Wasatch Community Gardens. tinyurl.com/wasatchgardensbees MAY 20 NEW MOON. SOLAR ECLIPSE. A partial solar eclipse will be visible this afternoon from 1:29 to 2:33 p.m. Be sure to protect your eyes.

The safest and most inexpensive way is to view it by projection. (Here’s how to make a pin-hole projector: tinyurl.com/makepinholeprojector.)

Otherwise, use number 14 welders glasses or a solar filter, which you can get at Amazon or an astronomy specialty store.

MAY 21 If you have an aquarium, dump the fish-poopy water on garden plants. They’ll love it.

MAY 22 Look for a thin sliver of Venus to the right of the slender crescent Moon.

MAY 26 Pick snow peas when the peas are just beginning to swell in the pods; snap peas when the pod is plump, but the skin is still shiny, not dull.

MAY 27 The Latin name for catnip, also called catmint is Nepeta cataria, likely named for the Italian town of Nepeta, where there must be many happy cats. The active ingredient in catnip is nepetalactone.

When sniffed, catnip is a stimulant; when it’s eaten, it’s a sedative. Sensitivity to catnip appears to be inherited, with about two-thirds of felines showing an affinity. The verdict is still out as to whether lions and tigers get off on it.

MAY 28 FIRST QUARTER MOON. The nepetalactone in catnip is also a very effective fly and mosquito repellent. Rats and mice dislike it, too, and will avoid places where it grows.

MAY 29 Ticks dislike rosemary and pennyroyal.

MAY 30 According to recent studies, some honeybees are thrill seekers, while others are pessimists.

MAY 31 The Sun rises at 5:59 a.m. today and sets at 8:52 p.m.

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world.

—Thomas Moore Diane Olson is the author of A Nature Lover ’s Almanac (Gibbs Smith Publ.), based on this column. It is available for order now at Amazon.com, and in stores June 1.“

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