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arrangements because they are funny, which is essential and miraculous. Other paintings are meant to host the sublime, which is the undercurrent of our world: its origin and mystery. Other paintings are meant to remind the viewer of an aspect or attribute to lay claim to. But the common thread is that they are meant to serve the viewer.

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There are moments of quiet peaceful meditation and freedom from anxiety as I paint in deep flow for hours at a time. I go under the spell and forget to even drink water. And there are other days when doubt grips me and the brush and, I can’t get it back. And I can’t get back. Mostly though, the days are on my side. Either way I don’t resist the experience. It’s the way it is.

My paintings are all realistic. The ideas I think of show up that way so, that’s how I paint. All of my dreams are in realism. The whole world, in fact, looks pretty realistic to me. So I’m interested in that. I’m interested in the choices I can make, the inventory or “visual vocabulary” I can build which is unique to me but still accessible to those I come into contact with through my paintings. At times, I choose subjects or

Bradford Overton has exhibited in galleries and museums across the US and is included in many private, corporate and public institutions and collections. Recent exhibitions include the Arcadia Gallery in Los Angeles, Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, Julie Nester Gallery in

Park City, Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, and Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City and Coda Gallery in New York City. He has shown in the Springville Museum of Fine Art, University of Utah Museum of Art, and is included in the Corporate collection of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas and collections of the University of Utah Art Department and Utah Museum of Fine Art. Recent feature article – “The Philosopher’s Palette” was included in Western Art and Architecture.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER How do you know what you know??

November 2018

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his isn’t about this news cycle; it’s about every news cycle since shared cave paintings.

Could Kokopelli really play a mean flute? Did elk really look like that? I doubt it; ‘pelli probably just had a good publicist and those elk were hunting story exaggeration.

How do you know what’s true?

Without going existentialist/Sartre on you and saying nothing matters, here’s a list of sure-fire ways to verify the truth of anything.

Because I read it somewhere: In my church-going days a repetitive joke was Q: How do we know the Bible is holy? A: Because it says so on the cover. In the Internet age, “I read it somewhere” has expanded to every word ever committed to paper or a keyboardwritten.

Photographic evidence: The age of photography would seem to have solved all disputes but seeing has never been believing.

Photographic evidence has been used to prove the existence of flying saucers, Big Foot, Noah’s Ark, the Lock Ness Monster and moderate Republicans.

Number of “likes:” I sadly admit that on days when my self esteem is ebbing, some likes on my photos or writing really perk me up.

This virtual self-affirmation also is used by some to prove that they must be wise. If I have one million followers I must have super human insight into the truth. Well, not really since a cat fitting into a too-small box can also get three.

Citations: My scientist friends tell me this is the best way to tell if new research is valid. It probably is the best hope for objectivity, but there are notable cases of that being gamed like Amazon product reviews. To the vast wastelands of non-university people, facts are as fluid as stock market predictions.

Google: I do love using the Internet to find quirky little things,

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Somebody’s web page: Yes, within .36 seconds you can find a website that agrees with your opinion that opinions cause cancer.

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Repetitive escalating hyperbole: You can also make things seem more true if you keep saying them over and over again with unverifiable comparisons. This column is the best column in the history of history according to surveys done

by Russian hackers.

Conspiracy/persecution confirmation: If you really want to throw out some fictional brain turds all you have to do is say that you are being suppressed by mainstream intelligent people. “People with brains, books, degrees and stuff just aren’t ready for my truth,” you might say.

ALL CAPS: This style has become an emoji for shouting, which must mean that I REALLY REALLY believe it to be true. Exclamation points also help!

Talking fast: There’s a reason “fast talker” has become shorthand for lying and manipulating. If you talk fast you sound more like you know what you’re talking about compared to people who pause and stammer. If you talk fast enough, you also don’t allow for any gaps in the rant that would allow someone else to ask questions.

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ENVIRONEWS

BY AMY BRUNVAND

Climate change window narrows to 12 years Someday, perhaps not long from now, the inhabitants of a hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet than the one on which I lived may wonder what you and I were thinking, or whether we thought at all.

snowpack, prolonged drought, hotter summers, a longer, more intense wildfire season, and beetle-killed forests. Warmer temperatures and agricultural runoff result in harmful algal blooms in lakes and reservoirs.

—William T. Vollmann, Carbon Ideologies

Roads, Inland Port, coal and wasteful water projects The window of time to deal with climate change has narrowed to an urgent 12 years according to a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The report says global temperatures are already 1°C higher than in pre-industrial times; 1.5°C rise will create serious problems; 2°C would result in catastrophic sealevel rise, the collapse of ecosystems, and mass migration of climate refugees.

Utah is already experiencing serious climate change effects including less

The Utah Legislature passed a resolution to acknowledge the impacts of climate change on Utah citizens. However, the State’s commitment to growth for the sake of growth and fossil fuel boosterism is generally incompatible with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Great Salt Lake ecosystem that supports millions of migratory birds is threatened by human water development. If GSL dries up, the Wasatch Front is likely to become unlivable due to toxic dust storms.

Utah’s ski industry is losing early and late season tourism, and is pushing for more development higher up in the canyons.

Demand for water is driving wasteful projects such as the Lake Powell pipeline. The water

storage reservoir in Lake Powell was at 60% capacity by the end of 2017; the projection for 2018 is 46% capacity.

As a center for refugee resettlement, Utah could end up receiving climate refugees forced to flee from sea level rise.

In the 2018 General Session, the Utah Legislature passed HCR 7, a resolution to acknowledge the impacts of climate change on Utah citizens. However, the State’s commitment to growth for the sake of growth and fossil fuel boosterism is generally incompatible with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In September, the BLM issued a Record of Decision in favor of building utility corridors to support a vast expansion of tar-sands strip mining on leases owned by Enefit American Oil (an Estonian company) in the Uinta Basin.

A giant inland port that the Utah Legislature forced on Salt Lake City seems intended to export coal, and will significantly increase truck traffic and air pollution.

Road building such as the West Davis Corridor focuses on increasing the number of cars in motion, not on better ways to get places without driving.

None of this unconstrained industrialization is helpful to reduce Utah’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions to foster resiliency in the face of climate change. We can do better by giving more consideration to environmental values. ◆ Global Warming of 1.5° C: ipcc.ch/report/sr15

Gov. Herbert declares drought emergency On October 15 Utah Governor Gary Herbert issued an Executive Order to declare a drought emergency for the entire state.

Last winter, snowpack was only 50-60% of normal and melted several months early. Prolonged dry conditions led to a formidable wildfire season. The state of emergency exists until the threat or danger has passed but due to climate change, drought in Utah may be the new normal. Utah does not have a longterm drought plan to cope with climate change.

One effect of drought is that farmers in drought-stricken counties have not been able to irrigate alfalfa. Alfalfa is a cash crop, largely exported to China. That means Utah’s extravagant water subsidies are subsidizing Chinese cattle. Given the emergency, this seems like exactly the wrong way to manage scarce water resources.

Escape from the inversion Canyon crowding is not just for powder days anymore. Researchers at Utah State University found that poor winter air quality in Salt Lake City increased the volume of traffic heading up both Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons.

The researchers say that’s good news for ski resorts. Even if climate change ruins the snow, visitation to high-elevation winter outdoor recreation could still hold steady because of people who want to breathe.

What the researchers don’t mention is that poor low-elevation snow is driving pressure for more canyon development. Ski areas are trying to trade private mining claims for development property on the canyon floor. Alta is trying to renege on former agreements to develop Grizzly Gulch. The town of Brighton is seeking to incorporate in order to give canyon property owners (read, rich developers who buy the property) more power to develop in the Salt Lake City watershed.

Weather and Air Quality Drive the Winter Use of Utah’s Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons: bit.ly/2ysFYWU

judge refused to move pro-Monument lawsuits out of D.C. to the State of Utah, where antimonument legislators expected to find antiMonument judges. Since that tactic failed, the State of Utah has filed a request to join the lawsuits as a defendant against the American Indian tribes and citizens who are seeking to restore Utah’s national monuments. The request claims that the State has “sovereign interest” in generating revenue from federal public lands.

Bears Ears comments

due by November 15 Tribes, Dems say “stop Public comments are due on the Draft Monillegal Monument planning” ument Management Plans of the Indian Creek

No grizzly hunt, but Endangered Species Act in danger A federal judge in Montana restored endangered species protections to grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone area, cancelling planned trophy hunts in Idaho and Wyoming.

