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FEBRUARY 2017 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2

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“Hatred Driven Hence”

by Adele Ardent

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began work on Hatred Driven Hence roughly 10 years ago. At loose ends after dropping out of a graduate program and struggling with self-worth and severe depression, I felt caught between who I was and who I thought I should be, with every action and choice painfully measured for whether it would justify my existence. During this time, though, as a heretofore self-taught artist, there were a few pieces that I kept returning to, which became guideposts in moving towards a wholehearted life. The three flowers shown here, dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), sweet violet (Viola odorata), and wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca), represent the indivisible intertwining of grace and tenacity in my personal floriography. They appear unbidden, wild, colonizing inhospitable urban landscapes or returning to disrupt the most diligently her-

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Media magic.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND

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SEEING THE WORLD WHOLE KATHERINE PIOLI An all-Muslim Girl Scout troop examines the urban ecological framework of our city following the model of the renowned observer (and Girl Scout) Jane Jacobs.

bicided lawn. Though the universe is cold, large, and indifferent, life is just life: There is no deliberate maliciousness, and things of great beauty will be given unearned and unasked to those with the courage to hang on. While this imagery was deeply personal to me, the ability to dig in and keep growing—and to remember that the only will is self-will—is something that many will need over the coming years when battles are lost and the fight feels all but knocked out of us.

I consider the full title for this piece an excerpt from William Butler Yeats’ A Prayer for My Daughter:

Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still. ◆ Adele Ardent is currently pursuing her artistic education at the University of New Mexico. You can find her work at ADELEARDENT.COM and ETSY.COM/SHOP/LATEBLOOMHEIRLOOMs.

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A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD TIM SLOVER Virtue: a play about Hildegaard of Bingen

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THE REGILDED AGE WILL BAGLEY History allows a perspective on the challenges of today.

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BOB DYLAN UNSTRUNG ALEXANDRA KARL From one poet to another: Alex Caldiero performs works of the new Nobel laureate..

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SUNDANCE ALL YEAR SOPHIE SILVERSTONE You don’t have to brave blizzards to enjoy Sundance.

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A FIRE IN OUR PRISONS ELISABETH LUNTZ. In a biased justice system, who gets locked up and who gets killed?

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METAPHORS SUZANNE WAGNER Intuitive patterns for February 2017.

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GARDEN LIKE BOSS JAMES LOOMIS Grow your own carbon credits!

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THE ANTIQUITIES ACT ROB LAWRENCE Europe has its castles; the U.S. has majestic mountains, seas & more.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

Media Magic

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here has been a lot of media about the media in the media lately. It is sort of like thinking about your brain: It’s an endless loop of logical labyrinth poop. If you can’t believe the media, what exactly can you believe? More important: How do you know what you know?

It is probably a liberal made-up media word but epistemology is the term for the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. You, the media consumer, have to decide what is real.

The term “the media” is being thrown around like the name of an evil overlord, but just about everything you claim to know comes from the media. Few of us know anything about Syria other than what we see, hear and read in the media. I never met, talked to or had dinner with any of the presidential candidates, but I was able to form a pretty solid opinion, as were most of Americans who cared enough to vote.

Most people admit that they get nearly all their information from the media in the form of print or web versions of print; and radio or internet streaming of radio and television or whatever that term even means now.

A miniscule nanoparticle of our knowledge comes from divine inspiration, substance abuse hallucinations and alien mind melds.

So how can we the Face-slapped and Tweet-assaulted losers handle the media better in 2017?

Here’s how to get out of your silo.

Listen to country western music at least a little; if you had, you would have seen this coming. Sure there are billionaire country western singers, but the music came up from the rural working class.

Listen to Rush Limbaugh at least a little; it will make you scream, but that's not a bad thing.

As long as you don’t go on a house wrecking rampage it is

okay to get angry at people you disagree with. You can’t debate him if you don’t listen to him.

Read the alt-right website Breitbart at least a little; you have to dig really deep to find the crazy white supremacist stuff. Most of it just reads like the dark mirror image of The Daily Show.

Listen to BBC, CBB and Aljazeera news regularly. It’s just a slight, but different perspective.

Through the miracle of the Internet we can get news from anywhere in the world at any time.

You’d be surprised, or not, that media in other countries report about events in the U.S. differently than media in the U.S. Some of them don’t even care about the NFL playoffs or Britney Spears’ comeback.

Pay for some media. I know this is a tough one because the Internet was supposed to be the promise of free loaves and fishes, music, photos, art, porn, etc. Wake up and smell the taxes. This week, for the first time you will have to pay sales tax on all that junk you buy on Amazon because you were too cheap to go down to Walmart.

I can’t believe I just endorsed Walmart, but paying local taxes is the right thing to do; local taxes support schools, roads and stuff.

Try the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic or The Economist and don’t use the excuse that “I already used up my 10 free articles.”They are not the liberal elite; they are accurate, factchecked media. “Getting it free on the Internet” encourages fake news.

Support your local media. Neither the New York Times nor Huffington Post is going to cover last night’s City Council meeting or the Utes women’s volleyball team.

Dennis Hinkamp would like to thank you for reading his media. He did not know Catalyst publisher, Greta deJong’s nephew plays on the Utes womens (practice squad) volleyball team when he wrote this.

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Rising from the center of the southeastern Utah landscape and visible from every direction are twin buttes so distinctive that in each of the native languages of the region their name is the same: Hoon'Naqvut, Shash Jáa, Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe, or “Bears Ears.”

Presidential Proclamation—Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument

Help keep an eye on the Utah Legislature Now is the time to sign up for e-mail action alerts from your favorite environmental groups.

The 2017 General Session of the Utah Legislature started January 23 and runs through March 9, 2017. Environmental activists are gearing up to monitor legislation in order to support good bills and oppose the stinkers. You can help by making phone calls, and by showing up for hearings and protest rallies.

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Congress declares public lands “worthless” On their very first day in session, the Republican-controlled 115th U.S. Congress launched a fresh attack on Utah’s public lands. The House passed a rule that defines public lands transfer as “budget neutral,” essentially creating a legislative fiction that public lands have no value and generate no revenue. The amendment was sponsored by Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Ut-1) in order to make it easier to give away valuable public lands to state control.

And the Rubber Dodo Award goes to…

Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT-1)— “For leading a fanatical campaign to give away America’s iconic public lands, our forests, deserts and wildlife refuges to state and private ownership for mining, logging, fossil fuel development and other destructive uses.”

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“the person or group who has most aggressively sought to destroy America’s natural heritage or drive endangered species extinct.”

Previous winners include agri-business giant Monsanto (2015), the Koch brothers (2013)and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (2008).

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Advocates promote clean air policies On January 21, clean air advocates rallied at the Utah State Capitol urging State legislators to adopt a list of 19 policies to help clean up dirty air along the Wasatch Front. Three of the most important ideas are: 1) boost funding so that the Division of Air Quality can enforce existing rules 2) develop a serious State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Air Quality (Utah has been in violation of federal health standards for more than 10 years, and EPA recently downgraded nonattainment status to “serious” ), and 3) stop plans to divert water from the Bear River which would turn the Great Salt Lake into a toxic dustbowl.

The plan also advocates cleaner vehicles, more support for walking and biking, reducing emissions from lawn equipment, industry and buildings and more transparent air quality monitoring.

Citizen groups that developed the plan include HEAL Utah, Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Utah Moms for Clean Air and Western Resource Advocates.

Salt Lake City gets over 60% of its water supply from the Wasatch Mountains watershed.

Bears Ears!

On December 28, 2016, President Obama established a new Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. Hip, hip hooray!

But don’t put away your “Protect Bears Ears” T-shirts just yet; anti-environmentalist Utah politicians are threatening to use litigation and legislation to try to undo the new monument.

Although San Juan County commissioners claim that the push for a monument came from “outside special interest groups,” in fact the plan originated with local Native American tribes seeking more influence over management of

A Clean Air Blueprint for Utah: HEALUTAH.ORG/CAMPAIGNS/ CLEANAIR/BLUEPRINT. Save Our Canyons: Wasatch Mountain Updates

Save our water While Salt Lake City has been working to protect the city’s watershed with a proposed Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act (yet unpassed), the State of Utah Quality Growth Commission has been working on behalf of private land owners to eliminate water quality ordinances in order to let developers build closer to streams. Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski strongly opposes changing watershed protection ordinances.

ancestral lands that are not located within current reservation boundaries. Utah Diné Bikéyah (a Navajo nonprofit organization) laid the groundwork with a mapping project asking tribal elders to identify sacred and culturally significant sites. The resulting proposal was endorsed by governments of five local tribes including Hopi, Navajo Nation, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute, and Zuni Pueblo, who coordinated as members of the Bears Ears InterTribal Coalition.

Environmental groups and the outdoor industry supported the Bears Ears proposal, but

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were not leading the effort despite false claims by Utah Republicans that they were.

At first, the tribes hoped to negotiate a Bears Ears National Monument as part of Congressman Rob Bishop’s (R-Ut-1) Public Lands Initiative (PLI), but they withdrew from the process after Utah politicians shut them out of discussions and pretended that anti-monument individuals represented the tribes as a whole.

A letter sent from the InterTribal Coalition on December 31, 2015 to Bishop and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT-3), complained, “Our strenuous efforts to participate in the PLI, and related proceedings before that over the course of the past six years, have been consistently stonewalled. We have never been taken seriously.” The letter concluded, “We don’t feel we can wait any longer before engaging with the Obama Administration concerning our proposal in the hope that they will advance our proposal via the Antiquities Act.“ In the end, tribal

leaders did meet President Obama, and he did establish a 1.35 million acre monument.

The next fight for Bears Ears will be to keep the U.S. Congress and Republican-controlled Trump Administration from reducing the Monument size or eliminating it all together. Trump has nominated Ryan Zinke, a Republican congressman from Montana, as Secretary of the Interior. During his confirmation hearing, Zinke was asked about Bears Ears. He stated that he did not believe that the designation could be completely undone, but also said that the president has the authority to amend a monument. If Zinke is appointed, he said that he will visit Utah and make a recommendation to the president. ◆ Proclamation: Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument: BLM.GOV/SITES/BLM.GOV/FILES/DOCUMENTS/FILES/ 2016BEARSEARS.PRC_.REL_.PDF; WWW.BIOLOGICALDIVERSITY.ORG/ NEWS/PRESS_RELEASES/2017/PUBLIC-LANDS-0104-2017.PHP

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK PHOTO BY SALLIE DEAN SHATZ Fri, 1/20: Inauguration. I conjure appendicitis, resulting in emergency surgery. Good day for anaesthesia.

Sat, 1/21: Big blizzard; 8,000 people march down Park City’s Main St. in concert with the National Women’s March. Another 500 gather at the State Capitol for the Clean Air, No Excuses rally.

Mon, 1/23: I send out an email to the 5,700 people on the CATALYST listserv reminding them of the Women’s March at the Capitol. Eleven readers unsubscribe.

Photographer and dear friend Sallie Shatz heads through yet another blizzard for Capitol Hill without me—but also for me. “I needed you to be a part of this,” she says later, for which I am grateful. Her photos, coming to me almost in real time, make me feel as if I were there.

Saturday, 1/28: CATALYST’s first event as a nonprofit, the Utah Clean Air Fair at Trolley Square, goes off without a hitch. Thank you Jim French, David Ezekiel Brooks, John deJong, Morgan Byrne and all 40-plus volunteers!

In spite, or because, of ill-willed decrees by the new government, people are starting to act like citizens. We are standing up for one another without fear or guile.

We’re signing up and showing up. Everyone seems more alive. President Trump just may be the catalyst this country needs.

We’ll see what February brings.

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Love your lungs!

You breathe, on average, 26,000 times a day. Besides powering you through the day, breathing can be a calming meditation or a dangerous practice, depending on the Air Quality Index*. For this month, especially for those grimy days, we have compiled an arsenal of methods for you to Love Your Lungs. Here they are—the gizmos, techniques, foods, plants, herbs and folk remedies. Do one, do them all, just do something nice for your lungs this month! *App to try: UtahAir — Rachel Silverstone

ItWebegins with how you breathe all know how to breathe once we step into yoga

class. But “for most of the day, we breathe like rabbits, little tiny shallow breaths in the upper lobes of our lungs, which triggers an emergency response, every time you breathe,” says Boulder, Colorado-based ayurvedic practitioner John Douillard, DC (author of Body, Mind and Sport).

To get a picture of this, imagine the huffing and puffing runner, whose respiratory action could be compared to someone who just saw a bear in the woods—short emergency breaths.

Douillard explains, “These breaths tell us we are in an emergency situation. That triggers receptors in the upper lobes of your lungs, and produces a host of degenerative stress-fighting hormones that break your

Breathing through the nose drives air to the lower lobes of your lungs, as well as cleans and humidifies incoming air.

body down and that make the experience an exhausting one.”

Dr. Douillard advises us to breathe through the nose. “When you breathe through your nose, you breathe through turbinates—turbines that drive the air to the lower lobes of your lungs, as well as clean and humidify incoming air.”

The more romantic and historically rich version of this simple nasal breathing is, of course, found in yoga and qigong, which both revolve around ancient breathing techniques practiced for enlightenment and longevity.

Dr. Douillard explains, “the lower lobes of your lungs, where the majority of the calm nervous system receptors are, oxygenate 60% of your blood supply. This is part of why breathing through your nose will create a neurological calm.”

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ou may travel by mass transport, bike or on foot. You may have solar panels on your home and the highest-rated water heater. Your life may even be 100% carbon neutral. Too bad: You’ll still have to endure toxic levels of particulate pollution during the Wasatch Front’s wintertime inversions.

And when the air does get bad, through no fault of your own, you’ll likely still need to walk

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ratory tract. That means you need a mask that can filter out these minute toxins, some of which are proven carcinogens.

Respirator masks are rated by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and masks given an “N” rating of 95, 99 or 100 provide ample protection from PM2.5s. If a mask is rated N95, it filters out 95% of particulate matter larger than .3 microns, which is, of course, much smaller than 2.5 microns. NIOSH ratings are readily visible on respirator masks and their packaging.

