CATALYST Magazine February 2015

FEBRUARY 2015 VOLUME 34 NUMBER 2

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across the universe. She holds her empty hat, waiting to fill it with our life. Behind us the skies beam with hope and pleasure.

I painted The Horse I Rode In On for my wife, Marcee. A woman with the spirit to challenge any cowboy.

We were a western kismet. Me riding. Her waitng.

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rode in, looking for adventure.

She was waiting for me to give her a ride. That red-headed cowgirl of my dreams. We met there on the salt range, in the shadow of the great Mount Olympus. I was dressed in leather chaps, my finest.

Our bandanas and t-shirts marked our era, innocent faces, our age. My blue horse would carry us both,

Having honed his skills with over four decades of practice, Ric Blackerby works with ease in several mediums, equally adept in sculpture (large and small), jewelry (gold, silver and all precious stones), and painting (acrylics and oils). He figures into many private collections, nationally and internationally. Ric has also done public art works in New York, Denver, Tulsa, San Francisco, St. Louis, Mount Vernon (Illinois) and his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. N Working from his home studio in SLC, he accepts private, corporate, and municipal commissions and may be contacted at: Ric Blackerby 1532 S Roberta St., Salt Lake City, UT 84115 Email MBLACKERBY@COMCAST.NET

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ON THE COVER Ric Blackerby

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TAR SANDS RESISTANCE Melanie Martin

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Greta Belanger deJong

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RESILIENCE IN A ‘ BLACK SWAN’ WORLD David Orr

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LEARNING FROM JAMES BAKER Jonathan Jemming

PLAN-B THEATRE Bluford & Bennett

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DON’T GET ME STARTED John deJong

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER Dennis Hinkamp

BBOY FEDERATION Amy Brunvand

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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CHOOSING OUR BATTLES Teresa Jordan

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METAPHORS Suzanne Wagner

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ZENI KINETIC: 3D PRINTING REVOLUTION Alice Toler

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Compassion Challenge

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umor has traditionally been a safe haven. But on January 7 in Paris, two masked men gunned down the editorial staff at the French satire publication, Charlie Hebdo. They killed the court jesters.

“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity,” wrote Joe Randazzo for MSNBC the next day. Randazzo is a former editor at The Onion, a US equivalent to Charlie Hebdo.

“Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.”

“The most positive act I can conceive of right now is to love some satire today,” I wrote in that week’s CATALYST Weekly Reader. “Appreciate our own Pat Bagley, cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Check in with The Onion. Watch Jon Stewart.

Read Mark Twain. Bring out the old Monty Python skits. Love the silly and the brave.

Learn to take a joke. It's important to maintain respect for that capacity, even when it's no laughing matter.” * * * A day later, in Salt Lake City, the troubadour was killed.

James Barker, a local musician who lived with a traumatic brain injury acquired while surfing in Panama, was approached as a vagrant and shot by a police officer a block away from the home he’d owned and lived in for the past decade.

Many who saw only the action-filled final moments from the bodycam film, as shown on several TV newscasts, thought the dude had it coming. Those who watched the full, unedited version, in which he agreed to go but refused to give his name saw a dozen ways this tragedy could have been averted.

Solutions are being discussed (see story, p. 6). What's needed from all of us right now is compassion. I offer this exercise (from the book ReSurfacing: Techniques for Exploring Consciousness).

Do it twice ~ once for James, and once for the police officer.

1. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself: Just like me, this person is seeking some happiness for his life.

2. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself: Just like me, this person is trying to avoid suffering in his life.

3. With attention on the person, repeat

to yourself: Just like me, this person has known sadness, loneliness and despair.

4. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself: Just like me, this person is seeking to fulfill his needs.

5. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself: Just like me, this person is learning about life.

To the extent that we can grow compassion in ourselves, compassion will grow in our community and the world.

There’s plenty of people to practice on.

Time to get started. * * * I need to listen to my own words.

In mid-January, I hosted a going-away party for my stepdaughter Rachel, who is moving to China. It was a lively party, and in spite of periodic outdoor sound checks, a neighbor, citing the noise ordinance, reported us to the police.

This is a house of conviviality. Seeing a policeman on the front porch every other year has never been a threat, but rather a sign to wind things down. This year, the young man at the door was gruff. It was odd. I thanked him for his efforts and extended my hand. He looked at it, then turned away. “Get those people out of there,” he said.

This sounded rude. I felt insulted.

“Imagine if you were black,” my wise friend Monica said matter-of-factly when I recounted the incident. “Besides, you have no idea what he’s dealt with this week.”

Of course I had righteous justifications.

But Monica was absolutely right. Whatever was eating that cop had nothing to do with me. This was my opportunity to practice some of that compassion I’d written about; to enlist the aid of the unseen forces.

The joke part came later in the week when I learned that, a few doors down the street, there had been a really raucous party that night. Who knows which one had been reported? Theirs may have been louder, but mine had more blinky lights and drew attention first, giving my rowdy neighbors time to quiet down.

I’m coming to the conclusion that earthly justice is an illusion. We do our best to communicate but there’s always another side, a bigger picture, a plot we don’t have a clue to. From court jesters to troubadors to those who threaten and those who protect, understanding is a noble goal, one worth striving toward. Compassion—putting ourselves in the other person’s proverbial shoes, even if we make up the story— is a pretty solid technique for getting there. Practice, practice. N Greta Belanger deJong is the founder, editor and publisher of CATALYST.

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n January 8, 2015, James Barker, upon request of his partner Heidi, took advantage of a beautiful winter day in Salt Lake City to remove ice that had accumulated on the shady side of their Avenues home. James proceeded down the street to see if neighbors wanted their ice and remaining snow removed, either that day or in the future. James was well known for taking odd jobs either as a volunteer, a musician, an artist or even as a handyman and builder to help supplement his income.

What was not as well known about James is that despite his many talents, he struggled with serious longterm symptoms of a surfing-related brain injury in Central America about six years ago.

What happened next has become a high-profile tragedy. Despite James’ good intentions, according to the Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) at least two neighbors called police (calls that have, at the time of this publication, not been released after multiple GRAMA requests made by CATALYST to the Department), and reported a suspicious person going door to door with a snow shovel who resembled someone casing cars earlier in the same area. Responding to these calls, a Salt Lake City police officer (who remains unidentified) located James and proceeded to investigate.

What followed was a contest that resulted in the officer being injured and James being killed by what appears to be multiple gunshot wounds.

As a nation, we exhaust ourselves with the details of innumerable police killings; whether they are right; whether they are justified. But are we missing the point?

Shooting to kill has clearly become an option—a tool—rather than an irreversible action of last resort for law enforcement.

And the media tires us with the details rather than aid us with a discussion of the nonviolent change many of us seek. I have thus chosen to write from a different angle—to simply present a nonviolent alternative instead.

In the case of James Barker, a different approach—one where the officer would not have been injured and James Barker would not have been killed—was possible.

James Barker was a head injury survivor with identifiable symptoms. And he is not alone. An estimated 5.3 million individuals suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related disabilities in the US. Many of these injuries cause permanent emotional and behavioral issues. And many survivors

James Barker was a head injury survivor with identifiable symptoms. of brain injuries, often referred to as the walking wounded, will come into contact with law enforcement.

Law enforcement confrontations are deeply feared by many in the TBI community (and yes, there is a community). It is common knowledge that law enforcement often equate the irregular behavioral responses of many brain injury survivors (delayed responses, poor recall, manic statements, outbursts, confusion, slurring, nystagmus) with criminal conduct even when no criminal conduct is actually occurring. Poor understanding of brain injury has resulted in numerous cases of ineffective policing practices.

James Barker's death, in my opinion, is a result of such poor understanding.

Officers on the street require training to identify and properly respond to braininjured citizens just as they require training to identify when they may be encountering someone with mental illnesses and conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, Tourette’s syndrome, autism or any number of mental conditions which may cause irregular or unpredictable responses to law enforcement confrontations.

This required training has been in place for law enforcement in Memphis, Tenn. since the 1980s when a program known as Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) was developed. To become CIT-certified, law-

enforcement officers undergo 40 hours of training in which they are taught the signs of crisis, identification of irregular (but not necessarily criminal) behavior (such as TBI) and de-escalation skills. The Memphis Model now serves as a national standard for taking a proactive approach for identifying and assisting those who might otherwise serve jail time or, in James’ case, lose their life due to misunderstanding by law enforcement.

CIT training and certification is also absolutely critical for the officer's safety. It is unclear whether the officer in James’ case had received such certification. But the SLCPD has recently gained praise for its general embrace of the program and its effort to expand CIT training among its force and neighboring law enforcement districts.

In the future, CIT certification should be mandated before any of its officers are allowed to carry a badge (and certainly a gun). Ongoing CIT renewal (continuing education) requirements, with special emphasis on de-escalation, should also be formulated in cooperation with the community and put into place in Salt Lake City and surrounding municipalities.

Law enforcement should be trained to de-escalate conflict prior to working the streets. And they should be held accountable when they do the opposite.

It is my hope that James’ death will become a case study for handling citizens differently; for the safety of our communities, including the men and women who protect and serve them.

Kudos to the Salt Lake City Mayor's Office for opening a community dialogue on this issue and for pressing for greater transparency in high-profile cases such as James Barker’s. Only together can we transform this tragedy into a positive outcome that minimizes violence in our communities. N Jonathan Jemming is a Utah-based veteran criminal defense, environmental and natural resources attorney with an established background in human rights issues.

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It’s good for business (and good for the environment)

BY RACHEL SILVERSTONE uch like what New York is to the fashion industry, twice a year Salt Lake City becomes the hub of the outdoor equipment and apparel industry. The Outdoor Retailer trade shows give retail buyers (gear stores) and exhibitors (gear companies) the opportunity to do face-to-face business transactions, clink glasses and enjoy the great outdoors.

The spirit of play and celebration abound, as do flannel, boots, beers and gear. An equipment demo day precedes the show with a ski day at Solitude Mountain Resort. On the event schedule are daily happy hours, a “Conquer the Elements� fashion show, after-hours industry parties and of course, a Friday morning hangover breakfast. These are outdoor enthusiasts, after all; they are experienced at having wild good times.

The good times might not last, at least, not in Utah.

According to the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), the Salt Palace is too small for the growing $33.3 billion business. This “sleeping giant� industry, as it was called by Bruce Babbit, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Interior, may leverage its up-to-40,000 attendees out of Salt Lake City’s January inversion by 2016.

Hopefully though, the outdoor equipment and apparel industry won’t abandon the essence of what drives demand, Utah’s great outdoors.

In his talk at the Conservation Alliance Breakfast at the show, “Preserving America’s Wild Landscapes,� Babbit urged the outdoor industry to work to ensure the nation’s public lands aren’t sold off or developed. “This is the moment to come together, stand tall, raise your voice, put your industry into the fight. It

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will make a real difference,� Babbit said. His talk was received by a standing ovation.

The Utah legislature and Governor Herbert are singing a different tune. Babbit’s cry for action came at an opportune time, as the current Utah political battleground heats up over the Transfer of Public Lands Act. The bill, passed by the Utah legislature in 2012, demands the transfer of 31 million acres of federal land to state management. Utah GOP leaders are getting ready to file a court case in order to force the transfer. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said via spokesman Marty Carpenter that he believes state management of the lands would help preserve Utah's beauty and cultural heritage and ensure “appropriate public access and multiple use�—code for ATV trails next to oil wells in what was meant to be wilderness.

Babbit’s stance on state management of the land is quite different. “Our public land heritage really is under attack. We’ve got a crowd of uninformed, misguided politicians who are attempting to dismantle or abolish public lands and the agencies that administer them.� Babbit also said Utah's land transfer law is a conduit so public lands can be served up to the coal, oil, gas and mineral industries for exploitation. We hope the outdoor industry will take heed of Babbit and rally its power to keep public lands protected.

A few exhibitors I spoke with proposed some creative approaches which included taking Gov. Gary Herbert and other representatives to some friggin’ mountains as well as getting the weatherman to predict lots of snow. According to the Sports Once Source Group (outdoor industry data collector), the weather is a primary factor in the buying decisions of consumers, across all activities and demographics. If we can get more people outside, maybe we will get more people to care about protecting the environment. To that end, join Protect Our Winters (POW), pro-snowboarder Jeremy Jones’ organization to mobilize snow sports athletes and youth to influence Congress to protect the environment. ProtectOurWinters.org N Rachel Silverstone has a degree in economics from Cornell College.

