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I think the mermaid's nonchalant attitude about this mess she is sitting on and her preoccupation with herself is indicative of a lot of people who just don't care about anything but themselves. And it is also indicative of me on certain days or in certain moments. I probably spend way too much time being concerned about myself when there is a whole world of trouble that I could help turn around. So the painting is a confession of sorts. It's about selfabsorption in the midst of crisis. And though I am not quite as babelicious as my mermaid, I have been much more politically active this legislative session than she ever will be. ◆

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Outrageous

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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ll I’m hearing lately is the howling outrage from both sides of the thousand-sided political spectrum. Formerly sane friends are ordering me to cut and paste, forward, call, sign, write, yell at or hug someone if I care about what’s left of the wizened shards of America. Of course it is not actual yelling, only the Internet equivalent; sometimes in ALL CAPS, sometimes accompanied by demonic looking emoticon things or other times threatening the nuclear option of “un-friending.”

I admit I feel likewise outraged about 2% of the time. The rest of the time I’m just try to get through the day wondering if the St. Louis Cardinals can make up 17 games on the Chicago Cubs and if our ancient pooch with doggie dementia can hang on a little longer.

Lately she emulates a drunk trying to navigate an earthquake.

Life is mainly daily and it is hard to maintain the outrage. As much as I like the Saturday Night Live Alec Baldwin Trump send up, one month in it is already getting a little tired. In an attempt to keep the outrage going, let me throw a little more fuel on the fire: D o you

know t h a t Legos are taking jobs away from actors of all genders and nationalities? Who are these Lego

people and where are they made?

It turns out they are made in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico, China and the Czech Republic so they definitely are unregistered immigrants stealing our jobs, though I must admit they speak excellent English in all the movies I have seen.

What about all the robots taking away our jobs? If we fire them, where will they go? They will turn to lives of crime, stealing electricity and fuel to support their habit.

Some will be relegated to picking strawberries and mining coal to replace the humans we deported.

Others will migrate to low-level civil servant jobs such as DMV clerks where they will greenlight all their driverless car friends.

Do you know that when China built its Great Wall there were no Home Depots or Lowes where anyone could buy a ladder for $20; or trampolines, ropes, shovels, ramps, augers or jackhammers?

Nobody is quite sure whom China kept out, anyway.

Is it possible that all this flooding is due to a poorly worded prayer for rain? You can’t just pray for rain and not put a stop date on it. Prayer needs to be regulated.

Do you know that, according to scientific analysis, no cloud actually has a silver lining and that cats cannot get your tongue unless you fall asleep with your mouth open? Or that getting your ducks in a row is a lofty goal that accomplishes nothing other than annoying ducks?

Did you know that 90 million legal Americans got bused nowhere and snuck into nothing while they occupied their couches and didn’t vote for anybody?

Do you know that Trump spelled backwards isn’t even a word and that everyone who voted Republican didn’t vote Democrat! ◆ Dennis Hinkamp would like to be more outraged but he’s leaving it to you younger people.

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BY AMY BRUNVAND Bison are nomadic and are going to go where they want to go. They are not easily contained with fences. – Bates & Hersey, 2016

Two resolutions against national monuments, and the aftermath

Utah, a model for bison restoration

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tah is a model for restoring wild bison to their ecological role, according to an article by scientists from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, which states that there are currently only six free-ranging wild bison herds in the U.S. and two of them are in Utah: the Henry Mountains herd, established in the 1940s and the Book Cliffs herd, established in 2008.

Even though bison are native to Utah, Utah’s original herds were wiped out by the time Brigham Young’s party arrived in 1847.

The current herds were populated with bison transplanted from Yellowstone.

Utah’s two bison herds are unique because they are genetically pure (not mixed with cattle genes) and disease-free; they are classified as wildlife and are managed by hunting.

In the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, bison management outside of the National Park has been far less effective due to the fact that bison are classified as livestock, not wildlife. Every winter after the tourists are gone, hundreds of bison that cross the park boundary are shot by licensed hunters

or trapped and slaughtered. Montana ranchers oppose establishing wild bison herds because they fear that their cattle would have to share forage on public lands grazing allotments.

Native American tribes would like to take Yellowstone bison in order to re-establish culturally important herds on Indian reservations, but have been unable to transport the bison because of overblown fears that the bison could transmit the disease brucellosis to domestic cattle. Colorado has a similar law that defines bison as domestic animals and is trying to stop Ute tribal bison from re-populating across state lines.

The American Bison was named the national mammal of the United states in 2016 and it is a potent symbol of ecological restoration since herds numbering over 30 million animals were nearly hunted to extinction in the 1800s as European settlers tried to destroy the plains Indian cultures that depended on bison. ◆ Bates, Bill, and Kent Hersey. "Lessons Learned from Bison Restoration Efforts in Utah on Western Rangelands." Rangelands 38, no. 5 (2016): 256-265.; Buffalo Field Campaign: BUFFALOFIELDCAMPAIGN.ORG

In February, Governor Gary Herbert signed two resolutions opposing Utah national monuments: HCR11, “Urging the President to Rescind the Bears Ears national Monument Designation,” and “HCR 12, “Urging Federal Legislation to Reduce or Modify the Boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.”

The two resolutions were improperly introduced in the House Rules Committee, apparently in order to avoid holding public hearings, and after Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed them the fallout was swift and severe.

The Outdoor Retailer trade show, which has held summer and winter shows in Salt Lake City for the past 20 years, decided to withdraw from Utah, citing a long and worsening history of anti-public land sentiment and action. In talks with the governor, representatives from the Outdoor Industry Association requested that Utah “embrace and support the outdoor recreation economy’s role in the state by supporting public lands that provide the backbone of the industry’s sales.” Specifically, they asked the Governor to stop efforts to nullify the Antiquities Act, stop trying to rescind designation of national monuments, and stop efforts to transfer and sell public lands.

Soon after the State resolutions were signed, Garfield County tried to pass a similar resolution, but met objection from local business owners who said that the nearby national monument is good for business.

Secret water plans and other shenanigans The Utah Rivers Council (URC) called fake news on an announcement from the Utah Division of Water Resources that the Bear River Project could be delayed due to slower than expected population growth.

A press release from URC noted that in fact, the Bear River Project will never be necessary, and yet the State is still collecting millions of dollars in sales taxes for the project and is still actively seeking permits.

URC suspects that the announcement was intended to minimize growing public pressure to stop the water project which would destroy Great Salt Lake wetlands and turn the dry lake bed into a toxic dust bowl à la Owens Lake in California.

The Water Strategy Advisory Team that is developing a 50-year water plan for Utah meets in secret with no opportunity for public input. “They have spent at least $23 million on Bear River Development in the last 16 years, but they have only spent $4 million on water conservation,” says UCE Executive Director Zach Frankel. “It’s painfully obvious they’re far more committed to wasting billions of tax dollars on the Bear River Water Grab rather than saving money and water via meaningful conservation efforts.”

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U.S. Congress up to no good With a Republican president and Republicans in control of both the U.S. House and Senate, antienvironmental bills are popping up like whack-a-moles. Here are some that affect Utah: • Utah’s Congressional delegation claims that they were promoting “local control” by voting for a resolution against the BLM Planning 2.0 Rule. However, the rule they opposed actually improved the public process for land management. BLM Rule 2.0 implemented landscape-level management, made planning more responsive to environmental, ecological, social and economic conditions, and emphasized decisions based on scientific data.

• Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT-3) introduced a bill for “disposal of excess federal lands,” which met with immediate, strong opposition from hunters and anglers. In the end Chaffetz withdrew the bill, posting a staged social media photo of himself dressed in camouflage and hold-

ing a hunting dog. Activism works!

• Both of Utah’s senators voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt has spent his legal career opposing protections for clean air and clean water. Utah law says that air quality laws can’t be more stringent than federal regulations, so if federal laws are weakened, Utah’s air quality problems will only get worse.

100% renewable energy for Moab Last month the City Council of Moab, Utah passed a resolution committing to 100% renewable electricity by 2032. The city cited the threat of climate change to the booming recreation economy as a reason for the transition to clean energy, and regional haze from power plants ruins views in nearby National Parks. Salt Lake City and Park City have made similar pledges to shift to green energy sources.

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2017 Conservation in the West poll The 2017 Conservation in the West poll from Colorado College asked a surprising question: Donald Trump has said that he will follow in the footsteps of President Theodore Roosevelt, the President who created the first national parks and national monuments.

Trump says he opposes transferring those lands to state governments because “We have to be great stewards of this land." Having heard that, would you say you approve or disapprove of the President‐Elect's stated approach to federal management of national public lands?”

51% of Utah voters, and 63% overall said they approved. The annual poll asks voters from seven Mountain West states about public lands and environmental issues.

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BY JOHN R. DEJONG

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ustainability—the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely—is the ecobuzz-word of the decade. Next thing you know, public companies that are eco-challenged or that make huge amounts of money helping clean up after eco-challenged companies will start putting “sustainable” in their company names.

It’s a buzz word for a good reason, though: It may be the truest expression of what environmentalists and non-environmentalists can agree on, the idea of making Earth’s resources serve humanity for the long run. Hopefully, we’re all in it for the long run.

Sustainability implies justness and fairness, because no system can be sustainable without justness and fairness.

“Earth First! We’ll mine the other planets later.” That’s an old bumper sticker that made fun of the 1980s Earth First! movement, while at the same time revealing the delusional nature of conservatives who don’t conserve. From a purely economic perspective, mining the other planets, or even astroids, is prohibitively expensive, as in galacticaly expensive. Earth is at the bottom of a deep gravity well. Which is physics talk for “we’re stuck here, so we’d better make it work.”

In this spirit, we’re heading to Weber State University March 16 and 17 for their eighth annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit. We’ve been there before, and if you’re the least bit nerdy on the subject, you should be there, too. If it’s like past years,

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you’ll meet good people, have interesting conversations and learn a thing or two. CATALYST is a proud sponsor; come visit Greta and me at our booth.

A Thursday morning preSummit workshop features Australian clinical psychologist John Cook, founder of SKEPTICALSCIENCE.COM and co-author (with WSU professor

Cook identifies the fallacies employed to distort facts, offers techniques for talking to climate deniers based on psychological research, and will teach us how to construct a factual alternative to replace the myth.

Daniel Bedford) of the college textbook Climate Change: Examining the Facts. The workshop’s timely topic is “Responding to Misinformation in the Age of Fake News.”

Cook identifies the fallacies employed to distort facts, offers techniques for talking to climate deniers based on psychological research, and will teach us how to construct a factual alternative to replace the myth.

Utah State University physicist and public interest communicator Dr. Robert Davies talks to us Friday morning about “the opportunity for grand achievement; our window for a meaningful response, and the actual possibility to forge a genuinely sustainable world.” As Davies is also co-creator of the Crossroads Project*, a performance art and communication project weaving together information, imagery and music, we have high expectations for his talk.

The keynote speaker is Mary Robinson, notably the first woman president of Ireland and more importantly the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002, among many roles. Robinson has worked on the forefront of the eco-equality movement. As the Wizard of Oz would put it, Mary Robinson is a world class “phila-, er, er, philanth-er, good-deed doer!” The Summit is fortunate to have her participate.

The afternoon sessions are organized into four tracks: Low Carbon Solutions, Communicating Sustainability, Urban & Community Planning and the Social Side of Sustainability.

Some local lights leading sessions include: SLC Sustainability Director Vicki Bennett, on “Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level”; USU’s Roslynn Brain offering “A Primer in Community-based Social Marketing”; Utah Clean Energy’s Solar Project coordinator Kate Bowman, laying out “A Bright Future: 10 Year Solar Deployment Plan for Utah” and Wendy Lee, with Salt Lake City’s Institute for Market Transition, speaking about “Energy Transparency as a Market Force.” We’ll tell you all about it in the months to come.

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Dandelions Good for everything

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hen I was in high school, I placed an order for dandelion seeds from my small town’s nursery. The store manager called my mom to make sure this was okay with her. I’d read Stalking the Wild Asparagus, by Euell Gibbons, and was entranced by the abundantly positive properties of the plant. (I’d also ordered drosophila melanogaster, a.k.a. fruit flies, from a biological supply house a few years earlier, but that’s a different story.)

I don’t recall if I ever planted them (or if they grew—wouldn’t a failed crop of dandelions be a joke!). But I know my mother said yes. Her mother, before she’d gone blind, used to make a dandelion wine that I’m told was delicious.

At the same time, my dad diligently poisoned the plants that appeared uninvited in our lawn. I knew about neurotoxins; I’d read Silent Spring. I wasn’t going to eat those!

I’ve retained my affection for one of spring’s first flowers. As Katrina Blair notes in her book The Wild Wisdom of Weeds (see p. 34), dandelion provides the earliest food for bees. The leaves are loaded with nutrition (the entire plant offers a complete protein) and provide a spring tonic. Sap from the stem is a beauty treatment. Other healing traditions—notably from China and India—have used dandelion medicinally for millennia.

So why do we Westerners hate them so much? True—left unharvested, they grow leggy, bitter and tough, and the wind will send their seeds far and wide. But if we poison them, there goes an interesting salad, and much-needed food for pollinators. This indomitable, resilient plant will rise again. Why not partake?

Perhaps there’s even an analogy in there, somewhere: Find the things in life that support life, and appreciate them. Nurture them.

Engage with the uninvited visitor. Learn their stories. Perhaps incorporate them into your life.

If not, well, analogies take us just so far.

Mow them if you must. But please, avoid the poison. ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST.

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THIS LAND IS OUR LAND

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument secretly under seige

BY KATHERINE PIOLI

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nternal threats to public federal lands in Utah have been ramping up lately—the Public Lands Initiative proposed by Rep. Rob Bishop and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the sudden and recent sale of SITLA lands around the state and the inevitable talk by the most recent Presidential administration of undoing or reducing in size Utah’s newest monument, Bears Ears.