Utah’s congressional delegation has an agenda to “modernize” (i.e. destroy ) the Endangered Species Act which they call “government overreach.” A bill sponsored by Senators Mike Lee and Orin Hatch in 2017 would have given states the right to cause species extinction within their borders.

In the House, Congressman Rob Bishop (RUT-1) is currently supporting a package of nine bills that would weaken or destroy endangered species protections. A leaked memo from the Trump administration directs federal agencies to withhold information about enforcement of the Endangered Species act in incidents when political appointees overrule scientific advice.

It seems fair to say that if Republicans keep control of government in the November midterm, some species will face extinction as a consequence.

The Trump administration is trying to ram through new management plans for Utah’s downsized national monuments before courts have weighed in on whether the president has authority to shrink or eliminate national monuments.

An October 1 letter sent by Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-3) requests a halt to the planning process, which he calls “a transparent

and Shash Jaa Units of the former Bears Ears National Monument (these are remnant units after President Trump slashed Bears Ears boundaries by 85% in December 2017) .

attempt to rush forward an illegal disposition of public lands before the courts have ruled.”

In August the Utah Tribal Leaders Association also issued a resolution calling on BLM and the U.S. Forest Service to halt the planning process until the courts have decided upon the legality of the Trump Proclamation.

Lawsuits to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments have not yet gone to court. In September, environmentalists won a small victory when a federal

GSENM comments due by November 15

Bears Ears e-planning website https://goo.gl/uLrEae; Email: blm_ut_monticello_monuments@blm.gov; Mail: BLM, Canyon Country District Office; Bears Ears Management Plans; Canyon Country District Office; 82 East Dogwood, Moab, Utah 84532 Attn: Lance Porter

Public comments are due on a hastily written Draft BLM management plan for areas that Trump eliminated from Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Grand Staircase Escalante e-planning website: https:// goo.gl/EHvhbc Click “comment on Document” under Documents & Reports. Mail: Draft RMPs/Draft EIS, 669 S Hwy. 89A, Kanab, UT 84741, Attn: Matt Betenson

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BREATHE

Alternative is becoming mainstream Replacing gas and diesel vehicles with electric and other alt-fuel cars, trucks, fleets and buses is a move toward cleaner air

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ovember is Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month in Utah. “Alternative” means a fuel other than gasoline or diesel for powering motor vehicles. Manufacturers currently offer over 650 models of alternative fuel vehicles for sale that run on a range of fuels, such as compressed natural gas (CNG), propane and electricity. The use of alternative fuels for vehicles greatly reduces emissions that lead to both summertime ozone and wintertime particulate pollution locally.

How much cleaner are alternative fuels? That depends on which fuels you are comparing.

Gasoline typically has four to 12 carbon atoms, and diesel has 12 to 20. The major component

It’s now possible to drive an electric vehicle from Salt Lake City to Saint George, stopping to charge and grab a bite in Fillmore and Washington. of CNG fuel is methane. With only one carbon atom, CNG fuel’s carbon footprint is much smaller than gasoline and diesel. And because natural gas is a low-carbon, cleaner-burning fuel, the tailpipe emissions coming from a CNG vehicle are substantially less.

There is no argument that electric vehicles are currently the cleanest at the tailpipe, having zero emissions. And that has the most profound effect on the local air shed.

Even in Utah, where relatively dirty coalpowered plants generate electricity, the emissions produced by charging an EV are less than the emis-

BY ASHLEY MILLER sions of the average conventional vehicle (see CATALYST November 2017, More Cars, Less Pollution). For those who must drive: Electric vehicles are the cleanest choice for our air quality challenges along the Wasatch Front.

Alternative fuels are not only a smart choice, but a viable option in Utah The past two years have been an exciting time for electric vehicle adoption in Utah. The Governor’s Office of Energy Development, in conjunction with Maverik, Rocky Mountain Power and other private enterprises and local agencies have collaborated to establish the Mighty Five Electric Corridor, connecting Utah’s cities and towns, national parks, monuments, recreation areas and scenic byways with neighboring states and landmarks. It’s now possible to drive an electric vehicle from Salt Lake City to Saint George, stopping to charge and grab a bite in Fillmore and Washington. Continued expansion of electric vehicle charging stations along I-15 will increase the use of zero-emission transportation.

While electric is a great option for passenger vehicles, CNG continues to thrive in the medium- and heavy-duty markets. Many local businesses are choosing to go alternative for their vehicles.

Ace Recycling and Disposal picks up trash and recycling for 13 Utah cities, and for commercial customers across the state. Environmental health is at the core of Ace’s mission.

They view themselves as a great case study for other businesses to transition to lower-emission fuels for fleets. Ace received their first CNG truck in 2009, and today almost 60% of their garbage and recycling trucks are running on CNG. Salt Lake City is also transitioning its fleet to alternative fuel. Most recently, the city replaced four

old Jeep Wranglers with all-electric Chevrolet Bolts in their parking enforcement fleet. Operating costs are considerably lower and deliver an even more important benefit: zero tailpipe emissions and 72% carbon emissions reduction per mile compared to the old Jeeps. This is just one initiative helping the city achieve its ambitious Climate Positive community goals.

Many businesses are taking advantage of a program offered by Rocky Mountain Power which provides a rebate of up to 75% to incentivize Utah businesses to install EV chargers at their establishments, which further incentivizes employees to switch to zero emissions vehicles.

Packsize International CEO Hanko Kiessner drives an EV himself, has transitioned his company’s local fleet to zero emission vehicles and has installed 50 free charging stations for employee use.

Packsize International CEO Hanko Kiessner believes strongly that air pollution is the number one limitation to economic growth along the Wasatch Front. He has a particular fondness for EVs. He drives one himself, has transitioned his company’s local fleet to zero emission vehicles and has installed 50 free charging stations for employee use. Packsize is currently the largest electric vehicle charging installation in Utah with more than 25 Packsize employees commuting in emission-free vehicles.

Local school districts are also switching to cleaner-burning alternative fuels as they retire old, dirty diesel school buses. The Jordan School District recently added 36 new CNG buses to its fleet, bringing the total to a record 105.

CNG and electric are also a great option for public transit. Last month, the Utah Transit Au-

thority (UTA) broke ground on the Depot District Clean Fuels Technology Center, a new state-of-the-art maintenance and fueling facility for its fleet of clean air vehicles. UTA currently has 47 CNG and 40 hybrid buses. The expansion will allow for another 50 CNG and 50 electric models (six of which are coming online soon). UTA also plans to phase out diesel buses in the Salt Lake City area within the next seven years.

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The Clean Fuels Technology Center will be one part of a larger revitalization program planned for the Depot District, including the addition of transit-accessible housing and shopping.

The project is being funded by local, state, federal and private funds, and should be completed in three years.

Remember, nearly half of our air pollution comes from vehicles. There is no silver bullet solution, but we must to continue down the path towards cleaner air and, if you drive or take mass transit, alternative fuels are proving to be a better choice. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the program and policy director for Breathe Utah. She is a member of Utah’s Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and on the Salt Lake County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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THE CLEAN AIR AFFAIR

Anatomy of a landfill A visit to “away” (where things are thrown)

BY LESHA EARL

Earlier this year, CATALYST presented A Clean Air Affair—an evening of experts speaking on the topic of air quality. CATALYST worked with the local chapter of the international group PechaKucha 20×20 (20 images, 20 seconds each). The evening kicked off our Clean Air Solutions Fair at Trolley Square. This is the fourth installment in sharing some of our speakers’ talks.

Lesha Earl is the Public Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Trans-Jordan Landfill. She began the “Be Bright, Recycle Right!” campaign last year to reduce the amount of contamination in recycling. Each month she shares information about how to become a savvy recycler.

She hopes to bring awareness to the evergrowing issue of waste and help people take meaningful steps toward sustainable living.

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orking at a landfill you have a front-row seat to see what everyone throws away. You see the most amazing things! It’s a land fill—over time, it fills up. It’s amazing to see how much it changes each week.

The reason we find ourselves in this position of watching the land fill up is because we live by a linear model—we take what we need and use it, often just once, and then dispose of it when we’re done.

