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“Muley Point, Bears Ears National Monument,” Ruby Pluhar

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MEDITATION IN SPACE ADELE ARDENT The art of learning to love the land. SPEAKING VOLUMES, TRANSFORMING HATE MICHAEL MCLANE White supremacist literature becomes a human rights art exhibit. BREATHE ASHLEY MILLER Freight switchers: a notable source of local air pollution you’ve never even heard of before. Here’s a way to clean them up.

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Logan is horribly wonderful BY DENNIS HINKAMP

or the most part, Logan is horribly average which is mostly good. People who have stayed here too long, present company included, like to find things to complain about, but that’s just the age talking. Like most cities our size, we wax and wane between best kept secret and loved to death. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle details by the fork in the road. Oh, and then there is confirmation bias and fake news to confound any opinion you might have. Logan shows up on some best and worst lists but mainly we are terribly average framed by some world class scenery; at least on the days when you can see it or drive to it. Still, those 15-20 perfect sunsets per year can really get you through the petty normality of Cache Valley. The reason there are so many second homes in mountain west towns is that there are generally only four months of the year that visitors really love. Those of us who are full timers by choice, marriage or economics tend to look at things a little differently. For example: Though we have not completely escaped the opioid crisis, it is somewhat soothing in compensation to know that we have a “Dirty Soda” epidemic. When I first heard the term Dirty Soda my mind went in terrible directions, but it turns out to mainly be a black-ops plot by dentists to get people to drink not only more sugary beverages, but to also weaponize them with extra sticky sweet flavorings. You can get them for, like, 79 cents a quart. To further enable the valley’s sugar addiction, our socalled laws allow you to get all you want at drive-through windows with no ID or proof of competence required. To counterbalance this vulgar indulgence, we seem to have more yoga studios and bike

shops than ever. You can practice various variations of yoga every day of the week including Sunday, but I don’t think there is a Sunday bike shop. Note to entrepreneurs; open a shop for Velotarians and they will come in all their garish colors, noisy-shoe and Spandex glory. In other commerce concerns: the mall has been on deathwatch for at least a decade, but that is pretty much the national trend except for strip malls. The last time I went to the Cache Valley Mall was when Radio Shack was open on Sundays and I needed an emergency router cable. My mind also goes in terrible delightful directions when I hear the term “strip mall” but it just really means that that people are too lazy to even walk through a mall. Strip malls allow people to drive right up to the front door and idle their engines in the parking lot. In other news, how can it be that a valley that is 70% Mormon has this many coffee shops? I know that some non-Utah cities have a Starbucks inside a Starbucks, but that we now have three is pretty amazing. That’s in addition to Ibis, the Jitters hut, Westside and the plethora of campus caffeine-pushing cafes. Every new and some of the old buildings on campus now include a café as part of their design and they all sell espresso drinks. We used to joke about sneaking coffee in over the border; now we just sneak in cheap booze, raspberries and lottery tickets. Will more people come to our best-crushed secret? The inversions have subsided somewhat mainly because the snow has been sparse. The less snow, the less water which means the fewer homes that will be permitted which means less people and less pollutants in the air; another win for climate change. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp would like to thank everyone who moved away.

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BY AMY BRUNVAND

In the decades to come, one can hope that many of the Trump Administration’s mistakes—on tax policy, say, or trade—will be rectified. But the destruction of the country’s last unspoiled places is a loss that can never be reversed. – Elizabeth Kolbert

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Utah prairie dog case

tah prairie dogs have fended off an existential threat and will not be going to the Supreme Court after all. The furry, cute and highly social animals were at the center of a lawsuit pitting private property rights against endangered species protection. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider the case which has been moving through the courts since 2013. That means Utah prairie dogs retain federal protection as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act, and retroactive to August 2017 they are managed by federal government rules, not Utah rules. Utah prairie dogs (Cynomys parvidens) live only in southwest Utah, about 68% of them on private property. They like to dig holes, to the great annoyance of human land owners. The species has been driven to near extinction by the privatization of their habitat since ranchers, who consider them a nuisance, poisoned, shot and trapped them in great numbers. The few

remaining large colonies were exterminated by poison in 1971. When the Endangered Species Act was signed in 1973, Utah prairie dogs were officially listed as an “endangered” with only about 3,300 animals remaining from historical populations of up to 95,000. In 1979, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources petitioned to have them delisted, and in 1984 they were reclassified as “threatened” with a special rule to allow “taking” (which means killing) up to 5,000 animals annually in order to mitigate antagonism from local ranchers. In 1991 the permitted take was increased to 6,000, but just 12 years later the adult population crashed to about 4,000 adult animals after an outbreak of plague. The special rule could theoretically have wiped out the entire species. Nonetheless, private-property hard-liners kept trying to completely eliminate protections for prairie dogs. In 2013, a property-rights group with the snarky-sounding name People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners

(PETPO) challenged endangered species listing for the prairie dogs claiming that under the Commerce Clause, the federal government has no constitutional authority to regulate a species that lives only in one state and has no commercial value. Here’s why the Utah prairie dog case was important beyond just protecting the animals themselves: Nationwide, political conservatives were hoping to use the Utah prairie dog as a wedge to undermine the entire Endangered Species Act. This property-rights view was supported in amicus briefs by the State of Utah and by various libertarian groups including the CATO Institute. (Amicus curiae briefs, Latin for “friend of the court,” are filed by parties who are not named in the lawsuit but who want to offer information that could affect the judge’s decision.) These briefs essentially said that the State of Utah should be legally allowed to cause the extinction of an in-state endangered species if they chose to do so. The 2016 Republican Party Platform contains no specific mention of prairie dogs, but it blames the Endangered Species Act for halting construction projects and specifically attacks endangered species designation for gray wolves, lesser prairie chickens and sage grouse. In 2013, the State and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) sold 800 acres of land in Garfield County to the Nature Conservancy as a safe harbor for prairie dogs even though anti-federal activists opposed the sale for fear that it would increase federal government influence. The Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office makes the disingenuous claim that species recovery for Utah prairie dogs has been underestimated because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not count animals on private land (remember, though, that the State of Utah wants legal authority to exterminate private-land and state-land prairie dogs). At last count in 2016, Utah prairie dogs numbered around 11,435 animals but only 2,579 lived on public or safe-haven land. The Trump Administration is threatening to loosen endangered species protections and Donald Trump, Jr. has participated in prairie dog shoots, an inhumane entertainment where animals are shot purely for fun. Utah author Terry Tempest Williams wrote about Utah prairie dogs in her book Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008).

Breathing Stories Just in time for the 2018 Utah Legislature General Session, Torrey House Press published a chapbook called Breathing Stories: Utah Voices for Clean Air (see CATALYST, January 2018 for excerpts). The book features stories, essays and poems that personalize the problem of air pollution on the Wasatch Front. A copy has been delivered to every State legislator. You can read the stories online or buy a copy for $10. Breathing Stories: TORREYHOUSE.ORG/BREATHING-STORIES

Conservation in the West poll, 2018 Colorado College has released their 8th annual “Conservation in the West” Poll for 2018. The poll asks voters in eight western states including Utah for opinions about conservation, energy, environment and public lands. The 2018 poll shows that we Utahns love our public lands—91% of Utahns said they had visited public lands during the past year (29% of them more than 10 times) and 81% planned to visit a National Park during the coming year. However, poll numbers show an odd disconnect between what people say they value and their political opinions. The poll reports that 47% of Utah voters support Trump Administration policies, yet when they were asked about specific policies they were generally opposed: 56% opposed expanding oil and gas drilling; 59% supported the keeping Obama era sage-grouse recovery plans that are currently under attack by the Trump Administration; and 62% opposed uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park. Likewise, 46% opposed privatizing campgrounds and other facilities on public lands (36% supported the idea; the rest were unsure). The poll showed a similar disconnect regarding the downsizing of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. Slightly more voters thought downsizing was bad (49%) versus good (46%). However, 97% agreed that national monuments are “places I want my children and grandchildren to see someday,” and 91% agreed that they are national treasures. 76% of Utahns polled consid-

ered themselves conservationists. How does one reconcile political support for Trump Administration attacks on federal public lands and environmental regulations with the hope that Utah’s national treasures will somehow still be there for our grandchildren? Conservation in the West Poll, 2018: COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU/STATEOFTHEROCKIES/

Salt Lake City & climate change If you think it feels warmer than it used to be, you’re right. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that 2017 was the third hottest year since 1880 when record-keeping began. A slightly different analysis by NASA ranks 2017 as second hottest, but both agencies agree that the hottest year so far has been 2016.

I n Salt Lake City, the average 2017 temperature was 56.1º F which was 3.3º above normal. Around the globe the average temperature was 1.51º F above the 20th century average. During the past 100 years, the Earth surface has warmed by about 2º F, which doesn’t sound like much but the Paris Agreement calls to keep global temperatures rise in this century below 3.6º F above pre-industrial levels.

Great Salt Lake toxic dump In February, a coalition of local environmental groups hosted public meetings regarding a threat to build a garbage dump at the north

end of Great Salt Lake. A company called Promontory Point Resources, LLC has applied for a Class V waste permit which would specifically allow the proposed dump to accept outof-state hazardous waste including coal ash contaminated with arsenic, lead and mercury. Environmental groups opposing the hazardous waste dump include Friends of Great Salt Lake, HEAL Utah, Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.

Trump puts migratory birds at risk Great Salt Lake migratory birds have less protection after the Trump Administration issued a radical re-interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 that lets industry kill birds without penalty as long as they say they didn’t mean to. A Department of the Interior legal opinion issued in January concludes that the law is limited to hunting and poaching and doesn’t apply to “incidental take.” In other words, if birds happen to get killed by some activity that’s not specifically intended to kill birds, that’s okay. A statement from the Western Energy Alliance (a pro-industry group) celebrated, commenting that under the narrow interpretation, industrial noise and habitat impacts couldn’t be stopped just because they impact birds. In fact, the law specifies that it is unlawful to kill birds “by any means whatsoever…at any time or in any manner,” but the memo makes a clear statement that if industrial activities do kill birds, the Trump Administration won’t do anything to stop them.

