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IN THIS ISSUE 7

SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP The heat is on.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK GRETA DEJONG

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DON’T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG

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BEE FEST WRAP-UP GRETA DEJONG Reflections on a very good day.

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DUST! ASHLEY MILLER From stardust to the Dust Bowl to what’s under your bed, .dust is a ubiquitous part of life. Here, we learn what dust means to modern-day Utahns.

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water-loving kids, she captures water’s visual magic — ripples, reflections, distortions — in paint. She shares, “I am particularly interested in the reflective properties of water, both physically and metaphorically. I want to compose joyful paintings that bring to mind playfulness and summer.”

Jamie Wayman’s paintings have been featured in Southwest Art, Salt Lake Magazine, Artists of Utah's 15bytes, Salt Lake Tribune, City Weekly, and AQUA. Her artwork is collected in Utah as well as nationally, and is featured in private collections from California to Florida. In July 2018 she celebrates her fifteenth year of exhibiting with HORNE Fine Art in Salt Lake City with a show — “15th Anniversary SPLASH.” ◆

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A CLEAN AIR AFFAIR JARED CAMPBELL

Volume 38 Issue 7 July 2018 Running Up for Air: Athlete and engineer Jared Campbell talks about his quest for clean air.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS JAMES LOOMIS Keepin’ it wild: Loomis visits Jim French at Playground East.

THE ARTFUL DAM LYNNE OLSON The Draw at Sugar House is heavily engineered to halt the progress of a major flood. It also tells a story of Utah’s past, and offers pleasure for those who visit it.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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DANCE KATE MATTINGLY NOW I.D. dances the Great Hall at UMFA.

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YOGA CHARLOTTE BELL

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LGBTQ GREEN AMY BRUNVAND Utah Pride Festival targets zero waste.

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METAPHORS SUZANNE WAGNER At an impasse? Choose a new path!

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URBAN ALMANAC STAFF A monthly compendium of random wisdom from the natural world and beyond.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

July 2018

The heat is on

BY DENNIS HINKAMP Ned: How’s the cop business, Oscar?

Oscar: Real good. Always starts hopping in weather like this. When it gets this hot, people try to kill each other.

— Body Heat (1981)

D

ays and tempers are getting shorter in this month of fireworks madness. You are probably going to have a few of “those days,” so plan for it.

I always look forward to the appearance of the blue and white “BE KINDER THAN NECESSARY” billboard that pops up around the Valley and Brigham City area.

Whomever the secret Santa is for this, please contact me and I will help go-fund it. Being kinder than necessary is just the kind of low bar we need to make this a memorable summer.

You don’t have to broker a denuclearization deal, rid the NFL of concussions or even find a quick way to kill bindweed. You can be kinder than necessary in small ways every day. You can be kind to other people, the environment or even yourself.

Let me get you started.

There’s a reason the phrase is “peace and quiet;” no quiet, no peace. I may have ranted about this before, but noise is the new secondhand smoke. We never liked secondhand smoke, but we sort of tolerated it because there wasn’t a lot of evidence that it was a health problem. Now we know better. We also know that hearing damage in early life does not heal itself. That ringing in your ears is from self-imposed damage from engine noise, power tools, rock music or screaming siblings.

All we need to change this is a few dozen angry Mothers Against

Noise (MAN; ironic acronym) and every device would have a muffler on it tomorrow. We have the technology, just not the will.

So until we have to impose more noise ordinances, be considerate when mowing, weededging, whacking, Harley Davidsoning, droning, dirt biking, etc.

S h a r e the roads.

Nothing good will ever come from driving angry whether your anger is directed at slow Prius drivers, Arizona-plate summer citizens, bicyclists, sheep, runners, crows, turtles, potholes or whatever else is robbing you of those gone forever 30 seconds of your life. Just pull over to the side of the road and play with your phone like everyone already does in the parking lot now. I’m sure that Facebook wombat video will help calm you down. Email me for the link.

Consider shopping less frequently. I admit guilt to my love of shopping on Sunday because of the smaller crowds. I also see that this is selfish and unproductive.

Some of my best consumer experiences in the Valley have been at businesses who give their employees at least Sunday off and let them go home at 6 pm. I know food services are different and I love Sunday brunch more than free beer, but maybe we could make Sunday the national, nonreligiously affiliated cook-at-home day. I’m working on it.

There is a reason it’s called “the bitter end.” You don’t have to endure everything. It doesn’t always make you stronger. Know when to get off the stage. This is where you get to be kinder than necessary to yourself. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp says, “I’m not negative, just observant.”

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ENVIRONEWS

July 2018

Ute Tribe, testified, “The day Energy Fuels can no longer pay to keep this place clean, the day they get sued and there’s a massive judgment against them, they’re going to walk away and we’re going to be stuck with this thing, the same way Ute Mountain is stuck with stuff, the same way I am sure Navajo is stuck with stuff.”

For the past three years environmental groups and Ute Mountain Utes have held annual protest marches against the mill.

Hunting in Bear River Bird Refuge?

Corona Arch added to National Recreation Trails System The popular Corona Arch trail near Moab, Utah has been designated as part of the National Recreation Trail (NRT) System. Although Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made a misleading announcement to say he was expanding recreational opportunities, in fact NRT designation is only available for trails that have existed for at least 10 years.

The Corona Arch trail was preserved thanks to the Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act of 2009 which set up a land trade of SITLA property in the Colorado River corridor for federal lands elsewhere.

Until the trade was completed in 2014, Corona Arch was located on land owned by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) which meant it was vulnerable to development or being sold. The State of Utah traded for land to develop as oil-shale and tar sands strip mines, so it was something of a devil’s bargain.

Utah has 18 other NRT-designated trails including the Slickrock Bike Trail and the Fisher Towers Trail near Moab.

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Uranium and the Trump administration The Trump administration wants to make uranium great again, and that’s bad news for Utah.

In May, the U.S. Department of the Interior released an updated list of “critical minerals” defined as non-fuel minerals essential to the economic and national security of the United States. For the first time, the list includes uranium. This suggests two disturbing possibilities: One is that the Trump administration plans to resume nuclear weapons testing. The other is that uranium has been added to the list arbitrarily as a gift to the uranium mining industry.

The industry has been applying pressure to end a 2012 ban on new uranium claims in the Grand Canyon watershed. In 2017 the Trump administration reduced the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monuments in part to free up areas with uranium mining potential.

In any case, the uranium industry seems to think there will be ore to process. In January

the Utah Department of Environmental Quality renewed the license of the White Mesa Uranium Mill operated by Energy Fuels Resources, Inc. near the Ute tribal town of White Mesa between Bluff and Blanding. The mill had been operating under an expired radioactive materials license since 2007. At a public hearing on license renewal, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman (the Republican candidate running to replace Mike Noel in House District 73) said, “I think it is a beautiful industry.”

However, representatives from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe expressed concern about the accumulation of radioactive waste and contamination of the water supply. Peter Ortego, General Counsel for the Ute Mountain

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to change rules at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in order to open 13,000 acres to hunting. The change would mean hunting is allowed in 40% of the Refuge.

The priorities of national wildlife refuges and national park service areas are now to promote hunting, fishing and shooting, according to an order signed last fall by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. But hunting would be an additional stressor on already threatened Great Salt Lake wetlands.

The Bear River provides about 60% of the fresh water that flows into Great Salt Lake.

However, a proposed Bear River Development Project would divert 22,000 acre-feet of water for human use, and Utah and

Idaho have requested to divert an additional 400,000 acrefeet of runoff from Bear Lake. If either or both of these projects happens, there will be no water left for birds.

Currently, the Refuge supports over 250 species of migratory birds including 67 species

that use the area for nesting. Priority species include white-faced ibis, American white pelican, snowy plover, black-necked stilt, cinnamon teal and tundra swan.

The Refuge was created in 1928 after public concern over huge bird die-offs.

Public comments are due by July 8. Send comments to BEARRIVERREFUGEHUNT@FWS.GOV. More info: FWS.GOV/NWRS/THREECOLUMN.ASPX?ID=2147614618

Yellowstone grizzlies in the crosshairs Wyoming and Idaho plan to issue licenses for grizzly bear hunting in the greater Yellowstone area, which means bears that wander outside of National Park boundaries could be shot.

Yellowstone grizzly bears were removed from the endangered species list last year, even though their population declined in 2016. The bears’ habitat is threatened by climate change and human development.

Grizzly bears currently occupy less that 4% of their historic range, and hunting will keep bears from migrating to find mates.

Removal from the endangered species list also means that more bears will be killed by ranchers and farmers.

The Center for Biological Diversity, National Parks Conservation Association, Humane Society, Wild Earth Guardians, Sierra Club and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe have filed lawsuits to restore endangered species protection for Yellowstone’s grizzlies.

On the opposing side, lawyers from the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are pressuring the court to allow trophy hunting to proceed. A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on the case for August 2018.

How oil companies lock up public lands A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in June found that oil and gas companies are locking up millions of acres of public lands in the Western United States by holding onto unused mineral leases.

In Utah alone, more than 1 million acres of public lands are held under “suspended” leases, which never expire, even though energy companies are not paying rent or royalties.

The suspended leases amount to a massive taxpayer subsidy for energy developers. A 2015 report from the Wilderness Society calculated that since the 1960s, suspended leases have cost taxpayers over $82 million in lost rents alone.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) grants suspensions without any opportunity for public comment, and once granted they are never reviewed.

The existence of suspended leases is often used to justify anti-conservation land use planning. Despite the surfeit of stockpiled energy leases, Republicans in the U.S. Congress currently have four bills in committee to loosen environmental regulations and “streamline” the permit process, encouraging energy companies to lock up even more public land.

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The corrupt Ryan Zinke A new report from the Western Values Project documents ethical lapses and poor judgement during Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s first year. Among other things, Zinke met with Utah Representative Mike Noel (R-Kanab) and then re-drew the boundaries of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument to accommodate Noel’s private property.

Zinke also purchased stock in Compass Minerals, a company that mines salt in Great Salt Lake and has contracts with U.S. Department of the Interior.

A Report on Possible Instances of Corruption at Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department. WESTERNVALUESPROJECT.ORG/ONE-YEAR-OF-CORRUPTION-AT-INTERIORUNDER-SECRETARY-RYAN-ZINKE/

Toxic algae is back in Utah Lake Summer heat has brought toxic algae blooms back to Utah Lake. On June 9 the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a warning advisory for Provo Bay telling people not to swim or water ski, and to keep pets and livestock away from the water.

Last summer toxic algae occurred in Utah Lake as well as eight Utah reservoirs, the Jordan River and Ogden City 21st Street Pond.

Toxic algae blooms are caused by nitrogen and phosphorous that wash into lakes and streams from fertilizer on agricultural land and lawns as well as manure and leaking sewage systems.