Grand Staircase-Escalante covers 1.9 million acres of southern Utah canyons, cliffs and plateaus that have rich recreational potential but more importantly have incredible scientific value for geologists, paleontologists, archaeologists and other disciplines. “One thing the Staircase has in its favor is that the boundaries were established based on science and scientific values,” says Nicole Croft, executive

In addition to recreational value, Grand Staircase-Escalante has incredible scientific value for geologists, paleontologists, archaeologists and other disciplines. Still others value it primarily for its estimated 62 billion tons of coal worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Another threat is underway, one much quieter than that surrounding Bears Ears, which is working to destroy a piece of southern Utah that has been protected since 1996: the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument created by President Clinton through the Antiquities Act.

director of Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners.

“Clinton didn’t just draw a magic line with no reason. There are 3,000 different species found inside the Monument and there is still so much untapped knowledge.”

Croft’s organization, based in Kanab, works

Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners recommends these actions:

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rite a letter to the editor for your local paper and for news outlets far and wide. Getting attention outside of Utah could be a crucial part of stopping this land grab. Encourage your friends outside of Utah to do the same because Grand Staircase belongs to all Americans.

Spread the word on social media! Why do you #standwithgrandstaircase? Ryan Zinke is likely to be confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior. GSEP has already invited him to meet with them to dispel the

closely with Monument locals, visitors and schools on projects that range from the removal of invasive Russian olive along the Escalante River to funding a fulltime lab manager for the Monument’s paleontology lab. Their most important work as the frontline defenders of the Monument’s very existence, however, is just beginning.

One important reason for having concerned local eyes and ears on the ground around the Monument is because the bid to destroy this national treasure has been so sneaky. What Croft knows is that two counties whose lands overlap the Monument, Kane County and Garfield County, have created a resolution asking the Feds to reduce the size of the Monument. But the exact wording of the resolution is being closely guarded.

“We have not been allowed to see this resolution,” says Croft, “but we’ve heard there are maps. There are places they are already looking at carving up.”

Another red flag for Utah conservationists is the name of the resolution’s most adamant backer: State Rep. Mike Noel (Kanab), a man who has been fighting the Monument since its inception. Croft says that Noel is looking to get at least a 74% reduction in the size of the Monument, shrinking it from 1.9 million acres to about 200,000.

What makes the Monument’s current size so unbearable to these county commissioners? It probably has something to do with coal. The Grand Staircase is estimated to contain 62 billion tons of coal worth hundreds of billions of dollars. What the redrawn maps of the region would look like if left up to the Kane and Garfield County politicians is, at this point, anyone’s guess but it would likely carve out huge areas rich in minerals.

On March 13, Garfield County will meet with the expected goal of pushing through a modified version of the resolution that’s been proposed for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Written comments up until that point will be accepted but there are also other ways for concerned citizens to get involved. ◆

myth that the people who live around Grand Staircase don’t support it. Contact him on social media @RyanZinke. You can also send postcards and letters to Ryan Zinke at 1419 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515.

Participate in Grand Staircase Escalante Partners’ “Our Monument” campaign, to be used on social media and sent to policy makers and elected officials: Send your favorite photo(s) of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to OURMONUMENT@GSENM.ORG along with a brief reflection: Why did you want to share this photo? ◆ For more information about the resolution and suggestions on what you can do: go to the Partners’ website at GSENM.ORG.

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ir quality is a yearround concern for Utah residents. In the winter our state’s topography, climate and human activities combine to make a PM 2.5 soup that looks as disturbing as it is damaging to bodies, young and old. The summertime buildup of ozone levels aren’t as dramatically visible but just as deadly.

As numerous places in Utah frequently fall into nonattainment status for fine particulate matter by the EPA, it is becoming apparent that pollution regulation by government agencies is not enough.

Last September, the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) invited local inventors and entreprenuers to tackle this problem. UCAIR, a consortium of leaders from educational institutions, business, industry and local government, hosted the Bright Skies Clean Air Innovations Contest. They were looking for innovations that could improve Utah’s air immediately.

From nearly 40 qualified applicants, three were chosen to receive financial awards totaling $45,000, with five honorable mentions.

While the contest winners can’t change our topography or our climate, they can show us that creativity and ingenuity can pay off in a good way. We applaud them and look forward to seeing their endeavors in action.

Grand Prize:

Idle Free Heat, Joel Ewell

Local inventors accept the Bright Skies, Clean Air challenge

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oel Ewell is a Salt Lake native, and a tinkerer, one with an electric engineering background to be precise. His combination of mechanical knowhow and decades of breathing bad air is what generated the particular spark of ingenuity that created Idle Free Heat of which Ewell is inventor, engineer and even installation mechanic.

Consider for a moment the Idle Free campaign of the last few years. Sure, it’s taken off with a few parents, those who wait in the pickup line at school confronted

by Turn the Key Be Idle Free signs.

But how many more cars have we encountered in parking lots, in driveways on cold mornings, just idling away as if the inversion layer never existed? Joel Ewell sees the limited success of the Idle Free campaign. And he gets it. We want to be good, but in winter we also want to stay warm. The system he’s built finally allows for both.

Here’s how it works: After about 15 minutes of driving, around the time heat finally starts coming out of the vents, that huge block of steel that is the engine block is fully heated. While the vehicle is in motion, coolant fluid is running across that engine block keeping it from burning up. That hot coolant is used to heat the air that heats the vehicle. But once the car is turned off (remember, idle free!), the coolant no longer circulates and heat isn’t vented into the car. Ewell’s system overrides this and continues to draw coolant away from the engine block, providing heat

for the cab, even without the engine on, for up to about an hour.

Ewell was once himself a serial car idler. “Even though I hated wasting fuel, I would pull up somewhere, let the fans blow until the heat ran out and then start the engine again for a few minutes,” say Ewell, who admits that the technique wasn’t the best, even for his car. After blowing numerous fuses and some fan motors due to his hot air habit, he thought, “I can do better than this.”

In the winter of 2014, during a plane ride across the country to pick up, ironically, a car, Ewell began sketching his idea. By the following year he had a working prototype installed on his wife’s car. It worked well, but when he tried finding a larger audience for his invention, the project stalled. “I approached all the school districts last year and never got a response,” recalls Ewell.

Since winning first

place at the UCAIR contest, however, Idle Free Heat has received some of the attention it deserves, even finding its way onto a few school buses.

In February, Ewell personally installed Idle Free Heat systems on two Granite School District bbuses. It’s a pilot program that, if it works, Ewell hopes will spread to every school bus across the state of Utah because, as Ewell explains, “Schools are at the forefront of the idle free campaign.”

And even though it wasn’t his initial intention, the new technology might even save school districts money. By his calculations, the fuel wasted by idling adds up to about $40,000 to $50,000 a year for the state, money that could be put to better use.

“I tell my kids that some day

every school bus will have Idle Free Heat. I’m hoping that in two years every school district in the state will have their fleets converted,” says Ewell. He’s also working on a DIY kit for the general public and envisions someday running a local manufacturing facility to make them.

“I wouldn’t be at this point without winning the UCAIR competition,” says Ewell. “It was a ground level system before, friends talking about it to other friends. The competition gave me money to focus on the project and got me in touch with really good people.”

For now, says Ewell, Idle Free Heat is staying local. “My focus,” he says, “is Utah.”

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Runner-Up: Nikola Motor Company, CEO Trevor Milton

Trevor Milton is a young man, only 34 years old, with the strong build of someone who might be more used to throwing hay bales than inventing motor technology, but Milton is an ideas man and his greatest achievement, as entrepreneur and CEO of the Nikola Motor Company, was unveiled last December. That achievement is the Nikola One, the world’s first hydrogen fuel-cell electric semi-truck.

Before the design and engineering team was assembled to create a prototype for the Nikola One, and well before Milton first began working through design concepts at home, the dream started with trains. Milton, whose father was a railroad man, first encountered electric power systems in locomotives. In the railroad industry, hybrid transportation technology actually goes all the way back to 1889 when William H. Patton of Pullman, Illinois filed a patent for a new kind of engine, one that used a gasoline engine to drive a generator that charged a battery cell that powered a locomotive. Modern versions of this technology are in use today around the world, in Czechoslovakia,

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Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom. Since the early 2000s, rail companies in Canada and the United States have experimented with short distance, mostly commuter trains powered with hybrid engines; but the GG20B, a diesel hybrid locomotive developed in 2004 by Railpower Technologies, has also been successful in long-distance applications. If it works for trains, thought Milton, why not for trucks?

At first glance the cab of the Nikola One semi-truck looks like a futuristic space craft with a sleek aerodynamic nose and seamless, smooth steel sides. Spacecraft it is not, designed as all semis are to roll the long asphalt highways from coast to coast, but futuristic it is. This new zero-emission vehicle (water is the only byproduct of hydrogen-fuel) is built to transport thousands of pounds of freight across the country. With that in mind, Nikola One has overcome probably the biggest hurdle for electric vehicles, the range it can cover between charges.

According to the company, Nikola trucks can cover a surprising 800-1,200 miles on a single charge with the help of a battery pack that weighs about 4,000 pounds. But the vehicles are surprisingly light, mainly a result of not having to carry tanks of diesel, which helps them perform even more efficiently on the road.

The 18-wheel Nikola One has already attracted some interest and some skepticism. Jim Mele, editor-in-chief at Fleet Owner magazine, says that Nikola’s future looks bright, but only if they can sell enough trucks. Truckers, he adds, aren’t usually big risk takers.

Such doubts seem to be put to rest by the solid number of pre-orders for the Nikola One. In the

first month that Nikola Motor Company began offering the vehicle, 7,000 trucks were reserved. These orders likely won’t drive off an assembly line and onto the street until 2019. Over the next five years Fitzgerald Glider Kits, an automotive parts maker in Tennessee will be assembling the trucks, making them not only zero-emissions but also American-made.

Drivers willing to bet their money on these new trucks are likely looking at a number of factors. The Nikola One has 1,000 horse power.

That’s twice the power of an average diesel truck. The new trucks have better speed on the road (65mph uphill versus average diesel speeds of 20-40mph). They can accelerate in half the time it takes for a diesel engine. And the company claims that with fuel savings (Nikola One gets 13-15 mpg versus the average diesel 7.5 mpg) and fewer maintenance needs, operating costs will be cut in half.

UCAIR is interested in Nikola One for its environmental benefits. By achieving zero-emissions it’s apparent that the vehicle’s creators have high standards regarding pollution control. That’s even more obvious when you consider that the trucks will actually exceed all greenhouse mandates from the EPA. Furthermore, Nikola Motor Company’s plans for their new semi could create important alternative-transportation infrastructure across the country. Nikola hopes to start building a network of hydrogen-fueling stations in 2018.

Through the process of electrolysis, each station would have its own solar farm to power clean, on-site manufacturing of hydrogen fuel.

Runner-Up: ShareLift App, Aidan

Weltner and Samuel Kern

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itting in his dorm room on a snowy winter weekend, Aidan Weltner found himself in the unenviable position of being stuck on campus with his ski pass and no way to get up to the hill. “I was freshman,” recalls Weltner a student at Montana State University in Bozeman. “I

knew there were upper classmen with room in their cars heading out to ski and underclassmen like myself who didn’t have any transportation.”

So, as one would expect from a young person of this digital age, Weltner decided that technology was his solution, and the app ShareLift was born.Weltner’s creative partner Samuel Kern describes it as “Uber meets couch surfing for skiers.” Download the app and you can find a list of other users who have logged on offering rides. If a driver matches your desired destination and departure time, you can request a lift. If you’re uncomfortable taking rides from strangers, you can link your profile to a social media account like Facebook and see if any of your friends, or friends of friends, are offering rides.

“A number of companies today are putting themselves in the ride share space but we intend to do true ridesharing,” says Weltner. “It’s less of a taxi service and more of a carpooling solution. Something that can be scaled to all sorts of outdoor sports travel.”

Most people who have thumbed a ride before, especially one for any sort of distance, prob-

ably know that it’s common courtesy to offer up some gas money.

ShareLift will offer recommendations on a fair payment depending on time and distance traveled and passengers can opt to settle money exchanges in cash or through secured methods like Venmo or PayPal. ShareLift, released December 2016 for Android and iOS phones, is still in developmental stages, and is currently serving only Bozeman and Salt Lake City—two places Weltner calls diehard ski towns. And while the kinks are being worked out, as the ShareLift team collects data and responds to feedback, the importance of this new tool is taking on new meaning for Weltner and his team.

“We are focusing more now on the environmental aspect of Sharelift,” he says. “Protecting the environment and skiing are not mutually exclusive goals, they can be one and the same. Taking more cars off the road means fewer greenhouse emissions.”

ShareLift is spreading the word through partnerships with the Office of Sustainability at the University of Utah and Protect Our Winters. But what might really help them take off in Salt Lake is long traffic lines and crowded parking lots—two problems plaguing the canyons this winter. And if ridesharing is a plus for skiers, it will also be beneficial for resorts, which undoubtedly want to find ways to pack more skiers onto their slopes. Someday, in a perfect world, ShareLift riders could score VIP resort parking.

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Honorable mentions Ecotrike16 — WWW.SUNZEECAR.COM

You may have seen the creations of Dr. Andy Schoenberg, inventor and developer of the Ecotrike, displayed in the driveway of his residence on Millcreek Canyon Road. These little enclosed bumpercar-looking curiosities are hard to miss. They’re called the Ecotrike (Sunzeecar, LLC) and their strangeness isn’t their only appeal, they’re also one man’s answer to Salt Lake’s air pollution problem. The Trike is literally a scooter seat set in a light aluminum frame and encased in polycarbonate (it looks a lot like plexiglass) attached to a 5 kWHr lithium ferric phosphate battery and a 3,000-watt motor. The little thing can actually be registered as a street-legal electric motorcyle—it has LED headlights, brakes and turn signals—but the selling point for clean air buffs is the roof of the vehicle: a solar panel that provides the only fuel this trike will ever need to get zipping along the street at upwards of 50 mph (on cloudy days you can go ahead and plug in the battery). Dr. Schoenberg hopes to make the Ecotrike commercially available—with sufficient demand and rate of production he estimates the vehicle’s cost at around $7,000—and is in the market for investors.

Echelon Engine — HTTP://ECHELONENGINES.COM/TECHNOLOGY

An estimated 70% of the total energy produced in an internal combustion engine is lost to heat.

But it can also be captured and used. The Echelon team—J. Paul Ogden (president and CEO), Douglass Furr, PhD (VP engineering and founder) and Adam Goodwin, (chief mechanic)— tested their first prototypes in 2010 and received a patent for their invention in 2013. They’ve since demonstrated their technology around the world. According to the company’s website, it’s designed to work “effectively in a gasoline fueled engine” and “presents a huge advantage for applications in small aircraft and all marine uses.” No news on when the technology will be available.

Mobilight Hybrid Light Tower —WWW.MOBILIGHT.COM

You’ve likely seen light towers like these before, the kind attached to a large, rumbling generator with enormous, extremely bright bulbs used at nightime highway construction sites, airports, stadiums, military bases and oil drilling refineries. And it’s no big surprise that their oversized generators chomp through fossil fuel like there’s no tomorrow—except for the Mobilight Hybrid Light Tower.

Mobilight International, manufacturer of light towers for over 20 years, has been experimenting with 100% solar-powered light and communications towers for most of that time. They have come up with a hybrid model that uses both solar and diesel power generation. The solar panel on these new designs charges the battery which powers the lights. If for some reason the charge drops too much, the generator is engaged and runs only as long as it takes to recharge the batteries. According to information from UCAIR, these new light towers “reduce emissions and fuel consumption by 83% compared to straight diesel generator lighting towers.”

GasPro —WWW.BIOGAS-CONDITIONING.COM

Founders Jason Miller and Dr. Jaron Hansen with Lee Hansen and their Biogas Conditioning System technology, created under the company AD Tec, have been around the block (they incorporated in 2009 and completed their first installation at an Ogden dairy in 2010). What exactly they do is more than a little complicated. UCAIR probably puts it into layman’s terms the best, describing the invention as “a system that filters hydrogen sulfide and siloxane contaminants from by-product bio-methane gas at county sewage plants. When the gas is then burned, fewer PM2.5 particulates are spread into the air which may improve air quality by 5% along the Wasatch Front.” We look forward to more of these being implemented around the valley, and hopefully soon.

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SCIENCE

Citizen scientist Adrian Dybwad monitors our environment using the internet of things

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drian Dybwad (pron. Dyb-wad), from South Africa, settled on the north bench of Draper, Utah in 2008 to follow his passion for hang gliding. Dybwad was drawn to this world-renowned bluff and home of Point of the Mountain Flight Park, not only by the ideal weather and geographic conditions for his sport, but also for the area’s large closeknit hang-gliding community.

Second only to Kennecott Point of the Mountain is also home to Geneva Rock Products, among the state’s lead-

BY ELISABETH LUNTZ more than 20 gravel pits in northern Utah, the one at the Point of the Mountain is among the worst because of its proximity to a large and growing population. Since 1990, the nearby communities of Draper, Bluffdale, Riverton, Alpine, Highland and Lehi have grown by more than 400%.

Geneva has made moves to improve the local air quality and shore up support. They purchased 24 compressed natural gas redi-mix cement trucks and donated materials for the landing targets for a national hang gliding competition. However, this doesn’t change the fact that, as Dybwad says, “you can taste the dust.”

The same consistent wind that makes Point of the Mountain such a great hang-gliding location on most days also blows dust out of the mine and into Salt Lake and Utah County airsheds (depending on which way the wind is blowing) where the state’s highest concentration of people live.

Dybwad says that in 2013, when Geneva applied for a rezoning that would have doubled the size of the Point of the Mountain mine, Draper citizens took it upon themselves to launch an investigation of Geneva's operations.

They found, among other things, that Geneva had been operating outside the boundaries of their permit. (This was not out of character. In 2007 Geneva received the largest fine in Utah at the time, $1.7 million, for uncontrolled dust.)

The state issued a cease and desist order.

Citizen science to the rescue

ing producers of crushed stone, sand and gravel used for roads and building materials.

The air quality surrounding the area is extremely compromised due to dust.

Geneva may be second only to Kennecott in contributing mining dust to Valley air. With

The Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) has sparsely distributed monitoring stations for reading air quality. These stations meet federal monitoring requirements and are costly for a variety of reasons. But because their distribution is spread out, they lack detailed pollution gradient information within cities and only two stations in all of Salt Lake County provide hourly PM2.5 levels (even short term pollutant exposure has been shown to have negative health impacts). Dybwad reasoned that to fill in the air quality information grid, widely dis-

tributed networks of low-cost air quality sensors could help create a higher resolution and locally representative image of our air quality.

“That information is valuable for everything from managing health risks to deciding where to live, vacation and do business,” he says.

Curiosity led Dybwad to purchase a small, inexpensive particle sensor and start playing with it.

With some college level electronics, self- taught web programming, data base design, and experience in high tech ventures, he began to explore the possibility of connecting a particle sensor and a temperature/humidity/pressure sensor to the internet with a Wi-Fi chip. This is referred to as the “internet of things,” where physical objects like vehicles or buildings, embedded with electronics such as sensors, collect and exchange data via the internet.

As he found more people interested in air monitoring, he created a unit that would allow them to not only see their individual readings but also automatically upload that data to the web. The first request to install a unit came from Mountain Green in Morgan County. Within days, he installed a second one in Bluffdale, one of the down-wind cities that get the brunt of the pollution from Geneva Rock. After the first prototypes were deployed, he upgraded the design to include not one, but two sensors so that two streams of sensory data are coming from each unit; if a discrepancy is found in the readings, it would indicate hardware failure requiring that the unit be either cleaned, repaired or replaced. The primary goal is the accuracy of the data, stresses Dybwad. “Trusting the data is the most important thing.”

After about 15 monitors were in the field, he responded to a program run by South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) in southern California that tests for data reliability of inexpensive monitors compared to federally compliant ones. SCAQMD is the air pollution control agency for some of the smoggiest regions in

the United States. Dybwad’s sensors scored highly, with 90% or better correlation for PM2.5 against Federal Equivalent Methods for comparison.

Particle sensors measure the dimensions and the mass of particles but they don’t directly identify the chemical make-up of the particles.

In 2013, Dybwad and other clean air advocates, including Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, had a sample of the dust from the gravel pit tested by ALS laboratories. Analysis revealed significant contamination with crystalline silica (similar to asbestos in its health effects) and heavy metals, especially uranium and arsenic.

Activist and entrepreneur As he pursued his interest in monitoring air quality, Dybwad realized the growing demand for this kind of information. He founded Purple Air in October of 2015, pri-

marily a website for data sharing.

Dybwad, Purple Air’s sole employee, provides many monitors for free to schools and has also begun selling his air quality monitors enhanced with wifi capabilities.

However, the actual product is more than the sensors; it's the data.

Today, the Purple Air network is comprised of over 250 monitors (located in Utah, Colorado, Texas, Florida, California, Idaho, British Columbia, Ontario and even one in Russia). The data is available to researchers for a variety of uses from university projects to medical studies and is available free of charge.

An up-to-the-minute map on the website shows the locations of all air monitors. You can also now buy a sensor ($180). You may also be eligible to “host” an air sensor (Purple Air maintains ownership of the device); contact Dybwad via the website PURPLEAIR.ORG. Dybwad shares data with the

University of Utah, which uses his data to help them understand sensor reliability in their effort to bring low-cost air quality sensors and teaching modules to high school and middle school classrooms along the Wasatch Front. University of Utah chemical engineering professors Kerry Kelly and Tony Butterfield plan to bring the lesson to 50 Salt Lake Valley schools this Spring.

Dybwad says, “I think it’s fantastic to show kids how incredible things can be done quite easily with modern technology.”

It’s also inspiring to see that one man turned his curiosity and concern into passion and purpose, creating a tool that, in time, will benefit us all. ◆ Elisabeth Luntz studied social ecology and cognitive science at the University of California. Her story on prison reform appeared in the February 2017 issue of CATALYST. For more info on Dybwad’s air sensors: PURPLEAIR.ORG

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he World Health Organization estimates that in 2012, 3.7 million people died as a result of ambient air pollution.

Smaller particulates, on the order 2.5 microns are particularly damaging, as they permeate deep into the lungs.

In many areas of Utah this is especially problematic as PM2.5 levels exceed national standards for sustained periods of days to weeks. In 2009 Logan, Provo and Salt Lake City areas were designated non-attainment zones for failing to meet federal fine particulate standards. Failing to make improvements by the December 2015 deadline, Utah is now the first state in the country to be elevated to “serious” status.

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LETTER: CULTURAL APPROPRIATION January CATALYST’s cover was controversial for some

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CATALYST, Thanks for providing a forum for alternative voices here in Utah.

I’m a Mexican-American/Punjabi man who was raised mostly in Utah, as an other-than-Mormon, other-than-White and other-thanRepublican.

Cultural appropriation has been called out to white people as a racist practice so many times I feel bummed to have to remind CATALYST of the lesson, but I sincerely want CATALYST to be a radicalizing force in Utah, and to improve, so I’m going to call it out: Your January 2017 magazine cover is racist.

White people don’t get to wear pretty fashion items or styles from cultures who they are actively colonizing, impoverishing and shooting with their armies (see: DAPL), let alone cultures they’ve historically murdered in order to steal their land (and in the case of Utah, totally pollute the crap out of it once they have it). It’s racist and insensitive.

In case Utah’s white settler culture has forgotten, it was in January, about 150 years ago, that colonist armies literally shot Shoshone families while they slept, and threw their infants in the freezing cold river while the mothers wept and were shot to death. This pivotal act of genocide (now referred to as the Bear River Massacre) where hundreds of families were murdered in cold blood, was how white settlers were able to “settle” northern “Utah” and southern “Idaho” unimpeded.

This is just one example among a million, of the atrocities that have been done by white Utahns to local indigenous people. Keep this present, and historical, context in mind, then look at your magazine cover again.

I’m not going to get into the criticism of the Indian (I’m talking the subcontinent now)style bindi, the face paint that is meant to appear “tribal” to the American imagination and the “smoke ceremony” elements of the photo. I just want to remind white settler culture that there are still people alive today who were imprisoned in concentration camps at Topaz, Utah. Racist genocide of brown bodies is recent Utah history.

Don’t forget.

A lot of folks have written about

cultural appropriation in detail.

Here’s a link APIHTAWIKOSISAN.COM/… / AN - OPEN - LET TER -TO - NON - NATIVES …/ that has good info in it.

In the meantime, I’m going to offer up an easy test for white Utahns the next time they want to incorporate elements of a historically-oppressed-by-whitesettlers culture. It can be easier for white America to identify racism when you substitute the American context for Germany, the white settler with a German, and the non-white culture with Jewish culture.

So for example: if we were in Germany, could a non-Jewish German model wear a Jewish yamaka because it evokes something “spiritual” or cool to her?

This also applies to things like the University of Utah’s use of “Utes” and its iconography. If we were in Germany, could a German university with hardly any Jewish students at all call their sports team The Jews and use a big letter “J” wrapped in a prayer shawl as their sports logo?

I suggest that the next time you have the good impulse to feature something indigenous on your cover, you actually holler at the Shoshone people. They’re still here!

Thank you for listening. Big hugs to you.

Gabe Dominguez

Dear Gabe, Thank you for your letter. We try to avoid being crass or thoughtless.

We loved the image on January’s cover as the Spirit of Snow, not an indigenous person. Native Americans who objected to this cover saw burning sage; we saw snow. (Our eyeballs are older and less dependable than yours.)

Either way, we’re sorry to those who took offense. It is hard to know the limits: Can we not offer prayers to Mother Earth? Greta’s FrenchCanadian fur-trapping Catholic ancestors probably didn’t do that. Is wearing silver and turquoise Indian jewelry or feather earrings disrespectful? If only Native Americans can wear feathers, how much Native American do you have to be?

Regarding your comment about the University of Utah Ute, we would like to point out that the University works closely with local tribal leaders who have given the school permission to use the Ute icon. Part of their agreement for use of the Ute is maintaining a scholarship fund for local American Indians. With that in mind, this cannot be considered an example of insensitive appropriation.

But the critical point, and the one we will take home, is that it’s time for white people shut up and listen when such objections are raised. Just listen. No explaining, no justifying. You’ve probably heard it all before, anyway. As St. Francis wrote, “Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.”

Again, thanks for writing.

—Katherine Pioli and Greta deJong, CATALYST editors

SHOWING UP

The Air Protector Pledge:

SLC Air Protectors

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Meet Salt Lake City’s newest activist organization CAT PALMER

I pledge to Protect the Air and the Natural Environment by promoting and/or participating in all the official actions of the SLC Air Protectors that align with my personal standards.

I pledge to Lead by Example in my personal and public life and to do what is in my power to reduce pollution and make a Positive Impact.

I pledge to be Solution-Focused and cooperate with like-minded members of the community for the greater good regardless of culture, race, religion, gender orientation, or political affiliation.

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he SLC Air Protectors, inspired

by Standing Rock, is a Native American-led inclusive organization to recruit volunteers, raise awareness, perform community service, support existing initiatives, and take direct action that will address the on-going air pollution crisis in Utah.

SLC Air Protectors core principles are:

Environmental protection • Taking action and leading by example • Solution-focused • Cooperation and inclusion.

The Protectors Action Network is a member-directed, decentralized system that enables resilient communities to better protect themselves from risks to the environment and vulnerable members of society. It depends on feedback to evolve to fit the needs of each locality. Our network is operated on

the principles of Native leadership and is connected by the common thread of the Air Protectors Pledge: Join our email list or visit our website to officially register for our Protectors Action Network. ◆ CONTACT US: iNFO@SLCAIRPROTECTORS.ORG Ph: 801-7225865; WWW.SLCAIRPROTECTORS.ORG/PROTECTORS-ACTION-NETWORK-REGISTRATION.HTML.

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YOGA

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mated 23,000 breaths you take each day, are keeping you alive.

Give your heart some gratitude.

Give your body some gratitude

BY CHARLOTTE BELL

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he past few years have given me a bit of a wakeup call. My body, which has always been very low maintenance, has been sending me a big message: “Stop taking me for granted!”

Almost two years ago, my left hip was replaced because of hip

Take time to acknowledge your body when it’s working right, not just when it’s giving you trouble.

displaysia. At the end of December I had my right one replaced.

I’m now bilaterally bionic.

On the first day of an 18-day meditation retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center last summer, I received a diagnosis of earlystage breast cancer. I was fortunate in two ways: It was detected very, very early and didn’t require a lot of radical treatment. And I

was in the perfect setting to receive the news. While I experienced the appropriate anxiety and unhappiness, my mind didn’t add any drama. In fact, I experienced a whole lot of equanimity around my diagnosis. It seems that 30 years of meditation have paid off.

For many years I took this body for granted. I didn’t visit a doctor for 25 years. Nothing happened to my body that I couldn’t take care of through natural means.

But bodies change. As we age, they require more TLC. No matter how well you eat, or how much yoga you practice, bodies wear out. We all carry different genetic seeds, and are subject to different environmental factors, so the process looks different for each person. But even as our bodies change and become higher maintenance, we can still appreciate the many joys we experience through these bodies every day.

Importance of gratitude Studies have found that cultivating gratitude actually confers health benefits. A 2015 article in Newsweek cited five proven benefits:

1. More hope and health 2. Improved sleep quality 3. Increased self-esteem 4. Increased helpfulness and empathy 5. Increased resilience Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that appreciation of our bodies—not only when we are experiencing pleasant sensations, but at the times when things are just going along as usual—can be a source of happiness. He says, “If we are not aware that we are happy, we are not really happy. When we have a toothache, we know that not having a toothache is a wonderful thing. But when we do not have a toothache, we are still not happy. A nontoothache is very pleasant.” We can practice gratitude for those times when we don’t have a toothache— or any other maladies.

Ways to love the body you live in: • According to the Mayo Clinic our hearts beat an average of 60 to 100 times per minute, which translates to 86,400 to 144,000 beats per day. If you’re reading this, your heart is doing just that. It, along with the esti-

• Your eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin allow you to enjoy the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations of our world. Of course, one or more of these senses may lose acuity over time. But you can appreciate them for the window they give you into the rest of the world all day long.

• Your nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory and reproductive systems all contribute to your body’s normal, healthy function. Often we don’t pay much attention to the body until something goes wrong.

Take time to acknowledge your body when it’s working right, not just when it’s giving you trouble.

• If you practice yoga, be grateful that you have the means to travel to a class, get onto the floor and get back up. Be grateful that you get to experience the practice we all love through the body that gets you there.

• Give your body a nice, long Savasana after you practice yoga. It takes 10-15 minutes for your body to achieve physiological relaxation after physical activity. Savasana allows you to integrate the energies you cultivate in your asana practice. Give your body the time it needs to recover and replenish itself.

Each day I walk at least a mile, to break in my new hip. A car on my street displays a bumper sticker that reads, “Eat well, exercise and die anyway.” While I appreciate the irony, the fact that we will someday die is a given. Treating your body with kindness and appreciation will not make you immortal. But maybe it will allow you to live the balance of your life with ease. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several yoga-related books and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City.

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Abode • Psychotherapy & Personal Growth • Retail • Spiritual Practice Health & Bodywork • Movement & Sport • Psychic Arts & Intuitive Sciences ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Schneider Auto Karosserie 5/17

801.484.9400, f 801.484.6623, 1180 S. 400 W., SLC. Utah’s first green body shop. Making customers happy since 1984! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in SLC. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll act as your advocate with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty.

WWW.SCHNEIDER AUTO.NET

DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION Ann Larsen Residential Design DA 10/17

801.604.3721. Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary. Consultation and design of new homes, additions, remodeling, decks and outdoor structures. Experienced, reasonable, references.

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GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors DA 11/17

801.467.6636, 1900 S. 300 W., SLC. We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood.

Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom.

WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM

HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/17

801.595.8824, 380 West 200 South, #101, SLC. Founded in 2001 by Babs De Lay, Urban Utah Homes & Estates

is an independent real estate brokerage. Our experienced realtors have skill sets to help first time to last time buyers and sellers with residential sales, estate liquidations of homes & property, land sales, new construction and small business sales. WWW.URBANUTAH.COM

PETS Best Friends - Utah DA 9/17

801.574.2454, 2005 S. 1100 E., SLC. Utah is working collaboratively with animal rescue groups, city shelters and passionate individuals dedicated to making Utah a no-kill state. As part of this mission, Best Friends hosts adoption and fundraising events, runs the Best Friends Utah Adoption Center in Sugar House and leads the NKUT initiative. WWW.BESTFRIENDS.ORG

Desert Raw Holistic Pet 12/17

385.999.1330, 1330 Foothill Dr., SLC. Alternative pet store, feeding pets real food designed for their bodies. We provide healthy, organic dog, cat, and chicken food, including raw, dehydrated, and high-end kibble. We also sell high-quality supplements (including CBD), toys, pet supplies, and gift items. Regular community-outreach teaching about pet nutrition.

WWW.DESERTRAW.COM

DINING Café Solstice DA 3/17

801.487.0980, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. (inside Dancing Cranes). Loose teas, specialty coffee drinks and

herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, bummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing violet mocha or mango & basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch.

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801.355.3425, 900 E. 900 S. and 254 S. Main, SLC. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.

Cucina6/17

801.322.3055, 1026 2nd Ave., SLC. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Patio seating available. Dine in, carry out.

Chef Joey Ferran provides an exciting culinary experience! Fresh bread, desserts and pastries daily. Huge wine list and the best small plate menu in town (for dinner too!). Let us cater your next event. www.CucinaDeli.com

Oasis Cafe DA 11/17

801.322.0404,151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual

stylish dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more. WWW.OASISCAFESLC.COM

HEALTH & BODYWORK APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 1/18

801.613.2128, 619 S. 600 W. Salt Lake's primier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount.

Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas.

Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM

ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/17

801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy. Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM

SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/17

801.521.3337, 177 E. 900 S., Ste. 101, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends.

Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress dis-

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orders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism and more.

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CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 11/17

801.907.1894, Dr. Suzanne Cronin, 1088 S. 1100 E., SLC. Have you heard, Salt Lake Chiropractic is the least invasive way to increase your quality of life. Our gentle, efficient, affordable care can reduce pain & improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment.

WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM

ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/17

801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life.

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Reveal, Jennifer A. Beaumont M.F.A.

801-949-6048 Are you ready to Reveal your true potential? Let me help you interpret the messages your soul is sending. Intuitive guidance and energy work from an experienced healer in a professional environment. 1399 S 700 E JENNIFERABEAUMONT 76@ GMAIL . COM

SoulPathmaking with Lucia Gardner, LMT, BCC, PC

801.631.8915. Individual SessionsEnergetic Bodywork; Spiritual Counseling for losses and transitions; Emotional Expression with Paint. SoulCollage® Circle-1st and 3rd Mondays 5:30-8:30 pm. Womb Wellness Workshops for women.

Retreats in the Pacific Northwest come meet the whales! 40+ years experience caring for the Soul.

LUCIAWGARDNER@HOTMAIL.COM. WWW.S OUL PATHMAKER . COM

11/17 FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP8/17--

801.580.9484, 1390 S. 1100 E., SLC. “Movement is Life, without Movement, Life is unthinkable,” Moshe Feldenkrais. Carol trained personally with Dr. Feldenkrais and has over 30 years experience. When you work with her, you can expect your movement to be more comfortable, less painful and definitely more aware. Offering private sessions & classes.

WWW.CAROLLESSINGER.COM, CAROLLESSINGER@GMAIL.COM

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801.694.4086, Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM

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Healing Mountain Massage School 11/17 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek balance in their lives…balance and meaningful expression. Massage is a compassionate art. It helps find healing & peace for both the giver and receiver. Whether you seek a new vocation or balm for your wounded soul, you can find it here. www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM

Amazing Massage by Jennifer Rouse, LMT

801.808.1283, SLC. Your body needs this! Jennifer offers a massage personalized just for you. Her firm, focused approach will help you detox, release tension and maintain great health. 60, 90 or 120 minute sessions, $80/hour.

Call or text to discuss time and location.

M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #204,

SLC. Integrative Medicine Family Practitioner who utilizes functional medicine.

He specializes in the treatment of chronic fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestive disorders, adrenal fatigue, menopause, hormone imbalances for men & women, weight loss, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, immune dysfunctions, thyroid disorders, insomnia, depression, anxiety and other health problems. Dr. Mangum designs personalized treatment plans using diet, vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, bioidentical hormones, Western and Chinese herbal therapies, acupuncture and conventional Western medicines. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/18

MEDICAL COACHING Successful Surgery and HealingFOG 949.648.4436. Successful Surgery and Heal-

ing: A Practical Guide for Patients, Caregivers and Advocates by Lori Mertz is the “how to” for anyone preparing for or recovering from surgery! Full of insights, organization tips & tools, checklists and more. Available at University Pharmacy (1320 E. 200 S., SLC), W W W .L ORI M ER TZ . COM and WWW.AMAZON.COM. Lori is also available for oneon-one coaching. We all need support! Start here.

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NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 11/17

801.486.4226. Dr. Todd Cameron & Dr. Jeannette Daneals, Naturopathic Physicians. 1945 S. 1100 E. #100.

When you visit the Cameron Wellness Center, you’ll have new allies in your health care efforts. You’ll know you’ve been heard. You’ll have a clear, individual plan for gaining health and wellness. Our practitioners will be with you through your journey to

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Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/17

801.474.3684. Uli Knorr, ND, 3350 S. High land Dr., SLC. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medi cine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing op tions. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders & food allergies.

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NUTRITION Sustainable Diets 8/17

801.831.6967. Teri Underwood, RD, MS, CD, IFMCP, Park City. Integrative and Functional Medicine Nutritionist.

After a functional nutrition assessment, Teri recommends a food-based individualized treatment approach that includes: a diet plan, functional foods, nutrition improvement, supplements and testing if needed, and lifestyle changes. She specializes in behavior change and guides/coaches you through making the lifestyle/ habit changes needed to lose weight, change diet, reach optimal health.

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PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 3/17

801.557.6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT, 3098 S. Highland Dr., Ste. 350F, SLC. (Also in Heber City.)

Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). This unique modality offers gentle, effective techniques for identifying and treating sources of pain and tissue dysfunction. IMT assists the body with selfcorrective mecahnisms that alleviate pain, restore mobility and promote functional balance. More information:WWW.PRECISIONP HYSICALT HERAPY UT. COM

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 5/16

1.800.230.PLAN, 801.532.1586.

Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for STIs including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. WWW.PPAU.ORG

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Deva Healing Center A Sanctuary for Women11/17

928.899.9939, 2605 E. 3000 South, 2nd Floor. Relieve and heal stress, anxiety, depression and chronic pain. We offer Therapeutic Thai Bodywork, Yoga Therapy and Yoga Therapy for Couples. Sliding scale starts at $45.

Same day appointments available.

Book online today! DEVAHEALINGCENTER.ORG.

MISCELLANEOUS CAUSES Center for Awakening 10/17

801.500.1856, 191 E. Greenwood Ave., Midvale. Center for Awakening is a 501C3 volunteer run organization offering community fundraising events for global causes. Be a part of the peaceful human rEvolution.

Monthly meditations, 1st Sunday of each month. WWW.C ENTER F OR AWAKEN ING . COM

ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 1/18

801.878.0530, 638 S. State Street, SLC. A 21 and over, 300 capacity live music venue, presenting nationally acclaimed musicians and the finest local acts. WWW.T HE S TATE R OOM . COM

Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center

801.746.7000, 122 Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striveing to bring community together through film. UFC curates and organizes three film festivals a year: Tumbleweeds for children & youth, the only festival of its kind in the Intermountain West; Damn These Heels, a forum exploring LGBT issues, ideas, hopes, dreams and art; and TiltShift, organized by and for teens just beginning to discover their artistic potential.

WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG DA11/17

LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/17 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals.

WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM

MEDIA CATALYST Magazine 801.363.1505, 140 S. McClelland St., SLC. Catalyst: Someone or something that causes an important event

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spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM

KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC.

801.661.1200, 3474 S. 2300 E., Studio #12 (behind Roots Café), Millcreek. Vitalize Community Studio supports a number of independent practitioners and community organizations offering a wide variety of classes, gatherings, and workshops with an emphasis on connection, movement, and transformation. Join one of our ongoing classes or facilitate your own. Be Creative – It’s Your Space. For more information: WWW.VITALIZESTUDIO.COM, VITALIZEMILLCREEK@GMAIL.COM 2/17

Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG

NON-PROFIT Local First 12/16 801.456.1456. We are a not-for-profit

organization that seeks to strengthen communities and local economies by promoting, preserving and protecting local, independently owned businesses throughout Utah. Organized in 2005 by volunteer business owners and community-minded residents, Local First Utah has over 2,700 locally owned and independent business partners. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG

Red Butte Garden

801.585.0556, 300 Wakara Way, SLC. Red Butte Botanical Garden, located on the University of Utah, is the largest botanical garden in the Intermountain West, renowned for plant collections, display gardens, 450,000 springtime blooming bulbs, a worldclass outdoor summer concert series, and award-winning horticulturebased educational programs.

WWW.R ED B UTTE G ARDEN . ORG

SPACE FOR RENT Studio space available to share at Baile Dance Fitness Studio 5/17

801.718.9620, 2030 S. 900 E. Opportunity to share a beautiful studio in a desirable Sugarhouse location. Perfect for Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, dance classes, meet ups or pop-ups. 1300 sq. ft, with mirrored wall. Availability varies but can be flexible with a committed arrangement. Contact Joni. WWW.BAILESTUDIO.COM BAILESTUDIO.JONI@GMAIL.COM

Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/17

801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush

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TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/17

Wills • Trusts Conservatorships Guardianships and Probate Penniann J. Schumann, JD, LL.M

www.estateplanningforutah.com penni.schumann@comcast.net Tel: 801-631-7811 2150 S. 1300 E., Ste 500, Salt Lake City, Ut 84106

801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/18

801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070.

Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans, investing & life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW.H AR RINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School

SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs.

Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify.

WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU DA 11/17

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MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School

801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+).

WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG 12/17

MARTIAL ARTS Aikitaiji 8/17

Instruction offered in Aikitaiji, a twopoint perspective on soft martial art.

Since 1980 Jack Livingston has taught Tai Chi Push-hands, enhanced with Aikido techniques, the classic forms and functional applications (following biomechanical principles) and ki triggers to cue the flow state on demand..

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No love for that big ol’ house ?

Swooning for a CONDO ?

Babs De Lay, Broker 801.201.8824 Realtor Urban Utah Homes and Estates babs@urbanutah 33 years selling condos

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No butts about it

Your cigarettes kill everything

BY UMBRA FISK

Dear Umbra, I’m a full-time environmental activist living on an anti-aviation protest camp. When I first came here, I was shocked by the number of environmentalists who smoke tobacco. I’ve always had a suspicion that tobacco has a fairly large environmental footprint. Can you confirm or deny this?

Ru R. Sipson, UK Dearest Ru, Have I ever told you about the year I spent living in a juniper bush to protest the treatment of banana slugs? I hope your protest is more effective than mine was. And less itchy. Write in again sometime to let me know how it’s going.

As to your actual question: To nonsmokers, the decision to light up a cigarette day

Tobacco agriculture is bad news for pretty much everything in close proximity — water, air, soil and human beings. after day can be baffling. I mean, tobacco kills up to half of its users: Can you imagine anyone buying a car, a lawnmower, a plate of sushi, any other product with that kind of safety record?

But we’d do well to remember that nicotine is one of the most highly addictive substances on the planet. No matter why someone began smoking, chances are he wants to quit — he just can’t. So it would be kind of us to cut your chainsmoking compatriots a little slack.

But I agree that it makes even less sense for a dedicated environmental activist to smoke than for your average consumer. Because it’s as you suspected, Ru: Tobacco has a mighty environmental footprint.

Tobacco grows on more than 10 million acres across 125 countries. China is the leading source these days, producing more than 40% of the world’s tobacco crop. And everyone who smokes—in 2012 alone, 967 million people puffed 6.25 trillion cigarettes—participates in a deadly, toxic industry littered with pesticides, clearcut forests, chemical waste and a whole lotta plastic cigarette butts.

In case you’re hazy on exactly how tobacco mucks up our planet as well as our lungs, here’s a peek at a few of the less savory things it does, from production to disposal.

Grows in a bath of toxic chemicals. Tobacco is a rather finicky crop, so its cultivation involves lots and lots of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. Each year, 27 million pounds of pesticides are sprayed on tobacco in the United States alone. Commonly used ’cides pollute groundwater, deplete the ozone layer, kill pollinating bees and cause cancer and other serious health risks to anyone who comes in contact with them. Farm workers in developing countries that lack stringent protections face the highest risk, some of them children.

Speaking of labor issues, tobacco is problematic even without all the pesticides: Workers are also at risk for green tobacco sickness, or nicotine poisoning that comes from handling wet plants. All in all, tobacco agriculture is bad news

for pretty much everything in close proximity — water, air, soil, and human beings.

Destroys trees. Producing carton after carton of cigs slashes through the world’s forests in two ways: by clearing land for tobacco fields and through the leaf-drying process, which uses wood fires to “cure” the leaves. According to the World Health Organization, 20 to 50 million trees meet the chainsaw every year to provide firewood for curing alone. And let’s not forget that right after someone sticks a cigarette between her lips, she needs a light; in many parts of the world that comes from a match, which contributes to the felling of up to 9 million trees per year. All this matters because when we lose trees, we lose — among other things — one of our best tools for improving air quality and combating climate change.

Leaves behind mountains of production and packaging waste. Turning tobacco into cigarettes produces tons of garbage, literally — somewhere in the ballpark of 45 million metric tons of solid waste and 4 million metric tons of chemical wastes are involved in this process, including ammonia, hydrochloric acid and toluene. According to the World Health Organization, the industry also produces 300 billion cellophane-wrapped cartons each year, leaving behind 1.8 million metric tons of probably-notrecyclable garbage.

Pollutes the air. All the smoke wafting from those trillions of cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals — some of them radioactive, many of them carcinogenic, and all of them enough to make cigarette smoke a bona fide air pollutant.

Litters our beaches, sidewalks and parks. If you’ve ever gone for a barefoot stroll in the sand only to wind up with a lipstick-stained cigarette butt between your toes, you’ll feel me on this one. They look small, but cigarettes are the number-one piece of litter across the globe. They account for about a third of all litter in the U.S., and over there in the U.K. people toss more than 1,200 metric tons of them each year. Besides being gross to look at, cigarette butts leach heavy metals and other toxins into the surrounding environment and can poison curious animals and kids. If you must smoke, please dispose of your trash properly, people.

In short, Ru, you’re right about cigarettes. Your fellow protesters likely already know the health risks, but perhaps tobacco’s threat to the very environment they’re fighting for will be just the motivation they need to quit.

Nicotianaly, 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.

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Red Lotus School of Movement 12/17

801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner.

Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple.

WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET

MEDITATION PRACTICES Meditation SLC 10/17

801.913.0880. 2240 E. 3300 S. Apt. 10.

We offer meditation classes and gatherings in an environment that is fun, relaxing, and comfortable. Learn an 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG

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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

Astrology Lovers: Looking for a class?

Christopher Renstrom, professional astrologer, 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!

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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

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/

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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.ASCENTINTEGRATIVE THERAPY.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 "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

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.

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Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/17

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

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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/17

801.657.3330. 265 E. 100 S., Ste. 275, SLC. 15+ years experience specializ-

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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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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.

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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.

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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

help you create your sanctuary.

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

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

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

iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 2/18

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

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 cir-

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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.

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INSTRUCTION The Diamond Approach 8/17

801.839.6418, 1399 S. 700 E., SLC. Diamond Approach, the work of A. H. Almaas, is a journey of uncovering the deepest truth of who we are beneath all the layers of social conditioning and cultural expectations. An on going group meets each Thursday. Diamond Approach Workshop: March 16-19. Call for time and place.

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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.

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Get a jump on Spring with

Cover Crops

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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ithin days of last month’s thaw, I was in the garden.

Overwintered spinach and kale have repeatedly filled my plate and my belly. Some of the sweetest carrots I’ve ever had have been pulled straight from their winter slumber party. But while I have a handful of harvestable crops, there’s still plenty of bare, lonely soil just begging for some action.

Nature abhors bare soil, and will do her best to quickly cover it. I’m always keen to mimic her brilliance, and I always try to maximize every inch of sunlight that beams down from above. Plants are constantly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and pumping it down into the soil in the form of exudates to feed microbial life. Bare soil is being bombarded by UV rays, losing carbon and degrading soil life. Make sure you’re on Nature’s team and plant some cover this spring.

Serious gardeners are planting frost-tolerant cold weather crops now: spinach, peas, onions, radishes, broccoli, cabbage, kohlrabi and turnips. But our heat-loving favorites— tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more— won’t be planted for a full eight to 10 weeks.

The second option is to “chop and drop” them, cutting them just below the surface of the soil with a shovel, then allowing the plants to remain on the surface as a great mulch layer.

The roots that remain will serve to add organic matter and the above-ground foliage saves you the work of purchasing and hauling mulch.

For either of these techniques, the most effective time to cull the cover is when the plants first begin to flower (or two to three weeks before the following crop). Be extremely cautious about letting cover crops go to seed, lest their blessed vigor become a curse.

Even if you only get a modest amount of growth from these spring crops before turning them in, the benefits are well worth the effort of simply spreading a little seed.

Even if you only get a modest amount of growth from these spring crops before turning them in, the benefits are well worth the effort of simply spreading a little seed.

Now is a key time to reactivate your soil by planting that bare ground with cover crops.

Also referred to as green manure, cover cropping is one of the most powerful, yet underutilized techniques for the home gardener. Simply put, a cover crop is any plant grown for a purpose other than the garden’s usual output, food.

Weed suppression, nitrogen fixation and increased organic matter are primary benefits. You can literally grow your own fertilizer and mulch layer with a well-timed cover crop planting, and planting now means you can make use of seasonal spring rains to get it done.

Select a quick-growing and frost-tolerant species. These will add biomass if we decide to “turn them in,” the process of chopping them just below the soil surface with a shovel, then lightly turning them under to bury them.

They’ll be consumed by the microbes, worms, and arthropods, increasing organic matter and liberating the nutrients they once contained.

If utilizing this strategy, make sure to allow a full two or three weeks after turning in a cover crop to allow for sufficient decomposition before following with another planting.

Here are a few options for early spring cover crops. I tend to do a mix of all of them.

Spring oats: Oats are a quick-growing crop, excellent at scavenging nutrients and accumulating biomass. An excellent “nurse crop” for legumes (such as field peas), they create a symbiotic relationship when grown together.

Oats can germinate in soils as cold as 38 degrees F, making them one of the earliest cover crops we can get in the ground. Oats do not tolerate heat.

Annual ryegrass: A quick grower and excellent weed suppressor, rye is fantastic at storing cycled nutrients and is one of my favorite cover crops to chop and drop. Rye performs well in poor soils and also as a nurse crop for legumes. Plant anytime the soil is at least 40 degrees F. Field peas: Peas are a legume, a class of plant that fixes nitrogen from the air and banks it in the soil. The classic field pea is often a cow pea, sometimes a blend of several species, but any type of pea will work.

It’s often difficult to get a good crop of peas finished in time to follow with an immediate summer planting by Mother’s Day weekend.

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terminate tomatoes would still have plenty of time. Beans are also legumes, so following peas with beans is a great strategy for maximizing nitrogen fixation.

Rhizobium inoculants for legumes are inexpensive and easy to use. They’re not always necessary in well-maintained soil, but if you haven’t broken your unhealthy addiction to the rototiller, you would be wise to treat your seed.

Aside from fixing nitrogen, peas break down incredibly easily once turned in, and the growing tops are edible as well.

Clover: Medium red clover or white clover is for those of you who need an “I’m traveling this summer and won’t have time to garden” solution. It is perennial, and provides the most benefit when allowed to grow into the second season. A legume, like peas and beans, it’s also fantastic habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators. Clover helps break up compacted soils, ruthlessly suppresses weeds once it is established, mines subsoil nutrients and is quite tolerant of shade. If you don’t have time to maintain your garden, you have the most to benefit from a clover cover crop! ◆ James Loomis is the Green Team farm manager for Wasatch Community Gardens.

Artwork courtesy Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/organicgardening/cover-crops-improve-soil-zmaz09onzraw Illustrations by Elayne Sears

HEALTHY CITY

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“Greener” grass for SLC’s parks?

The Healthy Babies Bright Futures project catalyzes a plan to reduce landscape toxins

BY JANE LYON (HBBF), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit working to reduce the amount of chemical exposure experienced by children from in utero to age two. Increased exposure to the neuro-

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The survey will help the Department of Sustainability gauge how people feel on this issue and indicate how quickly the city can transition away from chemicals.

ost people these days would agree that chemical exposure is generally bad for our bodies, but putting that knowledge into practice, by taking away some of those chemicals that create the world we are used to, often experiences resistance. Take, for example, when a former director of Parks and Pubic Lands for Salt Lake City was interested in re-evaluating the ways in which chemicals are used in the parks.

She placed a moratorium on all herbicide and pesticide sprays for several city-maintained

lawns for three years. Absolutely no chemicals, not even organics, would be used. The result was that these parks, with soils weakened by years of chemical treatments, became immediately overwrought with dandelions. The weed takeover caused a citizen outcry. The moratorium ended early and the use of herbicides and pesticides was resumed.

Salt Lake City is beginning a new initiative to reduce chemical use on city properties, only this time they aren’t quitting cold turkey. The impetus is Healthy Babies Bright Futures

The wild wisdom of dandelions This year, pick and eat them!

Every part of the dandelion is a reason to celebrate, according to biologist, holistic health educator, wild plant expert and author Katrina Blair. In her latest book, The Wild Wisdom of Weeds (2014: Chelsea Green), she writes:

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he perennial plant returns each year from the same root, and even from a partial root. This is a marvelous example of nature working in the currency of abundance.

The deep dandelion taproots maintain a loose and spacious soil structure that enables earthworms to compost leaf debris. The dandelion absorbs minerals such as calcium, iron and potassium from the Earth into its leaves and ultimately into the topsoil when they are composted each year.

The spring dandelion flowers often bloom before the fruit trees and draw beneficial insects, such as ladybugs and honeybees, to begin pollinating the early blooms in the gardens and orchards. The

toxic chemicals found in herbicides and pesticides correlates with increased incidences of ADHD, behavioral problems, cognitive delays and low birth weight. Salt Lake City’s first project as an affiliate of HBBF is to reduce the use of neurotoxic herbicides and pesticides used in our parks.

Saying no to chemicals isn’t exactly a new concept. In her 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring, science writer Rachel Carson warned the world that spraying chemicals would bring the end of a vibrant planet Earth. Her main concern was

apricots and cherries are usually the first to risk exposing their flower to the early fluctuating temperatures, with peaches, pears, and apples following. After the dandelions mature beyond the flowering stage, the bees naturally shift all their focus to the flowering nectar of the gardens and orchards.

Dandelion is a storehouse of abundant nutritional value. The entire plant—roots, stems, flowers and leaves—is edible; the dandelion has everything required for humans to survive. Each part is composed of different amino acids, making the whole plant a complete protein.

Chinese medicine and India’s

ayurvedic medicine employ dandelion for health and beauty.. It is also used as food and medicine in Japan.

One cup of greens contains more vitamin A than any other green. They act as a digestive tonic assisting the breakdown of undigested proteins and fats. The bitter quality supports the secretion of bile and the digestive enzymes in the stomach.

The golden plant shares so much generosity in beauty, health and happiness, year after year.

Katrina Blair will visit Salt Lake City this spring to give a talk and guide a foraging walk. Check next issue for details.

DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichlo roethane), a synthetic insecticide that was used to fight insectborne human diseases. It became widely popular after World War II and was used massively by civilian populations in America.

Imagine a world with out bugs.

That was Carson’s fear. “They should not be called "insecticides," she wrote, but “biocides.” Earth is an elaborate web of systems working together. Layer the biosphere with chemicals and only a tragic loss of life can follow.

Chemists believed that DDT was harmless to humans and deadly only to insects, but Carson proved how the poison works its way through the food chain. The peregrine falcon was at high risk of extirpation. Carson found that eggs laid by the peregrine falcon had softer shells and the bird’s young were failing to thrive. At the top of the food chain, these birds were absorbing so much DDT from prey that their reproductive systems began to fail. Because of Rachel Carson, DDT was banned and the peregrine falcon was eventually taken off the endangered species list.

Bridget Stuchly, program manager of the city’s Sustainability Department, says the department is posting a survey on their SLCGOV.COM interface called Open City Hall. The survey will help gauge how people are feeling on this issue and indicate how quickly the city can transition away from chemicals.

Once the surveys are completed, the Department of Sustainability will form a campaign among neighborhoods to bring attention to the issue of chemical spraying and also to help people educate each other on the dangers of toxins, especially during the first 1,000 days of human life. We might begin to see signs with words like “toxinfree zone” in the front yards of people who have chosen to avoid chemical applications.

“This season we want to identify a couple of areas where we can do pilot tests to determine what will

work to maintain the aesthetic and the soil health long term,” says Stuchly. “The driving force is always what the citizens want.”

While this project starts with public parks it is most important in the home. Unfortunately, preventing the earliest exposure to chemicals for children is quite difficult since the source of early exposure is often breast milk (as well as commercially available baby formulas in which CDC tests have revealed perchlorate contam ination). Women are at much higher risk for carrying known neurotoxins than men, partially because women use more lotions and fragrance as well as feminine hygiene products that contain hidden toxins. Many of these chemicals stored in a mother’s body are passed to the baby, especially through breast-feeding— much like the female peregrine falcons passed poison to their vulnerable eggs. In fact, if women’s breast milk were bottled and tested most test results would show trace amounts of DDT, PCBs, dioxins, mercury, lead, benzene, arsenic and other chemicals and heavy metals.

While the Department of Sustainability can promote policies that reduce chemical use at the city level, it is up to us, as citizens and constituents, to reduce our use of chemicals and neurotoxins in our personal lives.

If you need some help knowing where to start, the app Detox Me can guide you through a chemical-free lifestyle makeover.

You can set goals for specific products you want to eliminate from your environment and every two weeks the app will check in with you to see if you have followed through and reward you with merit badges as you meet your goals. So while the city does its part to “detox” through the Healthy Babies Bright Futures program, we can do our part at home. ◆ To get more involved in community conversations and to add your opinion to the forum on public spraying, log onto SLCGOV.COM/OPENCITYHALL.

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Mar. 5: First Sunday Mindfulness Group @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 78:30p. Led by Charlotte Bell. Donations accepted. 223 S. 700 E. Mar. 6: Eleanor’s Secret: A Tumbleweeds Kids Movie @ Viridian Event Center. 4-5:30p. French with English subtitles. Ages 6+. A boy's new found ability to read not only sets his imagination free, but saves the day. Free.

8030 S. 1825 W, West Jordan.

Mar. 6: loveDANCEmore presents Mudson @ Marmalade Library. 7-9p.

Works in progress by Meagan Bertelsen, Katherine Call, Miriam Gileadi, Molly Heller, Jessica Liu, Kate Monson, and Erica Womack. Free. 280 W. 500 N. Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27: Spring Movie Series: Tom Hanks Classics @ Viridian Event Center. 7-9p. Every Monday in March.

Presented by the County .. Free admission, popcorn and activities before every screening. 8030 S. 1825 W, West Jordan.

Mar. 4: Kiki’s Delivery Service (film) @ The City Library. 11a-1p. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. A resourceful young witch uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 2: Water Trivia w/Seven Canyons Trust @ Squatters Brew Pub. 6-9p. Test your Wasatch water knowledge. Register in advance, arrive 15 minutes early. 21+. $20/team. 147 W. Broadway.

Mar. 2: Utah Presents “Radical Reels” @ Kingsbury Hall. 7-10p. Thrill ride of the hottest action sports films sure to get your adrenaline pumping. $10-14.

1395 E. Presidents Cir. Mar. 2: Turkuaz @ The State Room. 810p. Turkuaz is a 9-piece “Powerfunk” outfit from Brooklyn, NY. 21+. $15. 638 S. State St. Mar. 3: Fake News v. Real News @ Bingham Creek Library. 7-9p. This class will help you determine the difference between legitimate and illegitimate news.

Free. 4834 W. 9000 S, West Jordan.

Mar. 3: Heart-centered yoga class @ Centered City Yoga. 7:30-8:30p. Part of the University of Utah's Love Your Body Week. All levels, sizes, shapes and abilities welcome. Taught by Sarah Elizabeth Levitt and Erin Meyer.

Free. 926 E. 900 S. Mar. 3 : Eclipsed (play) @ Studio 115 U of U Theatre Dept. 7:30-10p. Based on the real life stories of the women and girls who helped bring peace to the African nation of Liberia during its second civil war, the first play with an allblack and female creative cast and team.

Panel discussion: March 9. Post-show discussion: March 10. $18. 240 S. 1500 E.

Mar. 3: Musicians of the Utah Symphony (MOTUS) After Dark @ O.P. Rockwell. 9-11p. Bringing classical music to the casual nightclub crowd.

Proceeds go to BLUME Haiti. 21+. $5 donation. 268 Main St. PC. Mar. 4: Tomato Propagation w/ Golden Reeves, ‘Tomato King’ @ Red Butte. 9a-1p. Plant and take home a flat of tomato and pepper seeds for germinating and three Wall O' Waters so tomatoes can be planted in your garden before the last frost. $53/43 garden members. 300 Wakara Way.

Mar. 7: The Cinema Traveler @ The City Library. 7-9p. Hindi and Marathi with English subtitles. Explores the world of the showmen who operate traveling tent cinemas that bring films to remote villages in India. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 7: Save Everything: Reflections of a Historian on Archives of the Future @ J. Willard Marriott Library. 7-9p.

For centuries, historians have been using primary source material preserved in archives—drawings, texts, artifacts of material culture, and more—to shape their narratives of the past. Free. 295 1500 E. Mar. 8: Meet Local Farmers at CSA Utah’s 2017 Open House @ Wheeler Historic Farm Activity Barn. 6-8p. A chance to comparison shop the seasonlong harvest share programs of several local farms. Free. 6351 S. 900 E, Murray.

Mar. 6, 20: Soulcollage Circle w/Lucia Gardner @ Milagro Art Studio. 5:308:30p. Every 1st & 3rd Mon. through May 15. Create a few or a whole deck of collaged cards that speak to your soul. No art experience necessary. $25-100. 923 S. Lake St. Mar. 7: Rumi Poetry Club @ AndersonFoothill Branch Library. 7-8:30p. A celebration of spiritual poetry. Free. 1135 S. 2100 E. Mar. 7: (in)active Mormon Women: An Ethnodrama @ Salt Lake Acting Company. 7-9p. Staged reading of play by Janice Jensen based on interviews with inactive Mormon women which explores the spiritual journey taken when they decided to leave the church. $15-42. 168 W. 500 N.

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Mar. 8: The Statesboro Revue w/ Special Guest Ghostowne @ The State Room. 8-11p. 21+. $10. 638 S. State.

Mar 8: Cameraperson @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. 7-9p. Post-film Skype Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson moderated by KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio. Free. 138 W. Broadway.

Mar. 4: Utah Democratic Party Candidate Training @ The Hotel RL by Red Lion Salt Lake. 9a-4:30p. For those interested in running, or considering running, for municipal offices in 2017.

Campaign managers, volunteers or other campaign staffers are invited to attend, even if you don't know whose campaign you'll be working on yet. $10. 161 W. 600 S. Mar. 4: Become a Certified Feng Shui Practitioner Group Teacher Training w/ Tina Falk. Saturdays through April.

Info: FENGSHUIVIA.ME Mar. 4: Art Goes Live @ Visual Art Institute. 6-9p. Fundraising gala. $75.

2901 S. Highland Dr. Mar. 5: Charity Bingo for the International Rescue Committee @ Beer Bar. 3-5:30p. $10 for 2 bingo cards.

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Mar. 6: Experience Hendrix @ Eccles Theatre. 7:30p. Hailed by critics and fans alike as the 'Guitar Event Of The Year.' Artists pay homage to Jimi Hendrix. $49103. 131 Main Street.

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 37 Mar. 8: Your Silence Will Not Protect You @ U of U Office for Equity and Diversity. 12:30-2p. An afternoon with Staceyann Chin - activist, artist, author.

Free. 201 Presidents Cir. Rm 204.

Mar. 9: Hivemind Bookclub w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen @ SL Public Library. 12-1p.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Sympathizer,' will read from and lead a discussion of the book. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 9: Utah Presents Brandon Stanton, creator of “Humans of New York” @ Kingsbury Hall. 12-3p. Free. 1395 Presidents Cir. Mar. 9: International Women’s Day Fashion Show @ The Leonardo. 5:308:30p. Fashions from Iraq, Burma, Congo, Somalia and many other nations. Ethnic food from refugee vendors, dancing, and speakers promoting diversity and equality. All proceeds go to refugee services. $40. 209 E. 500 S. Mar. 9: Jung Society: The Shadow Dance of the Feminine & Masculine w/Theresa Holleran @ U of U Student Union, Salt Air Room. 7-9p. Exploring the creative, transformative and visionary potential of the Conscious Feminine and Masculine within each of us. Donations welcome. 200 S. Central Campus Dr. Mar. 9: Jazz Joint—The Joe McQueen Quartet @ The Garage on Beck. 8-11p.

At age 96, Joe McQueen is Utah’s oldest actively performing musician and averages 50+ shows a year. His current quartet may be his most exciting and dynamic group to date. 21+. $5. 1199 N. Beck Street.

Mar. 9: Elephant Revival @ Park City Live. 8-11:30p. 21+. A folk music group from Nederland, Co., formed in 2006.

21+. $78. 427 Main St, Park City.

Mar. 10-12: Practicing Peace in Challenging Times @ Wasatch Retreat & Conference Center. A weekend of Buddhist teachings with visiting teacher Venerable Archarya Jigme Lama Sean D. Young. Donation. 75 S. 200 E. Mar. 10: Young Dubliners @ The Depot.

8-11p. 21+. $30/25adv. 400 W. S Temple.

Mar. 10: Jim Crow’s Tears: the Musical @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. 7:30-9:30p. Music and lyrics by Kris Johnson, book by Gary Anderson.

From slavery with its dehumanization to Minstrel Shows and its degradation, this musical transports you back in time when finding one's autonomy was an anomaly. $10-25. 138 W. 300 S.

Mar. 11: Family Art Saturday: Stop & Go @ UMOCA. 2-4p. Illustrate your own flipbook animation. 20 S West Temple.

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Mar. 11: The Settlers @ First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake. 7-9p. Jewish settlers in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the most daunting challenges facing Israel and the international community today. Free. 569 S. 1300 E. Mar. 11: Rasoul Sorkhabi speaks on Rumi @ Weller Book Works. 2-4p. Discussion: “The Great Persian Poet Rumi: Who He Was and Why He Matters.” Organized by Books and Bridges. Free.

607 E. Trolley Square.

Mar. 11: A Night With The Irish Poets @ St. Vincent De Paul Parish. 7-8p. Celebrate Irish history and heritage.

Hosted by the Hibernian Society of Utah. Free. 1375 E. Spring Ln. Mar. 11: Golden Dragon Acrobats @ Eccles Theater. 2-10p. Two performances: 2p & 8p. Live at the Eccles presents. $15-30. 131 S. Main St. Mar. 11: Worm composting workshop @ home of Jim French, Wasatch Community Gardens Worm Compost Site. 2-4p.

In-ground vermicomposting workshop launch. Free. 1604 E. Harvard Ave.

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Mar. 11, 25: Winter Market @ Rio Grande. 10a-2p. Every other Sat. Free.

300 S. Rio Grande St. Mar. 12: Purim in NYC! @ Chabad Lubavitch of Utah. 5-8p. Megillah Reading. Purim Dinner in New York deli style. Dancing. Live music by Deseret Wind. $15-30. 1760 S. 1100 E. Mar. 14: A Short History of Botanical Art @ Red Butte. 6-9p. Lecture by Elaine Hultgren, botanical art & illustration instructor. $13. 300 Wakara Way. Mar. 14: Navajo Math Circles @ The City Library. 7-9p. Directed by George Paul Csicsery. Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. Postfilm discussion with Dr. Hugo Rossi and Curtis Frazier. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 15: Utah Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Collaboration Luncheon @ Salt Lake Culinary Center w/ Utah Women’s Networking Group. Register by 3/13. $25-150. 2233 S. 300 E. Mar. 16: Creating Waterwise Park Strips @ Conservation Garden Park. 6:30-8p.