This model is not sustainable. It worked when we had plenty of resources and plenty of room to put our junk. Now we’ve come to the point where we’re running out of resources and we’re running out of space.

In the past, we used dumps instead of landfills. You can see how this would affect the environment, how trash becomes a contaminant and a containment issue for air and water.

With the modernday landfill, we take into account what we’re doing to the air, the water

and soil. The modern landfill is designed to isolate trash from the environment. And we do that by lining the cells. In this picture …

You can see that there are three layers to

the cell. The clay mat is there to take in any liquids that come through the plastic that is laid down, the white plastic that's high density polyethylene, and then finally a drain, that makes sure the leaching—the “garbage juice”—goes to a pond where we can collect it and clean it.

It takes up to four years to dig out and line a landfill.

And this image shows you… the dark arrow is what the landfill typically costs when you acquire it and start to line cells. And then the light blue arrow is when we started monitoring the air quality. You can see that there’s a cost to these improvements but none of you would argue that it’s not worth it.

When it comes to air quality, our landfill goes above and beyond. We not only collect the methane gas which is much more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, but we’ve created enough electricity to power up to 4,000 homes in Utah. With our green waste program, we were able to divert 24,000 tons of organic ma-

terial away from the landfill. And we used that to make compost and woodchips that are used in our parks and cities. Residents can access them as well.

Mark Hooyer, our executive director, set up a partnership with the Bicycle Collective and we donate every single bike we get. Before this was in effect, we melted the bikes down for the metals. Now they are able to be reused rather

than recycled, which is so much more beneficial for the environment and also for the community.

Most people don't understand how complicated waste is. There are so many different materials that must be diverted out of the waste stream. For instance, refrigerators. First the freon must get removed. There are stiff penalties if you don’t do that.

At the landfill, we see what recyclers are rejecting. This photo is of things that a recycling company rejected—things that people tried to recycle in their bins that got rejected and were sent to the landfill. Twenty percent of what we

recycle ends up in the landfill. This is why we started the Be Bright Recycle Right campaign.

[Editor’s note: Due to rapidly changing world markets, in September Mark Hooyer reported that currently about one-third of recycling goes to landfill.]

This was to help people understand what they can't recycle. For instance, you can’t recycle plastic grocery bags. Don’t put them in your bin. Please use reusable bags.

We’re now working on our very last cell.

The Trans-Jordan Landfill has been around since 1958 and we’re almost all the way full.

Once we’ve dug our last cell and it fills up, in

about 10 years from now, your trash can’t come to us any more. There are no new landfills in Salt Lake. They’re not going to make any new permits for them. So we’ve already bought a new site 43 miles to the south in Utah County.

The current model is not sustainable. We all have to think about creating less waste. Even

though we have a short-term solution, something that will last for our lifetime, we still have to consider the future. And so we decided to reach out to students.

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THE CLEAN AIR AFFAIR up in a landfill: Use what’s already at your disposal. Use post-consumer materials. The students came up with protocols that were sustainable, that had uses that went beyond their life cycles.

I challenge you, as consumers, to pay attention to materials and packaging. Do what you can and know that your actions will inspire others to act in ways that will make our future more sustainable. ◆ Lesha Earl, Public Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Trans-Jordan Landfill, can be contacted at 801-256-2825; EDUCATON@TRANSJORDAN.ORG/

Top 10 no-no’s for the blue recycling bin: Last year, Mark Hooyer and I presented on sustainable design to Jonathan Mills’ Multidisciplinary Design students at the University of Utah. We wanted to reach the people who make your products and design how they're packaged. We told them, “You need to pay attention to the products that you use and design, and what you’re going to do with them at the end of their life. Because, no matter how useful your product is, and no matter how much people value it, eventually it comes to the landfill; it becomes trash.”

We asked the students how they would define sustainability. Nobody really wanted to an-

swer that question. It’s kind of complicated.

The answer the United Nations gives is to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their needs.

One way to do that is to employ the “cradle to cradle” method for design where you consider designability and compostability throughout the full life of a product; and, as long as a material has value, keep it in re-cycle.

Rather than taking from the earth, mining out what you need, using that resource to mass produce something, packaging and shipping it and then eventually having it end

Plastic bags Needles/biohazardous waste Wire, hose, cords, rope & chains Propane tanks Yard waste/wood Motor oil containers Electronics Food waste Clothing/shoes Mercury-containing objects Visit WWW.EARTH911.COM for more information on where to recycle items that do not go in curbside recycling.

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Keep food out of landfills!

Shop, share, store, prepare, preserve, eat! (and compost the rest)

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hen it comes to the zero waste movement, the recent buzz locally has all been associated with food waste. You might be thinking, food waste just decomposes over time, so why should we care?

Food waste, in fact, is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)—13% of GHG emissions are related to the production and transport of food, and the decomposition of foodwaste in landfills (22% of our municipal solid waste is food!). When food waste is buried at your local landfill, it breaks down anaerobically (without oxygen), producing methane gas which is 40 times more potent than C02 over time.

In addition, 40% of food produced is wasted, and landfills are our leading source of methane.

So, what can we do about it?

As with any conversation concerning waste, identifying ways that we can reduce food waste should be our top priority. One of the first steps we can take is to eliminate waste in production and transport.

As a humble consumer, this means that growing your own fruit and vegetables or buying from your local farmers when possible does make a difference. Buy what’s in season locally and buy only what you need and will use or preserve.

Planning your meals, shopping with lists, and being creative with scraps and leftovers are also great ways to avoid unnecessary waste.

A side benefit of this disciplined approach is that you’ll reduce your expenditures overall. I admit there are times when I feel overwhelmed by leftovers, an overly productive garden or an generous CSA share. Juggling work and the schedules of two kids, among other responsibilities, limits the time I have to spend canning, or dehydrating food to ensure the excess doesn’t spoil. However, I have learned that the crockpot and freezer provide quick and easy solutions to these challenges. Washing and cutting produce and throwing it in the freezer or crockpot (then freezing it) reduces waste and associated food waste guilt. (Editor’s note: Fermenting is another extremely easy and tasty way to deal with excess produce.)

Sending leftovers home with guests or giving away produce to friends who don't have gardens or CSAs is another alternative to let-

BY KATE WHITBECK ting things go to waste. We are also fortunate to have neighbors who accept our perishables when we leave for a trip. Cultivating relationships with fellow zero waste-minded people is a great way to prevent your perishables, and theirs, from going to waste.

Of course, there are times when food hides in the back of the refrigerator and seizes the opportunity to rot or mold. At these times, I defer to the food waste use hierarchy which directs us to feed hungry humans and animals first, then divert to compost or anaerobic digestion operations. In our household, after the dog, that means feeding the worms (indoor vermicomposting bin) and then the backyard compost bin. Friends who have chickens, of course, have an additional option. If you are unfamiliar with vermicomposting—check out Wasatch Community Gardens' workshop

Data shows that up to 35% of food in highincome economies is thrown out by consumers; in low-income economies, however, relatively little is wasted at the household level.—from Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken

schedule to learn how to make your own bin and produce the best soil supplements in worm tea and castings.

In addition to the indoor vermicomposting bin, we have a compost bin outside which we we continue to fill and turn all year.

The active breakdown of material slows down in winter when the temperatures plummet but things pick up again in the spring.

If you don’t have the opportunity or desire to manage a compost bin (or a bunch of worms), consider Salt Lake City's yard waste (brown) bin. (If you live outside of SLC, check with your city to make sure they allow kitchen scraps in your yard waste bins.) Many people are not aware that they can place fruit, vegetable scraps and coffee grounds along with the yard waste in these bins.

When yard waste service is suspended for the winter, you might ask a composting neighbor to contribute to their bin, or contact a nearby community garden to see if they will allow you to deliver your scraps to the common bins there until the City starts up yard waste collection service come spring. Or maybe now’s the time to rethink composting, and maybe give it a try.

Next month we’ll take a look at the new anaerobic digester under construction in North Salt Lake and how it can contribute to greater food waste diversion while producing pipelinegrade renewable natural gas! ◆ Kate Whitbeck is a founder and owner of Momentum Recycling in Salt Lake City, a full-service zero waste company offering comprehensive recycling collection services to organizations and residences along the Wasatch Front. She remains passionate about zero waste and strives every day to make conscientious decisions about reducing the impact of her family of five (including dog) on the environment.

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Walking to work

PROSE GARDEN

Soften your gaze, empty your mind and the loud city will go quiet

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ost mornings, I step out my front door and wonder how the world has changed shape from the day before. I feel the wind and listen to the traffic and think about what route I’ll walk to work and what I’ll see along the way. Depending on the time of year, Salt Lake City can feel larger or smaller. It swells in autumn when the leaves fall, and it shrinks in summer when the days are long and quiet.

The map says my office building is three crooked miles from the front door, through the neighborhoods, and across the university campus. At my usual pace it takes 45 minutes to walk there. But if when I leave the house, quail flush from the neighbor's pine trees, and if the light of the sunrise shimmers on the ridges of the canyon called Emigration, and if the sky is so clear I can make out individual trees on the Wasatch Mountains, I know I'll be late for work, but not how late.

I’ve designed my route with several things in mind—safety, efficiency, and stuff to see. It heads east a couple blocks before bending north to avoid a dangerous intersection.

A pair of hawks lives nearby, and today they break from the crown of a cottonwood tree and scatter a flock of magpies like a feathered firework. I walk past the Catholic high school and say good morning to a student passing by in his clean uniform, the same one I wore for years. There’s an apple tree farther down the block I know about. It’s an heirloom tree, and I pick up a couple of good looking apples in the grass and put them in my backpack for lunch.

BY BENJAMIN BOMBARD The city roars with the white noise of commuter traffic. But if you soften your gaze and look down at the ground passing under your feet like a river, your mind will empty and the loud city will go quiet. Did ancient people cross continents by walking like this? Probably. It has a way of making time and space flatten into each other. Then again, they had cave bears to worry about, not streams of commuter traffic.

Although cave bears were probably more exciting. But on the other hand, both are unpredictable and perilous. And so on...

Down the street a ways there’s a toddler, a little girl, following her dad to the car. She has a blue binky in her mouth, a crown of blonde curls, and a green pillowcase for a cape. When a brown dog walking down the street runs up to her, she doesn’t shy away. She smiles and reaches a hand out to the dog, but it bumps

I’ve designed my route with several things in mind—safety, efficiency, and stuff to see. into her and knocks her down onto her backside. She sits there, kind of stunned. Then she cries a little. Then she chokes it back, and I watch as she watches the dog with her eyes full of wonder. The dog trots down the sidewalk and disappears around the corner. She picks herself up out of the dewy grass and runs to her father—and I realize I need to get running, too. I’m late for work.

Because the sidewalk is hard on my knees, I sneak across the grass and weave through the trees like a coyote stalking through the forest. I tiptoe on the walls that border my neighbors’ yards, like a mountain lion tightroping across fallen logs. Then I dash the road like a jackrabbit and take the stairs like an elk running up a mountain.

From there, it’s a right at the cliffrose bushes that won't bloom for several weeks. The smell of the sagebrush reminds me of all the

The smell of the sagebrush reminds me of all the desert beneath the concrete and these buildings. desert beneath the concrete and these buildings. I walk up a set of stone stairs and find myself standing in front of an old house that looks like a Buddhist temple. A woman passing by with a small dog says the place belonged to a Japanese doctor who saw patients in the basement. But that was decades ago, she says.

Another couple blocks, and I’m on campus.

It seems like all the students walking to and from class are connected to their phones. They either have earbuds in, or they’re staring at their phones, which is OK I guess—it’s the world today—but the campus is so quiet. It’s kind of disturbing and everyone seems to think so, but nobody wants to say anything about it. So, I look up at the mountains above my office and see three deer walking away into the dry scrub oak near the ridgeline. A breeze sweeps by and I swear a twig snaps beneath my heel. But when I look down there’s no forest floor—just another crack in the sidewalk.

When I make it to work, I'm an hour late. I slip into my office, hoping nobody notices and check my email. It’s not long before I look up past my computer screen, at the city carpeted between the mountains, and wonder how the world will change by the time I walk home. ◆

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FEATURE

Putting the well in wellness The Artesian Well Park has a past — and a future

BY AVREY EVANS

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n any given day in Salt Lake if you pass by a little park just one blocks north of Liberty Park you may notice people lined up with a mish mash of empty milk containers, five-gallon camping jugs, extra-large mason jars, and plain old reusable water bottles. With their containers at hand these locals are gathered at Artesian Well Park making use of three spigots that provide natural spring water free of charge. Many hundreds of fresh water springs bubble up around the Salt Lake valley. These days you’re most likely to come across one without really knowing what it is except that

The springs

there will be a seep of wet filtering out of some green lawn and across a sidewalk like a broken sprinkler, except that there is no sprinkler. Since the time the pioneers first arrived these springs have been mapped and plotted, some brought cleanly to the surface with the help of just a little plumbing, but since the invention of indoor plumbing these springs, except for a rare handful like those at the Artesian Well Park, have mostly been forgotten.

At the corner of 500 East and 800 South, the Artesian Well Park is probably the best-known remaining example of this interesting local hydrological curiosity (there is also a free flowing artesian well that feeds the drinking fountain on Liberty Park’s southeast corner, but few who drink from it are aware that the fountain is spring water). Natural pressurization pipes these underground springs to the surface where they flow constantly. The artesian park well is thought to have been used by the pioneers. Since its initial discovery the well has received several updates: the faucets dispensing spring water were installed in 1979, in 1983 the area received paved walkways and landscaped spaces complete with trees and benches.

Although the underground spring is not part of the city’s regular water system, Public

While Artesian Well Park is unique, the potential for additional public wells is larger than one might think. Many underground water sources have been paved over.

Utilities maintains the water at Artesian Well Park and monitors chemical levels. The spring water from the artesian well is tested weekly by the city to make sure its contents fit within the EPA Safe Drinking Water Act regulations. Recent samples taken in 2018 have shown no fluoride, arsenic, lead, chlorine or pesticides.

Levels of iron and uranium are higher than recommended by the Secondary Drinking Water Act, but not dangerously so.

Recent instances of dirty water, like those in Flint, Michigan, have raised concern for some regarding public accessibility to safe water and many people are turning up their noses to tap water altogether. Luckily, instead of reaching for a single-use plastic bottle—an item recycled only 20% of the time and that takes over 400 years to degrade—some people are turning to wells like these for a safe, reliable and free source of nonchlorinated, unflouridated drinking water.

The people Kenny Evon, an older man with rough edges and youthful cobalt eyes, has been coming to the 600 South artesian well for over 50 years.

Now a resident in central Utah, Evon drives almost two hours every month to stock up on the spring water rich in minerals. He chooses to use the water as an alternative to the tap water at his Nephi residence. “The water down there is a total freaking disaster, anything that comes out of the tap forms a pinkish residue around it. It tastes terrible,” he says, speaking in a gruff voice about water rights and chemical additives. It’s clear that Evon cares about where his water comes from.

One of the well’s more recent patrons, Jill, says when we meet that it’s her third day in a row coming to stock up on spring water for her family of seven. In her mission to avoid fluoridated water, Jill discovered the artesian wells as a reliable source. “Fluoride is hard to get out of the water and the treatment systems that can do it are expensive,” she says. Removing fluoride from tap water can be accomplished with reverse osmosis systems, which push water through a semi-permeable membrane, leaving

fluoride, lead and other contaminants behind.

Other filtration systems include deionizers and bone char that similarly filter water to remove fluoride. These systems are effective but can range from $40 to $4,000. Distillation units also remove most of the fluoride in tap water, but can cost as much as $1,000.

While many people have issues with fluoride as a health concern, others drink the park’s spring water simply because they prefer the taste. Kim Olufeko, a soft-spoken but passionate resident of Central Salt Lake, started going to the Artesian Well Park a few years ago and now swears by its mineral-rich flavor. One Sugar House man, stopping to fill up a mélange of glass jars, says the water tastes better and “seems more natural.”

Dedicated fans use the naturally produced spring water mainly for drinking but also for watering plants, doing dishes, cooking, filling water reserves for camping, and even making beer. On the latter use Bob Evans, a former Salt Lake resident who used the well for many endeavors, puts it simply: “I went down there, I filled three five-gallon carboys with water and I went home and made beer.”

Despite its popularity, the well appears a relatively well-kept secret. Of the 14 people I spoke to, all had learned about it by word of mouth. Indeed, the well seems to hide in plain sight. Its paved walkways and brick encasement allow the hidden gem to blend in with the urban background. Often the only giveaway that the corner contains something special is the people with their assortment of jugs, bottles and cartons. That, however, could soon change.

Growing interest The Central City Neighborhood Council advocates for residents in the area and monitors the artesian well. Last summer, the organization worked closely with the city’s Community Development & Capital Improvement Programs Advisory Board on a grant that would allocate around $355,000 to give the park a facelift. Luke Garrott, former city councilman and a primary author of the grant, says he’s ex-

cited for the prospect of improving the spring and making it a more communal area. Park improvements include a more open concept with no concrete walls or brick barriers. The pipes pumping the water out will also get an upgrade: Planners are developing spigot designs that will allow more well-goers to collect water at the same time.

While Artesian Well Park is unique, the potential for additional public wells is larger than one might think. Many underground water sources have been paved over. Like the urban creeks that are being daylighted by the nonprofit Seven Canyons Trust, artesian wells could also be due for a resurgence. Executive Director and Founder of Seven Canyons Trust Brian Tonetti works mostly on uncovering and rehabilitating creeks around the Wasatch Range. He says neighborhoods could be sitting on buried springs without ever realizing.

“When the pioneers came to the valley they might’ve seen a lot of really small creek channels or little springs that came out into wetlands or meadows. A lot of neighborhoods actually have these active springs, and a lot of them have been piped.”

Since underground springs are not a part of the city’s public drinking system, the city doesn’t map them out or keep track of where they are located. The tendency of ground water to move adds an extra layer of complexity. Many of these springs may also be on private land where the city has little jurisdiction and where negotiations over water rights can be complicated.

Regardless of the effort required to fully utilize spring water buried underground, the addition of artesian wells throughout the city could be a worthy task for the city. After all, Artesian Well Park is more than just a corner of concrete spitting out water from underground.

For the people visiting the well, some since they were kids, it’s a source of nourishment and nostalgia. For the community it’s a source of camaraderie, health and sustainability. ◆ Avrey Evans is a senior at the University of Utah majoring in Journalism and Gender Studies.

She was CATALYST’s 2017 summer intern.

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He says the most rewarding part of being a mentor has been bonding with his Little Brother, especially through their first hike together. After being matched in the after-school program, the Big and Little pair decided they did not want to wait three months bet we e n school years to see each other again. They decided to enroll in the community-based program, which allows for Bigs to take their little to activities in and out of town.

Burgamy took his Little to Lower Bell Canyon. After the strenuous hike, they sat at the Reservoir Lake and chatted.

I n just a half hour, Burgamy says, he learned more about his Little then he had in the 10 months of being in the after-school program with him. “We’re looking for volunteers from all walks of life,� says Burgamy, who is now the organization’s volunteer and alumni coordinator.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is particularly interested in volunteers who can speak multiple languages, since many of the Littles in the program are either refugees or first-generation Americans.

Burgamy says there is also a strong need for

BY TAYLOR HAWK volunteers from the arts community as the Utah chapter has many Littles with interests in dance, singing, photography and creating.

Some of his favorite activities to enjoy with his Little are visiting art museums and gallery strolls. “It’s cool to be able to introduce art in different forms to your Little and help them get an understanding on what's available to them,� he says.

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A community-based program allows the Big and Little to do activities around the town such as visiting museums, walking in parks or going on hikes. Big Brothers Big Sisters partners with the Share Tix Foundation, which provides tickets to events to area organizations and nonprofits that serve youth.

A separate after-school program has mentors and mentees working in a group setting and engaging in activities. Six Salt Lake County schools participate in this program.

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DON’T GET ME STARTED

November 2018

Innocent after proven guilty When courts of law forbid the truth

BY JOHN DEJONG

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started out writing about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) recent report on the challenges in keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Centigrade.

But among the many incomprehensibilities of the past month, three disparate but ultimately related things took over my keyboard:

block the revelation of nondisclosure agreements and substantial payments he used to conceal the truth about serious and repeated sexual harassment, racist abuse and bullying on his part. The revelations caused a stir because the judge in the case had prevented the British Daily Telegraph from publishing details of its investigation into the accusations against Green. As a member of Parliament, however, Hain is shielded from such restrictions.

Prior to Hain's revelations, the Telegraph wrote, “The accusations against the businessman, who cannot be identified, would be sure to reignite the #MeToo movement against the mistreatment of women, minorities and others by powerful employers.”

It seems that those who can afford it are allowed a special “innocent after proven guilty” status. The question is, is there a mechanism in the United States, similar to that which allowed Hain to speak out in Great Britain, that would allow us to strip the veil from these serial criminals?

Non-disclosure agreements are possibly the biggest enabler of serial criminals in history.

From sexual crimes to financial fraud, defendants can essentially erase their criminal past by reaching lucrative non-disclosure agreements with their accusers. Donald Trump's trail is littered with such agreements.

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#MuzzleMeToo An important lesson from Great Britain for the #MeToo movement caught my eye. Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords, made public the name of British retail tycoon Philip Green, who spent £500,000 in legal fees to

The first case to come to trial against Bayer’s Monsanto on charges of purposefully ignoring evidence that its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes cancer ended in August with an award of $289 million to plaintiff DeWayne Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Monsanto thought it could keep Roundup from being classified as carcinogenic by gauging the dose to the “average” small print instruction-following user.

They were shocked, apparently to the point of being in denial, when the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic. The problem is that small print instruction-following users (with their magnifying glasses) are few and far between.

Now hundreds of cases of cancer caused by exposure to glyphosate are working their way through the courts; there may be thousands more glyphosate-caused illnesses that could be cases in the courts.

But just imagine the impact on sales of Roundup if the label clearly said “Probable Carcinogen.”

That would be bad for Bayer/Monsanto's economy. So they fought any accusations that glyphosate was carcinogenic with every under-handed trick in The Book of Under-Handed Tricks, written by the tobacco industry. Many of those dirty tricks were exposed and used as evidence in the successful California court case.

The only thing standing in the way of Monsanto sinking under a tsunami of such suits is the arcane rules of evidence and non-

disclosure agreements that allow criminals to conceal evidence of their crimes.

The Pittsburg Synagogue attack It's strange to actually be familiar with the scene of a violent massacre. I had my first bagel and lox at a Jewish deli in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburg, where a mad gunman slaughtered 11 people as they were beginning services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in October. I wonder what could drive a person to such an act of evil.

Donald Trump said that the person(s) responsible for the Squirrel Hill attack should be put to death.

I'm not sure if he really knows what he's saying, or if he is in denial about his responsibility for the deaths in Pittsburg, as well as the pipe bombs from Florida.

Similar to Monsanto, Trump would like to have the world judge his actions by their effect on the average person, rather than the most susceptible. Trump's many violence-prone utterances should be ruled carcinogenic. Will some court of law hold him responsible for the actions his hateful words provoke? ◆

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VISUAL ARTS

Seeing the Sacred at Urban Arts Gallery “The artist’s mission is to make the soul perceptible.”— Alex Grey

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“As we reviewed the submissions for 2018, we noticed that quite a few artists were exploring this mystical, visionary, psychedelic style,” says gallery manager Scott Tuckfield. “It was natural, then, to group those artists together and have a show with a spiritual theme.”

As to whether the Salt Lake arts community has a particularly spiritual side to it, Tuckfield muses, “Utah’s particular cultural milieu creates conditions that steer a lot of people’s minds in that direction. Whether it be through devotion to a church, or through rebellion from it, a lot of people around here are primed to ask questions about the nature of the Divine and of themselves.

“But I think Western culture as a whole is undergoing some sort of spiritual evolution, one which is fueled by increased exposure to Eastern concepts, such as the growing popularity of yoga and meditation, as well as a deepen-

ing scientific understanding of the universe.

Our minds are constantly getting blown in all sorts of ways, and artists everywhere are picking up on those vibrations in the collective consciousness. In other words, this is a movement that is happening in our culture anyway;

“Our minds are constantly getting blown in all sorts of ways, and artists everywhere are picking up on those vibrations in the collective consciousness,” says Tuckfield. we’re just giving it wall space to express itself.”

Tuckfield says Seeing the Sacred aims to transcend boundaries of culture and tradition. “t’s dynamic and challenging, surreal and cosmic—modern, yet timeless. We want to create an exhibit that’s uplifting, inspiring and beautiful. We hope it resonates with our patrons, and celebrates our shared humanity.”

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Free. KINGSENGLISH.COM Nov. 3 - Dec. 18: Glass Art Show @ Red Butte Garden. 9a-5p. Pieces including art, boxes, plates, sculptural works and jewelry display the brilliant colors of the medium.

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Garden admission ($0-$14). REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Nov. 1: Maria Muldaur @ The State Room. 8p. Singer of the 1974 hit “Midnight at the Oasis” performs from her new blues album. 21+. $18. THESTATEROOM.COM

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Nov. 15: Utah Recycling Alliance’s 8th Annual Zero Waste Awards & Film Screening @ the First Unitarian Church.

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Nov. 16: Seeing the Sacred @ Urban Arts Gallery. 6-9p. Local artists. Free.

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Nov. 10: Genderevolution Conference @ Salt Lake Community College.

8:30a-5p. Lectures, workshops and panels offered by local community members and professionals. $20-40.

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Nov. 15: Saryon Michael White @ The King’s English. 7p. Reads and signs his new novel, Royal Sands and the Bridge Between Worlds. Free. KINGSENGLISH.COM

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Nov. 14: Creativity in Focus Film Series @ UFMA. 7p. Q&A with Filmmaker Mia Tate including photographer Carl Oelerich and crew members from Campesino. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Nov. 14-15: Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center. 8a. Conference encourages a comprehensive review of the current state of our watershed, while creating learning and networking opportunities. Free. WATERSHEDSYMPOSIUM2018.SCHED.COM

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Former Barenaked Lady performs his fourth solo album “Discipline: Heal Thyself, PT. II.” 21+. $28.

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YOGA

November 2018

Making peace with our differences Cultivating equanimity in relationship

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t’s been a full year since a dear friend succumbed to cancer. A longtime yoga student and generous soul, I was privileged to know her for 20 years. (I met her at a CATALYST party.) I think about her often. Even now, sometimes my mind has a hard time grasping her absence.

This friend was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer more than a decade ago. She opted out of treatment, thinking she could treat her cancer through natural means. She also harbored a longstanding fear of Western medicine dating back to childhood.

Sometimes in yoga class, she would complain of sacroiliac joint and hip pain. As a grateful recipient of two hip replacements, I suggested she get x-rays to determine what was happening. But she feared radiation, and had it turned out she needed a hip replacement she likely would not have opted for the surgery anyway.

By the time severe pain and dysfunction finally drove her to get x-rays about two years ago, a simple hip replacement would not have helped. Her cancer had spread to her bones.

Treatment was no longer an option.

At times, before I knew her diagnosis, I would become frustrated by her unwillingness to find out what was wrong. She was clearly in a lot of pain, and increasingly unable to do the things she loved to do—biking, cross-country skiing, most yoga poses, even simple walking.

But her fear of Western medicine was more compelling than her desire to know what was happening to her.

I could empathize with her position. I did not see a Western doctor for 30 years. I learned what I could about treating whatever ailed me—all manageable conditions—and took some pride in not needing medical care. But when my hips degenerated to the point where simple movements were no longer accessible, I realized that no amount of yoga, bodywork or supplementation was going to regenerate my joints. When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, I knew I was way out of my league.

Seeing my friend suffer was heartbreaking.

Knowing that her fear of Western medicine trumped her fear of cancer was frustrating.

After her diagnosis, I lay awake nights trying to make sense of the choices she had made.

BY CHARLOTTE BELL Then I remembered: her choices for her body and her life were hers, and only hers, to make.

As much as I wish she had chosen to treat her cancer all those years ago, her life—her personal integrity—demanded that she make the choices that she did. The choices I made when faced with cancer were different, and they were the choices that were right for me. Her choices were right for her.

My role, then, was not to try to persuade her of the rightness of my path, and by extension, the wrongness of hers. My role was simply to be a friend as she was going through her dying process, to share music and conversation, and most of all, to listen.

What is equanimity?

The practice of the brahma viharas (divine abodes), includes metta (kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (empathetic joy) and upekkha (equanimity). During the summer, after my friend had been bedridden for three months, I attended a retreat where we practiced cultivating the brahma viharas for nine days. I found that I could use my friend as the object of my well wishes in all four categories.

Metta practice reminded me of how much I appreciated our longstanding friendship.

Karuna practice helped me tune into and empathize with her daily struggles. Mudita practice reminded me of the ebullient spirit she often showed, even in her dire circumstances.

Upekkha reminded me to respect her perspective and the choices she made.

Equanimity is described as an “unshakable balance” in the face of life’s vicissitudes. Equanimity is one of the fruits of mindfulness and brahma vihara practices. Equanimity allows us to be fully engaged with whatever is happening without being thrown off balance. This allows us to make wise choices, which, in turn, makes our lives less fraught with drama. Equanimity allows us to see past our preferences to a more expansive, inclusive viewpoint and to live more peacefully in the world. It also teaches us to appreciate and respect everyone’s unique path, whether or not it conforms to our preferences.

It is not the same as indifference, which turns away from difficulty. Equanimity allowed me to fully engage with my friend and her circumstances without being blinded by judgments

about her choices.

Remembering that every being on the planet can and will make the choices they need to in order to fulfill their life’s purpose can bring clarity to our relationships. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we should sit on the sidelines and observe while someone causes harm.

But instead of acting from a place of hatred— which is not sustainable and often adds to the harm already being perpetrated—we act from a place of equanimity.

How to practice equanimity In these divisive times, my equanimity is challenged daily. Sometimes it’s present. Other times, I get sucked into anger and even despair.

But I keep practicing.

We can practice equanimity by putting ourselves in another person’s shoes. Looking at a situation from another person’s viewpoint brings us closer to the person and allows us to detach from our own fixed views.

We can develop equanimity through mindfulness practice. Seeing clearly the ever-changing nature of everything in our experience helps to decondition reactivity. When we see for ourselves that all experience—pleasant, unpleasant or neutral—is fleeting, we become less likely to be thrown off balance by the inevitable ups and downs of our lives.

We can practice equanimity by remembering that we are all on paths of our own. Someone else’s choices may not make sense to you, but it’s important to respect their right to make their own choices. This doesn’t mean that we sit idly by while another person makes obviously harmful choices. We can give support by making suggestions—even impassioned ones —but with the understanding that they may or may not change behavior according to our wishes.

Finally, we can develop equanimity as a formal meditation practice along with the other brahma vihara practices. If you’re interested in learning more, read Sharon Salzberg’s classic book, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982.

She is the author of several yoga-related books including the newly released Hip-Healthy Asana and is founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City.

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November 2018

CLIMATE ACTION

As the climate shifts....

Our city and county officials are gearing up for change

W

e can plainly to see that already climate changes are impacting our everyday lives in northern Utah. Over the past three years we have experienced unprecedented harmful algal blooms in bodies of

BY ROYAL DELEGGE compound these problems, we are also experiencing an extreme and prolonged period of drought.

That Utahns recognize the impacts of the changing climate is confirmed by a 2017 poll commissioned by the Salt Lake Tribune and the Hinckley Institute of Politics at

human activities. Given this reality, and the knowledge that these impacts will only grow over time, numerous people and organizations are taking action now to deal with the impacts facing us.

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Salt Lake City’s Sustainability Department has developed a water across the state, we have suffered through extended heat waves, and choked through thick particulate pollution emanating from record-breaking fires across the western United States and concentrating in northern Utah. To

the University of Utah, which revealed that 71% of Utahns understand that climate change is real and that 64% recognize that the changing conditions are made worse by

Salt Lake County Health Department has developed an “Adaptation Plan for Health” and hosts an annual “Climate and Health” symposium, addressing issues of rising temperature, extended heat waves and water availability.

comprehensive climate adaptation plan addressing mitigation, adaptation, and resilience for climate-related issues. The city adopted “Climate Positive 2040” in 2016 that details steps towards achieving 100% renewable energy for the community by 2032 as well as an 80% reduction, from a 2009 baseline, in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Many additional organizations, cutting across the public, nonprofit and private sectors, are currently engaged in addressing

Utah is warming at about twice the rate of our global average. the impacts of Utah’s changing climate. These efforts include reaching out with information to the general public and engaging in specific activities to plan and

prepare for the continuing changes. We can already see these changes taking place and impacting our lives in ways that cannot be ignored.

