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The Change you wish to see June Events June 9 - Magic and Mirrors and Sigils with Ross Gigliotti and Adam Sagers June 21 - Psychic Fair & Summer Solstice 6-9 p.m.

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH CHARLOTTE BELL Balasana: Coming home.

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH SUZANNE WAGNER Things are on the mend.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK GRETA BELANGER DEJONG Chickens, catalysts & accordions.

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DON’T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG Nuclear power: Who needs it?

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Chickens, catalysts and the accordion

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG

1. On Mother’s Day, the Chickoopy fellows delivered to me a hen house and three laying hens. To take on chiekens was a flighty decision. I lack experience (in spite of the fact that my big brother, Jerome Belanger, wrote “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raising Chickens” and my nephew David runs Backyard Poultry magazine). But turns out, my life with chickens is easy. I’m nuts over these birds. Would you like an omelet?

2. At a recent yard sale, I saw this beautiful old accordion. My eyes welled up with tears, I have no idea why. But that’s reason enough to buy it, and now I’m compelled to play it. Xenon does not like the sound we make, but is curious when it’s quiet.

This resembles his response to the chickens.

3. Nominations are coming in for the “CATALYST 100.” Is there someone you’d like to shine a light on who has been a catalyst to the community? Visit our website and tell us who. Deadline has been extended, due to chickens.

Greta Belanger deJong is editor and publisher of CATALYST.

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Nuclear power: Who needs it?

L ike the nice, level-headed and industrious man next door who seems fine for 40 years then bursts into a murderous rampage, the six GE Mark I reactors at Tokyo Electricâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fukushima power plant seriously lost their cool when ravaged by the recent earthquake and tsunami.

Engineers, at the behest of product liability lawyers, have fool-proofed just about everything possible. A big obstacle has been just how smart fools can be. Work progresses slowly on making things damn-foolproof, but the Holy Grail in the product liability field is making things capitalistfoolproof.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably a futile quest. We keep breeding smarter and smarter capitalist fools. The economic incentives are too great. With billions of dollars at stake, the temptation to take shortcuts, do shoddy work and jigger the regulatory environment in the name of quarterly profits is beyond the ability of your average capitalist to resist.

Another part of the problem is the extremely complex and volatile nature of the nuclear power beast. Perhaps we should take a lesson from Siegfried and Roy: Playing with dangerous beasts is very dangerous. No matter how many scenarios you plan for, you never know when a lady with big hair sitting in the front row will want to play with the kitty.

In the aftermath of Fukushima, Blue Castle Holdings and some Utah legislators are still trying to build two, or maybe three, nuclear reactors in Green River, Utah. Why Green River? Because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of Colorado River Basin water going down the river, to be used by Arizona and California, until Utah can think of something better to do with it; never mind that there are more claims to the Colorado River Basin water than there is actual water. The Utah State Engineer will soon rule on Blue Castleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claim on 50,000 acre feet of Green River water.

The big selling point of nuclear power is the extremely low fuel cost; not zero like wind, solar and hydro, but low. On the other hand, the capital investment in a nuclear power plant is enormous. Blue Castle Holdings plans on building two reactors with an output of 3,000 megawatts for $13-15 billion. It could be as much as $20 billion. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a capital cost

of from $4.30 to $6.60 per watt. With construction time running upward to 10 years, investors will be lucky to see a return on their investment in that time.

Which is where Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislators come in. Some states have allowed utilities to charge their customers for part of the cost of a nuclear power plant while it is being built, even though customers are getting no electricity from it. Such a law in Utah would greatly ease the pain of delayed return on investment while at the same time charging ratepayers for generating capacity they may never need. In a volatile energy market with the threat of carbon taxes fading, even as global warming becomes more undeniable, what investor will be willing to invest unless all of the risk is put on the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoulders?

No small part of the volatility is due to the steadily decreasing cost of truly renewable energy sources. By the time the Blue Castle nuclear reactors are built, the cost of silicon for photo-voltaic electric power could be well below $3 per watt.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing for a corporation to take the profits and foist the externalities of coal-fueled power plants on the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; global warming, air pollution and dead or injured coal minersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and something totally different to take the profits from a nuclear power plant and foist the externalities of nuclear power plants on the public: fears of terrorism, meltdown, controlled or uncontrolled venting, earthquakes as well as uncertainty, radioactive wastes and dead uranium miners.

Perhaps the take-home of Fukushima is that corporations are inevitably unreliable guardians of nuclear power. Perhaps no one can be a reliable guardian.

We are truly on the horns of a dilemma.

As a society we seem to be unwilling or unable to meaningfully reduce our energy consumption. Technological innovation and conservation will only reduce some of our â&#x20AC;&#x153;need.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps we need to work to reduce the â&#x20AC;&#x153;needâ&#x20AC;? side of the equation.

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We are on the horns of a dilemma. As a society we seem to be unwilling or unable to meaningfully reduce our energy consumption.

John deJong is the associate publisher of CATALYST.

ENVIRO-NEWS

BY AMY BRUNVAND

You just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get along without water. The human body just will not go on without water. It will go on without oil. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Don Chistiansen, Utah Water Conservancy District

especially where crusts (that is, cryptogam) are present, may provide the greatest barrier against wind erosion and dust emission in arid regions.â&#x20AC;?

Utah climate protesters arrested in DC

Liberty Lake cleanup complete

In April, six Utahns were among 30 people arrested for acts of civil disobedience while protesting federal energy policy at the Power Shift 2011 conference in Washington, DC. The protesters were involved in two separate actions: 21 protestors (4 from Utah) participated in a sit-in at the Department of the Interior headquarters; nine people (2 from Utah) were arrested for singing a modified version of the national anthem in the visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gallery of Congress (Oh, Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you see Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my life thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at stake; When you sell out our earth; You are stealing my futureâ&#x20AC;Ś). The Utah protestorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Joan Gregory, Krista Bowers, Cori Redstone, Deb Henry, Steve Liptay, and Jake Hansonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;say they were inspired by the action of Tim deChristopher who protested federal oil and gas leasing in December 2008. Charges against the sit-in protesters were dropped. However, the nine singers are likely to face serious charges. Peaceful Uprising is fundraising to help cover legal costs and expenses (donate to PeaceUp BackUp subfund).

The orange fences are down and the birds are back at Liberty Park duck pond which was formally re-opened to public use on May 14. The pond was contaminated last June when a Chevron pipeline near the University of Utah burst, spewing thousands of gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek. Although city officials are satisfied that the lake is clean, the creek still contains oil stained rocks and contaminated sediment. A group of neighborhood residents is suing Chevron for reimbursement to complete the cleanup.

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ment letter, the physicians stated that citizens are already â&#x20AC;&#x153;regularly exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution by virtue of living, working and recreating in areas along the Wasatch Frontâ&#x20AC;? and that Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young population is especially vulnerable to adverse effects of air pollution.

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In April, Utah Governor Gary Herbert and Attorney General Mark Shurtleff filed a lawsuit challenging the wildlands protective order issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, a move which the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance derides as â&#x20AC;&#x153;political theater.â&#x20AC;? The wildlands order should have been uncontroversial, since it merely supports the principle that conservation is one of many valid multiple uses of public lands. That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped Utah politicians from conflating it with the National Wilderness Preservation System (which requires Congressional approval). In March, BLM Director Bob Abbey testified before Congress that â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been a great deal of confusion about what this new policy does, and perhaps more importantly, what it does not do.â&#x20AC;&#x153; The Utah lawsuit seems intended to add to the confusion.

June 23: DeChristopher sentencing

Nuclear heads-up from HEAL Utah

Climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 23 after being convicted of two felony charges in March. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for peacefully derailing an oil and gas lease auction in December 2008. Peaceful Uprising is planning a day of action in conjunction with the sentencing.

On June 1, EnergySolutions will submit its long-delayed technical study asserting that depleted uranium, a waste that grows more dangerous over thousands of years, should be permanently dumped in Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Desert.

As early as next month, Utah regulators could decide whether to allow EnergySolutions to begin dumping the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hotter Class B and C nuclear power plant waste, long banned in Utah, under a process called â&#x20AC;&#x153;waste blending.â&#x20AC;? Such a scheme could easily triple the radioactivity of commercial nuclear waste coming to Utah every year.

In July, the Utah State Engineer is expected to decide whether to hand over 50,000 acre-feet of water to proposed nuclear reactors near Green River, Utah.

Simultaneously, officials from Blue Castle Holdings, the company behind the project, want to rewrite state law to force ratepayers to pay for risky and costly nuclear power, with minimal public knowledge or debate.

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Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future: hot, dry, and dusty Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fooled by the rainy spring. Climate change will result in a hotter, drier, dustier Utah. A new U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report predicts that in the Colorado River Basin, â&#x20AC;&#x153;reductions in natural runoff and changes in runoff seasonality would lead to reduced water supplies.â&#x20AC;? A U.S. Geological Survey study says less water means reduced vegetation cover which will leave soil exposed to erosion.

The study recommends, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeping soil structure intact,

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Designed with conscience, built with love University of Utah architecture students share stories of success and setback as designers/builders with DesignBuildBLUFF

BY KATHERINE PIOLI

photos by Eric Harker

t’s midwinter in Bluff, Utah, and a blizzard has just blown in. In one of the town’s many old Mormon pioneer houses, 20 graduate students from the University of Utah architecture program are starting their morning, piling dishes into the sink and grabbing coats as they head for the door.

These are student workers from DesignBuildBLUFF (DBB), a volunteer component of the University’s graduate architecture program. This white January morning is their first day of work, not as architects, but as builders.

Gathering for a group meeting in an open-air shop on the property, they vie for the only warm space next to the stove. Before the morning is over, these students, more accustomed to working with models in a design studio, will receive an introduction to the working world of Skil saws and pneumatic nailers.

Standing in the cold, listening to a lecture about power tool safety, it

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at the University of starts to really sink in: Utah and speak about This is not your average his Alabama project. school semester.

What he and his stuFor five months, these dents received was not budding architects took an overview of a charitheir own designs from ty project. The intent the studios of the behind Rural Studios, University campus and they learned, was built them, piece by more a Howard Zinnpiece, for two families style subversion of on southwestern Utah’s social power strucportion of the Navajo Insulation against the summer’s heat and winter’s cold at the Westwater site tures. Through Rural Nation. Along the way, Studios, Mockbee they developed what few assigning architecture students challenged his students to rethink architecture students ever learn from Auburn University the task of the very purpose of higher learning from their professional work—a building their designs, not as modhumanistic and environmental and architecture, giving it a more els, but as full-scale, finished prodethic and a strong sense of the value humanist motivation. Louis was ucts. The houses then became of home. struck as he listened to Mockbee’s homes, donated to indigent families words. “If architecture is going in rural pockets of the state. When Subversive architecture to…[inspire] a community into adjunct professor of architecture at making responsible environmental From the “black belt” of Alabama, the University of Utah Hank Louis and social structural changes, it will Rural Studios provided the inspirasaw magazine photos from this take the ‘subversive leadership’ of tion and model for Utah’s remarkable project he knew that he academics…[to remind] students of DesignBuildBLUFF 10 years ago. had to meet Mr. Mockbee. architecture that theory and pracUnder the direction of Samuel Louis invited Mockbee to present tice are not only interwoven with Mockbee, Rural Studios began

Traditional earthen walls are practical, and appear in many student designs. Onsite rock stabilizes the house’s interior environment, soaking up the sun’s heat during the day, releasing it into the house at night.

Beautiful morning on the Monument Valley site.

one’s culture, but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.”

