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or as long as I've been going to Burning Man—this will be my 12th time—I've tried to figure out how to camp comfortably and in style on the Black Rock desert in late August, a climate as harsh and varied as any in Nevada. Add to that the needs of the three fashion divas I'll be camping with (we used an entire Costco carport just for a dressing room last time we all went) and the “program,” as architects term it, becomes complicated. I've built six structures so far, each bigger and more complete and ultimate than the last. For those new to the concept, Burning Man is an international arts festival in northwest Nevada which has been going on since

1986. It’s a leave-notrace event, where nothing is bought or sold (except coffee and ice). Almost everyone rides a bike. Sufficiently mutilated vehicles, artistically rendered, have a 5mph speed limit. Why, you might ask, don't I just rent an RV and live in an airconditioned coccoon? The problem with anything so isolated from the elements is just that: It becomes a coccoon. Where’s the fun in that? After skipping last year, because I didn't feel like I could really represent, I decided to try once again to construct the ultimate Burning Man abode. Inspired by the Tiny House movement and Belgian Spiegel or Mirror tents, I came up with a system that’s easy to set up and take down. But what should it look like? It's simply a plywood box, or rather three plywood boxes stacked on top of each other. Where shall we go from there? Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser is an iconoclast if there ever was one. Hundertwasser disliked straight lines (the result of having had to join the Hitler Youth in order to conceal his true identity), presented manifestos on living more naturally and planted trees on porches, balconies and rooftops. His playful style is hard to describe;

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Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna, 1985 Wohnen in den Wiesen, Bad Soden 1993

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In memorium Gale Dick Gale Dick (1926-2014), physics professor, music lover and environmental hero, died on July 18. Together with Alexis Kelner, Dick cofounded the Citizens’ Committee to Save Our Canyons with a mission to protect the Wasatch Mountains from development. Without their efforts the Wasatch Mountains would be a very different place today. Carl Fisher, the current executive director of Save Our Canyons suggests ways to honor Gale Dick’s memory: •Go for a walk in the Wasatch, enjoy the wilderness. •Stand up for the remaining wilderness. •Help others appreciate the Wasatch and be informed about what is happening to it. Save Our Canyons: saveourcanyons.org

First wild-hatched condor chick in Utah! Endangered California condors nesting at Zion National Park have hatched a chick – the first wild-born condor in Utah since condor restoration efforts began in the 1980s. Condors used to inhabit the entire Pacific Coast but by 1982 the population of California condors was down to just 22 birds. To keep the birds from going extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began a captive breeding program with chicks hatched in an incubator and raised by people wearing condor-shaped hand puppets. Condors returned to Utah in 1996 when six captive-bred condors were released in the Vermillion Cliffs near the Utah-Arizona border. The proud parents of the new chick were both bred in captivity. The Grand Canyon National Park reports that currently there are 70 (make that 71) condors living in Utah and Arizona. Peregrine Fund: PEREGRINEFUND.ORG

Lead bullets & condors: volunteer effort working? Probably the biggest threat to condor recovery is the use of lead bullets for hunting. Condors are big vultures that fly long distances in search of carrion. When hunters field-dress game they often leave

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behind a pile of guts contaminated with lead shot that poisons condors and other wildlife if they eat it. In 2013, California banned lead ammunition which led to predictable griping from the National Rifle Association and other groups that called the ban “anti-hunting.” For instance, the pro-lead website HUNTFORTRUTH.ORG claims that anti-lead efforts “impede hunters’ rights through the prohibition of traditional ammunition consisting of lead components [and] have used the California condor as a propaganda tool to advance their campaign.” However, if that criticism were true it would have to include the overtly pro-hunting Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR). Utah law does not ban lead bullets, but in 2010 UDWR partnered with a non-profit called Utah Wildlife in Need to implement a voluntary non-lead hunting program patterned on one in Arizona. It might even be working. In 2014 only 16% of Arizona and Utah condors tested showed health-threatening exposure to lead compared to 42% last year.

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cat ladies of the horse world) oppose the bill because, in the past, state-level management has resulted in killing and abuse of wild horses.

Drought disaster sweeps Utah It’s not like we have water to spare. In the hot, hot summer of 2014 the entire state of Utah is included on the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Drought Declaration List. Drought declaration means farmers are eligible for aid from the U.S. federal government. 2014 Drought map: USDA.GOV/DOCUMENTS/USDADROUGHT-FAST-TRACK-DESIGNATIONS-071614.PDF

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On July 21, Peaceful Uprising reported that 19 activists were arrested after blocking roads and chaining themselves to equipment at the U.S. Oil Sands strip-mine site near PR Spring in Utah’s Book Cliffs. Protesters at the site had traveled from Utah Wildlife in Need: UWIN.ORG around the country for a week-long Climate Justice Summer Camp. U.S. Oil Sands (a Canadian company) Can Utah manage has leased over 32,000 acres of state land wild horses? and so far has leveled at least 80 acres of As a non-native species originally introforest and sagebrush. The devastation is duced by humans, wild horses are not happening out of sight from Utah’s popuexactly wildlife but nonetheless people lated urban areas. who love wildlife should be The negative effects concerned that U.S. of tar sands mining Congressman Chris Stewart (Rare mind-boggling. UT-2) has proposed a bill to pri- Oil shale speculators Besides destroying vatize them. Stewart says his in Utah claim strip Utah’s treasured landbill is necessary because, “in scapes, oil companies mining will have the 43 years that the Wild are gloating that tar Free-Roaming Horses and minimal impacts on sands in the Western Burros Act has been in place, U.S. could prop up the water quality and the ranges have been overfossil fuel industry a used, pushing cattle off the supplies. However, bit longer and prevent ranges and leading to the a transition to cleaner Chevron has admitdestruction of important habienergy sources, never ted in court that tat for native species.” mind the ever worsenWhile this is true, Stewart’s ing effects of global their plan to develop bill contains no native species climate change. 500,000 barrels of protection. Ranchers who lease Peaceful Uprising: PEACEgrazing rights are notorious for FULUPRISING.ORG oil per day would allowing cattle to overuse pubrequire as much lic rangelands. Stewart’s “Wild Horse Oil shale and water as 1 million Oversight Act” seems to be people use in a year. the Colorado part of Utah’s efforts to take River control of public lands by grabOil shale speculabing decision-making power tors in Utah claim strip mining will have from federal agencies. It also seems relatminimal impacts on water quality and suped to efforts by various groups (such as plies. However, Chevron USA admitted in a the anti-condor supporters of Colorado courtroom that their plan to HUNTFORTRUTH.ORG, see above) to privatize develop 500,000 barrels of oil per day mangement of wild animals. would require as much water as 1 million Wild horses are currently protected by people use in a year. federal law as “living symbols of the hisThe true confession occurred when toric and pioneer spirit of the West.” Horse Western Resource Advocates (WRA) chalprotection groups (who are a bit like the

lenged Chevron’s unused water rights. Chevron responded that the company intends to begin oil-shale strip mining in Colorado and therefore needs up to 120,000 acre feet of water (which would have to come out of the already overstressed Colorado River system). It has been clear for a long time that the current way of allocating Colorado River water is not working. WRA and American Rivers have teamed up to offer some better ideas in a new report titled The Hardest Working River in the West: Common-Sense Solutions for a Reliable Water Future for the Colorado River Basin. Western Resource Advocates: WESTERNRESOURCEADVOCATES.ORG

Greater Canyonlands National Monument? You might ask, isn’t the natural landscape of Canyonlands National Park already protected? Well, yes and no. For political reasons the National Park is smaller than it might have been, and it is surrounded by BLM land that is already suffering from off-road vehicle overuse, overgrazing and threats from oil and gas development. One way to protect the Canyonlands ecosystem would be to establish a National Monument in areas surrounding the park. A coalition of environmentalists, outdoor retailers, artists and other supporters of the National Monument idea has produced a new report, Greater Canyonlands National Monument: An Opportunity, A Legacy to describe how the National Monument idea might work. GREATERCANYONLANDS.ORG

Nature: healthy for people and other living things Perhaps the best reason to eschew strip-mining and protect places like Greater Canyonlands is, natural places make people healthier and happier. Terri Martin at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has drafted a letter to President Obama urging protection of Greater Canyonlands as “a superlative place for all Americans to discover the joy and satisfaction of being physically active” and as a source of mental and emotional rejuvenation and as a reservoir of clean air and water. SUWA is hoping to find more heath professionals to sign the letter. She is also looking for short (one-page or less) statements or "testimonials" by people (especially Utah residents) who have benefited in terms of physical or mental health/wellbeing by spending time in wild nature. Contact Terri at tERRI@SUWA.ORG if you are a Utahbased health professional and would like to sign the letter or if you are willing to write a testimonial.