Bears Ears update Navajo president Russel Begaye has asked Utah congressman John Curtis (R-UT-3) to withdraw a bill he introduced that would permanently reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument without waiting for the results of lawsuits against downsizing. In a Salt Lake Tribune editorial, Curtis wrote that his plan was better than the Native American plan, and falsely claimed that he had consulted with tribal leadership when in fact he had not. ◆

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A SOLAR SYSTEM OF YOUR OWN

No sympathy for the devil

“What's confusing you is the nature of my game.” — Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones

n January Donald Trump tried to live up to his campaign promise to revive the coal industry by imposing a 30% tariff on imported solar panels and cells. It's not going to help much. Coal has been losing about 7% of its market share per year. Fifty years ago, trade protectionism and tariffs were truly about saving jobs. In America, in the 21st century, tariffs are all about keeping the last few smokestack industries chugging along, long enough for their owners to squeeze a couple more billion dollars out of their stranded capital assets before they try to squeeze through the eye of a needle to their just reward. In many cases, like coal-fired power plants, their assets really are huge liabilities stemming from their eventual environmental cleanup costs. Which is another reason to postpone the day of reckoning till they have sucked enough money out of the company and enough life out of their miners to declare bankruptcy. There are several reasons Trump imposed the tariff (beginning with all the generous donations he received form the coal industry), but saving a significant number of jobs wasn't one of them, unless you count jobs in the coal industry. Nationally, fewer people work in the coal industry (50,000) than work for Arby's. The solar industry currently accounts for 260,000 jobs in the American economy. The effect of Trump's tariff could actually be a net loss of jobs in the economy, unless we all take up the mantle and do even more to reduce our carbon footprint Acquiring a solar system of our own is a huge step in that direction—solar panels, electric vehicles (car and bike), in-home battery). Industry estimates put the increased cost of an installed residential solar system due to the tariff at 3%—and up to 10% for large commercial solar systems. The tariff sets the relentlessly increasing affordability of solar systems back about a year. Other than guaranteeing more political donations from the coal industry to Trump and

BY JOHN DEJONG Republicans, the tariff, which declines by 5% for three years, shouldn't have much of an effect on solar installation rates. The solar panel tariff case was originally brought by two “Made in the USA” solar cell manufacturers, Suniva and SolarWorld USA, both now controlled by foreign parent companies. The fact that Suniva is now owned by Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy must have had Trump on the horns of a dilemma for a while. Obviously Trump values capitalist interests over national interests. Ironically, the situation the coal industry finds itself in is, in no small part, the result of the boom-and-bust nature of the energy business. That, and the aggressive environmental regulations set in place by the Obama administration. The two largest coal companies, Peabody and Arch Coal, have recently filed for bankruptcy and local hero Murray Energy Corp. could soon do the same. The demise of the coal industry may not come soon enough for coal miners, who, according to an NPR story by local NPR correspondent Howard Berkes, are the victims of a resurgence of black lung disease. The increase is the result of decades of Republicanstyle workplace health “protections,” which only protected the wealth of mine owners. The increasing difficulty in rending coal from the earth, now found in thinner seams, results in more rock being mined with the coal. This is actually more dangerous than breathing straight coal dust, leading to silicosis. If the coal industry really wanted to do something about its plummeting share of the energy market it would oppose fracking, which has lowered the cost of natural gas to the point where coal-fired power plants are switching to natural gas in droves. Obama-era environmental regulations have played a big part in prompting the switch. While Trump has the power to change some of those regulations, the uncertainty of

what the next administration will do, or undo, will lead most utilities to make the switch from coal to natural gas-fired power plants, or even to virtual power plants. Which is where you come in. When the Sun doesn't shine The greatest weakness of electric power as a reliable source of electricity has been the inability to store meaningful amounts of it. Last fall the Trump administration proposed to force electric utilities to buy electricity from coal and nuclear plants that guarantee these plants a “fair” rate of return, on the grounds that only coal and nuclear electricity power generation can “store” their fuel, in the unlikely event of an electricity apocalypse. This only provides another incentive to add a home battery to your solar system. Thousands of home solar systems that include home batteries could provide electricity storage for entire communities. To that end, Tesla announced plans in February to build a “virtual power plant” in South Australia. In four years. the plant will consist of 50,000 homes with 5kW of solar cells and a Tesla Powerwall 2 battery connected into an “internet of energy.” This project, along with a just completed 100 megawatt-hour battery farm, will help the state of South Australia store the electricity from the many wind farms in the state. Virtual power plants, and all that they entail, have many advantages. Perhaps the greatest is giving market access to individual solar system owners. The take-away is that you should start planning to incorporate a home battery into your solar system. Maybe not right now, but soon. Battery prices continue a steady decline, which will allow all of us to become a little part of virtual power plants. As far as sympathy for the devil goes, it's important to be discerning on our demonization. Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt are just puppets, albeit unruly puppets. Trump this, Trump that— when it's really the Republicans-this and the Republicans-that. Very little of what Trump does is originally his idea, not even the craziest stuff. It's all there in the Republican platform. ◆ John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

From tomatoes in March to train switchers

ig Pink, the home of CATALYST, has solar panels on the roof. It’s been a bit of a process—specifically due to a 2,000-gallon hand-built concrete hot tub in the way of where a meter must go. It is now, sadly, an ex-hot tub, securely under a deck. It had become prohibitive to heat, anyway, of course, with solar, it might be affordable again, if we can some day legally resuscitate it. Speaking of warmth: I’ve been eating homegrown tomatoes thanks to my indoor passive solar system (aka big south-facing window), after a summer of no tomatoes. Go figure. The vermicompost from my worm bin contained a lot of grape tomato seeds, which then sprouted in all my fertilized houseplants. Okay, we’re not talking quantity here. But they have been the most delicious tomatoes ever. I’ll try vermicompost on my outdoor tomato plants this season; maybe that’s the secret. The worm bin has been in the basement all winter, but lately the worms were huddling in balls. If I were a worm, the cold would make me want to cuddle up with my brethren. And, apparently, they felt similarly. The big brown bin now lives in my bathroom—a homely obstacle, but we all have our priorities. They seem to have resumed their normal activity, which is to transform the contents of the compost pail. In 1976, as a very young writer on the staff of Countryside magazine, I traveled to Maine where I visited the farm of Eliot Coleman. At age 38, though a relative newcomer, Eliot was already making a name for himself in the world of organics. He was neighbor and acolyte to Scott and Helen Nearing, famous for their radical pacifism and seminal back-tothe-land 1954 book, Living the Good Life.

BY GRETA DEJONG Last month, in Cedar City, Utah, I met Eliot Coleman again. The author of The New Organic Grower (1990), he was keynote at the Utah Farm Conference. A congenial 79, he is honored as an elder of the organic and slow food movements. I mentioned the Nearings in conversation with him. Once so inspiring, they have been lost to time. He says he is dedicating his next book to them. It’s good for us all to have a sense of our spiritual ancestors. Speaking of which: CATALYST recently was awarded a $1,500 grant from the Utah Women’s Giving Circle to produce a series of articles called “Women of Wisdom.” Interviews with these local movers and shakers will be conducted by millennial women learning about the efforts on their behalf by those who came before them. Thanks to all the members of the Women’s Giving Circle who voted for CATALYST and our project! Did you know that CATALYST is a nonprofit? Founded in 1982, we became a 501(c)(3) just 15 months ago. Our advertisers are, for the most part, very small businesses, all local, and they are here because they love CATALYST and know we reach people like you, who share similar perspectives. They still form the base of our support. . But reader contributions are essential for us to keep going. If you value our presence in the community, please contribute via our website, phone call or by mailing a check. All sums are useful. Those contributing $120 or more become members of the Solutions Fund (see p. 28 and 37 for details). One last word: train switchers. You likely never heard or thought of them. They pollute a lot. They don’t have to. Read about them in Ashley Miller’s “Breathe” column in this issue. Cool. ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is the founder, editor & publisher of CATALYST.

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Anote’s Ark

Wanted: land to relocate the entire nation of Kiribati, which is slowly being submerged as the polar ice caps melt; CATALYST speaks with President Anote Tong Courtesy of Sundance Institute

BY SOPHIE SILVERSTONE

magine if you were burdened with this news: Your entire country will be completely uninhabitable within this century due to rising sea levels. All your countrymen must find new homes and new livelihoods in foreign lands. Your culture, history, and your spiritual connection to the land will become echoes of the life you once knew. Now, imagine if you were president of this country. This is the reality faced by Anote Tong, the president of Kiribati, and the main character of Anote’s Ark. Directed by Montreal-based photographer and filmmaker Matthieu Rytz, Anote’s Ark premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Kiribati (pronounced ‘Kiribas’) is a low-lying Pacific island nation near the equator. Its 33 atolls span about the same width as the United States, and are just about a meter (3.28 ft.) above sea level. Anote served as Kiribati’s president from 2003 to 2016 (the maximum term limit) and continues to search for a solution for all 100,000 residents of Kiribati who are destined to become some of the world’s first climate change refugees as their islands are inundated by rising sea water. Anote appeared on the Sundance Institute’s panel “The New Climate” along with other leaders of indigenous peoples whose way of life is currently being disrupted by the effects of climate change.

It is estimated that in the PRESIDENT ANOTE TONG WITH GRANDSON ALBERT ANOTE AND ADOPTED DAUGHTER next 30-60 years Kiribati will photo by Juliana Mejia be uninhabitable. “It’s too late ANITA YUMENI ONO. The film’s cinematography is a breathtaking for Kiribati,” says Anote in the film. “For a long time I thought there was nothing I could do. It tour of a paradise on Earth. A single raft bobs in the waves, isolated and at the mercy of the was this depressing feeling I had to get over.” The film follows Anote as he travels to U.N. sea. There are scenes of tribal celebrations, life negotiations, the Vatican and the Paris Climate in low-ceilinged woven huts, young children Agreement talks. The film also explores some playing. We meet Sermary —mother of six and of the solutions he’s envisioned for his commu- an important secondary character of the film.

“Climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time.” nity. Anote purchased 20 square kilometers of land in Fiji as a contingency plan for his people. The very core of Anote’s mission is to maintain his people’s dignity by preventing them from becoming victims of global catastrophe, and being pro-active about the writing on the wall, or—a more apt metaphor—water on the horizon. On Kiribati, hurricanes and typhoons are historically rare. But in recent years, residents are seeing a change . The documentary, filmed 2014-2017, was witness to an alarming number of destructive storms in Kiribati. “We thought we’d be immune to the troubles of the world, but we were wrong,” says Anote at the beginning of the film as an aerial shot pans across the crystal blue waters near Kiribati.

She and her husband prepare a meal together for their family: laughing and splashing each other as they catch fish in the daylight, clean and cook the fish, and finally feast on their hard-earned meal by nightfall. Life on Kiribati appears simple and happy. Rytz captures the magnitude of the beauty of the atoll nation of Kiribati, its people, and their indigenous way of life through stunning angles of the skinny strips of land that make up the majority of the Kiribati coastline. Generally, as with the case of rising coastlines in the U.S., the logical solution would be to move everything farther inland, but if we were to use the same logic for Kiribati’s narrow land, “we would fall off the other side,” Anote laughs in an interview. He shows me the Google Earth satellite

image of his island, where his house is, and the sunrise he watches each morning while drinking his tea. When he isn’t traveling to Fiji, or for meetings of the Royal Commonwealth Society, of which he is the Chairman, the grandfather of 12 has his hands full back at home on the island of Tarawa, the capital island of Kiribati. Heavy with science and statistics, impact movies such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (which came out 12 years ago) and An Inconvenient Sequel (premiering at Sundance last year) are quite opposite to Rytz’ approach in Anote’s Ark. “We need those impact campaigns and films,” Rytz tells me. Anote’s Ark is more about climate justice and human rights than climate change itself. Rytz prefers to focus on the injustices suffered as a consequence of climate change. He wants to hold us accountable. Anote and Sermary are both forced to respond to the perils of their nation at the hands of climate change. We see Sermary migrate to New Zealand on a lottery visa (only 75 Kiribati are allowed each year) to work manual labor jobs and scrape up enough money to bring her family back together. Anote is both meeting with high-level officials of neighboring nations, and building seawalls with sandbags with his own neighbors. The ocean and the land become characters, too, as Rytz juxtaposes footage of the paradise-like island with footage of the brutal, furious typhoons that tear the island homes to shreds. Anote is not alone among leaders of indigenous peoples who are now mobilizing to bring awareness to their specific challenges and let the world know that climate change is happening here and now. “The New Climate” panel at the Egyptian Theatre, organized by Sundance Senior Programmer Hussein Currimbhoy brought together a group of native leaders who are feeling the effects of climate change first hand. Anote, along with Bartholomew Powaukee (Water Quality and Environmental Director for Ute Indian Tribe), and Tashka Yawanawa (Chief of the Yawanawa tribe in Acre, Brazil) sat on the panel, moderated by Janaya Khan (storyteller, organizer and cofounder of Black Lives Matter Canada). All three panelists seemed to feel an enormous weight on their shoulders that the rest of the world is still catching up with. “‘I want to just be a normal guy,’” Tashka remembers thinking when he was a young man, knowing one day he would become chief. “There are so many people to be responsible for.” He became the youngest chief of the Yawanawa tribe at the age of 25. “But then I realized, once you become chief, you are not just responsible for your people, but for the animals, and the forest, and those who cannot fight for themselves,” said Tashka.