A visit to Mockbee and his students in Alabama convinced Louis his students could benefit from a similar kind of design/work semester. Design+ Build Studio began in 2000, the first manifestation of this dream. At first, students worked designing and building a series of bandstands for outdoor concerts in Park City. But the project lacked the kind of social conscience that Louis felt was central to the Rural Studio work. The next year, the project took on nonprofit status and the new name DesignBuildBLUFF. By its fourth year the project formulated the relationship it maintains today with the people of the Red Mesa Chapter of the Navajo Nation. That year, eight students worked on what became an American Institute of Architects award-winning home, a house that went to the program’s first Navajo client, Rosie Joe.

Quick decisions, unconventional methods In April, architecture grad student Laura Hardy was hard at work putting the finishing exterior touches on one of the two houses in production this year. With only two more weeks left, the pressure was on for Hardy and her crew; and though the students worked with confidence, there were still some setbacks that made every hour critical to finishing on time.

“We are all assigned different areas of the house,” explained Hardy. Hardy, charged with completing the exterior of Westwater House, approached her task with a studio plan perfectly designed to add a final layer of aesthetic appeal, two- to three-inch-wide wooden slats laid at angles. Hardy says her design was appealing but also useful, facilitating water run-off and preventing moisture from seeping in. Unfortunately, as

often happens on the Bluff project site, what worked in the studio didn’t pan out in real life.

“It was just going to take too much money to buy the supplies for the entire wall,” says Hardy who, along with the other students, works on a very small budget. Practical considerations, in turn, threatened to ruin her original visual intent.

Determined to see her idea through, Hardy scoured the property for the additional bits of wood she needed.

Scavenging is a normal part of the building process in Bluff. The closest lumberyard is 25 miles from the building site, and it doesn’t carry Coming in for a landing on the support beams.

all the necessary materials. On top of that, the tight budget forces students to be more resourceful. Scavenging is also an ethical choice.

Louis and the staff encourage their students to make environmental decisions throughout the designing and building process, using what is available first.

Earthen walls appear in many student designs; they are incredibly practical, explains Hardy.

Onsite rock is a free, natural material that stabilizes the house’s interior environment, soaking up the sun’s heat during the day, releasing it into the house at night. Though not used for the entire structure, such found-object tactics have led to shipping pallets re-imagined into walls and floors, retaining walls made from old car tires and “plaster” walls made from the desert’s sand and clay.

Hardy’s exterior ended up favoring found object materials. She altered her original design to use the materials available and asked fellow students to reallocate some of the budget to help her achieve part of her vision. “I am not done yet, but it looks good,” Hardy reports. “I am still making little changes to the design every day.”

Hardy isn’t the only one making on-the-spot changes and decisions in these final weeks.

Interior manager for the team’s second project, the Monument Valley House, Scott Moses used

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outside-the-box thinking to turn plywood particle board into what he jokes could be the hottest new trend for home building and design. Challenged with finding inexpensive walls and flooring for the entire 1,000-square-foot house, Moses picked plywood as his main material. As a designer, however, Moses wanted a product that didn’t just do the job, but one that looked good, too. “We took 100 sheets of board and sanded them down with hand sanders to get a smooth white finish,” he says, revealing his technique. “The floors will have a laminate cover, but so far I think it looks really classy. It’s rewarding to trust your own design decisions and in the end get a product that looks nice.”

“The reason we work so hard…”

Moses and his team make a lot of what he calls “five minute decisions” Surviving another day on the job

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working on the houses. “You look through the inventory in the yard and make a choice,” he says. For Moses’ group, such choices have led to design epiphanies, including inexpensive towel racks made from bent threaded metal rods and window sills and trim built of spare tongue-and-groove molding.

As designers, making these decisions functional and appealing is important. Students like Hardy and Moses, after all, aren’t just out here for their own education; they are working for clients who really need the houses. On DDB’s student blog site, one student posts a photograph of the recipients of the Westwater House, the Hutchens family. In the photo, Tyrone, Angie and their four daughters gathered for a family portrait in front of the half-finished shell of their new home. The photo’s caption reads, “Hutchens family…the reason we work so hard.”

“Living in Salt Lake, having a house is just kind of expected and most of us have really high standards on top of that,” reflects Hardy. Visual appeal remains a major element of the students’ work. As designers, the teams sometimes ask for preferences and feedback from their clients. What they get in response can surprise them. “It’s like we are speaking a One wall at a time.

Taking advantage of the natural light.

foreign language,” Hardy marvels.

When the team asked Angie’s preference on final flooring materials, they didn’t get much help in the way of aesthetic guidance. Instead, Hardy remembers, Angie simply asked for a roof over her head.

Watching the Hutchens girls run through their house one day, Hardy imagined the delight the girls would feel upon moving into their own bedroom this summer.

Scott Moses, a recent survivor of the housing market gauntlet,

knows firsthand what a relief it is to have a home. “We looked for months,” he says of his and his wife’s housing search. “It’s not easy to find something that fits both budget and location.” After finding their place, Moses returned to work in Bluff with a new understanding of his clients, Don and Sharon Stryker, educators currently living in Salt Lake City. Although Moses has met the Strykers only a few times, he knows how eager they are to return to the reservation near

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Monument Valley and reunite with Sharonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family.

Carrying Bluff into the future Hardy and Moses will see their projects through to completion soon. Some things neither of them will miss; Hardy will be happy not to share a shower with 20 other people.

But they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be particularly eager to let the project go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These days,â&#x20AC;? says Moses, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the dinner bell rings around seven to call people in from work, but a lot of us keep working for another hour or so. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more exciting now than it was in the beginning. The momentum has been building since the very first day, and now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so strong you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to stop.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Designing and building affordable housing that is also architecturally significant is difficult,â&#x20AC;? reflects Louis, but he sticks fast to his conviction that architects must understand the needs, from a practical and cultural perspective, of each client. Trying to instill this in each of his students means that some may embrace green building as Laura Hardy has done, others might discover an aesthetic of simplicity, while students like Scott Moses will continue seeking projects that give the personal satisfaction of helping those in need.

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Large and larger Rio Tinto’s Bingham Mine is a top polluter in the country, and it’s planning a major expansion.

What’s at risk, and what’s the alternative?

STORY AND PHOTOS BY SALLIE DEAN SHATZ The south wall of the Bingham Canyon Mine. The Cornerstone expansion proposes to move the wall back 1,000 ft., allowing the mine to go 300 feet deeper to access ore. The trucks in the photo are two stories tall.

erry Marasco, communications coordinator for Utah Clean Air, has stared at the numbers long and hard. His analysis suggests that criteria pollutants—major pollutants the EPA has set maximum exposure levels for—are on the rise in the Wasatch Front airshed.

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As defined by the EPA and AIRNOW OZONE Ground-level or “bad” ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight.

Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, motor vehicle exhaust, gasoline vapors, and chemical solvents are some of the

industry, the “point source” polluters—refineries and Rio Tinto’s Bingham Mine in the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake City.

Rio Tinto provides jobs and gives business to other businesses in the area. It contributes a significant amount of money to the community, most visibly evident in the new Utah Museum of

major sources of NOx and VOC. At ground level, ozone is a harmful pollutant. Ozone pollution is a concern during the summer months because strong sunlight and hot weather result in harmful ozone concentrations in the air we breathe.

PM10, PM2.5 Particle pollution is a mixture of microscopic solids and liquid droplets suspended in air. This pollution, also known as particulate matter, is made up of a number of components, including acids (such

as nitrates and sulfates), organic chemicals, metals, soil or dust particles, and allergens (such as fragments of pollen or mold spores).

The size of particles is directly linked to their potential for causing health problems. Small particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter pose the greatest problems, because they can get deep into your lungs, and some may even get into your bloodstream.

Fine particles (PM2.5). Particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter are called “fine” particles. These

Natural History building on Salt Lake City’s east bench. It is also one of the country’s top contributors to air pollution.

At present, the British/Australian-owned company is proposing an expansion in its operations at the Bingham Mine.

Referred to as the Cornerstone Project, it will

particles are so small they can be detected only with an electron microscope. Sources of fine particles include all types of combustion, including motor vehicles, power plants, residential wood burning, forest fires, agricultural burning, and some industrial processes.

Particles between 2.5 and 10 micrometers in diameter are referred to as “coarse.” Sources of coarse particles include crushing or grinding operations, and dust stirred up by vehicles traveling on roads.

CO2 Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas emitted from combustion processes. Nationally and, particularly in urban areas, the majority of CO emissions to ambient air come from mobile sources. CO can cause harmful health effects by reducing oxygen delivery to the body's organs (like the heart and brain) and tissues.

At extremely high levels, CO can cause death.

increase the size of the open pit by digging 300 feet deeper and 1,000 feet further to the south. The Bingham Canyon mine produces copper, gold, silver and molybdenum.

The EPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Toxic Release Inventory has placed Rio Tintoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power plant and concentrator in the top three nationally since 1999. Its smelter and refinery, 8th in the country last year, had its lowest slot in the top 100 at 50th in 1995 when the smelter was being upgraded.

These ratings can be misleading.

Rio Tinto is striving to be less toxic as shown by the 1995 smelter stack upgrade when 17,000 tons of sulfur dioxide were removed from the airshed.

When Rio Tinto upgraded its smelter in 1995, it was widely thought that these emissions were retired from the airshed. Yet Rio Tinto documents show the company hopes to use sulfur dioxide offsets from the smelter stack improvements in order to add PM10 and nitrogen oxide back into the airshed.

Bingham Canyon mine is the largest open pit copper mine in the world and the second largest supplier of copper in the USA. The expansion will put out higher levels of toxic emissions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this were in a less populated area, the impact on human health would be smaller. But it is in a county of a million people. That county, Salt Lake, is directly downwind of the mine,â&#x20AC;? says Marasco.

Rio Tinto is in the process of extending or upgrading its permits.

The first, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gatekeeperâ&#x20AC;? permit, is the PM10 State Implementation Plan (SIP) which would enable the company to move an additional 64 million tons of rock each year. Last month the Utah Department of Air Quality, in a 5-4 vote, passed this plan, but not without controversy.

In 1994 Rio Tinto was given approval by the state of Utah to move 150.5 million tons of ore and

NOx Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is one of a group of highly reactive gasses known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;oxides of nitrogen,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;nitrogen oxides (NOx).â&#x20AC;?

Other nitrogen oxides include nitrous acid and nitric acid. While EPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Ambient Air Quality Standard covers this entire group of NOx, NO2 is the component of greatest interest and the indicator for the larger

waste rock a year. A state implementation plan must be approved by the EPA to assure the state is in compliance of the Clean Air Act. If the plan does not adequately show how it will bring the airshed into attainment, and the state fails to take action to bring the airshed into attainment, the EPA can penalize the state by withholding highway funds or even step in and make the state bring the airshed into attainment.

In 1999, the Executive Secretary of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued an Approval Order (comparable to a building permit) authorizing the annual sum moved to increase 197 million tons.

At question is whether the executive director of the DEQ had the right to do that. The State of Utah believes such an increase was in accordance with the 1994 plan. The question is, should this order have been submitted to the EPA for approval?

In 2005, Governor Huntsman requested that the Salt Lake, Ogden and Utah counties be redesignated allowing higher level of pollutants than the EPA standards of attainment due to events not controlled by humansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wind storms, inversions increasing the levels of particulate matter in the air. Rio Tintoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1999 state approved limit was incorporated into the plan. This will be the first time the EPA can rule on the 1997 increase.

It should be mentioned that the Wasatch Front is the only area within the EPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s region 8 (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mountains and plainsâ&#x20AC;? states) that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of attainmentâ&#x20AC;? for PM10. Last year there were 51 â&#x20AC;&#x153;orangeâ&#x20AC;? air alert days and an additional 11 â&#x20AC;&#x153;redâ&#x20AC;? alert days for particulate matter.