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he Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song “Love the One You’re With” is, of course, really an ode to infidelity and casual sex shallowly buried beneath the quartet’s sweet-sounding harmonies. I think this has led, in a less hippie way, to

haps Detroit. You may want to take the stance that this place is so cool you don’t want people to find out about it. That might have worked before the Internet. Believing it makes it real. We seem to fall for all sorts of pop psychology and daily affirmations for parenting and not assaulting our coworkers, so why not apply this to the place you live? You know where the best place to eat is? Your house in your town. You don’t have to be the greatest cook, you just have to be the best one in your

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the local-everything movement. I’d like to suggest that we roll all that buy local, eat local, artisan, sustainable, hand-built, crafted, carbon neutral blah, blah, blah into the one all purpose catch phrase “Live Local.” I admit that coffee, bananas and wine are the main food groups that keep me from being a true, local-only eater. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t at least buy more of the stuff locally rather than pushing the magic Internet button for everything. It’s hard because I really don’t

You don’t have to be the greatest cook, you just have to be the best one in your kitchen. Take a tip from your dog; every meal is a blessing. enjoy the retail experience that includes screaming babies, chaotic parking lots and mordant checker-outers. On occasion, I use the self-checkouts at certain stores to limit my interaction. So, if you concede that we all fall short of perfection but can still strive for something surpassing mediocrity, these are some guidelines to living local. Defend the brand. I know it is sort of marketing speak, but it’s true. By constantly complaining about the place you live, all you do is make the place you live worse. The prices of homes go down which makes tax revenue go down, schools get worse and pretty soon you are like the decaying Roman Empire. Or per-

SLC WORKSHOPS kitchen. Take a tip from your dog; every meal is a blessing. Does Salt Lake City count? I live in Logan. I used to go to Salt Lake once a week for many years to play sports, perform in comedy clubs and haunt the aisles of home improvement stores. Now that we seem to have all that stuff in Logan, I would no longer say that Salt Lake City counts as local. Eighty miles is a world away. Who are the people in these photos? One of the great ways to ruin the place you live is to use stock photography. Every device you own now has a camera in it, so go out and take some real photos of real people where you live, so you aren’t embarrassed when the same perfect photogenic person shows up for a brochure about both Ames, Iowa, and Logan, Utah. You support your local Farmer’s market; support your local photographers equally. When I’m up at 6 a.m. to make it to the airport in Salt Lake City, or I get into said airport at 10 p.m. and face another 90 minutes of driving to get home, I wish my town were a little more connected, but it is not enough to make me want to live elsewhere. Not that, nor the mythical “better restaurants,” Costco or Trader Joe’s. I remain mainly monogamous to Logan. Sing us out, CSN&Y … “So if you can’t live in the place you love, love the place you’re in.” N Dennis Hinkamp is neither paid by or is associated in any way with the Cache Chamber of Commerce.

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first encountered Burners a decade ago. Those pilgrims to the Nevada desert’s annual, week-long, Burning Man event and associated regional “burns” like Utah’s Element 11 helped accelerate my emergence from a halfcentury of conservatism. Initially, I considered them a bit too hedonistic, and their festivals that culminated in the torching of large, temporary sculptures seemed resource wasteful and “carbon unfriendly.” But as I met more Burners, I couldn’t ignore that most were perceptive, broad and deep thinkers who cared intensely about each other and their world. And they were quirky and interesting as hell. But I avoided attending their events until last month when I finally popped my Burner cherry in the company of 1,200 others camping on the alkali flats west of Grantsville. We slept in tents, trailers and motor homes immersed in the pulsing beat of near-constant techno house music. And it happened. I connected. I plugged into the vibe. I got it. The uninhibited dancing, the discussions with no forbidden topic, the gifts

freely offered without expectation of return, the camaraderie all chipped away at boundaries letting us see ourselves both as individuals and as part of a whole. I even learned to let the incessant music, which one friend referred to as the burn’s “heartbeat,” wash over me during rare moments of sleep. But then it happened. During the burning of the centerpiece sculpture…a 3-story tall scrapwood and dried tree branch effigy of a monster from the Maurice Sendak children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, I sat along the safety perimeter about 200 feet away. The flames got so intense we all reflexively moved back. I then saw, over the backs of volunteer rangers, wildly gesticulating limbs heading toward the blaze. Then the word spread. Someone had hurled himself into the inferno. The brave souls who imperiled their own lives trying to stop him had been forced back by the heat. My mind immediately speculat-

REFLECTIONS ed. Was it ____? Before the jumper’s name was released over a day later, others were asking themselves that same question. My own fill-in-theblank person was someone I’d interacted with...or more correctly failed to interact with...that very afternoon. He’d come to a scheduled discussion, PBR in hand, and made a string of less-than-cogent questions and off-the-mark personal comments. Finally, the group organizers asked him to leave. I could have absolved myself from all involvement, but I knew better. That inner voice had whispered after his first few comments to move closer and quietly say, “They’re trying to include everyone here”…radical inclusion is one of 10 Burner guiding principles…“so would you mind limiting your comments so the rest of us can participate, too?” My apathy continued as he took the walk of shame. The voice told me to follow him and offer a conciliatory comment: “Hey, you’re obviously a caring guy. When you’re sober, come back and talk. Here’s my email if you want to connect.” Instead, I joked about him to the group. He may have even overheard it or the laughs it generated as he left the area. Did my callousness somehow contribute to his sense of alienation? Did he commit that fatal act? That concern was alleviated when an identity was announced, but then there was a fresh set. Christopher Wallace had been a close friend of friends. He’d stayed at their camp…one I’d visited. We’d both worked at the same small business. We’re both writers and editors. We’re connected. One of our most persistent cultural myths is that of the lone wolf: the rugged, self-made, I-did-it-myway individual. The truth is something that Burners, New Agers, hip-

pies, metaphysical types and many spiritual and religious folk have been saying for a long time. We humans are at our very core social creatures. We’re all connected. We’re “one” similarly to how the highly differentiated cells that form our bodies are united. The vast majority of us simply don’t live solo. Our actions impact those around us, and theirs in turn influence those with whom they

We’re all connected. We’re “one” similarly to how the highly differentiated cells that form our bodies are united. Our actions impact those around us, and theirs in turn influence those with whom they come in contact. come in contact. Those interactions carry varying weight and their impacts range from a barely felt, perhaps unnoticed brush, to a gentle nudge, to a major boost or a shove, to a knock to the floor, or to a saving lift. As much as we realize that we’re all ultimately responsible for our decisions, something inside knows that we oversell ourselves on that point. We try to diminish the feeling deep in our guts that we all constantly influence each other for good or less-than-good in minor to major ways. Great speculation followed the incident. Was it depression, delusion, desperation, detachment, drink or drugs? And those are just a few Ds. However, the private revelations of several of Wallace’s close friends shed light on the fact that a very loving, much-beloved, welladjusted, satisfyingly employed, happily married, 30-year-old had been experimenting with altered reality states using mescaline and, most likely, other hallucinogens. Contrary to some media reports, there were no suicidal signs, he hadn’t foretold of his act, and there was no note. At this point, however, the Grantsville police department is not offering further clarification of its previous reports. Wallace’s funeral was a healing affair that confirmed what his friends had told me about him.

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he ongoing mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), since first being reported in 2006, continues to affect honeybees and farm crops globally and here in Utah. While overwinter bee loss is normal, the overall health of bees both wild and domesticated, on the decline since the 1940s, has only worsened with the introduction of pests and pathogens in the 1990s. Last April Forbes magazine reported that a third of honeybees in the United States were lost over winter. Spain suffered an 80% loss. In Utah, the most recent numbers from the Department of Agriculture and Food show a 40% loss. Yet some places, Canada and Australia, are still untouched by this sweep of death. The cause of this die-off remains unknown, though hypotheses

Bioaccumulation increases toxicity levels. Because neonicotinoids are water soluble, their persistent presence can contaminate ground and surface water, extending their impact far beyond their intended target.

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abound. Cell phone signals have been blamed—a conclusion based on a small study in Germany and widely dismissed by agriculture experts and scientists. Other potential culprits include environmental and management stressors like pathogens, parasites, and scarcity of food or poor nutrition due to overcrowding—often a problem where commercial hives congregate for commercial crop pollination. Now, a new culprit is garnering international attention, neonicotinoids (neo-nicotine-oid), a powerful neuro-toxin that attacks the central nervous system of insects,. The irony is that this class of pesticide was developed by Shell and Bayer in the mid-1990s as a less-toxic alternative designed specifically to protect pollinators. The key principle that supposedly makes neonicotinoids “safe” is their method of application. Often used as a seed treatment for crops like corn, this point-specific application avoids broadcast spraying of mature plants, thus allowing the pesticide to target the pest only.

Oops Still, operator error can do serious damage. As shoppers at an Oregon Target near Portland learned last summer, the potential for neonicotinoids to kill non-targeted creatures

is very real. When 25,000 bumblebees, ladybugs and other pollinators fell dead in the shopping center’s parking lot, the single largest recorded pollinator die-off in the country, investigations revealed pesticide poisoning. Landscapers had treated European linden trees in full bloom with a neonicotinoid, almost instantly killing the tens of thousands of pollinators that swarmed the trees’ nectar-laden flowers. Although nothing of similar magnitude has occurred in Utah, cases of neonicotinoid-related pollinator deaths have occurred here, reports Clint Burfitt, Program Manager for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Apiary Inspection Program. And, as with the case in Oregon, most are due to careless pesticide application. “Pesticides can play role in bee die-off, but they are usually local or isolated incidents,” says Clint Burfitt. “Generally, if I see a pesticiderelated incident, it’s in a very specific situation—say, a crop dust plane flies over, dropping pesticides and kills beehives on the ground.” Such incidents may be the clearest links between pollinator deaths and neonicotinoids, but they are almost certainly not the only events.