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Educating the youth, maintaining an intrinsic spiritual connection with the land, racism, classism, gun control and water rights—the feeling was shared among the three leaders that these issues are somehow connected. Now a middle-aged man, traveling around the world to share his story, one of a few of his people who can speak English, he’s come a long way from his timidity regarding the responsibility of leading his people. “I’m not the voice of myself, I’m the voice of our elders. The voice of my grandmothers, the voice of my people. They keep replying, ‘You need to take care of this land,’” said Bart Powaukee, addressing the current bureaucratic tug-of-war over Bears Ears National Monument. The conversation between indigenous leaders and governing bodies continues to be an uneasy one. Anote described his first two years in office and talking at the U.N. General Assembly when he came to address Kiribati’s dire situation. “When I spoke about it, I was frustrated, angry. Nobody listened,” said Anote, “I was beginning to learn that nobody wanted to hear you blame them for what they are responsible for. And so I began to change my approach, make it more of a collective responsibility.” Despite Anote’s change of tactics developed during his years in office, Kiribati continues to face the same question: Where will all 100,000 people go when their land is reclaimed by the sea? “Climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time,” said Anote. There was also a lightness in the air as the

three panelists shared their own human experiences beyond climate change: educating the youth, maintaining an intrinsic spiritual connection with the land, racism, classism, gun control and water rights. The feeling was shared that these issues are somehow connected. “If I burn my forest, you might not get snow… I mean, we’re not from another planet!” said the smiling Tashka, which got a laugh and a grand applause from the audience. New Climate panel moderator Janaya Khan, summed it up: “What we’re looking at is how to reframe climate change, so that it’s not just seen as a scientific issue, or as an indigenous issue only. It’s a people issue. It’s a human issue.” Anote’s Ark is still awaiting distribution to the general public. In the meantime it will be used as a tool for Anote to show to various assemblies of governing bodies. The film does not offer a tidy ending, but rather is an ongoing story as Anote finishes his term as president and continues on his journey to find a home for his people. For those seeking a happy conclusion, Rytz, Anote and Sermary leave that in our hands. There are no weak characters in this story, only those who do not act in response to it. ◆ Sophie Silverstone is a CATALYST writer as well as our community outreach coordinator.

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Meditation in space

The art of learning to love the land BY ADELE ARDENT

fter ascending the rock-strewn switchbacks of the Moki Dugway to the sky-washed heights of Cedar Mesa, Utah, we assembled our basecamp not far from Muley Point—threading together metal poles and stretching tarps to cover our cooking area and mobile computer archive—before securing our tents along the cliffs that rise over a thousand feet above the sinuous San Juan River. That first evening, a mass of storm clouds swept toward us from the distant Monument Valley, softly coiling virga backlit by the lowering sun, tendrils brushing over us like the hair of some great spirit bending a curious face down from the blue heights to where we sat scattered among the rocks. I kept my own face tilted up, eyes closed to feel the sparse drops of rain, until the warm light filtering through the flesh and blood of my eyelids overwhelmed my red receptors. When I finally opened my eyes, there seemed to be no division between earth and sky: The

Our investigations and experiments were intimate, less about conscripting the landscape into executing a vision, and more about forming a partnership where the human could come into contact with non-human ways of being. rocks, junipers and people wore the glowing white and ink-blue shades of the clouds. They say that no one ever really knows what goes on in a relationship except for the two people inside of it. But this proved to be our challenge: to not only build a relationship with the land of the American Southwest, but to find

a language that could encompass experiences that felt intimate and indescribable. • • • Last autumn I was one of a group of students who traveled to southern Utah and other destinations with Land Arts of the American West. Land Arts (or LAAW) is a single-semester studio art program, offered by Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico. LAAW provides a small cohort of interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students the chance to investigate various sites around the Southwest, and to make art that responds to the people, creatures, plants and landforms encountered at these sites, culminating in an exhibition at the end of the semester. (Ours will be Earth Day, a Sunday, April 22, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.) The Fall 2017 program brought students face-to-face with the diverse stories of care-taking, use and abuse that make up our region: At Ron Boyd’s Mergirl Gardens, a farm growing heritage crops along the banks of the Rio Grande, we threshed rye under perhaps the

able, to transcend the limitations of written and visual languages, sometimes required experiments that stretched the definitions of “art.” For, if the idea of “land arts” conjures up the broad sweep of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, many of the investigations and experiments we engaged in were more intimate, less about conscripting the landscape into executing a vision, and more about forming a partnership where the human could come into contact with non-human ways of being. This became especially important in Bears Ears National Monument, as we tried to forge personal relationships to a place serving as a case study for issues of protection and exploitation.

AdeleArdent oldest agricultural tool, our own dancing feet; in the Four Corners, between sacred mountains, in a place where the air burned and thrummed with the activity of extraction, we bore witness as Diné storyteller Sunny Dooley and elder Daniel Tso wove threads of allegory and history to suture and stabilize, as best they could, a landscape ravaged by fracking; we shivered out of our tents, pitched in the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains, into the 4am darkness to mark the flight of a test missile as it burned a path through the pale stars above Whites Sands National Monument, while below, in the evacuated park, soft winds gently obliterated the tracks made by children sledding on the dunes. Finding a way to craft these experiences into something share-

Paul Ross “Splitting Stone” by Viola Arduini

Jonah Yellowman, an elder and spiritual advisor to the Utah Diné Bikéyah who has been heavily involved in the battle to preserve Bears Ears, said it sounded like we were struggling to build the kind of relationships to this place that his people knew from the time they were children. Alex Kinney, an undergraduate art student who grew up in Salt Lake City, went down to the Dugway with the intention of interviewing tourists about Bears Ears National Monument. “But my interviews weren’t very successful,” he says. “They’d drive up, take a photo, and then would ask me about their next destination.” Instead, Kinney spent time observing frogs in a seasonally drying pond, where he notes that it became more about a connection or communication with something ‘else.’ ”It’s hard to tell if you are just talking to yourself, but you still put it out there,” he says. For my part, I felt a connection to the storm we had witnessed the evening of our arrival, which I had refused to document in any way at the time, neither taking pictures nor attempting to draw it in my sketchbook. Instead, I had tried to remain fully present as it passed by. That sense of embodiment became important to my artistic experiments. Mimicking the actions of the storm, I used my hair to soak up water from rain-filled rock pools and dripped it on to desert plants, bending down close to also bathe them in attention. In a further experiment, I used my mouth to carry water to the plants, nourishing them like baby birds as I sought to find a place of caring intersection between animal action and plant needs. Around the campfire one night, we described our experiments and investigations to Jonah Yellowman, an elder and spiritual advisor to the Utah Diné Bikéyah who has been heavily involved in the battle to preserve Bears Ears National Monument. He said it sounded like we were struggling to build the kind of relationships to this place that his people knew from the time they were children. Indeed, while some of the actions we took may have stretched the definition of art, and

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AdeleArdent may have felt emotionally messy, physically gross, or maybe even a little embarrassing (at least—full disclosure—mine did) if we want to look at a way of art-making that is not just about using a place, but is made with a place, fully embracing a relationship with others (whether those others are plant, animal, human), then I think we have to be willing to enter into a space where communication becomes possible. “Muley Point was the first place where my experimentation with different communication platforms actually started to make sense,” says art history PhD candidate Amy Catherine Hulshoff. One of her experiments involved using a flashlight, umbrella, and a knowledge of Morse code to beam signals into the dark places of the night, being open to a response to whoever or whatever might be listening. “I was trying to have a conversation outside the boundaries of language—especially between species. Jonah reminded us how to talk to plants and rocks, and I started using Morse code and light to send sound bites out into the atmosphere. The work itself was a dead end but my mindset was totally altered by the attempt,” she says. These intimate engagements with the community of landscape are just what LAAW Director Jeanette Hart-Mann is hoping to spark in

her students. Even in the time since the LAAW program was founded in 2000, there have been storms and seismic shifts in the social landscape to match the more literal shifts brought about by global warming. Many Land Arts program participants are interested in shaping a conceptual practice that makes room for activist engagement in these emergent issues. “The pressure points have changed for artists, and in many cases the pressure points are dire,” Hart-Mann says. “It’s no longer about conforming to the art market or the academy—art is being created by people concerned with daily survival, or concerned that the world as we know it is ending. It is important for students who want to tackle these issues to develop a skillset that is not tied to traditional concepts of production, but is extremely experimental.” As an assistant professor of art & ecology, she is particularly interested in the possibilities of grassroots activism and experimental art as sites for meaningful change. The cofounder of the SeedBroadcast Collective, which celebrates the idea of “agriCulture” with fellow artists Chrissie Orr and Ruben Olguin, she is also interested in the pos-

sibilities of reigniting the vital connections to place that a mechanized way of life has overshadowed. “There is an urgency that demands a move into the rooted and the local,” she notes. But putting down roots is a slow, intentional, messy process that involves a willingness to get down on hands and knees in the dirt. For me, as for many of my classmates, creating an artistic practice that allows for a responsive relationship with the larger world will be an ongoing process of growth and cultivation. ◆ Adele Ardent is an artist and writer living in Albuquerque, where she is currently pursuing a degree in Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico. She is a former CATALYST staff writer and illustrator. Her art appeared on our February 2017 cover.