In addition, two other criteria pollutants, PM 2.5 and ozone, are also out of attainment in our airshed.

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NO2 forms quickly from emissions from cars, trucks and buses, power plants, and off-road equipment. In addition to contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone, and fine particle pollution, NO2 is linked with a number of adverse effects on the respiratory system.

SO2 Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is

one of a group of highly reactive gasses known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;oxides of sulfur.â&#x20AC;? The largest sources of SO2 emissions are from fossil fuel combustion at power plants (73%) and other industrial facilities (20%).

Smaller sources of SO2 emissions include industrial processes such as extracting metal from ore. SO2 is linked with a number of adverse effects on the respiratory system.

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The EPA usually has 18 months to rule on a state’s implementation plan. The Bush era EPA never signed off on Utah’s 2005 PM10 plan.

A ruling from a lawsuit by Wild Earth Guardians requiring the EPA to follow the rules has set the deadline of December 2011 for a decision on the 2005 PM10 SIP.

Do Utahns have a special ability to tolerate higher levels of toxins?

Various studies are showing that even short-term episodes of pollution (less than 24 hours) have lingering health impacts.

“Community mortality rates stay elevated for up to 30 days after an episode has ended,” says Brian Moench, M.D., from Utah Physicans for a Healthy Environment.

“If you measure vascular inflammation in people exposed to modest levels of diesel exhaust for about one hour, the inflammation lasts for at least 24 hours after the exposure has ended.”

He notes a study in which people chronically exposed to about 3 mcg/m3 of PM 2.5 showed as much

Continued: narrowing of their retinal arteries as would result from seven years of aging. He claims this is about the amount of contribution to Salt Lake City’s PM 2.5 as we get from Rio Tinto.

Before Utah’s Department of Air Quality approved the modification allowing Rio Tinto to increase the scale of its operation by 30%, the EPA weighed in. The agency has con-

ENVIRONMENT cerns regarding the adequacy of air quality modeling, analysis of emissions offsets, and support for emission factors. Their preliminary determination is that the proposed revisions for Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon mine expansion will not be approvable.

At a time when the Wasatch Front’s air quality is out of attain-

The bottom of Bingham Canyon mine, 3/4 of a mile below the rim of the canyon. In the proposed mine expansion the mine will see explosive charges for 7 years daily.

ment, should banked or offset emissions programs of this nature be suspended until we are in attainment?

Rio Tinto enjoyed a $14 billion dollar profit last year (up 122%).

While it would be a loss of over two years, the mining company would reach the same ore body. Not moving an additional 64 million tons of waste rock a year could be a move toward being a better neighbor.

Investing in changing their fourth coal-fired power plant to gas is another opportunity.

Recently the Utah Pollution Prevention Association gave Rio Tinto an award for reducing idling.

The company is also now in compliance with a EPA directive to use ultra low sulphur diesel.

Marasco’s data also show emissions from cars and households have decreased. More efficient cars, more efficient home appliances, citizens driving more consciously are decreasing emissions.

Will citizens’ gains be backfilled by industry? u Sallie Dean Shatz no longer feels guilty when she drives her (one-story) truck; she may even explore air-conditioning this summer.

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Suffering as a point of connection Does the good life make us lonely?

BY ALICE BAIN do to us with all ost of us of the personal take walls data we give and a roof them—we post for granted, along the intimate with electricity details of our lives and indoor plumbon the public ing. We live in litforum that is the tle individual Internet, and we boxes, placed in do it by the milrows along lions. As the New streets or stacked York Times noted on top of each recently, even other in tall buildAlcoholics ings. We live Anonymous isn’t inside because Portrait of JR by Christopher Shay so anonymous that’s what “civiany more, as lized people” do. recoverees freely Culture tells us discuss their ordeals in books and online. People reach that only homeless bums live on a permanent basis in out to each other, past traditional taboos, seeking any the open, or out of tents or cars. excuse for connection.

Our great-grandparents all knew everyone in town.

We are still willing to drop our defenses to win the We often hardly know our neighbors. Sometimes we prize of friendship, but these days we have the tools to complain about how our society has fragmented, how do so across international borders and between differthe bonds between us have withered. What happened ing cultures all over the globe. At the same time, scito us? ence continues to unravel the mystery of our emotional Our lives, it turns out, may have gotten too easy for reactions. Why do we feel contempt? What is the our own good. New research on tropical bats that build nature of enmity? On the one hand, we’re finally getting leaf shelters for themselves has turned up an interesting some kind of intellectual grip on these issues. On the correlation: The flimsier the shelters are, the more robust other, we might already be in the process of sidestepthe social bonds among the individual bats of the colony. ping some of the thornier problems.

When you think about it, it’s logical. If you have to With the rise of the information culture, the enemy reconstruct your dwelling in cooperation with your we so badly need has become as diffuse as smoke. So friends and family every few weeks, then those friends many accusatory voices clamor at each other that it and family are going to be very important to you! You will seems we pick our opponents to fit our individual be more liable to help them out and to share your food tastes, as we might fill a plate at a buffet. with them, and more likely to forgive their shortcomings.

Back when our great-grandparents lived, we suffered Righteousness by virtue of race or nationality is evapomore frequently, and we all suffered together. rating. We are all somebody’s enemy, but when we Epidemics scoured the population regularly, and war have the courage to show our faces, we are also each and famine touched whole continents. We were not other’s saviors. The French street artist JR understands secure, and life was not safe. Cooperation could save this—he wheatpastes giant posters of the faces of the us from some threats, and simply sitting together comunknown and the oppressed onto slum walls the world forted us as we faced the threats we could not fight. over. Traditionally, only the powerful had the right to Perhaps it wasn’t the TV that isolated us and ruined our regard us all through public portraiture. But “Power to culture of cooperation. Perhaps it was vaccinations, the People” is no longer the slogan of an anonymous peace treaties, advances in agriculture and the institumob—instead, we are seeing ourselves as a patchwork tion of building codes. of identifiable individuals, each with our own strengths The Armageddon-mongers may be reacting on a gut and failings, each deserving of human respect. u level to this disturbing social loss. Without a uniting Alice Bain is a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates, threat, we fragment, squabble, and isolate ourselves. appearing several times a week, at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET. Yet there are other signs suggesting that culture may be More info: readjusting itself again, to allow us to enjoy the safety WWW.ECONOMIST.COM/NODE/18648360 and security of our lives without the need for mass eneWWW.NYTIMES.COM/2011/05/08/FASHION/08ANON.H mies or scapegoats.

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THE YEAR OF LIVING VIRTUOUSLY (WEEKENDS OFF)

The long road home Brooke Hopkins and Peggy Battin write a new life together

BY TERESA JORDAN He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

—Friedrich Nietzsche How do you want this to change your life?

—Peggy Battin, speaking to an honors English class about facing adversity. n the fall of 2008, at the age of 66, Brooke Hopkins retired as a professor of English literature at the University of Utah. Much beloved by his students and the recipient of every teaching award the University had to offer, he was also an avid outdoorsman and traveler. He and his wife, Peggy Battin, a renowned medical ethicist, had plans.

But first, as a retirement gift to himself, he bought a new bike. Less than a month later, he was sailing down City Creek Canyon above Salt Lake City when he came around a curve and collided with another rider. The other man was unhurt though the impact snapped his bike in two. Brooke, however, landed face down, unable to breathe. He had broken his neck and was paralyzed from the neck down.

Before the accident, Brooke was always in motion. Tall and exuberant, his vitality was the first thing people remarked about him. Now he could hardly move his head. On a ventilator, he couldn’t speak. His secretions had to be suc-

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Brooke before his accident

tioned every four hours and sometimes as often as every few minutes. He was helpless as a baby: fed by others, picked up and moved by others, bathed by others, his bodily functions managed by others. At first there was little pain, but as the “spinal storm” of the initial trauma receded, spasms often wracked his body and nerve pain left him feeling like he was being stabbed with a million needles, set on fire, and crushed by a whole-body vice.

Peggy’s career had focused on end-of-life issues, especially physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. She and Brooke had spent years discussing the right of mentally competent adults to decide for themselves whether or not life was worth living. But advocating the right to make a decision is not the same as knowing what deci-

From the first days after the accident, Brooke never thought he wanted to die. sion you, yourself, would make. A few days after the accident, crying together in the ICU, Brooke mouthed to Peggy, “We can still have a wonderful life together,” and Peggy answered, “Yes, we can.”

Their daughter Sara started a blog a few days after the accident to keep friends and family informed. As Brooke’s condition stabilized, Peggy started writing, and in time, as a speaking valve on the trachea allowed Brooke to speak for increasing amounts of time, he added his voice.

At this point, they have written the blog together for almost two and a half years, creating a portrait of an almost unfathomable experience that, as Brooke’s rehabilitation doctor, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, points out, is “as close as you can get to understanding [paralysis] without being paralyzed.” But the blog is more than an odyssey of physical endurance and adaptation; it takes us deep into the essential meaning of life.

From the first days after the accident, Brooke never thought he wanted to die. He had always sought out extreme experience: month-long treks in the Himalayas and Peru, 10-day Vipassana meditation retreats. He chose to view this new experience as a combination Buddhist retreat and marathon training. In addition, he and Peggy welcomed sustenance from their broad network of close friends, some of whom came almost

every night with food and laughter, buoyed themselves by Brooke’s amazing spirit. Even in the ICU, he mouthed that he was beginning to understand who he really was, and that he found the love showered on him “transformative.”

But the road ahead was more brutal than anyone could have imagined. Initially the doctors said that Brooke would go home in February, less than three months after the accident. In fact, it took more than two years as each success seemed to be met by a life-threatening setback: cardiac arrest, repeated returns to the ICU for pneumonia, urinary tract infections, a scrotal abscess.

Smaller reversals could be just as frustrating.

Moved to a rehabilitation facility, he had been able to get outside on occasion in the “Cadillac,” a motorized wheelchair. But when a small sore on his rump prevented him from sitting, he was a prisoner to his bed again for months.

Weaning off the ventilator was a Sisyphean task. Normally, thousands of muscles and nerves interact to facilitate breathing, but the accident left Brooke with only a handful of them working.

Each breath took incredible effort. At first, even a few minutes off the vent proved terrifying; he felt like he was drowning. Gradually, he built strength and endurance. During one 30-minute session, he fell into a meditative state, which he described to Peggy. She wrote: For the first time in his life, he says, he experienced what he had always been looking for in Buddhist meditation, but had never actually found: the full life of breath. By the time the 30 minutes were over he had attained a serenity beyond anything he ever expected to experience in his life.

Later, as his breathing strengthened and these transcendent experiences became more common, Brooke wrote about the “paradox of prison” that ...can hold the body in confinement—in my case, not just confinement but paralysis—and yet liberate the spirit. My monastic cell—when it’s not serving as a hospital room or a living room for receiving friends and family and guests—is like that kind of prison, confining and yet sometimes strangely liberating when I breathe.… I like it. I love it.

But almost every time Brooke had an ecstatic experience, it was followed by a devastating reversal. He would work up to several hours off the vent and then an infection or simple fatigue would set in and even 20 minutes became unbearable.

Less than an hour ago Brooke was howling I can’t do this anymore, this is too hard, I’d put a knife through my heart if I could, and Peggy was saying it would be like putting a knife through her heart too–hyperbolic talk, perhaps, but expressing real pain….

Then a gentle gesture from an aide would fill Brooke with gratitude, a friend would stop by with food or music, or Brooke and Peggy, as they wrote together, would reach a deeper understanding and measure of grace.

“Maybe this isn’t the saddest night after all,” they wrote after one particularly brutal day. “If there’s a lesson we’ve been learning—it’s about not assuming that good will stay good or, more

important, that bad will stay bad.”

Writing the blog together became an essential activity, what they did together in the way they used to hike and ski and dance and travel.