I encourage you to learn more and become involved with some of these efforts to ensure that we can continue to thrive in our state’s beautiful yet fragile environment. ◆ Further information can be found at WWW.SLC.GOV/SUSTAINABILITY/CLIMATE-POSITIVE/; WWW.UTAHCLIMATEACTIONNETWORK. COM/ Royal DeLegge is Salt Lake County Health Department’s Director of Environmental Health, an adjunct professor at Westminster College, and Utah Clean Cities Coalition’s chairman of the board and CEO. He is on the advisory board of CATALYST’s Clean Air Solutions Fair.

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

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rice 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

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

Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

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MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School

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

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MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/18

801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established 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

MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 5/19

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

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

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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TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/19

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19

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

VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/18

LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/19 DA

Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a

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

801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmau-

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

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YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/18

intuitive development, Crystal Healer Certification, meditation and more.

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sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/19

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19

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

801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon.

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

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Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/19

Suzanne Wagner DA 1/19

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.

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

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES

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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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,

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

Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/19

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,

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 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.

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Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/18

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.

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

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

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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/19

ence 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.

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/19

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

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW 3/19

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.

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COMMUNITY RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/19DA

801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy since 1987.

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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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Golden Braid Books DA 11/18

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

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801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express

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

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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

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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.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/19

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

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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

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

line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

801.919.4742, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical

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realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community.

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

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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.

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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.

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INSTRUCTION Lower Lights School of Wisdom 8/19

801.859.7131. Lower Lights is a community that supports human awakening coupled with passionate engagement in the world. We approach the journey of becoming through ancient and modern teachings including mindfulness, Western developmental psychology and the world’s wisdom traditions. Offerings include community gatherings, workshops and retreats.

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

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

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

Change, action, movement!

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Playfulness, Projections, Going with the Flow Medicine Cards: Antelope, Hawk Mayan Oracle: Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Three of Wands, Three of Cups Ancient Egyptian Tarot:Three of Disks, The Chariot, Prince of Disks Aleister Crowley Deck: Princess of Wands, Ace of Wands, 10 of Disks Healing Earth Tarot: Grandmother of Shields, Five of Feathers, Two of Wands Words of Truth: Speaking, Knowing, Aggression

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s we begin of the month of November, the energy is at an alltime high. The volatility is so intense that nothing will be cleanly worked through till mid- month—probably after November 11 with the shift of Jupiter in Sagittarius.

Venus is still retrograde, magnifying emotions as she plumbs the depths of all things hidden (with the help of Jupiter in Scorpio) and

thus is allowing Jupiter to shine his very bright light on them so that things eventually become clear and balanced.

At least, we hope for that!

We can’t learn if we’re unwilling to look. We’re not learning if we believe we have all the answers. And this astrology is pushing our noses into the old crap that has been lying (pun intended) in hiding for a long time.

Antelope reminds us that it’s through action that we learn how to change. It’s action that determines if we grow or stay stuck. It’s action that decides what your life will look like in this lifetime and the

This month will hold a moment that, in the future, you will remember where you were, exactly, in time and space.

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gifts and abilities that you have in the next life.

You have a bit of control over your own choices and actions. Best to leave the decisions and choices of others to them. They are dancing in their own karmic pool of suffering and it is always best to not get into someone else’s mud puddle.

Look at your choices and actions with the eyes of a hawk. Take the long view. See beyond this moment in time. Do your actions support life, love and happiness for all in the future? If they do not, you have chosen poorly.

This month looks to me like a triathlon—the part of the race where they are all jumping into the water and swimming in one direction. Now, while that is more organized, what I see are many swimming in various directions, while prompters on the sidelines call out, “Over here! Come this way! This is what you want! The finish line is over here!”

The impact is total chaos and confusion as people swim into each other, knocking each other around in an attempt to win and be right.

It’s a dangerous game. People can get hurt, drown, get lost in the deep waters or (metaphorically) be eaten by sharks. It’s an unconscious melee where everyone is attempting to make a point or find any current that can carry them forward.

This is a race where everyone’s goal is not necessarily the true “end of the race” goal.

And there is a current. That current has been there forever, before man decided he was king of this world. Those who feel beyond the chaos will find the flow that will allow them to move with less effort. But this current does not yell and try to cajole you to move in its direction. This current is eternal.

This current is Mother Nature. She promotes life. She promotes wisdom.

She does not seek your approval.

She is complete right now, with or without your belief in her or your support. For she knows better than you what is needed in this moment in time.

Such is this month. A month where six planets either change directions or change signs. A month where the theme is change, action, and movement. A month where expansion is not wanted, it is demanded. This will be an unprecedented moment in time. A moment that in the future you will remember where you were, exactly, in time and space. A moment you will remember with a proud smile on your face or a moment that you would prefer to not talk about. ◆ 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, and will be here this month. SUZWAGNER.COM

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BOOK REVIEW

Stony Mesa Sagas

Librarian-activist-essayist Chip Ward can write fiction, too

BY AMY BRUNVAND Torrey House Press, 2017, 355 p. $18. ISBN 978-1-937226085-5

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know Chip ward personally as a librarian and as an environmental activist. He wrote the non-fiction Canaries on the Rim (1999) about pollution and radioactive waste in Utah’s West Desert which has become an environmental classic. I didn’t know that Ward was secretly writing a novel until Stony Mesa Sagas appeared. I took it with me on summer vacation to read at the beach. It’s a mystery and amusing light reading, but at the same time, if I could pick one book to do a community read with everyone in Utah, it might be this one.

Stony Mesa Sagas is a novel in three parts. In part one, “Luna Waxwing and the Neon Monster,” Ward channels Carl Hiaasen, who has written some of the best environmentalist beach reading of all time. Hiaasen, if you haven’t read his books, is sort of the Edward Abbey of Florida—he writes satirical environmental thrillers in

of Torrey, Boulder and Escalante, Utah). Luna Waxwing is his estranged daughter who is involved in protesting nearby tar-sands developments. Hijinks ensue.

In other words, Stony Mesa Sagas is a bit of a roman à clef. It’s not hard to identify who Elias Buchman is (Chip Ward himself, of course), or Bunny Cleaver (Cliven Bundy, I presume). The stories are clearly fictional, but at the same time they are based on familiar Utah conflicts — ranchers vs. developers, cowboys vs. Indians, oil & gas industry vs. public lands, insiders vs. outsiders. It seems that after he wrapped up Part 1 Ward wasn’t satisfied with just taking literary revenge on environmental bad guys so he kept writing.

It’s a mystery and amusing light reading, but at the same time, if I could pick one book to do a community read with everyone in Utah, it might be this one. which evil developer/polluter/ poacher bad guys die suitably undignified deaths.

Ward’s Part 1 bad guy has the ridiculous name, Bo Hineyman.

He’s an out-of-state rich guy who has built a gigantic, neon-lit tourist trap in the national park gateway town of Stony Mesa (a composite

In Part II, “Tricksters Bones,” his characters start the hard work of trying to find a better resolution than just killing off metaphorical bad ideas. The controversy is over the sale of a ranch to build a fancy gated development called the Highlife Holliday Estates. The rancher feels defeated by the

hard life he has l i v e d a n d wants to get

rid of the place. His hear tbroken daughter wants to live on the land but doesn’t have enough money. The conflict becomes less black-and-white as Ward starts to deal with the intergenerational conflict. What does the older generation owe to younger people who will inherit their messes and mistakes?

In Part III, “Navigating a Fickle Shore,” the small town of Stony Mesa is finding its way into the future. A new generation has been born (the rural town won’t die out after all). The lonely Mormon woman has found a Latino boyfriend (yes, we can all get along). The awful tourist trap from Part I has been transformed into a community center where people with different views can engage in

respec tful community dialog. The bad guys are outsiders trying to stir up the old arguments and hatreds in the interests of corporate profits.

The residents of Stoney Mesa, though, have found a new strength in community and this time around they are not going to fall for it.

Recently, Ward gave talk on “Fiction as a Force for the Environment.” Libraries serve everyone and Ward’s radically inclusive librarian perspective is not only more gentle than Hiaasen’s raw anger regardingh the destruction of beloved places, it offers a more practical solution.