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Utah hunter mistakes wolf for coyote (feds do nothing)

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In December a Utah hunter shot and killed the female gray wolf named “Echo” that was recently seen near Grand Canyon National Park. Although Echo was wearing a radio-tracking collar, the hunter claimed that he mistook her for a coyote (coyotes may be shot on sight in Utah for a $50 bounty thanks to the cynically named “Mule Deer Protection Act”).

When a hunter shoots the wrong animal you’d think there would be some kind of consequence, but under the so-called “McKittrick Policy” (which is named after a Montana hunter who claimed he shot a wolf because he thought it was a dog) the U.S. Dept. of Justice won’t charge anyone for illegally killing endangered species unless the government can prove that the defendant knew what the animal was at the time he killed it. Wild Earth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance have sued the Department of Justice to end the McKittrick Policy, reasoning that, if you don’t know what you’re shooting at, you shouldn’t pull the trigger.

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Coyote bounty= bad science Utah’s “Mule Deer Protection Act” which offers a $50 bounty for killing coyotes is supposed to improve hunting. Utah has tried bounty programs in the past and they don’t work. A 2003 article published in Wildlife Society Bulletin says that, “while Utah’s coyote bounty may provide an enhanced, subsidized recreation program for a small segment of Utah citizens, it is unlikely to have any beneficial effect on populations of livestock or big game.”

Sage-grouse & politics Sage-grouse came under political attack in the FY15 Omnibus Spending Bill passed by the U.S. Congress in December (the one that needs to pass each year to avoid another government shutdown). A rider attached to the bill prevents federal funds from paying to write or issue new sagegrouse management rules. The political attack on sage-grouse is a gift to fossil fuel interests who want to drill in

BY AMY BRUNVAND sage-grouse habitat, but Interior Secretary Sally Jewell promised to keep working on sage-grouse issues, saying, “It’s disappointing that some members of Congress are more interested in political posturing than finding solutions to conserve the sagebrush landscape and the Western way of life.”

Utah rules bad for bears Claiming that Utah’s bear population has grown too large, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources increased the number of bear hunting licenses and implemented a controversial spring hunting season. Spring bear hunting was eliminated in Utah in 1993 due to public outcry since orphaned cubs can’t survive if their mother is killed.

Wildlife advocates point out that the recent rule changes do nothing to target aggressive bears.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has made little effort towards public education in order to reduce bear-human conflicts.

Quagga mussels come to Utah Quagga mussels, an invasive species that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) calls “a major threat to our quality of life,” have been found in Deer Creek Reservoir. The small clam-like creatures filter nutrients out of water, starving fish and other aquatic animals and their shells clog power and water infrastructure.

Quagga mussels colonized Lake Powell Reservoir in 2012 and in 2014 they were discovered in the smooth water section of the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lee's Ferry. DWR predicts that if the mussels become established in Utah, they will cost the state $15 million per year.

Update on tar sands protesters Twenty-Five tar sands activists were sentenced by a Uintah County judge to probation and community service but none were given jail time after they accepted a mass plea bargain. Some of the protestors had been accused of felony rioting after protest-

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The activists are members of Tar Sands Resistance, Peaceful Uprising, Canyon Country Rising Tide and other groups from out of state. (See story, this issue.)

Salt Lake air quality news In an effort to improve air quality, Salt Lake County has passed a new regulation banning wood-burning on red and yellow air pollution alert days.

The law exempts households that use a wood-burning stove or fireplace as their sole source of heat, and allows wood-burning in emergency situations such as power outages. To allow for a period of public education, no fines will be issued until 2016.

In other air quality news, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club are suing to challenge a Utah Division of Air Quality permit for expansion of the Salt Lake City Tesoro refinery.

Tesoro wants to increase capacity in order to process black and yellow waxy crude from the Uintah Basin.

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“Two guys walk into a bar…oh, wait, what if those two guys now want to kill me?” you now think. “Knock, knock, who’s there?...maybe someone who wants to kill me. Your momma so fat, she wants to kill me.”

We can’t live this way.

There are satirical cartoons and many, many web images I wish I could un-see. The comment sections in all publications are a viper pit of anonymity gone wild. Still, this is a minuscule price to pay for the freedom of expression.

Of course humor is subjective, but so is reality. Ask 20 people to stand in front of a mirror and rate themselves on a scale of attractiveness and you will get 20 different answers even though an outside comedian observer would

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Nobody likes to be stereotyped. (Oops, that’s another stereotype. There probably are people somewhere in a yet undiscovered Amazon village—the river, not the website—who actually do like to be stereotyped.) But that does not negate the utility of stereotyping.

Mormons like Jell-O, Catholics have a lot of kids, the Pope wears a funny hat and empirical evidence suggests that bears do defecate in the woods. Sure, I have known Mormons who hate Jell-O and I am inexplicably the only child of a Catholic couple. The Pope just told the world that “Catholics don’t have to breed like rabbits” and he rides a Vespa when he’s not in the Pope Mobile. Stereotypes have exceptions, but they are the basis of humor and allow us to flow through life without second-guessing everything.

We watch shows such as Duck Dynasty and Moonshiners because we want to make fun of them. They do the shows because they are secretly making fun of the viewers. Everybody wins.

Garrison Keillor has made a nice living off of satirizing small town life, Lutherans and bachelor Norwegian farmers.

Religion has always been ripe for humor because, unlike mathematics, there isn’t one answer. Everyone thinks they are right much like everyone considers himself or herself an above-average driver.

“Sure, driving while texting and nursing my baby could be a dangerous behavior for some people, but I’m a really good driver. We need to keep the government out of our business,” they say.

I just lament that there’s not more humor in the non-religious factions. Atheists are just boring rationalists and agnostics are too wishy-washy for everyone. N

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DEFENSIVENESS AND FAITH

Choosing our battles Finding options in the spaciousness of mindfulness

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couple of years ago, a few months after my father’s death, I attended a retreat with Byron Katie, whose work had been recommended to me by a psychologist friend as being particularly effective when dealing with both anxiety and grief. The retreat took place in a large hotel near the Miami airport, and we began each day with a walking meditation around the lushly landscaped grounds, silently naming whatever our eyes landed upon as simply as possible: leaf, tree, curb, flower, cloud. The idea was to remain grounded entirely in the present moment, something that is harder to do than it sounds.

During the third or fourth morning’s walk, an argument inside my head consumed me. Earlier in the week, Katie had suggested something that was, to me, a radical notion: defense is the first act of war. At first I recoiled. I come from a warrior clan, raised to believe that we have not only the right to defend ourselves but also the duty. Defense is the first act of war? This was just the sort of thing that made my father ridicule anything that came under the rubric of the humanpotential movement, and I could imagine him stomping out in disgust, finding Katie not only naïve but dangerous.

But as the week progressed, I began to understand her words on a different level. “Defense is the first act of war” is not a prescription but rather a statement of fact. It doesn’t tell us not to fight; it simply points out that it takes two to do so.

It asks the question: is this a situation in which you want to be at war? I began to think about how estranged my father and I had become in the last many years of his life and to imagine how the dynamics might have changed if either one of us had let down our defenses, even for a moment.

So in this argument that was raging in my head, I was defending Byron Katie’s ideas to my father— trying, really, to justify the fact that I was listening to her at all—when suddenly I came back to the pres-

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somebody.” A senior monk recognized her struggle and talked with her at length. “Who else would we want to carry a gun except someone who will do it mindfully?” the monk asked. “Of course, you can take these trainings.”

In Buddhist teaching, a bodhisattva is an enlightened person who chooses to stay on earth to serve others. The monk explained that there was such a thing as a fierce bodhisattva. Later, after Maples expressed her concern to Thich Nhat Hanh, he spoke for two hours “on the different faces of love and how it’s possible to be a bodhisattva and carry a gun.”

ent moment and realized that an that night, the officer responded immense jet had just taken off from differently. She talked him into the airport nearby and was roaring releasing the girl, and after she ushoverhead. The sound was so ered the child and mother to safety, intense that my whole body vibratshe returned. She gently asked the ed, and when I looked up, the plane man to tell her what had gone seemed close enough to touch. Yet I wrong, and then she listened with had been unaware of it until that her heart. He started to cry. “I mean, second, so wrapped up in the arguI’ve got this big gun belt on. I’m ment with a dead peralfway across the world, son that a jumbo jet Army Lieutenant Colonel had been able to tipChris Hughes relied on toe up behind me, tap keen instincts and an me on the shoulder, ingrained sense of respect and say, “boo.” rather than mindfulness trainDefense is the first ing when, during the early act of war. I gained a weeks of the Iraq war, he led a great many insights small troop of American solduring that weeklong diers through the streets of retreat, but this is the Najaf. Under orders to make one that continues to contact with Grand Ayatollah resonate. At first, I Ali al-Sistani, something the understood it primariU.S. Army felt was politically ly in terms of personal crucial, the soldiers neared a relationships. I began mosque when a huge mob of to see that a level of enraged Iraqis surged into the defensiveness played a Cheri Maple was a police officer for 20 years, and was also the head street from all sides. In “Battle role almost every time of probation and parole for the State of Wisconsin and an Assistant Lessons,” an article in The my husband and I had Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. She is a New Yorker, Dan Baum words. If one of us licensed attorney, a licensed clinical social worker and cofounder of The described the event. He was refrained from retort, Center for Mindfulness and Justice WWW.MINDFULNESSANDJUSTICE.ORG not on the scene that day. the argument dissipatRather, he watched it unfold ed as effortlessly as it had arisen. As about five foot three, right? And this live on CNN: the idea has matured, however, I guy’s like six foot six. And he’s bawlThe Iraqis were shrieking, frantic with grow increasingly aware of how it ing….And that’s when I started realrage…This is it, I thought. A shot will plays out on a larger stage. izing that what we deal with is miscome from somewhere, the Americans will placed anger, because people are in open fire, and the world will witness the incredible pain.” Three days later, ecently, in an episode of On My Lai Massacre of the Iraq war. At that he ran into her when she was off Being, the public radio show moment, an American officer stepped duty, and he picked her up in a bear about faith, I heard a Wisconsin through the crowd holding his rifle high hug. “You saved my life that night,” police captain, Cheri Maples, over his head with the barrel pointed to he told her. “Thank you.” describe her experience during a the ground. Against the backdrop of the

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The patrol leader, the police captain, the monks: In the spaciousness of mindfulness, they all had more options than were apparent at first glance. domestic violence call. Something had gone wrong during a custody exchange, and she arrived to find a man holding his daughter hostage while his estranged wife quivered with fear. “Ordinarily,” Maples told host Krista Tippett, “I would have said, ‘That’s it,’ slapped the handcuffs on him, taken him to jail.” But

Maples had just returned from a mindfulness retreat with the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn.

Central to his teaching are the Five Mindfulness Trainings, the first of which is the vow not to kill. When Maples first encountered the idea, she resisted it. “I’m a cop. I might be in a position where I have to kill

seething crowd, it was a striking gesture —almost Biblical. “Take a knee,” the officer said, impassive behind surfer sunglasses.

The solders looked at him as if he were crazy. Then, one after another, swaying in their bulky body armor and gear, they knelt before the boiling crowd and pointed their guns at the ground. The Iraqis fell silent, and their anger subsided. The officer ordered his men to withdraw.

Baum interviewed Hughes two months later. He asked the officer how he had learned to tame a crowd.

Was the gesture of pointing his rifle at the ground particular to Iraq? To Islam? “My questions barely made sense to Hughes,” Baum wrote.

handed, but the monks knew they would be back.

“All we had left to do was live,” Dom Christian recalls. “The first thing we did was celebrate the mass of the Virgin and Child. It was what we had to do. It was what we did. Afterward we found salvation in our daily tasks. We had to resist the violence.”

Hughes immediately understood that the crowd was enraged by what they saw as American disregard of their mosque. The obvious response, in Hughes’s assessment, was a gesture of respect.

Hughes explained that he had been trained to use a helicopter’s rotor wash to disperse a crowd, or to use warning shots, but too often “the next thing you have to do is shoot them in the chest.” Making contact with the Ayatollah was both vital and delicate. Hughes immediately understood that the crowd was enraged by what they saw as American disregard of their mosque.

The obvious response, in Hughes’s assessment, was a gesture of respect.

We can’t know what might have happened if Hughes had ordered gunfire. Instead, the event has become a textbook example of the army’s attempts to encourage new and more flexible ways of thinking among its officers.