Sometimes the voice was Peggy’s, sometimes Brooke’s, more often the two voices merged into one. “It’s like having an intimate conversation with one another…It’s male and female combined—[there is] something androgynous about it but also something somehow erotic.” It was a way “to make something truthful, even sometimes beautiful, out of the suffering of the past year.” In addition, as they struggled to be honest, they confronted difficulties they might otherwise have skirted.

One night, while Brooke was still in the rehabilitation center, their friends, Roger and Jane, came for dinner. Roger had been diagnosed with ALS about the time Brooke had his accident.

Now, while Brooke slowly improved, Roger gradually declined. When they were younger, the two men had mountaineered together, and sometime during the evening, Roger said, “We’re brothers in adventure again.” It would have been more accurate to say they were brothers in adversity, and the two couples discussed their reasons for framing something as an adventure rather than a disaster, even when “it means death for one and permanent disability for the other.” By the end of the evening, Peggy wrote in the blog post, “Brooke and Roger had reaffirmed: ‘We’re brothers in adventure again.’”

Although Peggy and Brooke usually write together, Peggy did this post alone, and when Brooke read it the next day, he objected to the ending. “I don’t think you were aware of Roger watching—the kind of pain I was in while you and Jane were talking,” Brooke said. “Roger was just watching, watching, his eyes bugging out as if to say ‘I can’t believe all the crap you have to go through with all that suctioning and cathing and stuff.’” Brooke worried that the ending trivialized what Roger had ahead of him; in fact, Brooke looked back on many of his own posts as ending too easily with a “rhetorical bow.”

I used to say ‘this is going to be such a journey’ and ‘I look at this as an opportunity,’ stuff like that—but I don’t think I knew what I was talking about. This is a hundred treks. This is a hundred marathons. The reason we come together, you and me and Jane and Roger, is because we’re fortifying each other, not just adventuring out in the wilderness when we choose.

Shortly after the accident, while Brooke was still in intensive care, Lama Thupten Dorje Gyaltsen, the head of Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist temple in Salt Lake City, came to see him and told him three things. First, he said, “The body is nothing; it is ephemeral; the mind is everything.” Next, he instructed Brooke not to ask why the accident had occurred, just

accept the fact that it had. His third instruction had seemed perplexing, even esoteric, at the time but has perhaps proved most helpful of all. “Your suffering,” he told Brooke and Peggy, “will produce compassion, even deep happiness, in many many people who know you and even those who do not.”

Brooke and Peggy are teachers. They have devoted their lives to forging a deep understanding of their respective academic disciplines in order to pass on the gift of that knowledge. In this

“Maybe this isn’t the saddest night after all,” they wrote after one particularly brutal day. “If there’s a lesson we’ve been learning—it’s about not assuming that good will stay good or, more important, that bad will stay bad.” new discipline of a changed life, they have continued that generosity through the blog.

Brooke also wanted to teach students directly, and last fall he arranged to teach a class on Thoreau’s Walden for the University of Utah’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Though he had taught the book many times, he had friends read it to him and listened to tapes. He practically memorized it since he wouldn’t be able to page back and forth in class.

Although he was still at the rehab center, he was almost weaned off the ventilator, and the idea was that he would teach once a week at home, initially during short trial visits that would allow him and Peggy to troubleshoot his permanent return, scheduled for halfway through the semester.

He was ecstatic to get back to two things he loved, home and students. He taught four classes and was about to move home permanently. Then he woke up with ice cold skin and dropping blood pressure, and was soon incoherent. He was rushed to the ICU in septic shock with aspiration pneumonia. Once more he was on the vent and heavy antibiotics.

As soon as he stabilized, he was thinking about Thoreau again, preparing his aide to teach the chapter “The Pond in Winter” if he could not. A couple of classes were postponed while Brooke recovered, and then he taught “Where I Lived and What I Lived For.” Afterwards, Peggy asked Brooke point blank: “What do you live for?”

When Brooke addressed the question in their next post, he cited two reasons. The first was existential, the basic will to live, to keep going. The second was to bring some sort of gift into other people’s lives. He wrote about the extraordinary depth of giving and receiving love that he had experienced since the accident, of the pleasure of collaborative writing, and of the importance of “trying to bring to whoever is out there reading this some sense of what it’s like to live with nearly continuous suffering and still have some sense of joy.”

“This may seem outrageous to you,” he told Peggy after they had worked on the post for awhile, “but I think I’m happier than I’ve ever been.” Then he hastened to add, “It isn’t always that way; sometimes it’s really, really hard.”

At the end of November, two years and two weeks after his accident, Brooke finally made it home. The challenges continue; in some ways, as Brooke and Peggy wrote recently, “the hard part is just beginning.” They considered discontinuing the blog but realized how vital it had become to both of them, “our joint project, our mutual work, the thing we can do together, really together. Dropping it, even for a couple of weeks, has made us lonely and isolated in ourselves. It’s as if we couldn’t talk anymore.” In truth, the blog is not only a way to talk to each other, but to delve deeper than talking allows.

Last fall, invited to speak to an English honors class, Peggy told the students about Brooke’s accident and the role that writing is playing as they struggle to thrive in spite of their vastly changed lives. She suggested that students meet adversity in their own lives with the question, “How do you want this to change your life?” Afterward, a student wrote her, “I can’t stop thinking about this question. I don’t have an answer yet, but I’m looking forward to figuring it out.” u Teresa Jordan is an author of four books and a visual artist. She lives in Salt Lake City. WWW.TERESAJORDAN.COM. Follow her contemplations at WWW.YEAROFLIVINGVIRTUOUSLY.COM.

You can read Brooke Hopkins and Peggy Battin’s ongoing blog at HTTP://BROOKEANDPEGGY.BLOGSPOT.COM

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Featured Animals

Dog of the Month

AniMALia*

Ideas, profiles, products & news for all things animal

BY CAROL KOLEMAN

•ANIMALIA: pron. Ah-nee-MALE-ya.

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Events

Animal Angel Over 1.2 million square miles of ocean, sea turtles, sharks, dolphins and other sea life have been protected through the efforts of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates working with Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working to protect the world’s oceans. The organization was founded in 2001 by a group of leading foundations, with campaigners based in North America, Europe, and South and Central America.

In less than 10 years, Oceana achieved dozens of policy victories for marine life and habitats, from stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat areas to protecting sea turtles from commercial fishing gear. In 2011 alone, Oceana has helped facilitate agreements to protect over 16.1 million square miles of seafloor from destructive fishing, withdrawal of a coal-fired power plant project, along with designation of marine protected area in northern Chile, and postponement of Shell’s Arctic ocean drilling plans.

More than 500,000 people in over 150 countries currently are members of Oceana.

WWW.OCEANA.ORG.

The 4th annual Canine Casino Night presented by Harmon’s Saturday, June 18, 7-11:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel (215 W South Temple).

Signature drinks, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction and admission to the Canine Royale Lounge. Well-behaved dogs are welcome. Cocktail attire.

WWW.UTAHPETS.ORG/NMHCMS/HOME/NEWS EVENTS/UPCOMINGEVENTS/CANINECASINONIGHT /TABID/275/DEFAULT.ASPX.

2011 “Off Leash” youth day camp Cache Humane Society. Tuesday, June 7 begins a weekly day-long education and awareness program at the shelter.

We’re in kitten season! This is the time of year when shelters desperately need foster homes for kittens. It takes only a few weeks of commitment to provide a safe environment for mother and her babies until they are weaned. So if you have ever thought of fostering, now is the time! Contact your local shelter for more information.

WWW.THERECONNECTION.COM/PROGRAMS/RECONNECTIVEANIMALS/SCHEDULE

Landmark UGA study reveals breed-specific causes of death in dogs.

WWW.UGA.EDU/NEWS/ARTMAN/PUBLISH/110419_STUDYDOGS.SHTML

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

—W.C. Fields

WWW.CACHEHUMANE.ORG.

Cat of the Month

3rd annual 5K/10K run/walk for Ching Farm Rescue and Sanctuary

This is Raisin! She is a three-and-ahalf-year-old tabby, litter trained, spayed and good with other cats. What a beauty she is! Raisin has been at the shelter a whopping five months and is really anxious to find a loving family. She’s mellow, sweet, and independent like many cats so she doesn’t require a lot of attention.

Her ID: 2010-9860

Saturday, July 9, 8 a.m. Memory Grove, 370 North Canyon Road.

WWW.ACTIVE.COM/RUNNING/SALT-LAKE-CITY-UT/3RDANNUAL-5K10K-RUNWALK-FOR-THE-ANIMALS-OF-CHINGFARM-RESCUE-AND-SANCTUARY-2011

to register.

Help Save the Wild Mustangs fundraiser Tuesday June 7, 6-10 p.m. Frida Bistro (545 W 700 S). Live band, cash bar, silent auction, documentary film, Mestengo, food by Rico.

WWW.SAVETHEWILDMUSTANGS.COM

Multimedia

Did you know?

Interesting workshop to check out: Three part Reconnective Healing. Learn to help animals live happier and healthier lives.

Complimentary introduction, July 15, 7 p.m.

Hilton SLC Airport (5151 Wiley Post Way).

Workshop, July 20. Learn how to help heal your animal companions. Field Trip and demonstrations at a rescue/sanctuary.

Meet Billy! This 18-monthold border collie has been at the shelter four months and really wants a home. He absolutely loves kids and wants to run and play all day. He had to fight for his food so he’s a little possessive around other dogs. He just needs to be potty trained; he was raised on a farm and wasn’t taught, but he is highly trainable (border collies are said to be the smartest breed) so this won’t take long.

He’s a real lover and such a sweetheart.

His ID: 2011-10132.

Watch: Grab a tissue for this one: Dog saves another dog hit by a car: WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=-HJTG6RRN4E Listen: Interview with Douglas-Hamilton, who talks about his 40 years with elephants and the future of these amazing beings: WWW.PUBLICBROADCASTING.NET/KUER/NEWS/NEWS .NEWSMAIN/ARTICLE/0/0/1802693/NEWS/51611 .PROTECTING.THE.AFRICAN.ELEPHANT Read: Soul of a Horse by Joe Camp. One of the most highly recommended books about horses, though not just for horse lovers.

RIP: Ringo the Rat Ringo was a special member of our eclectic CATALYST family. To know him was to love him because he did not give a great first impression; that he was a rat was nothing compared to the fact that he was a hairless rat—which to most folks seemed like a horrible experiment gone wrong. Nonetheless, in the span of his few years, he helped many realize rats can be sweet, funny, smart and lovable. He was a great subject to photograph In spite of a principled repulsion to his species, Greta loved Ringo via my photos which, she says, captured his vulnerability— ”a sincere, friendly rat,” prone more to enthusiasm than outright cunning.

He was a valiant little spirit who loved his mom—my daughter Sophia—so much that though dying, he waited a month for her to return from Rome so he could say good-bye. Ringo the Rat, you will always stay in our hearts.

Our pets this month are brought to you by Cache Humane Society in Logan, which has many highly adoptable animals. I had a really difficult time choosing just two to feature. Their website is impressive, with great photos and bios of adoptable pets, and a wonderful page on fostering where you may choose an animal to foster and fill out the online application. Cache Humane needs foster parents, volunteers and donations. Check all the adoptable pets online or meet the animals in person each Saturday at the Logan PetSmart. WWW.CACHEHUMANE.ORG

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

—Walt Whitman

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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

A healthy hive is an organic hive

Classes Row, row, row your boat

Got bees in your backyard? (And if not, why not?) Learn how to keep your buzzing beauties healthy with minimal chemical use.

Class will cover preventive steps, hive inspections, bee biology, common diseases and their symptoms as well as colony collapse and Africanized bees.