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CULTURE

Persian New Year

Celebrate an ancient rite of Spring

ooking for a way to celebrate spring? You might give Norooz (also spelled Nowruz), the celebration of the Persian New Year, a try. An ancient practice, traced back to the Zoroastrian religion and celebrated across the Persian Empire (and now around the world) for over 3,000 years, Norooz has some elements that might seem familiar to people of various faiths, Christian, Muslim and Jewish.

Hyacinths and painted eggs are common items found during the time of celebration and, as with the Jewish Sedar, the special foods of Norooz have strong cultural and seasonal symbolism: sabzeh, lentil sprouts grown in a dish symbolize rebirth; somaq, sumac berries symbolize the color of the sunrise; and serkeh, vinegar symbolizes age and patience.

For our city’s Iranian-American community, the celebration of Norooz in Utah has a long and healthy tradition. This month, for the first time, Eastern Arts, a group that celebrates the music, dance and traditions of the countries that once formed the Persian Empire, brings Norooz to all Utahns during a special public celebration on March 16, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (an event generously supported by the Utah Humanities, the National Folk Organization, UDAM, ZAP, and Salt Lake City Arts Council).

Katherine St. John, director of Eastern Arts, has long celebrated the holiday, though her own ancestry comes nowhere near the countries of Central Asia. An Irish-American raised Episcopalian in Minnesota and now a longtime Utah resident and convert to the LDS faith, St. John seems happy to prove through example that you don’t have to be of Persian descent to enjoy Norooz.

“I would say

Norooz is a secular holiday. Regardless of their faith people all across Central Asia and the Persian diaspora— Afganis and Iraqs, Turks, Kurds—will celebrate it,” says St. John. “The holiday is rooted in a very ancient culture and it still has meaning. If we didn’t do it, we would feel something missing.”

The Norooz festivities last for two weeks starting on the spring Equinox, which falls on March 20. Over the two weeks, families visit each other and have picnics in the park since, St. John explains, “it’s unlucky to stay at home during Norooz.” Bonfire jumping is another tradition. Called Chaharshanbeh Soori, it can be experienced (along with music and dancing) at Zaferan Cafe, a Persian/Iranian restaurant in Cottonwood Heights (Tuesday, March

Bonfire jumping is another tradition, particularly enjoyed by children.

14, 6:30pm- midnight). It is especially enjoyed by the children (who usually jump over very small fires, sometimes a brick of burning coal).

Anyone who wants the full Norooz experience will also display a bowl of goldfish during the holiday since the goldfish represents life.

At the Rose, caterers from area Persian restaurants will provide traditional tea and pastries in a Persian tea house. You can play the old Persian game favorites, backgammon and chess as your kids get into art activities.

Into the evening stop by for a discussion of Norooz history, a reading of Rumi poetry and a performance of Iranian dance and music. Let this bright and ancient expression of spring help wipe away the doldrums of winter. ◆ Norooz: Thursday, March 16, 4-9pm, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 110 West 300 South. Performance at 7pm. Dances of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan and more. Admission free.

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 39 Mar. 16: Post-Legislative Session w/ Alliance for a Better Utah @ Impact Hub. 6:30-8p. An insider's look at what happened over the course of the 45 day 2017 Legislative Session. Free. 150 S. State St. Mar. 16: Sonder @ Eagle’s Hall. 7-9p. An immersive dance-party theatre experience. Navigating love and loneliness amid the crowd, guests are invited to follow individual performers and explore the rooms throughout the performance. $15-20. 404 S. West Temple.

Mar. 16: Holladay Town Hall Meeting @ Holladay City Office. 7-8p. Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Rob Dahle and City Council officials. Free. 4580 S. 2300 E., Holladay, Utah 84117.

Mar. 16: Real Boy @ The City Library. 79p. Directed by Shaleece Haas. Bennett Wallace navigates the ups and downs of gender transition and grapples with a history of substance abuse.

Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 16: Peter Heller, author of novel Celine@ King’s English Bookshop.

Book signing, reading. 1511 S. 1500 E.

Mar. 18: Herb Gardening for Utah @ Conservation Garden Park. 11a12:30p.Registration required. $5. 8275 S. 1300 W, West Jordan.

Mar. 18: Ghost Hunt @ Greektown Collective. 8-11:59p. Explore and investigate the spirits of haunted Greektown.

Proceeds support 2017 Utah Paranormal Festival. $30/50 for 2. 561 W. 200 S. Mar. 19: The Original Ecstatic Dance DJ @ Krishna Temple SLC. 10a-2p. The elusive DJ Rhythmystic. $15. 965 E. 3370 S. Mar 19: Group Family Constellation @ Sacred Energy Empowerment Center.

2:30-4:30p. Group session to uncover and resolve inherited spiritual traumas. Free. 261 E. 4500 S. Mar. 19: Oh No They Didn’t: 7 Deadly Sins @ Squatter’s Craft Beer. 3-5p. Annual review of the Utah State legislature. Light refreshments. Cash bar. $25 donation suggested. 147 W. Broadway.

Mar. 19: Community Grief Tending Ritual @ New Moon Rites of Passage.

6-9p. Bi-annual community tending of grief on the Great Salt Lake. Free. 741 S. 400 W. Ste 2.

Mar. 21: Step @ The City Library. 7-9p.

Directed by Amanda Lipitz. Sundance 2017. Follows three intercity high school seniors and their “Lethal Ladies” step dance team as they navigate college applications and step competitions. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 22: Utah Presents Black Grace @ Kingsbury Hall. 7:30-9:30p. New Zealand’s leading contemporary dance company. Pacific and contemporary dance. $20-30. 1395 Presidents Cir.

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Mar. 16-17: Intermountain Sustainability Summit @ Weber State University. Over 400 sustainability leaders including Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland. $40-105/$15-25 student. 3910 W. Campus Dr., Ogden.

Mar. 17: Hug it: A Year without Fear book signing @ Booked on 25th. 5:307p. w/ local author Mark Johnson. Free.

147 25th St., Ogden, Utah 84401.

Mar. 17: Utah Women Unite gala @ Clubhouse on South Temple. 6-11p.

1st Annual Gala for Utah Women Unite. Food, art, drinks, live music. $100. 850 E. South Temple.

Mar. 18: UWU St. Patrick’s Day Parade @ Gateway Mall. 10a-12p. March in Utah Women Unite’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Everyone is welcome. Decoration station available. Free. 84 S. Rio Grande St.

Mar. 22: Koyaanisqatsi @ UMFA. 78:30p. Directed by Godfrey Reggio.

This documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature, an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds. Free. 410 Campus Center Dr. Mar. 22: Utah Privacy Basics @ U of U Union Building Rm 319. 7-9p. Utah Privacy Network’s mini workshop for activists and group leaders on privacy and data protection. Free. 200 Central Campus Dr. Mar. 22-23: 29th Annual Art & Soup Celebration @ Salt Palace Grand Ballroom. 11a-9p. Proceeds benefit Community Nursing Services Charitable Care Program. $20. 100 S. West Temple.

Mar. 23-Apr. 2: Not One Drop @ Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre. Th/F: 8p, Sat: 4p. & 8p. Sun: 2p. A sideways glance at the roles we play to convince ourselves we are(n’t) who we think we are. $20/10 students. 138 W. 300 S.

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FREE FILM SCREENINGS SATURDAY | MARCH 4 @ 11 AM

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

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE From legendary director Hayao Miyazaki comes the beloved story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service.

Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofalo, & Debbie Reynolds.

TUESDAY | MARCH 7 @ 7PM

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

THE CINEMA TRAVELERS A lyrical film that explores the world of the showmen who operate traveling tent cinemas that bring films to remote villages in India.

Winner: Golden Eye Special Mention–2016 Cannes Film Festival

WEDNESDAY | MARCH 8 @ 7PM

Rose Wagner | 138 W 300 S, Salt Lake City

CAMERAPERSON *Post-film Skype Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson moderated

by KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

Renowned cinematographer Kirsten Johnson’s visually bold memoir created from the vast trove of footage she has shot over the past decades.

TUESDAY | MARCH 14 @ 7PM

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

NAVAJO MATH CIRCLES *Post-film discussion.

A desire to improve math literacy on the Navajo Nation is met by using concepts from Native culture and a unique student-centered approach.

Presented in partnership with the NHMU and The City Library.

THURSDAY | MARCH 16 @ 7PM

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

REAL BOY A touching story of a charismatic teenager as he navigates the challenges of gender transition and the impact on his relationship with his mother.

Winner: Audience Award Documentary–Frameline40 San Francisco LGBTQ Film Festival

TUESDAY | MARCH 21 @ 7PM

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

STEP *Post-film discussion.

The story of a senior high school girl’s step team in Baltimore as they prepare to be the first in their families to go to college.

WEDNESDAY | MARCH 22 @ 7PM

UMFA | 410 Campus Center Dr, Salt Lake City

KOYAANISQATSI An apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds - urban life and technology versus the environment. Music score by Philip Glass.

Part of the permanent collection: MoMa, BFI, George Eastman House

TUESDAY | MARCH 28 @ 7PM

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I AM JANE DOE *Post-film discussion.

A chronicle of the battle several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex-trafficking on Backpage.com.

Presented in partnership with the Junior League of Salt Lake City.

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Mar. 23: Greensky Bluegrass @ The Depot. 7-11:30p. 21+. $25/20 adv. 400 W. S Temple.

Mar. 23-24: 4th Annual Sexual Violence Prevention, Intervention and Treatment Conference @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center. 8:30a-5p.

Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault conference discussing legal, social, emotional and criminal aspects of sexual violence issues. Open to public and professionals. $125. 1355 W. 3100 S, West Valley City, UT. Mar. 24-26: Gem Faire @ South Towne Expo Center. F/Sa: 10a-6p, Su: 10a-5p.

Manufacturer’s prices w/jewelry repair & cleaning, classes, demonstrations, & door prizes. $7 (see discount in ad, this issue.) 9575 S. State St. Mar. 25: A Night in Rio: Utah Brazilian Carnaval @ Eventos Paulo. 8-11:59p.

Dancing. Music. 18+. $15-20. 3485 S. Main St.

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Mar. 28: I Am Jane Doe @ The City Library. 7-9p. The epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their underage daughters who were bought and sold for sex on Backpage.com, the adult classifieds section that for years was part of the iconic Village Voice. Free. 210 E. 400 S. Mar. 30: Love Utah Give Utah Online Day of Giving @ Online. All day. Annual giving day to support Utah's nonprofit sector. Using Razoo, an online giving platform, nonprofits collect donations and promote their cause in the month of March and on the 24-hour day of giving. Stop by the CATALYST office to support us as a new nonprofit, 140 McClelland St. or at LOVEUTAHGIVEUTAH.ORG Mar. 30-1: Natural Law Apothecary Grand Opening. 9a-9p. Herbal tea giveaways, tea tasting, free chair massages. 619 S. 600 W.

Mar. 25: Psychic Fair @ Dancing Cranes.

10a-7p. 673 E. Simpson Ave. Mar. 25: National Theater Live Presents Saint Joan @ Broadway Center Cinemas. 12p. Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc. $1520. 111 E. Broadway.

Mar. 25: Mokie @ The State Room. 811p. 21+. $18. 638 S. State St. Mar. 25-26: Bonsai Show @ Red Butte Garden. Sa: 9a-5p. Su: 9a-3:30p. Exhibit

by The Bonsai Club of Utah. $7-12. 300 Wakara Way. Mar. 25-26: Holi Festival of Colors @ Spanish Fork Krishna Temple. 10a-5p.

Colors, mantra music, yoga & food. $5.

Register online: FESTIVALOFCOLORSUSA.COM. 8628 S. State Rd. Spanish Fork.

Mar. 26: Ecstatic Dance with DJ Swazera @ Krishna Temple SLC. 10a-2p. $15.

965 E. 3370 S. Mar. 27: Sheryl WuDunn on Improving the Status of Women @ Rice-Eccles Stadium Tower. 6:30p. Author, activist and business executive WuDunn is a guest of the Barbara and Norman Tanner Center for Human Rights. Free. 451 S. 1400 E. Mar. 27: Discussion on Cultural Appropriation @ U of U Behavioral Science Building. 6:30-8:30p. PANDOS and Voices of Diversity host a discussion on Cultural Appropriation. Free.

332 S. 1400 E. Mar. 28: Women’s Leadership Summit 2017 @ U of U Union Building, Ste 270.

2-7p. Speakers, sessions, socializing. $5. 200 Central Campus Dr.

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Mar. 30: Book Signing of The Zen of You and Me w/ Diane Musho Hamilton @ Golden Braid Books. 7p. A guide to getting along with everyone. Book release party. Free. 151 S. 500 E. Mar. 30: Keller Williams & Leo Kottke @ The State Room. 8p. This very special evening of music will feature a solo set by each artist and some spontaneous collaborations between Williams and Kottke. 21+. $70. 638 S. State St. Mar. 31: Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science @ Abravanel Hall. 5-10p. Two showings: 5p & 8p. Alton Brown national tour. Science, food and music. $40-110. 123 W. South Temple.

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Connect with the Other World

Lisa Williams

An evening and all-day workshop in the psychic world of the acclaimed medium, author and TV star

Tanner Park To Sugar House Park

Bike/pedestrian path nears completion The development of Parley’s Trail over the past 16 years has led to a convenient and scenic way for bikers and pedestrians to traverse the Salt Lake Valley. The goal of Parley’s Trail is to create a multi-use, east-west linking trail which connects the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and the Provo-Jordan River Parkway. This trail will connect a variety of neighborhoods along the Salt Lake Valley and will offer a myriad of communal, business and natural resources. While parts of this extensive trail are already complete still segments remain in the development stage.

The Tanner Park to Sugar House Park segment is scheduled for completion by mid-sum-

mer. This section will offer 1.2 miles of trail and include two pedestrian bridges. This segment of Parley’s Trail will connect the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and Sugar House Park, thus allowing bikers and pedestrians to seamlessly commute through the eastern part of the trail without having to travel on congested streets.