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either Maples nor Hughes laid down their guns, but they became more effective protectors as they grew more mindful of their use. Some callings reject violence altogether. The French film Of Gods and Men tells the story of seven Trappist monks who were kidnapped from their monastery in the mountains of Algeria and killed

by Islamic extremists in 1996. The monks were greatly loved within the Islamic community they had served for many years, but in the mid1990s, a radical Islamism erupted that terrorized not only foreigners but also Muslims who did not agree with its particular interpretation of the Koran.

After extremists slaughtered a group of Croatian workers, the Algerian army offered the monastery protection, and the French government ordered the monks to leave for their own safety. They refused both armed guard and refuge, though they knew their lives were at stake. As the film explores the reasons that each monk chooses to stay, it

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f Gods and Men captures a distinction between doctrine—codified belief—and a deeper faith in what, at the most profound level, one stands for. The former nun Jan Phillips recently articulated this difference in a post for the On Being blog. She speaks in Catholic terms, but the quality of the realization she refers to is equally appropriate to Maples’s awakening through Buddhist teaching and Hughes’s insight as a military leader.

Phillips had been a young postulant in her first theology class when a Jesuit priest asked the students what they believed about God. One by one, the young women quoted lines from the catechism: “God made me to show His goodness and to share His everlasting life with me in heaven.”

“In God there are three divine

presents and extraordinary portrait of courage and faith.

At first, several monastics want to leave. “I became a monk to serve, not to have my throat slit,” says Fr. Christophe. Later, as he walks with the prior, Dom Christian, he says, “Dying for my faith shouldn’t keep me up nights. Dying here and now: does it serve a purpose?”

“Staying here is as mad as being a monk,” the prior agrees. “Remember, you already gave your life when you agreed to follow Christ.”

“I pray,” Christophe says. “I hear nothing. I don’t get it. Why be martyrs? To prove we’re the best?”

“No,” Dom Christian says, “out of love and fidelity.

Our mission here is to be brothers to all.”

As conditions worsen, the community threatened March 26th 1996 seven French Cistercian monks living in the not only by the Tibhirine monastery were kidnapped. Two months later, after extremists but also unsuccessful negotiations with the French government, the GIA by the corrupt (Armed Islamic Group) announced through a Moroccan radio Algerian army, the station the murder of the monks. Their heads were found on May monks unite 30th close to the city of Medea. But their bodies were never found. around their compersons, really distinct, and equal in mitment to stay. They cannot abanall things—the Father, the Son, and don their community, nor can they the Holy Ghost.” abandon their vows of nonviolence.

“God can do all things, and nothIn what was to be one of their last ing is hard or impossible to Him.” dinners at the monastery, Dom With each contribution, the priest Christian remembers Christmas Eve grew more impatient until finally he when the extremists broke through burst out, “You should be ashamed the door and demanded that the for having nothing more than catedoctor, Brother Luc, come away with chism answers to this question. Are them to treat their injured fighters. you just a bunch of parrots, repeating The monks refused: Brother Luc everything you’ve been taught?” would treat anyone who came to the His words devastated Phillips. “He clinic, but he would not abandon asked for our ideas about God and the villagers who depended on his yet, when we said them, it felt like he care. The extremists left empty-

took a sledge hammer and smashed our beliefs into a thousand pieces.”

But what he said next planted the seed that allowed Phillips to take responsibility for the maturation of her calling.

“If you are to be a nun worth your salt,” the priest continued, “you have to arrive at a faith that is deeper than your learning, one that is rooted in your ultimate concerns and rises up from the nature of who you are.

“What you believe, that is religion,” he said. “Who you are, what you live for—that is faith.”

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he patrol leader, the police captain, the monks: all had moved beyond rote belief into an understanding, on the deepest level, of what they lived for. As Lieutenant Colonel Hughes searched for the gesture of respect that would diffuse the crowd, as police captain Maples tried to not only prevent an act of domestic violence but relieve the anger that had provided it, as the Trappists lived and died for their commitment to the community they served, they all acted from an understanding of what mattered to them most. The soldier and the policeman served their missions with weapons at their call; the monks chose not to. In the spaciousness of mindfulness, they all had more options than were apparent at first glance.

Each of us carries a gun. For most of us, it is not made of metal but rather of emotion, forged from the many ways we have to shoot down the spirit of those we love as we defend against our own fear, frustration and vulnerability. We choose whether or not to go to war a dozen times a day. Sometimes we must choose to enter battle. But knowing we have a choice can change the world. N Teresa Jordan is an author and artist living in Virgin, Utah. This essay comes from The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off): A meditation on the search for meaning in an ordinary life (2014: Counterpoint). The book grew out of her blog, inspired by Ben Franklin’s 13 virtues and the seven deadly sins.

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Is 3D printing all about the tchotckes?

Changing the world as we know it—and Utah’s Zeni Kinetic is in the forefront

BY ALICE TOLER

Alice Toler Nicco Macintyre holding a 3D printed camera dolly that he designed. 3D printer in background.

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’ve been following the development of 3D printing for a few years now, but until recently it seemed like all it was good for was printing out fun plastic trinkets. The age of the tchotcke, however, is coming to a close for 3D printing.

More and more people are recognizing it as an incredibly disruptive and empowering technology that will profoundly change the world as we know it. Utah’s first 3D printer store, Zeni Kinetic, founded by Utah Valley native Nicco Macintyre, is now making this technology available to the general public.

NASA even emailed a wrench to the International Space Station last December.

When I first met Macintyre a few years ago, he was working on perfecting his pocket-sized factory for making two different kinds of 3D printing plastic filament, known in the trade as ABS and PLA. His warehouse space was stuffed full of complicated rigs that fed plastic pellets into hoppers to be melted down into a kind of plastic wire that can be spooled up and then fed into the back end of a 3D printer.

Since then, he has gone into production with this stock and has been selling it to 3D printing enthusiasts for some time. The shop front on State Street is his showcase to reach out to the non-geek public, and show them what 3D printing can really do.

The shop is full of items that Macintyre and his team have printed out, including full-body scans that they have created using a system based off of the Microsoft Kinect gaming camera, and shelves behind the counter are filled with brightly-colored spools of plastic. The scanning is very popular with pregnant women who use it as a Getting tchotckied; high-tech alternaCATALYST publisher/editor tive to the belly Greta deJong being scanned for a 3D replica. portrait, but the real impact of 3D printing is far more profound.

“The great thing about this process,” Macintyre says, “is that you can make anything at all with it, and you can prototype things very quickly and cheaply.” Indicating an object that looks like a machine casing of some kind, he elaborates: “This was the first version of an object that we printed to precise measurements, and it was eventually cast in stainless steel, directly off the PLA corn-based polymer print. They took the final print that we made, packed it into a sand mold, and just poured the stainless steel right into it.

The PLA burned out as the steel filled the mold, and the customer was able to get a single version of the thing he needed. You just can’t do this any other way.” He showed me several objects that would have cost over $1,000 to prototype in a traditional manner. His shop printed it for less than $20 worth of materials.

In fact, the more you look at 3D printing, the more impressive it gets. The annual CES technology conference held in Las Vegas last month saw the number of 3D printing companies represented more than double, and they were showcasing 3D printed everything, from chocolate to dental

implants to integrated circuit traces. There are companies right now selling printers that will create veneer try-ins from scans of patients’ mouths, right there in the dentist’s office. Other companies are creating scaffolding for replacement noses and ears, and bespoke artificial joints. People have been using ultrasound images to 3D print the faces of their unborn children, and utilizing CT scans it can print precise models of a patient’s organs so that doctors can visually prep for surgery.

The open source aspect of 3D printing means that the technology can be used and improved upon by anyone at all. Last year, a man named Michael Balzer used MRI scans of his wife’s sight-threatening meningioma tumor and some free software to create a 3D model of the tumor as it sat inside his wife’s skull, and was able to work with a neurosurgeon to pioneer a minimally invasive surgery. A Colorado teen named Easton LaChapelle has created a 3D-printed robotic hand prosthesis, and recently released all of his files as open source so that anyone with a 3D printer can print one for themselves. The average robotic prosthesis costs $60,000, but LaChapelle’s prototype cost him about $350 to make. Someone with the power to print their own prosthesis can also take the initiative to upgrade it or tailor it quickly and cheaply, and the files needed can be emailed. NASA even emailed a wrench to the International Space Station last December.

“This opens up so many opportunities for people who want to create a cottage business,” Macintyre says. “Someone with a few 3D printers and a good business plan could support a family. The old centralized manufacturing paradigm, the ‘big factory’ paradigm that we’ve been in for the past 100-plus years, that is all about to change.

Manufacturing is going to come home from China.” Zeni Kinetic is making and selling its own version of the 3D printer, the Origin, which retails starting at under $1000. N Alice Toler is more of an analog gal, and claims she won’t be in the market for a full-scale 3D printer any time soon. But after four friends posted a video of the hand-held 3Doodler 3D printing pen to her Facebook timeline, she broke down and funded their Kickstarter. She is excited to receive her Jetsons-style pen-of-the-future in April.

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Life on the Tavaputs Plateau How I fell in love with a sacrifice zone

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y handcuffs tightened with every bump and jolt as the van barreled down the 85mile road to Vernal, Utah, the heart of oil and gas country. The workers’ cries of alarm still rang in my ears. Like scared insects they’d fled from their bulldozers and belly-graders the moment we swarmed over the tar sands processing facility, clad in chipmunk masks.

The sight of a truck spraying ancient aquifer water for dust control had filled me with rage. Adrenaline still flooded my veins. The police had protected the real criminals – the corporations destroying this place, home and hunting ground to indigenous people and animals.

For the Tavaputs, a place capable of recovering from just about anything, tar sands is a different game.

Chimpmunk citizen civil disobedience aimed at protecting the East Tavaputs Plateau from tar sands development.

After living in the potential sacrifice zone for a whole season and counting, action had become not a choice but a compulsion. I could not stand by and watch its violent destruction.

Twenty-five people were arrested that day, September 23, 2014, for protesting tar sands mining on Utah’s East Tavaputs Plateau. On January 8, 2015, we accepted plea deals. Many of us risked felony charges. Despite our full knowledge of this risk, we’d continued, sent over the edge by the threat of climate collapse: disaster for the rivers, land and air. Tar sands mining means strip-mining the earth and crushing up asphalt-like rock to get a lowgrade fuel out of it, making the land a veritable moonscape. We had to make personal sacrifices for the sake of a livable future.

Many people believe direct action is a choice. The company bulldozers are not coming for their home. But over the course of several seasons I had allowed this place to become

my home and I came to realize that it’s only a matter of time before we’re all on the front lines.

For years, Utah Tar Sands Resis tance, Peaceful Uprising and Canyon Country Rising Tide have been in the forefront of resistance against U.S. Oil Sands’ mine, staging rallies, guerilla theater and creative interruptions of industry conferences.

Moab-based Living Rivers challenged U.S. Oil Sands’ permit to dump toxic wastewater. Last June, the Utah Supreme Court denied their appeal on a technicality. We have worked to show agencies with the power to halt the mine – the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) – the dangers of tar sands mining. We have watched helplessly as the state built a taxpayer-funded, $3 million-a-mile highway out to the remote mining site. Nothing worked.

We maintained a regular presence with group campouts. And when the company began clear-cutting and grading a 23-acre area for its processing facility, we stepped up as well. Occasional visits weren’t enough. We began arranging for donations, food drop-offs, kitchen supplies, bear-safe food storage. On May 17, we moved in. Our ongoing vigil lasted the next five months.

The East Tavaputs Plateau is a land of paradoxes and compromises. It is a land of lush forests and cow-trampled streams. It’s a land of sparse sagebrush ridges and dense stands of pine. It’s a land where midsummer’s dryness gives way to August’s soul-shaking storms. And it is a land of resilience. An old homestead slowly decays, its timbers becoming nursery logs for new saplings. Nearby, a new cabin is being erected. The skeleton of a calf lies bleaching in the sun. Old tar sands mining equipment rusts slowly away at a site abandoned in

The indigenous people downstream from the tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada, are warned not to eat the fish from their rivers or the wild game they’ve always relied on. They’re getting rare cancers.

the mid-’80s a quarter mile from the new test pit. Already earth is creeping up over its base. Nothing grows on the pulverized hills of the old mine. For the Tavaputs, a place capable of recovering from just about anything, tar sands is a different game.

Our first wave of action came on June 16. A group of women marched with calm purpose onto the field and halted machinery by putting their bodies in its way, shutting down work for part of the morning.