Ivy League crew teams sculling on eastern rivers is one thing. Sculling on the Great Salt Lake is another experience entirely. The lake is beautiful this time of year, so head out to the marina and learn to row at Great Salt Lake Rowing’s 10th annual Learn to Row Day. GSLR members will take participants out on the water for hands-on experience. There’s more to rowing than you think.

Manage Your Hive Organically, Tuesdays, June 14-28, 7-9p. $89. CONTINUE.UTAH.EDU/LIFELONG

New Herbal Learning Garden at Traces

Learn to Row Day, June 4, 9a-12p. Great Salt Lake Marina (take SaltAir exit from I-80). Free. OLDROWER@ATT.NET

Traces has added organic medicinal plants to its vegetable and flower gardens and will be teaching how to incorporate them into daily living for health and well being, as well as providing herbal seeds now and clippings at harvest time.

Beginning June 15 and through the summer, there will be classes and workshops

Get clean Give spring cleaning a whole new meaning—check out Lifelong Learning’s cleansing and detoxification diets class—covering overall detox, the effects of cleansing on the body and transitioning to a whole-foods diet. Learn to combat and minimize the effects of toxins in our daily lives.

Cleansing and Detoxification, Tuesdays, June 7-28, 7-8:30p. University of Utah Continuing Education Annex. $89. LIFELONG.UTAH.EDU

Travel the spirit realms Ever wanted to explore the world beyond the veil of waking life? Check out the shamanic journey class at Crone’s Hollow, to help “activate our imagination and creativity” in a state of expanded awareness to find new insights, perspectives and ways to resolve problems. If you’ve got your own drum, rattle or other noisemaker, bring that along. Also, don’t miss their Fairy Fest a couple days later—a day of psychic readings, fortunetellers, arts and crafts, children’s story circles with Mother Goose, an outdoor fire dance and drumming.

Shamanic Journey class, June 9, 6:30p. $15. Fairy Fest, June 11, 12p-11p. Crone’s Hollow, 2470 S Main St. CRONESHOLLOW.COM

The Exile Nation Project Evolver Salt Lake, CATALYST Magazine and the Salt Lake Film Society present The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs and The American Criminal Justice System. This film by Charles Shaw is a collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members and experts on America’s criminal justice system that puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the U.S. government’s 40 year, one-trillion dollar social catastrophe: the War on Drugs. In-person Q&A with Charles Shaw after the film.

The Exile Nation Project, June 22, 7p. Tower Theatre, 876 E 900 S. EVOLVER.NET/GROUP/EVOLVER_SALT_LAKE

for making infusions, decoctions, oils, salves, tinctures, poultices and compresses and first-aid kits. Specifics will be posted throughout the summer at CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET. Herbal Learning Garden notebooks are also available with a list of about 50 medicinal plants in the garden, and a Gardener’s Materia Medica that describes everything you need to know to grow a healthy medicinal garden-and a healthy you!

Check the CATALYST online calendar regularly for events, or tel. 801-467-9544. Traces, 1432 S 1100 E

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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into the issues of illness, the death of loved ones, taking care of family and facing disability—and more importantly, the assumptions surrounding these issues.

Health: Illness, Death and Caretaking, June 17, 7-9:30p and June 18, 10a-6p.

Location TBA. $150/$125 w/advance registration.

CLARITYCOACHINGINSTITUTE.COM

Festivals and Fundraisers Get your art on 48-Hour Film Project Each year, filmmakers from all over Utah compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning films go up against films from participating groups across the world.

Don’t miss the screenings of this year’s local entries!

48-Hour Film Project screenings, June 21-22, 6-8p and 8:30-10:30p, The Gateway Megaplex, 165 S Rio Grande St. $10. 48 HOURFILM.COM/SALTLAKECITY

Sri Karunamayi visits SLC Beginning modestly with the establishment of a free school for tribal children, Sri Karunamayi’s mission to provide material and spiritual aid expanded to include free medical camps, a free hospital, a degree college and a spiritual center that attracts people worldwide. Since 1995 more than

June is art month in Utah, apparently, with three art-related festivals back-toback. First is the Ogden Arts Festival on June 11, with 80 booths along historic 25th Street and surrounding the Fountain Plaza at Union Station—plus music, food and beer, of course, as well as kids’ activities and free films. Next, on June 17-18, is the 9th Annual Utah Foster Care Foundation’s Chalk Art Festival at the Gateway—one of the largest street painting festivals in the western U.S. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Foster Parents.”

Finally, June 23-26, don’t miss the 35th Utah Arts Festival. With 140 visual artists, 100 performing arts groups, 18 culinary artists and 80,000 patrons, the Utah Arts Festival is the granddaddy of art-related events in Utah.

Ogden Arts Festival, June 11, 25th Street, Ogden, OGDENARTSFESTIVAL.COM. Chalk Art Festival, June 1718, The Gateway, 400 W 100 S, UTAHFOSTERCARE.ORG. Utah Arts Festival, June 23-26, Library Square, 210 E 400 S, $10, UAF.ORG

Save the Wild Mustangs fundraiser A hundred years ago, two million mustangs roamed free in America. Now fewer than 28,000 wander the countryside. Help the horses by spending an evening with nonprofit Save the Wild Mustangs: enjoy Rico’s Mexican Food, flowing margaritas, silent auction, mini-massages, music and more.

70,000 patients received medical care at the Sri Karunamayi Free Hospital, and over 15,000 patients were examined and treated at her mobile medical unit. Her latest mission is to provide pure drinking water to 175 poor villages. She will speak and deliver blessings during her visit to Salt Lake.

Sri Karunamayi, June 29, 10a-4p. South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 Highland Drive.

Free. SVUUS.ORG

Health, caretaking, death and The Work of Byron Katie

Save the Wild Mustangs fundraiser, June 7, 610p, Frida’s Bistro, 545 W 700 S. SAVETHEWILDMUSTANGS.ORG

Clear the Air Fair Winter inversions are long gone, but that doesn’t mean SLC’s pollution problem has gone with them—in fact, summertime air quality often plummets to unhealthy levels.

Learn about alternative vehicles and fuels, fuel economy and other ways to help clear the air, while enjoying live music, refreshments, and kid-friendly games at Utah Clean Cities’ Clear the Air Fair.

Clear the Air Fair, June 10, 6-9p. Gallivan Center, 239 S Main St. Free. UTAHCLEANCITIES.ORG

As part of their “Freedom from Fear” workshop series, Kathryn Dixon and Carol van der Meulen of Clarity Coaching delve continued on page 25

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CHICKENS! CHICKENS! CHICKENS!

Mad City Chickens

Duped by cuteness Hen house project trumps kitchen remodel for yet another urban couple

BY ADELE FLAIL inordinate amount of time we’ve devoted to building the coop: “Let me put it this way,” he says: “I’m engaged to someone who does things ‘The Right Way.’” A statement not entirely fair, in my opinion; aside from the initial selection of the (elaborate) design, most of my contributions have been limited to measuring, holding, suggesting expensive, time-consuming and wholly impractical modifications and spilling beer on myself (leading to the blistering profanity mentioned above) while laying linoleum tiles.

But with all of the effort we, or rather, my poor fiancé, have poured into it (and will continue to pour into it—we have roofing, siding, painting and insulating still ahead of us) it should provide a safe (total-

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ast night over dinner, a friend asked my fiancé and I why our chicken coop was taking so long to build—a question I’ve frequently asked myself, especially in the midst of a kitchen remodeling project. Constructing this 4x8 foot behemoth has eaten up most of the precious sunny hours over the past three dismal and rainy weeks, consumed six sheets of particle board and countless 2x2s and cost us one extension cord (stolen by neighborhood brigands) as well as, possibly, the good will of our neighbors (the result of direct exposure to blistering profanity).

When called to account for this runaway project, I was equally baffled. Upon further reflection, I blame the chickens. Like the young of most animals, chicks are cunningly adorable creatures: plump, fuzz-butted and peeping, ready to manipulate your emotions so that anyone with an ounce of oxytocin in his or her brain who strays too close to the IFA in spring is likely to leave with, oh, say, six of them. And then go

back the following week to get two more.

If you find yourself so duped, the next thing you know, there are eight chicks in a brooder box in your dining room next to your gutted (and increasingly neglected) kitchen, growing rapidly into noisy and smelly teenage fowl.

While they are inside, eating and cheeping incessantly, you will spend all weekend, every weekend, outside in a dehydrated haze, screwing bits of wood into other bits of wood (and sometimes, thrillingly, your own fingers) and really, really not working on your kitchen, which is agonizingly (and perhaps inexplicably, in your case) completely gutted, according to the immutable laws of maximum annoyance.

(Did I mention that my fiancé and I are taking time out of our busy schedule of not having a kitchen to not have a kitchen—I mean, to build the coop?)

While I blame the chickens and their damnable cuteness for starting us on this path, my fiancé had another reason for the

ly bomb-proof, and thus, hopefully, relatively raccoon-proof) and comfortable home for our chickens for years, and possibly, worldwars or zombie apocalypses, to come. u Adele Flail is an artist and a budding urban homesteader on SLC’s west side. She is also coordinator for The Leonardo.

Keep your birds legit Salt Lake City allows up to 15 hens (no roosters), kept in a covered, ventilated, predator-resistant coop. Each chicken needs two square feet (six if they’re not allowed to roam within an enclosed area outside the coop). They’ve got to be in the rear yard at least 25 feet from your neighbors house (not the property line). A permit is required—$5/bird.

HTTP://WWW.SLCGOV.COM/SLCGREEN/PDF/CHICKENS_ORDINANCE.PDF Salt Lake County rules are similar, except the coop needs to be 40 feet from the neighbor’s house and half-inch wire or smaller, specifically, must be used. Also, Salt Lake County allows “humane slaughter,” wheras Salt Lake City does not.

Chicken week!

It’s chicken movie night (not kidding!). Head over to the Tower Theatre for the Salt Lake City premiere of Mad City Chickens, a documentary about the return of the backyard chicken and fundraiser for Wasatch Community Gardens. The film weaves together multiple stories and issues regarding city chickens and their keepers.

Mad City Chickens, June 20, 7-9p. Tower Theatre, 876 E 900 S. $10. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Learn the ropes Interested in the idea of urban ‘eggriculture’? Check out WCG’s Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys and Fowl workshop. The area’s most knowledgeable chicken experts will be on hand to cover local regulations, coops, breeds and any other fowl questions you might have.

Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys and Fowl, June 22, 6-8p. Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E. $10. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Tour de Coops Backyard chickens are catching on (and we sure are chicken here at CATALYST—Greta, Pax and Emily each have their own flocks!). If you’re looking for inspiration to start your own little flock, don’t miss the 5th annual Tour de Coops, a self-guided tour of Salt Lake’s backyard chicken underground. Coop owners around town will open up their yards, gardens and coops for tour participants—it’s a great opportunity to see for yourself the ins and outs of poultry husbandry.

If you take the South Salt Lake tour, you can visit the hen house of Bogart McAvoy and Sam Ponder, featured on our cover this month. They share a Liberty Wells bungalow back yard with a barred Plymouth rock, two turkens (naked neck chickens) and an Americana. Bogart designed and built the 12' by 12' coop which contains raised laying boxes, doors to outside to aid in poop-free shoes while egg-gathering, a raised sleeping house with roosts and a heat lamp for cold winter nights (“They almost never use it though,” Bogart says). It also has a galvanized metal roof that slopes to help with snow shedding and there is a skylight area. He used remaindered steel panels from Black Diamond (from which they had laser cut their climbing tools).

You can also see their garage rooftop vegetable garden and bees.

The CATALYST office is on the tour— come by and see our three charming hens in their house from Chickoopy.