The multinational conglomerate corporation

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the dog or ride your bike to work, in which cases you should wear a respirator mask. But which one?

During the winter months, the pollutant of principal concern in Utah is PM2.5. A composite of chemical particles wafting in the air, PM2.5s are small—2.5 microns, almost 30 times smaller than a human hair—and they can’t be scrubbed by your body’s filtration defenses, so they end up accumulating in your upper respi-

3M makes a line of N95 masks that can be found at most hardware stores. They’re easy to use, cheap and easily available. Masks with small valves on the front are easier to breathe through and reduce condensation buildup. The masks are made to be disposable, but they can be reused as long as they are clean and undamaged. $10-50/10-pack.

Larger half-facepiece masks can provide

Undo dirty air with yoga!

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he Romans had detox in mind when they added February to their calendar in about 700 BCE. The Latin februum means “purification.” February is named after the Roman purification ritual that took place each year on February 15.

The skin is the body’s largest eliminative organ, and sweating naturally detoxifies your tissues. But hatha yoga’s methods are less about perspiration than about restoration.

Over the millennia, hatha yoga has developed many purification tools, including breathing practices and neti nasal washing. Paired with certain asanas these methods are powerful ways of releasing toxins.

One of yoga’s most powerful purifying poses that combats the respiratory distress of breathing noxious air is Setu Bandha Sarvangasana, also known as Bridge Pose.

Bridge Pose soaks the lymph glands in the neck and throat with blood.

N100 protection and they look bad ass, but they’re expensive and condensation quickly becomes a problem if you wear them while walking or riding a bike.

Consider the stylish N99 masks produced by San Francisco-based Vogmask. Their comfortably fitting, washable masks have a purported three-year life, feature a functional breathing valve and come in small, medium and large and in various designs. According to one report, Vogmask products are manufactured at the same South Korean factory that produces 3M masks, and they provide test results of their masks on their website. At N99, these masks should provide more than ample protection from PM2.5s along the Wasatch. $27-35 online Iconoclad, a downtown clothing store, carries masks they’ve had manufactured directly.

We‘ve not test-driven them yet, but owner and longtime clean air activist Tom Sobieski says they do capture PM2.5s. $17.50-20.

Active Salt Lake City winter cyclist Jim French swears by the Respro masks. He has found them to be the best for heavy exercise. Many appropriate models are available, depending on your needs. His choices: Cinqro and Techno Black. See RESPRO.COM On January 28 at the Utah Clean Air Fair we met the makers of JaMo Threads, which manufactures their PM2.5-guarding gaiter masks right here in Salt Lake City! Find them at Wasatch Touring. $22-24.

Whichever mask you choose, it must fit snuggly, with no gaps between your face and the mask lining. (Bearded men: good luck.)

Breathing any quantity of unfiltered air defeats the purpose of wearing a mask.

If you exercise outdoors, wear a mask. Only you can protect your own lungs.

— Benjamin Bombard

It also suppresses the “fight or flight” (sympathetic) side of your autonomic nervous system, restoring energy and supporting healing. (When your head is below your heart and your neck is flexed, the “baro reflex” is activated.

This sets off a chain of events that suppresses the sympathetic nervous system.)

Weave Bridge Pose into your regular yoga practice, or practice it on its own. Practice it for purification, restoration of energy, or because it feels good. Its heart-expanding properties will prepare you for another of February’s iconic days.

—Charlotte Bell (author of Yoga for Meditators and Mindful Yoga, Mndful Life) For instructions on how to do Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha): WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET/YOGA-POSE-OF-THE-MONTH-SETU-BANDHA-SARVANGASANA/

Nutritional support Herbs Millcreek Herbs clinical herbalist Merry Lycett

Harrison says osha root (ligusticum porterii; also called Porter’s lovage or bear medicine) is her “go-to” herb for lung cleansing.

As Navajo legend goes, bears eat this herb as they come out of hibernation to stave off parasites and harmful infections. It’s an antiviral, decongestant, expectorant, stimulant, diuretic and carminative (aids in gas exchange between stomach and small intestines).

Boil in a cup and a half of water and inhale the steam, then drink the tea. Strain the woody root off and save, as it is the herb that keeps on giving, and can be reused again and again.

Other herbal concoctions for the lungs, as recommended by Harrison and also by Marinda Bowen, BSRN of the Natural Apothocary: Garlic: Helps lungs from becoming congested.

Infuse warm butter or olive oil with garlic and drizzle over food.

Licorice root: The master fluid balancer, used to moisten dry membranes. Great for dry scratchy throats or dry lungs. Add the root to tea, or just chew on the root.

It’s sweet!

Marshmallow (the herb, not the candy) and slippery elm: Both are mucilaginous. Place a heaping teaspoon of either herb in room-temperature water for about an hour. Sip this gooey concoction to reduce throat irritation.

Mint/ginger/cayenne pepper: Sip a tea of this mix to turn on the fire hose of mucous secretion, the key to kicking out irritants on bad air days. Use dried or fresh, organic when possible.

Pleurisy root: The magic membrane moistener, used traditionally for acute lung conditions—pleurisy, non-spasmodic asthma, dry pulmonary cough, bronchitis, influenza and pneumonia.

Coltsfoot: Good for asthmatic conditions, where tightness is present. Steam inhalation and tea.

Elecampane foot: It is a great expectorant to push congestion out of the lungs.

Mullein leaf: A mild sedative, mullein soothes a variety of upper respiratory disorders. Make into a tea.

Find these herbs at Natural Law Apothocary, Dave’s Health and Millcreek Herbs.

Breathe Easy tea

This Traditional Medicinals organic non-GMO product is commonly available. Bi Yan Pian extract, the main ingredient, is a traditional Chinese formula that includes eucalyptus, ginger, peppermint, fennel and licorice. This blend gives your senses a wakeup call and your lungs a chance to relax!

—Anna Albertson

Orange peels

Orange peels have many natural uses and lung cleansing is one of them. They are packed with beneficial compounds and nutrients that help the lungs cleanse themselves and have histamine -reducing properties. Orange peels are also rich in flavanones which are powerful antioxidants.

Not only do orange peels provide effective support against respiratory diseases, eating orange peels provides vitamin A, tons of vitamin C (a well known immune system booster), enzymes and fiber and pectin, which aid in digestion.

The signature citrus smell of orange peels comes from an aromatic compound, d-limonene, studied for its anti-tumor activity.

It can neutralize gastric acid and dissolve gallstones, as limonene is a solvent of cholesterol.

Choose only organic oranges.

Make a tea from the peels. Grate the peel into salads, tea, yogurt or onto fish. Add to soups, stews or smoothies. Slow-cook with chicken or duck.

—Caitlin Haws

You might want to try....

Essential oils

Eucalyptus oil is the most commonly used essential oil for lung health. It can be a potent antiseptic, expectorant and decongestant—which is why we find so many over-the-counter allergy and cold medicine featuring this ingredient.

You can also inhale bergamot or peppermint to help open up your bronchial passages and help eliminate the presence of bacteria in your lungs. Peppermint’s expectorant qualities soothe upper respiratory congestion caused by asthma, bronchitis, allergies, colds and flus. Lavender helps eliminate infection in the lungs and, combined with eucalyptus, have been known to kill up to 70% of staphylococcus bacteria in the lungs.

Inhalation is the way to go with these herbs. Diffusers are a great option, but you can also boil essential oils and inhale directly—just make sure to keep your eyes closed!

Some diffusers worth trying: MONQ—the personal essential oil diffuser that works like vaping but contains no nicotine, tobacco or artificial chemicals; I keep doTERRA’s “Breathe” essential oil roll-on in my purse at all times; or try Utah’s own Young Living Essential Oils—check out their AromaDomes & Diffusers.

—Caitlin Haws

Castor oil pack Castor oil is not just to swallow. You can put it on your body, too. As a folk medicine, it is said to draw out toxins from inside the body and cleanse the lungs of pollutants when used in a castor oil pack.

You won’t find definitive scientific studies on this one, just indications that people have been doing castor oil packs since at least the ancient Egyptians and in China and India before them.

The FDA has recognized castor oil as safe and effective. If you’re willing to experiment, try it. It’s inexpensive and remarkably relaxing (though very, very messy). And it just might actually break up congested toxins and clear them out of the body.

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Air-cleaning gizmos

BY ALICE TOLER

Negative ion generators Negative ion generators work basically by creating an electric charge on plates that attract pollutants out of the air. There is good research backing up the science of negative ion generators. Britain’s National Health Service trialled some high-grade machines and found that they could eliminate new infections of airborne acinetobacter in hospital wards.

Negative ion generators have also been found to be effective for the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disor-

shielding the planet from UV rays, but in your lungs this highly corrosive gas will create irritation and chronic inflammation. Ozone generators don’t even address non-biological pollutants or particulates.

High-ozone shock treatment is sometimes used to help clean mold and unpleasant odors from contaminated buildings, but the ozone is aired out before the building is re-occupied.

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der (SAD) if the ions are released in large enough amounts—small amounts were not better than placebo. There are dozens, if not hundreds of generators out there, at all different price points and for all different sized rooms.

One thing to keep in mind is that even the best ionizers produce a little ozone as they do their work, though generally not enough to harm you. This brings us to…

Ozone generators—not!

A lot of ozone generators are promoted as air cleaners and you should buy none of them.

In the upper atmosphere it’s very good for

By far the most common method for purifying indoor air is the good old fibrous-material air filter for a standard HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system. If you have ducted forced air heat or ducted air conditioning (and it’s likely you do), you are already using some kind of filter.

In this case, you’ll want to get up right now and go change that filter, because you probably haven’t done that yet this year, have you?

The key concept to grasp with HVAC filters is the MERV (Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value) rating. A higher MERV rating means more pollutants are filtered out.

Decent MERV ratings start at about 7.

HEPA (High Efficiency Particle Arrestance) filters are slightly different, and are used in vacuum cleaners, industrial systems and NIOSH face respirators. You won’t get a “true HEPA” filter for your furnace; however, any filter with a 7-13 MERV rating will be almost as good.

But it won’t help if it’s dirty and clogged! A dirty furnace filter can actually

LOVE YOUR LUNGS make the air inside your house more contaminated. It also makes the furnace fan work harder, shortening its lifespan.

When the fiter is new, check monthly to assess your dirt progress. More red air days (and more long-haired pets) mean sooner replacement. Replacing a dirty filter (or washing a washable model) can lower the energy consumption of your HVAC system by up to 15% in some cases!

Freestanding air cleaners These are for houses without forced air ducting, or for any room where you would want a little extra cleaning of the air.

In the CATALYST office we have an Air Free Onyx 3000 filterless air purifier.

Air is drawn in to the ceramic core and heated to 400 degrees, which zaps dust mites, bacteria, fungi, viruses, pollen and other airborne microorganisms. Again, it has no effect on our unique PM2.5 particulate problem. However, it is good for overall lung health.

The arrival of this device has clearly correlated with less sneezing. However, our beloved Schnauzer, Tesla, died around the same time, so we can’t be 100% certain it was only the machine’s doing.

Note: We make a fair amount of fermented foods around here, where the natural yeasts in the air help flavor the outcome. For this reason, we would not use this device in the kitchen.

Available at Sharper Image, Bed Bath & Beyond, Home Depot. $300.

If you want to experiment Propolis vaporizers These are rather fun.

Propolis is a resin gathered by bees, used to sterilize the

Grow your own air cleaners!

NASA studies in the 1980s proved what your great-granny always knew: Houseplants are a good thing. All plants absorb carbon dioxide (what you exhale) and release oxygen (what you want to inhale). Some plants also absorb benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene.The big YES goes to: Variegated snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Sansevieria) Golden pothos Peace lily Spider plant Ferns (Boston, Kimberly queen) English ivy Philodendrons (heartleaf, selloum, elephant ear) Weeping fig (ficus benjamina) Rubber plant (ficus elastica) Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia) Aloe vera Chinese evergreen Recommended dose: One decent-sized plant per 100 sq. ft. Paradise Palm and Cactus & Tropicals have nice selections. You can also often find them in grocery stores. inside of their hives. They use this gluey substance to seal up any gaps in the hive walls, and to disinfect any foreign biological material that they can’t physically haul out.

Egyptians used propolis in their embalming, and the Soviets used vaporized propolis for treating tuberculosis prior to the discovery of antibiotics. Stradivarius even used it in his violin-making.

Many studies show that propolis is antibacterial, antifungal, anti-protozoan, anti-tumor, anti-ulcer; it also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. But can it clean your air?

A propolis diffuser won’t clean particulate pollutants out of the air in your house (in fact, diffusing it will add to the particulate load). But it might help kill airborne pathogens. There is no real science on its air-cleaning properties. Propolis certainly smells wonderful; you may wish to experiment and see if you can notice a difference for yourself.

Note: As propolis contains pollen and other botanicals, some people may have an allergic reac-

tion to it in either solid or vapor form.

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Himalayan salt lamps These lamps clean the air by attracting humidity, which creates a buildup of ions, according to Salt Lake naturopath Dr. Todd Cameron’s newsletter last month. “Salt lamps ultimately generate negative ions, which draw positive ions out of the environment. Negative ions help neutralize electromagnetic chaos and radiation which then decreases allergens and irritants in the air. Sources of electromagnetic chaos (excess positive ions) include: television, computers and cell phones. The frequencies associated with these causes vibrations that are 20 times faster than brain waves. This lends to nervousness, sleep disturbances, lack of concentration and increased free radical damage.”

We’ve recently seen Himalayan salt lamps at Dave’s Natural Health and Turiya’s Gifts. $18-80

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enters a household via cracks in the foundation, rising from the soil or groundwater. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s Indoor Radon Program focuses on radon-resistent construction, real estate discloure and testing, local government coalitions and radon awareness (testing and mitigation). Get your home checked with a short-term test kit for $9 ( WWW.DOCTORHOMEAIR.COM/UTAH/) or have a specialist to visit your home (RADON.UTAH.GOV ).