Persists in plants and soil Neonicotinoids are systemic—they move throughout the plant. Applied to the seeds, trunk, leaves or even the soil surrounding plants, the pesticide travels to other parts including pollen, nectar and even into surrounding soil and groundwater. “Any insect feeding on pollen or nectar could be exposed to the systemic insecticide,” writes Richard S. Cowles of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Since neonicotinoids used in arboriculture Anti neonic rally in UK

have proved particularly toxic to bees, Cowles recommends not treating trees or plants that attract pollinators. He says even low exposure “can cause maladaptive and lethal behaviors” associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) such as impaired navigation and inability to gather food, ward off diseases or reproduce. A study published this May in the Bulletin of Insectology, authored by Chensheng Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology at Harvard School of Public Health, concludes that CCD is related specifically to neonicotinoids. After comparing overwinter hive loss, the study showed a loss of half the neonicotinoid-treated colonies versus one out of six non-treated hives. At the University of Sussex, Dr. David Goulson, Ph.D, is studying just how long neonicotinoids persist in plants and soil. According to the manufacturer’s own data, says Goulson, one form (clothianidin) can remain in soil for almost 19 years. Bioaccumulation of neonicotinoids increases toxicity levels. Because they are water soluble, their persistent presence can contaminate ground and surface water, extending their impact far beyond their intended target. Following the Target die-off incident, the city of Eugene, Oregon unanimously passed a resolution banning the use of neonicotinoids on city property—strengthening the city’s already strong pest management policy that includes no-pesticides zones around many of the city’s parks and recreation areas. Oregon’s hippies aren’t the only ones questioning the benefit of neonicotinoids. Last year the European Commission instated a continent-wide, two-year ban on

Salt Lake City’s Open Space program does not currently use insecticides containing neonicotinoids, and none of the herbicides used list neonicotinoids (imidacloprid, acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, and others) as an active ingredient. neonicotinoids. In the United States, following a petition from the Center for Food Safety, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to phase use neonicotinoid use in wildlife refuges in the Pacific Northwest by 2016. Here in Salt Lake, we don’t need to be concerned yet about the potential for massive pesticide-related pollinator deaths. While there is no specific ban on using such chemicals, Dax Reid, Natural Lands Supervisor for Salt Lake’s Parks and Public Lands Program, says the city’s Open Space program does not currently use insecticides containing neonicotinoids, and none of the herbicides used list neonicotinoids as an active ingredient. Responsibility to protect pollinators does not rest entirely on city officials. Home gardeners can just as easily obtain and use pesticides and herbicides with neonicotinoids. Various versions of the compound appear in products as seemingly innocuous as Bayer’s Rose & Flower Care or Scott’s Tree & Shrub Insect Control Ready-to-spray (for a more complete list of home gardening products that contain neonicotinoids go to WWW.BEYONDPESTICIDES.ORG/ POLLINATORS/DOCUMENTS/PESTICIDE_LIS T_FINAL.PDF)

Beyond neonicotinoids One piece of evidence that continues to keep neonicotinoids off the hook as the lone contributor to Colony Collapse Disorder is the fact that some countries, like Australia, are not seeing colony collapse but do use neonicotinoids. Australia also does not have Varroa mites. Some believe this alone shows that CCD is a combination of factors including disease, environmental issues and pesticides. Varroa mites, an external parasite that attacks the adults and brood of honeybees, were originally found only in Asia. Native hosts were largely unthreatened by the pest, but when the mite spread to European honeybees in the 1960s, the new hosts proved less resilient. Weakened by deformities caused by the mite,

European honeybees began to die. Commercial beekeeping has been a significant factor in the rapid spread of Varroa mites and other problems associated with incidents of CCD. As hives move across the United States, in constant pursuit of the next crop ready for pollination, these colonies, despite regular treatment with antibiotics, continue to spread disease not just to each other but to local domesticated and native wild bee populations.

Burfitt, has 2,000 registered beekeepers. Salt Lake alone has nearly 50 registered beekeepers per square mile. While disease prevention is important to reducing cases of CCD locally, such a high concentration of hives will make a certain amount of hive loss inevitable. “We have limited foraging resources in an urban environment,” Burfitt explains. “As the city grows, we continue to pave over habitat essential for all pollinators, native bees and European honeybees.”

For now, some of the power to save bees rests in our hands. Choosing not to use pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids, in our gardens is a start. Planting pollinator-friendly gardens is additionally important. Flowering plants provide bees with food. “Instead of putting another hive in the city, plant a pollinator garden,” encourages Utah’s apiary program inspector Clint Burfitt. “Because at the end of the day, it takes a village to raise a bee.” N

In Utah Utah’s Grand County has an extremely low rate of CCD and is actively working to maintain that record. The town of Castle Valley has placed an outright ban on commercial beekeepers in the area, an attempt to limit exposure to pests and pathogens circulated by traveling hives as well as to avoid the problematic factor of resource competition. In another tactical move, Grand County is looking at limiting the number of bees per lot, which could prevent large commercial keepers from moving in hives. But even with regulations, inspections and careful planning, here in Utah and along the Wasatch Front, CCD outbreaks occur. For hobby beekeepers, being aware of local disease outbreaks, having the ability to recognize a problem and knowing what to do are essential to protecting colony health and hopefully preventing a collapse. “We try to teach beekeepers best practices,” says Clint Burfitt, Apiary Inspection Program Manager, in a government program that has required Utahns to register their hives since 1879. When the apiary program recently found four cases of American Foulbrood, a highly contagious bacterial disease spread through spore-contaminated nectar, honey and pollen stores, they notified all registered beekeepers within a four-mile radius. Such alerts are just one of the services the program provides. In recent years, Burfitt has witnessed a rise in the popularity of backyard beekeeping. Utah, says

Make a bee-friendly garden Don’t be fooled by pretty labels. These and other products, commonly available at Home Depot and other gardening centers, contain neonicotinoids and are bad for bees: Monterey Concentrated Once-a-year insect control Ortho Rose and Flower insect and disease control concentrate Ortho tree and shrub fruit tree spray For a full list of products to avoid: WWW.BEYONDPESTICIDES.ORG/POLLINATORS/DOCUMENTS/PESTICIDE_LIST_FINAL.PDF 2) Plant flowers that bees appreciate. Not all flowers are equal in the eyes of a bee. Tulips, marigolds and petunias may beautify a yard but, according to USDA research entomologist and Utah State University (Logan) adjunct professor James Cane, “these and other garden flowers have, through years of artificial breeding and selection, lost whatever attraction they may have had for bees.” Here is Cane’s list of suggested plants for a pollinator garden. Plants with a * are native to Utah: yarrow*, monkshood (aconitum), hyssop*, carpet bugle, ornamental onions, hollyhock, serviceberry*, false indigo, dill, columbine*, manzanita, prickly poppy, sea thrift, aster*, desert marigold*, barberry, borage, mustard, annual coreopsis, American bellflower (campanula)*, redbud, mountain mahogany*, flowering quince, rabbit brush*, watermelon, clarkia*, cleome, cosmos, hawthorn, squash, prairie clover, carrot, queen Anne’s lace, larkspur*, ice plant, foxglove, coneflower (Echinacea), sea holly, California Poppy, fennel, strawberry, beeblossom, blue gentian*, sunflower, heliotrope, rose of sharon, sweet pea, lavendar, gayfeather, flax*, mint, mountain bluebells*, beebalm, basil, penstemon*, Russian sage, desert pincushion*, elderberry, thyme, valerian, zinnia, Indian blanket (Gallardia)*, blackeyed Susan (Rudbeckia)* 3) According to Laurence Packer, melittologist (that is, someone who studies wild bees) and author of Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them (2010: Harper Collins), there are almost 20,000 known species of bees— and fewer than 10 of those species are honey bees. Much like the European honey bee, these wild species are great pollinators. They, too, are facing a significant decline in numbers due to resource competition with honey bees and loss of habitat. When planning a pollinator garden think of these wild bees as well, 90% of which do not live in a hive but rather in burrows in the ground, in hollow or pithy stems or in abandoned insect tunnels in wood. With this in mind, plant raspberry bushes—the stalks provide the perfect home for many of these bees. Don’t lay a cloth barrier over your garden, which inhibits burrowing bees from making their home. In fact, you might even want to leave a bare patch of soil undisturbed for ground-nesting bees to do their thing.

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Home again with The Rose Exposed Getting to know the artistic “home” of Rose, Jeanné and Leona Wagner BY AMY BRUNVAND the exact birthplace of I.J. “Izzi” Wagner, a Salt Lake businessman who got his start manufacturing paper bags, and that Izzi’s wife had once been a vaudeville dancer. As a tribute to the women Izzi called “the three most important people in my life,” Izzi Wagner donated seed money to build the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (named after Izzi’s mom) which includes the 500-seat Jeanné Wagner Theatre

something interesting going on and there are simply no bad seats. You always feel like you are sitting right in the middle of the stage and, depending on the show, sometimes you are. Nonetheless, it seems that many Salt Lakers are more tuned into beer than modern dance—many people know of the Rose Wagner mainly as “that place across from Squatters.” So three years ago member

One of Jeanné Doré’s most popular numbers was the Mexican hat dance. She designed and made her own costumes. (1937)

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

ome 30 years ago Utah’s Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) was looking for a new home. The modern dance company, which started at the University of Utah in 1966, was housed on campus in decrepit World War II army barracks, but plans for a fancy new dance building didn’t include any space for RDT. There was stiff competition for stages at Kingsbury Hall and the Capitol Theater, and in any case those venues were often too big for companies with small and midsized audiences. It was clear that Salt Lake City needed some smaller, more intimate performance spaces. A group of organizations came together as the Performing Arts Coalition (PAC) to figure out a way to build them. In the meantime, the old barracks were torn down, and for a while RDT was homeless, renting a downtown building for rehearsal space. But then something wonderful happened. It transpired that the rehearsal building was located at

In about 1955, the Wagner family came together at Izzi and Jeanné’s new house. L-R Abe Wagner, Rose Wagner, Leona Wagner Pearlman, Burnam Pearlman, Jeanné Rasmussen Wagner and I.J. Wagner

(named after Izzi’s wife) and the Leona Wagner Black Box Theater (named after Izzi’s sister). You can read more about Izzi Wagner and his contributions to Salt Lake City in the book Bags to Riches: The Story of I.J. Wagner by Don Gale (2007: University of Utah Press). Nowadays it’s hard to remember how Salt Lake City got by without the Rose Wagner. Resident companies include the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Plan-B Theatre, Pygmalion Theatre Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and SB Dance, and rental space is in high demand by many other arts organizations. There is always

organizations of PAC set out to raise the profile of the Rose Wagner with an annual celebration called The Rose Exposed. Daniel Charon who is the new artistic director at RirieWoodbury Dance Company (he

took over from Charlotte BoyeChristensen last year) describes The Rose Exposed as kind of a “taster.” He says each company has its fans and supporters. This is a chance for the many organizations that use the Rose Wagner to cross-pollinate. This year The Rose Exposed is focused on the theme “Home.” Ticket sales will be donated to The Road Home to support services for homeless people. It’s also about engaging the community. A Rose Exposed Facebook page has been set up and anyone who feels so moved can post something about the theme of “home” (I posted a poem to help get the ball rolling, so don’t be shy!). These contributions will be used as inspiration and source material for new creations, and the public is invited to stop by the Rose Wagner to watch the works in progress the day of the show. The final works developed by each company will be presented at The Rose Exposed on August 23 as a festival of dance, theater and music that explores the many ideas about what it means to be home. Charon says the idea for the benefit came from wanting to include people in the downtown neighborhood, and to build awareness of the problem of homelessness. He says, The Rose Exposed is all about the power of art to change a community: “Through the power of art we can support something important to society. It’s about the power of art to shed some light on the issues, the power of art and what it can do to create conversation.” N