In 2010 there were just three reports of toxic blooms. In 2017 there were 169 reports nationwide including one that covered 700 square miles of Lake Erie. A new report from the Environmental Working Group says that the number of toxic blooms in the U.S. is increasing as a result of global warming. ◆ Harmful Algal Blooms (Utah DEQ) DEQ.UTAH.GOV/WATER-QUALITY/HARMFUL-ALGAL-BLOOMS-HOME

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

A time for awards Air Quality Ally, Best Magazine and more

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n May, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams presented CATALYST Magazine with the first-ever Salt Lake County Board of Health Air Quality Ally award.

The award was to recognize those in our community who have made specific, tangible efforts to improve air quality in Salt Lake County.

CATALYST was acknowledged for our coverage of air quality issues along the Wasatch Front, and for producing the Clean Air Solutions Fair the past two Januarys.

In addition to our gratitude for the acknowledgment, it’s the prettiest award ever! Thank you, Salt Lake County Health Department, Clean Air Solutions Fair volunteers (especially Jim French and David Brooks) and my excellent staff and writers, with a special shout-out to “Breathe’ columnist Ashley Miller! *. *. * Then, CATALYST won “Best Magazine” award from the Society of Professional Journalists/Headliner Chapter (state of Utah) in June. Journalists in other states choose the winners.

“CATALYST is fresh and provocative.

Makes me want to check out Utah,” wrote one of the judges.

We also took home awards in Division B. Congratulations to my incredible

BY GRETA DEJONG crew for producing the following wins: First place, Education: Katherine Pioli, “Seeing the World Whole: All-Muslim G.S. troop” First place, Review/Criticism: Diane Olson, “Gulp, Bonk, Stiff, Spook and Grunt.” “It’s a treat to read Diane Olson’s enthusiasm as it relates to the work of Mary Roach,” one judge commented.

First place, Magazine News Story: Elisabeth Luntz, “Town Halls: Community Forum or Curated Pep Rallies?”

First place, Business/Consumer: Katherine Pioli, “Bright Ideas Reap Rewards” Second place, Medical/ Science: Diane Olson, “Raccoon Poop is a Very Bad Thing” Third place, Arts & Entertainment: Sophie Silverstone, “Sounds of Mali in Utah: Tinariwen and Vieux Farka Touré” Honorable mention, Graphics/Best Single Page Design: Polly Mottonen Then, on June 16, about 1,000 of you attended Bee Fest (see page 12), exceeding our expectations!.

It’s an honor to be recognized for what we do. And it’s you, readers, who make our efforts worthwhile.

Thank you! ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is editor and publisher of CATALYST.

DON’T GET ME STARTED

This is your brain on bad science Salt Lake City to be test dummy for 5G-and-beyond technology

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he next, next big thing in telecommunications will be prototyped in Salt Lake City over the next five years. With funding from the National Science Foundation, a consortium of telecommunications corporations and universities will spend $100 million to prototype and test 5G and beyond, let's call it 5G Plus, in what's been dubbed Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research. PAWR. 5G Plus promises to give every one of us the ability to live stream video, float through virtually augmented realities, access account activity on our Swiss back accounts on a by-the-second basis or whatever it is we need a bigger data firehose for. Autobots/driverless cars and the internet of things will thrive on 5G. There won't be just one microwave microweb—there will be four or five. Each of the major telecommunications providers will be trying to improve signal strength and the user experience by saturating our environment with micro-doses of microwaves. You won't be able to go to the bathroom without being asked whether you want to use two-ply or three-ply paper by your digital toilet paper dispenser.

To do all of this, 5G Plus will blanket urban areas with many small microwave transmitters, each with a range of around 150 feet. Old-fashioned cell phone transmitters have an effective range of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. A cell with 10-12 transmitters can cover an area of a couple of square miles. It will take somewhere around 1,000 5G transmitters to cover the same area.

While microwaves are not ionizing radiation, like X-rays, gamma rays and ultraviolet waves, which can damage DNA directly, microwaves can rub polar molecules like water together and heat them up. Viz. our microwave ovens, which are well-shielded and well-regulated.

This heating effect in humans has been observed with microwaves in a phenomenon known as the microwave hearing effect, where zappees (test subjects) hear audible pops.The phenomenon is poorly understood and may be only the visible/audible part of an iceberg of physiological effects on our bodies and brains.

Not all of Salt Lake City will serve as the test zone. A strip from the University of Utah to

BY JOHN DEJONG West Temple between Second Avenue and 5th South will be blanketed with “small wireless facilities,” most of them on existing utility poles.

Others will be placed in vehicles.

Questions about the safety of cell phone use, on the current bands, are still not satisfactorily answered, even as we rush towards the next, next big thing. It would be nice to think that 5G Plus would be well regulated, but the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates

The bill greases the skids for installation of 5G Plus, outlawing any real citizen input. “We don’t want cities to prohibit the deployment of these small cells,” Bramble told Fox 13 the airwaves, is what political scientists call a captured regulator— meaning it's a stooge for the telecommunications industry.

The question as to whether (and how) dozens of microwave transmitters per city block will impact the health and well-being of area residents may not be answered to everyone's satisfaction for a long time.

One would hope that such an experiment would include a public health component, to answer the question of whether this new technology is safe. But the parties involved don't have time to wait for a good answer, and they are afraid of a bad answer.

Wicked problem Many scientific problems are relatively easy to solve—relatively speaking. They lend themselves to analysis with a few variables. Other scientific problems can be described as “wicked.” They have many variables, too many to yield a solution using current analytical techniques and data collection limitations.

The divide between simple and wicked problems is the difference between the “hard” sciences—mathematics, physics and chemistry; and the “harder” sciences—physiology, psychology, sociology and political science.

E=MC2 is child's play compared to figuring out the lifetime effects of environmental stressors on large populations.

When it comes to the physiological effects of exposure to radio frequency waves, most studies that show no effect didn't actually measure exposure to radio frequency waves, but rather relied on self reporting to estimate exposures.

Such studies can seem to have validity by virtue of the large number of data points and relatively long time frames. But none of them have data for more than a minor fraction (an eighth or tenth) of a human life span. One study done on rats attempted to assess the effects of RF/millimeter wave radiation over a period of two years. Strangely, the only “statistically significant” effect was a slight increase in testicular cancer in male rats. Two years is a lifetime for a rat, but hardly a blip for humans. Aluminum jock straps may soon be de riguer for family men. One commentator dismissed the findings as irrelevant because the results aren't applicable to humans. Why, then, is such a study being conducted?

Your brain on politics In the 2018 legislature, State Senator Curt Bramble got a law passed and signed by Governor Herbert titled the Small Wireless Utilities Deployment Act. The bill greases the skids for installation of 5G Plus, outlawing any real citizen input. “We don’t want cities to prohibit the deployment of these small cells,” he told Fox 13 News. One stated purpose of the bill is “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public.” The unstated assumption of the law is that cities and town shouldn't have a say in the health, safety and welfare of their public.

How refreshing, if Curt Bramble came forth to the citizens of Utah with an acknowledgement that he received generous campaign contributions from Comcast and AT&T. It would be nice if he let us know if he talked in private with lobbyists from the telecommunications industry and that in the best interests of the citizens of Utah, he was running a bill to eliminate the ability of local jurisdictions to regulate the emplacement of radio transmitters.

But he didn't. With politicians like Curt Bramble, who needs scientific studies? ◆ John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

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July 2018

BEE FEST WRAPUP 2018

CATALYST’s Bee Fest 2018: A Celebration of Pollination

A big thank you to everyone who made our June 16 event wonderful: the exhibitors, bakers, speakers, greeters, heavy lifters, go-fers, poets, gardeners, costume contestants, photographers and the powerhouse team that ran the children’s area. It was a day for making butterfly waterers, seed bombs, mason bee hotels and swarm traps; tasting honey, sneaking up on native bees, befriending spiders, shopping for seeds and plants, getting inspired to start a hive or learning to troubleshoot the one(s) you have. It was a day for learning, smiling, appreciating.

Thank you to the pollinators! And the weather? Perfect!

Thank you to Millcreek Coffee Roasters for jumpstarting everybody’s morning; Even Steven’s for providing lunch for our volunteers; and Water and Wellness for keeping us hydrated; to James Loomis and his crew at the Green Team Farm for welcoming us into their amazing space; and to the CATALYST staff who pulled together to make this a day to remember!

To our financial contributors: the law firm of Richards Brandt Miller and Nelson, and Slow Food Utah: an extra special thank you!

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Dust!

July 2018

BREATHE

From stardust to the Dust Bowl to what’s under your bed, dust is a ubiquitous part of life. Here, we learn what DUST means to modern-day Utahns.

BY ASHLEY MILLER

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Dust Storm, Topaz March 13, 1943 by Chiura Obata, See his retrospective at the UMFA showing through Sept 2.

f you live along the Wasatch Front, you’ve experienced this: windy days where you can’t help but think you’re stuck in the middle of a desert sandstorm. Highways close due to high winds and reduced visibility.

School children are kept inside for recess. The air quality monitors show increased levels of particulate pollution, and sensitive populations

are advised to remain indoors. A dust storm is blowing through. But where is it coming from? And what the heck is it that we’re breathing?

Utah’s maven of dust Dr. Maura Hahnenberger, an assistant professor in the Geosciences De-

partment at Salt Lake Community College, has become Utah’s maven of dust. She moved to Utah in 2001 to study meteorology and ski.

Despite the air quality problems that almost drove her from the state several times, she remained dedicated

to research and educating people about Utah’s air quality.

Hahnenberger’s research has the answers to our questions.

Hahnenberger wanted to get into research that really impacted people’s lives and health.

In 2009 she started noticing the frequent dust storms. This piqued her interest and she was able to start a research project focusing on dust in the eastern portion of the Great Basin, in western Utah. Her research, primarily based in Utah, has drawn comparisons to similar dust problems in California, Nevada and the Middle East.

Dust events concern people in three major ways, says Hahnenberger: air quality, transportation accidents, and increased snowmelt.

Health impacts are a clear concern for two criteria pollutants, PM10 and PM2.5. During dust events, decreased visibility causes transportation accidents. And dust deposition on snowpack increases snowmelt rates, which exacerbates problems of early snowmelt caused by climate change.

Hatu winds In 1967, meteorologist Mark Eubank joined the KSL Channel 5 News Team. He became known for his extreme enthusiasm for weather that would usually include a variety of sound effects, and was famous for wearing a white sports coat throughout a broadcast preceding or during a snowfall. Eubank was also passionate about wind. He was fascinated by the strong south and southwesterly winds that would bring significant dust storms up to the Wasatch Front. He called these winds “Hatu” winds (Utah spelled backwards).

These Hatu winds typically precede storm fronts, and blow south to north or northwest.

As these winds travel along the north/southtrending Great Basin ridges they pick up speed and fine sand, reaching speeds of over 90mph in some instances. Hatu winds peak in the springtime, with a secondary peak in August and September. Just as geography helps create strong inversions during the wintertime, geography plays an important role in declining air quality due to dust storms. The mountain/valley topography creates terrain that channels and funnels dust-bearing winds towards Salt Lake City.

Where does the dust come from?

Human-disturbed areas and barren playa (dry lake bed) surfaces are the two primary

Since 1847, the Great Salt Lake has declined to about half its historic size. Most of this decline can be attributed to human water use—removing water from rivers and streams that previously sustained the lake, for use in industries, farms and homes. dust sources, according to Hahnenberger’s research. To identify significant dust sources she and other researchers look at satellite imagery from dust event days. From the plumes in these images they are able to pinpoint where the dust originates and how far it travels.

They have identified playa surfaces at Sevier Dry Lake, Tule Dry Lake, the Great Salt Lake Desert and the Milford Flat burn area.

Sevier Dry Lake, located in the Sevier Desert in Millard County, causes the most trouble for the Wasatch Front. Like the Great Salt Lake, Sevier is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, fed primarily by Sevier River. The lake has been mostly dry throughout recorded history, due to diversions of water upstream for farming.

The Millford Flat fire of 2007 remains the largest wildfire in Utah history. It was started by lightning on July 6, near Millford, Utah (about three hours southwest of Salt Lake City). Fueled by drought, high winds and an abundance of dry weeds, the fire burned about 567 square miles. Firefighters assigned to the area claimed it was the fastest-moving fire they’d ever seen. It led to fatal wrecks on I15, loss of several structures and numerous evacuations. Efforts to rehabilitate the extensive damage to the land, to minimize longterm ecosystem damage, were challenging due to the complex soil patterns and low moisture conditions in this region.

The management team drilled, tilled and chained the surface of the land extensively in order to re-seed the area, but unfortunately hardly any of the seeds established, leaving

loose, disturbed soil over a foot deep in some areas as warm and dry conditions persisted for about a year after the fire. Ten years later, this dust continues to be stirred by the winds, leading to the dust storms we see in Salt Lake City each year.

What’s in the dust is what really matters Hahnenberger’s research has shown that the composition of dust influences air quality, which impacts human health and how ecosystems function. Local research has been able to identify unique chemical fingerprints in each dust site observed.

Dust from Southwest Utah and deposited in the alpine ecosystems of the Wasatch Mountains contains elevated levels of potentially hazardous elements that are, for the most part, naturally occurring in soil and sediment, but can also be elevated as a result of human-influenced deposits (such as mining) over decades.

Fugitive dust from local sources such as Geneva Rock, Kennecott, and other gravel pits is often composed of heavy metals, including mercury, uranium and arsenic. Crystalline silica may also be present in the dust from these sources and can cause chronic respiratory illness which has been shown to lead to cancer.

These local sources contribute to those days when dust can be seen throughout the valley, but also create a more frequent impact on neighbors living within close proximity to the sources. Permitting requires these sources to implement dust mitigation strategies, including watering to keep soil in place, paving access roads where possible, re-vegetating, and curtailing operations when specific weather conditions persist. Construction sites as small as a quarter of an acre are required to mitigate dust.

Though these strategies meet the definition of Best Available Controls, sometimes local weather prevails and the control measures aren’t enough to prevent neighbors from being impacted. For example, watering might not be effective when the wind reaches over 25mph.

Areas surrounding Geneva Rock see average winds above 25mph often, due to the topography of the land.

Neighbors and advocates alike claim further measures must be implemented or operations should cease. The rest of the valley may only be affected by dust just a few times per year, but neighbors close to these local sources can be affected daily.

The Great Salt Lake, a great source of dust Scientists and state researchers are closer to

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Continued:

BREATHE

Chiura Obata: An American Modern, a major retrospective of his work, features more than 150 watercolors, paintings, prints, and screens, including images he produced during dust storms at the internment at the Topaz War Relocation Center, located sixteen miles from Delta, Utah. Many of these works have never been on public display.

Chiura Obata was one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century. See his work at the Utah Museum of Fine Art thru September 2, 2018

figuring out what’s blowing in and from where, but can’t quite pinpoint exactly how much dust comes from the Great Salt Lake versus other sources. What they do know is that dust storms from a drier Great Salt Lake are of greater concern because of the hazardous elements beneath the surface and on the shore.

Decades of heavy metals and other toxic substances have built up, becoming trapped in the sediment. Even if only a small portion of a dust storm’s source comes from the Great Salt Lake, what’s in the dust could be especially problematic for local health.

Mercury is of greatest concern. Farmington Bay is one of the first areas to dry out when lake levels drop, and the Bay’s dust samples re-

PM2.5: Particulate matter (PM) that has a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers. To get an idea of how tiny that is: A human hair is approximately 100 micrometers, so 40 PM2.5s could fit on one hair. The problem is when those particulates, especially those of less benign substances, enter our lungs.

veal about double the amount of mercury measured in other parts of the lake. Researchers suspect the increased levels of mercury are due to the area’s industrial past—smelters that processed ore on the south shore of the lake and along the banks of the Jordan River, or the Sewer Canal, where oil refineries and other industrial sites once discharged waste into the Bay.

The Great Salt Lake dry-up: What causes the decline in lake levels?

As the level of the Great Salt Lake continues to decline, the threat to air quality rises exponentially. Researchers look to three main causes: weather, climate change and consumptive water use.

Lakes generally shrink and grow with natural climatic variation. A drought here and a big winter there will cause fluctuation in lake levels each year. But many of the saline lakes across the globe are shrinking at alarming rates, and the Great Salt Lake is no different.

In contrast to climatic variation, water withdrawals for human use exert a sustained reduction in lake levels, and modern civilization has significantly reduced the size of the Great Salt Lake. In October of 2016, the lake reached its lowest level in recorded history. Since 1847, the

Great Salt Lake has declined to about half its historic size. Most of this decline can be attributed to human water use—taking water out of rivers and streams for use in industries, farms and homes. The future of further decline of the lake level remains unclear, but researchers are confident that with decline, Utah will experience worsening air quality, some using the words “disastrous levels of air pollution.”

Utah has examples to learn from. Owens Lake in California was desiccated by 1926, when diversions from the Owens River were made for the city of Los Angeles. Owens Lake is the largest source of air pollution in the United States and the ongoing cost of remediation is formidable. Drying lakes, like Owens, cause major respiratory health problems for nearby populations.

Like Owens, the Great Salt Lake is a closed basin, meaning it doesn’t have any outlets; the only way water leaves the lake is through evaporation. But it suffers from decreased input.

Owens Lake was desiccated by human diversions. Similarly, the amount of water lost in the Great Salt Lake can be calculated by looking at the history of agriculture and urban growth.

The drying lake is the perfect recipe for dust storms. The lakebed is comprised of fine silt and salts deposited by streams over millennia.

The lakebed is more prone to create blowing dust than surrounding land area. The finer the silt, the easier it is for the wind to blow it around. Not much vegetation is able to grow in the salty environment, making it even easier for the silt to become airborne.

Further challenges to Great Salt Lake The Bear River Development project, designed to support the state’s growing population and water consumption needs, would dam and divert more water from one of the Great Salt Lake’s main feeds. The Bear River currently provides around 60% of the water flowing into the lake. The Bear River Dam would drop the lake level by an estimated eight and a half inches, or roughly 30 square miles more of lakebed. Environmental advocacy groups say this figure is potentially much higher, some claiming upwards of over two feet.

This decrease would have the most drastic effect across the Bear River Bay, where the lake is very shallow to begin with. Critics of this project say policymakers should focus on taking less water, not more, from the Great Salt Lake.

Consumptive water use Some of the water we use, such as that in toilets and showers, flows into a sewer and

One particular crop, alfalfa hay, consumes more water each year than all the cities and towns in Utah combined. Much of it is exported to China.

then on to a wastewater treatment plant.

About 71% of wastewater along the Wasatch Front is cleaned up and then deposited into Great Salt Lake.

Consumptive water use, on the other hand, takes water out of the system. This includes water for irrigation, such as lawns and crops.

Much of this water evaporates, or is absorbed by plants, preventing it from recirculating to a source.

With Utah’s growing population and plans to build a large diversion on the Bear River sometime in the future, the Great Salt Lake will take the biggest hit. Researchers say that with a changing climate and human developments, it’s quite possible the lake can go dry. The timeframe remains unclear.

Climate change Research has demonstrated that consumptive water use, rather than long-term climate change, has greatly reduced the Great Salt Lake. However, a changing climate shouldn’t be ignored. A warming trend in the region is only expected to get worse. Continued warming means further evaporation, and the only way for water to go out of the Great Salt Lake is evaporation.

The elephant in the room: alfalfa Statistics show Utahns use far more water than our counterparts in other population centers in arid Southwestern states, such as Las Vegas and Tucson. But even if Utahns began to conserve more and reduce water use by 10%, it would likely be offset by rapid population

growth. This is a difficult problem, but it certainly doesn’t mean Utahns should abandon conservation. Conservation is the preferred alternative to spending billions of dollars on large water projects.

Policymakers should focus on better landuse planning and reducing urban sprawl. Individuals can focus on re-landscaping yards, replacing lawns with drought-resistant plants to reduce water use or food-producing crops protected by mulch.

A more difficult—and consequential—challenge will be to address agricultural water use.

Utah’s hot and dry climate requires a much greater share of water for farmers to grow profitable crops. In fact, an estimated 82% of Utah’s developed water resources go to agriculture— and half of that, to one particular crop: alfalfa hay, which alone consumes more water each year than all the cities and towns in Utah combined, according to the Utah Foundation. Much of the alfalfa is shipped to China, where it supports that country’s growing dairy market.

But agriculture isn’t the only industry taking a toll on the Great Salt Lake. Mineral extraction and other industries require a lot of water to operate successfully. And most of these industries ramp up production during dry conditions. And just like extraction industries, watering, whether it’s for farming, or lawns and gardens, requires more water due to evaporation when temperatures rise. Abnormally hot and dry weather will continue to impact the level of the Great Salt Lake.

How to protect yourself during dust events Especially for those in the “sensitive” popula-

tion, it’s important to plan ahead for a dust event. Since they typically precede a storm front, local weather forecasters have become better at predicting dust events. And since dust events are visual, you can see with your own eyes when it’s happening.

It’s the regular air pollution drill: Keep school children indoors for recess during periods of elevated dust. People with pre-existing cardiovascular and respiratory conditions should also remain indoors. Limit outdoor activity. If you must be outdoors for extended periods of time during a dust event, wear a mask that adequately covers your nose and mouth.

And for everyone—neglect not the obvious: Make sure all windows are closed. No sense reactivating the storm later when you vacuum, dust and sweep.

Reduced visibility during dust events is especially problematic for traveling, as visibility rapidly declines, affecting roads, highways and airport runways. Proceed with greater-thanusual care.

When in doubt, check the Utah Air App, or the Division of Air Quality website for current air quality conditions at air.utah.gov.

And if you have an opportunity to share information about the importance of the Great Salt Lake in regard to air quality, to say nothing of its many other invaluable qualities, speak up.

Knowledge just may save the day—and the health of those to come. ◆ 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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A CLEAN AIR AFFAIR

Running Up for Air

Engineer and athlete Jared Campbell talks about his quest for clean air

BY JARED CAMPBELL

Earlier this year, CATALYST presented A Clean Air Affair—an evening of experts speaking on the topic of air quality. CATALYST worked with PechaKucha 20x20 (20 images, 20 seconds each).

The evening, MC’ed by Greta deJong (CATALYST and Shelley Bodily (PechaKucha), kicked off our Clean Air Solutions Fair at Trolley Square.

Over the next eight months you’ll meet some of our speakers and hear their stories.(Stories are edited for length and clarity.)

First is Jared Campbell, a father, engineer, athlete and clean energy geek. In 2011 Jared and his wife designed and built their own net-positive solar-powered passive house, which for seven years now has produced more energy than it has consumed. He proved to himself and others that such a home could be simple and affordable.

Campbell is also an endurance athlete who has competed in ultra-distance trail and mountain running races across the world. Several years ago he decided to put his passion for running to work in an effort help the quest for improved air quality. The result is a fascinating event called Running Up For Air.

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y family and I are here in Utah because we absolutely love this place. We take every opportunity to get out and explore this incredible and amazing state.

Passion and perseverence One of my passions is long distance running, something I’ve been doing for about 15 years now. I’ve traveled a bunch throughout the United States and also across the world.

I’ve done about 35 different 100mile races. I was the youngest person to finish the Hardrock 100 and then I moved on to the Barkley marathons in 2014. These two challenges, each about 60 hours in length, require really unique mindsets.

Preparation People ask me all the time, “How do you get ready for this stuff?” On the mental side of things I like to focus on the condition of optimism—looking at any negative thing that might come your way as an athlete and turning it around, finding a silver lining. Anything sub-optimal, I say, is good training.

One thing, however, that I can’t seem to get over is the air pollution.

Protection But I’ve run through that in the winter time. and when I do, I put on a respirator. It’s not uncommon for me to start at 5,000 feet and run up. I can literally feel the temperature change about five to 10 degrees as I exit the inversion.

At that point I take my mask off and I set it in a tree and continue running to the top.

One year as I was running up Grandeur Peak, I noticed these little sensors, spaced evenly as I looked up the mountainside. I later learned it was a study being conducted by an atmospheric studies group up at the University of Utah, on PCAPS (Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study).

Here I was training – and thus breathing intensely – in the exact location where scientists from across the world chose to study air pollution.

My friends made fun of me because, with all my training, I was avoiding social events.

Rather than just go out there on my own and run around the hills, I asked myself, ‘Is there some way to take what I need to do here and do something bigger?’

I turned to my friend Chaz, who was finishing up the MD/PhD program at the University of Utah—he went on to become a respiratory infection expert—and said, “If I were to raise money and donate it to a nonprofit group, who would do the most with every dollar?

Without hesitation, he said, “Breathe Utah.”

So I created the Running Up for Air chal-

lenge. I was going to run up and down Grandeur Peak 10 times, something no other runner had done. Nobody believed I could do it, so I said, “If you don’t believe I can do it, put your money where your mouth is—put $3 or $5 down for every lap I do—and you only have to pay if I do all 10.”

Pathways and people Sometimes the people who choose to lead have to be willing to do a lot of extra work. What’s interesting is after that first person decides to lead and poke holes in the snow, and a lot of people follow them, eventually we have a path. And while you definitely experience this as a runner, it’s a beautiful metaphor for activism as well.

Eventually we have a path. Eventually we can move more efficiently and we can get places.

After that first person decides to lead and poke holes in the snow, and a lot of people follow, eventually we have a path. It’s a beautiful metaphor for activism as well.

So this event has become about people— the runners, but also the volunteers. The amount of work that goes into making this thing happen is no small feat. People volunteer to spend four, eight, 12 hours on top of a peak—in the middle of February. But people love it. They feel that they can make a difference. And we do this for the place. As I said at the beginning, we do this because we love this place. If you haven’t been at the top of Grandeur in the winter, I encourage you to go up. It’s an incredible view.

Powerful The runners also feel powerful. They’re able to take this thing they are passionate about— their running, their training—and feel like they’re part of a bigger cause. I get told all the time, “I love that I can come out to this event, it

pushes me… but I also feel that it’s making a difference.” Companies have gotten behind this, too. Patagonia approached me a couple of years ago and said, “Jared, your event is the only race we know of in the country that started out of an environmental reason. It didn’t start as a race that decided to donate money.

We love that.”

They’ve gotten totally behind this.

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Partnership The event has also spread. The Front climbing gym in downtown Salt Lake has a sister event held on the same day called Climbing Up for Air. They’re donating money to the same cause. People scale the walls for 12 to 14 hours. And there’s a now a Colorado equivalent in Evergreen.

We now also do a pre-race event, where you can hear from people talking about the mission of Breathe Utah, and hear a doctor talk to us about the physiology of running and air pollution and then the athlete’s side, as well.

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Participate Look at yourself and ask, “What are my talents and skills? How might I be able to do something with that?” Something as simple as a person running can be useful to the community. How can you use your own passions as a force for good? ◆ Jared Campbell is a member of Breathe Utah’s advisory board. To participate as a runner or volunteer: RUNNINGUPFORAIR.COM, INFO@RUNNINGUPFORAIR.COM

Running Up for Air # of participants: 125 runners at any point in time across the various (24, 12 and six hour) events.

Age range: 15-75 Funds raised: $38,000 over the years; $10,000 in 2018 Location: Grandeur Peak (from 2016 to present it has taken place in Church Fork) Next event: February 9, 2019 Info: RUNNINGUPFORAIR.COM INFO@RUNNINGUPFORAIR.COM

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

July 2018

Keepin’ it wild Playground East is an experiment in permaculture

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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ucked away in the Highland Park neighborhood, “Playground East” clearly lives up to its name. The plot is indeed a playground for permaculture enthusiasts, a research station for them to further their land stewardship techniques in an urban setting.

The difference between the permaculture approach to food cultivation and that of most other organic agriculture is seen between Playground East and their neighbor on the adjacent plot, Keepin’ it Real Vegetables. Tidy organized rows of crops on one side, sprawling guilds of multi-story plant communities on the other. Keepin’ it Real vs. keepin’ it wild; I’m pretty sure both sides of the fence are winning.

The shift from annual food plants to perennial food plants is what makes Playground East so resilient and efficient.

Boasting over 40 varieties of edible and medicinal perennials, the Playground East vision is facilitated

by Jim French. “Even the weeds we have are edible and medicinal,” he says. “Take plantain, for example. If you get stung, you chew some leaves into poultice, apply it to the sting, and voila! No more pain.”

The word “permaculture” describes an approach to agriculture based on attention to interrelationships among plants, trees, animals, insects, and other components for health and productivity. A pillar of the Salt Lake City permaculture community, Jim leaves his vegetative signature wherever he goes: It’s purple orach, a delicious spinachlike plant that propagates profusely (see CATALYST, July 2017—“Orach: Nutritious, Attractive and Easy to

Grow!”) or as I have dubbed it, “Jim French Graffiti.” Whenever Jim works your property, the purple orach will soon follow. Jim never leaves the house without a pouch full of seeds.

The Playground East project began on November 5, 2014, as a renovation of a plot previously used for vegetable production on a large lot owned by Michelle and Michael Colvin. The 1/8 acre garden was designed on a napkin and built the same day—which, Jim will admit, is perhaps the worst faux pas an individual might commit in the permaculture design process.

However, the team got it right, and the garden is lush and productive in less than four years.

With flood irrigation waters that don't begin flowing until late May or early June (and then only sporadically, as the garden is at the end of the irrigation line), the layout and water conservation strategies are crucial for success in our arid climate. (At crucial times, Jim has been known to deliver water to the plot on his electric-assist bicycle.) “It’s all about holding the winter snow and the spring rain.

It’s really worked,” says Jim as he points out the various elements interlinked to form the foundation of the garden.

A giant “J”-shaped Hugelkultur mound forms the perimeter on two sides. Hugelkultur is a German technique for building soil and storing water by burying stumps, logs and other excess woody material that often pile up

Deep mulching is another strategy Jim uses to preserve moisture, and he is taking this technique to the next level by eventually producing all of the mulch needed on site. on large land stewardship projects. This material is combined with compostable materials as it is buried, then covered with soil, which results in the perfect habitat for beneficial fungi to colonize and consume the wood. This liberates the nutrients held within, and the fungal biomass forms a giant biological sponge which holds tremendous amounts of water and fertility which it can then deliver to plants at a later date, in exchange for starches and sugars from the plants.

Deep mulching is another strategy Jim uses to preserve moisture, and he is taking this technique to the next level by eventually producing all of the mulch needed on site. Perennial winter rye grass, comfrey, ornamental grasses, lamb’s quarters and other plants are routinely

“chopped and dropped” to continually renew the mulch layer.

Plants such as comfrey, as well as dandelion and chicory, act as “dynamic nutrient accumulators.”

When included in this mix of mulch plants, they provide additional nutrients mined from the subsoil by their deep taproots.

Most importantly, the shift from annual food plants to perennial food plants is what makes garden systems like Playground East so resilient and efficient, while significantly lightening the workload for the land steward. Egyptian walking onion and tansy enjoy the protection of a peach tree overhead, and all three stand guard over strawberries and thyme. Elderberry, honeyberry, gooseberry and seaberry (aka sea buckthorn) are peppered around the plot, all very drought tolerant and delicious. Blackberries and red, golden, and black raspberries lurk everywhere.

“I look at Playground East as a way to spread the community’s plant library. It’s an incubator for other people’s successes. The raspberries originally came from my neighbors. They establish themselves here and then go on to others. Ninety-eight percent of the plants here were orphans,” Jim says.

All of this work was done without power tools or petroleum, “except that one time I borrowed a Sawzall,” he admits. Jim usually commutes to the site, and almost everywhere else, by bike.

Jim is a permaculturist even be-

Jim French at play.

yond the garden. He’s active on community issues of recycling, solar power and air quality, and since the beginning has been an invaluable assistant to CATALYST in the ongoing success of the annual Clean Air Solutions Fair.

“It’s a wonderful situation,” Jim says, looking around.

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FORM & FUNCTION

The artful dam The Draw at Sugar House is heavily engineered to halt the progress of a major flood. It also tells a story of Utah’s past, and offers pleasure for those who visit it.

BY LYNNE OLSON

Drone photo courtesy of Adam Isaac Hiscock

riences in countless journal entries, which include descriptions of the difficulties they encountered during their first year in “Deseret.”

They arrived in July 1847, too late to plant much more than subsistence crops. When most of those failed due to pests and drought, the pioneers took advice from Native Americans who introduced them to foods indigenous to the region. The following spring, settlers foraged for edible greens and wild berries, and they learned to use the flowers, seeds and roots of something they had never seen before, the native sego lily.

The saga of how the sego lily saved the lives of Mormon pioneers became so ubiquitous that in 1911 the plant was designated as Utah’s state flower.

This summer, a monument to the native Calochortus nuttallii will be dedicated in Sugar House Park. A giant sego lily is the signature feature of The Draw at Sugar House, designed

by Patricia Johanson, world renowned as a pioneer in ecological art. Each structural and aesthetic element of The Draw recounts a place or event in the journey of 19th-century immigrants through the canyons of the Wasatch Mountains into the Salt Lake basin.

This is an important project, and one I hope will point the way toward the future—environmental sculpture that coincides with civic infrastructure. This would be the first flood control system in America that has not only been designed as a work of art, but also accommodates many layers of functionality, from safe highway crossings to trails, wildlife corridors, educational programs and tourist magnet. (Patricia Johanson, 2014, in an email to Mary Kay Lazarus)

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he epic history of the American migration west has inspired generations of scholars and novelists. Utah created an official state holiday to honor the courage and tenacity of the thousands of people who were driven or drawn to find a sanctuary in the valley of the Great Salt Lake.

The Mormon pioneers recorded their expe-

The Sego Lily at the Draw was designed so the “petals” function as the dam’s armature. The north petal’s curve adds extra strength. It will catch and turn powerful waves of water so they won’t erode the soil under the road.

I never design until I have discovered the meaning of the place. Each place has a unique set of conditions, and we need an intimate understanding of what it has been, is now, and will become in the future, in order to create a design that is more than a willful act. (Patricia Johanson, Art and Survival: Patricia Johnson’s Environmental projects, by Caffyn Kelley: Islands Institute, 2005) Seen from the ground, the paved trail and tunnel under 1300 East by Sugar House Park. appear to be attractive, albeit unusual pedestrian features for an urban business district. The green pavement; rugged red-sandstone walls; wide and well-lit tunnel; and natural landscaping invite bicyclists and joggers to pause for a moment and wonder what they are seeing.

However, from the heights of nearby buildings or from an aerial perspective, The Draw resolves into a series of miniaturized landmarks that invites those who are familiar with the

story to recreate the pioneer trek in their minds.

ing down in one direction only and sloping of the sculptural features to match the towerupward in three others. ing red sandstone “hoodoos” on the west side The gigantic “Sego Lily” with its stem and of the crossing. It provides seating and a pathThe artistic elements, historical narrative, edu- slender leaf emerges from a grassy bowl, a mi- way from 1300 East . down to the tunnel’s encational programs, wildlife habitat and public crocosm of the Sugar House Park basin. Sugar trance at the base of the Lily. amenities in “The Draw” are all o v e r - House Park surrounds a detention pond for The west end of the tunnel is guarded by the laid on functional structure— Parley’s Creek and 1300 East functions as a four giant “Witches,” representing the famous Parley’s Trail, the pedestrian dam. 1300 East at this point landmarks of the Hasting-Mormon Trail. A 1916 tunnel, retaining walls and south is actually U.S. Geological Survey described them: “The flood control. (Patricia Jolisted on the State name ‘Witches’ is suggested by the form of the hanson, 2013) Registry of Dams. cap rock of one of the monuments, which is Planning for Parley’s Gilbert says he wor- shaped something like the fabled witch’s hat.”

Trail began in 1992, ried that the state Between these two enormous images, the when Salt Lake City dam engineer would underpass and trail to Hidden Hollow recall adopted an open object to a tunnel that parts of Echo Canyon, with an exposed coal space plan that dewould breach the bar- seam and rock strata distorted by a slip fault. scribed an off-road rier. Instead, the dam The “living wall” west of the Witches is stepped bicycle-pedestrian engineer welcomed and battered, pocked with niches for nesting corridor connecting construction of a spillway birds and festooned with trailing plants. the mouth of Parthat would direct excess Bron ze m ley’s Canyon to the floodwater safely away If the heart of this project is infrastructure— odel of Se go Lil Jordan River Parkway. Salt from the park and back highway improvements, flood control and y by P. Joh Lake County’s Master Plan for the trail into Parley’s Creek on the stormwater purification—its soul is the living anso n recommended a below-grade trail crossing at west side of the road. landscape: —the sounds of chirping insects and 1300 East, where a Utah Central Railway spur A flood control lift gate, located where birds, the croaking of frogs, the whir of bats, driponce crossed the road. the Lily Bulb now overlooks Parley’s Creek as it ping and gurgling water—all carefully recorded In 1998, students from Beacon Heights Ele- disappears under the in Mormon jourmentary’s KOPE Club decided to tackle the road, is frequently overnals. “Willow Springs,”, problem of how to cross the dangerous high- whelmed during flood “Copperas Spring”-—way that intersects Parley’s Trail between Sugar events, so another spillwhich ran over red sand House Park and Hidden Hollow Nature Pre- way was required to reand looked like blood— serve. KOPE, Kids Organized to Protect the En- lieve pressure on the -- and “Oil Spring,”, vironment, was a problem-solving club for dam in the event of a where Mormons mainly middle schoolers that took on specific 100-year flood. greased their gunstocks environmental challenges and saved Hidden The Sego Lily at the and wagons, are all real Hollow (see CATALYST, June 2018).

Draw was designed so places, and so the art The following year, KOPE sought input from the “petals” function as unfolds like a contemresource specialists including community lead- the dam’s armature. The porary journey-iners, transportation engineers, flood control east petal crests a reinforced berm that will resist miniature, as we retrace the pioneers’ steps planners, and police and other public safety of- scouring if floodwater overtops the embank- through a sculptural landscape.—Patricia Joficials. They recruited students from Dr. Peter ment. It is lined with seven veins (a reference to hanson, presenting “The Draw at Sugar House” Martin’s Community Transportation class at the the seven creeks that flow into the Great Salt to an audience at the Getty in Los Angeles University of Utah, Department of Civil and En- Lake Valley) around irrigated rows for growing Johanson’s land art floods the imagination vironmental Engineering. Their study sup- typical pioneer food crops. The beds will double with the memories, symbols, and feelings of the ported the children’s conclusion that a tunnel as drainage channels, if needed, to direct flood- men and women who walked the same path was the best approach for a safe street cross- water down to the bottom of the Lily. over 100 years ago, as well as reminding us of ing. (See “Sugar House Draw,” CATALYST, April The north petal is a heavily engineered wall the forces of nature we do our best to negotiate 2004, and “The Draw at Sugar House,” CATALYST, with a curve to add extra strength. It will catch with. This Pioneer Day, as The Draw at Sugar May 2006.) and turn powerful waves of House installation nears comIn 2003, Salt Lake City invited competitors water so they won’t erode pletion, take time to visit and to submit proposals for a Sugar House Pedes- the soil under the road. The contemplate the images trian Crossing. The winning design by local Lily’s green stem and leaf You may enter Hidden Hol- which reflect the lives and landscape architect Steven Gilbert (now prin- complete the sculptural low from the parking lot be- dreams of those in the past, cipal of ArcSitio Design) and famed environ- flower and are part of the and even the future, as we hind Whole Foods in Sugar walk in the same footsteps. ◆ mental artist Patricia Johanson was chosen trail that leads to the pedesHouse. The trail begins Lynne Olson enjoys volunteering for the for its careful attention to the cultural and trian tunnel. They also work north of Petco. A short walk Sugar House Community Council at Hidden ecological history of the place, and its poten- as conduits for any water tial to enhance the transportation corridor. that overflows the Park pond will get you to the Draw. Al- Hollow and for the Parley’s Trail Coalition.

The pedestrian passageway was to be invit- and road. ternatively, approach from Sheri Lyn Sohm also contributed to this article. Lynne’s article,”Then and now: Kids Oring and open to the sky for most of its length, The third petal of the Lily is Sugar House Park on the ganized to Protect the Environment,” appeared with massive sculptures at each end. A draw, a maze of planter boxes and east side of 13th East. in the July 2018 CATALYST. in the world of geography, is a low area, slop- benches, colored like the rest

The underpass and trail to Hidden Hollow recall parts of Echo Canyon, with an exposed coal seam and rock strata distorted by a slip fault.

How to visit the Draw:

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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/ Jul. 10 - Aug. 14: Rumi: Light on Life 6week Workshop @ The Inner Light Institute. 1-3p. Explore Rumi’s words on enlightened life and the art of seeing facilitated by Rasoul Shams, Director of the Rumi Poetry Club. Prior knowledge of Rumi required. $100 (for all 6 weeks). THEINNERLIGHTCENTER.ORG

Jul. 1-4: Adopt Any Pet for Free @ Best Friends. BESTFRIENDS.ORG Jul. 5: Creative Writing Basics @ SLCC Community Writing Center. 6-8p.

Come with a story in mind or a desire to learn. All levels welcome. $30.

SLCC.EDU/CWC Jul. 6: Venture Out! Into Nature @ Scott Avenue Park (3475 S 800 E, Millcreek). 6p. Outdoor recreation clinics, live music (Herban Empire), a movie (Jumanji) under the stars, food trucks and fun for the whole family. Free.

Jul. 11: Acme Sessions: Uncovering the Separation between Islam, Culture and Politics @ Marmalade Branch. 6:30p. Open discussion with mediator. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Jul. 12: Connections & Communications @ Golden Braid Books w/ psychic and spiritual teacher, LaVonne Wells Sandberg. 6p. Free.

Jul. 6: Dubwise w/ Bukez Finezt @ Urban Lounge. Berlin native, Bukez Finezt is one of Germany’s most active and versatile Dubstep producers.

Also w/ Durandal, Funkmod, illoom. $5/$10 - before 10p/after. 21+.

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Jul. 11: KRCL Presents Wye Oak @ Metro Music Hall. W/ Madeline Kenney.

8p. 21+. $18/16 adv. KRCL.ORG Jul. 7, 14, 21, 28: Downtown Farmers Market @ Pioneer Park. 8a-2p.

SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Jul. 7: Gypsy Wisdom Psychic Fair @ Crone’s Hollow. 11a - 9p. Tarot, mediumship, oracle card and past life readings, pet readings, palmistry, energetic clearings, intuitive healing and massage. CRONESHOLLOW.COM Jul. 7: Venezuela Festival Utah @ Library Square. Noon - 10p. Venezuelan Culture and Traditions come alive with brilliant colors and live music, with artists and performers from California, North Carolina and Utah.

Venezuelan food, from arepas, pabellon criollo, cachapas, and empanadas to perico and more. Free.

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HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU Jul. 8 & 22: Sunday Series w/ Brandi @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 11:30a. $15. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Jul. 10: OPEN MIC NIGHT @ People’s Coffee. 6-9p. Presented by CATALYST Magazine. Guest-hosted this month

by Pepper Rose. All welcome. Free.

Jul. 12: Strike a Chord: Indian Bell Anklets @ UMFA. 1pm. Free. Family art-making time. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Jul. 13: UMFA in the Wild: Antelope Island State Park | Make a Nature Rubbing Book @ UMFA. 7:30p. Family art-making time. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU

Jul. 11: Dark Money @ Rose Wagner. 7p. A political thriller examines American Democracy. Free.

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Jul. 14: Storytelling for Grown-Ups Workshop @ Vitalize Community Studio. 1-5p. Facilitated by Giuliana Serena & Nan Seymour. Explore some of the "hows" and "whys" of compelling storytelling and attentive listening through a combination of guided writing prompts, oral storytelling exercises, and practical instruction. $90. THEBEESLC.ORG Jul. 12-15: 12th Annual Prayers for Compassion @ Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple.

Thu. 7pm - Sun. 3pm. Contribute to the recitation in the mantra of compassion for the benefit of others and self. URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG Jul. 14: Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei @ Artspace Zendo. 7:30a - 2p. Sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talk and meditation instruction. Lunch provided for pre-registrations. $1540. T WOARROWSZEN.ORG/EVENTS Jul. 17: Sylvan Esso @ Ogden Twilight.

5-10p. With support from Unknown Mortal Orchestra and local spotlight Audio Treats. $10. OGDENTWILIGHT.COM

Jul. 25: Creativity in Focus Film Series | Loving Vincent @ 7p. Free.

UMFA.UTAH.EDU Jul. 26: Tickets on sale for The Bee // Healthcare on Aug. 9 (Metro Music Hall) @ THEBEESLC.ORG. Lovingly competitive storytelling of sickness and health, complications and recovery, and the challenges that arise in the providing and receiving of care. 21+.

Jul. 26: Big Wild & Jai Wolf @ Ogden Twilight. 5-10p. With support from Shamir and local spotlight Madge. $10. OGDENT WILIGHT.COM

Jul. 20-22: Damn These Heels Film Festival @ Rose Wagner. LGBTQ experience, struggles and thoughts are explores and shared through 23 feature films, three shorts, post-film discussions and parties. $70-500.

UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Jul. 21: Color Journey Collages @ UMFA. 1-4pm. Third Saturdays for families. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Jul. 21: 10th Downtown Yoga Festival + 1st Indian Food Fair @ Gallivan Center. 9a-6p. Includes yoga, music, meditation, eating, get-togethers and more. A wide variety of yoga classes, workshops, and seminars for all skill levels and ages. $29. DOWNTOWNYOGAFEST.COM

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DANCE

Beyond the proscenium NOW ID dances the Great Hall at UMFA

W

hen I met Charlotte Boye-Christensen 24 years ago, we were graduate students at NYU, and I’d never seen a choreographer combine complexity with precision in such fascinating ways. Fast forward two decades and Charlotte continues to be drawn to seemingly impossible tasks, or as she says, “predictability can be disabling.”

As artistic director of NOW-ID, an interdisciplinary contemporary dance company she runs with her husband Nathan Webster, Charlotte has become known for collaborative events in unique sites: 2013’s The Wedding at the Masonic Temple, 2014’s Feast at Saltair, and It’s Not Cracker (2016) at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. This summer NOWID has selected another museum in Salt Lake City for A Tonal Caress, which takes place July 12 to 14 at Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA).

“I’ve always been interested in site-specific work and have done it since the beginning of my career,” says Charlotte. “After 11 years as director of Ririe-Woodbury and simultaneously doing a lot of commissions with other companies, I reached a point in 2012 where I was so tired of the same old format.”

Charlotte has created many original works for conventional theaters (those that use a proscenium arch to divide the stage from an auditorium). “Of course you could change how a theater looked,” she adds, “but unique spaces create context and tell stories.”

Collaborating with Nathan, an architect, Charlotte seeks out atypical venues that, she says, influence her “movement invention process.” Working in various settings, with audiences sitting around the performers, Charlotte becomes keenly aware of how her choreography changes depending on a viewer’s perspective.

BY KATE MATTINGLY Both choreography and architecture direct people’s movement through environments..“Architects do more than make things that don’t collapse or leak,” says Nathan.

“We are trained to study the history of spaces.

There’s poetry involved in design.”

Sitting together for this interview, Charlotte and Nathan have a rapport that mirrors the symbiotic process of their performance creation, riffing off of ideas and adding to one another’s sentences. “New buildings like UMFA feel different from older places like Saltair,” says Nathan. “But all places have stories and sensibilities. They have structural rhythms and they move people in ways that inspire us.”

A Tonal Caress will feature Walter Kadiki, a Deaf poet based in Australia. The word “Deaf” (with a capital D) refers to an emerging movement to embrace the cultural norms, beliefs and values of the Deaf community.

Gary Vlasic, a long-time collaborator and board member with NOW-ID, introduced Charlotte to Kadiki’s work when he was featured in the online video Poetic License: Louder Than Words on NOWNESS.COM, a global video channel that presents stories about art, design, fashion, beauty, music, food and travel.

Charlotte was captivated by the passion and commitment in Kadiki’s poems, even though she doesn’t use sign language. Australian Sign Language, which is used by Kadiki, is different from American Sign Language, adding to the complexity of the project.

For Charlotte, Kadiki’s performances speak to the resilience and fortitude needed in times of crisis, which she connects to the election of Donald Trump and “feeling disconnected with the ways things are going.” She describes Kadiki’s work as evoking a “focused desperation,” which is “exactly how I feel.”

A Tonal Caress presents a more “focused” viewing experience for audiences. “In certain spaces, such as when we work outdoors there

are many things that get lost in translation or get distracting,” says Charlotte. “The nature of this piece demanded a more controlled environment.” Audience members will sit facing each other across the hall to watch the performers, who will use both the staircase and the floor of the Great Hall as their stage.

It’s fitting to create a piece about communication in a museum, Nathan says.

Dancers Jo Blake, Liz Ivkovich and Sydney Petitt will bring the discipline of dance into a museum that has a rich display of visual arts.

Come early to view Great Salt Lake and Vicinity, the work of Spencer Finch currently hanging in the Great Hall. Its tiny squares of color that describe the landscape surrounding the Great Salt Lake invite a new way of looking at colors and shape—a good visual warmup for what’s to come in the performance.

Charlotte says she’s inspired by the cavernous volume of the Great Hall and is “finding ways of accenting the ‘up-space.’” Vlasic will also create an installation Vlasic on the museum’s grand staircase. Meanwhile, Nathan has been connecting with Deaf communities in Salt Lake City to invite them to the performances.

Support for this multifaceted endeavor has been provided by Texas Tech where Charlotte is head of the Dance Program, Arts Access Victoria in Melbourne, and locally through ZAP, The John and Marcia Price Family Foundation and individual donors.

After this project, when the fall semester resumes, Charlotte will return to Texas Tech where she’s creating a curriculum in interdisciplinary performance. She sees site-specific work as an essential part of young artists’ education. As she says, “Once you’ve had experience with site projects, as artists and audiences, when you return to a proscenium, you see space differently. We see the power in eliminating the fourth wall separation, and connecting audiences to the work.” ◆ Kate Mattingly is an assistant professor in the University of Utah School of Dance. Her writing about dance has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice and elsewhere.

Who: NOW ID Dance Company (Charlotte Boye-Christensen, artistic director); coproduction with Gary Vlasic / V. Project What: A Tonal Caress Where: The Great Hall of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) on the campus of the University of Utah Date: Thursday-Saturday, July 12-14 Time: 8pm (doors open at 7pm) Tickets: $35 (student/senior discounts).

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July 2018

Animal wisdom How to practice yoga wisely in the heat of summer

BY CHARLOTTE BELL

I

n early June I visited the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. In my childhood, I’d spent many days wandering around visiting animals in this same zoo. For 50 years, the Cincinnati Opera performed in a pavilion at the zoo. My parents were opera buffs and attended not only the performances, but also the dress rehearsals. My sisters and I roamed the zoo while they got their opera fix.

Today’s zoo is nothing like the one I grew up with. America’s most sustainable zoo, Cincinnati is a showplace of woodsy winding pathways and ample animal environments.

The zoo’s amazing facelift is not why I went to visit, although it certainly piqued my interest. I went to visit Fiona, the famous 29-pound premature-born baby hippo whose tale of overcoming her rocky beginnings—thanks to her heroic care team—and eventual thriving (now pushing 800 pounds) I’ve been following since three weeks after her birth.

Our five-hour zoo day was a typical Midwestern summer day with both temps and humidity in the mid-80s. The morning wasn’t too uncomfortable, but in the afternoon, the heat and humidity became oppressive.

The hippos, Fiona and her mother Bibi, were unfazed by the heat. The word hippopotamus comes from the Greek word meaning “river horse.” Hippos in the wild spend up to 16 hours a day in the water to escape the heat. We were fortunate to get to watch Fiona and Bibi performing their graceful water ballet for more than an hour.

The other animals, including normally active animals like meerkats, were quite sedate. Most were sprawled out sleeping or awake and unmoving in shady oases. They had the right idea.

This made me think about how we approach yoga practice. In order to accommodate 9 to 5 work schedules, most classes, including several

of my own, take place in the hottest part of the day. It’s true that most aren’t outdoors, and some even happen in air-conditioned spaces.

Still, because of the propensity for popular yoga classes to focus on Vinyasa—fast, flowing movement, often in heated rooms— the trend seems to run counter to the instincts of even the most naturally active of the zoo animals I encountered. The animals knew to slow down and preserve their energies during the hot afternoon. In the heat of summer, nonhuman animals understand that producing even more heat through excessive activity overheats their bodies and likely saps the energy they may need later on to hunt for food or escape predators.

How can we follow their example? There are several ways, and they don’t all involve giving up your active yoga asana practice. Here are a few of the ways I practice and teach with the intention to minimize the possible heating effects of movement: • Choose poses that don’t create excessive heat. Emphasize supported poses, including supported backbends; seated or lying-down twists; forward bends; and balancing poses.

Avoid emphasizing abdominal strengthening poses, deep backbends and extreme poses that force your body into positions that inhibit your ability to breathe deeply.

• Slow it down. There is such a thing as slowflow Vinyasa. If you prefer a flowing style of practice, you don’t have to give that up. Just try moving more slowly and mindfully, giving attention not only to the formal poses in your flow, but to the transitions between asanas as well.

An added benefit to a slower, more mindful practice is that you are less likely to accidentally push past your healthy range of motion. Continually pushing your range of motion can damage joints over time.

• Avoid heated yoga rooms, at least for the summer. In the heat of July and August, our bodies are already chronically overheated. Practicing yoga in a hot room may exacerbate this. It’s true that there are people whose bodies love excess heat. Perhaps practicing in a

heated room may be less of an issue for heatloving individuals. But for the rest of us, excessive heat can sap energy reserves.

• Practice with cooling intention. When I was studying in India, Geeta Iyengar spent an entire practice encouraging us to practice with what she called a cooling intention. She taught that we could practice Iyengar yoga staples such as standing poses that are normally considered to be heating, but not generate excessive heat simply by how we approached them.

When we practice with forcefulness, with an intention to “get somewhere” in an asana, we create tension, and therefore, heat. When we settle back into our bodies and allow each asana to unfold incrementally without pushing or forcing—without trying to push to extremes in order to satisfy our concept of what the asana should look like—we create less stress and therefore, less heat. Subtle, but it does work.