Tour de Coops, June 26, 10a-2p. Tour de Coups South Valley, June 18, 10a-2p. $10/$20 groups/families. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

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Gem Faire Learn all about gemstones, beads, jewelry, minerals, fossils and meteorites at the Gem Faireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the largest gem and jewelry show on the west coast. Besides gem and stone vendors, the Faire offers workshops and classes on gems and jewelry making.

Gem Faire, June 17-19, South Towne Exposition Center, 9575 S State St. $7. ($5 with copy of their ad in CATALYST.) GEMFAIRE.COM.

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for Guffman.It is one wacky musical.

Bud and Doug think they've written an epic about Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. What they've actually created is a craptacular musical where they sing all the songs and play all the parts with an unending supply of enthusiasm.

Comic masters Jay Perry and Kirt Bateman bring Bud and Doug (as well as such memorable characters as Helvetica, Beef-Fat Trimmer, Drunk 1, Drunk 2, AntiSemite and Old Black Narrator) to life at breakneck speed with the aid of a buncha trucker hats and a whole lotta silliness. You can't help but buy into their earnest portrayal of this misguided duo and their dream.

Slow Food Utah Honeybee Festival, June 23, 4-8p.

Sorensen Center, 1383 S 900 W. Free.

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Gutenberg! The Musical!, June 3-19, Fri-Sat 8p, Sun 6p. Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City, UT. $18. PLANBTHEATRECOMPANY.ORG

Swaner EcoFestival

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Freedom Fest, June 18, 12-10p. Gallivan Center, 239 Main St. SLCFREEDOMFEST.ORG.

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Learn how to live and build green with water, wind and solar power, green builders and supplies and home energy solutions at the Swaner EcoFestival, featuring more than 60 local organizations, climbing walls, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; art project, nature walks, animals and local food.

Swaner EcoFestival, June 25, 11a-3p. Newpark Plaza, Kimball Junction, UT. Free.

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The Lindells, June 5, 9p. Mystic Hot Springs, Monroe, UT. $10. MYSTICHOTSPRINGS.COM

Ira Glass Master storyteller and host of NPRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular â&#x20AC;&#x153;This American Life,â&#x20AC;? Ira Glass weaves tales that bring to life the human side of current events. Onstage with his sound board, he holds a live audience in the palm of his hand, telling the often hilarious stories of his adventures in public radio and the backstories of some of his most well-known broadcasts.

Ira Glass, June 25, 7:30p. Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle. $20.50-$49.40. KINGSBURYHALL.ORG

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June 17, 18, 19 6-9pm (weather permitting)

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Wear House SALE Extraordinaire!

When? 9:00A â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2:00P Saturday, June 11 Where? 1486 So Lincoln St (945 E), SLC What? AWE-sOMe, delish Just Bee tops for women, toddlers & infants, greeting cards, prints, original art... Pre-sale scout @ www.justbeeinc.com Who? YOU! Friends, family, friends of friends & family

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SHALL WE DANCE?

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LoveDANCEMore Ashley Anderson nurtures the artistic landscape in Salt Lake City

BY AMY BRUNVAND We keep telling people that they don’t have to decipher any hidden meaning behind the movement, but do we secretly revel in confusing our audiences?

—Some confused University of Utah graduating seniors hen you walked into the Masonic Temple for the Mudson experimental dance performance last March a young man proffered a bowl of brightly colored gumballs. He called out the color you selected to a woman dancing on the stairway and she immediately altered her movement pattern to match the new color. The gumball experiment was a big hit with my nine-yearold daughter. When she figured out how it worked, she started picking different colors to test the dancer’s reaction. Then she tried two colors at once just to see what would happen. Her enthusiasm for audience-manipulated performance probably delighted Rachel Shaw, one of the artists who made the dance, who had recently written about audience participation in a written review of “Yellow,” a site-specific dance shown at the Main Library. She particularly noted that many library patrons “wove a curvilinear path that avoided the dancers without ever acknowledging their presence.”

The soul of the dance community in Salt Lake City is nurtured by precisely this kind of interaction between experimental ideas, chore-

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reviewers and writers. But fertile interactions don’t always just happen by themselves. Some performances are seen by only a small audience or never reviewed by the

Fertile interactions don’t always just happen by themselves. Some performances are seen by only a small audience or never reviewed by the major papers. The potential impact simply vanishes.

major papers. The potential impact simply vanishes.

Ashley Anderson is trying to do something about that. Anderson, who has an MFA in Dance from Hollins University in Virginia, teaches at Salt Lake’s Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program and creates works for her nonprofit dance company Ashley Anderson Dances.

Still, she has time for a communitybuilding dance project she calls LoveDANCEmore.

LoveDANCEmore is the umbrella name for a series of (mostly free) community dance events. The two main ongoing projects are Mudson (a free and informal works-inprogress performance series) and “Learning to LoveDANCEmore: A Performance Journal” that publishes reviews and articles by experienced and emerging writers.

Anderson says the name “Mudson” started as a joke: “I wanted to model it on Judson [a New York City dance event that takes place in a church], so I wanted a place that wasn’t a theatre,” she explains. “In New York, everyone says ‘I’m going to Judson,’ so I called it ‘Mudson’ because it was at the Masonic Temple.” The large stage-free performance space creates an intimate environment where dancers mingle with audience members to get an immediate reaction to their work.

Mudsons will happen at the Masonic Temple in September, October and November with three or four artists per evening. The exact dates aren’t yet set. “It’s a weird old building with a quirky staff,” says Anderson. “They close the whole Masonic Temple in the summer because they can’t afford to

air condition the building so it depends on when it gets cool and when Masonic events are scheduled.”

Feedback is vital to Anderson.

“You can only learn how to make a better dance by showing your dances to people,” she says.

Anderson points out that local papers don’t have full-time dance writers so it’s appropriate that Volume 3 of the journal “Learning to LoveDANCEmore” is themed “Everyone’s a Critic.” Anderson says it can be a little scary for new writers to express opinions, especially if they have a negative opinion: “It’s okay to write a review of a dance you don’t like; it’s also okay to disagree. I hope by printing the comments I can get more people to participate.”

Ultimately, Anderson says the success of LoveDANCEmore depends on getting lots of people on board, not just dancing and creating dance but also watching dance and writing about what they see. “Not as many people contribute to the conversation as could,” she says.

Right now, Anderson is investing a lot of her own time and money to LoveDANCEmore but, she admits, she does these things because she also wants to show the things she makes. She is full of praise for other volunteers. “I have a board of directors and an advisory committee and some awesome student interns.”

She says. “This edition of the journal [Spring 2011,vol.2: Manifesto] is laid out beautifully because Mathew Hall volunteered to do it for free.

Lots of people donate time and energy to make it happen.” u Amy Brunvand is a librarian at the University of Utah and a dance enthusiast.

Comments? Let us know what you think!

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Ashley Anderson Dances: ASHLEYANDERSONDANCES.COM

LoveDANCEmore: LOVEDANCEMORE.ORG LoveDancemore: A performance Journal. Volume 3 of learning to loveDANCEmore is themed “Everyone’s a Critic” and will address the continuing role of dance criticism. Also accepting photos or reviews of work presented in SLC between now and July. To be considered for publications, e-mail your submission to LOVEDANCEMORE@GMAIL.COM (submissions due July 15).

BOOKS REVIEW

by Lori Mertz Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper: What not to do when keeping bees [with apologies to my own] by Bill Turnbull (The Experiment, 2011) Aside from the fact that we live in the beehive state and the name of my company is Just Bee (and that I happen to think the world of the mighty bee and love raw honey), I never expected to be so bowled over by a book on beekeeping, or rather bad beekeeping.

I loved this book. I couldn’t put it down and when I did, all I could think about was getting back to it.

Bill Turnbull, cohost of a popular British morning TV show, is witty and clever, as one might expect. His storytelling is also fresh, honest and insightful. Reading Confessions on the plane today, I couldn’t help laughing out loud. The woman next to me noticed what I was reading and said, “no wonder.” She’d read

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the earlier edition and found it equally as fun and entertaining.

I loved the candid way Turnbull shared his trials and tribulations with raising bees, and the subtly incorporated insights and parallels to human beings he included. The guy really gets bees, on a very intimate, intricate level.

And the book communicates like bees do: obviously, like getting stung; and subtly, like the vibration a bee’s buzz sets in motion.

Did you know that upon exiting the hive, bees fly toward the sun to get their bearings? Bees use light in their everyday life to center and get direction.

Seems like a good tip for humans, too.

The book is rich with such double entendres.

It’s a book about bees. But in the end, it’s also a book about the transfomative power of being brave enough to be bad at something.

It’s good to remember that, after all, an adventure entails a bit of risk.

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Torrey House Press signs first author Nestled among the red rocks and rolling hills of Torrey, Utah, Torrey House Press is a new independent publishing house. Husband and wife team Mark Bailey and Kirsten Allen began the project with the goal to raise awareness and appreciation for the Colorado Plateau in its natural state (vs. a commodity to be logged, mined, grazed, and farmed), conveying that message through literature.

The company accepts unsolicited submissions of literary fiction and creative nonfiction relating to the Colorado Plateau and/or the American West.

They are offering two writing contests this year. THP recently signed its first author, University of Utah writing instructor Maximilian Werner, for his novel, Crooked Creek. Torrey House Press has recruited Torrey artist Guy Tal for cover art.

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Rewriting your parents Imagine their good old days

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

There’s still time to grow a garden this summer!

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Visit our new Herbal Learning Garden Starting June 15th: Organic medicinal plants and making teas, salves, tinctures for health and well-being.

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generally run from nostalgia like a cat from a bubble bath, partially because I mostly believe in that mantra “live in the now” and partially because it’s too painful.

Take a look at old pictures of yourself. The bad news is that you are never going to look that young again.

The good news is you are never going to wear those stupid clothes and hair styles again.

In the days in between Mother’s and Father’s days, I’ve decided to cautiously wade into the shallow end of the nostalgia pool, being careful not to get sucked into the deep. I’ve been going through a couple boxes of inherited photos, not to laugh at myself, but to re-imagine my parents.

Photos are great for this because they allow you to imagine what your parents were thinking and feeling in those frozen moments without all the emotional baggage of being in the same room.

Here’s the story I made to go with one photo.

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You can rewrite your own parents without creating a complete work of fiction. Just try to think of them as your age; whatever that age is.

One day in 1958, my mom and dad went out on a glowing springtime Friday night in St. Louis. They spontaneously popped into the drug store, where they found one of those photo booths common in that era. Mom’s rockin’ the pearls, and Dad’s wearing the suit he bought the day he got out of the Navy. It costs the ridiculous price of $1.75 to use this magic machine that gives you photos almost instantly, and it only takes quarters so Dad has to go to the cashier to get change. The cashier thinks briefly about requiring him to buy something to get change, but she can see he is so nervous and giddy that she just smiles and puts eight quarters on the counter. She’s seen all sorts of weirdos use

the privacy of these booths for whoknows-what, but this couple is too well dressed to be considering any monkey business.

Dad blushes and slides the quarters off the counter into his hand and meets mom back at the photo booth.

It’s not really made for two people so Mom sits on Dad’s lap. It makes her look taller than him. Where am I? They either left me out in the car because you could do that back then without worrying about crazies in every parking lot. Or, more likely, I was at Grandma’s house while they were out on this date.

In the first photo, Mom is more concerned that someone might be spying on them outside the booth so she forgets to look at the camera. In the second photo, they get it right, and in the third they loosen up. The final photo is just candid bliss.

Now, remember a time when you were that happy.

Search around in your own dusty boxes of photos. Or, I suppose for the modern era, ancient hard drives and assorted types of discs. You really need to see your parents as young and silly in love. It will melt all your petty angst.