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From Warhol’s Factory to the land of Zion Alex Caldiero encounters Isabelle DuFresne

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something Old Worldly about her, aristocratic and refined. She is wearing a purple gown and a rather long scarf wrapped around her neck and down her body. We shake hands and that’s when it hits me, like a revelation: I’m astonished by something half magnetic, half erotic that flows from her hand into mine. She welcomes me in with a heavy French accent. This is Isabelle Dufresne. What’s with me? She’s old enough to be my mother or my aunt. I’m uneasy and not a little disturbed by the stimulation—I’m turned on and I don’t know why. My friend formally introduces us and we sit and chat about nothing in particular, Sam Falk/The New York Times, 1968 until Ms. Dufresne starts in Ultra Violet, right, with Andy Warhol and Viva about art, her art. Her recent work involving apocalyptic angels. She sees herself as on a misalready regretting being so agreesion to save the world from maleable. What I dislike more than interdominated violence. You see, she esting people is being considered declares, the angels will soon come an interesting person. and end all wars. They will fly down I head for the Comfort Inn and, as from the heavens and straddle the is my custom I’m right on time. Up guided missiles and ride them out one flight of stairs and I’m at the of harm’s way. After all, weapons of door. Knock. A woman answers. destruction are phallic in nature She’s nothing like I expected. There’s t was around 1994 (seems like only yesterday) a friend called, said: there’s an artist visiting at BYU from New York, wanted to meet some interesting local folks, I thought of you. What d’you say?...I said: alright… Well then, come tonight at 6 pm to the Comfort Inn in Provo. She gave me the room number and I hung up

and appearance: guns, swords, missiles, and such. The angels will render every one of them impotent and ineffectual. These are the apocalyptic angels: angelic cowgirls in the holy rodeo war of the last days. She then shows me some of her works expressive of this theme. She has come to Provo as a visiting artist at Brigham Young University where she is using the art department’s computers and printers to produce these spectacular images of the end of times. My friend explains that Isabelle was kept under wraps during her five-day visit, and given access to the equipment but not to the students, and met with only a chosen few of the faculty. Very mysterious lady, I think. At a certain point in Ms. Dufresne presentation, my friend makes a random comment: Alex, you may

She says it gives her no little joy knowing that Andy, that is Warhol, has accepted the gospel and is now blissfully painting a plethora of heavenly soup cans in the celestial kingdom.

have heard of Isabelle by another name…Ultra Violet…and the very moment the words “Ultra Violet” are pronounced, I catch a glimpse of a broach which no doubt had been in plain view all along, but until that instant was invisible, a broach with rhinestones spelling out ULTRA VIOLET! That explains everything, I said to myself: the phallic nature of her art, my perception of her erotic aura…it explains everything and much more, but it doesn’t explain what in heaven’s name she is doing in Provo and why BYU. As I gaze at Ultra Violet with her new name, in a manner of speaking, I begin to see her in a new light…I flash back to certain images, now recollected almost subliminally, from certain films, risqué in the best sense of that word…one in particular, I, A Man (1967), in which Ultra, in a long, prolonged kiss, gives the concept of copulation a deep and more focused meaning… and I flash back to the ’60s and to New York and Andy Warhol and the Factory and the clique of folks that hung around and revolved about Warhol as planets ’round a sun…a star. And everybody was transformed into a star basking in his divine light. She tells me of how after a neardeath experience due to illness, she

At this point, the last thing I want to talk about is the apocalypse or her re-born self. I want to know about her past; the art scene of the ’60s; the people she knew and what she thought of them. But my every overture is met with curt and abrupt replies and she heads back to the angels and the gospel message.

Ultra Violet, Apocalyptic Angel, c. 1994

began to seek a higher truth and a higher power than that promised by the impresario of fame and glamor…and how in her search she encountered two Mormon missionaries who changed her life. She received a burning testimony of the truthfulness of the restored Gospel and Joseph Smith as true prophet of God and the instrument through which the truth was restored upon the Earth in these latter days. She tells me of how the Holy Ghost came upon her and revealed the error of her ways and how the light of truth shined upon her. She saw the error of her ways, and she was

Ultra Violet with Salvador Dalí at the Huntington Hartford Museum in New York in 1969. Credit: ULTRAVIOLETWEB.COM

born again. Thus she left behind the life of sex and drugs and partying and debauchery and sin. Through her conversion Ultra emerged a Latter-Day Saint. And from that day on, she was an active and upstanding member of the LDS Church, humbled by her calling as the Homemaking Leader in the Relief Society of the Manhattan ward. At this point, the last thing I want to talk about is the apocalypse or her re-born self. I wanted to know about her past; the art scene of the ’60s; the people she knew and what she thought of them. But my every overture is met with curt and abrupt replies and she heads back to the angels and the gospel message. During this back and forth from Warhol to Jesus Christ, she lets slip something Dali said of her. When she was 19, she had been Salvador Dali’s studio assistant and his lover. “Dali said I was surreal,” she says, not with a little delight. I wholeheartedly agree. After all, he was one of the big daddies of surrealist truth, and truth by any other name is truth. Then she goes on to describe her work for the dead. This is a Mormon temple practice by which living people get themselves baptized by proxy for some dead individual. She says it gives her no little joy knowing that Andy, that is Warhol, has accepted the gospel. She has a testimony and an assurance that he accepted the baptism and is now blissfully painting a plethora of heavenly soup cans in the celestial kingdom.

For me, this image of Andy Warhol in Mormon heaven is completely believable as uttered out of the mouth of Ultra Violet, a mouth that in former days indulged in orgiastic play, but which now exudes words of wisdom and spirituality. When I press her again to tell me about the people she knew, such as Duchamp, her only response is: “Too much homosexuality.” And with that, she digresses back to the impending apocalypse and brings out more images from her Apocalyptic Angels series. She wants to stay on track, for straight is the way and narrow the path that leads to salvation…salvation from debauchery and drugs and sin.

You see, she declares, the angels will soon come and end all wars. They will fly down from the heavens and straddle the guided missiles and ride them out of harm’s way. These are the apocalyptic angels: angelic cowgirls in the holy rodeo war of the last days.

The evening draws to a close and we say good night, arranging to meet next day for breakfast. As I drive home, I move through a surreal landscape, that is, not unreal or unbelievable, but super-real and sharp and miraculous, a landscape wherein the least likely events happen together and form an alternate reality…as Lautreamont described it long ago: “A Chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella” Such a meeting has just occurred and I am filled with wonderment. In the morning, the three of us sit together for breakfast at the Provo Comfort Inn. Ultra takes out a typescript she is working on and asks if I would read and edit it. I’d be happy to, I say. (Later, I write her to say how much I enjoyed the writing and that I would not change a thing. She writes as she speaks, with an accent that is part of her persona. However, I am certain that my recommendation will fall on deaf ears. She wants to be politically-grammatically correct. Then, breakfast over, and after another bout on the nature and role of celestial art, we exchange gifts: I give her a book of my poems, she gives me an image of one of her apocalyptic angels. We part with a hug and a traditional French kiss on both cheeks. As I walk to my car, I can clearly taste and feel on my lips the subtle residue of a blend of flesh, makeup, and sweat. *** And so, as happens to everyone sooner or later, this past June, Isabelle Dufresne, a.k.a. Ultra Violet, shed her mortal coil. In the days following her passing, my friends gave me their condolences, as if I were a member of her family…and so it is that I realize how in the kingdom of the saints there are those who do not sing to the choir, but yearn nevertheless for song. And I want to believe that sister Violet has flown off, escorted by her angels, back into the arms of Jesus, Joseph Smith and Andy Warhol. And in that august company, she is ever singing with her newfound ultra violet tongue…ne plus ultra. N Alex Caldiero is Alex Caldiero is a poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and intermedia.

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18 August 2014

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Brewing beer fresh from the vine BY KATHERINE PIOLI

he time for brewing beer is upon us. The weather is cooling into fall and putting a fivegallon pot of water to boil on the kitchen stove no longer seems like an insane idea. There is another reason to brew this time of year: hops. Starting in late August and continuing into early September, hops plants are ready for harvest. Hops are a core ingredient in brewing beer. Hop vines, growing up to 25 feet tall in full sun (six to eight hours/day), are proliferating around my neighborhood as more and more people plant this hardy perennial, apparently for its fragrant smell alone, for the cones always seem to languish on their vines. Brewing with “wet” hops can be intimidating when you’re used to packaged pellets from the supply store. With a few simple instructions, however, treating your beer with the fresh touch of local hops is certain to produce satisfying results.

Hops 101 Imagine sticking your nose over a newly poured IPA. What smells hit you? Pine sap. Grapefruit. Marijuana? When early taxonomists were deciphering and deciding the evolutionary relationship between animals and plants, assigning them kingdoms, families and so on, they linked Humulus lupulus, hops, with Cannabis sativa, marijuana, mostly because the similar structure of their palmately lobed leaves seemed to indicate a connection. In the years since, DNA testing has allowed molecular biologists to test conclusively at a genetic level the once-

assumed relationship between plants and animals. As a result, many of these early taxonomic guesses have been debunked. However, a genetic test of hops and marijuana conducted in 2002 confirmed that the two plants indeed both belong to the family Cannabinaceae. Homebrewers have been known to experiment with marijuanahopped beer. THC is alcohol-soluble and the higher the alcohol percentage, the more extraction. Instructions (with wildly varying techniques and outcomes) are available on the web. For a brewer, the most important part of the hop vine is the cone. Underneath each leafy bract on the cottonball-sized cone lies the magic source of bitterness and flavor, the lupulin gland. This gland contains resins filled with essential oils and alpha and beta acids. Break open a dry cone and you’ll see the tiny yellow particles. If you’re already a homebrewer, you’re probably familiar with alpha acids. Each packet of hops from the brew supply store gives the hops an alpha acid percentage.

High-percentage hops are added at the beginning of the wort boil and give a beer its bitter taste. Low-percentage hops are added at the end of the boil or during fermentation (dry hopping) to impart floral aromas. The 100-plus hops varieties can mostly be divided into bittering or finishing hops. The varieties are also known individually for their unique flavor and aroma characteristics: For instance, Cascade is considered flowery and citrusy, Millenium mild and herbal, Willamette spicy.

Wet hops: wild vs homegrown Most hop cultivars used by brewers, both professional and amateur, originate from the wild Eurasia hop, domesticated around the 11th century. Six centuries later, offspring of this domesticated Eurasian hop were introduced to North America. Sometimes, hops being a tenacious plant, these domesticated varieties escaped their gardens and farms and became established along roads, in canyons and fields around the country. Sometimes, they crossed with the native wild North American hop. These days wild hops—natives, escapees and crossbreeds—can be found across the country and even here in Utah. One trusted source reports wild hops growing in Provo Canyon near Bridal Veil Falls. It’s nearly impossible to determine exactly what kind of hop you have when you find it growing wild. But no matter what it is, wild hops are fine to use in homebrew. Just ask Desert Edge Brewery masterbrewer Chris Haas. Since 2006 Haas has foraged wild hops to use in his seasonal, local-ingredient-sourced brew, Radius (within a radius of 150 miles). The only tricky part to using wild foraged hops, says Haas, is not knowing the varietal or the alpha content. Without this knowl-

edge, a brewer can only guess if the hops should go in for two minutes or a whole hour. The way to find out, says Haas, is through experimentation: trial and error. Because of this unavoidable variable factor with mysterious wild hops, using homegrown hops is a little easier. Likely, you know what varietal you’re using from the start. That still doesn’t mean you know the exact alpha acid percentage. When you buy Cascade, for instance, the hop has been tested and the package will give its exact alpha percentage—helping you know how long to boil it depending on how much bitterness you want. But Cascade has a natural acid makeup that ranges from 4 to 7% and the same vine may produce cones with a different percentage year to year depending on growing conditions (rainfall, heat, sunshine). Purchased hops have been lab tested to determine the exact percentage so there is no guesswork. With homegrown, all you will know is the likely range. This just adds a little mystery to your beer. Look at it as an opportunity, once again, to experiment with different batches. If you bought your hops from a reputable source (Beer Nut offers hops rhizomes in the spring, about $4 each), you will know if you have Cascade, a finishing hop, or Chinook, a bittering hop. Knowing this helps you decide when to add them. Unknown hops are simply a guess, but hey, it works for Chris Haas and Desert Edge.

To dry or not to dry When Chris Haas harvests hops for his Radius beer, he brews with the cones immediately after harvesting them. This is called using “wet” hops. Don’t put your freshly harvested hops in the fridge and wait 10 days—or even two—before making your beer, says Haas. Each day spent picked but unused causes loss of potency. If you want to save homegrown or foraged hops for later use, dry them. The steps are easy: Place harvested hop cones on a screen and set in sun. You can also use a fan to speed drying, but don’t blow the hops away. Drying may take up to a week depending on temperature and humidity. To test for readiness fold a cone in half. If the stem breaks and the bracts

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How to harvest Hops bloom in July and August. By late August or early September the cones are ready for harvest. Haas says the cones are best harvested just as they start to open, before they dry on the plant. Once the cone opens, he says, the lupulin that gives hops their flavor and aroma will start degrading. On the flip side, a Utah State University extension services publication recommends harvesting hop cones from the vine only after they became slightly dry and papery. However, those are not instructions specific for brewers, so I would stick with Chrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; method. Here are some things you might want to know as you get ready to harvest and brew: One hops plant will yield about one to two pounds of dried cones. Wet cones should be used immediately unless properly dried and stored for later use. To convert from dry to wet hops in a recipe: Take the amount of dry hops your recipe calls for and add approximately three to six times as much when using wet hops. Hops are naturally antiseptic so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be sanitized. They will help preserve your beer, preventing unwanted growth of bacteria while also enhancing the ability of yeast to grow and ferment. Experiment with your fresh hops for bittering, finishing and dryhopping.

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Preparing for winter: hops care instructions For those of you growing hop vines in your yard, the end of harvest season means preparing for the next year. Though not necessary, a few actions will help your plant in the coming season: After harvest, cut hop vines off the trellis, leaving about two feet of the plant. Make a trench alongside the plant. Bend this lead to the side and bury it a few inches deep in the trench. The following spring, this buried branch will produce new roots and buds. Since hops grow from a rhizome, the plant will naturally spread over time, kind of like mint but not as aggressively.

Other uses for hops Chris Haas puts hops in a bag and hangs it from his rearview mirror for an all-natural air freshener. He also infuses gin with hops. Just pop some into your favorite bottle and allow it to sit a few weeks. According to Hass, it makes a perfect winter sipper. Hops have significant nutritional value. They contain phytoestrogens, which are loaded with antioxidants. They help neutralize free radicals. They contain trace amounts of certain vitamins. Because of this, the extract is sometimes used in skincare products. Hops can also be found in healthfood stores as a supplement. Red Butte horticulturist Fritz Kollmann makes a tea from hops. Put one or two cones in a tea ball and steep for two minutes. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too bitter for your tastebuds, add some local honey. Note: If you have a dog that â&#x20AC;&#x153;eats anything,â&#x20AC;? compost your hops out of site. The cones, both before and after, can be toxic to some dogs. N Katherine Pioli is CATALYSTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff writer.

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hey are growing from the top of the Natural History Museum of Utah, sprouting from the terraced sides of the LDS Conference Center, putting roots onto the new downtown Public Safety Building and across the street at the Main Library. They are green roofs. Originating in Scandinavia, where sod torn up for a new home was sometimes replanted on the roof of the dwelling, the idea of what a green roof is has changed and expanded as it’s moved to new continents and different climates. Here in the arid West, green roofs are not the lush green elevated lawns of the Old World, but they still provide the same benefits: rainwater management, cooling and energy conservation, increased biodiversity and wildlife habitat, noise insulation, water waste treatment and, sometimes, food production. A DIY green roof doesn’t have to start with your house, and it probably shouldn’t. Learning on small projects—say, a green roof dog house or bird feeder—is a great place to start before graduating to sheds and, down the road, a home. For projects big and small, Here are a few tips from the experts.

Why am I doing this? Ed Snodgrass, green roof researcher, nursery owner and co-author of Small Green Roofs (2011: Timber Press), asks his clients this question first: Why do I want a green roof? By refining your intent, says Snodgrass, you can

A DIY green roof project is a big endeavor requiring serious thought and planning. Designing the roof – what kind of soil will you use, how will you ensure good drainage, what will you plant—can’t even start until you cover the basics. According to Snodgrass, there is a distinct “hierarchy of failures,” the worst possible of which is roof collapse. Research the weight load for your structure. Utah homes should have roofs with a weight-bearing capacity of at least 30 pounds per square foot (double check the local building codes). A single inch of soil can weigh seven pounds per square foot, so most structures will require additional support to hold the weight of a green roof.

Even in the arid west, a green roof can provide rainwater management, cooling and energy conservation, increased biodiversity and wildlife habitat, noise insulation, water waste treatment and, sometimes, food production. The second worse failure, says Snodgrass, is a leaky roof. Eventually, bad leaks can compromise the structure, but in the short term, you don’t want to put in all the work laying soil and plants only to find the waterproofing doesn’t work and needs to be redone.

Compared to these factors, other complications like soil blowing away or plants dying are minor. They might require more labor, but they won’t hurt the building.

Choosing soil and plants Scandinavians grew their green roofs in soil taken straight from the ground. Some modern green roofs still use garden soil, but there are plenty of other options. Crushed brick, pumice, expanded clay and shale are good options especially for a drought-tolerant green roof that will require good drainage.

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When considering weight, your choice of soil substrate is essential. Specialized mixes like Utelite, an expanded shale aggregate substrate used on green roofs at the LDS Conference Center and the Natural History Museum of Utah, can cut the soil weight by half. In 2010, the Denver Botanic Garden planted a 1,180-square-foot green roof using it as a test case to research whether green roofs could be water-efficient in water-thirsty areas. Four years later, horticulturist Amy Schneider considers the garden a success. Since the roof’s installment Schneider has been collecting data on garden’s 112 plants, enabling the botanical garden to compile from these records a list of well-adapted, hardy plants thriving in a garden that receives a one-inch watering every seven weeks. Schneider hasn’t always been able to water so little, and not every plant has survived.