The second wave came on July 22 when 40 people pounded down the dirt road to the machinery yard in the rising dawn. Folks who’d taken on higher-risk roles hopped the fence and leapt onto the bulldozers and belly graders. In teams of two, they “locked down,” linking their arms together inside lengths of PVC pipe inserted through strategic points in the equipment. Another person U-locked his neck to the front gate. Indigenous people from around the region dropped a banner from atop a machine claiming the site as Ute land. On June 14 the EPA ordered U.S. Oil Sands to undergo additional permitting since the site lies on traditional Uintah and Ouray Ute land. The company has yet to comply.

The startled sheriff finally emerged from his nearby trailer, but he was far too late. Police spent the

morning extracting people locked to machinery. By the end of the day, 21 people had been arrested. Work at the site did not resume for an entire week and for long after, smaller actions continued to halt work for hours at a time. Our message to corporate investors was clear: We are not going away.

At night, before bed, I often sat on the cliffs at the end of the earth. I could feel a power radiating here from her, infusing me with a calm strength. She sang all night. Her singing silenced the footsteps of nighttime visitors like the mountain lion mother with cub who traveled by my tent after dark, judging by their tracks. What happens to the soul of a place like this, when strip mining destroys it forever?

The indigenous people in the community of Fort Chipewyan, downstream from the tar sands mines of Athabasca in Alberta, Canada, are warned not to eat the fish from their rivers. They can’t eat the wild game they’ve always relied on. They’re getting rare cancers at alarming rates. If tar sands disaster happens to the East Tavaputs Plateau, it will happen to the rivers and their people, connected to this place by a continuous thread of water.

My challenge, to all those with the privilege to look away, is this: Put yourself in situations where choice becomes irrelevant. Allow yourself to get emotionally connected to the point where you can never turn away. Choice is an illusion.

That day in September, as the van bore us onward, I noticed we were not alone. A flock of turkeys walked alongside the road, pecking at insects. I wondered if these juveniles were the babies I’d been seeing around camp, almost grown up. A herd of elk stood at attention as we passed, herd after herd of wild horses and pronghorns met us as we went by. I’d never, in my years of travel out here, seen so many animals gathering by the road, as if reassuring us that we would return to them soon. I felt gratitude knowing my time away would be short. I was, despite the injustice of it all, in the right place. N

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Marine Corps friend of mine defines resilience as the ability to take a gut punch and come back swinging. More formally, it is said to be the capacity to maintain core functions and values in the face of outside disturbance.

Either way, the concept is elusive, a matter of more or less, not either/or. The combination of slow, cumulative changes like soil erosion, loss of species and acidification of oceans with fast, “black swan”* events, such as the Fukushima disaster, like intersecting ocean currents, will create overlapping levels of unpredictable turbulence at various depths.

Against that prospect, the idea that we can improve resilience at scales ranging from cities to global civilization is becoming an important part of policy discussions, but mostly in reaction to major events like the global economic crisis of 2008 and the prospect of rapid climate change. If we are serious about it, we will have to improve not only our capacity to act with foresight but also develop the wherewithal to diagnose and remedy the deeper problems rooted in language, paradigms, social structure, and economy that undermine resilience in the first place.

*The black swan theory is a metaphor describing an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized with the benefit of hindsight.

The theoretical underpinnings of the concept go back to the writings of C. S. Holling on the resilience of ecological systems and to metaphors drawn from the disciplines of systems theory, mathematics and engineering. More recently, scholars such as Joseph Tainter, Thomas HomerDixon and Jared Diamond have documented the histories of societies that collapsed for lack of foresight, competence, ecological intelligence and environmental restraint.

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he concept of resilience is related to that of sustainability, but differs in at least one crucial respect.

Sustainability implies a stable end state that can be achieved once and for all. Resilience, on the other hand, is the capacity to make ongoing adjustments to changing political, economic and ecological conditions.

Its hallmarks are redundancy, adaptation and flexibility, as well as the foresight and good judgment to avoid the brawl in the first place.

While better technology is certainly a large part of societal resilience, the definition of “better” is seldom obvious. The reason is that we do not simply choose to make and deploy single artifacts, but rather, unknowingly, we select devices as parts of larger systems of technology, power and wealth.

The plow, for instance, represented the ingenuity of John Deere, but also an emerging, yet seldom acknowledged agro-industrial paradigm of total human domination of nature with commodity markets, banks, federal crop insurance, grain elevators, long-distance transport, fossil fuel dependence, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, crop subsi-

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dies, overproduction, mass obesity, soil erosion, polluted groundwater, loss of biological diversity, dead zones and the concentrated political power of the farm lobby representing oil companies, equipment manufacturers, chemical and seed companies, the Farm Bureau, commodity brokers, giant food companies,

resilience, such measures are no more than temporary stop-gaps that conceal deeper flaws rooted in our paradigms and worldviews.

We are prone to tinker at the edges of the status quo and then are puzzled when things do not improve much and even larger disasters occur. If we are serious about designing and building resilience, we will face a long and difficult process of rebuilding not just our hardware and infrastructure, but rooting out the ideas hidden in our paradigms, language, political systems, economy and education that undermined resilience in the first place.

Perhaps when we come to a fuller understanding of the discipline and restraint that sustainability and resilience will require of us, we may, like Thelma and Louise, prefer to go off the cliff in a blaze of glory. If we decide otherwise, the conversation about resilience must advance from a focus on the coefficients of change to the structure of larger systems and ideas of human dominance, which is to say from symptoms to root causes.

Among other things, this will require revisiting earlier conversations

Resilience... is the capacity to make ongoing adjustments to changing political, economic, and ecological conditions. Its hallmarks are redundancy, adaptation and flexibility as well as the foresight and good judgment to avoid the brawl in the first place. advertisers and so forth. The upshot is a high output, ecologically destructive, fossil-fuel dependent, unsustainable and brittle food system that wreaks havoc on the health of land, waters and people alike.

Farmers did not just buy John Deere plows, they bought into a system.

The resilience of that system had nothing to do with their choices.

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here is little in the modern world that is either resilient or sustainable. The idea of resilience is largely alien to our cultural DNA. As a result, the drive toward globalization, more economic growth, faster communication, robotics, drones and ever more interconnectedness has created a global world without firebreaks or even fire departments.

While there are some obvious things we can do at the national and international level to improve

that go back to the likes of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill and many others who first noticed the cracks in the hard-shell presumptions of the modern project.

Aside from the permanent threat of nuclear war, rapid climate change resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels tops many lists of global fears. The scientific evidence supporting that fear has grown dramatically in recent years. There is little doubt that if business as usual continues, we are heading for a 2° C. warming sometime around midcentury. Recent evidence suggests temperature increases of 4-6° C by the year 2100 or even sooner are possible. Somewhere along that trajectory, many things will come undone starting with water and food shortages, but eventually entire

economies and political systems.

Nearly everything on Earth behaves or works differently at higher temperatures. Ecologies collapse, forests burn, metals expand, concrete runways buckle, rivers dry up, and people curse and kill more easily.

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limate deniers, of course, remain unmoved by science and the evidence before their eyes, but they are doomed to roughly the same status as, say, members of the Flat Earth Society. More serious problems arise from those who presumably know what lies ahead, but choose not to speak about the harsh realities ahead for fear of alarming the public. As a result of both denial and evasion, there is a large chasm separating the science and the public discourse about planetary destabilization now well underway. Whether we face it or not, we will have to contend with the remorseless working of the big numbers that govern the biosphere. The “long emergency” ahead is caused by the fact that carbon from the combustion of fossil fuels will stay in the atmosphere for a very long time.

As a result, temperatures and sea levels will continue to rise for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The problem is not solvable in any way that we would normally use that word. What we can do, and must do, is to head off the worst of what lies ahead by making a rapid transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy. Humans have never faced a more vexing and dire problem. Why have we ignored increasingly urgent and detailed scientific warnings for so long?

Historian Ronald Wright describes our autism as the result of a progress trap. “Technology,” he writes, “is addictive. Material progress creates problems that are, or seem to be, soluble only by further progress.” It is an old story, “Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilizations which fell victim to their own success.” The problem, Wright believes, is the inherent “human inability to foresee long-range consequences.”

We are preoccupied with the here and now. What lies beyond is confusing and veiled and so we procrastinate. We exist amidst the interlocking systems of different temporal and spatial scales and navigate by often conflicting and competing value systems that direct our attention to one thing while making us blind to another. The headlines

report the fast news from the latest scandal to the daily jiggles of stock market trends. The brown color of the local river, on the other hand, reports the slow movement of topsoil seaward. The former captures most of our attention, but soil erosion, literacy rates and retreating Arctic ice say much more about our long-term prospects. As those inexorable slow variables work over decades or centuries, baseline expectations and memories of better things shift downward to a new normal and we forget what once had

We are unpracticed in foresight, precaution and the discipline necessary to restrain and redirect our technological drive. been. And, mesmerized by ever more powerful technology, we fail to notice vulnerabilities silently multiplying and ramifying all around us.

Looking ahead even a few decades, the progress trap will lead to more difficult and unprecedented problems for which we are ill-prepared. We are unpracticed in foresight, precaution, and the discipline necessary to restrain and redirect our technological drive. The merest suggestion of caution has become the modern version of religious heresy.

We now have new and more powerful gods.

A still more fundamental progress trap is inherent in the dynamism of a continually growing, energy- and resource-intensive, consumptionoriented market economy. The market economy has also attained a kind of divine status—worshipped, worried over, and appeased with sacrificial offerings (e.g., Detroit).

There is good reason to believe that the economy has already exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth. But the ideas that there are any limits to growth or fundamental differences between quantitative and qualitative growth are still incomprehensible to most economists, corporate chiefs, bankers, financiers, managers of the economy and media talking heads.

What would a sustainable, fair, and resilient economy be? What energy sources will dependably and benignly power it? How large an

economy can be sustained within the limits of the earth? How large an economy can fallible humans safely manage? What would it mean to give up our fatal obsession with the domination of nature? How will we distribute wealth? What would it mean to develop an economy for ‘Gross National Happiness’? How will we subtract the $20 trillion of fossil fuels that cannot be safely burned from corporate balance sheets? Who will decide such things? Such questions have been shunted aside in the manic phase of economic expansion, but if not for the wellbeing of all of the people and all of those to come, what is an economy for?

Such questions are first and foremost political, not economic. They have to do with how we provide food, energy, shelter, materials, transport, healthcare and livelihoods, and how we distribute the risks and benefits resulting from those choices, but these issues are often excluded from public deliberation and democratic control.

From the beginning, the deck was stacked to protect wealth, individual rather than collective rights and, perversely, the rights of corporations as much or more than those of flesh and blood people. Further, it gives little or no protection to future generations even when their life, liberty, and property are put at risk because of the actions of the present generation. In short, the system is rigged to protect power and wealth and not to foresee or to forestall obvious risks such as climate disaster looming dead ahead.

What we can do, and must do, is to head off the worst of what lies ahead by making a rapid transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Our manner of governance seems incapable of reforming itself, let alone dealing proactively and constructively with the scale, scope, and duration of the perils ahead. Even at their best, however, it is debatable whether democratic societies are capable of exercising the foresight and precaution necessary to make

resilience a priority in difficult circumstances.

Here is the nub of the issue. The founding ideals of America had to do with equality, liberty, and justice but these have always competed with other values embedded in the American dream, which were mostly about individuals getting rich quick.

Do we have the right stuff for resilience? What is to be done?

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esilience arises,” in Donella Meadows’ words, “from a rich structure of many feedback loops that can work in different ways to restore a system even after a large perturbation.”

Some of the first steps to improving resilience are obvious. The engineering principles and technology for a more resilient electrical grid, for example, are well understood. A resilient power system would be distributed among many renewable energy sources. It would be highly efficient, carbon neutral, and organized around interlinked “smart” micro-grids with two-way communi cation between the grid and endusers. Energy prices would be based on the full life-cycle costs of energy including its externalities. Consequently, it would use a fraction of the energy we presently use while providing higher quality service.

The principles of resilient urban design are also well known. In Eric Klinenberg’s words, resilient urban areas consist of communities with “sidewalks, stores, restaurants and organizations that bring people into contact with friends and neighbors.” Healthy neighborhoods have many people watching the streets as Jane Jacobs once said, and many overlapping connections between churches, businesses, civic organizations, schools and colleges. More resilient communities are pedestrian and biker friendly with close proximity between housing, schools, jobs, theaters, clubs, coffee shops, and health facilities. They have multiple and interconnected layers of ‘social capital,’ an ugly way to say competent, caring, and engaged citizens who work and play together and understand the meaning of common wealth. Urban communities intending to improve their resilience recycle wastes, minimize their carbon footprints, grow by infill, and are stitched together by pedestrian walkways, bike trails, and dependable, clean, safe, and affordable light rail systems.