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Speaking Volumes Transforming Hate

White supremacist literature becomes nationally acclaimed human rights art exhibit; in Utah now through September 3 BY MICHAEL MCLANE

n 2003, a member of a white supremacist group in Montana defected, taking with him a massive collection of the group’s literature and correspondence. In return for help getting out of the state, he turned the materials over to the Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN). MHRN and the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana turned two storage lockers full of vitriol from one of the most violent hate groups in the U.S. into a riveting art exhibition. Speaking Volumes|Transforming Hate has been touring the country for over a decade and recently arrived in Utah for an eightmonth stay. I sat down to talk with Katie Knight, an art and photography teacher at Helena High School and the former curator for the Holter Museum of Art in Helena who has been the curator of Speaking Volumes since it began in 2004. MM: Speaking Volumes has such a strange and fascinating backstory. Can you explain how it went from being a collection of white supremacist books to a nationally acclaimed multicultural art exhibition? KK: The Northwest part of our country is, historically, one of the least diverse areas; that may be the main reason white supremacists had the idea that they could take some political power. This group was originally called World Church of the Creator but renamed themselves the Creativity Movement. One member had land in the northwest part of the state where the organization was holding their rallies and demonstrations. Their agenda has been to exterminate all Jews and kill the “mud races,” which would be what they call people of color. Whenever they would have a rally, the Montana Human Rights Network would have a counter protest proclaiming

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Asking questions is a great way to gather around work and get young people thinking: “What’s going on here?” “What makes you say that?” “What else can we find?” It’s not important that they interpret it the same way that I do.

love and justice. So, the Creativity Movement organizers were well aware of the Montana Human Rights Network. The Creativity Movement is a pretty fractured, dysfunctional group. One of the leaders decided he wanted to put some distance between himself and his colleagues. He contacted Ken Toole and Christine Kaufmann, who were then the directors of the Montana Human Rights Network, and said, “I’d like to sell you 4,900 books and a bunch of original correspondence. I need $300 to get out of the state.” The books were written by Ben Klassen, founder of the Church of the Creator, and they have provided ideological continuity for the group, allowing it to survive through tumultuous leadership changes while also providing an income stream via internet sales. Ken and Christine did a little research because they did not want to buy stolen property, although they were quite eager to acquire the books. They found out that a federal judge had awarded all of the assets of the Creativity Movement to the Southern Poverty Law Center in a lawsuit, which gave Ken and Christine the go ahead to qcquire this material. A year later, in 2004, MHRN sent out 500 books to national research libraries and organizations that monitor hate group activity. They still had over 3,500 books and didn’t know what to do with them until Ken Toole’s son said, “How about we use them to make art?” Not too long after that, I became involved with the project. MM: What was your role at this point? KK: I was the curator at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, but I have been active with the Human Rights Network as a volunteer since I moved to Helena in 1999. When I heard about these books, my imagination

went wild. I thought it was a rare opportunity for artists to actually put their hands all on the same material simultaneously and then move in their individual directions in transforming hate. We worked for two and a half years to organize the exhibition. The show is a combination invitational and juried show so we were able to include some high-profile artists who had spent their lives focusing on social justice content. MM: Has there been any reaction from the Creativity Movement or its affiliated groups? KK: We were anxious leading up to the show. We were prepared to activate a communitywide network if someone was threatened. But we really haven’t seen much since we opened the show. MM: I’m wondering what you saw as the lifespan of this project. Did you ever think that it would have the duration that it has had? KK: No, no, I did not know that 14 years later I’d still be working on it. When we opened the show at the Holter in January 2008, Barrack Obama was being inaugurated and there was a certain kind of optimism and a feeling of tri-

umph over racism. But, in fact, what happened that very first year was a multiplication of hate groups. They were angry about immigration. And there are actually people with economic resources who may be using this movement to divide people and to gain wealth. Actually, the author Ben Klassen self-published all those books with the profits from his invention of the electric can-opener—a little bit of trivia there. Anyway, no, I didn’t anticipate the direction things would take. It’s extremely disappointing, what’s happening now in terms of social justice. MM: I want to talk more specifically about some of the artwork in the exhibit. In other conversations, you’ve referred to Jean Grosser’s piece, Shrines, as kind of a centerpiece of the project, at least from your point of view. Can you explain why you feel that way about that work? KK: In part, it is because it directly addresses the content of the books and their anti-Semitism. Grosser made eight beautiful little memorials that I think are extremely direct and touching. You have a portrait of the individual being memorialized—these people are relatives of hers who died in the Holocaust as well as some who survived. She put them into a little shrine with an artifact or object—a dreidel or a book, something of cultural significance to the Jewish people. Then she covered the shrines with pages from the books. Their edges have been burned. So, they aren’t really legible pages, but she’s transformed them physically. I think it’s a really poignant, intense piece that is historical and also relevant today. She is a wit-

ness with this work. This is a storytelling piece. It’s a metaphoric piece. It functions in a lot of different ways. MM: Some of these pieces are working through humor. I’m thinking in particular of the work from Enrique Chagoya, Charles Gut, and Jim Riswold. With such heavy material, and such high stakes in this work, what role do you think humor plays in encouraging empathy in viewers and encouraging people to support social justice movements? KK: First of all, I think the work represents a lot of different strategies, which is part of what makes it accessible to so many different people. Different pieces will appeal to different personalities. But humor was an incredible survival tool for a lot of historically oppressed groups who have used it to turn around that power relationship and take control of their own identity. Enrique Chagoya is a humorist who has a strong postmodern, intellectualist background. So, The Pastoral or Arcadian State: An Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America is based on The Jolly Flatboatmen by George Caleb Bingham. His work is also autobiographical. That’s him who’s been flayed. He’s skinless and dancing in the middle there with his Mexican sombrero. There’s just so much detail in his work. You can’t get it all. He’s also referencing the Thomas Cole work The Arcadian or Pastoral S t a t e , which is one of the five paintings in the series titled The Decline of Empire. The postmodern layering in his work is characteristic of someone with a really sophisticated academic background. But you don’t necessarily have to know any of this to smile when you see the work. As for Riswold, he has a great TED Talk describing how Adolf Hitler saved his life. He was a top designer in California, and he was diagnosed with leukemia. He took time off for

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treatment and during that time he started finding these crazy Hitler toys and then began juxtaposing them against more conventional toys. He was shocked that there were people actually collecting these little Hitler models, so he put them with the other toys to make fun of them. MM: During our opening night in Springville there were Cub Scout troops in the museum. One group turned the corner into the exhibit and saw those photographs and they immediately started tittering and whispering to one another. Their leader said “hey guys, we’re here to think about this stuff” and started asking them some tough questions. That made me wonder what tools you employ in working with children. This is really tough material for parents, for teachers, for anybody to deal with. So, how do you engage children and young adults in ways that are productive?

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KK: When we opened this show in Helena, we made it our third grade field trip, so every third grader in Helena came to see the show and then they created their own work. One of the ways that I really like to engage audiences is with Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). It’s really just asking basic questions. I could talk a lot about the art but it’s more meaningful to get a group of young people involved in thinking and sharing their perceptions. So, we ask, “What’s going on here?” and get people to make an observation. Two really great pieces for VTS are Jane Waggoner Deschner’s The Way Things Go, and Don’t and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith & Neil Ambrose-Smith’s Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes, both of which have a lot of ambiguity. You ask “what’s going on here” and it’s important to follow up with another question such as “what makes you say that?” People jump to conclusions and you really want to keep it connected to the art, read what’s going on in the art. Then you ask “what else can we find” to keep the conversation going and keep digging. VTS is a great way to gather around work and get young people thinking. It’s not important that they interpret it the same way that I do. MM: So many of these works employ everyday objects such as tables or a tire swing— I’m thinking of works like Strange Fruit, Superior and Cooling Table which all engage with these kinds of objects that are infused with a rhetoric and historical context that is so powerful. A child looking at a tire swing isn’t likely to think twice about it. It takes a more nuanced eye to explain that a tire swing isn’t typically secured with a noose. The phrase “banality of evil” comes to mind here. How do you think that notion functions within this project? KK: I think those pieces tie in to the idea that prejudice is taught at home from an early age, That’s obviously one thing that the “HATE cookies” are saying. The table is intended to be a library table, and with that book there, you’re invited to sit down and read. But you could become entrapped. You’re younger than me, so you probably didn’t grow up on the movie South Pacific. There’s a song in there called

“You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.” You’ve got to be carefully taught by your parents to hate and fear others. Initially it’s a self-preservation tactic. But one thing I like to do when I’m doing educational work with this show is to distinguish between prejudice — which we all learn and seems to be part of human nature, not necessarily a desirable part, though —and discrimination, which is an institutionalized system of oppression that gives more opportunity to some groups over others. But those pieces you mentioned, they’re very accessible, especially Cooling Table. I hope the cookies looked good for you guys. We’ve had to make so many replacement cookies. Even though Miguel Guillen coated them with wax or with acrylic, they still smelled so good. At the very first show, somebody took a bite out of one. I had to have my mother make us new hate cookies. It was a little uncomfortable for her. But it was an emergency, you know.

MM: Do you think the approach to this project would be different if this were all coming to fruition now? KK: I think the artists would likely make very different art. Also, things are increasingly pre-

carious for non-profit organizations including arts organizations; their economic survival is increasingly precarious. So, there might be a little more caution there. At the time, I was amazed how many Montana museums and nonprofit galleries booked this show. It was the longest, largest tour that I’d ever seen in the state or through the Museum and Art Gallery Directors Association of Montana. Now, I would hope that it would be equally or more successful. There’s certainly an urgency and there’s also a lot more artists who have become politicized now than there were before. MM: What has been your favorite part of the curatorial process for this project? KK: To me, it’s the human interactions. I have loved getting to know so many of these artists whose stories I now really carry in my consciousness. But what also gets me reenergized is working with community groups. Tuesday evening I sat down with people from the YWCA, the library, the school, the art museum, the Human Rights Network and the performing arts center in Helena. We’re all brainstorming and making plans for when this show reopens here later this year. Having everyone bring their expertise and passion and collaborate on this community dialogue in which our goal is to be a more just

society and to humanize our young people and to sensitize them to the humanity of everyone—that really recharges my batteries. When you’re alone at home trying to manage the nuts and the bolts and the trucks and the lifts and contracts and all that stuff, that’s not exciting. But collaborating on the programming is always really inspirational. It’s what keeps me going. ◆ Michael McLane is the director of the Center for the Book at Utah Humanities. He is a graduate of the Environmental Humanities program at the University of Utah and is an editor with the literary journals saltfront: studies in human habit(at) and Sugar House Review. He wrote about Warm Springs Park in the December 2017 issue of CATALYST.

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate is sponsored by Utah Humanities in partnership with the Springville Museum of Art and the Ogden Union Station Foundation with support from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums and the B.W. Bastion Foundation. Through June 2 at Springville Museum of Art, and June 15-September 3 at Ogden’s Union Station. For more information and related events: www.utahhumanities.org, hwww.smofa.org/speaking-volumes.php or www.speakingvolumes.net

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Freight switchers A notable source of local air pollution you’ve never even heard of before

BY ASHLEY MILLER

ast spring a unique and significant source of air pollution caught my attention. At that time, I was a member of the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Plan Advisory Committee and at our first meeting we were given a list of types of equipment eligible for replacement with the VW funds. The Utah Division of Air Quality presented the list to us along with a graph showing the cost per ton reduction of each of the types of equipment. The third lowest cost per ton on the graph was “freight switchers.” Freight switchers are locomotives that shuttle train cars around rail yards before they’re shipped across the country. Each unit comes with a price tag of over $1.5 million and a useful life of up to 60 years. There are currently 60 freight switchers in Utah and they are extremely dirty. All of these switchers operate in rail yards within the state’s PM2.5 non-attainment areas, areas classified as failing to

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meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards by the EPA. Forty-nine of these switchers are owned and operated by Union Pacific. Of these 49, 70% of them are “Tier 0+” and the remaining 30% are “Tier 0.” To put this into perspective, the current standard for new locomotives is Tier 4, which reduces nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 90% and direct particulate matter pollution 88.5%. Tier 0 and Tier 0+ are considerably dirtier than Tier 4.