Our bodies, like those of our fellow animals, are designed to move. We don’t have to avoid movement entirely in the sweltering days of July and August. But we can learn about smart, energy-saving ways to enjoy intelligent movement from our animal friends. Practice in the cool of the day, slow down and move with relaxed, mindful intention. ◆ 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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Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM

ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/18

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

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SoulPathmaking with Lucia Gardner, LMT, BCC, PC 12/18 801.631.8915. 40+ years experience caring for the Soul.

30 CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET July 2018 LUCIAWGARDNER @HOTMAIL .COM .

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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carol Lessinger, GCTP9/18--

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

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Open Hand Bodywork DA

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

Leighann Shelton, GCFP, CR, CPT, LMT

303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results.

WWW.LEIGHANNSHELTON.COM 6/18

MASSAGE

Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/19 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA

500, MS Psychology. Relax in a warm pool supported by floats, explore the transformative balancing potential of water massage, likened to Watsu.

Enjoy table massage using Transformational Neuromuscular technique, hot stones, Reiki and Yoga. We will find the right bodywork blend to meet your specific needs. Wellness coaching, excellent references. www.FROMSOURCETOSOURCE.COM

Healing Mountain Massage School 11/18 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek balance in their lives…balance and meaningful expression. Massage is a compassionate art. It helps find healing & peace for both the giver and receiver. Whether you seek a new vocation or balm for your wounded soul, you can find it here. DA www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM

M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #103,

SLC. Integrative Family Practitioner utilizing functional medicine for treatment of conditions such as: fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestion, adrenals, hormones and more. Dr. Mangum recom-

COMMUNITY mends diet, supplementation, HRT and other natural remedies in promoting a health-conscious lifestyle.

WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/19

MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS Send Out Cards Mark Holland, Distributor 11/18

801.557.710. Building bridges to stronger friendships and better business. Connect with your customers, one greeting card at a time.

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ENTERTAINMENT Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122

Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film.

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LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/19 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals.

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

R E S O U R C E D I R E C TO R Y

dents to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify.

WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU DA

lished in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditionalstyle training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET

SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/19

MEDITATION PRACTICES Anna Zumwalt: Sunday Sitting at Dancing Cranes ImportsFOG

801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM

801.647.8311. 673 E Simpson Ave. First Sunday of each month is a guided meditation. Other Sundays all styles welcomed for group meditation. Dogs, birds, children welcomed.

Visit our FB page or contact Anna by phone or text.

TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/19

Rumi Teachings 5/19

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

VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/18

801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/19

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

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

Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW. H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM

NON-PROFIT Local First 12/18 801.456.1456. A not-for-profit organi-

MOVEMENT & MEDITATION,

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

WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School

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

Four start dates per year, 8-14 stu-

DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School

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

WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG 6/18

MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/18

801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Estab-

Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19

801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage students to discover their own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/18

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

Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/19

801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIRE-WIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence. The 5 classes work together, offering a balanced and sustainable yoga practice.

WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG

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

INSTRUCTION 1/19 Living Light Institute of Energy Healing Arts Safety Consortium 400 W.

Lawndale, SLC. Offers classes on many topics related to crystals, crystal energy, personal energy management, self-awareness, metaphysics, intuitive development, Crystal Healer Certification, meditation and more.

WWW.LIVINGLIGHTSCHOOL.COM

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/19

801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon.

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

NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET

Suzanne Wagner DA 1/19

707.354.1019. An inspirational speaker and healer, she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.S UZ WAGNER . COM

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking

801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life.

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issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural.

Individuals, couples, families.

WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/18

801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 20 years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling.

Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge & inspire our lives. WWW.M OUNTAIN LOTUS COUNSELING . COM

Ed Peterson, LCSW, MBA 7/18

Mountain Lotus Counseling 6/18DA

Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/18

801.809.7990. 684 E. Vine St., SLC. Relationship problems? Addictions?

Anxiety or depression? Let me help.

Advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a scientifically proven approach to repair and restore distressed relationships. Over 15 years experience treating addictions and mood/anxiety disorders. Approaches: EFT, Jungian Therapy, DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, and Gestalt Therapy. WWW.PETERSONFAMILYTHERAPY.COM

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19

435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 4665 S. 900 E. #150.

Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment

Mindful Yoga Collective at Great Basin Chiropractic

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

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

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM

Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/18

801.657.3330. 1151 E. 3900 S, Suite B175, SLC. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin.

NatalieHerndon@HopeCanHelp.net WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET

801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com.

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

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG

801.209.1095. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

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801.631.8426. Ambassador Plaza, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 3B, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET

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July 2018

LOCAL HISTORY

A Utahn invented Peru’s national drink:

The Pisco Sour

BY ANNA ZUMWALT

“In Morris’ Bar I ordered a pisco sour. It tasted like a pleasant soft drink and I ordered another, to which the bartender objected, informing me that one was usually sufficient. After an argument, he made another—from that time, events were not very clear… ” —Dean Ivan Lamb, American aviator and soldier of fortune, in his 1934 memoir, The Incurable Filibuster

T

he Pisco Sour is the national drink of Peru, where the fourth Sunday of July is celebrated nationally as the Día del Pisco, or Pisco Day. Its main ingredient, Pisco, is a brandy with an alcohol content of 38-48% (76-100 proof ) distilled from wine of grapes specific to the region. Its official inventor, Victor Vaughen Morris, was a pioneer stock native Utahn.

I would have never known had I not seen a huddle of middleaged adults who turned out to be great-grandchildren of Victor V. Morris, photographing themselves holding the book, El Origen del Pisco Sour (The origin of the Pisco Sour), in front of our neigh-

bors’ home— the adobe house where Morris was born in Salt Lake’s Marmalade district.

At the turn of the previous century, 30-year-old Victor lost his taste for Salt Lake City—and for mint juleps. The murder of Victor’s older brother Burton, a wellknown florist and very particular mint julep aficionado, was the third time "justice was not being served” for a mourning Morris. The first was the murder of his uncle by a “drunken loafer.” The second, a cousin killed by a saloon and gambling house owner.

The story is that Burton, Morris’ brother, was shot and killed in a bar brawl Burton himself had started, which had evolved from an incident regarding poorly made mint juleps. The jury declared it "self defense” and the shooter went free.

Victor took over his deceased brother’s business, the B. C. Morris Floral Company, located in the McCornick Building, where the Gallivan Center now is. As a popular florist, Victor was active in community events, including parades.

But the death had soured him for Salt Lake City so, riding along on the coattails of a booming copper and railroad industry, Morris relocated to Peru to work as a cashier for the Cerro de Pasco Railway Company, an enterprise funded

by Alfred W McCune (responsible for another famous home in the neighborhood, as well as an open pit copper mine in Peru for which the railway was necessary).

According to Victor, it was during the celebration of the final completion of the railway—a huge event—that they ran out of whiskey for the sours. An organizer of the festivities, Victor turned to the locally made Pisco brandy as a substitute.

Victor retired from the railway business, moved to Lima with his new family, and opened the Morris Bar, a popular spot among elite travelers and locals, and where he perfected the Pisco Sour. Mint juleps were not allowed in his bar..

After Morris’ passing in 1929 (of cirrhosis of the liver at age 56)

Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway are said to have visited the bar to enjoy the famous drink. A tale describes Ava Gardner having too many at a popular Lima hotel’s bar, then dancing barefoot until carried to her room by John Wayne.

To Ava’s defense, Lima’s altitude is 5,080 ft. A friend tells me the altitude does make a difference—the Pisco Sour in Cusco, at 11,152 feet, is extremely potent.

Here in Salt Lake City, at a modest 4,226 feet, you can enjoy a Pisco Sour at the same place the Morris siblings steered me, Del Mar al Lago Cebicheria Peruana, across the street from RC Wiley.

Even here, one is sufficient, but addictive. This cocktail is creamy and delightful, but sneaky. It packs a pleasant punch!

Pisco Sour Makes four 1/2 cup lime juice 1/2 cup simple syrup (1:1 sugar water) 1 egg white 1 1/2 cups of Pisco (find it in the rum and/or brandy section at the liquor store) Place in blender. Add about five ice cubes.

Blend until frothy. Pour it into frosty glasses.

Sprinkle three drops of Angostura bitters onto each and, if you like, a little lime zest. Enjoy!

Yummy! ◆ Anna Zumwalt lives in Salt Lake’s Marmalade District. She is a CATALYST staffer.

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING Wendy Thorne, Ph.D. Metaphysician

385.414.6916. Spiritual Counselor and Educator for Inner Spiritual Transformation Work with 22 years of experience in advanced energy healing.

Wendy is the Director of Utah Integrative Health Alliance, and helps develop spiritual gifts, provides useful tools for spiritual enlightenment, and is a resource to Integrative Healers in Utah. 1ARROWSE@GMAIL.COM 7/18

RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/18DA

801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy. Since 1987, Blue Boutique has expanded to four locations, offering the finest in a variety of sexy lingerie, sexy shoes and sexy adult merchandise to discriminating shoppers. WWW.B LUEB OUTIQUE . COM

Lotus DA 12/18

801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express

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

Healing Mountain Crystals DA

801.808.6442, 363 S. 500 E., #210 (east entrance), SLC. WWW.H EALING M OUNTAIN C RYSTALS . COM

iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 3/19

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

Turiya’s Gifts8/18 DA

801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too.

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

Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary.

WWW.T URIYAS . COM

Golden Braid Books DA 11/18

HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/18

Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/18

801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM

we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations.

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SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products,

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Center for Spiritual Living 7/18

801.307.0481. 332 Bugatti Dr. We are an open, welcoming community— celebrating our Divinity, loving our Humanity and nurturing our Journeys of spiritual discovery. Ours is a spiritual philosophy that is loving, inclusive and accepting of all people.

Meditation Sundays at 10am; Celebration Service at 10:30am. Classes, workshops, and more. WWW.S PIRITU ALLY F REE . ORG

Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

801.919.4742, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community.

Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10a; WWW.T HE I NNER L IGHTC ENTER . ORG

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Unity Spiritual Community 8/18

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

We honor the many paths to God knowing that all people are created

with sacred worth. Unity offers love, encouragement and acceptance to support you in discovering and living your spiritual purpose.

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Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple

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

WWW.U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG 12/18

Utah Eckankar 12/18

801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy.

Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them. You will meet people with similar experiences who also wish to share how these improve our daily lives.

WWW.E CKANKAR -U TAH . ORG

INSTRUCTION Two Arrows Zen Center 3/19DA

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

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

WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG

34 July 2018

SUSTAINABILITY

LGBTQ green

Utah Pride Festival targets zero waste

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arren Fultz, sustainability director for the Utah Pride Festival, has a goal of making the Festival a zero waste event by 2020.

Fultz volunteered to start a festival green team in 2015, and under her direction the amount of waste diverted from the landfill has gone from a baseline of 25% to an impressive 67%.

In 2018 there were 250 vendors and more than 50,000 attendees so that’s a lot of garbage.

“We’re talking about beer cups, lots and lots of beer cups,” says Fultz, but also plastic water bot-

tles, food waste, cardboard, and even clothing and parade props that get left behind.

Fultz analyzes the waste stream by weighing trash and then spreading it out to photograph it.

She knows exactly what will make the most impact. The zero waste strategy includes education for vendors, volunteers and staff as well as outreach to guests.

The first target for waste reduction was disposable water bottles.

Fultz and Events Director Liz Pitts designed a water bottle refiling station to provide free, filtered cold water.

Then the Pride Festival stopped accepting donations of bottled water and partnered with the Living Traditions Festival and Momentum Recycling to put reusable bottles in swag bags.

BY AMY BRUNVAND These efforts reduced plastic waste by about two tons.

Other changes targeted food vendors in order to replace Styrofoam clamshells with ecofriendly products and to collect cooking oil for biofuel. Vendors can also leave donation boxes with useable items that they don’t want to pack out.

For the 2018 festival, Fultz organized a green team of about 100 volunteers. As far as encouraging festival-goers to recycle, Fultz says, “We’ve gotten creative.”

Painted boards on top of the recycling bins encouraging people to throw things in the hole, like a

Utah-themed one that says, “This is the place… to recycle.”

Fultz currently has an intern from Utah Valley University researching zero waste events in order to make future plans to recycle cardboard and glass. Her goal for next year is to have composting bins since half of what goes to the landfill is food waste.

She’s also trying to think of a creative way to make sure beer cups go in the recycle bin. “We want to create an art exhibit, like Beer Cup Castle,” she says.

Last year Fultz attended a national conference for pride festival organizers and was disappointed that there was no conversation about sustainability. At the next conference she is planning to start that conversation herself. ◆ Utah Pride Festival Sustainability Green Team: FACEBOOK.COM/UTAHPRIDE.SUSTAINABILITY

July 2018

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

At an impasse? Choose a new path!

SUZANNE WAGNER Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Inner Voice, Transformation Medicine Cards: Spider, Turkey, Blank Shield Mayan Oracle: New Myth, Unity, Complex Stability Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Ten of Disks, Queen of Cups, Ace of Disks Aleister Crowley Deck: Princess of Wands, Change, The Moon Healing Earth Tarot: Ten of Crystals, Grandfather of Wands, Seven of Crystals Words of Truth: Knowing, Purity, Change What do we weave when we deny And use the threads of deception and lies?

A web that corrupts and destroys the soul A spider that tears out hearts of gold. ~Suzanne Wagner~

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s I pulled the cards for this month, the first one that jumped out was the Spider in the Medicine Cards. Spider, the weaver, brings the threads of energy, light and matter together to make life happen. Spider is the ruler of words and the artist of communication. The spider’s body looks like the number 8 or the infinity symbol.

She can bring great wealth and prosperity or cause great sadness and grief (the number 8

numerologically). Her eight legs represent the four directions and the four winds of change.

The weaver of fate, she shows that there’s a lethal consequence to not seeing through the illusion of the physical world. Her web, in the shape of a circle just like the wheel of life, reminds us that when we are not decisive enough, we become consumed by our fears

When you forget to appreciate what you have because of what you desire, you are at risk of losing everything. and limitations.

She is the feminine creative force at work this month, a reminder that you must choose a new path to your present impasse. There are opportunities at the edge of the web that you might be ignoring and are at risk of missing completely. She reminds us that when you criticize others, you are feeling weak inside.

What a powerful metaphor she is this month as so many planets go retrograde and pull us toward inward seeking rather than outward doing!

In the cards, the 10 of Crystals points out again that we have held onto a set of beliefs for way too long. They have become old and frag-

ile and are breaking under the strain of overwhelming external forces. Sometimes we’ve held onto something for so long, keeping it so near and dear to our hearts, that we believe it is an essential part of us that it’s the reason for our very survival, power, stability and existence.

We’ve used this tool to stabilize the chaos so we could gain confidence. But now we see the tool for exactly what it is: a tool.

A tool does not have power. You give the tool power. Your intention gave it the remarkable qualities that sparked the revolutionary shift in your awareness a long time ago. You are beginning to see that you are the central motivating force—that within you is the power to understand and to know. At that moment, the tool becomes obsolete.

When you forget to appreciate what you have because of what you desire, you are at risk of losing everything. When you reach toward a wish from a place of lack, you will never get the desired object or energy.

But when you use that desire to bring wonder, gratitude, delight and adventure into the lives of others, you always win. Fulfillment is never found in things or in what you have but in what you have to give and the impact you have made on others. When you give from your heart, you discover your worth and your value.

You find your joy and confidence. And you discover your inner greatness.

Find the purity in your soul that you know is there and unify your thoughts around it. That will allow life to calm down. From there, you will understand how to transform your passion into harmony and inner clarity. ◆ 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.

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URBAN ALMANAC A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond

BY DIANE OLSON, ANNA ZUMWALT AND GRETA DEJONG July 1 Sunrise; 6:00am Sunset: 9:02pm The average high in SLC is 90 F.; low is 69. Av. Precipitation: .59 in.

July 2 Forget the nonstick spray: A raw potato preps the grill just as well. Cut it in half and rub it on the hot grate.

July 3 On average, plastic bags are in use for 25 minutes.

It takes from 100 to 500 years for a plastic bag to disintegrate, depending on the type of plastic.

earthworm is hermaphroditic, so if it can’t find a partner, it just doubles up and services itself.

July 8 Don’t worry if your plants wilt during the heat of the day.

Wilting is simply an adaptation.

Drooping or curling leaves catch less sun and transpire less water.

July 9 King of (slug) beers: Slugs prefer nonalcoholic Kingsbury malt beverage. Michelob and Bud place second and third.

Put a half-bottle out for the slimy guys in your garden.

July 4 Last year on July 4 in Salt Lake County, fire department dispatchers reported more than 65 fireworks-related calls. Especially with more and more people allowing their lawns to go brown and dry in the summer, it’s time to ban aerial fireworks in the city. In the meantime, if you’re the one with the crunchy lawn, have a long hose ready around the 4th and the 24th

July 10 Unsure about your garden soil? Start with a soil test. A basic soil test from the Utah State University analytical lab, $14, can make a difference in your gardening outcomes. USUAL.USU.EDU.

July 5 Time to plant late-summer crops of beets, beans, Chinese cabbage, carrots, collards, cucumbers, kale, lettuce and radishes.

Plant seeds 2” deep to protect them from the heat.

July 11 Utah’s Midsummer Renaissance Faire starts today, running through July 14. In Cedar City, of course. Catch a Shakespeare play while you’re at it.

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July 6 Earth reaches aphelion, its annual farthest point from the sun today. It’s the tilt of the planet that determines the seasons, not the distance from the sun.

July 12 NEW MOON - 8:47 pm Set your intentions for the coming four weeks. Need a place to find things to look forward to? Check out our calendar online.

July 7 Who needs a mate? The

July 13 Dandelions and dock in

the lawn indicate compaction and acidic soil. Add mulch.

July 14 Pinch that plant! Want a great herb garden? Harvesting frequently stimulates further growth, resulting in a bushier plant.

July 15 Culinary legend has it that the Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico in July of 1924. It’s a great summer salad that classically contains raw eggs and anchovies.

Only one in 20,000 eggs may carry salmonella, not a fatal affliction.

But you can assure safety by pasturizing: Carefully submerge eggs into 140-degree water. Remove after three minutes. Cool before using. They keep in the fridge 68 weeks.

July 16 Due to c l i m a t e change, the USDA plant hardiness zones are shifting. The average wintertime temperature has risen by as much as 8 degrees since the 1960s in some parts of the country.

July 17 Have a yard sale! Visit other people’s yard sales in the weeks before yours, to get a feel for pricing in your neighborhood.

Pick a date. Gather your goods— declutter your house. Create an ad for KSL.COM and Craigslist. Makes your signs. Get supplies: tables for display, change, stickers for prices.

Sort, price, organize and arrange your items. Situate your chair in a shady spot. Greet everyone. Enjoy the day!

July 18 Dragonfly or damselfly?

At rest, dragonflies hold their wings horizontally; damselflies, vertically.

July 19 Bug zappers are useless against mosquitoes. The devices attract and kill beneficial and harmless insects like moths and have no effect on the overall mosquito population. Bats and purple martins, once thought to be big mosquito eaters, are equally ineffective.

What does work: Gambusia fish in a pond; dragonflies and mosquito traps (the Megacatch brand was used successfully in a large study).

July 20 In astrology language, your Sun sign dictates your zodiac personality, while your Moon sign, the second most important influence in your horo-

DHARMA & the EVOLUTION of CONFLICT

Treecenter.org scope chart after the Sun, represents your emotions, your inner mood. And the two together strongly influence your emotional mode of operation.

July 21 Glory in the beauty of native wildflowers at the Wasatch Wildflower Festival (Big Cottonwood Canyon July 21-22; Little Cottonwood on July 28-29).

Cinquefoil, lupine, phlox, flax, monkey flowers, paintbrush, penstemon, and many more are at peak gorgeousness.

July 22 Hammock suspension system ($15-35) makes your hammock more useful by enabling you to hang it easily in a lot more places —on the porch, in the park or take it camping.

July 23 While admiring the wildflowers, keep an eye out for moose, mountain goats, mule deer, yellow-bellied marmots, pika and golden-mantled ground squirrels.

July 24: On this date on 2001, Denver’s 10th Circuit Court declared Utah’s liquor laws unconstitutional. Beer signs were finally allowed in bar windows instead of just “Cold Ones.” Restaurant servers could ask, for the first time, “Would you like to see a drink menu?” And bottles came out from hiding for all to see.

CATALYST, along with Junior’s Tavern, was a plaintiff in that case, which was pending for over three years.

July 25 Disease-carrying ticks are not a big thing in Utah, but they

do exist, primarily in spring and fall. Two things to know: Ticks do not fly, jump or descend out of trees. And ticks are usually found from ground level to three feet up.

So wear long pants when hiking in the foothills or higher, and perform a tick check afterward.

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July 26 Float citrus peels in bird baths and other water features to discourage mosquitoes from laying their eggs there.

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July 27 FULL MOON - 2:20 pm. The Buck Moon. Male deer, or bucks, shed their antlers and grow new ones every year.

July 28 Feed potted veggies and ornamentals with liquid fertilizer every two weeks, as frequent watering leaches out needed nutrients. A good local product: Turboganic My Garden. Available at the Downtown Farmers Market.

July 29 Some bee colonies are teetotalers, punishing members who bring back fermented nectar. Caffeine, found in citrus flowers, and nicotine-tinged nectars are okay.

July 30 You can start planting fall crops of broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and peas now.

July 30 Mormon crickets, a type of katydid, swarm in drought years and go on the march in search of protein and salt. Favored foods include carrion, flowers and seed pods, mammal feces, soil soaked in cattle urine, and each other. ◆

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