In the past, Utah has been able to cut across the urban/rural divide and work though public lands arguments to find good compromise solutions, but only when all stakeholders are honestly invited at the table. Since the election of President Trump, bad guys have been trying to tear our community apart by stirring up the old arguments and hatreds. The people who live in Chip Ward’s fictional town of Stony Mesa would run them out of town. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a poet, a University of Utah librarian and a longtime contributor to CATALYST. Recently she won the Alfred Lambourne Prize in literary arts for A Crown of Sonnets for Great Salt Lake.

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November 2018 A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond

COMPILED BY DIANE OLSON, ANNA ZUMWALT AND GRETA DEJONG November 9th, Carl Sagan’s birthday, a good day to look up and think about the expanse of the cosmos.

Photo courtesy of NASA

November 1 All Saints’ Day. Sunrise 7:58am.

Sunset 6:23pm.High: 50°F. Low: 31°F. Precipitation: 0.64 in. For the next couple weeks, we lose an additional three minutes of daylight every day.

November 2 Ever want to write a novel? Do it now: NANOWRIMO.ORG November 3 The bacteria in your gut have their own circadian clock, coordinated to daylight and meal times. Changing when you eat and sleep can cause gastrointestinal disturbance and weight gain. Take melatonin at bedtime to help

sync you and your gut’s schedules, especially around the time changes.

November 4 Daylight Saving Time begins and ends at 2 a.m. In some states, turning clocks back in the fall means an extra hour at bars, which tend to close at 2 a.m.

But not here in Utah where last call is 1 a.m., and establishments must be closed by 2 a.m. According to Utah DABC, you have one hour to finish your last drink and get out—before the clock strikes 1 again!

November 5 Object lesson: LaVar Christiansen, one of the most conservative among Utah state legislators (he authored the ban on gay marriage and protections and benefits for same-sex partners), won

his 2016 seat by a margin of six votes over Democratic opponent Suzanne Harrison (out of 17,071 cast). Yours may be the vote that makes a difference. Claim your right!

November 6 Election Day: Today is your last chance (or forever hold your peace).

VOTE.UTAH.GOV November 7 NEW MOON - 9:01 am. Start something new today!

November 8 Make chai. Our Anna Zumwalt’s recipe is awesome! In a slow cooker toss in two tbs. black tea, a teaspoon’s worth each of cloves, coriander seeds and black pepper corns, and generous shakes of cayenne, turmeric, allspice, cumin, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom seed powder (or 10-15 crushed pods), an orange peel, as availability allows. Add filtered water and simmer.

(Leave it on for days, replenishing the water as you harvest, until the chai loses its kick.).

To serve: ladle through a strainer into a mug, over a dollop of honey. Add your white stuff of choice (we like coconut milk and heavy cream).

November 9 Carl Sagan’s Birthday. It’s a good time to look up into the sky and think about the expanse of the cosmos. Remember, the day sky is full of just as many wonders as the night sky—we just can’t see them; so bring your imagination.

November 10 The Downtown Winter Market begins today (see Calendar). You’ll find parsnips, Brussels sprouts, beets, carrots, celery, kale, leeks, lettuce, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard, apples and lots more.

November 11 Buy (or make) your organic salt-free deicer now, before you really need it.

November 12 Planning to get a live Christmas tree? Dig the hole now. This is also the time to prune ivy and Virginia creeper.

November 13 The edge of chaos is the opti-

mal life zone for involving complex systems, such as ant and termite colonies, beehives, brains, economics, and human society (says organizational scientist and Utahn Margaret Wheatley).

November 14 If you haven’t done so yet, turn off water to your outside faucets and bring in your garden hoses.

November 15 Celebrate America Recycles Day with the Utah Recycling Alliance tonight. Movie (Slowing Down Fast Fashion), food, drinks, awards. RSVP for this private event at EVENTBRITE.COM November 16 Got a horseradish plant in your garden? After frost has killed the foliage, dig up part of the root. Scrub with water and dry well. Grate it for horseradish sauce—it’s delicious and packed with beneficial nutrients and phytochemicals.

November 17 Fill your home with the fragrance of home baked bread, made from your own sourdough starter: All you need is flour, water and time.

Details: WWW.THEKITCHN.COM November 18 Fall is when the male spiders inside your house go looking for love, searching out

Mindfulness Meditation

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Sundays at Artspace Zendo 10:00-11:30 am

the ladies hanging in their webs.

And thanks to an app called Spider in Da House, ecologists have pinpointed the exact time of day when they are most on the move: 7:35 p.m. If you’re not an arachnid fan, that might be a nice time to leave the house. Or to have a stiff drink November 19 Raggedy Ann and Alice in Wonderland wore them and maybe you will, too, this week: Aprons, often the first garment made by someone learning to sew, are back in vogue.

November 20 Wild turkeys are way more interesting than their domesticated relatives. They sleep in trees, can fly 55 mph in short bursts, have periscopic vision, gobble loud enough to be heard over a mile away and turn crazy colors when aroused.

November 21 Need some turkeyfree (but turkey-like) ideas for Thanksgiving? Look for recipes including mushrooms, legumes,

Day of Zen

With Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei November 10 7:30 am-2pm

230 South 500 West • Salt Lake City • Artspace Building Suite 155 Find More information at

WWW.TWOARROWSZEN.ORG/EVENTS

tempe, tofu, seitan or jackfruit.

November 22 FULL MOON - 10:39 pm.

Today is as good as any to start a gratitude journal. Not sure where to begin? Try HTTPS://WWW.THNX4.ORG November 23 You don’t need to be a scientist to participate in science. Join one of the Natural History Museum of Utah citizen science projects dedicated to exploring and recording Utah’s biodiversity: NHMU.UTAH.EDU/ CITIZEN-SCIENCE

November 27 Giving Tuesday. A donation of any amount to Common Good Press (aka CATALYST Magazine, a 501c3 nonprofit) will make you feel great!

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET November 28 Want to avoid seasonal weight gain?

Watch carbs, not so much calories.

November 29 Square Dancing is the official state folk dance

November 24 An interesting practice to begin: Write 52 “thank you" notes each year, one every week to a different person. (Postcards count.)

November 25 Be a kinder commuter: Let others merge.

Give a smile or friendly wave if they let you in. Use your turn signal. And when others act like assholes, think up good excuses for them.

November 26 Even though the weather has cooled, your body still appreciates water. Hydrate!

of Utah. Do-si-do is a corruption of the French "dos à dos” (back to back).

November 30 Holiday dinner season is upon us. If you’re not the cook, you can still do your part in the kitchen by helping to prep, serve, or clean up afterward. ◆

Curated Film Media Education Artist Support

Upcoming Free Film Screenings INVENTING TOMORROW Post-film discussion.

Teen scientists from around the globe tackle environmental challenges as they prepare for the world’s largest science fair.

Tuesday | November 3 | 11am The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Winner: Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize - 2018 Seattle International Film Festival

RAMS

Post-film Q&A with director.

A portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, & a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, & the future of design.

From the director of Helvetica and Objectified

Wednesday | November 7 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC

AMAZING ANIMATIONS

@ Illuminate Light Art & Technology Festival

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A selection of animated films for young viewers from around the world, featured at the 2018 Tumbleweeds Film Festival.

Friday & Saturday | November 9 & 10 | 5-9pm The Gateway 100 South Rio Grande, SLC

TRANSMILITARY

Presented in honor of Veterans Day, as part of our Damn These Heels Film Festival year-round programming.

Four transgender individuals put their careers on the line by coming out in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve.

Tuesday | November 13 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

S LC FA R M E R S M A R K E T. O R G

Winner: Documentary Competition Audience Award–2018 SXSW Film Festival

CAMPESINO

Post-film Q&A director & subject.

A Salt Lake City photographer’s 15-year documentation of the disappearing way of life of Cuba’s tobacco farmers.

Wednesday | November 14 | 7pm UMFA 410 Campus Center Dr, SLC

Campesino was supported throuh our Fiscal Sponsorship program.

THE COLORADO Post-film discussion.

The five-million-year story of the Colorado River region set to music by leading composers and narrated by actor Mark Rylance.

Tuesday | November 20 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Official Selection: 2017 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital

OVERLORD

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Post-film Q&A with director.

A WWII cadet undertakes his army training ready for D-day in this impressionistically shot 1975 classic film.

Tuesday | November 27 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Winner: Silver Berlin Bear–1975 Berlin International Film Festival

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