Next, trail development will continue west through Sugar House. Upon completion, Parley’s Trail will enable convenient access to neighborhoods, parks and businesses across its eight-mile-long path. —JB Salt Lake County Parks & Recreation, RECREATION@SLCO.ORG

Libby Gardner Hall, U of U campus World-famous medium Lisa Williams will connect us to the world of the dead—a world that is all around us.

She will deliver messages from loved ones to some audience members and share what the dead have to say about transitioning to the other side.

Tickets: $100 / $35 / $25.

Cantata on the topic of courageous women At 74 years old, Eleanor Roosevelt traveled through the Tennessee countryside, a $25,000 bounty placed on her head by the KKK, to teach a workshop on civil disobedience.

Etty Hillesum, a brilliant Jewish Russian scholar, dared to feel joy at the blooming of lupine in a muddy Auschwitz field.

Recy Taylor, a young married black woman, gang raped one evening while returning home from a church service in rural Alabama, would not be silenced by her violators and demanded justice. In 2012, she finally received an apology from the state of Alabama and her town Abbeville.

Mine Okubo, a gifted painter interned at Topaz in central Utah during World War II, asks us to not forget or repeat that dark time of our American past.

The acts of these courageous women are ev-

idence of the possibilities that lie within us all.

To honor and remember these and other heroes, Salt Lake composer Mary Lou Prince and lyricist Patty Willis have created the cantata “Women of Courage.”

Prince and Willis along with the Canyon Singers, an interfaith choir of Unitarian Universalist and LDS singers, premiere the work on International Women’s Day, Wednesday, March 8.

The cantata will also be performed March 16 and 17 at area Unitarian churches.—KP “Women of Courage.” Wednesday, March 8, Salt Lake Community College Redwood Road Campus. 4:30pm; free admission. The cantata will also be performed Friday March 17, 7:30pm, South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 S. Highland Drive. $15; and Saturday March 18, 7:30pm, First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 E. $15.

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Passing the long-stalled ERA important again Did you know that only 100 years ago, in 1917, American women still did not have the right to vote?

That changed in 1920, due to the persistent efforts of that century’s suffragists—women who worked for equality.

But the 1923 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) —a simple amendment that grants women equal protections they do not have under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment—remains unratified.

Passage fell short by three votes as Utah, Nevada and New Mexico, along with a handful of Southern states, rejected the amendment.

Much like the status of race and religion, if the ERA were ratified, it would be harder for the government to pass laws that discriminate against women. It would uphold legislation that often comes under attack such as Title IX, the Violence Against Women Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act. “Many think we already have the ERA. We do not,” says Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu, co-

Updates

MDMA for PTSD; kratom in the crossfire Last year, CATALYST reported on both the FDAapproved MDMA trials for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and on the chronicles of the southeast Asian herb, kratom, a widely available painkilling and anti-anxiety supplement that the DEA abruptly tried to ban last September. Here’s a thumbnail update on both stories:

founder of Utah Women Unite. “The U.S. Constitution does not specifically protect women.

Laws that have since been cobbled together, like Title IX and the Violence Against Women Act could be easily revoked by the Legislature or gutted by the Executive branch at any time.

We are vulnerable. Only with the ERA will women have guaranteed protection of our inalienable rights.”

“We need this amendment now more than ever especially in Utah,” says Chelsea Shields, another Utah Women Unite cofounder. “Ratifying the ERA would protect women’s rights at home and on a national level.”

Almost 40 years since its first introduction in Utah, Senator Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, with the support of Utah Women Unite, the Equal Rights Coalition and Mormons for ERA— has proposed a resolution, S.J.R. 10, to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The bill was introduced to the Senate Rules Committee on February 1. —KP UTAHWOMENUNITE.COM, UTAHPROGRESSIVES.ORG

PTSD trials approved for MDMA The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) sponsored six Phase 2 studies of MDMA, treating a total of 130 PTSD patients. Phase 3 research will include at least 230 patients, preferentially drawn from a pool of U.S. Armed Forces veterans. Researchers have been so happy with Phase 2 results that they have applied for “breakthrough therapy status” with the FDA, which could fast-track approval of professional MDMA therapy by 2021.

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A call for Phase 3 study participants has not yet gone out, but if you are an interested military veteran diagnosed with PTSD and you are in otherwise good health with good blood pressure, you can keep up to date with developments at the MAPS website.

MAPS is also holding the 2017 Psychedelic Science conference in Oakland, California, April 19-24. This is a great opportunity particularly for those in the healthcare field to get more educated about the promise of MDMA and other psychedelic therapies and to meet some of the researchers involved.—AT MAPS.ORG

Kratom and the DEA: so far, so good (and a reason to thank Sen. Hatch) Startled by the immediate and widespread opposition to their proposed emergency ban of kratom in the fall of last year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) backtracked on the action and opened a 45-day public comment period that ended on December 1.

That action can be attributed in part to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who has led the charge opposing the the ban.

A reported 23,611 people submitted comments, and of those, 99.1% opposed the ban.

48% of those listing a profession in their comment were veterans, law enforcement officials, health care professionals and scientists; 98.7 % of those commenting opposed the ban, with 99.8% of veterans opposing it. Of those identifying their age, 21% were 55 years or older, and 99.9% of this group opposed the ban.

In fact, of the 23,116 comments, only 113 supported the ban.

Additionally, the American Kratom Association (AKA) polled 105 emergency room professionals and found zero reported cases of deaths related to kratom. Dr. Jack Henningfield, vice president of Research, Health Policy and Abuse Liability at Pinney Associates compiled

a comprehensive report for the AKA that found that the coffee-like herb kratom has little potential for abuse and dependence.

At the time of this writing, the DEA has not released any further information regarding its intentions towards kratom. But for once, we feel confidence with Senator Hatch on our side.

—AT AMERICANKRATOM.ORG

Pave paradise?

Dimple Dell development Dimple Dell Regional Park, a 646-acre Salt Lake County public wildlife preserve in Sandy, Utah, is identified as Open Space in the Salt Lake County Park System Master Plan. It is considered “the most pristine of all recreational property in the County’s inventory.”

But a new “improvement” project may just tear up exactly those things that make Dimple Dell so special.

Salt Lake County has earmarked $4.5 million to pave the current wood-chipped North Rim Trail that runs from the 1300 East tunnel to Granite Park. Per County standards, the soft natural trail will be paved with an asphalt roadway similar to the Jordan River Parkway. An adjacent equestrian trail, shoulder and buffer zone would ultimately clear a 30 to 50-ft.-wide three-mile-long trail.

Opponents to paving point out that if enacted, the massive construction will kill native plants and displace wildlife, destroying the natural appeal of the park. Treasured for its wildlife, native plants, mountain views and a sense of serenity not found in other parks and valued by hikers, trail runners, dog walkers, cross country skiers, bird watchers and equestrians, these changes could significantly alter exactly those qualities which this park a much sought destination.

Concerned residents and park users can contact Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams and Salt Lake County Council members Jenny Wilson and Richard Snelgrove.

See related community petition: CHANGE.ORG/P/MAYORMCADAMS-KEEP-DIMPLE-DELL-WILD. For updates on this issue: FACEBOOK.COM/DIMPLEDELLPRESERVATION/

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BY MORAG SHEPHERD

hroughout my life, sometimes the only way for me to exit a difficult experience is to psychologically die to—let go of—that event, that person. I mean, one doesn’t have to do anything, but it seems to me the best option is to let the past die, and then move forward.

Impulses connected to death and dying play on repeat in my play Not One Drop.

These impulses create a metaphorical pathway into

it wanted to go. I sat down with the idea of writing a play about two characters, and then the words that they wanted to say...happened.

That’s how I write. If I have an end goal in mind, then the whole thing is a battle and it usually doesn’t turn out.

The impetus for creating Rowe and Aidan was to inhabit a relationship so closely connected and intertwined, that the people involved slip into and eventually become the

The characters descend into ever more absurdity, where the chance of words that rhyme, or sound the same, rule and govern behavior. the inner battles of its two characters, Rowe (who is a little younger) and Aidan (who is a little older). They push, because sometimes people shove; they scratch, because sometimes people wound us; and they stumble, because people usually fall.

I could connect dots and lines between Aidan and Rowe and my own life, but the truth is, the play almost wrote itself, and went where

other person. They trade clothes; they speak the line that the other person normally would, or has, because doesn’t that happen sometimes?

Sometimes we are(n’t) who we think we are.

Throughout Not One Drop, the very nature of relationships is constantly shifting and slipping—are they sisters, friends, lovers, enemies?—and ultimately it doesn’t matter. What does

matter is that they have grown so close that they slip into each other’s identities.

They mirror each other and then their identities, at times, mirror back on themselves.

Aidan and Rowe have grown so entwined that they take codependence to new lows. The underside of love— hate—at times envelopes them. Love and closeness becomes the catalyst for a violence that permeates their relationship. But it’s also a violence inherited from their separate and shared childhood, a part of their lives—together and separately—that is inescapable. That doesn’t stop them from repeatedly trying to escape this violence by making up and acting out scenes, scenarios that are weird and strange and funny.

Because, at times, don’t we all want to forget who and where we are?

Not One Drop also plays around with the way one’s story—or non-story—behaves. Instead of the typical Aristotelian structure, I wanted to write a play in the shape of a water drop. Rather than building to a dramatic climax, the characters descend into ever more absurdity, where the chance of words that rhyme, or sound the same, rule and govern behavior.

Not One Drop is absurd in the true theatrical sense because life is absurd, or certainly that’s been my experience. Sometimes cause and effect play out in a seamless line of logic, and sometimes life events are random and tenuous and all one can do is laugh. ◆ Morag Shepherd’s NOT ONE DROP is the current recipient of the Plan-B Theatre grant from The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists. It receives its world premiere March 23April 2 at Plan-B, featuring Colleen Baum and Latoya Rhodes, directed by Jerry Rapier. Visit PLANBTHEATRE.ORG for details and tickets.

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

Intuitive patterns for

Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Beyond Illusion, Fighting Medicine Cards: Coyote, Crow Mayan Oracle: Ben, Rhythm, Men Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Two of Cups, King of Cups, Nine of Swords Aleister Crowley Deck: Completion, Success, Power Healing Earth Tarot:Seven of Feathers, Mon of Feathers, Ten of Crystals Words of Truth: Multidimensional, Release, Fantasy Bond

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ith Jupiter opposing Uranus on March 2, you will feel a need for more personal expression and freedom. Expect sudden changes in circumstances. The more restricted you have felt, the more upsetting the change is likely to be.

Mars goes into Taurus on March 9 and you have to decide if you want to be a raging bull or a contented cow. Needless to say, Mars is not happy in this position and neither will you be. But it will steady the energy of Mars a bit which might be greatly needed at this moment. Don’t expect to change anyone’s mind this month. Pushing will only provoke people to hold a grudge against you which could turn into vindictiveness.

In its most positive, it can unlock your sensual side. Perhaps you will have the opportunity to make love, not war.

The Jupiter square Pluto at the end of the month is a major event and will likely trigger some ruthless determination in a few of you.

You may notice others are all out for the money and how much they can get. There will be those who combine the expansiveness of Jupiter with the nuclear bomb energy of Pluto and turn that into religious mania and extremism. Watch out for the self-righteous, as they are more bigoted, xenophobic, intolerant and ignorant than usual. My suggestion is lots of exploration in the spiritual realms and cultivate calmness and personal center. Don’t break any laws.

As I began to pull the cards for this reading today, I was feeling very positive. A wandering sheep and goat had shown up at my house and they spent the day with me. I thought perhaps the world’s differences were finally being ironed out…. That was until I saw the cards.

Sheep and goats are very different in their mentality but they both can be hard-headed and stubborn.

I ask all of you to look inside at where you are intransigent. So much pain comes from an unwillingness to shift and notice the suffering of others over your desire to be right.

The Ten of Crystals is just one of three big cards indicating painful transitions that are ex-

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perienced as deaths.

Now again, I look at this metaphorically, so stay calm and don’t freak out. This card is about letting go. Fate and destiny are steering this boat and I know that

The old world has died and each of us needs to let go in some way. many of you are not happy about that and wish we could get off the boat as we see it headed right into a huge storm. But you and I are not in control of that boat, something bigger and wiser is. We cannot fathom the wisdom of the divine in the moment but often later we begin to get a glimpse into a greater plan. The old world has died and each of us needs to let go in some way. Only then can you find a way through these difficult times. Your situation seems hopeless (Nine of Swords) and you feel that you are suffering at the hands of others who do not care about your feelings, only their power and success. You wonder at the intolerance and mindless projections of hatred on others. You feel each knife, even if it is not intended for you. You feel the despair and disillusion of humanity over the ages and are seeking to find a center where you can sit with a compassionate and open heart.

It is clear that there is a lot of shadow (Crow) and trickery (Coyote) afoot. It is as if the shadow has fully awoken and is taking over your world. Don’t let it! There are always doorways to freedom that can be found within restriction. Such times allow us to re-prioritize, getting back to simple things and helping each other.

Take the armor off and a l l o w t h o s e wounds that your ego has been hiding from you to get some air and light so that they can finally heal. Some of these wounds are ancient and from your genetic history and potential past lives.

Regardless of how old or how stuck a particular pattern is and how deeply engrained it is in your psyche, you can heal. You can let the grief dissolve under the waters of Neptune in Pisces. It is time to stop rejecting yourself and find the deeper knowing that you are here to connect heaven to earth and earth to heaven. You cannot do that if you are weighted down with anger, hurt, resentment and pain.

It is time to find the rhythm and flow that brings power and choice back in. No, you may not get your way right now, but you can find the courage and strength to be your brightest self in the middle of extremely challenging circumstance.

You are stepping beyond the illusion that this world can impose a limitation on who you are to become. Often the greatest people in the world had a terrible event that they used as something to push against and propel themselves into a new and very different expression than they believed was possible.

The impossible is possible. You have the resistance, now take the power back. No one took it. It was always there. No one, no law, and no thing can define who you really are. ◆ 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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