Impact on the air shed The 2014 emissions inventory from the Division of Air Quality shows that freight switchers accounted for over 400 tons of NOx and 8.8 tons of direct PM2.5 air pollution. On a typical winter weekday in the Salt Lake Valley the total NOx emissions coming from vehicles is about 72 tons, so these freight switchers alone emit about five and a half weekdays’ worth of vehi-

“spaghetti bowl” operated by Union Pacific. This spike is directly related to the switchyard activity. Due to a number of factors, including Utah’s climate and altitude, freight switchers must remain running constantly, whether in operation or not. It is safe to assume that all 60 of the freight switchers operating in Utah are running 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, whether actually working or just idling. What can be done to clean up these switchers? And what about VW money? The State of Utah is eligible to receive $35 million from the VW settlement over the next 10 years (see CATALYST, December 2017). However, under the settlement, any equipment replaced with the funds must be completely destroyed. They cannot simply be moved out of the state and used somewhere else. But for a piece of equipment with a 60-year useful life that costs about $1.5 million, this isn’t reason-

On Feb. 23 the freight switcher bill passed the House by a very large margin and moved on to the Senate. Then it must be funded by the Executive Appropriations Committee. cle pollution annually, or about 2% of the annual emissions. It’s a lot of unnecessary pollution considering they could operate much cleaner. The switchers owned and operated by Union Pacific represent 75% of these totals. Union Pacific operates three switchyards in Utah, one in Weber County and two in Salt Lake City. Some striking evidence of just how significant a source of air pollution these freight switchers are came from data collected by the University of Utah’s Atmospheric Science Department’s TRAX air pollution monitoring study. The TRAX study collects air quality data by two air pollution sensors mounted on TRAX cars to measure PM2.5, ozone, NOx, methane and CO2 along the route. The TRAX data shows the two largest concentrations of NOx in the valley. The first spike comes when the train crosses paths with I15. This spike is expected because it is well known that vehicles are significant sources of NOx and other pollutants. The second spike occurs when the train is right next to the Roper switchyard, located near the I-15/I-80

able. Union Pacific currently has an excess inventory of switcher locomotives of the Tier 0 or 0+ standard, which makes the purchase of new equipment unnecessary for their business. There are many other options for great projects under the VW settlement that will have significant reductions in NOx pollution.

Can Utah force Union Pacific to clean up their operations? Unfortunately, states are preempted from establishing their own standards for locomotives under section 209 of the Clean Air Act. EPA has set the standard for locomotives, which basically only requires operators to repower or replace this equipment with a Tier 0+ designation, which is just slightly better than Tier 0. This is despite having much cleaner technology (Tier 3 or 4 engines) readily available on the market. As mentioned before, freight switchers are very expensive pieces of equipment and they have a very long useful life. So when companies like Union Pacific need to replace them, they can actually just repower the engines and keep the chassis of the switchers, rather than replace them with a brand new entire unit. Even states like California that often adopt stricter standards for air quality issues can’t get around the Clean Air Act on this one. They can, however, use non-regulatory tools, such as incentives and “memorandums of understanding” to get the operators to replace dirty equipment with cleaner technology.

One such tool is on the table in Utah this legislative session. Representative Steve Handy’s bill, HB 211, takes an incentive-based approach, where the state can offer grant funding to Union Pacific, in conjunction with other funding sources, like the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funds. Handy’s bill comes with a $2 million request for appropriation which, if leveraged correctly, can be used to replace up to three of these freight switchers. This would develop a pilot project where Union Pacific can pay a portion of the costs and become comfortable with the equipment technology and the repowering of their units, and hopefully will follow as good stewards of the community and clean up their fleet of switcher locomotives. Critics of the bill, pointing out that Union Pacific nets a multi-billion dollar profit each year, are concerned that having the taxpayers foot the bill to get these switchers cleaned up is a poor use of $2 million. They may have a good point. Union Pacific is willing to continue conversations about what will happen when the technology of the cleaner switchers is proven to work under Utah’s conditions. In the meantime, the community must keep the pressure on. It’s worth noting that trains are less polluting than trucks. These trains haul the materials of modern urban life: coal, lumber, metals, minerals, food and beverages, wind turbines, consumer products and more. Supporters of the bill say that incentives like this are necessary to get companies such as Union Pacific to begin implementing better practices. Take Tier 3 fuels, for example. A tax incentive was just what Chevron needed to commit to producing the lower sulfur gasoline for sale in Utah. And this will have significant impacts in reducing air pollution. The cost-per-ton reduction associated with cleaning up freight switchers is reasonable. (The Division of Air Quality’s analysis shows that switchers come in at $3,400/ton.) Considering these switchers produce a significant amount of emissions and the cost per ton for clean up is reasonable, this could be an important piece of a large and complicated puzzle that is Utah’s air quality problem. As industry works hard and invests in costly emissions reductions projects, the state must search for creative ways to look at other sources to get into attainment. Sources like freight switchers may have been overlooked in the past, but facing a designation of “serious non-attainment,” everything must remain on the table. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the program and policy director for Breathe Utah. She is a member of the state’s Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and is also on the Salt Lake County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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Take a kindness break

n recent years, our lives seem to have gotten harsher. Our culture has factionalized. No one wants to listen to anyone with whom they disagree. Dialogue has become not just disrespectful, but sometimes even violent. Social media is partly responsible for this. While I enjoy connecting with friends on Facebook, I sometimes feel a need t o stay away. There is such a thing as having too much political information. And much of what is called “news” these days is meant more to rile people up than it is to inform. If you are at all sensitive, this environment quickly becomes unsustainable. Practicing yoga asana can provide a welcome respite from the harshness. Yoga calms the nervous system and creates a state of ease in the body and mind. Yoga helps me survive and stay relatively sane. But can we do more than just survive? Can we, in addition, cultivate empathy and kindness, even in the midst of a harsh environment? I don’t intend to sound like Pollyanna here, but I think we can do more than just tread water. I believe that we can swim, even though it may seem that we’re heading upstream much of the time. I believe this because I’ve practiced metta meditation for the past 30 years.

Metta and the Brahma Viharas Metta (kindness) is the first of the four brahma viharas (divine abodes) in Buddhist practice. The other three are karuna (compassion), mudita (empathetic joy) and upekha (equanimity). These are states of being that we can cultivate through specific practices. Once we’ve practiced them for a while, they can become a foundation for us. So instead of simply visiting them once in a while, they become our mental/emotional/spiritual home. Metta is the simple wish for ourselves and for others to be happy. There is no agenda, and there are no expectations of payback or that the person we’re offering our kindness to actually become happy as a result. It is simply an offering, and in that offering, over time, we begin to cultivate a habit of kindness.

How to practice metta There are many levels to metta and brahma vi-

hara practices. Today I’ll introduce the simplest one. In upcoming articles, I’ll add more layers. The instructions I share today will apply to all the other posts on metta practice. In the future, I’ll simply add steps. 1. Sit in a comfortable position. If sitting in Sukhasana is comfortable for you, feel free to practice in a cross-legged position. If you choose to sit in Sukhasana, make sure your hips are elevated on a cushion or folded blanket so that your pelvis can tilt forward. Your knees

should be lower than your hipbones. If they’re not, choose a different position. It’s also fine to sit in a chair or with your back supported against a wall. It’s important that you be comfortable when practicing metta. It’s hard to generate kind feelings when you’re forcing your body into an uncomfortable position. 2. When you are comfortably seated, move your attention to your heart space. You may find it helpful to place a hand over your heart, or to cross your hands over your heart. Relax into the feeling of your heart space. 3. Choose an easy being in your life—a child, grandchild, cat, dog, grandparent—and invite that being into your heart space. It’s important that the being you choose is someone with whom you have an uncomplicated, easy relationship. 4. The “proximate cause” for the cultivation of metta is to reflect on someone’s positive qualities. So while holding them in your heart, reflect on what you appreciate about this person or animal. 5. Metta practice involves the use of phrases to express wishes toward the object of our meditation. I will offer several examples of metta

BY CHARLOTTE BELL phrases. Feel free to use these or to fashion your own phrases that express similar sentiments. Say these phrases silently while holding the object of your metta (your easy being) in your heart. Spend enough time with each phrase that you can imagine your easy being enjoying what you are wishing for them. 6. The first phrase: “May you be safe.” Other examples: “May you be safe and protected from inner and outer harm,” or “May you be free from danger.” 7. The second phrase: “May you be happy.” Other examples: “May you be happy and peaceful,” or “May you be contented.” 8. The third phrase: “May you be healthy.” Other examples: “May your physical body support you,” or “May you be healthy and strong (or vital).” 9. The fourth phrase: “May you live with ease.” Other examples: “May you enjoy the ease of well-being,” or “May you take care of yourself happily while living in this world.” (The latter is the traditional phrase translated from Pali language.) 10. Cycle through these phrases for as long as you want, paying attention to whatever feelings arise, and remembering to connect the wishes with the person or animal. In future posts, I’ll discuss the other types of beings to whom you can extend your kindness. But it’s nice to start with someone who’s easy. Sometimes the practice will feel juicy—you may experience strong feelings of kindness. Other times it will feel dry. Practice anyway. As meditation teacher Carol Wilson says, “Fake metta is better than real aversion.” You can practice for five minutes or for an hour. When I attend nine-day metta retreats, we practice all day long—while we are sitting, walking, eating, showering. Recently, I’ve taken to practicing when I wake up in the middle of the night. My normal habit is to worry in the wee hours. I’m changing this habit by practicing metta instead. We don’t always have control over what happens in our environment. The current harshness is a case in point. But we can influence how we respond. This is the power of practicing kindness. Like any other thing we practice, we can get “good” at being kind. When we come from a state of kindness, our experience of the world around us can soften. ◆ 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. CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

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Thrill Ride After the ripchord fails. The final moment of one’s life is one of those great mysteries that no living person fully grasps. BY AUSTIN ARCHER

top me if you know this one: You’re at a party eating finger foods and sipping a drink from a plastic Solo cup when someone asks if you’d rather die at home in bed surrounded by your loved ones, or go careening off a cliff face in a red Corvette blasting Aerosmith? I’ve had this conversation many, many times (probably because I’m the one who brings it up). The final moment of one’s life is one of those great mysteries that no living person fully grasps. For some of us it may be quick as a flash, with little to no time for contemplation. For some it may be a very long and drawn-out process, slowly but surely heading to finality. And for others, it may be a sudden event that almost certainly spells death, but takes just long enough to allow one to confront the enormity of what is taking place. The idea for my play Jump came to me after the first and only time I went skydiving. When I bought my ticket to voluntarily jump out of a plane, I remember thinking that one of two things would happen: Either I’d live and have the thrill ride of my young life or I’d die in the most spectacular fashion possible. What ended up happening was a third option that I hadn’t considered: I vomited for two hours straight and resolved never to skydive again; but that’s not important. The acceptance of the first two options got me thinking: People who free climb a 1,000-foot cliff face, or base jump into the Grand Canyon, or fly 200 feet in the air on a motorcycle are entering into a mental agreement with themselves wherein they’ll either

My play Jump is the story of a failed skydive. As you may have guessed (spoiler alert—but not really), someone dies because, well.… planes fly high and people aren’t supposed to live after they jump out of them. Jump’s narrative really starts in the aftermath of this tragic accident. We revisit the jump several times throughout the play because you can’t build a play around a skydive and not stage said dive. Admittedly an onstage skydive is entertaining but it’s also where the most dramatic and driving questions of the play live (and also it was the most fun part to write). Jump began as an exploration of that final moment of mortality. But it’s really about people, and grief, and the different ways we process death. That thing we all want to talk about at parties. That thing we all know is coming. The ground rising to meet the divers at breakneck speed. Jump is (mostly) speculative, but that’s what made writing it so much fun: deciding what a hypothetical end-of-life scenario to satisfy (mostly my) morbid curiosity—a thrill ride to finality—might feel like, sound like, look like. Maybe I’m the only one who’s curious about death in this way. But I don’t think I am. So, if you’ve ever been the slightest bit curious about what it might feel like to pull a ripcord only to discover your parachute isn’t going to open, JUMP just might be for you. ◆ live and have a great tale to tell or they’ll die in a blaze of glory. It’s an essential part of the thrill. You might be heading to your demise, but you’ll be accompanied by an intoxicating sense of presence and clarity.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