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Artists wanted: Project Ghost Town Grafton, a successful cotton-producing pioneer town along the banks of the Virgin River, now remembered by an earthen-brick church and its cemetery. Fort Deseret, a place of security for early settlers, hidden and half crumbled in fields of grass. Once bustling centers of human activity, now remnants of dreams gone by, ghosts towns inspire reflection on our own ghost towns, some metaphorical, some real. What feelings surge up when confronted with these places, once thriving, now silent? Such are the questions and the inspiration for a new crowd-sourced art project using Utah’s over 100 ghost towns as backdrop, subject and starting point. Developed by Another Language Performing Arts Company, a locally based group that combines art forms with communications technology, the Ghost Town Project is currently looking for artistic, creatively inspired participants and welcomes submissions in all forms: text, video, photography, audio.-kp Deadline for content is January 30, 2015. Guidelines and registration: ANOTHERLANGUAGE.ORG/ PROJECTS/2014/GHOSTTOWN/GHOSTTOWN.HTML

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The Utah Museum of Fine Art houses some pretty noteworthy pieces of artwork. So noteworthy, in fact, that the museum recently received a hefty two-year grant of $80,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will support four more installations of the series salt, which showcases emerging artists from around the world. Exhibitions 11 through 14 will be open to the public in the spring and fall of 2015 and 2016. Executive Director Gretchen Dietrich is clearly thrilled about the award saying, “salt at its core is a generator of new artistic work and scholarly thought, and we’re ecstatic that such a renowned and forwardthinking institution recognizes the program’s importance to artists, audiences, and scholars both locally and globally…This Warhol Foundation grant will help us continue to bring innovative, diverse artwork to Utah.” The exhibit salt 9 is on display through August 17 when it will be replaced by the next installation in the series. -jc

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ere’s a quirky little gift from my subconscious that bubbled up in the middle of dreaming one recent night. I held onto one sentence only: “Grief potatoes are the worst potatoes.” Utah is famous for a cultural dish called "funeral potatoes.” It’s a kind of scalloped potato casserole that’s traditionally brought around to households where a member has just died. Funeral potatoes are a comfort food, tasty enough to be appealing to someone whose grief-stricken taste buds interpret almost every foodstuff as cardboard. Utahns are proud of their funeral potatoes, and it seems like every family has its own recipe. A big bone of contention seems to be whether you use corn flakes or potato chips for the crunchy top layer, but I’m digressing. So those are funeral potatoes—but what about grief potatoes? Grief potatoes are those raw, hard, clay-caked, cold and unpromising lumps that come in dirty baskets-full, directly dug out of the soil. If you’d never eaten a potato before, you’d look at your first raw one and say “that’s food?” Even after you wash the worst of the dirt off, if you were to sink your teeth into that fresh potato, it

would taste awful. Starchy, grainy, and insipid. You’d eat it only if you had nothing else to sustain you, and it would definitely give you a bellyache. Grief potatoes. Funeral potatoes are to grief potatoes as a funeral is to raw grief—it’s a known process that softens the hard things and puts them into a form that can be metabolized. Cooking is weird and spiritual alchemy. The raw ingredients you start with are often indigestible, if not downright poisonous. Through a process of preparation and arrangement, and the application of just the right amount of heat (and perhaps some cheese and a can of cream of mushroom soup), the indigestible is rendered into something sustaining. As the grief potatoes come out of the ground, we gather them into baskets and put them aside to be washed and prepared. It’s backbreaking and filthy work, lifting potatoes. But here we are, filling bushel-baskets, washing them, carefully slicing, arranging the ingredients. I suppose if there’s a moral to this story, it’s that if life gives you potatoes, sometimes the best thing to do is just make a ton of casseroles. N

BOOKS

Ancient Roots Strange Wild Blossom

Channeling, poetry, memoir A few books from our office shelves that might interest you REVIEWED BY MADISON REECE I Am the Word: A Guide to Consciousness of Man’s Self in a Transitioning Time Paul Selig (2010: Tarcher/Penguin) Paul Selig describes the book as a channeled text because, though he is credited as the author, Selig says the text is actually being written through him by spirit guides. These guides are not devoted to any one religion, claiming the reader can be devoted to any religion or no religion but still benefit from reading the text. As the reader moves through each chapter, intentions are set by the spirit guides, supposedly activating energy changes in the reader and raising the awareness of their own frequencies, as well as those around them. Each intention activates different chakras, raises the consciousness of auras, and ultimately makes the reader more sentient of their own soul, frequency and vibration. Whether or not the reader believes in the text or calls it a work of fiction, it’s an interesting read.

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing Alice Walker (2010, New World) Alice Walker is most acclaimed for her novel The Color Purple. Walker’s fame as the author of such a well-known text has consequently forced her other writing projects to be overlooked. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, a book of poems, should not be neglected or overstepped, but read and meditated upon, and then reread. It’s difficult to group Walker’s poems into one category because they broach such a wide array of topics: grief, death, self-annihilation, womanhood, Buddhism, rebirth, meditation, and Mother Nature. Walker has a tendency to behave with a Buddhist mindset in her poems. She reacts to sorrow and familial abandonment with an open heart, claiming: This we know:/ We were/ not meant/ to suffer/ so much/ & to learn/ nothing. Walker realizes the simplest and most successful way to create change in a world of chaos and aggression is to respond with compassion.

A Synchronous Memoir of Addiction and Recovery Aaron B. Bryant, Jr. (2010) Aaron B. Bryant’s memoir is a classic account of a drug addict finding sobriety after realizing his passion for social work. Bryant was a methamphetamine addict on the streets of Salt Lake City for nearly 10 years, supporting his expensive habit ($200 a day) by pawning his mother’s valuables, trading criminal services to local gangs, and eventually prostituting himself in exchange for drugs. He was incarcerated for numerous domestic abuse charges, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and destruction of property. He was eightysixed from nearly every motel in Salt Lake City due to failure to pay overdue rent and for causing numerous verbal and physical disputes with management. The memoir is both engaging (due to the familiar landscape of Salt Lake City mentioned) and tiring (due to overly dramatic and cliché-driven narration), but an interesting take on homelessness in the streets of Salt Lake. Bryant’s memoir addresses the bewildering sense of time a methaddict experiences due to the drug’s ability to keep the user awake for days at a time. Bryant writes about his experiences of being awake for seven and eight days consecutively, waking up covered in cockroaches (a sensation he was used to after living in less-thanhygienic motels), and the disorienting state of mind one experiences after blacking out, having no recollection of how much time has elapsed in the interim. The author’s concern with society’s correctional facilities ultimately leads to his decision to pursue a degree in social work. He claims correctional facilities oftentimes incarcerate individuals susceptible to depression, trauma, violence and low self-esteem, and places them in an environment that breeds the very problems in need of “correcting.” After four years of sobriety, Bryant graduated with a bachelors degree in social work from the University of Utah. Bryant hopes to help others with substance abuse problems by sharing his own experiences with addiction. N

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his series of two two-day workshops will artfully explore the inseparable twin sister sciences of Ayurveda/Yoga. Rooted in story, metaphor, asana and breath we will attempt to respectfully approach and ecstatically embody this ancient physio-philosophy. This is an invitation to cultivate, honor and prepare the sacral ground of your own being so as to plant a seed of intention that might one day grow a wild flower of implausible beauty or perhaps a mighty tree of Yoga.

Aug 2,3 and Sept 5,6 For details go to: AVENUESYOGA.COM PETERFRANCYK.COM 68 K Street, SLC 801-410-4639

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26 August 2014 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

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Aug. 2: A Healing Meditation for our Community.11:30a. South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 Highland Dr (2000 E). Free. SVUUS.ORG Aug. 2-7: Ancient Roots/ Strange Wild Blossom Workshop with Peter Francyk, 1-6pm on Sat; 10a-3:30p on Sun. An exploration with teacher and lecturer Peter Francyk on the inseparable twin sister sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga. Peter Francyk Yoga and Ayurveda. Avenues Yoga, 68 K St. $160; $90 single day. (Followup workshop in September; reduced rates for those who sign up for both.) PETERFRANCYK.COM Aug. 3: Juana Ghani at the Kimball Arts Festival. 2:30-3:45p. Main Street, Park City. $10 (weekend pass). PARKCITYKIMBALLARTSFESTIVAL.ORG Aug. 4: Monday Family Night-Capoeria (Brazilian Martial Arts). 6p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Included in admission $6-$10 (members/children under 3 free). REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 4: Mondays in the Park Concerts: Nino Reyos and Harry James. 6:45p. Reyos is a master of the Native American flute and plays both traditional tunes and those of his own composition. Liberty Park, on the front porch of the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 600 E 900 S. Free. HERITAGE.UTAH.GOV Aug. 5: Harvest Market Opening Day. 4p-dusk. Stop by after work for the freshest local produce from around the valley, plus baked goods, meats, cheeses and other delicious items. They also feature one food truck each week so you can pick up a snack or have dinner in the park. (Continues Tuesdays through October 21.) Pioneer Park, 300 S 300 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG

life sentences for a series of armed robberies. Imprisoned for more than a decade, he believed he would die behind bars. Now a U.S. Supreme Court decision could set him free. KUED Channel 7. WWW.PBS.ORG Aug. 7: Altered Books Collage. 6:308:30pm. Repurposing old books to tell a story is a fun, easy, and accessible art form. Make a narrative collage with artist Liberty Blake. The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. $45. LIFELONG.UTAH.EDU. Aug. 7: Twilight Concert—Local Natives. 5p. An indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Pioneer Park, 350 S 300 W. $5. TWILIGHTCONCERTSERIES.COM Aug. 9: Dyeing with Plants. 10a-12p. Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Aug. 10: Urban Flea Market. 9a-3p. You may find (and sell) eclectic, vintage used and unused items, including clothing, records, original artwork, furniture, tools, oddball knick-knacks and more. 600 South Main St. Aug. 11: Monday Family Night: Salt Lake Scots (Bagpipe & Drums). 6p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Included in admission $6-$10 (members/children under 3 free). REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 11: Summer Seasonal Cooking workshop. 6-8p. Taught by Brooke Cordray. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Aug. 11: Mondays in the Park Concerts: Rio Bravo Band. 6:45p. Established by Anastacio and Elisa Castillo, the band’s second generation — daughters Chrystal and

Aug. 5: We Can Pickle That. 6-9p. Learn to preserve using a water bath technique and a variety of pickling brines, herbs, and spices taught by Alison Einerson. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Aug. 5: Rumi Poetry Club. 7p. AndersonFoothill Library, 1135 S 2100 E. Free. RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM Aug. 16-19: Telluride Mushroom Festival. 9a-9p. The 33rd Telluride Mushroom Festival celebrates the many uses of fungi (all things mycological). This year's theme: “Mushroom Science.” Fungi serve many purposes—from breaking down plant cellulose in nature to creating nutrients for plants, to serving as food and medicine for people, to acting as bio-remediators to reclaim land damaged by oil spills and agricultural runoff. $275 for full festival pass; see other options on website. TELLURIDEMUSHROOMFEST.ORG

Aug. 5: 15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story. POV TV special. 11pm. The U.S. is the only country in the world that routinely condemns children to die in prison. This is the story of one of those children, now a young man, seeking a second chance in Florida. At age 15, Kenneth Young received four consecutive

Aug. 8-9: Craft Lake City DIY Festival. Fri., 5-10p. Sat., noon-10p. More than 200 artisans. Live music, craft foodies, science & tech exhibits. Vintage vendors. Bike valet. Activities for kids. Gallivan Center, 239 S Main St. Free (but bring cash and CCs, because you’re going to want to buy stuff).

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DRINK & DRAW August Theme: Fairy Tales Price: $12 Saturday, August 2nd | 6:30 p.m. Aug. 12: Science Movie Night: Godzilla. 7p. Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. At first, the authorities think it’s either underwater mines or underwater volcanic activity. The authorities soon head to Odo Island, close to where several of the ships were sunk. One night, something comes onshore and destroys several houses and kills several people. A later expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko, and a young navy frogman Hideto Ogta son discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 164-foot-tall monster whom the natives call Gojja. Now, the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan but the rest of the world as well. Can the monster be destroyed before it is too late, and what role will the mysterious Serizawa play in the battle? After the film, Nicola Barber, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learn Center, will discuss mutation and the genetic implications of radiation exposure. She will also highlight some interesting organisms that, like Godzilla, are remarkably resistant to radiation or have adapted to use radiation as a source of energy. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. SLCPL.LIB.UT.US Sonya, and grandson Vinnie — play music from Texas, Mexico and other Latin American countries. Liberty Park, on the front porch of the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 600 E 900 S. Free. HERITAGE.UTAH.GOV Aug. 13: Sundance Institute Summer Film Series: The Battered Bastards of Baseball. 9p. Arrive early for a pre-guided screening discussion with the filmmaker Maclain Way. Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way. Free. SUNDANCE.ORG Aug. 14: Twilight Concert—Beck. 5p. Beck is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with his lo-fi, sonically experimental style, and he became well known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles. Pioneer Park, 350 S 300 W. $5. twilight concertseries.com

LEO LIBATIONS August Theme: Basic Food & Wine Pairing Price: $50 Thursday, August 7th | 7:00 p.m. CREATE WHAT YOU CRAVE BBQ 101 Price: $35 Thursday, August 28th | 6:30 p.m. LEO LIBATIONS September Theme: Special Wine Pairing Price: $60 Thursday, September 4th | 7:00 p.m. A contemporary museum for science and culture. 801.531.9800 | 209 E 500 S

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Aug. 15: Local Artisan Trunk Show: Countdown to Burning Man. 11a. iconoCLAD, 414 E 300 S. Aug. 15 Inland/Outland Utah opening reception. 7p . Experience Utah’s stunning landscapes as they come to life with the dialogue and interplay of live music and video. A film by Svavar Jonatansson, Inland/Outland is a journey from the arid Salt Flats to the majestic cliffs of Southern Utah. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S Temple. $20 general/$15 student. utahmoca.org

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Aug. 15: Despicable Me 2: Movie Under the Stars. 7:30p. Utah State Capitol, Southwest Lawn, 350 N State. Free. utahstatecapitol.utah.gov Aug. 15: Sundance Institute Summer Film Series: Big Night. 9p. City Park, 1354 Park Avenue, Park City. Free. SUNDANCE.ORG Aug. 16: Birding. 9a-12p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Included in admission ($6-10/members free). REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG August 17: Crossing Over with John Edward. Noon to 2 pm John Edward is famous for his psychicmedium cable show “Crossing Over,” and he will be bringing a live version to Provo on Aug.

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28 August 2014 CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 17. In a recent CATALYST interview, Edward explained that he chose Provo because it “jumped off the map.” In these live shows, he navigates the connections between his psychic ability, messages from those passed on, and the audiences members’ own intuition and potentials. He says he uses clairaudience, clairvoyance and clairsentience to interpret and convey information to attendees from deceased loved ones. Edward says he keeps himself in tune by making sure he sleeps, exercises and eats right. For CATALYST readers interested developing their personal psychic muscle— something everyone can do—he recommends meditation. The key is to pick a time, duration and place where it can be accomplished regularly without variation at first. This allows the vibration to build up in the same space. His other suggestions? Talk to each other. “Treat people as if it is the last time you will see them,” Edward offers. “It sounds morbid to say that, but it’s really not. Some people never get that second chance.”— Margaret Ruth (See the CATALYST Weekly Reader on winning $300 ticket package to see John Edward.) Provo Marriott Hotel, Provo. Tickets at JOHNEDWARD.NET

Aug. 16: Third Saturday for Families: Jewelry from India. 1-4p. Experience an exhibition of images of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. Design your own anklet, a traditional ornament worn by Krishna, using glass beads and bells. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Dr. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Aug. 16: Third Saturday Contra Dance. 7-10:30p. Montessori Community School, 2416 E 1700 S. $8. UTAHCONTRA.ORG

Aug. 15-17: Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms —Waves: Embodiment. Jonathan Horan (Roth’s son and successor) now lives in SLC. He has created a foundational workshop to begin to build himself a new local tribe. “Everything in life moves in waves, including our thoughts, feelings, desires, and sensations. Everything alive moves at an everchanging pulse. The 5Rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness, offer us a map to embody these waves, giving us a physical vocabulary to express where we are and to trust wherever we are going,” he writes. We think this is really exciting. University of Utah Marriott Center for Dance. $222. WWW.5RHYTHMS.COM; MORGAN@5RHYTHMS.COM. Aug 16: Solar Cooking. 11a-1p. Join Wasatch Community Gardens and urban homesteaders Johnathon Krausert and Julie Nelsen to learn about the joys of solar cooking. Cut down on the environmental and monetary costs of conventional cooking. Fairpark Garden, 1037 W 300 N. $15. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Aug 16: Drawing Dinosaurs with Cal Grondahl. 12-3p. Cal will be on hand to assist children and families test their own skills with drawing paper and pencils provided in the gallery. Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way. Included in admission ($9$13/students and members free). NHMU.UTAH.EDU

Aug. 18: Food Fermentation. 6-8p. This workshop is a primer for the beginning fermenter: kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, vinegars and sourdough. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Aug. 18: Mondays in the Park Concerts: Monika Jalili Quartet. 6:45p. Liberty Park, on the front porch of the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 600 E 900 S. Free. HERITAGE.UTAH.GOV Aug. 19: Bottle your Brandywines. 6-9p. Preserve the freshness of summer by canning tomatoes Using the water bath technique. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

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Aug. 16-17: Rising Pathways—Tai Chi Intensive Workshop with Jesse Tsao. 9a-5p. Two days of hands-on instruction with 12th-generation tai chi master and former Chinese gold medalist Jesse Tsao. It’s the perfect opportunity to elevate your art, whether you are a beginner, advanced or anywhere in-between. Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way. $250. RISINGPATHWAYS.COM Aug. 20: Sundance Institute Summer Film Series: God Help the Girl. 9p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Free. SUNDANCE.ORG Aug. 21: Twilight Concert—De La Soul. 5p. An American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. Pioneer Park, 350 S 300 W. $5. TWILIGHTCONCERTSERIES.COM

Aug. 23: Rose Exposed: Home. 8p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W Broadway. $25. See story in this issue! Aug. 27: Creativity in Focus: The Fake Case. 7p. This film is an intimate encounter with one of today’s most politically influential artists and the system he challenges in his fight for human rights. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Dr. Free. UMFA .UTAH.EDU

Aug. 21: Growing up Green. 7p. Film Screening. Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Dr, Park City. $5. SWANERECOCENTER.ORG Aug. 21: Foraging for Wild Foods. 7-9p. U of U Annex Room (room number TBA). $114. CONTINUE.UTAH.EDU Aug. 22: Third annual Blue Moon Festival. 5-10p. Enjoy an evening of live music Featuring Imagine (Beatles Tribute Band) & The African Showboyz (from Ghana, West Africa), a beer and wine garden (including tastings of Utah wines), and food and art vendors. Free children's art activities. Commons behind Holladay City Hall, 4580 S 2300 E. Free. Aug. 23: Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Sensei. 7:15a-5:30p or 7:15-1p (half day). Two Arrows Zen. Artspace, 230 S. 500 W. Preregister at WWW.TWOARROVSZEN.ORG/EVENTS

Aug. 28: Twilight Concert—The Head and the Heart. 5p. An indi folk-rock band from Seattle, Washington. Pioneer Park, 350 S 300 W. $5. TWILIGHTCONCERTSERIES.COM Aug. 29: Frozen, Movies Under the Stars. 7:30p. Utah State Capitol, 350 N State. Free. UTAHSTATECAPITOL.UTAH.GOV

UPCOMING: Sept. 6: Pagan Pride Day. 10:30a-6p. Murray Park Pavilions 1,2,3. 5175 S. Parkside Dr., Murray. WWW.SALTLAKEPPD.ORG Sept. 6-7. Tarot and Spiritual Transformation with Robert Place. Sat. & Sun, 9am-5pm. Learn to use tarot as a tool for insight and discovery in this two-day program led by one of the preeminent masters of the tarot and creator of The Alchemical Tarot and The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. (See interview, this issue.) Officers Club at the University of Utah, 150 S. Ft. Douglas Blvd. $250 adv; $275 day of. RISINGPATHWAYS.COM

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This is the Place—Robert Place Renowned Tarot artist and author to share his art, ideas and techniques MARGARET RUTH

obert Place’s first Tarot deck came to him in a series of revelations. He says there was a magical quality about how it all happened, almost like the deck wanted to be made, and it wanted him to make it. Vivid dreams and spontaneous visions showed him that the Medieval alchemists’ search for transmutation and enlightenment were interchangeable with traditional Tarot decks’ allegories and symbolism. This inspired an eightyear study of the mystical and the esoteric: alchemy, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Christian Mysticism and Kabalah. His search was to understand the deep symbolism of traditional Tarot decks and bridge those decks’ original meaning with Tarot as a modern tool for personal transformation. That journey produced the now-classic The Alchemical Tarot in 1995, and it is still his most famous deck. It also began Place’s evolution as creator, artist and author of some of the most well-regarded Tarot books and decks in the field today, including The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, The Buddha Tarot, The Angels Tarot, The Vampire Tarot and The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination. He is internationally known as an expert on Tarot’s historical connection with Western mystical traditions and Renaissance iconography. He’ll bring that expertise to rot Salt Lake in September, leading a Alchemical Ta two-day Salt Lake workshop, “The Tarot and Spiritual Transformation,” sponsored by Rising Pathways of Utah, which produces immersive personal growth workshops and symposiums. Place never imagined himself as a writer, but synchronicity happened and suddenly he was a writer. His first article was for Gnosis magazine; his writing opportunities grew from there. He is first, though, an artist. “I was born knowing I was an artist. Since holding a crayon. I could draw at a very, very early age,” he says.

Next, in grade school he developed a fascination for ancient religions and symbolism, passionately creating Greek and Roman gods and goddess portraits.

Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery

What did the original Renaissance Tarot deck artists mean to convey with the symbolism chosen? Sometimes, for Place, those original meanings are more profound than what modern occultists ascribe. “My decks are modern decks,” he says, “but I want to understand Tarot in a deeper way.” He wants to know Tarot’s childhood, its beginnings: What did the original Renaissance Tarot deck artists mean to convey with the symbolism chosen? Sometimes, for Place, those original meanings are more profound than what modern occultists ascribe. There is power in these images, he says. “I’ve had experiences that took me to great cosmic insight, just spontaneously.” He wanted to know: How did it get there? Where it come from? He found that various mystical traditions’ paths towards illumination have similar archetypes,

and these have informed his personal-favorite decks. Place translated the alchemist’s quest for gold and the Buddha’s path into the Tarot trumps of The Alchemical Tarot and The Buddha Tarot. These same enlightenment allegories are also found in his newest Tarot deck, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. He describes three soul levels to travel through: Soul of Appetite, Soul of Will and Soul of Reason. The journey to inner wisdom— the gold—requires a conscious harmonizing of each. Place will be in Salt Lake in September, where participants will explore his art, ideas and techniques for themselves. This is a don’t-miss opportunity for Tarotists of all levels to work with an international authority. His workshop will offer more indepth understanding of Tarot and deeper self-wisdom from reading techniques that open up access to higher wisdom. Rising Pathways organizer George Garvin says, “In Robert’s view, the Tarot describes ‘the Fool’s journey’—from unconsciousness to consciousness, disunity to wholeness, delusion to wisdom. Spiritual transformation and discovery is the purpose.” Place sums up: “Symbols are a powerful visual communication with your higher self. What I’m trying to do is give you a way for the cards to talk to you, become a bridge, tell you a story. To let you become more in tune with your own unconscious.” N

Event Information The Tarot & Transformation Two-Day Weekend Workshop with Robert Place Sat & Sun, September 6 & 7 9am-5pm University of Utah Officers Club Information and registration: WWW.RISINGPATHWAYS.COM Bring a Waite-Smith deck, or, preferably, one of Place’s decks.

GREEN BITS

News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future

BY PAX RASMUSSEN

Clear the air The Clear the Air Challenge wrapped up the last day of July. Check out CLEARTHEAIRCHALLENGE.ORG to see a list of the winners, how many trips were saved, and how much carbon was kept out of our air. Summertime air pollution isn’t as obvious as the horrific inversions we get in the winter, but the high ozone (and particulates from forest fires) can cause pretty severe breathing problems in some sensitive population groups. “We routinely hospitalize children with breathing problems in the summertime,” said Dr. Michelle Hoffman on KUTV last month (TINYURL.COM/ HOFFMANONKUTV). It’s important to keep aiming to avoid contributing to our air problems all year round, since more than one study has proved that exposure to bad air at a young age can cause problems later in life. “Children’s lungs are still developing into early childhood, and developing lungs in poor air conditions suffer injuries,” Hoffman said. Another (albeit Big Brother-esque) way you can help clear the air is to report folks with smoking vehicles. Utah Regulation 41-6a-1626.2a states: “The engine and power mechanisms of every gasoline-powered motor vehicle may not emit visible contaminants during operation, except while the engine is being brought up to the recommended operating temperature.”

ter. They’re most likely there as toxins, to deter insects, and other creatures, from eating them. This new theory says that these toxins cause our cells stress, making them produce their own internal antioxidants, and that’s what really does us good. In high, extract doses, the ‘antioxidants’ from plants are just poison. It’s an interesting theory, and one I feel is probably correct. When it comes right down to it, eating a diet of whole foods— most of them veggies—is what keeps you healthy, not a bunch of pills and tablets. TINYURL.COM/PLANTSAREPOISON

A beef about beef

You don’t have to live in pain

Environmental Working Group (the folks who bring you the Dirty Dozen fruit and vegetable pesticide residue report) recently released the results of a study showing, yet again, that mass-produced beef has a terrible carbon footprint—roughly 60 pounds of CO2 for every pound of beef produced. They found beef’s footprint far bigger than any other meat (except lamb, but considering the quantities of lamb sold compared to beef, it’s not really an issue).

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Plants are poison? Over the last few years, I’ve seen several articles suggesting that antioxidant dietary supplements may actually be a bad idea—one study even suggested that they could cause lung cancer in high doses. These studies are calling into question the very idea of how antioxidants work. Science writer Moises VelasquezManoff published an essay in Nautilus last month in which he expounds on this idea, and more. The currently popular theory is that antioxidants in veggies bind up the bad free radicals in our bodies, protecting our cells from their damaging effects. It stands to reason, then, that taking extracts of these antioxidant chemicals would help prevent cancer, right? Maybe not. According to Velasquez-Manoff, mounting evidence suggests that these chemicals work not by protecting our cells, but by poisoning us. Antioxidants are typically the things in veggies that taste bad, or bit-

They suggest substituting chicken, which has one fifth the carbon footprint. Pork is also quite a bit better than beef, with 27 pounds of CO2 per pound of pork produced. Tofu beat out every other protein source: 0.4 pounds of CO2 per pound of tofu. Editor’s note: There is another viewpoint: Farmers practicing permaculture claim that disturbance of the soil is the leading cause of excess C02 pollution. Corn and soybeans, grown to feed cattle, release carbon while the grasslands the buffalo, elk and deer grazed on stored carbon. But this is another (long) story. In the meantime, when you eat beef, choose grassfed beef; it’s a whole ‘nother animal. tinyurl.com/beefcarbonfootprint

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ats are prolific reproducers. University of Washington’s Math Department figures estimate that, taking into account the much lower survival rate among outdoor cats compared with their pampered indoor cousins, one unspayed female cat and her offspring can produce 100 to 400 kittens in seven years. That’s a lot of kittens. It’s a lot of cats vying for scarce food, water and warmth. It’s a lot of kittens ending up in traditional shelters, and living very short lives there. In March 2013, Best Friends Animal Society launched its initiative, No Kill Utah (NKUT). NKUT aims to bring Utah shelters to no-kill status—90% of shelter animals adopted—by 2019. While 88% of dogs that enter shelters now find homes, only 53% of cats currently make it out alive. In order to bring kitty survival rates up to doggie levels, NKUT realized they needed to focus on finding homes for the onslaught of kittens that populate shelters each spring. Enter Best Friends’ Kitten Nursery. The program rescues homeless kittens from five Salt Lake County shelters and prepares them for adoption. They do not take kittens from the general public. Since they opened in March, 700 kittens have passed through the nursery. In June alone, 200 babies found forever homes. According to Adoptions Manager Lawrence Nicolas, the nursery takes in newborn kittens and nursing mothers with their litters. Volunteers and staff bottle feed and wean motherless kittens— kittens in the process of weaning are called

“weaners”—and provide medical care where needed. Nursery kitties are under eight weeks of age and weigh under two pounds. When kitties are weaned, socialized and in many cases, vaccinated, they are transported to the Best Friends Adoption Center in Sugar House. Nichloas expects the kitten nursery will welcome more than 1,000 kittens before it shuts down for the year in November—the end of kitten season. Feeding and cleaning up after more than 150 kittens at a time requires a lot of humanpower. The nursery relies on the generosity of volunteers. Volunteer Louise Mathews says the job is both easy and hard. “I’m very busy while I’m there,” she says. “It’s hard seeing some of them that come into the nursery sick. But they get good veterinary care while they’re here. They’re awfully cute.” Will she do it again next year? Without hesitation she answers “yes.” The nursery is always in need of volunteers. In fact, if you want to experience feline cuteness overload at the nursery, you must volunteer. The nursery is not open to the public. Neonatal kittens are vulnerable to microscopic outside invaders and need a peaceful environment in which to mature—at least until they’re old enough to bounce off the walls themselves. Cuteness is definitely a factor in their favor. “The kittens pretty much adopt themselves,” says Nicolas. “We’re really fortunate to have a great adoption center in a great neighborhood where people can interact with the animals,” he says of the Best Friends Adoption Center on Highland Drive. When you read the figures—16,000 animals killed in Utah shelters last year—it is overwhelming. The good news is that this number is drastically reduced from the 46,000 animals that were killed annually before NKUT. But numbers are abstract. They can never convey the reality of those lives. At the kitten nursery, Nicolas says, “you’re able to hold in your hands the life you’re saving. You know that if you weren’t feeding this kitten, it might not survive. It’s very rewarding to know that we’re saving this life, right here.” N If you’d like to be a part of NKUT’s life-saving efforts, here are some ways you can help: • Adopt your pets from a shelter or rescue group. • Encourage your friends and family to do so. • Spay or neuter your pets and encourage your friends and family to do the same. • Sign up to volunteer at the kitten nursery or a shelter. • Foster a shelter pet. • Spread the word about NKUT on social media. • Make a donation to support the campaign. • Visit NKUT.ORG to learn about more ways to get involved.

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