Resilient cities will also have a

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I David W. Orr is keynote speaker at Weber State’s 6th Annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit in Ogden (March 5-6). To register: WWW.INTERMOUNTAINSUSTAINABILITYSU MMIT.COM growing percentage of locally owned businesses and communitygenerated wealth that stays put to create still more prosperity where it can be watched, tended, and nurtured.

At the national level, resilient economies have diversity, redundant supply chains, and the good sense to place controls on monopoly and the scale of enterprises for the public good. In the realm of national policy, resilience will require a larger definition of security than heretofore. We have spent trillions for defense against often exaggerated external military and terrorist threats while ignoring self-generated dangers that jeopardize access to food, energy, clean water, shelter,

t is impossible to make an unsustainable system resilient. Sooner or later, the careless exploitation of land, water, forests, biota and people will lead to disaffection, overshoot and collapse. There are many variations on the theme but the point stands. No system can be made resilient or durable on the ruins of natural systems or on the backs of exploited people. Design dictates destiny, but not in a straight-line way. The upshot is that if we intend to improve resilience, we will have to remedy the systemic flaws that have rendered our future increasingly precarious.

A second point is that the challenge of improving resilience must begin by re-forming structures of governance and political processes by which we decide issues of war and peace, taxation, education, research and development, healthcare, economy, environmental quality and the basic issues of fairness.

The political reformation, I think, must begin in the United States in ways somewhat reminiscent of the revolution we led in the years 17761790. In Al Gore’s words, “The decline of U.S. democracy has degraded its capacity for clear collective thinking, led to a series of remarkably poor policy decisions on crucially significant issues, and left the global community rudderless.”

Corporations and markets do many good things, but seldom without rules, structures, oversight, enforcement and the countervailing

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As a result, a small group of wellfunded interest groups holds our common future hostage.

Real solutions require the rediscovery of old ideas, traditions, techniques, design strategies and even those quaint and mostly forgotten qualities of wisdom and humility.

There are deeper structural issues as well. The path toward resilience will require a substantial upgrading of our collective capacities of foresight, coordination, and enforcement while also improving fairness within and between countries and entire generations.

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Thirdly, there are no purely national solutions to systemic problems of fragility. In an interdependent world, we will have to evolve institutions, laws, procedures and “habits of heart” that make resilience the default at both the local and regional scales and evolve formal institutions, non-governmental organizations and networks at the global scale. In fact, an efflorescence of civic capacity is emerging in diverse ways from “slow” movements (food, money, cities) to organizations tracking carbon emissions of corporations, to women planting trees in Kenya, to transition towns, to the growing role of elders in tempering our adolescent enthusiasms.

Finally, we tend to equate solutions with technology without expecting or requiring any particular improvement in our behavior or institutions.

As important as better technology is to a more resilient future, real solutions will also require the rediscovery of old ideas, traditions, techniques, design strategies and even those quaint and mostly forgotten qualities of wisdom and humility.

We are caught in a trap of our own making. If we are to escape the worst of it, we will have to disenthrall ourselves from our own unleavened cleverness and wean ourselves from the faith that even more of the same will somehow work differently this time. N David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Oberlin College. He is the author of seven books and a founding editor of the journal Solutions, in which a version of this article recently appeared.

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he world premieres of Mama (Carleton Bluford’s celebration of mothers and motherhood) and A/Version of Events (Matthew Ivan Bennett’s claustrophobic road trip about healing at different speeds) are next up in Plan-B Theatre’s 2014/15 season of new plays

by Utah playwrights.

A/Version of Events is Matt Bennett’s 11th world premiere at Plan-B. Mama is Carleton Bluford’s first fully produced play. And in a bit of theatrical serendipity, actor Cooper Howell portrays playwright Carleton Bluford in Mama; Carleton Bluford then portrays a character named Cooper in A/Version of Events.

From playwright Carleton Bluford: I moved to New York in the fall of 2013 to Make It. My friends would talk about making The Move and doing Big Things. I wanted to be in a place of action instead of a place of inaction. So one day I just went. Without any money.

Or really thinking about where I'd work or make money. I just left. Very reckless. But ultimately it was necessary for me to challenge myself in that

way. I was very lost, wondering what I'd like to do with my life. I ultimately decided to come back to Utah because I realized that it would take me years to get the chance to maybe do a little bit of the work there I was consistently doing here. And I couldn’t go one more day trying to survive on crackers and peanut butter.

While in New York, I read about the call for submissions for playwrights under 35 from Plan-B Theatre and the David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists. David and I had become good friends while working on The Third Crossing together at Plan-B. We would talk about what theater can be. So I was excited about submitting and figured I could really offer something as a young playwright with that sort of vision, something that would honor David’s memory. So I decided to write something Very Important that would really get everyone's attention, Something That Would Change the World.

While in pursuit of Something Important, the idea that would become my play Mama was inhabiting

more and more of my brain.

Being across the country from my own amazing mother, I thought a lot about how mothers give us life and show us who and how to be. And then I started thinking about the ability mothers have to make sacrifices for their children.

Even not-so-good mothers leave a mark. And then I started thinking about how I spend so much time trying to make my mother proud that I don’t spend as much time as I should with her.

So I said to myself, “Okay, write this, get it out of the way and then I’ll submit the next thing I write." So I set pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard) and out came Mama. It isn’t directly about my mother – it’s about many mothers, some real, some not-so-real, some good, some not-so-good – but it is for her.

I submitted it to Plan-B and the Davey Foundation and somehow it was selected out of 24 submissions.

I guess I ended up writing Something Important after all, even if only my mother sees it that way. Writing Mama taught me to write what I connect to,

not what I think people will like. Trying to prove myself only serves myself. I've been writing for years but am just now beginning to understand

what it is to be a playwright. I quite like it.

From playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett: In a way, playwriting is masochism.

A prettier, more intellectual way to say that would be: Playwriting is a conscious lit-

as his genes and chance and God would allow. For them, as parents, the whole experience was faith-affirming. For me, as son and brother, it crushed my belief system into an angry grey writhing uncertainty.

There was no question: Benjamin was in pain, and barring a miracle he had no hope for a

Utah playwrights Carleton Bluford and Matthew Ivan Bennett erary confrontation of the author's pain, confusion and weaknesses of belief. But there’s no way around the fact that sometimes it means splitting open old wounds.

You do this in the hope that the wound will heal properly now, I guess—straighter, cleaner, without inflammation.

The wound in question with my new play A/Version of Events is the short life, and quick but agonizing death, of my little brother Benjamin. At least, that's the emotional germ of the play. Plot-wise, it isn’t me rehashing those events one-to-one, but more me trying to make sense of my 18-year-old emotions. My brother Benjamin was born with Trisomy 18, a catastrophic gene disorder. My parents’ doctor had recommended my mom get an abortion, but they chose to have him, for as long

normal little boy's future. I saw no God in that.

In writing the play, I decided to let these opposites of experience co-exist and collide in the guise of a young couple on a road trip, Cooper and Hannah. I further decided not to stake out a position.

(The most painful part of the process.) It’s not a play about whether God exists, but about how we manage to live, and be in love with, a person who interprets death differently than you. How do we let our lovers have their version of events? With distance, it’s easy to say something like, “It’s better to be good than right,” but with no distance at all, how do you do it? N Mama: February 12-22 A/Version of Events: March 5-15. Details, tickets: PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

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began to notice how my own children science teacher steps with her found it easier to plug in and have a students out through the doors virtual life than to figure out how to of their school and into a garden. move in the outside world.”

Just imagine how her science lesBastian noticed similar behavior in his son is transformed. Suddenly, students at school. He worried that valthings that were, moments before, just ues of hard work and community were words in a book and diagrams on a being lost in the younger generation. page are happening all around them.

After five years spent teaching docuThe students can see, touch and study mentary filmmaking at another local the life of a plant – from germination to charter, he began wondering if his stupollination. dents were developing skills that would Then, the art teacher arrives. His stuactually serve them in life. Searching dents find a place to sit at the edges of for other models, he discovered the garden. They take out their pencils Common Ground – a and begin to sketch. high school, urban Meanwhile, in the garfarm and environmenden rows, other students tal education center. are bending low placing Located in New Haven, seedlings gently into the Connecticut, the urban earth and tamping the soil school gave at-risk studown around their roots. dents a unique educaUsing the farm, or gartion combining den, as a place of learning schoolwork and urban isn’t exactly unheard of in farming. “Students today’s educational were outside having sphere, but it is rare. At direct, real experione private boarding ences,” Bastian recalls. school, the Putney School “They were witnessing in Vermont, farm work is nature and applying built into the high school’s their education to curriculum as a method of tasks on the farm.” teaching self-reliance, digTyler Bastian, 38, founder After visiting Common nity and the value of physand soon-to-be principal Ground, Bastian was ical work. At Summerfield of Roots Charter School is a convinced that the Waldorf School and Farm teacher, an award-winning model could work in in California, students filmmaker, avid beekeeper Utah. A few months from preschool through and father of five. later he presented his 12th grade actively participroposal to the Utah State Board of pate in maintaining the on-campus Education. Last May, it was approved. farm – preschoolers and kindergartenStudent enrollment will likely be ers have animal visits, farm snack time finalized this month. Final staff hiring and egg gathering while 10th graders will wrap up about the same time. learn to graft fruit trees and high school When the first bell at Roots High seniors create individual agriculture School rings in August, there will be projects. This August, just in time for lockers and desks enough for 300 stuthe 2015-2016 school year, Utah will dents, grades 9-12. Such a small school become the home of another farm appeals to Bastian, who has a degree in school, the Roots Charter High School marriage and family relations from the in South Jordan.

University of Utah. “Small schools cre“The desire for a school like this realate a better sense of belonging,” he ly started for me as I began raising my says, and for a school located in the own children,” says Tyler Bastian, 38, Granite School District, an area with founder and soon-to-be principal of some of the state’s lowest student perRoots Charter School who is a teacher, formance scores, he also believes that an award-winning filmmaker, avid beesmall classes will lead to better behavkeeper and father of five. “I had read ior and performance. about nature deficit disorder and I

EDUCATION Students attending Roots will encounter a healthy mix of the traditional and the innovative. They will take all the normal high school classes from art to mathematics. They will study English just like any student, though unlike most students, one of their primary texts will be Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.

In addition to their regular classes, students will spend plenty of time with the school farm manager learning the ins and outs of growing food. Bastian envisions each child working a minimum of five hours a week on the school farm. Teachers, too, are encouraged to spend time working the soil and applying their lessons to what is happening on the farm.

Sometimes, Bastian admits, the farm-school model has been a tough sell along the way. It has been hard, he says, to find people who share his vision. Winter and the end of the growing season is one constant concern he hears from potential families and supporters, but Bastian has left nothing unconsidered.

“Our goal,” says Bastian, “is to keep getting kids outside throughout the winter with projects like soil testing for science labs, building maintenance, stuff like that.”

And when the problem of summer break rolls around, well, Bastian has a plan for that, too. “The summer break will be a real benefit for us,” he says. “It

They were witnessing nature and applying their education to tasks on the farm. will allow us to have a robust summer program where kids who are deficient on school credits can take classes.”

Summer school students will also spend time on the farm and while they earn school credit in the classroom, they’ll earn a salary for their summer farm hours. “Hopefully, keeping that connection going over the summer will be another thing that keeps them coming back the next year,” says Bastian.

“They’ll feel invested.”

As the farm gets off the ground, Bastian hopes the school will begin offering CSA shares to the community, feeding the students at their own cafeteria, and maybe even selling at local farmer’s markets.

What Tyler Bastian envisions for his

new students at Roots Charter High School goes above and beyond the ABCs of traditional schooling.

Preparing for and selling their produce at markets, students will gain business experience and management skills.

Every day on the farm will teach them to take on big tasks and complete them. And they’ll be confronted with natural consequences for their actions.

A farmer can’t avoid bugs or freezing weather, but they do have personal accountability. As Bastian points out, if a Roots student skips school like any other kid, they might show up to find a bunch of dead plants.

“The Roots model is called authentic learning,” says Bastian. “When students struggle they ask, ‘when will we ever use this?’ Here, they can take their knowledge and use it immediately.

They can see that what they are learning matters, how what they are learning actually goes far beyond the classroom.” N

For more information: WWW.ROOTSHIGH.ORG; also see Facebook: Roots Charter High School.

How Utah’s charter schools work Charters are public schools overseen by the State Charter School Board under the Utah State Office of Education. There are two kinds of charter schools: • Those opened through a specific district can only serve students in that district.

• Those opened through the state can take students from anywhere.

Charter schools do not have tuition fees like private schools. They are public schools, funded by taxpayers.

Public school funding generally is based on property taxes – schools in wealthier counties receive more money than those in poorer counties. By contrast, charter schools all receive the same amount of funding across the state from a Utah Legislature-approved pot of money called Local Replacement Funding. Often, the money received by a charter per pupil is less than that given to a public school.

New charters looking for approval must demonstrate how they will provide an educational experience not already provided by the public school system.

By law, charters are governed by a volunteer governing board, but in Utah some are managed by for-profit companies.

Testing requirements are the same for public and charter students.

Charters have extra reporting requirements that public schools don’t have.

People who teach at charter schools are certified, full-time teachers who are eligible for state employee benefits including retirement.

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WWW.HIMALAYANKITCHEN.COM Oasis Cafe DA 801.322.0404.151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual stylish dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more.

WWW.OASISCAFESLC.COM Omar’s Rawtopia DA 801.486.0332. 2148 S.Highland Drive, SLC. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love.

Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s

theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12p8p, F-Sat. 12-9p. WWW.OMARSRAWTOPIA.COM Pago DA 801.532.0777. 878 S. 900 E., SLC. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate eco-chic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List—City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American—Best of State. Lunch: M-F 11a-3p.

Dinner: M-Sun 5p-10p. Brunch: Sat & Sun 10a2:30p. WWW.PAGOSLC.COM Sage’s (and The Jade Room) DA 801.322.3790. 234 W. 900 S., SLC. Experience great vegetarian cuisine, drinks and friendships at Sage’s. Daily specials, seasonal small plates and a full cocktail menu. Open daily for breakfast/ lunch/dinner with late night weekend dining and a weekend brunch menu. WWW.SAGESCAFE.COM

HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/15 801 255.7016, 209.617.7379 (cell). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy.

Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stressrelated insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment.

National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction.

Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM

To list your business or service email: CRD@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Prices: 12 months ($360), 6 months ($210).

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

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SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/15 801.521.3337. 177 E. 900 S., Ste. 101, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space.

We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism, and more.

WWW.SLCQI.COM AYURVEDA

Vedic Harmony 3/15

801.942.5876. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being.

Primordial Sound meditation,Perfect Health & Wellness counseling. Georgia Clark, Certified Deepak Chopra Center Vedic Master, has trained in the US with Dr. Chopra, Dr. V.D. Lad, Jai Dev Singh, David Crow & in India with Dr. A.P. Deshpande. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 03/15 801.907.1894. Dr. Suzanne Cronin. 1088 S. 1100 E., SLC. Have you heard that Salt Lake Chiropractic is the least invasive way to increase your quality of life? Our gentle, efficient and affordable care can reduce pain & improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment. WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM EDUCATION 7/15 Boundless Sky–Integrative Health & Wellness 801.979.0111. Donna Dinsdale, Integrative Health Coach & Educator. 336 E. 900 S., SLC. Offering health coaching (Duke Integrative Medicine), meditation for wellness and classes for weight loss, nutrition, fitness, stress reduction and more!

WEIGHT LOSS class Feb. 16-Mar. 23. More information: WWW.BOUNDLESSSKYHEALTH.COM FELDENKRAIS Open Hand Bodywork.

801.694.4086. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM DA Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801.671.4533. Somatic education and bodywork.

Erin Geesaman Rabke 801.898.0478. Somatic Educator.

BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE Healing Mountain Massage School DA 801.355.6300. 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East), SLC. HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FOG 801.531.8340. Todd Mangum, MD. 508 E. So.

Temple, #102, SLC. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM Better Balance Healing 10/31/15 385.232.2213. Jill McBride, MD. 3350 S. Highland Dr., #212, SLC. Trained in Family Practice, NAET Acupressure and complementary/alternative medicine, Dr. McBride guides patients to tune in to their inner healer. Quarterly group sessions allow a broader forum to hear and share journeys of individuals on parallel paths.

WWW.BETTERBALANCEHEALING.COM NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 10/15 801.486.4226. Dr. Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #100. When you visit the Cameron Wellness Center, you’ll have new allies in your health care efforts. You’ll know you’ve been heard. You’ll have a clear, individual plan for gaining health and wellness.

Our practitioners will be with you through your journey to feeling good again—and staying well. WWW.CAMERONWELLNESSCENTER.NET Clear Health Centers 12/16 801.875.9292. Physical and mental symptoms are primarily caused by nutrient deficiencies, toxic environmenal chemicals, molds, heavy metals & pathogens. Our natural approach focuses on detoxification, purification & restoring optimal nutrient levels. Ozone saunas, intravenous therapies, hydrotherapy, colonics, restructure water, earthing, darkfield, EVA & educational forums. 3350 Highland Drive, SLC. WWW.ALTERNATIVEMEDICINEUTAH.COM, WWW.CLEARHEALTHDETOXIFICATION.COM

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/15 801.474.3684. Uli Knorr, ND, 2188 S. Highland Dr. #207, SLC. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medicine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing options. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders & food allergies. WWW.EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 3/15 801.557.6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371, SLC. (Also in Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dys-

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function. This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with selfcorrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider.

WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM REFLEXOLOGY Paula Powell, ARCB, Nationally Certified Reflexologist 2/15 828.707.8547. 1399 S. 700 E., #14F, SLC. Paula integrates Eastern, Western and European techniques for deeply effective and relaxing sessions. Reflexology is an excellent choice of self-care to help strengthen body systems and enhance total wellness. Immediate and long lasting stress relief. WWW.FEETFORPEACE.COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 5/14 1.800.230.PLAN, 801.532.1586. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. WWW.PPAU.ORG ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801.671.4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM

MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 801.878.0530. 638 S. State Street, SLC. WWW.THESTATEROOM.COM Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center DA 801.746.7000. 122 Main Street, SLC. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE DA Just Law 801.467.1512. WWW.JUSTLAWUTAH.COM

Schumann Law DA 801.631.7811. WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM MEDIA Catalyst Magazine 801.363.1505. 140 McClelland St., SLC. WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818. 1971 N. Temple, SLC. WWW.KRCL.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/15 801.268.4789. WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM NON-PROFIT Local First DA 801.456.1456. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG PERSONAL SERVICES Abyss Body Piercing 11/30/15 801.810.9247. 245 E. 300 S., SLC. Abyss is more than just a piercing studio. Abyss is about keeping piercings sacred. Being more of a holistic healing spa, Abyss also offers massage, Reiki and card reading, on top of the obvious: piercing, high quality body jewelry & locally made accessories. WWW.ABYSSPIERCING.COM, COURTNEY.PIERCING@GMAIL.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School DA SLC campus: 801.355.6300. 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222.

297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs. Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify.

WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU RETREAT CENTER Montana Ranch Retreats 11/30/15 406.682.4853. Our beautiful and stunning corner in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem hosts individual and group retreats with nourishing food, picturesque log cabins, healing horses, labryinth, swimming (salt water pool), jacuzzi, FIR sauna, fishing and hiking. Book your retreat or join one of ours. WWW.DIAMONDJRANCHRETREATS.COM, DJGUESTRANCH@GMAIL.COM SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy1/16 801.596.0147 ext. 41. 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and

Reconnect to your passion and creativity kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM

peace. Based on the books: Healer Within and One Bowl. WWW.TAICHIUTAH.COM. 5/31/15

TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/15 801.721.2779. Group spiritual journeys or private/Shaman JdD KUCHO/accomodations/Nick Stark

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 12/15 801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga.

Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 05/30/15 801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294. 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans, investing & life insurance.

Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM; WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM

MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School DA 801.534.1000. Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG RemedyWave; Dance your own dance, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/15 385.202.6447. 616 E. Wilmington, SLC. Tues days 7-9p. Grounding, pulsing, wild, uplifting, rejuvenating journey through music and dance.

Unlock your expression, passion and joy. Love to dance? ‘Used to’ dance? Re-member your heartful, responsive, embodied Self. Come dance! Workshops & special classes.

WWW.REMEDYWAVE .ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/15 801.355.6375. 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET MEDITATION PRACTICES

Authentic Movement with Pam Murray

801.674.2547. Come back to yourself for 2015!

Pam Murray is offering Authentic Movement classes as developed by Janet Alder. AM is the mystical practice of moving with the eyes closed in the presence of an attentive and nonjudgemental witness. For more info and bio: WWW.A UTHENTIC M OVEMENTC OMMUNITY. ORG, PAMDOINGAT@YAHOO.COM 06/15 Rumi Teachings 6/15 Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7 pm) of month at AndersonFoothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM TAI CHI WHOLE BODY Moving, Eating & Being Play-shop 801.556.5964, Scott White. Tai Chi Easy, Qigong, Yoga & One Bowl Method for mobility, energy, vitaility, health, stress relief, balance and inner

YOGA STUDIOS Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/15 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 10 years. We now also offer Vinyasa, Restorative, Pre/Post-Natal, Kids Yoga and Mat/Barre Pilates Classes in our NEW studio room. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere in-between, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM

Centered City Yoga 9/15 801.521.YOGA (9642). 926 E. 900 S., SLC, and NOW ALSO AT 955 W. Promontory Road at Station Park, Farmington, 801.451.5443. City Centered Yoga offers more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hour-teacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED & SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FB 212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

The Salt Lake Wellness Center builds upon four cornerstones of treatment: Michelle Murphy, LCSW

Biology • Psychology Spirituality • Social Connection Amen Methods Provider Holistic treatment through psychotherapy, nutrition/vitamin/supplement therapy, recreation or exercise therapy as well as art and writing to treat individuals holistically.

We can help.

Please call or email today.

(801) 680-7842 mmurphy@saltlakewellnesscenter.com

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Only $50 at Curves on 33rd Includes yoga, materials and snacks REGISTER: WWW . EVERY - BODY - YOGA . COM / WORKSHOP

Vedic Harmony—Jyotish Astrology 3/15 801.942.5876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET

ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT (Turiya’s)8/15 801.661.3896. 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.TURIYAS.COM Shari Philpott-Marsh 9/15 Energy Medicine/Shamanic Healer 801.599.8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck? Pushed and pulled by forces that interfere with your peace of mind? Shamanic healing cuts to the root of the problem. I intuitively unwind the core issues, recalibrate your energy body, and bring you to a place of strength and clarity. Core emotional clearing; mental reprogramming; soul retrieval; past life reconciliation; spirit guide activation; elimination of dark forces/interdimensional interference. I also love mentoring healers. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 11/15 801.906.0470. 2470 S. Main St., SLC. Have life

This Valentine’s Day, find “The One.”

$10 adoptions February 12-15 $25 adoptions throughout February*

Best Friends Pet Adoption Center 2005 South 1100 East Monday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Together, we can Save Them All . ®

utah.bestfriends.org

*Applies to animals age six months and older

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questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Shamanic Balancing and other oracles. $25/20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments.

Walk-ins welcome. We also make custom conjure/spell candles! WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM Intuitive Psychic Medium 5/31/15 801.258.1528. Darryl Woods. I channel the information directly from the higher realms with acceptance and allowance. To learn more about me, my readings and what people are saying, go to WWW.READINGSBYDARRYL.COM.

Intuitive/Psychic Readings/Classes 4/15 801.560.3761. Vickie Parker. Offering Psychic, Shaman, Medium, Tarot, Lenormand and Oracle Cards, Pendulum, Past Life, Divination, and Psychic classes. For a complete list of readings and what we offer, visit our website. Get the answers you are seeking. WINDSWEPTCENTER.NET/ WINDSWEPTREADERS.HTM. VPARKER@XMISSION.COM

Margaret Ruth FOG 801.575.7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy my blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions. WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Nick Stark 6/15 801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/clearings/readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience.

Suzanne Wagner DA 12/15 707.354.1019. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM FOG

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH COACHING Annette Shaw, Say YES Breakthrough 11/15 801.473.2976. Intuitive coaching supports you in getting unstuck, finding clarity and embracing the courage to act from that clarity. I integrate coaching, intuitive development practices and energy healing modalities, working with the body, mind & spirit, helping you step into the flow of life. WWW.SAYYESBREAKTHROUGH.COM, ANNETTERSHAW@GMAIL.COM HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/15 801.810.9406. 1111 E. Brickyard Rd., Ste. 109, SLC. Hypnosis changes habits. Lose weight, stop smoking; overcome mental blocks, cravings, insomnia, fears, anxiety and unhappiness. Find your motivation, confidence and focus for living

your life purpose with passion. First time clients $75 session. Call now to schedule.

WWW.EXPANDINGPOTENTIALS.NET RECOVERY LifeRing Utah 2/16 LifeRing Utah meetings offer abstinence-based, peer-to-peer support for individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Conversational meeting style with focus on personal growth and continued learning.

Info: WWW.LIFERING.ORG. For local meetings, please visit WWW.LIFERINGUTAH.ORG THERAPY/COUNSELING Healing Pathways Therapy Center 3/15 435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope.

Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM Integrative Psychology, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/15 385.202.6447. Serving adolescents & adults using Art Therapy, embodied awareness/movement, brain based shifting, imagination, symbol and dialogue for well-being, practical skill building and healing. Specializing in parenting, teen issues, ADD/ADHD coaching, trauma, life transition, dealing with the borderline in your life and being happy. Holladay office or video-conference.

WWW.O NLINE I NTEGRATIVE P SYCHOLOGY. COM , WWW.N EURO I MAGINAL I NSTITUTE . COM Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/15 801.524.0560, ext. 2. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling. Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge and inspire our lives.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM

Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/15 801.582.2705. 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals,

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couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/15 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of identity crises and bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK .COM

Golden Braid Books DA 801.322.1162. 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Healing Mountain Crystal Co. DA 800.811.0468. 363 S. 500 E., #210, SLC. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG Lotus DA 801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express Rd., #200, Draper. For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM

Salt Lake Wellness Center, Michelle Murphy, LCSW 2/15 801.680.7842. 4190 S. Highland Dr., #226, SLC. Salt Lake Wellness Center provides therapeutic services to individuals. We maintain a holistic approach. We are an Amen Method Provider. We provide traditional therapeutic interventions and education in vitamin and nutrition therapy to create a state of wellness.

Turiya’s Gifts 2/15 DA 801.531.7823. 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 11a7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun noon-5p. Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary.

WWW.TURIYAS.COM

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 3/15 801.531.8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition DA SLC: 801.268.3000. 880 E. 3900 S. West Jordan: 801.824.7624. 1817 W. 9000 S. WWW.DAVESHEALTH.COM

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801.209.1095. 508 E. So. Temple, #102, SLC. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature.

Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

NAOMI@EARTHLINK.NET

RETAIL line goes here GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Cali’s Natural Foods DA 801.483.2254. 389 W. 1700 S., SLC. www.CALISNATURALFOODS.COM Liberty Heights Fresh 11/30/15 801.583.7374. 1290 S. 1100 E., SLC. We are good food grocers offering food that makes you smile. Certified organically grown and local fruits & vegetables, humanely raised meats, farmstead cheeses, hand-crafted charcuterie, traditional & innovative groceries, prepared specialties, soups, sandwiches, baked goodies & fresh flowers. M-Sat 8:30a-8p, Sun 10a-7p. www.LIBERTYHEIGHTSFRESH.COM GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique10/15 DA 801.487.1807. 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM Dancing Cranes DA 801.486.1129. 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. WWW.DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM

RESALE/OUTDOOR GEAR & CLOTHING fun & frolic consignment shop 6/15 DA 801.487.6393. 2066 S. 2100 E., SLC. Consigns everything for travel/outdoor recreational experiences. Fun seekers can buy and consign highquality, gently used outdoor gear and clothing, making fun time less expensive. Call to consign your items. FACEBOOK @ FUN & FROLIC CONSIGNMENT SHOP. In the 21st & 21st business district.

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Inner Light Center Spiritual Community 10/15 801.462.1800. 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10a; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/15 DA

801.328.4629. 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses. WWW.URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG

Utah Eckankar 11/30/15

801.542.8070. 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy. Eckankar is ancient wisdom for today. Explore past lives, dreams, and soul travel to see how to lead a happy, balanced and productive life, and put daily concerns into loving perspective. Worship Service and classes on Sundays at 10:30a.

WWW.ECKANKAR-UTAH.ORG INSTRUCTION

Two Arrows Zen Center (formerly Boulder Mountain Zendo) 3/15 DA 801.532.4975. 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. WWW.BOULDERMOUNTAINZENDO.ORG

SHALL WE DANCE?

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The Bboy Federation Growing the urban dance scene in Utah

BY AMY BRUNVAND

Ya but can you dance

—Bboy Federation t-shirt

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n the beginning…there was the DJ and the music,” says Joshua “Text” Perkins, executive director of the non-profit Bboy Federation in Salt Lake City.

Say what? Executive director? Federation?

Doesn’t all that sound a bit formal for hip-hop which is, after all, a street-style urban dance? But Perkins says the formation of the Bboy Federation is just a sign of how much the art of hip-hop has matured since its origins 40-odd years ago.

You may have seen the Bboy Federation around – most recently members have danced at EvE, Utah Arts Festival, FanX 2014 and the “Light as Air” fundraiser for Western Resource Advocates.

Last summer they hosted a jam at Liberty Park, and in December they put on a hip-hop art show.

Perkins says the original break-dancing from the 1970s would look almost incomplete by today’s standards. Since then, various styles have fused and intermingled so that nowadays there is a vibrant hip-hop subculture complete with DJs, fashion, rappers and graffiti artists in addition to the dancers. More opportunities exist for hip-hop artists to compete, perform, teach and sometimes even get paid.

Utah’s hip-hop scene has not always been this robust and for a while it seemed to be fading out all together. “There was a huge explosion in the ’80s, then it disappeared underground where the people who are passionate about it carry on,” Perkins says. In 2008 Perkins and another dancer, James “Pyro” Karren, started throwing events hoping to generate a little more positive energy.

Their effort eventually became the Bboy Federation which gained nonprofit status just last year with the goal of promoting street-style dance as a respected and legitimate art form.

Besides workshops and performances, the Bboy Federation hosts practice jams and open events called “cyphers” where people can hang out and show off their dancing skills. Perkins

explains, “If you’re talking about break-dancing particularly, it’s not meant to be performed for a crowd. The idea is that if you and I are both dancers, you think you’re better than me, and I think I’m better than you. The way a cypher works is, if I go to a party and call someone out we try to dance against each other until the other is convinced or until the people watching decide a winner. The cypher is the most authentic experience you’re going to get. It’s unstructured, and raw, but it’s also kind of a conversation.”

Perhaps because of this competitive element, hip-hop is especially appealing to teenaged boys, and being part of a hip-hop community can help

“The cypher is the most authentic experience you’re going to get. It’s unstructured, and raw, but it’s also kind of a conversation,” says Perkins. get them through the rough adolescent years.

Perkins says, “I started break dancing when I was 17 or 18, and I really got into it. It’s one of the things that started as a hobby, but now it defines who I am as an individual. You can take boys who are shy and creative and it gives them recognition.

It improves their self-confidence. If you are spinning on your head someone is going to notice.”

Still, he says, one of the appealing things about hip-hop is, “It’s based on creativity, not athleticism. It’s not just more flips, more spins, harder tricks, but I can be better by being more creative.”

Within this male-dominated scene there are also bgirls. Josie L. Marine serves as Development Director for the Bboy Federation. Marine started out dancing with Children’s Dance Theater and at one time planned to study modern dance in college. Then she discovered hip-hop: “I had a hip-

hop teacher in summer camp and I learned break-dancing and I literally fell in love with it,” she says. “All my time was taken up doing hiphop and house dancing.”

If you’re curious to find out what’s so appealing about breaking, popping, locking, house, funk, and New Jack, the Bboy Federation is putting on a big show February 6-7. They Reminisce presents a history of hip-hop styles through three eras: from the 1970s Origins Era, the 1990s Golden Era and finally the 2000’s Modern Era. DJ Scratchmo will create the soundtrack.

They Reminisce doesn’t start with the stage performance, though. An open cypher before each show is an opportunity for dancers to warm up and enjoy the music, and for the audience to see hip-hop in its native element. You don’t need a ticket for the cypher and everyone is welcome to watch or even join in dancing. “We want it to be open to anyone,” says Perkins. “You’re welcome to hang out and get loose prior to the show. Kids from our scene can come hang out.”

Both Perkins and Marine agree that the best thing about Utah’s hip-hop scene is the dancers’ passion for what they do. “In LA, break-dancing will get me gigs, but in Utah our dancers dance because they love it,” says Perkins. He says Utah hip-hop artists are gaining a reputation out of state, and adds, “We get a lot of compliments that we have a great scene that has a great feel and great energy to it.” N Amy Brunvand is a librarian at the University of Utah and a dance enthusiast

They Reminisce Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 West 300 South, SLC UT 84101 Feb. 6: 5pm open cyphers; 7:30pm show February 7: noon open cyphers; 1:30 show February 7: 5pm open cyphers; 7:30pm show BBOYFED.COM FACEBOOK.COM/THEBBOYFEDERATION Tickets: HTTP://WWW.ARTTIX.ORG

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CALENDAR Feb. 12: The Bee: True Stories from the Hive. Topic: “Attachment.”.6-9p. Ten storytellers picked at random have five minutes each to tell us all a true tale, live onstage, without notes. Have you ever been attached to someone, to something, to a culture, a continent, a dream, an idea, a belief? Have you ever become unattached? What can you tell us about non-attachment? We are attached to the idea of hearing stories about attachment.

18+ (21+ bar; bring ID). Hosted by Giuliana Serena & Francesca Rosa. Sponsored by Utah Humanities Council and CATALYST. The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. $5. THEBEESLC.ORG Feb. 1: Frank McEntire lecture & booksigning. 3-4:30p. Final Light: The Life and Art of V. Douglas Snow (U of U Press). U of U J .Willard Marriott Library, 295 S 1500 E. Free. UTAH.EDU

Feb. 7: Chinese New Year Celebration with Valerie Litchfield. 11a-2p. Chart your luck for 2015. Year of the Wood Sheep.

Forecast, annual feng shui updates, lion dance by Sil Lum Kung Fu. Feng shui goods and gifts and prizes. Bring a friend. RSVP: 801.913.9018. Dave’s Health and Nutrition, 880 E 3900 S. $38. DAVESHEALTH.COM (See CATALYST article last month.)

Feb. 3: UFC Free Film Screening: Last Rush for the Wild West. 7p. Post-film discussion with director Jennifer Ekstrom. This documentary explores how impending tar sands and oil shale mining could impact the Utah landscape, increase air pollution in Salt Lake City and affect the Colorado River watershed. Among “10 Best Eco-Docs of 2014” by EcoWatch. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Feb. 7: Starting Seeds Indoors. 12-2p.

Learn how you can start plants from seed indoors this winter. Demonstrations on starting seeds in pots and using the soil block method. Grateful Tomato Garden Greenhouse, 800 S 600 E. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Feb. 5: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art (community preview party). 5-7p. From the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The exhibit explores how mid-20th century Latino artists shaped the artistic movements of their day and recalibrated key themes in American art and culture. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive. Free.

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Feb. 10: UFC Free Film Screening: King Kong. 7p. A timeless tale of man v. beast, this 1933 classic set the standard for monster movies. While shooting in the jungle, a filmmaker discovers an awe-inspiring marvel of nature: a colossal gorilla dubbed Kong.

After subduing the mighty beast, the crew returns to New York with the primate, who promptly escapes, spreading mayhem throughout the city. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Feb. 7: Workshop with Poet David Whyte. 9a-3p. What to remember when waking: The Art of Asking The Beautiful Question.” A day-long workshop experience.

Depth exercises of experiential process and interactive dialogue. Wasatch Retreat Center, 75 S 200 E. $20-$100 DAVIDWHYTE.COM

Feb. 11: UFC Free Film Screening: Film from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. 7p.

Film will be announced following the conclusion of the festival. Post-film discussion with the film’s director moderated by Doug Fabrizio, host of KUER’s RadioWest. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Feb. 11: March Fourth Marching Band with Talia Keys. 7p. MarchFourth Marching Band throws itself and the audience into a swirling volcano of high-energy music and spectacle. What began as a Fat Tuesday party in 2003 in Portland, Oregon has become one of the nation's best live touring acts. The State Room, 638 S State. $18.

THESTATEROOM.COM Feb. 11: Coping with Trauma: Food for Thought lecture series. 7p. The purpose of this lecture series is to improve the lives of our community by providing information, awareness and support. Each event features lectures by trained professionals. Following the lecture will be a Q & A and social hour.

Pancakes will be served (gluten-free as well) so come ready to snack! Organized by our good friend Stan Clawson. Utah Arts Alliance, 663 W 100 S. Free. uthaarts.org Feb. 12: Ask your Mama—12 Moods for Jazz: Langston Hughes Project. 7:30p.

Alternating between being sassy, scholarly and humorous, this multimedia performance of Langston Hughes’ epic poem “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” this powerful music and spoken-word performance evokes a pivotal moment in our cultural history. Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E President’s Circle. $20-$50 student discounts available.

KINGSBURYHALL.UTAH.EDU Feb. 12-15: $10 Pet Adoptions at Best Friends. 11a-4p. This Valentine’s Day, find “The One.” Or two! Best Friends Animal Society, 2005 S 1100 E. BESTFRIENDS.ORG Feb. 13: An Evening of Songs and Stories with Teresa Jordan and Hal Cannon (pictured right) 7-9p. For this evening they will take the inspiration of Teresa’s justreleased book, The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off), to celebrate some particularly Western takes on virtue and vice. Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S 200 E. Free. (See story, this issue.)

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Feb. 14: Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei. 8:30a-5:30p.

Beginners will learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere. Those familiar with the practice will find an environment conducive to deepening that practice. Two Arrows Zen at Artspace, 230 S 500 W. $35 half day/$60 full. TWOARROWSZEN.ORG Feb. 14: Vibrant Woman Wellness & Beauty Day. 10a-2p. Free aromatherapy, wellness, skin care, & nutrition classes at both locations. Find a 20% coupon all beauty products in this CATALYST, or mention that you found out about it from CATALYST. Dave’s Health and Nutrition, 880 E 3900 S; 1817 W 9000 S. free. DAVESHEALTH.COM Feb. 14: Winter Market. 10a-2p. Farmfresh products, dairy, eggs, meat, specialty foods & fresh-baked goods. + Utah's finest food trucks. Dress warmly, bring your shopping bag. Rio Grande Depot, 300 S Rio Grande St. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Feb. 14: World Sound Healing Day. 11:30a. “A Metaphysical, Mystical, Spiritual Community Dedicated to Personal Empowerment and Transformation.” Inner Light Center, 4408 S 500 E. Free. INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day Snowshoe Excursion. 2-3:30p. Learn about the history of the Preserve, watershed science, and wildlife and plants found in the area. RSVP required. Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City. $5 (members free). SWANERECOCENTER.ORG Feb. 14: RDT’s Charette. 7:30p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 W 300 S. Sister Dottie S. Dixon returns to host RDT's 10th annual signature fundraiser & choreographer competition, featuring all past winners in a battle of the Iron Choreographers.

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $40. RDTUTAH.ORG

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Traditional New England contras and squares. Beginner workshop at 7:30p; dancing at 8p. All dances taught. Everyone welcome. Music by Loose Shoes. First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake, 569 S 1300 E. UTAHCONTRA .ORG

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Feb. 14: Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons. 9p. Jerry Joseph has worn a lot of hats over more than three decades in the music trenches – righteous rocker, hyperobservant cultural observer, spiritual & political firebrand, force of nature live performer – but the bedrock of what he does has always been songwriting of the highest caliber. The State Room, 638 S State. $15.

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Feb, 21: Third Saturday Contra Dance.

7-10:30p. Music by Leaping Lulu. All dances are taught and called. Come alone or with a partner. First-time dancers welcome.

Montessori Community School, 2416 E 1700 S. $8. WASATCHCONTRAS.ORG

Feb. 28: Portland Cello Project. 9p.

Since the group's inception in late 2007, the Portland Cello Project has built a reputation mixing genres and blurring musical lines and perceptions wherever they go. No two shows are alike, with a repertoire now numbering over 800 pieces of music you wouldn't normally hear coming out of a cello.

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Feb. 21: Danielle LaPorte’s Desire Map Workshop for Young Women Aged 13-19.

With Jacqueline Morasco. 1-4pm, Curves on 33rd. Register: WWW.EVERY-BODY-YOGA. COM/ WORKSHOP.

Feb. 19: Psychic Fair. 6-9p. 20 minutes for $25. Call to schedule your appointments.

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Feb. 24: UFC Free Film Screening: Film from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Selection TBA. 7p. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Feb. 19: Many Lamps, One Light: Rumi on Sufi Spirituality. 7-8:30p.An Evening with Rumi and Sufi teachings hosted by Rumi Poetry Club and Interfaith Roundtable of Utah. Light refreshments will be served.

Free. Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S 2100 E. Free. RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

Feb, 25: Grammarphobia: Easy Tips for Better Writing. 6p. Confused by commas?

Perplexed by parentheses? Bring your questions about writing and grammar to the Grammar Phobia workshop! SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E 400 S, suite #8. $10. CWC/SLCC.COM

Feb. 19: Jorma Kaukonen with special guests Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams.

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Feb. 27: Spiritual Cinema at Inner Light Center. 7p. Tired of the gratuitous violence and inane plots of commercial cinemas?

Feb. 27: Fire Muse Circus. 7p. Fire Muse Circus is a theatre-based circus troupe founded in 2004; touring most of the Western United States to inspire minds and hearts through the performance arts. Light fare and drinks will be served all night ending with a DJ dance party. Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S 800 W. $22.50.

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Mar. 5: 6th Annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit at Weber State. 8a10p. The Intermountain Sustainability Summit is bringing together civic leaders, sustainability professionals, businesses, educators, students and interested public to learn, network and develop new strategies for implementing sustainability in homes and businesses. Keynote speaker: David W. Orr (see story, this issue). Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Boulevard, Ogden. $120 ($100 before Feb. 25.) Sponsored in part by CATALYST. INTERMOUNTAINSUSTAINABILITYSUMMIT.COM/

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What’s New Around Town We Are Yoga moves Saturday, February 7 is the final day at We Are Yoga’s old location (2065 E 2100 S). They will be open at their new digs, just a few blocks away, the next day. Check out the new space as early as Sunday, February 8. Set back from the road in a clean plaza surrounded by flowerbeds, owners Sarah and Diane say that yoginis who practiced at the old studio will welcome the peace and quiet of this new location. The entire space will include: two sunlit studios, a meditation room and a foyer gathering space. Class schedules and teachers will remain unchanged.

New address: 2645 Parleys Way, Suite 1.

801.485.5933. WWW.WEAREYOGASLC.COM

First Sunday mindfulness group at MYC Charlotte Bell and Marlena Lambert of Mindful Yoga Collective are collaborating to offer a monthly informal sitting group on the first Sunday of every month. The group is open to anyone who’d like to understand more about meditation practice.

In this informal group, participants will listen to dharma talks by leading teachers in the vipassana tradition, including Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg and others. This will be followed with sitting meditation and an informal discussion about the talk. This class is appropriate for novices and experienced mindfulness practitioners alike. Preregistration isn’t required but a brief email RSVP would be appreciated.

7-8:30 pm. Mindful Yoga Collective, 223 South 700 East. Tuition: by donation. RSVP (optional but appreciated): CHARLOTTEBELL@EARTHLINK.NET

Santosh Yoga Institute Yoga For People is expanding their offerings. In addition to their goal of making yoga available to everyone, regard-

less of financial or geographic constraints, founder Santosh Maknikar has launched a new endeavor, the Santosh Yoga Institute, which offers yoga teacher training programs. “Teacher training is a life-changing experience and is for anyone who wants to teach yoga to others, or to simply learn more about themselves and the practice of yoga. As students go beyond the physical aspect of yoga, transformation organically takes place,” says Santosh. “Ultimately the biggest gift the training gives you is a deeper understanding of yourself and your practice.” The next training starts March 2, 2015 (limited scholarships are available).

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Carl’s Jr. offers natural burger Increasingly, Americans are demanding better, safer food and the right to make informed decisions about what they eat. While the government continues to work against the will of the people, fast food companies seem to be listening.

The fastfood restaurant chain Carl’s Jr. knows that while ‘GMO’ doesn’t sell these days, ‘all-natural’ does. Their new “AllNatural Burger,” made from hormone-, antibiotic- and steroid-free, grass-fed Australian beef (apparently the U.S. cattle industry couldn’t supply the demand), is being promoted in TV commercials. The chain has 34 locations in Utah of which 20 are in the Salt Lake City vicinity.

Geared toward the label-reading millennials,the prices are considerably higher to accomodate the higher cost of production ($7 for a double, $4.69 for a single—about a 60% increase). It remains to be seen if people who eat fast food care?

Inmates study science Thousands of men and women serving time at Utah State Prison now have access to science education (biology, ecology, chemistry, math and physics) through a new monthly prison lecture series taught by professors and graduate students from the University of Utah. Funding for the program comes from the National Science Foundation, private donors and the Initiative to Bring Science Programs to the Incarcerated.

Some may question giving free education to law breakers while law-abiding students struggle to pay school fees and graduates fail to land jobs. However, studies repeatedly show that education in prisons reduces rates of recidivism, reduces rule infractions, creates a culture of respect and creates inmate role models.

Utah Thermography adds location Clients can now schedule with thermographer Kelly Wobrock at her Draper office (located at 748 Pioneer Road, Draper, inside Karen’s Energy) or downtown in the Gateway office of Dr. David Altman (41 N. Rio Grand Ste. 103).

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Unlike x-rays, it does not use any form of ionizing radiation. Breast thermography costs around $225, and is not covered by most insurance companies. But it is recommended for those who prefer a radiation-free procedure to screen for breast cancer.

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February 2015 Cultivating your inner Earth Keeper

You don’t have to live in pain “Working with Dan has transformed my life.”

BY SUZANNE WAGNER Osho Zen Tarot: Guilt, Slowing Down, Integration Medicine Cards: Crow, Beaver Mayan Oracle: Caban, Lamat Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Queen of Cups, Four of Disks, Eight of Disks Aleister Crowley Deck: Science, Princess of Disks, Swiftness Healing Earth Tarot: Woman of Rainbows, Seven of Pipes, Seven of Crystals Words of Truth: Knowing, Terror, Opportunity rom the cards drawn, we see an emphasis on the elements of duality.

In this month that is about unifying lovers, it’s important to note that within each of us, we have both male and female aspects. Sometimes we need to be the high-flying masculine eagle, embodying clarity, power and aloneness. Other times, we need to become the feminine swan, gently floating and diving into the elements of our emotions embodying space and grace.

Conflict always originates within you.

You cannot create a bridge between your own opposing and yet complementary sides if you judge one part, suppress another part, or feel guilty about something from your past and are still holding on to some mental self-hatred.

This is the month to create bridges among the dominant parts of yourself and those other parts that deserve and need attention and connection. If you notice that you’re loving and beautiful in one moment but soon thereafter you’re expressing anger or fear, something is not fully integrated.

When you are unified within, the emotions may still roll past your mind but your identification with them and the attachment to voicing them will be very different.

When the various sides of your mind and heart communicate and become strengthened, then the duality disappears and the bridges connecting them become stronger.

At that point, they unify into one great bridge of awareness. A crystallization occurs and duality evaporates. Your male and female internally become one powerful moving force of conscious clarity, where each is heard and honored for the gifts and insights shared. The logical and the illogical finally unite and chaos and clarity find a way to be with each other in a flow of love.

Within you right now is an Earth Keeper, a synergistic shield of perspective and respect for all things. If this part of you doesn’t feel fully activated, look at what you’re judging that is preventing the natural

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In this month of Love, become aware of your own suffering but also put your heart awareness to the animal and nature kingdoms and the suffering they endure. Learn to expand beyond the limitation of suffering into a larger world that is the envelope of love that surrounds and protects us all.

When you are fully embodied and awakening, you will notice the suffering of others.

Everything alive has a soul. Everything on this planet has that spark of life within it. Everything that lives struggles to navigate the world and the priorities of the pattern that its life requires of them. Your pattern and priorities are not necessarily the same priorities or joys of your pet. When you step beyond your own fears, insecurities or emotions, you begin to notice the needs of others. It’s not about what you want or what you need to give others. It’s about what they need and then it’s your job (as a conscious being) to find a way to give that to others in ways that open them, serve their growth and support the expansion of love. This is not about getting but about giving.

February’s challenge and opportunity: Look at how you communicate with your inner self. Are you loving? Are you respectful? Notice how your choose words. Be willing to look at that shadow in the mirror. Don’t turn away from what may have been off-putting in the past.

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