BY JAMES LOOMIS

very good organic gardener I know is some kind of worm shit witch doctor. They weren't born that way, but years of going steady with food-producing plants will do that to a person. We’ve all run through a forest or field at some point as children, picking random berries, bark, and pebbles to stir together in a pot in an effort to create mud magic. As an adult gardener, this activity not only gets more intense but now the search for ingredients to throw into the cauldron becomes more intellectual and well-financed. Witch doctor gardeners love to collect materials for their potions and elixirs. Bags of ground shells and powdered feathers rest on shelves below oils from sacred trees, various ancient rock dusts and the remains of long-composted sea creatures. These become fuel for future plants as well as the imagination. An informed garden witch doctor not only can acquire dried bat droppings with less than a day’s notice, they’ll ask you what grade you are looking for. And what species of bat you'd prefer shat it. For the witch doctor gardener a steady source of clean manure is kept secret, lest someone else take advantage of their shit. And wow, do the witch doctor gardeners love their magical manure! “How did you get such massive heads of broccoli and cauliflower this year?” a neighbor might ask. “Well, I mixed

horse poo with cow poo last spring, then gathered some buckets of pigeon poo from the 4500 South overpass and let it age like a fine wine. Once it matured, I mixed it with rabbit poo, llama poo, goat poo, alpaca droppings, and a wee bit o’ sheep. I added that to the beds. You know, standard poo procedure,” the witch doctor gardener replies. The biodynamic witch doctors are even more absorbed and absurd. Fresh cow manure is packed into hollow horns and buried in grand spirals underground. Sometimes this is mixed with ground plants and buried in the brain cavities of skulls, then oriented into specific relationships to the constellations. Mixtures of various powders and poos are stirred for literally hours at a time, first clockwise, then counter-clockwise, to allow for the full celestial power of the cosmos overhead to penetrate and imbue greater quotas of soil magic into the solution. How did we arrive at this point of personal poo apothecary? Perhaps for no better reason than because it works. The honest truth is that healthy soil ecosystems tend to take care of themselves with little fuss, and in fact, leaving them alone is often what results in the greatest yields. Go take a long and intentional look at your garden beds as they emerge from winter. If you haven't trampled or tilled, notice how lofted and light the surface of the soil is. Worms

have been busy over winter, burrowing thru the soil in search of fungi and other f o o d sources. They leave behind a slime trail, which happens to be absolutely delectable to certain classes of bacteria. As the bacteria consume this slime trail, they glue themselves to their food source, and preserve that worm tunnel in the process. Similar processes are also at work, and the end result is well-mixed and aerated soil without a drop of human effort. In our bioregion, late fall thru early spring actually sees one of the highest rates of microbial activity in the soil all year. There is serious work underfoot to decay and process all of last season’s organic matter into the next year’s nutrient reserves. Once you’ve cultivated healthy soil biology, you’ll never till, dig, or even broad fork your garden beds again. In fact, maybe they're this healthy because you stopped disturbing them. Of course, that leaves us with one small problem: The gardener’s hands are idle. Spring, in our culture, has always been the time to work the soil, and now that your microscopic mates are doing the work for you, what is left to do? (A gardener with spring fever is a dangerous force, often armed with too much motivation and free time.) Sure, there are a handful of cool weather crops that can be sown outdoors, and plenty to start indoors, but neither of those activities can stem the impulse to really work the soil. This is where our Witch Doctor Weekends come into play. Late winter / early spring is the perfect time to preload your soil with organic amendments. Organic gardeners have a clear advantage over conventional growers in maintaining soil health and producing enduring fertility. However, the materials we use to feed the soil generally have a slow mode of action. We rely on the action of the soil microbes to transform and store this nutrition in their bodies, and this takes time. Whether you utilize a pre mixed organic fertilizer, mix your own, or rely on composts to restore fertility, getting them applied now will assure you have a full complement of nutrients available later at planting time.

Witch doctor basics Using a leaf rake, gently remove the season’s accumulation of old leaves and other debris. Once the soil is exposed, note how aerated and lofted the soil is. If it isn’t, you need to pamper your soil more this season, and add a lot more organic matter. If it is, high five yourself, nice work. Now that the surface of the bed is exposed, you’re ready to get witchin’.

illoominated microbe meal (per 100 sq/ft) Granulated humates 1.5 lb. Azomite 1 lb. Alfalfa meal 1 lb. Kelp meal 1 lb. Sifted compost to cover All of these materials are readily available and produced in Utah. The humates feed the microbes directly, especially beneficial fungi. Azomite is processed into micronutrient reserves, and the alfalfa meal is processed into macro and micronutrient reserves. These reserves are held within the bodies of ever multiplying soil organisms, and will not wash away

Once you’ve cultivated healthy soil biology, you’ll never till, dig, or even broad fork your garden beds again. In fact, maybe they're this healthy because you stopped disturbing them. with spring rains. The kelp meal further reinforces micronutrient reserves, as well as providing a store of plant growth stimulants. In your favorite cauldron, blend the four powders together and thoroughly mix. Feel free to add flair at your discretion, including cackles, chanting, dancing or all three. Note there are four ingredients, and there are four cardinal directions. Feel free to add this theme to your ritual. You get the idea, have fun with this. Once satisfactorily mixed, spread the now magical powder evenly across the surface of the soil and, using a metal tined rake, gently mix into the top one inch of soil. Be mindful to have a stirring circular motion, rather than a linear raking action. You are trying to mix, not rake. Next, cover the surface of the soil with a half- to one-inch layer of freshly sifted compost, and gently rake this in as well. Finally, water this all in with dechlorinated water (either rainwater or tap water that has been left to sit overnight to evaporate out the chlorine). The microbes are now fed, and within weeks the soil will be ready to pamper seeds and transplants alike. The surface of your beds are now dark with fresh compost, and this will accelerate the warming of the soil. Clean your cauldron, put your feet up, and enjoy the season like a Boss. ◆ James Loomis is the Green Team farm manager for Wasatch Community Gardens.

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A defining moment In this era of white, homegrown terrorism, it’s time to step into the fray—that messy, alchemical place where hard conversations happen and new levels of action are executed. BY AMY IRVINE

am a mother and a teacher and I own guns. With them, I have hunted game for the dinner table, put down a wounded animal, and taken aim at two predatory men. It feels important to note that the men were white. When I was a girl, while camping with my family in the Utah wilds, a man entered our friends’ nearby tent, and held a knife to the mother’s throat while her husband and three children begged for her life. My father rose from his sleeping bag, took his pistol out from underneath his pillow, and left our tent in his Duofold long johns. He went to the other tent

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Our kids are facing a future in which an active and informed citizenry will matter far more than test scores and getting into good colleges. “devolving into a face-off of irreconcilable opinions.” I countered that this was a defining moment. In this new era of white, homegrown terrorism, the students have the chance to actually change the horrific version of the world that they are inheriting from us, and we must not retreat into our delusion that we are somehow separate from it all. She then challenged me to find someone who could do her job better. This happened in Colorado, where many of the nation’s mass shootings have occurred. This happened in an elite ski town, where there’s enough wealth, influence and imagination to change the world. I’d gladly give up my firearms— though they’re not the kind used in mass shootings—if that’s part of the trade-off. Anything, to ensure as much as I can that my kid stays alive, and that she feels safe enough in school to stay focused on the joy and necessity of learning—our only real insurance against tyranny.

But her school, the community of us, must stand with all the other school communities— which means stepping into the fray—that messy, alchemical place where hard conversations happen and new levels of action are executed. It means we should not only write letters to our elected officials—these days, they hardly help anyway. This means we should participate in the National Walk-Out, and with fanfare. This means we should inform and empower both students and teachers to express the kind of outrage and defiance that Emma Gonzalez has dared to express. Our kids are facing a future in which an active and informed citizenry will matter far more than test scores and getting into good colleges. The students of Parkland, Florida get this—albeit at such a heartbreaking price. So now, must we. ◆ Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and award-winning author. She divides her time between Moab and a remote mesa in southwest Colorado.

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March 2018

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“Thoughts on smokefree clubs” Editor’s note: While browsing through old issues of CATALYST, we came upon this “About Town” piece from March of 2006. Staff millennials, foreign to the days of smokey bars, restaurants and airplanes (and movie theatres, recollected if you’re really old), were amazed. Now, when one smoker standing outside can be smelled half a block away, it’s hard to fathom being in a room where half the people are holding cigarettes. How did this change come about? People spoke up. Legislators listened. Science and common sense prevailed. “People really can make a difference!” said Jane (age 11 when this story was first printed), happy to see this affirming evidence. It’s nice to be reminded. —GBdJ

BY CARL RABKE

n driving by the billboards that read "80% of Utahns want smoke-free clubs," I celebrate this rare occasion upon which I agree with 80% of Utahns. Senate Bill 19, sponsored by Michael Waddoups, proposes to amend to the Utah Clean Air Act. If it passes, Utah will join the exclusive ranks of New York and California in having smoke-free bars and restaurants. Smoking in clubs may soon seem as foreign as the cigarette dispensers that used to cozy up next to all the soda machines, or the smoking sections on airplanes or restaurants. While many have argued that the ban could have a detrimental effect on the downtown nightlife, it could, in fact, draw more people out to hear music or get a few drinks. A visit to a

club with even one person smoking (okay, they're probably chain smoking) can mean a shower and hair wash before bed and remember to leave your coat outside overnight so you can wear it the next day without smelling like a bar. The ban might even draw in more music and dancing. Local musician and violin maker Dan Salini, who values the many benefits of breathing, echoed the sentiments of other musician friends when he said he'd happily take more gigs to play downtown if he didn't have to play in smoking venues. For me, the real benefit of the amendment is for these musicians, the servers, bartenders and bussers who have had to breathe in eight hours of secondhand smoke as an occupational hazard. Having tended bar in a place so smoky it was refreshing to step outside for a breath of fresh air in even the worst of inversions, I'm delighted to know that those who choose not to smoke won't have to do so as part of their workday. For those who do choose to smoke, they can continue in a way that doesn't impose the ill effects on others. And, as a side effect, New Yorkers and Californians might finally feel more at home in Utah. ◆ Carl Rabke is a Salt Lake City Feldenkrais practitioner and tai chi instructor who still occasionally writes for CATALYST.