I need to think of my Dad as the guy who missed a couple important free throws, rather than the tough guy policeman. I need to think of my Mom as the attractive young woman fighting off creepy bosses in her many secretarial jobs, rather than just the nurturing mother and wife. I need to think of them as young and stupid and just trying to figure it all out. I was a baby of that boom, and the country was young and drunk with power and possibilities. You can see it in the photos. My parents really were happy and enjoying that American Dream that has become both cliché and epitaph today. They liked TV dinners, Pontiac convertibles and big stupid dogs. On a spring evening in 1958, life was good and all things were possible.

You can rewrite your own parents without creating a complete work of fiction. Just try to think of them as your age; whatever that age is. u Dennis Hinkamp’s parents died in 2007 and 2008.

This is intended as a tribute of joy.

DINING

Open Air Dining Summer in the city and beyond

BY CAROL KOLEMAN PHOTOS BY JOHN DEJONG

S: Open Sundays B: Brunch L: Open late on weekends

West of Main Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S 200 W 801.355.5500 S/Movie Theatre. L Café Molise 55 W 100 S 801.364.8833 S/B Chunga’s 180 S 900 W 801.953.1840 S

Eva 317 S Main St 888.314.8536 S/B. Reservations.

Aristo’s 224 S 1300 E 801.581.0888 Thurs - live music

Indochine 230 S 1300 E 801.582.0896 S

Atlantic Café 325 S Main St 801.524.9900

Market Street Broiler 260 S 1300 E, 801.583.8808 S

The Happy Sumo 153 S Rio Grande St 801.456.7866 S

Bayou 645 S State St 801.961.8400 S/L/Live music

Mestizo 622 W North Temple 801.596.0500 S

Cafe Niche 779 E 300 S 801.433.3380 S/B

Pat’s Barbecue 155 W Commonwealth Ave 801.484.5963 Live Music Thurs-Sat

Café Trio 680 S 900 E 801.533.8746 S/B

Rio Grande Café 270 S Rio Grande St 801.364.3302 S Squatter’s Pub Brewery SLC 147 W Broadway 801.363.2739 S/B/L Siegfried’s Delicatessen 20 W 200 S 801.355.3891

Este Pizzeria 156 E 200 S (also 2021 Windsor St) 801.363.2366 801.485.3699

East of Main (downtown, 9th & 9th, university)

Em’s 271 N Center St 801.596.0566 S/B

Red Rock Brewing Company SLC 254 S 200 W 801.521.7446 S/B/L

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Barbacoa 859 E 900 S & 280 S Main St (closed Sun) 801.524.0853 & 801.746.3798 S

Red Iguana 2 866 W South Temple 801.214.6050 S

s spring really longer than it used to be, and the summers hotter?

Feels so to us. But soon enough the rains will stop and we’ll be heading for a pleasant patio with great food. Whether you want a getaway or a sense of homecoming, the Salt Lake City area offers options for your summertime outdoor dining pleasure.

All establishments listed here have patios. Many serve brunch on weekends. Some stay open late at night (often till midnight on weekends).

Enjoy some of our favorite eateries and have a great summer!

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Cannella’s 204 E 500 S 801.355.8518 Cedars of Lebanon 152 E 200 S 801.364.4096 S/Belly Dancing Coffee Garden 898 E 900 S 801.355.3425 S Coffee Noir 1035 E 200 S 801.532.1888 S Cucina Deli 1026 2nd Ave 801.322.3055 S Desert Edge Brewery Trolley Square 801.521.8917 S/L

Vinto 418 E 200 S 801.539.9999 S Wild Grape 481 E South Temple 801.746.5565 S/B

South of 13th, east of 7th

Mazza 912 E 900 S (also 1515 S 1500 E) 801.521.4572 & 801.521.4572 Nostalgia 248 E 100 S 801.532.3225 S/L

Blue Plate Diner 2041 S 2100 E 801.463.1151 S/B The Dodo 1355 E 2100 S 801.486.2473 S Café Madrid 2080 E 3900 S 801.273.0837 Dinner only Eggs in the City 1675 E 1300 S 801.581.0809 S/Breakfast & lunch only

Oasis Cafe 151 S 500 E 801.322.0404 S One World Cafe 41 S 300 E 801.519.2002

Finn’s 1624 S 1100 E 801.652.0727 S/Breakfast & lunch only

Pago 878 S 900 E 801.532.0777 S/B

Fiddler’s Elbow 1063 E 2100 S 801.463.9393 S/L

Sage’s 473 E 300 S 801.322.3790 S/B/L/

Franck’s 6263 S Holladay Blvd 801.274.6264

Salt Lake Roasting Co. 210 E 400 S 801.532.0450 S/L Sawadee 754 E South Temple 801.328.8424 Sapa Sushi Bar and Asian Grill 722 S State St 801.363.7272 Vienna Bistro 132 S Main St 801.322.0334

Fresco Italian Cafe 1513 S 1500 E 801.486.1300 S/Reserve La Caille 9565 Wasatch Blvd 801.942.1751 S/B/Reserve Original Pancake House 790 E 2100 S 801.484.7200 S Paris Bistro 1500 S 1500 E 801.486.5585 S/Reserve

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Open Air Dining continued Sea Salt Restaurant 1709 E 1300 S 801.349.1480 New Tuscany 2832 E 6200 S 801.277.9919 S/B Whispers Cafe 1429 S 1100 E 801.953.1279 S/L

Canyons Backerei and Eis Midway 784 W Resort Dr 866.643.2015 S/B Foundry Grill Sundance 8841 Alpine Loop Rd 801.223.4220 S/B Log Haven Millcreek Canyon 801.272.8255 S Snake Creek Grill Heber 650 W 100 S 435.654.2133 S Wildflower Little Cottonwood Canyon Snowbird Resort 801.933.2230 Butcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chop House & Bar Park City 751 Main St 435.647.0040 S/L/Dinner only in summer CafĂŠ Terigo Park City 424 Main St 435.645.9555 Glitretind Restaurant Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley 7700 Stein Way 435.645.6455 Park City L/P/S/B/Live music (during brunch) Goldener Hirsch Park City 7570 Royal St 435.649.7770 S/B

J&G Grill Park City 2300 Deer Valley Dr 435.940.5760 S

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Loco Lizard Park City 1612 Ute Blvd 435.645.7000 S/B Maxwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Coast Eatery Park City 1456 New Park Blvd 435.647.0304 S/L Riverhorse on Main Park City 540 Main St 435.649.3536 L/P/Live music/Reserve Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diner 4160 Emigration Canyon Road 801.582.9380 S/Live music Royal Street CafĂŠ Park City 7600 Royal St 435.645.6724 S/Lunch only Baja Cantina Park City Park City Resort 435.649.2252 S Wahso Park City 577 Main St 435.615.0300 S/Reserve Wasatch Brewery Park City 250 Main St 435.649.0900 S/L

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SOLCAFE999@GMAIL .COM. $, CC, V, TO. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside Sam Wellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. $, CC, V, P, TO, Wifi.

Cucina Deli 1026 Second Ave. 322-3055. Located in the historic Avenues,

Vegetarian Dishes Wine/Beer Hard Liquor Patio Takeout Catering Cucina offers a full menu of freshly made sandwiches, gourmet salads, specialty entrĂŠes and desserts. Daily specials include parmesan chicken, lasagna, and poached salmon.

Enjoy the European atmosphere inside or relax under the umbrellas on the patio. Mon-Fri 7a-9p; Sat 8a-9p; Sun 8a-5p. $$, CC, V, Naked Fish 67 W. 100 S. 595-8888. Naked Fish Japanese Bistro is proud to be Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first sustainable sushi restaurant. It is always our goal to provide both inspired and environmentally responsible meals. We are dedicated to incorporating sustainable seafood and high quality ingredients that emphasize peak freshness and natural flavors. M-Fri 11:30a-2:00p; M-Thur 5p-9:30; FriSat 5p-10:30; Sun 5-9p. WWW.NAKEDFISHBISTRO.COM. $$, CC, V, B, TO Nostalgia 248 E. 100 S. 532-3225. Salt Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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Balasana Coming home

BY CHARLOTTE BELL Roz Newmark

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une beckons us outdoors—to the rocks and rivers and to our own backyards. Because June’s long, solar-powered days give us more time and energy for work and play, we can easily overdo.

To maintain balance, we must make time to restore and re-energize ourselves.

The poet Ovid named the month of June after iuniores, the younger ones. In honor of the youngest among us, this month’s pose is Balasana, or Child’s Pose. Balasana quiets the mind and restores spent energy. It focuses the breath into the back body, the “rest and digest”

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that Balasana is accessible to most people and is excellent for introducing beginners to the expansive world of their own back bodies. But I would argue that Balasana is not necessarily easy. Because the mind is not overwhelmed by extreme sensation in Child’s Pose, it is far freer to wander than it is in the more physically demanding asanas. So while Balasana might not be challenging to our bodies, it can be quite challenging to our minds. In a culture where constant activity and the “no pain, no gain” philosophy is the norm, slowing down and resting in a comfortable pose can actually

Practice Balasana between active poses in your yoga practice or when you need to slow down and regroup from a busy life. (parasympathetic) side, and supports the natural outward expansion of the lungs on each inhalation. Like all forward bends, Child’s Pose turns our focus inward.

Balasana provides a respite from summer’s nonstop activity.

Balasana has been pigeonholed as a beginner’s pose, and as such, is sometimes discounted by more experienced practitioners. It’s true

be quite uncomfortable psychologically. How can a pose that feels so good possibly be good for us?

We could ask a different question: Do we really need to conquer our bodies by force in order to be healthy? I propose that we practice balance by treating our bodies with care and respect, that we create a partnership of harmony, where we neither deplete ourselves with con-

stant activity, nor fall into inertia when we’ve worn ourselves out.

Balasana is good for us precisely because it feels good. Child’s Pose mirrors the fetal position, the pose of ultimate comfort and security. In Balasana, our back expands and provides a protective shell for our delicate vital organs, which rest in relative calm on our thighs. Resting the forehead on the floor further quiets the mind. The result is a slowing of the breath and brain activity. In Balasana, we come home.

Begin on your hands and knees on a mat or blanket. Take a moment to feel the weight on your hands.

Are your palms contacting the floor evenly? Even out your hands from side to side and from heels to fingers. Now settle your hips back onto your heels and rest your forehead on the floor. Stretch your arms out in front of you for a few breaths, lengthening all the way from your pelvic floor to the fingertips like a cat stretching out its paws. Take a few breaths with your arms actively extended, then release your arms to your sides and turn your palms up.

Allow your shoulder blades to slide out to the sides.

Imagine your back is shaped like a tortoise shell and draw the breath into your back, expanding it out in all directions. Let your breath massage your back from the inside. On your exhalations, let go of any tension you feel anywhere in your body. Take as many breaths here as you like. When you are ready to come out of the pose, place your hands under your shoulders, ground your shins and knees, press with your hands and slowly roll your spine up lifting your head last, so that you are sitting on your heels.

Relax and breathe naturally.

It is not advisable to practice Balasana if you are pregnant or if you have loose bowels. If you have knee problems, ask your teacher to show you how to use blankets to modify the pose so you can practice safely.

Practice Balasana any time— between active poses in your yoga practice or when you need to slow down and regroup from a busy life.

A life of balance includes activity and rest, outward and inward focus, sound and silence. Balasana can be your peaceful haven. 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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The future of solar It’s 2 p.m. and you walk to the floor-toceiling window of your corner office on the 56th floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago.

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built in. Pythagoras is expecting to generate up to two megawatts of electricity from the Sears Tower alone—and all that energy comes from the sun. If you can afford the $125 per square foot, not bad, not bad at all.

Of course, making all those high-tech solar panels takes a lot of rare metals and technological know-how—something that might change with a new breakthrough in the physics of light. University of Michigan researchers have found a way to generate electricity just by passing light through ordinary glass, taking advantage of a property of light ignored up until now. Light passing through glass generates a magnetic field— an effect so weak that it was discounted as a power source. But under the right circumstances, it can apparently create a fairly powerful effect—possibly enough to charge capacitors. This could lead to solar panels made of nothing but glass.

And a researcher at the University of Missouri has recently claimed that he has developed a technology to make solar panels that are 90% effecient (the average solar panel now is about 12% efficient, and the average plant only uses about 1% of the light that hits it). The panel uses tiny antennas (called nantennas) carved into silicon.

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The human footprint Ever wonder just what the impact of humans on the world as a whole looks like?

Thanks to the folks over at National Journal, now you can get a good idea. Their website has a bunch of neat maps and charts showing how our impact has changed over time.

For example, surprisingly, the developed world uses less energy per capita now than in 1995—yet people as a whole use more.

Why? Nope, it’s not because Americans have switched their incandescent light bulbs to CFLs; it’s because the birth rate in developing nations has hugely overtaken that of developed ones—and all those poor

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Map your garden If you’re anything like me, the reason for garden-related failures (and they are many) boil down to one word: laziness. Plants require, like, care. Unless you’re cultivating a healthy crop of bindweed or thistles (my thistle patch last year was nine feet tall), you’ve got to be out there watering, weeding, feeding, pruning and, oh yeah, harvesting. All in a timely manner. On top of that, it really helps to practice more advanced garden methodology such as companion planting and crop rotation.

To that end, Mother Earth News has a vegetable garden planner on their website.

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If we’d started in ’73, we’d be there now Gas is already at $4/gallon. Coal is uglydirty. Don’t even get me started on nuclear.

Fossil fuels suck, and Denmark agrees. The Danish government has recently released a plan to get the country using nothing but renewable energy by 2050—that’s right, the whole country, 100% renewable, within 38 years. Moreover, they think they can do it and actually make money—take that, “renewables are too expensive” naysayers.

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June 2011 A tarot reading for CATALYST readers

by Suzanne Wagner Osho Zen Tarot: Trust, Playfulness, Exhaustion

Medicine Cards: Blank Shield, Lizard Mayan Oracle: Adventurer’s Quest, Language of Light

Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Death, Seven of Cups, Seven of Wands

Aleister Crowley Deck: The Hanged Man, Luxury, The Universe Words of Truth: Core Movement, Nurturing, Hatred, Primal

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hank the stars we have made it to June! The intensity of the last many months has finally shifted.

Expect many more shifts, as the Grand Cardinal Cross lasts until 2015, but the intensity of the stellium in Aries is finally past us. The calming influence of Venus has allowed reason to return, bringing better balance, which is welcome relief from the drama most of us have been feeling.

With Mercury and Venus moving into Taurus on May 15 and Mars moving into Taurus on May 11, we finally see

an opportunity to find peace and clarity through this new alignment manifesting in our lives.

It has been a wild ride. There may have been moments over the last few months when you questioned your choices, not to mention your sanity. But in June, it is as if your physical body is aligning with the driving force of your spirit, which is what kicked you into these new places with no explanation.

I know you thought you had an idea of what you were up against, but sometimes the universe is being helpful by not letting you in on all the secrets of transformation. We are often given just enough to propel us forward but not enough to terrify us into remaining in the old pattern.

The good news is now things are making more sense. You have been birthed into a new place that is probably beyond anything your mind could have come up with. You have detoxed an old self into a free and more open place.

Now you see how tenaciously you held onto the old reality, and you’ve gained a newfound understanding and

appreciation of why your lessons came the way they did.

We have both solar and lunar eclipses in June. All eclipses have the potential to change your circumstances. They are called “course rectifiers.” Eclipses are associated with a crisis of some kind. Even if it is an imagined crisis, it may feel very real to you.

Many times a new beginning involves letting go of something from the past—a person, a relationship, an object or a behavior. This is especially true during a lunar eclipse. Eclipses have more impact when they hit your ruling planet. Therefore, in the June

No matter what sign you are, the good news is that things are finally going to feel as if they are on the mend. eclipses, Geminis and Virgos will be more intensely affected by the solar eclipse on June 1. With the lunar eclipse on June 15, it’s the Sagittarians’ turn. Eclipses can present opportunities for major transformation. They amplify, intensify and focus the energies An eclipse may force you to take leaps of faith you might not have believed possible. An eclipse may force you to take action in an area that had stalled; it can bring about changes that seem completely beyond your control.

A solar eclipse signifies a fresh start, a new chapter beginning in life. The effects of a solar eclipse show up in external circumstances.

A lunar eclipse points to a moment of maximum stress and represents the culmination of events or the end of a matter. Lunar eclipses often influence relationships and can become a catalyst from which dramatic change occurs based on what has already been experienced. A lunar eclipse often brings with it a sense of finality, or of unavoidable conditions to the area of your life that it touches.

Lunar eclipses make you look in the rear-view mirror. Often there is a foreshadowing of the eclipse’s effect six months previous. So take a look at what was happening six months ago for insight and the chance to prepare for the June 15 shift.

No matter what sign you are, the good news is that things are finally going to feel as if they are on the mend.

There will be significant movement in important areas of your life, and your direction and purpose will be clarified.

That feeling alone brings huge relief.

It may seem you are waking up from a dream where you have been climbing hills and going through fire. You are exhausted, but so grateful to be awake.

You are present, ready to move forward in the real world.

Let the dream struggle go. Let the past go. Let this moment become the most important thing. Do not cling. Do not wish for times past. They are but dreams in your rear-view mirror. What is ahead is better than any illusion of your past.u Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. She lives in Salt Lake City. suzwagner.com

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JUNE 1 NEW MOON. The Sun rises at 5:58 a.m. today and sets at 8:52 p.m. The average maximum temperature is 82°; the minimum is 56°. Average rainfall is 0.77 inches.

JUNE 6 There’s still time to plant basil, beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, turnips and all hotweather flowers.

JUNE 2 Step outside tonight and face north. Going roughly clockwise from the zenith, you’ll see Bootes, Hercules, Lyra, Cygnus, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Ursa Minor, Auriga and Ursa Major.

If your seeds aren’t germinating, try planting them more shallowly.

JUNE 3 Face south tonight and see Virgo, Centaurus, Lupus, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Serpens, Hercules and Corona Borealis.

JUNE 7 Tomatoes and asparagus grow well together.

Tomatoes repel asparagus beetles and asparagus discourages tomatomunching root nematodes. Plus, they’re harvested at different times and so never cramp Duck egg vs chicken egg each other’s style.

JUNE 4 Plant perennial herbs near the house so you’ll be sure to use them. Mediterranean herbs, including rosemary, oregano and thyme don’t need good soil or much water and do well in planters.

JUNE 5 Different types of waterfowl can live and feed in the same area, because variations in neck length and bill shape allow them to feed on divergent food sources.

Canada geese, for example, have long necks and broad bills so they can shear off the tops of small plants growing along the shoreline.

JUNE 8 FIRST QUARTER MOON. Cool smartphone app of the month: Peak.ar.

Launch Peak.ar and hold your phone up.

You’ll see the names and elevations of the highest peaks of whichever mountain range you’re facing. It comes with a database of over 140,000 peaks. It’s available on both iPhone and Android platforms.

JUNE 9 Keep planting carrots, snap beans and corn every two weeks.

Thin crowded seedlings by snipping them off at ground level, so you don’t disturb neighboring roots.

JUNE 10 Plants that are pollinated by moths, like campion, red valerian, sedum and nicotiana, emit their scent only at dusk.

JUNE 11 Downtown Farmers Market begins. Woo hoo!

directly overhead in the constellation of Taurus. Party at Stonehenge!

JUNE 12 Time to prune spring-flowering shrubs and divide early-blooming rock garden plants.

JUNE 22 Like eggs? Khaki Campbell duck eggs are denser, richer, smoother and tastier than chicken eggs. To learn how to raise your own fowl eggs, check out the Wasatch Community Gardens “Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys and Fowl” workshop. 6-8 p.m. (In case you hadn’t noticed, this is Chicken Week.) wasatchgardens.org

JUNE 13 Water lawn only when it starts to curl; then water deeply, in stages.

JUNE 14 Clouds floating low enough to cast shadows on the ground are usually followed by rain.

In Greek mythology, rainbows were paths made by Iris, messenger of the Gods, as she ran errands between Earth and Heaven.

JUNE 15 FULL ROSE MOON. During World War II, the English were encouraged to gather wild rose hips to make vitamin C syrup, as German submarines were sinking most of the ships carrying citrus fruits. Rose hips are also rich in antioxidants; they act as an anti-inflammatory and are particularly beneficial for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Weirdly enough, the fine hairs inside rose hips are what put the itch in itching powder.

JUNE 16 Fewer than 5% of the bugs in your garden pose a threat to either you or your garden, and the majority of those do very little damage.

JUNE17 Don’t overfertilize your vegetables: once a month is enough. Unless they’re potted; then feed every two weeks.

JUNE 23 LAST QUARTER MOON. Tonight is Midsummer Eve. In Irish lore, the soul leaves the body tonight and visits the place you will die.

On a lighter note, Swedish maidens once placed seven wild flowers under their pillow to summon their future husband’s face in a dream.

JUNE 24 Of course we love bees, but let’s give props to the unsung heroes of pollination: Beetles, butterflies, bats, moths and flies pollinate 75% of the world’s flowering plants.

JUNE 25 Today is the 6th Annual Downtown Tour de Coops. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Wasatch Community Gardens, wasatchgardens.org.

JUNE 26 Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammals, fish, reptiles and birds, as well as in invertebrates.

JUNE 27 The higher the leaf-to-fruit ratio, the sweeter the fruit. Thin apples, pears, peaches and apricots to about one fruit every six to 12 inches.

JUNE 28 Look for Mars near the Moon tonight. Mars has two small moons, Phobos (fear) and Deimos (panic), named for the horses that pulled Greek war god Ares’ chariot. Most scientists believe that Phobos and Deimos are captured asteroids, pulled into orbit around the

JUNE 18 Time for the South Valley leg of the Wasatch Community Gardens 6th Annual Tour de Coops. Visit Sam And Bogart’s coop, featured on our cover! wasatchgardens.org.

JUNE 19 Wondering what to do with all that fresh spinach? How about quiche? Or, better yet, a spinach, goat cheese and strawberry salad with Brianna’s Blush Wine Vinaigrette. Seriously tasty.

JUNE 20 Apples, cabbage, corn, cotton, lima beans, celery, cucumbers and soybeans send out chemical calls for help when they have wounds contaminated by caterpillar spit. The distress call attracts the parasites of their parasite.

JUNE 21 SUMMER SOLSTICE. Summer begins at 10:16 a.m., as the Sun stands

planet.

JUNE 29: SSSssso scary: The longer a rattlesnake rattles, the quieter the warning becomes.

JUNE 30 The Sun rises at 5:58 a.m. today and sets at 9:03 p.m.

“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet.

Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”

—Bob Marley Diane Olson is a writer, gardener and bug hugger.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re idling less and doing so much more.

Through our haul truck idle management program, we have reduced idle time by 30 percent and avoided 550 tons of associated greenhouse gas emissions. This equates to taking about 100 cars off the road or powering 40 homes for one year. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud of this accomplishment.

At Kennecott, this is just one of the many projects and programs that support our commitment to sustainable development.

To update you on our sustainable development progress, we have detailed our environmental, social and economic efforts through stories and videos in our 2010 Kennecott Utah Copper Sustainable Development Report. This interactive multi-media report is available at Kennecott.com. We hope you will take the time to read it, and we look forward to your feedback.

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