Healthy house check-up “Radon is a radioactive colorless, odorless, gas that can cause lung cancer,” says Dr. Akerley of Huntsman Cancer Institute. Radon typically

Mold is another microscopic household assailant than can affect your lungs as well as the value of your home. Home test kits are the way to quickly answer the question of where seemingly random allergies, rashes, lung infections, pneumonia or other respiratory problems are coming from. The best kits use multiple testing methods and also identify yeast and fungus.

The gold medal winner of test kits is the

Pro-Lab Mold: DIY Kit available on Amazon.

At about $7 for the kit and $40 for the lab analysis, the kit is well worth your family’s lung health. HTTP://AMZN.TO/2KZU0SN Carbon monoxide is another odorless, tasteless and fatal gas. It’s a normal product of combustion of fuels such as gasoline, oil kerosene, charcoal and wood. Improper ventilation is the most common source of these gases building up in living areas.

If you have unexplained headache, drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, nausea, vomiting or rapid heartbeat coupled with living in a house with older fireplaces or any kind of gas-burning appliance, furnace or space-heater, get your house tested for carbon monoxide! Pro-lab carbon monoxide test kits are available (under $10) at most hardware stores.

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I’d rather be reducing my carbon footprint

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he most important thing to remember about our inversions is that the air is dangerous to breathe. And not just a little dangerous, as if the damage you do to your lungs will heal itself in a week or two like a cold or the flu. It won't! The damage you do to your lungs when you breathe big lungfuls of orange or red air is permanent.

If life situates you in a place where mass transit, carpooling or walking or biking (wearing a respirator mask, of course) just won’t get you where you need to go, there are things you can do to reduce the amount of pollution you create when you drive.

Most important, short term, is to reduce the number of miles you drive on bad-air days by consolidating or postponing trips.

In the long run, the type of car you drive is most important. If you can afford an electric car, buy one. In Utah, the electricity you charge your car with comes from coal (unless you have a solar rig like Rocky Anderson). Fortunately the coal-fired power plants aren't in the Salt Lake Valley (though some of the natural gas-fired power plants are).

Also, do the little things: • Turn off your engine if you will be idling for two minutes or more. It’s the law. (Exempt: idling as needed to operate defrosters and heaters to prevent a safety or health emergency.)

The more you use your brake, the more you’ve used too much gas.

• Change your oil on schedule.

• Change your air filter on schedule.

• Keep your tires properly inflated.

• Pay attention at stoplights (ahem, texters) so that as many cars as possible can make it through the light before it changes.

• If you’re waiting to make a left turn, pull into the intersection so that, again, more cars have a chance of making it through.

But all of that can be negated by aggressive driving habits. Whether during an inversion or when our air is crystal clear, sensible driving habits reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Give yourself enough time to make your trip unhurried. Avoid the step-on-the gas, step-on-the-brake driving that lowers fuel efficiency. If your car doesn't have a fuel economy guage the best measure of the economy of your driving is how often you use your brake. The more you use your brake, the more you’ve used too much gas (unless you’re driving a hybrid that recharges as you break).

Fuel economy can be a fun game if your car has a useful fuel economy guage. The best gauges show both your instantaneous fuel economy and trip fuel economy. Making a daily, or trip-based game of increasing your gas mileage is an effective way to focus on fuel economy. You may not get where you’re going in record time, but you can feel a bit better about driving.

— John deJong

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PERCEPTION

Seeing the world whole

An all-Muslim Girl Scout troop examines the urban ecological framework of our city following the model of the renowned observer (and Girl Scout) Jane Jacobs

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BY KATHERINE PIOLI

crolling through the photos on a black smartphone handed to me by a smiling middle schooler who’s obviously excited to witness my reaction, I glance at images of pristine green hillsides next to other images of crumbling cement sidewalks bordering rows of white, blocky one-story structures. The pictures come from Hibba’s summer vacation visiting family in Pakistan.

“It’s not a bad place,” she says. “I really wanted to show that.” These images are a window onto Kashmir’s beauty and Islamabad’s dirty streets through the eyes of an American Muslim teenager.

But Pakistan is not all that Hibba is looking at and contemplating. Along with her all-Muslim Girl Scout Troop number 496 (for this story, for matters of privacy, only the first names of the students are used), Hibba is becoming an expert observer.

Turning camera phones and eyes on the streets and neighborhoods around their homes in the Salt Lake Valley, these young scouts, including Hibba, Fatima, Lhyba and Leena who met with me for this story, are

looking to start a community discussion about what Chelsea Gauthier, associate director of the Center for the Living City, describes as the “urban ecological framework of our cities.”

The idea for the Jane Jacobs Observe Patch, as this urban girl scout project is now called, first came about when Naba Faizi, a student in the University of Utah’s department of City & Metropolitan Planning, began interning for Center for the Living City — a Salt Lake organization that seeks to “enhance the understanding of the complexity of contemporary urban life and increase civic engagement.” Faizi was herself once a Troop 496 Girl Scout. Now, she leads the troop alongside her mother who founded the group in 2006.

“My mother wanted an outlet where young Muslim girls could gain confidence, connect with other girls their age and learn about the importance of women in leadership roles,” says Faizi.

Community service and leadership programs are a big part of the Girl Scout experience. It’s not just about selling cookies. (The sweet treats that we look forward to every spring help Girl Scouts practice the five essential skills the organization tries to teach: goal setting, people skills, money management, business ethics and decision making. And half the money from each $4 box of cookies goes to funding troop activities and projects.) Faizi’s troop has worked with refugees, raised donation items during Ramadan and designed a “Fashion Bash” that showcased the cultures and fashions (including the hijab or headscarf) of the Muslim world to other local troops.

In the spring of 2016, Faizi realized while interning at Center for the Living City that the life and work of the woman who had inspired the Center, Jane Jacobs, could also inspire these young girls to develop another important Girl Scout trait: being leaders in their community. “I saw how Jane Jacobs could show these girls that they don’t have to wait to grow up in order to make change,” says Faizi.

After all, when it came to creating positive changes for her community, Jane Jacobs, who wasn’t an expert in urban planning or even a college graduate (she was, however, a Girl Scout), was able to not only save her neighborhood of Greenwich Village from being torn apart by a developer’s ill-conceived highway project, she also created a new movement of community-based urban design that went to

“My mother wanted an outlet where young Muslim girls could gain confidence, connect with other girls their age and learn about the importance of women in leadership roles,” says Faizi. heads with the leading development concept of the time, urban renewal.

In the 1950s, urban renewal was a force remaking America’s cities. Bankers, developers, architects, politicians and city planners reached for the heart of urban centers where low-income housing proliferated and, with bulldozers and construction projects and money at the ready, tore into these neighborhoods to make space for new, cleaner, trendier, wealthier developments. Or, in the case of Greenwich Village, a highway.

But Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), a self-taught journalist living in the bohemian community on the lower west side of Manhattan, changed that. By creating a space for the voices of her community to be heard, the experiences, desires and needs of locals were able to gain the

attention of city officials and ultimately guide development in their neighborhood.

On the national scale, Jacobs became a vocal proponent for urban parks, mixed-use building, local economies and dense housing. Across the country, she inspired people to look at and take stock of their communities. Are they walkable?

Are the livable? Are they people-friendly? Are they beautiful? If not, what changes do you see being beneficial?

“It is vital,” says Stephen Goldsmith, director for Center of the Living City, “that we create initiatives that invite girls and young women to be active participants in their communities by providing tools to amplify their voices and to take action in the places they care about. Hav-

ing initiatives for place-based engagement will drive the future of our cities to become more socially just, sustainable and successful.”

After being introduced to the work of Jane Jacobs, the next step for the girls of Troop 496 was turning their powers of observation on their own streets (and in the case of Hibba, comparing her home with what she found far away in Pakistan).

“Our observations varied depending on our creative direction,” explains Hibba. “For example, some of us specifically went out looking for problems in the area. Others of us looked for beautification and things that benefited the environment in which we were walking.

One thing that I want to change in Sugar House Park is to make a wider running area on the side of the road so that runners can exercise with more ease.”

The girls are now in the final steps of earning their Jane Jacobs Observe patch. This step in the process is the most crucial and, hopefully, the most lasting. Gauthier and Faizi hope to help these young women organizing what they’ve learned about their community — their concerns and their praise addressing housing, beautification, sanitation — and advance their work into real action. Learning how to contact local governing bodies and be a force in urban intervention will not only teach them more about the potential power of their own voices as women in our society but also leave a lasting legacy for their neighbors and other young women to come.

The project may reach much further that just Salt Lake City. These young women are excited to use social media to connect with girls around the world to teach them about Jane Jacobs and her methods of observation and social action. They also hope to formally turn the Jane Jacobs Observe patch into a nationwide Girl Scout project with a badge that Girl Scouts across the country, and around the world, can earn for their belts.

“There are 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 146 countries around the world,” says Chelsea Gauthier. “Just imagine the impact of a global movement of young women taking steps to voice their observations and take action in their communities.” ◆ Katherine Pioli is the associate editor of CATALYST Magazine.

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THEATRE

BY TIM SLOVER

he most comreverence—as “the lived not entirely on a spiritual plain, but somepelling characSybil of the Rhine.” times on a plunging, pitching sea. What life exter in Western Throughout, she periences, you cannot help but wonder, Europe’s revoremained very much produced this sound? lutionary her own woman. ReThe answer may be Richardis, a young noTwelfth Censisting Benedictine blewoman who came to St. Disibod while tury was a tradition, she insisted Hildegard was writing her first book of visions. woman: Hildethat the nuns in her Richardis was a talented woman. Her aristogard. She was an charge look like the cratic upbringing meant she knew how to read abbess, a visionary, a combrides of Christ they and write—and she knew music. She quickly poser and a friend of popes were, their hair became an amanuenand kings, who defied auflowing free sis to Hildegard’s vithority and insisted on the and wearing sions, including her validity of her revelations and white gowns, songs. And Hildegard agency. jewelry, and crowns on special occaloved her: Hildegard grew up in a Benedictine double sions. She preached that God is not a “When I wrote the monastery named for St. Disibod. It was here, stern and distant judge, but close, perbook Scivias I bore a at the age of six, that she was dedicated to God sonal, a lover to those who love him. His strong love to a noble by her aristocratic parents as a tithe, the tenth universe, she said, is infused with viridinun…who connected of their 10 children—a forced abandonment tas—“greenness,” life, fecundity. Only with me in friendship which she later vigorously where the and love during all protested in her writings. She Devil is, does those events, and There was once a king sitting on his grew up as an anchoress, livbarrenness who suffered with me throne. Around him stood great and ing in a cell with another and desert until I finished the wonderfully beautiful columns ornayoung woman at the back of reign. book.” The attempts of the monastery’s church.

And the any who might atmented with ivory, bearing the banners But the narrow hermit’s life Devil has no The part of Hildegard will be tempt to separate the of the king with great honour. Then it was not for Hildegard, and as music. He cannot played by Christy Summerhays two women, Hildegard pleased the king to raise a small feather soon as she could manage it, sing. That was imwrote, do not come she broke from her cell and portant to Hildegard from God who “did not create and choose from the ground and he commanded it became the abbess of St. Disbecause some of her them, but they arose from the unseemly boldto fly. The feather flew, not because of ibod’s nuns. most resplendent ness of ignorant minds.” anything in itself, but because the air Hildegard experienced virevelations came in My play Virtue dramatizes this turbulent, bore it along. Thus am I ‘a feather on the sions from the age of five onthe form of glorious, spiritually and artistically expanding time in wards but was pathologically utterly unique songs, Hildegard’s life. I wrote it for everyone who breath of God.’ — Hildegard of Bingen reluctant to make them pubculminating in the yearns for the Spirit and for Love. ◆ lic: She was unschooled in the scholasticism of world’s first opera, a morality drama, Ordo Vir- Tim Slover teaches playwriting at the University of Utah. her day, and she was a woman. Finally, in her tutum—the Play of the Virtues.

His writing includes the play Joyful Noise (Samuel middle years, “weighed down by a scourge of “Hearing earthly music,” Hildegard wrote, French), the novel The Christmas Chronicles (Random God, I fell onto a bed of sickness,” where a voice “enables humans to recall their former state” of House) and the screenplay A More Perfect Union (PBS).

His plays have been produced off-Broadway and in retold her, “O fragile one, ash of ash and corrup- heavenly connection with the divine. tion of corruption, say and write what you see Hildegard had no musical training. Her gional theatres in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. and hear.” music and lyrics came as visions. For Hildegard, From that moment and for the rest of her there was no split or argument between the Virtue, by Tim Slover long life, Hildegard was unstoppable. “The revelatory and the artistic; they were one. And Plan-B Theatre Company’s world premiere heavens were opened and a blinding light of certainly her songs are different from the plain- February 16-26 exceptional brilliance flowed through my en- chant of her day. Many have a breathtakingly Featuring Christy Summerhays as Hildegard tire brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and extreme melodic range of highs and lows, a Directed by Jerry Rapier breast like a flame, not burning but warming.” musical roller-coaster ride, and listening to Details and tickets: PLANBTHEATRE.ORG. Her theological writings and her book of herbal them transports one to another time, into anmedicine and midwifery, all gorgeously illus- other mode of being. The melodies convey Also: Sunday, February 19, 7pm. A celebratrated by her own hand, catapulted her into serenity and stillness, but some also scalding tion of the life and music of St. Hildegard of fame and travel, and earned her respect—even spiritual experiences, as though Hildegard Bingen (1098-1179). See calendar for details.

REVIEW

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Bob Dylan Unstrung From one poet to another: Alex Caldiero performs works of the new Nobel laureate

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he day the world gasped at the sight of the 2017 American inauguration, poly-artist Alex Caldiero paid tribute to one of the greatest American troubadours in recent memory: Bob Dylan. Commemorating Dylan’s most recent honorific, Caldiero read 18 of Dylan’s poems, recently published as Bob Dylan. The Lyrics 19612012. Stripped of the original music (hence the title “Unstrung”), Dylan’s lyrics soared to new heights under the tutelage of our local sonosopher.

Anyone familiar with Caldiero’s quinquennial readings of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl will know how Wagnerian his performances are. His lungs are deep, and his voice can fill a room as good as any Brünnhilde. To that, he spits, he yells, and he thunders. And after that, he pants and sweats. Folks today might say he “overextends” himself, which speaks to the exhaustively physical nature of his delivery. To that, the timber in his voice has tremendous range.

With a twinkle in his PHOTO BY FRANK MCENTIRE eye, Caldiero can whisper as if sharing a dirty joke with a priest. Or, he can sermonize like the great Dr. King himself. Finally, Caldiero stares his audience down, as if casting an ancient Sicilian spell. Just as easily, his gaze can turn skyward, asking the eternal question “Why have you forsaken me??” Coupled with the lamentations of Dylan, well, heaven help us all.

BY ALEXANDRA KARL Case in point was Caldiero’s take on ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.’ Sketching a nation bursting with riches yet morally bankrupt, Dylan’s narrator led us along a sequence of paths lined with diamond highways and poet-corpses. Recounting this, the shaman Caldiero practically

coaxed the skies to open; as an anecdote of civil unrest, pathetic fallacy was forced to a whole new level. ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ was also reborn and improved, from a pithy pop song to a cautionary tale rich with pathos and despair.

Dylan’s exploration of the drifter’s exile was originally lightened by his folksy harmonica which cast the tune as a hobo’s anthem.

Caldiero striped it bare, and circled like a vulture around that central question: How does it feeeeel? Confronting the audience, Caldiero placed the question squarely in our laps. One hell of a question for a community grappling with a growing homeless population.

When the Nobel was announced, many literati raged against the Committee for awarding the prize to a lowly pop singer. And yet, to hear Caldiero channel Dylan is to fully comprehend the wisdom of their decision and to embrace Dylan’s true métier. Not only did Caldiero save Dylan’s works from the pitfalls of commercialization, but he revealed new depths, including a cynicism of biblical proportions. No, not the pie-in-the-sky hope of Jesus-Christ-our-Savior, but the despairing hopelessness of Jews wandering in the desert and the condemnation of a truly wrathful God. We were reminded of the ongoing corruption of elected officials, the steady churning of a bloated war machine and the blind futility of the human race. Case in point is ‘Blowing in the Wind’, which might well have been written by Ecclesiastes.

‘Unstrung’ also guided the audience into that alternate universe in which two great artists temporarily graze each other’s orbits.

The fact that Caldiero’s performance took place “Blowing in the on Inauguration Day proved serendipitous.

Wind” might as With many still reeling from the day’s events, well have been Unstrung served as an elixir (alexir?) to the feewritten by ble pageantry of the day. suggested Ecclesiastes. ‘Unstrung’ that a great moment had indeed transpired; that for a split second, the eyes of the world had turned to America. Not because a buffoon despot had taken the reins, but because there had indeed been a king among us. ◆ Alexandra Karl is an educator, art historian and essayist. She lives in Salt Lake City.

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A Fire in Our Prisons

In a biased justice system, who gets locked up and who gets killed?

BY ELISABETH LUNTZ

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Bloodsworth successfully lobbied to have evidence from the crime scene examined using this method.

The tests proved his innocence and he was released eight years and 10 months after his imprisonment.

here are those who speak of the “garbage fire” that is the United States criminal justice system. To many of these people, the death penalty is considered the lid on that trash can. And when the lid is lifted, we are exposed to some uncomfortable realities about a government system that brutalizes everyone around it. A system that entraps and kills innocent people. A system that is racist and classist in application. A system that walks over the innocent to kill the guilty.

On January 7, the Park City Institute hosted a near-capacity crowd at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater for a brief and rare look into this issue. The Institute’s guest panel included CNN commentator, attorney and former advisor to President Obama, Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones; Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person in the United States to be exonerated from Death Row by DNA testing; and lifelong anti-death penalty advocate Actor Mike Farrell.

Bloodsworth: When justice won’t listen After being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, Bloodsworth was initially convicted in 1984 of a brutal child rape and murder, based on the testimony of five eye-

witnesses testifying for the prosecution who placed him with, or in the vicinity of nine-yearold victim Dawn Hamilton.

Despite the fact that two witnesses, two young boys, stated clearly that the person they saw had blond, not red hair, like Bloodsworth, the prosecution was relentless. Numerous other discrepancies were noted in the descriptions by the eyewitnesses, including his weight and height, but as Bloodsworth said, prosecutors never went back to look at it; as far as they were concerned, they had their guy. He was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1985.

His conviction was overturned by the Maryland Court of Appeals in 1986, citing the withholding of evidence by the prosecution. He was retried and re-convicted, this time sentenced to two life terms. He described the hell he lived through, including being locked up in a cell that, wall-to-wall, barely exceeded his arm span and could be traversed in six steps.

He described being heckled and threatened by

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arresting officers and inmates and being referred to as a “monster” by the prosecuting attorney. He broke down as he related the pain of losing his mother five months before his release and being taken to the funeral for a brief time in shackles and chains.

Bloodsworth worked as the prison librarian and in 1992 he was mailed a book titled The Blooding, by Joseph Wambaugh. The book described a forensic technique invented in 1984

by British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys called DNA fingerprinting which had solved the killings of two young English girls.

Bloodsworth successfully lobbied to have evidence from the crime scene examined using this method. The tests proved his innocence and he was released eight years and 10 months after his imprisonment, in June of 1993.

Jones: No justice for all Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones, born in 1968, opened the evening’s civil discussion with a sobering fact in the context of American history: Although Jones is a “ninth generation” American, he and his twin sister have been the first in their family born with the ability to exercise all of their rights.

Jones describes himself as the quintessential nerd. He says that while a student at Yale he never had a glass of wine, never did drugs, and was studious and intellectual. He was shocked and dismayed by the prolific use of drugs on campus.

Yet, what he said bothered him more was that the police officers would drive right past the drug activity at Skull and Bones, an exclusive and secretive club on Yale’s campus, and would instead go to the housing projects to arrest the poor, mostly black, and ultimately, poorly defended drug users.

After consulting with his “Big Mama,” a southern term of endearment for his grandmother, he turned to his law school dean to discuss the issue, which he viewed as a grave injustice. To his disappointment, the dean dismissed his concerns, asserting that the kids from the community projects were “drug dealers,” while the Yale students were just “experimenting.” Jones retorted that the Constitution makes no such distinction. From that moment, he said he moved about as far left politically as he could.

During his talk, Jones emphasized that criminal justice problems are not isolated to private prisons, although there is a tendency for the discussion to focus only there. He explained that both public and private prison systems are driven by profit motives and powerful unions.

The problem raised by prison reform advocates is that the United States’ system is a bloated government bureaucracy with zero incentive to reduce costs or improve their quality of service

Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones Photo: Gage Skidmore

to the community. The collateral damage to society is significant, real, and often ignored.

The Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice and public policy think tank, cites statistics showing that “the American criminal justice system holds people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers and prisons in the U.S. territories.” These places hold more than 2.3 million prisoners and of those prisoners about 2,905 are currently on death row. (According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Utah has nine inmates on death row).

Lack of support from extremely limited evidence testing is enough to make many innocent plead guilty — currently, only 6% of criminal convictions had evidence tested and used during the trial.

According to the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit legal organization committed to prison reform, there have been 347 postconviction DNA exonerations and 149 alternative perpetrators identified in the United States since the first exoneration took place in 1989.

Of the exonerated, about 10% pled guilty during their trials in order to minimize their sentences. Exonerations have been won in 37 states. Jennifer Springer of The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, working in Utah, Nevada and Wyoming, estimates 4-6% of the inmates on death row are innocent.

Death penalty: Where are we headed in the Trump Era? The elimination of the death penalty is often referred to as a bi-partisan issue, but Van Jones stresses the deliberate effort required to combat

the “tough on crime” mentality that exists among mostly, but not limited to, Republican lawmakers.

Congress missed an opportunity last September to address reform because, while the issue has considerable bipartisan support including from Republican lawmakers and policymakers such as Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich, it still faces considerable opposition.

One opponent is Trump’s Attorney General pick, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions personally blocked bipartisan legislation supported

by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and House Speaker Ryan that would have reduced what they perceive to be unnecessarily long sentences for nonviolent crimes.

Forty percent of Sessions’ convictions when he was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama (1981-1993) were drug convictions, double the rate of other Alabama prosecutors.

His tenure is riddled with accusations of racial injustice and an indifference or complete opposition to prison reform.

While Trump has consistently stoked the fears of his followers, capitalizing on a recent uptick in violent crime driven primarily by only three cities in the country, the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan law and policy institute, responded that violent crime has, in reality, decreased 26% in the last decade.

The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund reports that it has also been safer for law enforcement over the same period. They point out that “on average, about 50 police officers have been fatally shot each year over the past decade, a number that has fallen by more than half since the 1970s.”

A Department of Justice led by Jeff Sessions could have significant consequences in everything from police oversight, sentencing reform, immigration, local grants for forensics and body cameras, the federal shield law protecting journalists, federal drug prosecutions and counsel to the poor. Most prison reform advocates are looking to state and local lawmakers in the absence of federal leadership.

Moving forward: Can we change the system?

In terms of winning over public and policymaker opinions, different arguments work for different people. For instance, some people respond to the economic justification for eliminating the death penalty. Actor Mike Farrell, who also spoke during the January event, describes himself as “morally motivated.” He said the economic justification makes him sick but, he concludes, “you use whatever works.”

Van Jones gave an animated and enthusiastic explanation of how House Speaker Paul Ryan was, in part, motivated to act on criminal

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justice reform because of a public, yet very personal, Valentine sent by famed musician Alicia Keyes. Keyes turns on the tease and asks if he could “maybe be her valentine?” if he would just “spread some love” by “reuniting those who have been unjustly torn apart by excessive incarceration.” (The Grammy winner invites others to join her in sending a love note to Speaker Ryan, to put pressure on him and other members of Congress to act on prison reform.)

Nationally, over half of U.S. citizens support capital punishment (61%) though many (44%) believe it is not applied fairly, according to a September 2016 Gallup poll. Here in Utah, voters are largely supportive of the death penalty in capital murder cases. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah men tend to be more supportive (75%) than women (67%), with Republican respondents overwhelmingly supporting it (84%).

Utah’s Republican super-majority has run the gamut in terms of capital punishment legislation. In 2001, Utah State Senator Lyle Hillyard sponsored legislation, SB 172, “Post-conviction DNA Testing,” that unanimously passed the legislature. The law created a mechanism for people wrongfully convicted of felonies to seek exoneration through DNA technology. Then, in 2015, Governor Gary Herbert signed a bill, “Death Penalty Procedure Amendments,” bringing back the firing squad as an authorized method of execution in the event of the anticipated unavailability of lethal injection drugs (Utah had previously abandoned firing squads in 2004 and is now the only U.S. state that authorizes execution by firing squad). Another turn of heart came last year when former Senator Steve Urquhart (RWashington) proposed SB 189, “Death Penalty Amendments,” that sought to end the death penalty in Utah. The Senate passed and sent the bill to the House where procedural opposition killed the effort. That same year Rep. Paul Ray (R-Clearfield) sponsored legislation to expand the application of the death penalty in offenses which involve human trafficking. The legislation passed the full House (44-28) but was defeated by inaction in the Senate.

Coming up in the 2017 session, Anna Thomas, ACLU-Utah strategic communication manager, said, “It is expected that the same coalition of death penalty abolitionists intend to propose same or similar legislation to what Senator Urquhart presented last year. Paul Ray will also carry his Death Penalty Amendments legislation intended to expand the practice of capital punishment.”

The Park City Institute’s event closed with a highly emotional description of Jones's visit to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal

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Actor Mike Farrell, who also spoke during the January event, describes himself as “morally motivated.” He said the economic justification makes him sick but, he concludes, “you use whatever works.”

Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the day after the massacre of nine people. He was distressed at seeing the bullet holes on the otherwise immaculate walls and the shattered marble floor where the last attempts at escape were terminated.

Acknowledging the human appetite for revenge, Jones said, “No doubt there are people who deserve to be buried under the prison.”

Jones described his own hatred and anger while visiting the site of the massacre, but also recalled when those angry thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the choir singing Hallelujah in the room upstairs. He wondered, “How can they be happy at this time?”

But, he soon realized, it wasn’t the sound of happiness he was listening to, it was the sound of joy. “Joy, that they had found forgiveness,” said Jones. “Joy that they had found something greater than the worst in us.” ◆ Elisabeth Luntz studied Social Ecology and Cognitive Science at the University of California. She is a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization as well as the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Can an eco-babe feel good about getting flowers?

High and low impact options for your Valentine Dear Umbra, My sweetie usually gives me flowers for special occasions, like holidays and my birthday. But it just occurred to me that I don’t know much about how sustainable cut flowers are. Are all those roses, lilies and daisies actually bad for the planet? Do I have to give them up? I love getting flowers!

Gwen S. Geneva, Illinois

Dearest Gwen, I’m no fan of looking a gift horse in the mouth, especially when the giver is so thoughtful (and the horse so lovely to look at, and usually quite easy on the nose as well). And if there’s one thing I’ve learned about relationships, it’s that criticizing one’s sweetie for trying to do something nice for you is usually not going to score you any romance points. Plus, flowers are natural and compostable, right? What’s not to love?

I hate to be a bouquet buzzkill, but it turns out there are actually a few details about the floral industry that should give us all pause. That’s not to say you and your beloved have to swear off gifted gladioli completely, but some blooms are much more sustainable than others. So how do we sniff out the winners?

First, a look at the conventional flower biz.

Most blossoms come with a whopping transportation footprint: About 80% of the ones we buy here in the U.S. come from South America, primarily Colombia (with Ecuador and Costa Rica also playing a role). Imports also dominate in Europe, in that case coming from Kenya. And shipping delicate flowers requires a lot more care — and a lot more energy — than shipping, say, plastic doodads. The blossoms must go from refrigerated warehouse to refrigerated cargo plane to refrigerated truck to refrigerated florist shop — a whole lotta cooling that generates a whole lotta CO2 emissions.

Then there’s the matter of chemicals. Most flowers get hearty doses of fertilizers and pesticides — some so toxic they’ve been banned in the U.S., but not in the developing countries where our flowers are grown. (Because we don’t eat flowers — well, except at très fancy restaurants — the authorities don’t do California farmer, Mike supplies flowers to Costco like this bouquet with a plantable succulent inside and is Certified American Grown.

much regulating.) That’s bad news for the ecosystems surrounding flower-growing operations, and also for the workers who get high doses of exposure to the nasty substances.

So, Gwen, perhaps now you’re wondering if you can follow the same rules we have for food and look for local and organic flowers. Good thinking! But local flowers can be tricky; if they’re grown out of season, they likely come from energy-hogging greenhouses. Shopping for inseason, field-grown flowers can help with this, and finding a local grower makes asking questions about seasonality easy. How? Try your neighborhood farmers’ market, or consult the databases at Slow Flowers or Local Harvest to see who’s who in your corner of the world. The American Grown label will also guide you to blossoms that are at least domestically raised.

Smaller, local farms are often your best bets for finding organic flowers, too, so you can make your dollars do double duty (though some farther-away organic producers will ship to you).

And if you do find yourself in the market for something a little more exotic? Thankfully, there are a few third-party certification systems out there to help you pick the choicest blooms. A Veriflora label means the growers strive for fair working conditions, eco-friendly practices, and reduced chemical use; the similar Florverde

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label certifies your bouquet was produced with water conservation, pollution reduction, and reduced pesticide use top of mind. The familiar Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance labels also cover some flowers. These shouldn’t be too tough to find, either, as stores like Whole Foods, Costco, and Shopko carry eco-certified blooms.

Finally, Gwen, might you consider cutting back a bit on store-bought flowers — which, for all their prettiness, are a fairly high-impact luxury item? Perhaps you could suggest that your sweetie give you a living potted plant instead— say, one that helps clean the air? Or, my favorite idea: How about some native wildflower seeds you can grow together in your yard, then pluck for uber-local arrangements come summer?

I would never advise you two to completely abandon such a time-honored ritual of romance, but I daresay these tips will make green a much more prominent hue in your bouquets.

Horticulturally, Umbra Grist is a nonprofit news site that uses smarts and humor to shine a light on the green issues changing our world. Get their newsletter at GRIST.ORG/SUBSCRIBE.

Resources EARTHTALK.ORG/DEMAND-SUSTAINABLY-PRODUCED-CUTFLOWERS/PESTICIDES, HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTS; WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/OPINIONS/ FLOWERS-MAY-BE-NICE-FOR-MOM-BUT-THEYRE-TERRIBLE-FORMOTHER-EARTH/2015/05/07/FB69F9F4-F4D5-11E4-B2F3AF5479E6BBDD_STORY.HTML?UTM_TERM=.9CCAA16B48D3

Local resources In addition to Costco, Shopko and Whole Foods, many local florists also sell eco-friendly flowers. Here are a few of our top choices: Twigs Flower Company, 1616 S. 1100 East, TWIGSFLOWERCO.COM, carries Rainforest Alliance-certified flowers, including roses.

Especially For You, 221 W. 400 South, YOURDOWNTOWNFLORIST.COM, carries an assortment of Veriflora certified flowers.

Liberty Heights Fresh, 1290 S. 1100 East. Rainforest Alliance-certified, many from Pacific Coast growers.

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enjoyable yet potent meditation practice you can add to your everyday life, and explore the ever-relevant teachings of the yoga system. Always free! WWW.MEDITATIONSLC.COM

Rumi Teachings FOG

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 (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/18

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 students to discover their 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

YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 3/17

801.521.9642, 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga for Every Body, we offer 75 classes a week as relaxing as meditation and yoga nidra, to yin yoga and restorative, along with plenty of classes to challenge you, such as anusara and power classes. InBody Academy 1,000-hour teacher trainings also offered. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/17

801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIREWIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence.

The 5 classes work together and offer you a balanced and sustainable yoga practice. 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

Mudita—Be Joy Yoga 3/17

801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence.

WWW.BEJOYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG

212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

Christopher Renstrom 11/17

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trologer, teaches class three times a month. Perfect for beginners or advanced students. $30 each or 8 classes for $200 prepaid. Come to an Astrology Slam and get a mini-reading, $15. Details: RULINGPLANETS1@GMAIL.COM, WWW.RULINGPLANETS.COM/PRIMETIME-ASTROLOGY

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 11/17

801.906.0470, 3834 S. Main Street, SLC. Crone's Hollow offers intuitive/psychic consultations for questions on love, money, health & more. Our talented House Readers use Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Stones, Pet Psychics, Crystal Ball and other oracles. $25 for 20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments available -Walk-ins welcome!

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THECRONESHOLLOW WWW.C RONES H OLLOW. COM

Nick Stark 6/17

801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon.

Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/ readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience.

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Suzanne Wagner DA 1/18

707.354.1019. In a world of paradox and possibility, an intelligent psychic with a sense of humor might as well be listed with the family dentist in one's day planner. Suzanne's readings are sensitive, compassionate, humorous and insightful. An inspirational speaker and healer she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM

Astrology Lovers: Looking for a class?

Christopher Renstrom, professional as-

Mindful Yoga Collective at Great Basin Chiropractic

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/17

801.810.9406, 1111 E. Brickyard Rd., Ste. 109, SLC. Do you struggle with mental blocks, weight, cravings, fears, lack of motivation, unhappiness or self sabotage? Find your motivation, confidence and focus for living with purpose and passion. First time clients $45. Call now. Get Instant Motivation Free when you sign up at: WWW.THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM, HOLLY@THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM

THERAPY/COUNSELING Ascent Integrative Therapy, Heather Judd, LCMHC 10/17

801.440.9833. 684 E. Vine St, #4A, Murray. Holistic/transpersonal psychotherapy, combining traditional and alternative modalities to integrate body mind, and spirit. Trauma/ abuse, depression, anxiety, relationships, spirituality, sexuality, loss, lifetransitions, past lives. Offering EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Lifespan Integration, Rapid Eye Therapy, mindfulness, shamanic practices, light-body healing, TFT/EFT. WWW.ASCENTINTEGRATIVETHERAPY.COM

Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/17

801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Eighteen years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and

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9:15-10:45am: All Levels Hatha - Dana 5:30-7pm: Mindful Hatha - Charlotte

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2/5, 2/26: 10-11:30am - Sunday Series - Brandi 2/5: 7-8:30pm - First Sunday Mindfulness Group - Charlotte

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"middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 11/17

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

Holistic Elements 2/17

801.262.5418. 835 E. 4800 S., Suite 220, Murray. Holistic Elements intertwines traditional therapeutic approaches like: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (C.B.T) with holistic elements like: Meditation, Mindfulness, Diet, Mineral Oils and Aromatherapy.

Holly Lineback, CMHC11/17

801-259-7311. 1104 E. Ashton Ave, #103, SLC. Counseling and psychotherapy for stress, worry, anxiety, depression, relationships and other life problems causing emotional distress.

See website for further information.

WWW.HOLLYLINEBACK.COM

Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/17

801.582.2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and chal-

lenges 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, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/17

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 & inspire our lives. WWW.M OUNTAIN LOTUS COUNSELING . COM

Mountain Lotus Counseling 4/17 DA

801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform.

Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM

Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/17

801.657.3330. 265 E. 100 S., Ste. 275, SLC. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin.

WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/17

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 treatimg identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders.

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/16 Sunny Strasburg, LMFT 2/17

1399 S. 700 E., SLC. Sunny is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian Psychology, Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy and EMDR. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. For questions, or to schedule an appointment, please email Sunny at: SUNNYS@JPS.NET. www.SunnyStrasburgTherapy.com

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW 3/17

801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com.

Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and

shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW 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 APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/17 DA

801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy. Since 1987, Blue Boutique has expanded to four locations, offering the finest in a variety of sexy lingerie, sexy shoes and sexy adult merchandise to discriminating shoppers. We’ve created comfortable, inviting environments with salespeople ready to offer friendly and creative advice.

WWW.B LUE B OUTIQUE . COM

Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/17

801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too. WWW.DANCING C RANES I M PORTS . COM

Golden Braid Books DA 11/17

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.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM

Healing Mountain Crystals DA

801.808.6442, 363 S. 500 E., #210 (east entrance), SLC. A welcoming crystal shop located one block from the “Trolley” Trax station. Offering: crystals, jewelry, essential oils, $2 sage, 50 cent tumbled stones, Tibetan singing bowls, spa products, books, chakra healing supplies, gifts and more. We are known for our low prices. WWW.H EALING M OUNTAIN C RYS TALS . COM

iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 2/17

801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it! WWW. ICONO CLAD. COM

Lotus DA 11/17

801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express

Rd., #200, Draper. For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM

Turiya’s Gifts8/17 DA

801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 11a-7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun 12-5p.

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.T URIYAS . COM

HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/17

SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products, we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations. WWW.DAVESHEALTH .COM

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

801.919.4742, 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.T HE I NNER L IGHTC ENTER . ORG

The Church of the Sacred Circle 11/17

801.330.6666, 3464 W. 3800 S., WVC. We are a local independent church

of non-denominational earth based spirituality. We welcome all those who follow Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft, Asatru, Druid, Shamanic, Eclectic and other traditions. We hold public full moon and new moon circles, monthly events, psychic faires and are family friendly. www.S A CRED C IRCLE C HURCH . COM , INFO @ SA CREDCIRCLECHURCH . COM

Unity Spiritual Community 8/17

801.281.2400. Garden Center in Sugar House Park, 1602 E. 2100 S., SLC. Unity principles celebrate the Universal Christ Consciousness by practicing the teachings of Jesus.

We honor the many paths to God knowing that all people are created with sacred worth. Unity offers love, encouragement and acceptance to support you in discovering and living your spiritual purpose. WWW.U NI TYOF S ALT L AKE . ORG , CONTACT @U NITYO F S ALT L AKE.ORG

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple

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.U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG 12/17

Utah Eckankar 12/17

801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy.

Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want

to learn more about them. You will meet people with similar experiences who also wish to share how these improve our daily lives.

WWW.E CKANKAR -U TAH . ORG

INSTRUCTION Two Arrows Zen Center 3/17DA

801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey.

The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular daylong intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses.

WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG

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HISTORY SPEAKS

The regilded age Corporateers, conmen and crazies

BY WILL BAGLEY

It was SRO on Main St. inside Mandate Press, Sunday night, January 15, as 16 Utah poets and writers arose and read or performed their five minutes of inspiration as part of the national post-election Writers Resist movement, organized locally by Paisley Rekdal with Michael McLane and Chad Nielsen. The attentive crowd exceeded the 60 chairs available by more than 200. Compassion, equality, free speech and social justice were the themes of the night.

The culmination and highlight was historian Will Bagley. Here’s the essay upon which his speech was based.

D

uring the 1950s teachers, doctors, journalists, park rangers, politicians and the police made life better for all, or at least most, Americans. They often worked in community institutions delivering education, health care and public safety, which served the greater good.

Both political parties wanted to build a better country and, despite their differences, worked as public servants to run a good government that governed well. I attended Oceanside High School. Serving an integrated California community next to the biggest military base on the Pacific Coast, it was a first-rate working-class educational institution. Many of my classmates’ black, brown and cracker parents served in the U.S. Marine Corps. I learned some interesting American history at Oceanside High, especially the story of the Gilded Age and its successor, the Progressive Era, which led to reforms regarded as the foundation of the extraordinary prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s—anti-trust laws, the progressive income tax, social security, workers’ rights to unionize and bargain collectively, and regulation of meat-packers and speculative bankers.

Since I graduated from high school 50 years ago, America has seen the tragic transformation of our country’s hopes and visions. The Sixties were no golden age, but benevolent institutions—unions, religions, newspapers and publishing, governments and public education, health and safety—made life better for Americans.

Since the Reign of King Ronald, those institutions have been systematically converted into rackets, which all serve a common purpose: to shovel money from those who have very little of it to those who have all of America’s vast wealth, or at least 90% of it. Like all predators, these racketeers target easy prey: For 21st century corporate land pirates, that means us—the “stupid” people too poor to dodge taxes.

My life has witnessed a continual escalation of racketeering. Its agenda is to disenfranchise

Michael McLane’s photo captures the crowd as poet RJ Walker takes his turn at the mic.

the majority of Americans, loot and pillage the middle class and pursue a murderous War on the Poor. As the reign of King Donald begins, we enter not a Gilded Age of ruthless robber barons but a rabid right-wing Regilded Age of corporateers, conmen and crazies.

Americans need to ask harder questions, such as: Why should anyone profit from human suffering?

Why should racketeers profit from prisons?

Why do we pay twice as much as any other industrialized country to get the 35th-best medical system in the world?

Compassionate nations know that the key to effective health care is a single-payer system that forbids profiting from misery. For a model of how to implement a just and effective law check out the Canada Health Act of 1985. It’s 19 pages long—and it’s in both French and English.

As a writer and public historian, I wrangle

words, investigate the past and ponder the peoples of our native home of hope, the American West. I learn something new every day.

What turns up in old newspapers and the writing of plain-spoken eloquent dead folk is inspiring, troubling, terrifying, baffling, often horrifying and always intriguing. Many discoveries in this old news make me mad as hell, but not half as mad as what I read in today’s newspapers. History can’t prove anything and no one seems to pay attention to it, let alone learn anything from it, but it shows how humanity can be indifferent about justice, how dedicated it can be to vice, greed and ignorance and how easily demagogues can use hatred and fear to seize power.

I’ve been a yellow-dog liberal Democrat—a disciple of FDR and Barak Hussien Obama who would vote for a yellow-dog before voting for a Republican—but the Circus that was 2016 proved we can no longer tolerate crooked corporate politics. Bernie Sanders was right: What we need is a movement to restore economic justice and our democracy.

When we awoke on November 9, a rigged election had installed the most successful snake-oil salesman in American history as traitor-in-chief. My first thought was, “Well played, Vlad.” We have all lived in a surrealistic dystopian novel every day since. The Empire will now pour even more middle-class money into our rabid military-industrial complex as hunger, homelessness and hopelessness ravage our cities. It will be the same ole same ole as corporations ramp up their war on the poor and compassionate. But oligarchs be warned: Enjoy your gated communities before floods and madness tear down your walls.

Where there’s life, there’s hope, a jail mate once told me. My hope is the certainty that a new generation will feel the burn, see through the decrepit deceptions of the deceiving class, take back democracy, and demand liberty and justice for all. ◆ Will Bagley has won most of the major writing prizes given in the history of the American West. He is a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society.

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How to Sundance all year long At home or in a theatre, access to great film continues

BY SOPHIE SILVERSTONE

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hether you hid from the festival that takes over SLC and Park City for 10 days, or you’re heartbroken from not seeing that last film you’d waited in line for, rest easy: Now that the hubbub of the crowds is gone, there are plenty of ways to keep Sundancing on and on, all year long.

Sundance Sundance Institute

• Watch past Sundance films. Rent, own or stream certain films through GoWatchIt from SFF’s past until 2014.

SUNDANCE.ORG/SOCIAL-EVENTS/NOW-PLAYING • Summer Film Series 2017. Free screenings, July through August at the Rose Wagner, Red Butte Gardens & at City Park, PC. For updates go to SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVALS/UTAH-COMMUNITY • 5th Annual Sundance NEXT FEST. Beginning of August, Downtown Los Angeles. Last year six films premiered, each paired with a special musical performance that embodied a shared artistic sensibility or a conversation with filmmakers and the luminaries that inspired them.

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVALS/NEXT-FEST

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Sundance Now

(formerly known as DocClub)

• This monthly subscription service allows you to stream Sundance Now originals, new releases and hard-to-find classics. New documentaries, films and TV series added weekly. Includes special curated collections such as “Best of Sundance,” “Ira Glass Favorites,” “Artists at Work” and more. One month free trial. Annual membership: $5/month, or monthly membership: $7/month. SUNDANCENOW.COM.

3. Utah Film Center

Nonprofit organization founded by Geralyn Dreyfous.

• Free screenings with post-film Q&As throughout SLC, Moab, Ogden, Orem, Price and West Jordan monthly. Check schedule monthly in CATALYST or UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG. • 14th Annual Damn These Heels Film Festival Mid-July, 2017. A forum in which LGBT issues, ideas, hopes, dreams and art are explored, Free monthly screenings yearround.

• Tumbleweeds Film Festival Sept. 22-24. The only festival of its kind in the Intermountain West for kids. Free monthly screenings year-round.

4.

Salt Lake Film Salt Lake Societ y Film Society

Nonprofit organization founded by Paul and Kris Liacopoulos.

• The Tower Theatre. Showtimes at SALTLAKEFILMSOCIETY.ORG. Tower Archive Collection: Possibly the rarest and most extensive collection of rental titles available in Utah and neighboring states.

Broadway Centre Cinemas. Shows an average of three Sundance films/ month. Prepare for the Oscars (Feb. 26) at Broadway: Feb. 10, the Oscar-nominated shorts will show four times throughout the day. Also showing Oscar-nominated films: Elle, Moonlight, Jackie, La La Land, Manchester By the Sea (Sundance 2016) daily.

• National Theatre Live. Filmed performances by the National Theatre Company in London. Noon on select Saturdays, $20 ($15 members, $10 U of U students). Upcoming shows: Amadeus 2/25; Saint Joan 3/11; Hedda Gabler 4/8; Twelfth Night 4/15

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sell Greaves while they share their discoveries. Museum admission, free to members and U of U faculty/staff/students. 301 S. Wakara Way. Feb. 3: Brahms' Symphony No. 2 @ Abravanel Hall. 7:30- 9:30p. Brahm’s masterful contradictions will transport you into a state of rustic bliss. $15-$82.

123 W. S. Temple.

Feb. 3: Opening Reception @ UMOCA. 7-9p. Five new exhibitions. Free, donation suggested. $5 bar and refreshments. 20 S. West Temple.

Feb. 3: The Bee; theme: The Office: Stories of the 9-5 grind @ Clubhouse SLC. 6-10p. NOTE NEW LOCATION. $18.

850 E. S. Temple.

Feb. 3: BowieVision @ The State Room. 9p.-12a. 21+. $17. 638 S. State.

Feb. 8: Utah Film Center Presents All Governments Lie @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. 7-9p. Independent journalists Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi, and others are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Free. 138 W. Broadway.

Feb. 1-14: $14 Pet Adoptions @ Best Friends Pet Adoption Center. M-Sa 11a.-7p.; Su 11a.-4p. 2005 S. 1100 E. Feb. 2: UCAIR 2nd Annual Summit @ Rice Eccles Stadium Tower. 6-9p. Featuring Conrad Anker, whose insights help illustrate the need for continued improvements to Utah's air quality. $150/$50 students. 451 S. 1400 E. Feb. 2: Iceberg Dead Ahead! Brown Bag Lunch with the Salt Lake League @ Girls Scouts of Utah. 11a-1:30p. Dr. Robert Davies of the Utah Climate Center will map what carbon pollution is doing to North American snowpack and soil moisture and project their future under various scenarios.

Free. 445 E. 4500 S. Feb. 2: Advanced Gypsy Energy Secrets @ Crone's Hollow. 7-8:30p. W/ Milana Perepyolkina. Ancient power of Gypsy rituals, traditions and magic.

Based on her book Gypsy Energy Secrets. $10. 3834 S. Main St.

Feb. 2, 4, 9: Fabulous Fruit Trees @ Red Butte Garden Classroom. 6-9p. Learn to care for your trees and give new ones a healthy start. Planting, pruning, thinning, pollination needs, recommended varieties. $90/$81 garden members. 300 Wakara Way. Feb. 2: Greenhouse Tours @ Red Butte Garden Greenhouses. 10a.-2:30p. A tour of our state-of-the-art greenhouses. Registration required. Free.

300 Wakara Way. Feb. 2-3: U of U Guest Writer Series w/ Sean Hill & Jessica Alexander @ Finch Lane Gallery. Th: 7-9p. Reading; Fr: 121p. Q & A. Free. 54 Finch Ln. Feb. 2-3: Samba Workshop @ SLC Arts Hub. 6-8p. Leading into the Samba Queen Contest on February 4. $25$60. 657 100 S. Feb. 3: Sō Percussion @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall. 7:30-9:30p. Performing music by John Cage, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, and other composers. $25.

1375 Presidents Cir. Feb. 3: DUBWISE @ Urban Lounge. 9p1a. 21+. Longest running dubstep night in SLC. With Roomate, Kind Dubbist, Syn.Aesthetic and illoom. $5; $10 after 10:30pm. 241 S. 500 E. Feb. 3: The Diversity of Viruses and Living Archaeology @ the Natural History Museum of Utah. 2-4p. Join scientist David Belnap from the University of Utah, who studies the structure of viruses and ethno archaeologist Rus-

Feb. 3-4: Ririe Woodbury Dance Co. Presents “Winter Season” @ JQ Lawson Capitol Theatre. 7:30-9:30p & 4th only 2-4p. Featuring four dances that investigate humanity’s fascination

for a workshop on writing from visual inspiration, using the paintings of John Sproul. Free. 54 Finch Ln. Feb. 4: Give a Damn @ Urban Lounge.

6-8p. 21+. A Comedy Benefit Show for White Helmets. $10. 241 S. 500 E. Feb. 4: 8th Annual Samba Queen Contest @ Pierpont Place. 8-11:30p.

Watch Utah's hottest Samba dancers compete for the title of Rainha Do Samba, Queen Of Samba. $25/20adv.

163 Pierpont Ave. Feb. 4: History of Ideas Book Group @ The Printed Garden Bookstore. 3-5p.

To discuss Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard. Free. 9445 S. Union Sq. Ste A, Sandy.

Feb. 6: Attention, Magic, and The Golden Rule @ SLC Main Library. 7-8p.

Reserve seats at HTTP://BIT.LY/2JQBHFN. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 6 & 20: SOULCOLLAGE Circle w/ Lucia Gardner @ Milagro Art Studio.

5:30-8:30p. Create a few or a whole deck of collaged cards that speak to your soul. $25-$100. 923 Lake St. Feb. 6: Galactic @ Park City Live. 9p-2a.

Bringing the funk to Park City. $28$46. 427 Main St, Park City.

with the physical world and the dilemmas inherent in our interactions with it. $15-$40. 50 W. 200 S. Feb. 3-25: The Comedy of Errors @ The Grand Theatre. 7:30-10p. Thurs-Sat. only (2pm Saturday matinee). $20.

1575 State St. Feb. 4: Utah Film Center Presents April and the Extraordinary World @ SLC Main Library. 11a.-1p. Recommended for ages 10+. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 4: Grant Writing Basics @ SLCC Community Writing Center. 10a.-12p.

Join the SLCC Community Writing Center for an interactive workshop on the basics of grant writing. $100.

210 E. 400 S. Feb. 4: Writing for Change: Numbers @ SLCC Community Writing Center.

10a.-12p. How do you write using statistics in both an accurate and accessible way to others in order to invoke social change? Breakfast will be served.

Free. 210 E. and 400 S. Feb. 4: Writing Local @ Finch Lane Gallery. 2-3:30p. Join Lynn Kilpatrick

Feb. 7: Love Guadalupe School Movie Night: Crazy Stupid Love @ Brewvies Cinema Pub. 7-10p. 21+. Join Guadalupe School for a night of fun in support of a good cause. All proceeds support Guadalupe School. $15. 677 S. 200 W. Feb. 7: Utah Film Center Presents The Loving Story @ SLC Main Library. 7-9p.

The definitive account on the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage recently fictionalized. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 7: Chris Robinson Brotherhood Presented by KRCL @ The State Room.

8-11p. “Acid-Americana.” 21+. $35. 638 S. State St. Feb. 8-Mar.12: Harbur Gate @ Salt Lake Acting Company. 7:30-9:30p. By local playwright Kathleen Cahill. Three female soldiers in the combat zone. A Purple Heart, a human heart, a blind man, a terrible secret and the transformative power of art. $25-$43. 168 W. 500 N. Feb. 8: Human Values & The Innocence Project @ S.J. Quinney College of Law. 7-9p. 2017 Tanner Lecture with Barry Scheck, attorney, Co-Founder of The Innocence Project. Free. 332 S. 1400 E.

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CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 35 Feb. 9: Buzzword: An Adult Spelling Bee @ Urban Lounge. 21+. Pub-style competition hosted by City Library staff. Twenty participants will be selected to compete head-to-head in spelling words of varying difficulty.

Free. 241 500 E. Feb. 9: JenkStars Valentine's Makers Market @ Jenkstars CASL. 7p.-12a. Support your local makers/artists and get your Valentine's shopping done and Jenky merrymaking done all in one fell swoop. Free to attend. 2225 S. 585 E. Feb. 10: Mike Doughty presented by KRCL @ The State Room. 8p-12a. w/ Wheatus. 21+. $24. 638 S. State.

Feb. 10 & 11: Valentines Gift Market @ Trolley Square. Fri. 4-8p. Sat. 12-8p.

Beautiful, hand crafted gift items. Free to attend. 602 S. 700 E. Feb. 11: Day of Zen w/ Michael Mugaku Zimmerman @ Artspace Zendo.

7:30a.-2p. An opportunity to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere. Free. 230 S. 500 W. #15 Feb. 11: Writing for Change: Social Media @ SLCC Community Writing Center. 10a-12p. Learn how to best structure your social media posts to engage and persuade in a positive and productive way. Breakfast will be served. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 11: Winter Market @ Rio Grande.

10a.-2p. Farm fresh produce, dairy, eggs, meat. Specialty foods & freshbaked foods. Food trucks. Free. 300 S. Rio Grande St. Feb. 11: Singing for Shy Singers @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 2-4p. If you love to sing but feel shy about singing, are afraid you don’t sing well, wish you could sing in a choir, or just want to feel comfortable singing with friends around a campfire, then this workshop is for you. $30. 223 S. 700 E. Feb. 11: REGALIA @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. 5:30-10:30p. inner, cocktails silent auction and a dance performance. $50-$150. 138 Broadway.

Feb. 11: The Nile Project @ Kingsbury Hall. 7:30-9:30p. Educating and empowering an international network of global citizens to cultivate the sustainability of their ecosystem. Artists from the 11 Nile countries, creating music that combines the region’s diverse instruments, languages and traditions to find commonality amidst the conflict. $25. 1395 Presidents Cir. Rm 190.

Dean Kamen and his work to solve the world’s water crisis. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 14: One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody on Love, Friendship and Shoes @ The State Room. 8-10p. Kerry Ipema brings all our favorite characters to life. Puns, cosmopolitans and audience participation. 21+. $27. 638 S. State.

Feb. 15: United We Read SLC: Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove @ King’s English. 7-8p. County-wide book group sponsored by SL Public Library, SL County Library and Murray Library.

Free. 1511 S. 1500 E. Feb. 16: Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West @ U of U College of Law Moot Court Room.

12-1p. How the unique geographies of the West have exerted a powerful influence on the peoples of this region.

Free. 383 S. University St. Feb. 16: ArtLandish @ UMFA. 7-9p.

“Traverse” interlaces dance, film, Utah’s landscape, and social media. Collaborators will discuss the project and debut the final film footage. Free. 410 Campus Center Dr.

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A riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe from the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Persepolis.

Cast: Marion Cotillard and Paul Giamatti | Recommanded for ages 10+

TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 7 @ 7PM

The definitive account of Loving v. Virginia—the 1967 Supreme Court decision to legalized interracial marriage—recently fictionalized in the film Loving.

Winner: 2013 George Foster Peabody Award

WEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY 8 @ 7PM

Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone *Post-film Q&A with director Fred Peabody moderated by Doug Fabrizio.

Independent journalists Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, and Michael Moore expose government lies and corporate deception.

TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 14 @ 7PM

*Post-film discussion.

An inspirational character study of noted inventor Dean Kamen (Segway, portable dialysis machines) and his work to solve the world’s water crisis.

TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 21 @ 7PM

Feb. 17: “Experience Africa” gala by the GK Folks Foundation @ Double Tree Suites. 6:30-10:30p. African performances, food, silent auction, speakers, dancing. $35 or $65/couple @ GKFolksFoundation.org. 110 W. 600 S.

WEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY 22 @ 7PM

Feb. 11: Portland Cello Project @ The State Room. 9p-12a. 21+. 638 S. State.

Feb. 14: Utah Film Center presents Slingshot @ . 7-9p. Segway inventor

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Feb. 16: Florence Williams book signing & reading: The Nature Fix: How being Outside Makes You Happier, Healthier, and More Creative @ King’s English. 7-8p. Joined by wilderness advocate Stacy Bare. 1511 S. 1500 E.

Feb. 17: The Motet: presented by JamBase @ The State Room. 9p-1a. w/ Dirty Revival. 21+. $27. 638 S. State.

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THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 16 @ 7PM

Feb. 17-18: Mr. Blue Mixed Media Performance @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse. 7:30-9p. "Mr. Blue" addresses the pivotal issue of socio-political awareness and the importance of speaking up and standing out through dance, singing, spoken word and musical composition. $12. 132 S. 800 W.

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Feb. 16: Poetry@SLCC presents David Kirby @ SLCC South City Campus. 7-8p.

David Kirby is author of more than a dozen books of poetry, criticism and essays. Free. 1575 State St.

Feb. 17: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise film screening @ SLC Main Library. 79p. Singer, dancer, activist and poet Dr. Maya Angelou takes viewers on an incredible journey through the life of a true American icon. Free. 200 E. 400 S.

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CLOSET MONSTER A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Winner: Best Canadian Feature–2015 Toronto International Film Festival The City Library | 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City

THEY CALL US MONSTERS *Post-film panel presented by Division of Juvenile Justice Services.

Follow three young offenders inside the “Compound,” where Los Angeles’ most violent juvenile offenders await their trials.

UMFA | 410 Campus Center Dr, Salt Lake City

BURDEN A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

Official Selection: 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival

TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 28 @ 7PM

The City Library | 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City

GLEASON This critically acclaimed film is an intimate look into the life of Steve Gleason, a former NFL player diagnosed with ALS at the age of 34.

Winner: Audience Award–2016 SXSW Film Festival, Best Documentary–2016 Seattle International Film Festival

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Feb. 20: SEED: The Untold Story @ AMC West Jordan 12. 7-9:30p. Award-winning documentary featuring Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbrell, Winona Laduke and Raj Patel follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. $11.1600 W. Fox Park Dr.

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Feb. 18: Writing for Change — Letter Writing @ SLCC Community Writing Center. 10a.-12p. Does change in democracy require civic dialogue? If so, where is it and who gets to talk or write? Join the CWC during this legislative session to learn techniques of writing for change through letters to editors and public officials. Breakfast will be served. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 18: Word Warriors presented

by PANDOS @ Art Access. 6-10p.

Peaceful Advocates for Native Dialogue and Organizing Support (PANDOS) facilitating a platform for dialogue regarding colonialism, race, trauma and gender for all peoples. Any interested artists can present poetry, storytelling, and/or single instrument acoustic music.

Food and beverages. Free, donations welcome. 230 S. 500 W. #125.

Feb. 19: Los Lobos @ The State Room.

8p-1a. 21+. $65. 638 S. State.

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Feb. 19: Compline: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Hildegard of Bingen @ Cathedral Church of St. Mark. 7-9p. Dr. Margaret Toscano, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies at the U of U, presenting. Free. 231 E. 100 S. Feb. 21: 24-Week Aquaponics Workshop w/ James Loomis @ The Green Urban Lunchbox. 6-7p. Loomis (CATALYST “Garden Like a Boss” columnist) and GUL founder Shawn Peterson will instruct on how to start your own urban farm using aquaponics. Build your own system that you will run during the course of this class. Courses

meet every Tue. night. $1,000; flexible financing options available. 340 E 400 S Ste 50.

Feb. 21: Tov LeNahama: Eat Light & Right @ The JCC. 6-7p. Learn proper Nutrition practices w/ Marysa Cardwell for every stage of life. Demo of a dish w/ a local chef for all to enjoy. Free, registration required: SLCJCC.ORG. 2 Medical Dr. N. Feb. 21: Utah Film Center Presents They Call Us Monsters @ SLC Main Library. 79p. Post-film panel. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 21: Breath of Life film screening & discussion @ Eliot Hall, First Unitarian Church. 7-9p. Spectacularly photographed film travels the globe in search of the truth behind what appears to be a looming environmental catastrophe. Free. 569 S. 1300 E. Feb. 21-23: Banff Film Festival @ Kingsbury Hall. 7-9p. Three nights of outdoor films featuring hiking, skiing, kayaking, and some of the most spectacular views you can imagine. $14.

1395 Presidents Cir. Rm 190.

Feb. 21-22: Cirque Eloize @ The Eccles Center, PC. 7:30-10p. Classic cirque arts magic: theatrics, dance, acrobatics, live music and a little clowning. $29-$79.

1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City.

Feb. 22: Utah Film Center presents Burden @ UMFA. 7-9p. Directors Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey look at artist Chris Burden’s works and private life. Free. 410 Campus Center Dr. Feb. 22: Utah’s Trailblazing Women @ SL Public Library. 7-9p. Discussion

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 37 about breaking down barriers and making positive differences in the Beehive State. Lara Jones will moderate a panel featuring some of Utah’s influential women. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Feb. 22: Paint Mixer Workshop @ Natural History Museum of Utah. 6:30-9p.

Follow a professional artist from The Paint Mixer as she guides us through a two-hour step-by-step tutorial of how to paint the Spiral Jetty, a Utah marvel. $40/$36. 301 S. Wakara Way. Feb. 23-24: U of U Guest Writer Series w/Linda Bierds & Davis McCombs @ Finch Lane Gallery. Th: 7-9p. Reading; Fri: 12-1p. Q & A. Free. 54 Finch Ln. Feb. 23: Hara: A Return To Center, a 5 Week course w/ Carl Rabke @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 7:15-8:30p. A series of unique movement lessons and that will help us to learn to fully inhabit, as well as to free the dynamic movement potential of the the lower abdomen, also known as the hara, dantien or tan den. $185. 223 S 700 E #4.

Feb. 23-Mar. 9: Botany for Gardeners @ Red Butte Garden Classroom. 6:308:30p. Learn basic plant morphology and terminology. Take the guesswork

out of gardening. Registration required. $80/$74. 300 Wakara Way. Feb. 23: The Brothers Comatose @ The State Room. 8p-12a. w/ Rainbow Girls.

21+. $20. 638 S. State.

Feb. 24: Book discussion w/ Davis McCombs and his work Lore @ Art Barn.

12p. Part of the Hivemind, a city-wide book club. Free. 54 Finch Lane.

Feb. 24: Book discussion w/ local architectural historian Bim Oliver, author of South Temple Street Landmarks @ King’s English. 7-8p.

Free. 1511 S. 1500 E. Feb. 24-25: The Crossroads Project @ The Auditorium at the Leonardo. 7:30-9p.

Brings the power of performance art to bear on one of the great conversations of our time: humanity’s growing lack of sustainability and the quest for truly meaningful response. $25. 209 E. 500 S.

poche of Katog Chana Ling @ Wasatch Retreat & Conference Center. 10a-5p.

This unparalleled approach is directly relevant to the modern challenges we face.

The teaching is based upon a path instruction written by the 3rd Dodrubchen Rinpoche (1865-1926). Suggested donation of $40-70/day of attendance or $80140/full weekend. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 75 S. 200 E. Feb. 25-Apr. 1: Orixa Movement 6week Workshop @ SLC Arts Hub. Six Saturdays 2-3p. Learn the traditional dance movements of the Orixa (O-reesha), Brazilian deities that represent facets of nature. Live drumming. All levels. $80 for 6-class workshop, or $20 for a single class. 663 W. 100 S. Feb. 25: Book discussion w/ William B. Matson, author of Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life and Legacy @ King’s English. 2p. Free. 1511 S. 1500 E.

Feb. 25: Winter Market @ Rio Grande.

10a.-2p. Farm Fresh Produce, Dairy, Eggs, Meat. Specialty foods & freshbaked foods. Utah's finest food trucks.

Free. 300 S. Rio Grande St.

Feb. 25: Cody Blackbird Band @ The State Room. 9p-12a. 21+. Merging the Native American flute with powerful vocals into contemporary blues rock. $15. 638 S. State.

Feb. 25-26: Carrying Suffering and Happiness onto the Path w/ Khentrul Rin-

Feb. 27: Alejandro Escovedo @ The State Room. 8-11p. 21+. $22. 638 S. State.

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2/17 THE MOTET 2/18 HELL’S BELLES 2/19 LOS LOBOS 2/23 THE BROTHERS COMATOSE PRESENTED BY KRCL

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Feb. 25: National Theater Live Presents Amadeus @ Broadway Center Cinemas.

12-2:30p. Music. Power. Jealousy. Lucian Msamati plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia. $15-$20. 111 Broadway.

Feb. 28: Utah Film Center Presents Gleason @ SLC Main Library. 7p.-9p.

Rated R. Hit documentary from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival goes inside the life of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints defensive back who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Free. 210 E. 400 S.

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Centered City Yoga has new owner

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“We want to make sure it still feels like it’s home.

That’s really important to me.”

Cieslewicz remembers thinking, regarding the decision to buy CCY, that if it’s meant to happen, it will happen with ease. All the pieces came together in ’ana Baptiste, Centered City Yoga’s founder and three weeks. This swift change may have left many in owner for 13 years, is passing the torch of CCY to the CCY community feeling a little confused and surone of her students, Rachel Cieslewicz, and prised. But apparently the timing Cieslewicz’s husband Eric Martin. was right. “D’ana has built a beautiful Cieslewicz trained under D’ana, in 2009, business,” Cieslewicz says. “She while also attending the University of needed a rest and now I’ll do my best Utah where she earned a B.S. in exercise to carry on her legacy.” sport science. Cieslewicz and Martin also Cieslewicz also wants to acknowltrained extensively under Manju Jois, the edge that the past couple of months son of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, who is known have “left a lot of heartache, almost a for bringing the Ashtanga practice to the rift, among the yoga studios in Salt United States. The couple moved to St. Lake. My goal is to be friends with George and opened Yoga Soul in 2012. every yoga studio, to collaborate, to Centered City branding will remain grow. I’d like to see a bigger picture of the same. Yoga Soul will rebrand to how yoga can help SLC as a whole by “Yoga Soul, a Centered City Yoga Studio.” helping people be more compassionCCY and Yoga Soul students will be able ate and kinder. There’s a lot going on Rachel Cieslewicz to use their passes interchangeably at in the world. Yoga has the ability to both studios. Baptiste continues to teach bring back the light.” her regular classes at CCY. Cieslewicz plans on adding Cieslewicz is also licensed massage therapist and more Ashtanga instructors. owns NEWAGEATHLETE.COM, an endurance coaching comThe couple plans to keep the same staff, the same pany integrating mind, body, spirit and sports. homegrown vibes and the same welcoming intenCentered City Yoga, 926 E. 900 South. tion for people to come as they are, says Cieslewicz..

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ou might be thinking, “Just what that area needs, another yoga studio.” But Seek Studio offers a nontraditional approach to both yoga and sports conditioning that might be a refreshing change. Instead of paying for a gym and a yoga membership each month, owners Sarah Betts and Alex Zuhl set out to provide a small community space where strength, fitness, endurance and yoga exist under one roof.

Betts, a certified yoga instructor, taught previously at Avenues Yoga and before that for five years in Seattle. “For me, yoga and strength training have always been driven by my passion for being outside. It’s not about just breaking a sweat or building a six-pack,” says Betts.

“Whether you seek to battle a condition you were born with, or climb the tallest peak in Utah, we want to bring awareness and encouragement for every individual to seek the deeper meaning behind their practice.”

Seek’s story is also a love story. Betts, originally from Sun Valley, and her partner Zuhl, a Salt Lake City native, were inspired by their mutual love for

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Seek offers all levels and intensities of yoga and sports conditioning classes from 6am to 8pm daily.

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re any of us ready for the month at hand? Well, here we go…ready or not!

This month many will feel helpless and lost in the Neptunian waters of the unseen world. Be aware that your fear of the unknown can add to the collective wave of drama and drag you into feelings of overwhelm and anxiety if you are not careful.

This month you must rely on your trust and faith in the Universe that, regardless of your feelings of loss, you are not a victim. This is an opportunity to rediscover your own sense of inner security and learn to depend on your inner soul essence. Don’t get me wrong: There will be a multitude of reflections of dysfunctional behaviors and addictive tendencies— others who are falling into victimhood. But you do not have to be one of them.

On February 26, a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces asks each of you to find some way to come back to a “cosmic oneness.” Your perception is being carefully inspected and analyzed.

You are asked to really work on opening your third eye to see beyond the obvious external world and into the matrix of the subtle realms of your unconscious self, which is attempting to awaken and inspire you in very new ways.

Unfortunately, this eclipse is dissolving logic and reason into the timeless regions of the dream. Expect to feel lost and confused. Be aware that in such moments you are vulnerable to being manipulated by people more powerful than yourself.

It is essential to stay as grounded as possible this month. The huge energy waves of change

Unfortunately, this eclipse is dissolving logic and reason into the timeless regions of the dream. continue to tear at the old shoreline of your reality, breaking it down and shaping it into a new pattern that will ultimately give you many new things to explore. This is happening to help you understand the interconnectedness of all life (and your part in that life) in a much deeper way than you ever expected. These waves of change are hugely transformative.

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Intuitive patterns for

February 2017

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

It is normal to feel helpless when you are in waters of an unseen and uncharted world. Do not despair.

This is a month where your best friend is going to be a great therapist, teacher, confes-

You must be a human angel listening to the highest waves of love and truth, feeling a more powerful compassion and generosity than you have ever experienced yet in this life. sor, healer, bodyworker, psychic or astrologer.

The healers in the metaphysical arts are there to help keep your energy strong and your anxiety to a minimum.

If you are an artist, you might find an inner “muse” awaken and move you in a new direction where your creativity can be expressed.

This month you stop waiting for the perfect moment to open. It’s just time to open. You may not feel ready but some part of you will feel compelled to take that leap.

You may often feel as if you are an extra in someone else’s movie. But that can be the motivation that allows you to stay fully present.

Each moment holds a key to your next move.

You will not be given all the pieces of the puzzle at once. This is the beginning of a powerful spiritual treasure hunt.

It is important to surround yourself with those you consider the most loyal and sincere for your journey. Surround yourself with those who will be supportive, and whom you can support, in this amazing time of transition.

You may not know what’s going to happen but you do know that this time is unlike any time you’ve ever experienced. Some moments you may wish to hide and protect yourself and your dream; other moments, it may feel safe to be out in the world.

This month you will give your love because it is the right thing to do. A mystical power is attempting to awaken within and shine out into the world. Even though the world is going to be very complicated, it’s still time to open into this unknown world.

Yes, there will be fear. Yes, you will wobble and feel unsure and unstable at times. And yes, the old dream was shot out of the sky. But you can create a new dream. And perhaps that old dream was simply a vehicle to get you to another place and to see another...better...choice.

Let the old dream go. See the fantasy for what it really was—an illusion. It’s time to get down and do what needs to get done. It’s going to be a lot of work. But it is best to commit to that work now.

Set your intention in the direction that is clearly being pointed out by the Universe. That direction indicates that you have to depend on yourself and those closest to you. You must be a human angel listening to the highest angelic waves of love and truth, feeling a more powerful compassion and generosity than you have ever experienced yet in this life.

That is how we are going to get through this year. That is how we are going to get to the next level of this evolution of humanity. Each person holds a key to that potential. Take this month to begin to learn what your personal gifts and talents can contribute to this matrix. I know you have more to offer and give than you presently recognize. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She lives in California, but visits Utah frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

Grow our own carbon credits!

Everything you need to know to get started in DIY carbon sequestration

BY JAMES LOOMIS

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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t’s impossible to be a selfaware human being in this day and age and not acknowledge the effect we as humans are having upon the atmosphere. In particular, the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is having a dramatic effect on the earth’s climate.

Much ballyhoo is being made concerning how to remove this excess carbon from the atmosphere, and an increasingly wide array of complex solutions are being paraded by the world’s scientific community. From skyscrapers that act as monolithic air filters to reinjecting the carbon from power plants into the ground, these strategies have a place in helping to remediate the effect of industry’s contribution to air pollution.

But I’m not here to talk about them, I’m here to talk about us: As a network of organic gardeners and farmers, we have the ability to remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere with far less work and cost than any high tech approach could hope to.

How is this possible? The power of plants, my dear reader, the power of plants.

Billions of years ago, when Earth was an infant, the atmosphere was made up of mostly carbon dioxide. Toxic and hostile, the earth was lifeless and scorching. When the first life appeared, (due to the first spark of evolution, God, aliens or some combination of the three), one of the earliest forms was cyanobacteria, single celled organisms capable of photosynthesizing. Photosynthesis is literally the process of using solar power to remove carbon dioxide from the air, rearrange the carbon atoms into sugar and starch molecules and release oxygen as the waste product. If one were to create such a product today, it would surely make the cover of every scientific publication on the planet.

After this photosynthesis revolution occurred,

it was party time on planet Earth for cyanobacteria. For billions of years, they multiplied, photosynthesized and died, pulling countless metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

As they died, they contributed their bodies to the increasing amount of small mineral particles from the constantly eroding rocks, and soil was born.

The earth’s soils still contain more carbon below ground than all of the life above it.

These cyanobacteria gave way to more and more complex forms of plant life (again, due to either evolutionary mechanisms, God, aliens or some combination of the three). A slow but steady process, it took nearly four billion years of this process to create enough soil for the first trees to inhabit.

Our current layer of soil topping the earth’s crust is testament to a truly magnificent legacy of plants and this process. All of our “fossil” fuel is the stored accumulation of billions of years of solar energy and sequestered carbon, which had been safely tucked away under the earth’s surface for mil-

lennia. The earth’s soils still contain more carbon below ground than all of the life above it.

Now, I’m not here to rant on and on about how we’ve been releasing it, by burning fossil fuels or ravaging topsoils, because 2017 is the year of solutions for me. I’m here to talk about how we as gardeners can accelerate this natural carbon sequestration process in our soils. In fact, as an organic gardener I often measure the quality of my soil in the amount of organic matter it contains, and organic matter is simply the recycled carcasses of once living organisms. As we build soil, we are sequestering carbon, and the math on how much we can sequester is astonishing. In fact, more and more often this new approach to intensive soil building in agriculture is referred to as “carbon farming,” and is adding another layer of income to farms through the selling of some of the most reliable carbon credits on the market. Recent studies have found that adjusting our approaches to land stewardship in this regard could halve the CO2 gap!

However, while the simple action of growing plants pulls carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as plants decay they also return some of this carbon, which is part of the carbon cycle of the planet. When fields or gardens are tilled, large amounts of carbon is oxidized and released, and the living organisms are killed, releasing yet more.

If we want to hold on to as much of this carbon as possible, then we need to encourage the processes, and the organisms, that sequester it the most effectively; the growth of plants and their roots, and the growth of fungi.

1. Never till your soil. As mentioned above, this oxidizes soil carbon, decimates massive amounts of soil life and destroys soil structure, which is key to retaining soil carbon. It also releases more pollution from the

machine doing the tilling! While most till to “aerate” the soil and kill weeds, the soil will always collapse and compact to a greater degree than before tillage, and the process will optimize the soil for weed growth.

Rather, cover the garden with a thick layer of mulch in the fall, and cover with a generous layer of compost in the spring, then mulch again once plants are tall enough. Mulch and compost protect and enhance topsoil, and the life in the soil will integrate these materials into even more life and soil organic matter. A dedicated mulching and composting regimen, in absence of tillage, will result in a weed-free, perpetually fertile, gloriously friable soil.

2. Leave roots in the ground. While it can be tempting to pull plants at t h e end of their life cycle, a more appropriate technique for soil stewardship is to chop them at their base, leaving the roots in place. This serves to leave the carbon that makes up the root tissues in place, but most importantly leaves the fungi and other organisms undisturbed, allowing them to go to work transforming the root tissue into humus. Humus is an incredibly longchained carbon compound, and stabilizing soil carbon is our goal in this whole process.

3. Encourage and protect beneficial fungi. No other organ- ism on the planet can sequester carbon more efficiently than fungi. Mycelium is the vegetative body of fungi, and the individual strands are known as fungal hyphae. For all

practical terms, these hyphae are incredibly durable hollow tubes of pure carbon, and the fungi in healthy soils have the capacity to se-

A dedicated mulching and composting regimen, in absence of tillage, will result in a weed-free, perpetually fertile, glorious friable soil. quester more carbon than trees! In fact, some studies have found that fungi account for 40 70% of the total carbon sequestered in arboreal forest systems.

In addition to storing carbon in a stable form, the presence of healthy mycelial networks in soils enhance the overall health of these systems, by transporting nutrients, water, and information over comparatively large distances.

While #1 and #2 above serve to protect fungi, we can encourage the growth and vitality of fungi by keeping appropriate areas of our yard under a deep layer of wood chips. Garden pathways, peripheral areas, play areas, or any area currently neglected and weedy is far more manageable under a deep layer of wood chips. Wood chips can easily be acquired for free in an urban area from local tree services. A deep mulched area is visually attractive and will conserve moisture, protect and build soil and be weed- and maintenance-free, as well as serve as an ideal habitat for beneficial soil fungi. In permaculture we call that stacking functions, and in that regard, a deep woodchip layer simply knocks it out of the park; Boss move right there friends, Boss move.

4 . Plant cover crops. Your garden should always be growing something, whenever possible. A cover crop is simply a nonfood crop, grown for some characteristic that enhances the soil—adding organic matter, nutrient accumulation, weed suppression, etc. By never having your soil idle, you are keeping microbes happy, pulling more CO2 from the air, and constantly building soil. When those cover crops are turned in, we are adding a tremendous amount of organic matter, and it’s far easier than hauling in amendments! There’s a reason cover crops are referred to as “green manure.” ◆ James Loomis is the Green Team farm manager for Wasatch Community Gardens.

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SAVING BEAUTY

The Antiquities Act from Roosevelt to Obama

Europe has its castles; the United States has its majestic mountains, seas and more

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uring his eight years in office, President Obama used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish 29 national monuments and expand the boundaries of five other existing monuments. No other President has used the act to establish more monuments, and no other President has used the act to protect more space.

Of those 29 monuments, perhaps none stirred so much controversy as Bears Ears in southeastern Utah. Among the justifications for its protection is the high density of archaeological sites hidden among the red-rock topography of its 1.35 million acre boundaries, and the incidental looting that those sites began to attract.

Looting started it Looting, as it so happens, was the impetus for the inception of the Antiquities Act. The late 19th century was a golden age of exploration in the American West. The rediscovery of ancient American sites revealed an increasing quantity of valuable artifacts, which be-

BY ROBERT LAWRENCE came difficult to prevent from disappearing into the black market.

Concerned archeologists and conservationists labored for decades to attract federal support for land protection in the West.

Eventually, political action ensued and a corresponding bill was drafted which landed in the sympathetic hands of President Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican). Without hesitation, he signed it into action in 1906.

The four-paragraph act confers executive authority to the President to proclaim public lands already owned or controlled by the federal government as national monuments. By so doing, those lands are protected by law from not only looting, but also unauthorized excavations for oil, coal and minerals.

The Antiquities Act became Theodore Roosevelt’s poetic

legacy. He established the first 18 national monuments across the west during his next three years in office, protecting over 1.5 million acres of federal land.

During the century and eight years that have since followed, the influence of Roosevelt’s legacy has rolled forward through 18 administrations, dispersing a total of 157 national monuments across 39 different states or territories. An additional 45 monuments have also been established through acts of legislation in Congress (rather than by means of the Antiquities Act).

Both Republican and Democratic Presidents used the Antiquities Act in a similar fashion until after the next Roosevelt was in office. Democrat Franklin Roosevelt established 11 new monuments, and expanded 21 more for a total of nearly 3 million acres of protection.

Those lands are protected by law from not only looting, but also unauthorized excavations for oil, coal and minerals.

Antiquities Act becomes partisan Afterwards, from the era of Roosevelt’s New Deal until the end of the Cold War, use of the Antiquities Act diminished substantially.

This was especially true during Republican administrations.

Dwight Eisenhower established two monuments, and modified the boundaries of 13 more. In so doing, he reduced more boundaries than he expanded and became the only President to have a net decrease in the amount of total land protected.

Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush never used the Antiquities Act to establish any monuments. Gerald Ford only

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George W. Bush became the first Republican to establish a national monument since Eisenhower in 1961. He also became the first President to establish a marine national monument. used it to expand 87 acres of boundaries on two previously established monuments.

Democrat Jimmy Carter was an exception during this era. In stark contrast to the administrations immediately before and after him, he established 15 national monuments and expanded two more for a total of 56 million acres of protection—far more land than any other President, including Obama. And all of it was in the state of Alaska.

“This may have been the most significant domestic achievement of my political life.” Carter wrote in his most recent autobiography.

“Alaska had been admitted to the

Union as the 49th state in January 1959, when a debate began over how some of its vast federal lands should be divided among the indigenous Indians and Eskimos, deeded to the state government, or retained as national forests, parks and wilderness areas.” His efforts were extremely unpopular in Alaska, and he had to have extra security on his visits.

If the Antiquities Act was not a partisan issue before Carter, it clearly was afterwards. In response to the amount of national monument land protected in Alaska, a law was passed that required congressional approval for the use of the Antiquities Act in that state for

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any area larger than 5,000 acres.

This emulated a similar law that was passed for Wyoming in response to the establishment of Jackson Hole National Monument

by Franklin Roosevelt in 1943.

The next Democrat to follow Carter in the White House was Bill Clinton, who also used the Antiquities Act frequently. He established 19 national monuments, which at the time was more than anyone before him.

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George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in office and became the first Republican to establish a national monument since Eisenhower in 1961. He also became the first President to establish a marine national monument. In fact, four of the six monuments designated by G.W. Bush are primarily under Pacific waters and account for all save 6,310 acres of the nearly 219 million acres of space that he protected.

President Obama followed with a variation on Bush’s aquatic theme by establishing the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean. Furthermore, he significantly expanded two of G.W. Bush’s marine monuments that are established in the waters surrounding his birth state of Hawaii.

Those three protections alone account for nearly 548 million of the 553 million-plus acres protected

by Obama.

The other 5.7 million acres of land monuments established or

expanded by Obama are about equal to the amount of land protected by Clinton during his eightyear term in office.

Size is not always important But size is not the defining feature of all of Obama’s national monuments.

Several very small monuments were established by Obama to preserve the memory of individuals who pioneered efforts related to LGBT rights, women’s equality and workers’ rights, as well as the contributions of African American soldiers in our nation’s early conflicts.

And in tribute to Martin Luther King Day, he most recently established his three final small monuments at locations in the South that are important in the history of American civil efforts. These monuments are small in size, but they are enormous in significance.

In his post-presidency years, it is likely that Obama will continue to be a meaningful figure for minorities in America. It is also likely that he will be found on occasion in snorkel gear exploring the underwater landscapes that he has now protected, just as perhaps Roosevelt explored the vast western landscapes that he preserved.

Either way, his legacy in regards to the Antiquities Act will be prominent, and also personal.

Robert Lawrence is a biochemist at Arizona State University and a former Utahn.

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