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Get the full calendar online: CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET/COMMUNITY-CALENDAR/ Or sign up for the CATALYST Weekly Reader – updates every Thursday: HTTP://WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET/SUBSCRIBE-WEEKLY-READER/ Mar. 1: Birds and Brews; Migration Edition @ Tracy Aviary. 6-10p. Drinks by Fisher Brewing, handmade art. Spot migrating birds in the night sky. $15. TRACYAVIARY.ORG Mar. 1: Saving Snow @ Brewvies. 7p. Documentary on how ski towns are coping with warmer winters. Panel discussion follows. $5. 21+. BREWVIES.COM Mar. 1-11: The Weird Play @ PlanB Theatre. 8p. A contemplation of love, because love is weird. By playwright Jenifer Nii. $20. PLANBTHEATRE.ORG Mar. 1-31: Spring Into Love Adoption Special @ Best Friends Pet Adoption Center. Mon-Sat: 11a-7p, Sun: 11a-4p. Adopt a cat for $10 all month long. BESTFRIENDSUTAH.ORG Mar. 3: Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p. 60+ local vendors, food producers and artists. Free. 300 S. Rio Grande St. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Mar. 3: Visual Poetry Workshop @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. 11a-1p. Explore intersections of visual art and poetry by creating a self-portrait with words. Free. UTAHMOCA.ORG Mar. 4: First Sunday Mindfulness Group @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 7-8p. Donation based. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Mar. 5: Brian Staker & Alex Caldiero: Displacement @ Weller Book Works. 8-10p. An interactive performance between two authors about

Mar. 7: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Open House @ Wheeler Historic Farms. 6-8p. Find a harvest share program for you. Free. SLCO.ORG/WHEELER-FARM

Mar. 10: Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p. Sixty local vendors, food producers and artists. Every Saturday. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Mar. 11: Brunch for Bibliophiles: Contemporary Literature w/ UMOCA @ Finca. 10:30a-12:30p. Discuss Fire Sermon by Jamie Quattro. Free to attend; food/drink not provided. UTAHMOCA.ORG Mar. 11: Spafford @ The State Room. 8p. 21+. $20. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 13: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story @ The City Library. 7p. Mislabeled as “just another pretty face,” this Hollywood icon’s true legacy is that of a technological trailblazer. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar. 15: Celebration of Norooz, the Persian New Year @ Rose Wagner. 59p. Special guest: Qais Essar Ensemble. Music, dance and activities for all ages with customs from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan and Turkey. 7p performance features BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble, Character Dance Ensemble, International Movement & Music Collective and SLC Ballet. Tea and sweets provided. Free. EASTERNARTISTS.COM ‘Splace’ (Space Place). Free. WELLERBOOKWORKS.COM Mar. 6: Chavela @ The City Library. 7p. An evocative, thought-provoking film that journeys through the iconoclastic life of Mexican musician Chavela Vargas. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG/ Mar. 7: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong @ The State Room. 8p. 21+. $20. THE STATEROOM.COM Mar. 8: Amplifying Women’s Voices @ Utah State Capitol Rotunda. 11:30a-12:30p. Celebrate a bright future for women and girls around the globe this International Women’s Day. KRCL.ORG Mar. 8: Chip Ward lunch lecture @ S.J. Quinney College of Law. 12:15p1:15p. Lunch and lecture with Chip Ward, author of Stony Mesa Sagas. Free. LAW.UTAH.EDU/EVENT Mar. 8: Charity Concert: Pixie & The Partygrass Boys @ Urban Lounge. 7p. Young Professionals SLC concert to benefit the Rock & Roll Girls Camp. $8. YPSLC.COM

Mar. 8: The Bee: On The Road @ Metro Music Hall. 6-10p. True stories of travel, adventure, wanderlust and taking the scenic route. 21+. $15. THEBEESLC.ORG Mar. 8: 306 Hollywood @ the City Library. 7p. Film and Q&A with director Elan Bogarin. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar 9-11 Nicolai Bachman, author of The Language of Yoga @ Centered City Yoga. Yoga sutras, ayurveda, philosophy. CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Mar. 10: Free Tea Tasting @ Natural Law Apothecary. 6-8p. NATURALLAW APOTHECARY.COM Mar. 10: Umphrey’s McGee @ The Depot. 7p. American jam band. For fans of Phish & Grateful Dead. $30. DEPOTSLC.COM

Mar. 9-10: Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Service Project @ GSENM. 8a-4p. Service project working to address trail & travel impacts in the Calf Creek Recreation Area/Spencer Flat. Two meals provided. Free. SUWA.ORG Mar. 14: Public Lands in a Changing West @ S.J. Quinney College of Law U of U. 12:15p-1:15p. Lecture addresses controversies around federal public lands. Free. LAW.UTAH.EDU/ Mar. 14: Dolores @ The City Library. 7p. The life of defiant activist Dolores Huerta, fighting for racial and labor justice largely without recognition. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar. 16-18: DABKE @ The Repertory Dance Theater. 7:30p. A night of choreography by Zvi Gotheiner. $20. RDTUTAH.ORG

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 42 Mar. 21: Wyclef Jean @ Metro Music Hall. 7p. $40. 21+. METROMUSICHALL.COM Mar. 21: Logan’s Syndrome @ UMFA. 7p. SLCbased artist Logan Madsen’s rare genetic syndrome makes him one in a billion. Pre-film art display and post-film Q&A. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar. 22: Grief Tending Ritual @ Saltair. 6-9p. Community ritual to honor grief as a force which helps us to love more freely. Free. NEWMOONRITESOFPASSAGE.COM Mar. 22: Dina @ Rose Wagner Theater. 7p. An eccentric and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving, unconventional love story. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar. 24: March For Our Lives SLC @ Utah State Capitol. 11a-12p. Local march for reform and action after the school shooting in Parkland, FL. Cameron Kasky, an 11th grade student from Stoneman Douglas, had this to say on “The Week”: “March 24th in every single city. We are going to be marching together as students begging for our lives. This isn't about the GOP, this isn't about the Democrats. This is about the adults. We feel neglected and at this point, you're either with us or against us." Free. FACEBOOK.COM/MARCHFOROURLIVESSLC Mar. 17: Sounds of Silk Exhibit & Presentation @ Marmalade Library. 3-5p. Extensive collection of musical instruments, traditional clothing and other items from cultures found on the ancient Silk Road. Presentation by Qais Essar & Dr. Lloyd Miller. Exhibit through Mar. 30. EASTERNARTISTS.COM Mar. 20-21: G. Love & Special Sauce @ The State Room. Back-to-back show from Philadelphia alternative hip hop band. $40. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 20: Roots for Resistance Spring Breakfast @ The Falls Event Center. In support of Utah Sierra Club in safeguarding Utah’s ecosystem. 7-9 am $25. UTAH.SIERRACLUB.ORG Mar. 20: What Happened, Miss Simone? @ The City Library. 7p. A portrait of musician Nina Simone, who lived a life of brutal honesty and musical genius. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar 21 Golden Braid Psychic Fair @ Golden Braid Books. 6-9pm. 20-min. reading for $25. 801.322.1162. GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM/

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Mar. 23: Hell’s Belles @ The State Room. 8p. All female AC/DC tribute band. 21+. $26. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 24: RJD2 @ Metro Music Hall. 8p. This songwriter/producer will perform songs from his latest album, Dame Fortune. $25. METROMUSICHALL.COM Mar 24 Crystal Boutique @ Safety Consortium. Local vendors & artists. 11a-5p. Free. WWW.LIVINGLIGHTSCHOOL.COM Mar 24-25 Holi Festival of Colors @ Spanish Fork Krishna Temple. Mantra music, yoga, meals, colors. Info & online registration: FESTIVALOFCOLORSUSA.COM/ Mar. 27: On Her Shoulders @ The City Library. 7p. Nadia Murad, a survivor of ISIS genocide and slavery, now finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of the Yazidi people. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Mar. 29: Water Trivia @ Squatters. 6-9p. Test your Wasatch water knowledge with Seven Canyons Trust! Register your team to play for a cause. Free snacks and prizes. 21+. $40. SEVENCANYONSTRUST.ORG Mar. 31: Tea Saturday for Children @ Marmalade Library. 7p. Part of the Tea Tuesdays series hosted by herbalist Josh Williams. Kids will make their own teas to take home. Free. RSVP. HERBALISTJOSH.COM Mar. 30 - Apr. 1: Gem Faire @ Mountain America Expo Center (formerly South Towne). Fri-Sat: 10a-6p, Sun: 10a-5p. Over 100 exhibitors showing gems and fine beads. $7. GEMFAIRE.COM Mar. 31: Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p. Sixty local vendors, food producers and artists. Every Saturday. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG

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hen a dear friend gave S u e Click a few LoveLies-Bleeding plants seven years ago, Sue was thrilled that she finally had this beautiful burgundyflowered plant in her garden. “My friend was moving and wanted to share her garden and spread it through the community.” Sue reminisces. The plant was drought tolerant, would grow anywhere and provided glorious garden eye candy. Sue and her husband Dave enjoyed gazing at the spreading plant, a self-seeding annual, for about six years. Then I happened to mention to her that the LoveLies-Bleeding is also known as amaranth, is edible and is off-thecharts nutritious. As Katrina Blair says in The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, Amaranth is high in protein, Eat them for muscles like Mr. Clean! Like many wild plants, amaranth is also flush with other good stuff, too: vitamin c, iron, calcium, manganese and potassium, and it has anti-inflammatory properties. Seeds attuned to our bioregion are available from Snake River Coop (available online and at Moonlight Garden Supply and Liberty Heights Fresh). Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds also carries amaranth. They are available in various heights. While they are drought

tolerant, they grow more robust when given water and good soil. Sue and Dave were overjoyed to have discovered this nutty, hearty, healthy plant and now enjoy a big helping at least once a week from July to October. Here’s their homegrown recipe. 1. Sauté onions until caramelized. 2. Add diced potatoes. 3. Add chopped Amaranth leaves. 4. Poach two eggs on top.

Note: Be sure to cook amaranth to neutralize the oxalic acid in the leaves. There are close to 70 types of amaranth and all parts of the plant are edible. Once you have it growing, you can ignore it just like Sue and Dave did, but remember to eat it! ◆ SNAKERIVERSEEDS.COM Jim French tends the Playground Garden in Sugar House.

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Bird house competition Wanted: whimsical, beautiful, practical, functional, artistic or magical bird houses! Entries for the 25th Annual Ogden Nature Center Birdhouse Making Competition are due March 19-24. All ages may enter and there is no entry fee. Cash prizes will be awarded and winners will have their birdhouses on display along the Ogden Nature Birdhouse Trail all summer. JL OGDENNATURECENTER.ORG/EVENTS/ITS-TIME-TO-BUILD-BIRDHOUSES

U of U lab develops biodegradable maxi-pads for Third World countries It began when SHEVA (a Guatemala based non-profit organization with the mission of empowering girls) contacted Jeff Bates, a scientist at the University of Utah who specializes in materials and engineering. His team specifically explores hydrogels that are great for absorbing and retaining water. After about two years of research and development, the 100% biodegradable, sustainable and vegan maxipad was born. They called it the SHERO. Using a layered design, the pad is made from raw cotton, organic cotton, brown algae and corn. Depending on conditions, the SHERO pad can decompose completely in a week to six

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months whereas typical pads, containing plastic, can take centuries to biodegrade. While this pad was designed to help women and girls in third world countries have better control over their feminine hygiene while reducing waste, the SHERO pad is pending FDA approval to begin shipping to US eco-conscious consumers through period subscription boxes soon. Sign up for updates at SHEROPAD.com.

Bags to Beds How does one turn 500 plastic bags into a comfortable sleeping mat? U of U students had the answer at the Clean Air Solutions Fair. They collect plastic bags and then cut and tie them into plastic yarn, or plarn. The plarn is then crocheted into 3-ft. by 6-ft. insulating sleeping mats. These mats are amazingly thick and soft. The students are making them to distribute to homeless people who often sleep on cold, hard surfaces. We spoke with one satisfied customer. “They really work,” he marveled. They also have the

Handy app to reduce food waste, feed more people Growing, processing, packaging and transporting food requires a lot of energy and results in more pollution than we might imagine. In America, we waste 40% of the food that is grown. That’s a lot of wasted energy and toil. Dana Williamson wants to lower that number in Salt Lake County with her new organization called Wasteless Solutions. In January, at CATALYST’s Clean Air Solutions Fair, Dana (with help from daughter Sage Nelson, above) demonstrated how food rescue works: The food donor submits their food rescue via a computer or smart phone and all registered food rescuers are alerted. When one of the rescuers claims it, they get a map that shows the pickup and delivery location. Food is delivered to any registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps low-income people. Discover more about rescuing food at WWW.FOODRESCUE.US/

potential to remove thousands of plastic bags from the waste stream. Drop off your bags at the Bennion Center on the first floor of the U of U Student Union Building. JF BAGSTOBEDS.ORG; BAGSTOBEDS@GMAIL.COM/;

Spring must be here: The brown bins are back in action The winter suspension on brown bins, AKA compost/yard-waste bins will be lifted on March 5. Every winter, due to low demand, the city stops picking them up, saving almost 100,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide (a climate-warming greenhouse gas) from unnecessarily entering our atmosphere and also reducing the city’s spending on fuel. We hope you compost or have a worm bin. Even those of us who do often have hard-tobreak-down biomass. That’s when you call on the brown bin.

Load up the bin with your excess yard waste and nonmeat leftovers (fruits, vegetables, egg shells, tea bags, coffee grounds). That waste is transported to a local compost facility where it is turned into nutrient-dense mulch and sold back to the community. Putting your food waste in the brown bins (vs. the trash can) diverts massive amounts of methane (another climate-warming greenhouse gas) from entering our atmosphere. Make the choice to divert your waste! SLCGREEN.COM

Recycle glass at DABC’s 300 West wine store Utah’s DABC has partnered with Momentum Recycling to bring Utah its first ever glass-recycling center at a DABC store. Check out the Wine Store near the 300 West Costco and you’ll see one parking spot is now taken up with four blue glass-recycling bins. This program is brought to us for free because it brings revenue to Momentum Recycling and our state. The glass is picked up, recycled here in Utah and returned to the industry here. One should

always choose glass over plastic because glass can be recycled again and again into glass with out ever losing its integrity (unlike plastic). Now you can drop off last week’s damage to be recycled as you pick up this weekend’s beverages all in one trip. DABC Wine Store: 280 W. Harris Avenue (1605 South). Photo credit: Terry Wood of the DABC Courtesy of KUTV 2 News,

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BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Going with the Flow, Beyond Illusion, Sorrow Medicine Cards: Wolf, Opossum Mayan Oracle: Dissonance, Manifestation Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Ace of Swords, Ten of Disks, Princess of Wands Aleister Crowley Deck: Prince of Wands, Magus – Trickster, Five of Wands Healing Earth Tarot: Seven of Pipes, Three of Shields, Three of Feathers Words of Truth: Dissociated, Control, Elimination

ithin you is a wildness that is attempting to be seen. It is attempting to rip apart your old world to show you a new and vibrantly alive potential that was always your birthright. What will that look like? That is up to you. This is a month to look deeply into the patterns and strategies that have been hiding you from some truth. The sword of truth is cutting away the dead wood and pruning your tree, so you can blossom more vibrantly. When you prune a tree, that tree may not at first produce so much fruit. But it strengthens the tree and increases capacity over time. This month you are being asked to make decisions that serve you over the long haul, knowing full well that you are not going to reap the benefits right now. There is conflict in the manifestation right now as you work through the dissonance that has been eating away at your energy and reserves. Pull back and wait until you have clarity. The controls you believed you had now seem like moonbeams in your hand. No matter how at-

tached you are or how well it worked before, let go of what is not working. You are in a place of controlled growth, being coaxed to move in a particular way and direction. It may feel unnatural, inauthentic. But you are being molded and shaped into a place that you never perceived of as important. You are becoming something very different from what your soul has expressed up to this point. Don’t worry. It is going to be okay. Eventually this will make sense. It is just that, right now, it is out of alignment with your former self. But you did not come here to maintain the status quo. You came to be magnificent. However, comfort and repetition lulled your powerful potential to sleep.

You did not come here to maintain the status quo. You are struggling to awaken. Yes, it’s so much easier to fall back into the numbness of the old dream. But something is calling to you. Now is the time for you to be and do what you are really here for. The Divine Feminine is poking at you to listen to her, hear her, and hear to the calls from the earth. Are you willing to surrender to the Divine? Are you willing to allow her to show you what you forgot you carry as a great gift? You are being asked to help ignite a fire that will tear down the world of deception and suffering. ◆ 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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March 2018 A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond by Catalyst Staff

Mar 1 Full Moon at 5:51pm Worm Moon: the Worm Moon, because the ground begins to thaw and earthworms reappear, soon followed by the return of robins. Sunrise: 7:01am; sunset: 6:18pm. Mar 2 Holika, or Holi for short, the Hindu Festival of Colors, celebrates the transition into spring. It’s a day to laugh and play and to forgive and forget. In Utah, it will be celebrated at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork on March 24-25. Mar 3 If you tilled your garden last year, there’s probably no need to till it again this year. Overtilling breaks down the soil structure, eventually turning even this healthiest soil into dust. If you do till, be sure to add lots of compost. Mar 4 In observance of National Grammar Day, take an online quiz to test your grammar, listen to the funny/snide “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Word Crimes” or haul out the Scrabble board. Mar 5 Loosen, but don’t remove, mulch around spring bulbs and hardy perennials. Mar 6 Start your warm-weather seedlings (tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants) under grow-lights now. Mar 7 Prune fruit trees and summer-blooming shrubs only until the buds start to swell, or you

won’t get any flowers (or fruit) this year. Mar 8 International Women’s’ Day! Attend a peacful rally inside the State Capitol. Amplifying Women’s Voices is hosted by KRCL’s Lara Jones and Eugenie Hero Jaffe. The purpose is to encourage women to run for public office, inspire all women to vote and to support legislation for equality for all. Mar 9 From sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow, join in National Day of Unplugging (HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALDAYOFUNPLUGGING.COM/), a 24hour global respite from technology, to highlight the value of disconnecting from digital devices to connect with ourselves, our loved ones and our communities in real time. Mar 10 Corn mache is a hardy, fast-growing, nutty-tasting green that can be planted in early spring and again in fall. Tatsoi, a member of the mustard family, is also cold hardy and quick to grow. Mar 11 Daylight Saving Time Begins: 11 (Turn Ahead 1 Hour) @2:00 am. Spring ahead! Mar 12 National Napping Day is observed annually the day following the re-

turn of daylight saving time. Mid-afternoon naps are an integral part of most cultures, and scientifically proven to be good for you. Mar 13 March's snowfall varies a lot from year to year in Salt Lake City. Three to 10 inches (8 to 26 cm) of fresh snow arrives in half the years. Less new snow lands in one out of four Marches, while another 25% are snowier. Mar 14 As if you didn’t already have great reasons to play in the garden: Research shows ongoing exposure to Mycobacterium vaccae, a bacteria normally found in dirt, strengths the immune system and also acts as an antidepressant, boosting serotonin production. Mar 15 For 20 days of March, the temperature is 50 °F max. or more. For 12 days of the month, it’s 32 °F min. or less (0 °C). Mar 16 Freedom of Information (FOI) Day is celebrated today, the birthday of James Madison, who is widely regarded as the Father of the Constitution and the foremost advocate for openness in government. Mar 17 New Moon 7:11am. Ever wondered what’s the difference between a new moon and a lunar eclipse? Basically, new moons happen when the moon is between the sun and Earth. Lunar eclipses occur when Earth is between the sun and the moon.

Mar 18 Half the time, Salt Lake City receives 1.1 to 2.4 inches (28 to 60 mm) of precipitation in March. One in four years has drier weather, while another one in four is wetter. Mar 19 Spring-related words we love: ozone, petrichor and geosmin. When the ground is thawing and it starts to rain, there’s this great smell…. Mar 20 First day of Spring. March Equinox (Vernal Equinox) is at 10:15 am. Mar 21 The latest on fats: Trans fats (aka partially hydrogenated oils) are still bad. But healthily rendered saturated fats are now finally revealed to be neutral or beneficial. On everyone’s “great” list: avocados, nuts, olives & olive oil, flax, salmon, tuna, dark chocolate, eggs and seeds (chia, sunflower, pumpkin). Mar 22 “Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.” @WORLDDAYOFMETTA

Mar 26 Yet another reason to exercise aerobically: It can lessen your risk of developing age-related cataracts and macular degeneration. Mar 27 Rhubarb is delicious and nutritious; just remember to eat the stalks only, as the leaves are loaded with oxalic acid, which is hard on the kidneys. Avoid muting its tart taste with loads of sugar; instead, stevia or other fruit makes a safely sweeter s a u c e. Plant rhubarb starts now. Mar 28 If you can safely r e a c h your rain gutters this would be a good time to clean out the moldering leaves and gunk deposited over the winter. Mar 29 Start planting beets, broccoli, Brussles sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radishes, spinach and turnips if the soil is dry enough Mar 30 Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In Germany, dancing and horse racing are prohibited today.

Mar 24: Earth Hour 2018: 8:30-9:30pm. Switch off your lights in solidarity with global efforts to protect our planet and its biodiversity. EARTHHOUR.ORG Mar 25 Why might you find Cesa Chavez new rocks in your garden every spring? Because soil freezes around the top of subsurface rocks first—then as it expands, it pulls the rocks upward. The loose,

Mar 31 Full Pink Moon. So-called because it marked the appearance of a flower called the moss pink, or phlox. Sunrise: 7:12am. Sunset: 7:51pm. Today also commemorates the kind and fearless labor leader, Cesar Chavez. ◆

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Mar 23 Those yellow bulges you see on both ends of a worm are cocoons, and they contain eggs. The worm wriggles them off into the soil, post coitus. The baby worms hatch a couple week later, tiny, but fully formed.

unfrozen soil around the base then fills in the cavity, so the rock remains in the new, higher position.

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Curated Film Media Education Artist Support

Upcoming Free Film Screenings

Come see our new arrivals fresh from the Tucson Gem Show CHAVELA

An evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. Oﬃcial Selection: 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Tuesday | March 6 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Damn These Heels Film Festival Year-Round

306 HOLLYWOOD

Post-film Q&A with director Elan Bogarin.

A house is a universe. Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house. Oﬃcial Selection: 2018 Sundance Film Festival Thursday | March 8 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

BOMBSHELL:

THE HEDY LAMARR STORY Mislabeled as “just another pretty face”, this Hollywood icon’s true legacy is that of a technological trailblazer. Winner: Best of Fest–2017 Nantucket Film Festival Tuesday | March 13 | 7pm Post-film discussion The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

DOLORES

Post-film Q&A with director Peter Bratt and Dolores Huerta moderated by RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

The life of defiant activist Dolores Huerta, fighting for racial and labor justice largely without recognition.

Winner: Audience Award Documentary–2017 San Francisco International Film Festival Wednesday | March 14 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC

WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?

An unforgettable portrait of musician Nina Simone, who lived a life of brutal honesty and musical genius. Oﬃcial Selection: 2015 Sundance Film Festival Tuesday | March 20 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

LOGAN’S SYNDROME

Post-film Q&A with subject Logan Madsen. Pre-film reception with subject and exhibited artworks at 6:00pm.

A portrait of SLC-based artist Logan Madsen, whose rare genetic syndrome makes him one in a billion. Literally. Wednesday | March 21 | 7pm UMFA 410 Campus Center Dr, SLC

DINA Peek Award presented by Academy Award winner Barry Morrow to directors Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles and subject Dina Buno.

An eccentric and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story. Thursday | March 22 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC

ON HER SHOULDERS

Nadia Murad, survivor of ISIS genocide and slavery, now finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of the Yazidi people.

Within you is the light of a thousand suns -Robert Adams

Winner: U.S. Documentary Directing Award–2018 Sundance Film Festival Tuesday | March 27 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC