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different. The cover relates to “The Living Building Challenge” (p. 12)—a Moab project guided by a Salt Lake architect that is garnering international attention. It’s listed in Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, brainchild of (and edited by) journalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken. The book details 100 tools and techniques with which global warming can be not just reduced but reversed, including a number of “coming attractions,” of which the Moab project is one. The Drawdown team, an international coalition of researchers, gathered and tested ideas. They did not invent anything new. They studied and appraised existing practices from around the world. The results were tallied, and the actual rankings of the various best practices were revealed and entered into the book manuscript just days before press. “What was uncovered is a path forward that can roll back global greenhouse gas emissions within 30 years,” Hawken writes. “The research revealed that humanity has the means and techniques at hand. Nothing new needs to be invented, yet many more solutions are coming, due to purposeful human ingenuity. The solutions we modeled are in place and in action.” This book is important because it shines a light on what’s actually going on—practices that need to be applauded, supported and promoted. I started paying attention to this book right after CATALYST’s Clean
Air Solutions Fair last year. I was astonished to see the variety of practices in place right here in Utah, seeds of many of the projects Hawken and his crew rated highly: Wind, geothermal, rooftop solar, methane digesters, regenerative agriculture, composting, managed grazing, net zero buildings, bike infrastructure, LED lighting, insulation, heat pumps, mass transit, electric vehicles, telecommuting, household recycling and more. l noticed that many of the stories we write relate to one or another of Drawdown’s winning strategies. When I heard that Paul Hawken would keynote the 10th Annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit in Ogden March 21,22, I decided to note which stories relate to practices in the book. In this issue alone, in addition to Living Buildings, you’ll read about earthships (net zero buildings, #79; insulation, #31); our valley’s new anaerobic digester (#59), and a farmer who practices regenerative agriculture (#11). The Legacy Parkway, while at risk as a parkway right now, can still be celebrated for provoking the success of FrontRunner (mass transit, #37) and the Legacy Trail (bike infrastructure, #59). The Drawdown Project now exists beyond the book. As a living, growing entity, it’s also on the internet (which is a good thing because, though the book is very attractive, its text is sized for Millennial eyeballs). When you’re done reading this issue, go there. For a good overview, watch Paul Hawken’s talk at the Seattle Town Hall. He’s an engaging speaker. Better yet, come to the Summit on March 21 and hear him in person. WEBER.EDU/ISSUMMIT/ Greta deJong is founder and editor of CATALYST.
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ENVIRONEWS
BY AMY BRUNVAND
We turn a tap and expect the water to flow. Where water comes from and how it's delivered is "hidden" to us. Somehow, it crosses a jumble of political divisions and property lines and arrives at our taps. – HIDDENWATER.ORG
Utah public lands get a pretty good bill
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Utah Legislature 2019 General Session ends March 14
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eads up! If your favorite environmental group sends you a legislative action alert, it might require urgent action. There are good and bad environmental bills on the table.
You can be sure that Utah legislators will hear from industry lobbyists. Make sure they hear from you as well! Here are some useful links: HEAL Utah bill tracker: HEALUTAH.ORG/
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ust last year things were looking desperate for conservation of Utah’s public lands. The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress had allowed the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to expire, eliminating an important source of money to purchase public land for conservation and recreation. Utah’s congressional delegation was railing against the Antiquities Act of 1906 that allows Presidents to designate National Monuments; Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Representative John Curtis (RUtah-3) had introduced a very bad Emery County Public Land Management Act full of anti-conservation poison pills. So it was a big surprise in February when the U.S. Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act and it was not terrible. This 662-page bill is a package of about 100 pieces of public lands legislation including permanent funding for LWCF and a cleaned-up version of the Emery County Bill. It gives wilderness protection to
663,000 aces in the San Rafael Swell; gives Wild and Scenic River designation to sections of the Green River corridor through Desolation Canyon and Labyrinth Canyon ; creates a new Jurassic National Monument at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry; upgrades Golden Spike to a national historic park; and enlarges Goblin Valley State Park by 6,261 acres (the land reverts to federal management if it’s not used as a state park). No one side got everything they wanted, but no stakeholders came out a total loser either. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) voted in favor of the bill, while Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) voted no and issued a petulant statement against LWCF. Representative John Curtis (R-UT-3) deserves thanks for his role in listening to stakeholders in order to revise the Emery County portion of the bill. The next step is for the legislation to pass the House so that it can be signed into law.
More controversy over Inland Port
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nother conflict of interest has developed over plans to build a massive ”inland port” in Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant. Envision Utah, which refers to itself as a neutral facilitator, was asked to conduct a community engagement process for the development even though they had also bid $475,000 to conduct a business plan for the port. The massive industrial development threatens to harm Great Salt Lake wetlands and increase pollution in westside neighborhoods. Connections between members of Envision Utah’s Board and Northwest Quadrant property owners seem questionable. The State and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) owns property proposed for a BNSF railroad facility, while BNSF railroad is owned by the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power. Both SITLA and Rocky Mountain Power provide funding for Envision Utah and SITLA’s .director is on Envision Utah’s board.
“There is a perception of conflict here that must be addressed,” says Richard Holman, co-chair of the Westside Coalition. Nonetheless, Envision Utah has launched a public survey that presents the Inland Port as a “landmark opportunity” and a done deal. Heather Dove, President of Great Salt Lake Audubon, points out, “If Envision Utah was operating as a truly unbiased agent, its planning process would include a no-build option which is the gold standard of objective process planning.” The Inland Port has been plagued by conflicts of interest from the start. Former House Speaker Greg Hughes, who rushed the bill to create a Port Authority through the Utah Legislature, appointed himself to the Inland Port Authority Board. He was forced to resign because he owned property affected by the development.
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Trump ‘energy dominance’ unpopular in the West President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda for Western public lands is deeply unpopular among Western voters, according to the 2019 “Conservation in the West” poll from Colorado College. The annual poll surveys voters in the Mountain West about policies that impact the use and protection of public lands. Seventy percent of Western voters identified themselves as “outdoor recreation enthusiasts,” and 63% said that the ability to live near public lands is a factor for why they live in the West. Sixty-five percent of voters said that they want the new Congress to put more emphasis on conservation rather than producing more domestic energy. As for removing National Monument protections, even Utahns thought removing that was a bad change (56%) compared to 66% from all Western states. 2019 Conservation in the West Poll: COLORADOCOLLEGE.E DU/OTHER/STATEOFTHEROCKIES/CONSERVATIONINTHEWEST/
Oil lobbyist nominated for interior secretary
On February 4. President Trump nominated deputy interior secretary and former oil industry lobbyist David Bernhardt to replace the ethically challanged Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. Bernhardt has been acting as Interior Secretary since January. The Western Values Project calls Berhnardt “the ultimate DC swamp creature” and says he is too conflicted to lead. During the government shutdown, Bernhardt allowed grazing, mining and oil and gas development to continue despite lack of government oversight. As deputy interior secretary, he was involved in rescinding climate change mitigation policies, undermining the Endangered Species Act and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing. In a comment on the nomination, Senator Tom Udall (D- New Mexico) said, “I have serious concerns regarding Mr. Bernhardt’s record of working almost exclusively for corporations to profit off of America’s natural resources at the high cost of polluting our environment—concerns I also had when he was nominated to serve as deputy secretary.
There are many reasons to be skeptical that, as interior secretary, Mr. Bernhardt will faithfully pursue the mission of this critical agency to protect and manage our threatened public lands, waters, environment, and wildlife for future generations. We do not need another secretary with a polluters over people agenda—who opens the door to corporate lobbyists and donors while shutting out Native voices, the scientific community, and the American people.” The choice of interior secretary has an oversized effect on Utah since the Department of Interior includes the National Park Service that manages Utah’s five national parks and oversees the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which manages nearly 22.9 million acres of Utah public lands. As of this writing, a confirmation hearing for Bernhardt has not been scheduled.
San Juan County government calls to restore Bears Ears
In February, the San Juan County Commission passed two resolutions to condemn President Donald Trump for illegally reducing the size of Bears Ears National Monument and to restore the original monument boundaries. In 2017, a federal judge required San Juan County to re-redraw racially gerrymandered council districts. The three-person San Juan County Commission became majority Navajo in the 2018 general election.
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“Rolling coal”
alter emissions controls. A civil penalty to the tune of $500,000 was brought against the Ogden-based Edge Products, for building and selling electronic devices that allow trucks to blow smoke without the check engine light coming on.
Rolling coal in Utah
How to make bad air worse BY ASHLEY MILLER
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olling coal” is the practice of intentionally blowing a plume of thick black exhaust from a diesel truck. To make this happen, someone has modified the emissions controls to increase the amount of fuel entering the engine. The sole purpose? To emit large plumes of black exhaust into the air. While it’s not actual coal, the pollutants add injury to the Wasatch Front’s already beleaguered air. And it’s illegal under state and federal air quality laws. When Weber County began testing diesel passenger cars and trucks as part of the county emissions inspection program, 38.8% of the failures were due to tampering. A diesel without emissions controls emits 426% more PM2.5 and 2180% more NOx than one with working systems. Exposure to diesel exhaust is harmful to human health, affecting both the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
Where it all began Rolling coal appears to have begun in truck pull competitions, where excessive fuel is pumped into the engine to increase horsepower and torque, and because the emissions controls have been removed or modified, the trucks belch out thick black smoke—a lot of it. But it didn’t stop there. Some people now do this for “fun.” Some claim rolling coal is a political protest against the policies of the Obama administration and en-
vironmentalists. Others insist the practice is simply a visible display of a truck’s power and speed, and a symbol of America’s love of freedom and personal property rights. Either way, thousands of Instagram accounts, Facebook groups and YouTube videos are now dedi-
Utah, despite its serious air pollution challenges, has one of the least stringent coal rolling laws on the books, with consequences the equivalent of a parking ticket. By comparison, New Jersey explicitly banned rolling coal and imposes a fine of up to $5,000 for a driver engaging in the behavior.
cated to rolling coal. A popular reality television show, “Diesel Brothers,” features a Woods Cross, Utah-based company on the Discovery Channel.
Lawsuits In January 2017, the environmental advocacy group Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment filed a lawsuit against a Woods Cross-based mechanic whose businesses are the subject of the television show “Diesel Brothers.” The suit claims the hosts of the show violated both the federal Clean Air Act and the Utah State Implementation Plan by selling and installing emissions defeat devices, as well as selling, building and driving trucks that blow polluting smoke. A judge issued a preliminary injunction in June 2018, barring the “Diesel Brothers” star from making any after-market modifications of a truck’s emissions controls or selling any vehicle that has been altered. The case is still making its way through U.S. District Court. In the meantime, the show ends with a “don’t try this at home” caveat. The EPA enforces the laws of the Clean Air Act mostly on the manufacturing end. Remember, they brought the action against VW for manufacturing and selling diesel cars with defeat devices on their emissions controls (see CATALYST, December 2017). The EPA also goes after companies that make the parts designed to
Utah, despite its serious air pollution challenges, has one of the least stringent coal rolling laws on the books, with consequences the equivalent of a parking ticket. By comparison, New Jersey explicitly banned rolling coal and imposes a fine of up to $5,000 for a driver engaging in the behavior. State Representative Angela Romero has introduced a bill, HB 139, that addresses two issues surrounding rolling coal: first, to create a better deterrent by increasing the fines to $100 for a first offense and to $500 for a second or subsequent offense. The bill also adds a protection for vulnerable road users. If a driver intentionally blows smoke at a pedestrian or cyclist, the driver is subject to a Class C misdemeanor. Currently, most complaints about rolling coal come from citizens. But these complaints do not typically provide enough evidence for the local health departments to take action. The proposed legislation would require the court to report a violation to the local health department that runs the emissions inspection program. All of the local health departments in Utah’s non-attainment areas assert that receiving formal reports from law enforcement would help them better control illegal tampering. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the policy director for Breathe Utah. She is the vice-chair of Utah’s Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and on the Salt Lake County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.
HB 139 has passed through the House of Representatives and is awaiting a hearing in the Senate. Stay up to date on this bill and other air quality legislation by visiting Breathe Utah’s bill tracker at BREATHEUTAH.ORG/LEGISLATION/
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The Living Building Challenge A new standard for eco-friendly building gives LEED a run for its money BY JIM FRENCH
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s I live and breathe, Living Buildings are coming to Utah!! A Living Building is a building that collects rainwater, has its own sewage treatment plant and produces and stores all the power its inhabitants need. This, according to Kenner Kingston, President of Arch Nexus and lead architect for the Living Building Challenge project under way in Moab.
A Living Building must meet stringent performance criteria for 12 months before receiving certification. Arch Nexus, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is working with Community Rebuilds, a licensed contractor in Utah and Colorado. Their goal is to construct four certified Living Buildings. That’s quite an undertaking, considering that there are just 19 such buildings on the planet. Unlike the better known LEED program, which certifies after a building is completed, a Living Building must meet stringent performance criteria for 12 months before receiving certification. “Living Buildings should function like a
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flower growing in nature,” Kingston says. “In fact, the metaphor of the flower is the central organizing concept of the Living Building Challenge. A flower in nature operates off of only renewable energy, uses only the resources available to it on-site, is a composition of integrated place-based solutions that elegantly work together, and is beautiful.”
The Challenge addresses seven petals, or performance areas: site, water, energy, health, materials, equity and beauty. A Living Building and the property around it improve everything associated with it: soil, water, air, food and quality of life. No toxic Red List materials, such as PVC and formaldehyde, are allowed on the project and at least 30% of the property must
be devoted to food production. When can I move in?!! The contractor, Community Rebuilds, has spent eight years perfecting the construction of affordable, energy-efficient, low-carbon homes. These structures feature straw bale insulation, earthen plastered walls, compacted adobe floors and passive and active solar design. Community Rebuilds is a part of USDA Rural Development’s Mutual Self Help Program where families work together to build each other’s homes. This forward-thinking general contractor also incorporates a fascinating program model that lets a diverse group of student interns (as seen on this month’s CATALYST cover) gain hands-on experience in natural building. So far, they have completed 36 homes in Moab, Bluff, on the Hopi Reservation (Arizona) and in Gunnison Valley (Colorado). A Community Rebuilds—Arch Nexus partnership in successful Living Building construction and certification makes perfect sense. Arch Nexus has experience with the Living Building Challenge . They designed California’s first Living Building, their Sacramento office. Community Rebuilds is all over the art of building affordable, energy-efficient homes made from natural materials. Kenner Kingston projects that the four homes in Moab will be occupied in early 2020 and certified as Living Buildings in 2021. These homes and the Living Buildings to follow will allow Mother Earth and her inhabitants to breathe a lot easier. ◆
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Earthships
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n a vast expanse of the northern New Mexico desert, just outside of Taos, lies a housing development like no other. Actually, “development” isn't quite the word to use here as it implies an inherent conquest of the planet. No, here at the Greater World Community the homes seem not to be “built” but rather to be coaxed out of the earth, comfort cultivated from clay soils. This is the desert where the “Earthship” was born. I’ve been a huge fan of earthship architecture since first being introduced to the concept in 2002. A human in outer space requires a vessel that meets all of the needs of its inhabitants; why should our homes on earth be any different?
Recycling at its finest BY JAMES LOOMIS
PHOTOS BY KARI LARSEN I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Greater World Community, the home of Earthship Biotecture. I spent three days basking in the comfort of these unique buildings, studying their design, and touring a number of different units. My view of what is possible with home design will never be the same. Conceived by architect Michael Reynolds several decades ago, the first earthship was built in 1979. Over 2,000 currently exist around the world. A truly sustainable home built from a combination of salvaged and natural materials, it is designed to be completely off grid and autonomous while meeting every basic need of its inhabitants. Power, water, food, waste processing, beauty and comfort are are all provided by the earthship itself—exactly the opposite of how the typical American home
functions. And although built from “garbage,” every home we toured was a striking work of art, where no opportunity for creative expression and beauty was missed.
What makes an earthship? Several key features and design elements are the hallmark of this type of design and how they relate to human needs. The first is comfort, and this is achieved by the earthship being a high-thermal-mass passive solar building. By orienting buildings in our region so that the south-facing wall is glass, and the remaining walls are built from materials with high thermal mass, a well-designed building is capable of maintaining a comfortable living temperature year round with no mechanical heating or cooling. To experience this phenomenon is nothing short of amazing. When we arrived at the Phoenix Earthship, the crown jewel of earthship architecture, it was a frigid and windy 15-degree evening. We stepped through the front door and were immediately embraced by warm air. A mature kumquat tree loaded with citrus towered 25 feet overhead, and we were transported into a tropical oasis. These passive solar structures are able to maintain a comfortable living temperature year round because the high mass of the walls are able to moderate temperature fluctuations, a technique used in the desert southwest for well over 1,000 years. The southern wall of glass creates a greenhouse effect, capturing heat from the low winter sun or deflecting the hot
summer sun when it moves higher in the sky. Operable skylights and well-placed ventilation ducts provide fresh air and cooling, utilizing natural convection.
Earth, bottles and old tires A feature unique to earthship construction is the process of creating the massive walls of the structure by ramming earth into old tires, in essence creating monstrous adobe brick walls that are fire- and earthquake-proof as well as impervious to insects and rodents. Other walls utilize “bottle bricks” made of glass bottles or cans and mortared with adobe or concrete. These walls are then finish-plastered and can be made to look indistinguishable from the classic adobe buildings of the southwest. However, most earthship builders tend to embrace the art and flair of exposed glass and aluminum details, a celebration of the highest level of solutionism: building housing while working to solve our garbage crisis. The southern face of glass creates a greenhouse which becomes an integrated part of the living space, and providing for another human need: food. Tomatoes, greens, kale and other vegetables nestled beneath a canopy of citrus and bananas in our earthship. Fish and frogs swam in the small pond, and even a few birds were members of the indoor ecosystem.
Unique to earthship construction is the process of creating the massive walls by ramming earth into old tires, in essence creating monstrous adobe brick walls that are fire- and earthquake-proof as well as impervious to insects and rodents. Other walls use glass bottles or cans mortared with adobe or concrete. The integrated plantings also helped to regulate humidity, clean the air, and create an unparalleled feeling of comfort. All of the plantings in the greenhouse are fed by the systems that meet our third and fourth needs: water and waste processing.
Light and water The earthship collects all of the water needed for its inhabitants from rainwater, and stores it in underground cisterns. These cisterns also contribute to the thermal mass of the structure. This harvested rainwater is often used four times in an earthship. After initial use in sinks or the shower, the used “greywater” then drains into the planting beds in the greenhouse area of the earth ship. The microbes in the soil and the plants themselves clean and utilize this water as it travels through the network of planting beds, before being collected in a lower sump where it is either circulated back through the beds or used to fill toilet tanks for flushing. “Blackwater,” or water from the toilet, gets processed on site through a modified septic system that overflows into outdoor grow modules to support trees, which provide shade. These grow modules are an improvement that
replaces traditional leach fields, which tend to grow only grass and weeds. Most earthships utilize solar arrays to provide electricity for their inhabitants, often with small wind turbines as well. Hot water is, of course, provided by the sun as well. The earthship design process includes a serious consideration for “designing down,” the process by which careful consideration and attention are given to reducing the need for electricity and complicated systems in the first place, which saves money and time during construction. Extensive operable skylights and light-colored walls
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at the back of the building provide natural daylight, reducing the need for daytime lighting or mechanical ventilation. The decision to run the washing machine or dishwasher only during daylight hours drastically reduces the size of the battery bank the home requires. Dropping the dishwasher and embracing the meditation of cleaning one’s own dishes takes this concept one step further. The final morning of my stay in the Phoenix earthship, a blanket of snow covered the
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ground outside. I stood beneath a canopy of pomegranates and passion fruit, and took a shower of pure rainwater heated by the sun. The water leaving the shower drained into a network of pipes where roots eagerly waited to receive it. After my shower I went to the couch to enjoy a coffee, then noticed kale growing within arm’s length of where I sat. I harvested some, and sautéd it with fresh eggs from the chickens outside (who had their own mini-earthship as
well, the “Chicken Hilton”). It was in that moment I truly realized the full power and brilliance of what Michael Reynolds and his team pioneered. ◆ James Loomis is a fulltime urban farmer, educator and permaculture hooligan. His bloody Marys are a thing of legend, and have been known to change the entire course of a weekend. To learn more about Michael Reynolds and his pioneering battle with the permitting process, watch Garbage Warrior, available at WWW.GARBAGEWARRIOR.COM/
HEALTH
Spring sleep
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Tips for better snoozing this season BY ANNA ZUMWALT The pillow's low, the quilt is warm, the body smooth and peaceful. Sun shines on the room's door, the curtain not yet open. In the air, the youthful taste of spring comes to you even in your sleep. — Bai JuYi, 8th-century Chinese poet
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here's green in the garden under the melting snow. The sun’s out. The birds are singing. If you’re zipping with spring fever but at the same time feel run-out-ofsteam, here’s a list of what might be hampering your napping: • Brighter mornings seem to have come without warning. • Warmer days and warmer nights make us restless. • Allergies. We love greenery, though it can activate our immune machinery. • Early Birds… those herds of nest-building nerds are right outside your window. • Daylight Saving Time. What a crime! • The responsibility of work and taxes waxes. Yes, the things you love (and hate) about spring can also disrupt your sleep. So, what can you do to get more snooze? 1. Invest in a sleep mask and earplugs. 2. Trade in the heavy comforter for a lighter one, and the flannels for silky sexy PJs. 3. Spring cleaning! Declutter and organize your bedroom. Bedrooms should be for sleep and sex. Only. 4. Keep a journal by your bed, so when you do wake up with worries, of taxes or whatever, jot
them down and roll over. 5. Keep blue-light-emitting gadgets out of your night-flailing reach. Other gadgets are OK. 6. Have more sex. It boosts oxytocin, lowers cortisol—and orgasms release prolactin, the hormone which makes you feel dreamy. 7. Oh, and make sure your partner doesn’t snore. 8. Room too hot? Turn down the thermostat. Open a window. 9. Get outside in the morning for some fresh air and sunshine. Fifteen minutes in bright sun (preferably without sunglasses) will help your body produce melatonin the following night. 10. Exercise helps. Just don’t do it too late in the day. 11. Allergies keeping you awake at night? Your main pollen problem this month in Utah is trees. Check the Weather Channel’s Allergy Tracker ( WXCH.NL/2S3WVMD) for what’s afloat. Wash your face and hair—and groom pets more often. (After your walk, rinse off Fido’s feet.) When the AC season comes, change your filters. 12. Bonus tip: Eat springtime foods that support sleep. Noshing on cherries, kale and lettuce helps produce melatonin. Other foods that aid with Zzzs: , bananas, oranges, avocados, tomatoes. Now that you’ve sprung forward an hour, stick to a regular schedule. If you’re rising with the birds… consider embracing that, perhaps this is you turning over a new leaf. It could happen. Don’t lose sleep over becoming a morning person. ◆ Anna Zumwalt is a Zen monk and hypnotherapist. She loves putting her students to sleep and waking them up. See her sleep classes at HTTP://WWW.BIT.LY/AZCLASSES.
Directed by Karen Winther Post-film discussion TBA.
A former white supremacist explores what makes someone join - and ultimately leave - various hate groups. Tuesday | March 5 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
Official Selection: CPH:DOX, DOC NYC, DOK Leipzig
I AM NOT A WITCH
Directed by Rungano Nyoni Cast: Maggie Mulubwa, Mrs. Chishimba, & Henry B.J. Phiri
Eight-year-old Shula is found guilty of witchcraft in this audacious, surreal story set in rural Zambia. Tuesday | March 12 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
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BE NATURAL: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Directed by Pamela B. Green Post-film Q&A with director. Supported through our Fiscal Sponsorship program.
The unknown story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the prolific first female film director whose work debuted in 1896. Wednesday | March 13 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC
Official Selection: 2018 Cannes Film Festival
PRIMAS
Directed by Laura Bari Pre-film discussion TBA.
An uplifting portrait of two Argentine cousins overcoming the heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods. Tuesday | March 19 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
Winner: People’s Choice Award–2018 True/False Film Festival
THE MARTIAN
Directed by Ridley Scott Pre-film discussion with Professor Sylvia Torti, Dean of the Honors College, University of Utah.
An astronaut (Matt Damon) becomes stranded on Mars and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Tuesday | March 26 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
Winner: Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)– 2016 Golden Globes
INTELLIGENT LIVES
Directed by Dan Habib Peek Award presented by Academy Award winner Barry Morrow to director Dan Habib.
Transforming the label of intellectual disability from a life sentence of isolation into a life of possibility. Monday | April 1 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC
Official Selection: 2018 Cleveland International Film Festival
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COMMUNITY
Reasons to love your library
Think of them as “resilience centers”
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n his book Palaces for the People, sociologist Eric Klinenberg describes how a group of planners met to discuss ways to restore resiliency to 21st century cities. Someone proposed a compelling idea for a “resilience center”—a place that would be a community gathering place, open every day, welcoming to everyone, staffed by trained professionals, with flexible space that could be adapted for many uses. Klinenberg realized that most American communities already have such a place and that it’s called a branch library.
Essential in time of crisis The importance of libraries for community resilience was demonstrated in November 2018 when the massive Camp Fire in Butte County California destroyed the town of Paradise. Before the fire was extinguished it burned 153,336 acres and 18,804 structures; tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate and 85 people died. In the aftermath of the blaze, American Libraries magazine reported that branches of the Butte County Library system had become disaster information centers offering computers, wifi and printers to help displaced people contact their insurance agents and get help from the
The reason libraries are so effective to re-ground and re-center communities in crisis is that they already serve a similar if less urgent role in more normal times, with goals for literacy, civic engagement and community resiliency, as well as collections that preserve community memory, identity, history and a sense of place.
BY AMY BRUNVAND Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Miraculously, the Paradise library was still standing in the blackened rubble. In an NPR Interview, Jody Jones, the mayor of Paradise, talked optimistically about re-building: “We still have a high school,” she said, “We still have a hospital, a library, a town hall.” Before Hurricane Katrina, libraries were treated by FEMA as non-essential services, but after Louisiana libraries played a significant role in disaster recovery, there was pressure to change federal law. Since 2011, libraries have been treated as a priority for postdisaster restoration. In a crisis, libraries can serve as information hubs, disaster communication centers and distribution points for food, tarps, sandbags and other supplies. But perhaps more importantly they offer a place for displaced people to go, a safe haven that restores a sense of normalcy. The reason libraries are so effective to re-ground and re-center communities in crisis is that they already serve a similar if less urgent role in more normal times, with goals for literacy, civic engagement and community resiliency, as well as collections that preserve community memory, identity, history and a sense of place.
The answer to the U.N.’s “sustainable development goals”: libraries In 2015, the United Nations defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to achieve a better, more equitable, more sustainable future. The SDGs don’t just focus on Climate Action (SDG #13), but address the whole spectrum of conditions that affect human, ecological and economic well-being. International librarians soon realized that every one of the 17 goals intersects with the mission of libraries. The librarians proposed their libraries as a key organization to promote sustainable development. Instead of building new public infrastructure, new committees or new government organizations, how about building a sustainable society through libraries that already exists?
The idea has caught on. At the 2019 winter meeting of the American Library Association in Seattle, Washington, American librarians adopted a resolution to make sustainability a core value of librarianship. The resolution defines sustainability as the triple bottom-line of practices that are environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially equitable. In somewhat bureaucratic language, it proposes that librarians can save the world: “The Association, library profession and libraries of all types—academic public, school, and special— have the stature, energy, determination and will to build the coalitions, convene the conversations and act as the catalysts the world needs, not only today, but to inspire future generations to take control of their future by working together to find the necessary adaptations and solutions to thrive as communities.”
The principle of sharing Sometimes people ask whether it’s more ecologically sound to read print books (made from highly processed dead trees) or ebooks (distributed via equipment made from plastic and conflict minerals, powered by fossil fuels). In fact, the most sustainable option is a library book that you borrow and give back so someone else can read it. Library sharing offers a model for both Quality Education (SDG #4) and Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG #12). This principle of sharing can extend to nearly anything—computer equipment, software, meeting spaces, musical instruments, tools, toys, seeds, business clothes, bicycles – you name it and there is probably a library somewhere lending it.
Partnerships Chip Ward, former assistant director of the Salt Lake Public Library, helped lead the way for U.S. libraries to address No Poverty (SDG #1) and Reduced Inequality (SDG # 10). In 2007 he published an essay on TOMDISPATCH.COM titled “What They Didn’t Teach Us in Library School.” The essay described how, in the absence of adequate shelters and social services, libraries have become a refuge for people who are homeless and/or mentally ill. After telling heartrending stories of homeless people whom he had come to know personally, Ward wrote, “What do you think about a culture that abandons suffering people and expects them to fend for themselves on the street, then criminalizes them for expressing the symptoms of illnesses they cannot control?” If society can’t change, one answer is to cope with the problem where it’s happening. Since
Instead of building new public infrastructure, new committees or new government organizations, how about building a sustainable society through libraries that already exists? librarians aren’t trained social workers, Volunteers of America now has a Library Engagement Team at the Salt Lake Public Library offering support and referrals for social, medical and mental health services. The story has another happy ending as well. The film rights for Ward’s essay were purchased by Emilio Estavez (Yes, Otto from Repo Man) who turned it into a movie called The Public (2018). In the movie, Estavez plays a librarian-turned-social justice advocate as controversy erupts over homeless people who shelter at a public library during a severe cold snap. How do libraries address Life Below Water (SDG #14) or Life on Land (SDG #15)? Book talks related to local ecology are one obvious example, as are collections and programming that relate to the local environment and ecosystem. Recently the Salt Lake City Public Library and Natural History Museum of Utah teamed up on a wonderful project called Field Work: Aligning Poetry & Science, a three-year grant from Poets House to foster science learning though poetry. The project has published a Field Work Field Guide illustrated by local artist Claire Taylor that encourages people to visit urban natural areas for poetic inspiration. The idea that people will protect familiar places they have grown to love also lies behind the “Hidden Water” website hosted by the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library which unveils the watershed on the east side of Salt Lake Valley in support of Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG #6). The authors explain that Salt Lake Valley water is a closed system, as water that evaporates from Great Salt Lake falls in the
Wasatch Mountains as lake-effect snow: “Hopefully, when our water is no longer hidden, we will begin to better appreciate and conserve it.” The shared resources offered by libraries create an opportunity for other community organizations seeking to deliver and amplify their message. Partnerships for the Goals (SDG #17) means that everyone should be invited to the sustainability table, and partnering with a library is a way to avoid territoriality and make sure a public event is truly open to the public. We librarians actually know that we can’t save the world all by ourselves. If you have a plan to save the world, too, think of the library as a kind of resilience center. Maybe the library can do something to help. ◆ Amy Brunvand (University of Utah librarian) is presenting on “Libraries as Partners for Community Sustainability” at the Intermountain Sustainability Summit, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. March 21 & 22, 2019, HTTPS://WWW.WEBER.EDU/ISSUMMIT
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DRAWDOWN
The Kamut economy
Bob Quinn is on a quest to restore health to farmland soil, rural communities and the food we eat
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y wife says I can’t have any more new projects. She didn’t say I can’t have any more ideas. I just need to find other people to do them,” said Bob Quinn. We were at the Utah Farm and Food Conference, in Cedar City, Utah, this past January. As a keynote presenter, Quinn had a lot to share, and a captivating way of conveying his story—a sort of bon vivant cowboy. We soon could see how Quinn’s wife might need to issue such a edict. The 71-year-old Montana wheat grower is also an entrepreneur, spokesperson for regenerative farming, community activist, Ph.D. plant biologist, inveterate tinkerer and now author, with this month’s publication of Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food (Island Press). Written with Stanford lecturer and author of Lentil Underground Liz Carlisle, Quinn shares the story of his journey from young boy whose father was an early adopter of the herbicide 2,4-D in Montana through his years studying botany and plant pathology, starting Montana Flour & Grain, transitioning to organics, promoting wind farms and biofuels, embracing dry-land vegetable farming and, significantly, becoming a champion of a forgotten grain. He created jobs and new businesses for many people along the way. The sum of these endeavors puts Quinn at the heart of revitalizing a food system that employs some of the most promising greenhouse gas reduction solutions on the planet: Regenerative agriculture is ranked #11 among the top-100 solutions in Paul Hawken’s Drawdown project (see more in this issue). In this well-told narrative, Quinn convinces us that soil is a key to our salvation. He makes cover-cropping and crop rotation sound downright sexy. (A cover-crop is a plant grown to protect
and enrich the soil; crop rotation is the practice of growing different plants in different years to break cycles of disease, weeds and pests.) The reader learns that soil exhausted through decades of petrochemical fertilizers,
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In Cedar City, Quinn addressed farmers and foodies whose ages spanned numerous decades. “We’re living in a system of food and agriculture controlled by multinationals lining their own pockets. Imagine—if you control the seed that you plant, you control the food that’s grown… and the people who eat it... without firing a shot. In former times, we had a close relation among farmers, gardeners and eaters. They were the same people. Things have changed so fast in the last 50 years. The big ones inserted themselves between the farmers and eaters. In college, we were taught about wheat as a commodity, not food. A very clever deception was perpetrated upon us."
How we got here
herbicides and pesticides can be rehabilitated with these practices—and that, in times of drought, these practices may save the day. We also learn the critical importance of a seed’s genealogy, as he investigates the properties of an ancient wheat variety that, tests show, does not produce many of the reactions that wheat-sensitive people typically experience.
Seeing the famine in Europe after World War II, our government’s goal was for America to produce cheap, plentiful food, said Quinn. The government poured billions of dollars into research to accomplish this. When chemical fertilizers were first applied, results did look miraculous. Over time, however, the soil has become habituated and, as with other drugs, doses have had to be increased to achieve similar results. "We are well fed. But we’re not well nourished,” he said. “The cost at the checkout is not the real cost of our food." Quinn was outspoken regarding the side effects of chemical agriculture. "They tell us the more chemicals we use, the better the yields. It’s great, gross—but there’s no net income when prices are low,” he said. "This is not talked about very often. And we don’t talk about how much it has cost our communities.” His own town was decimated as farms became bigger, requiring bigger and more expensive equipment run by fewer farmers—the result of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz’s early 1970s admonition to “get big or get out,” along with directives from the bland-sounding Committee for Economic Development, that
Quinn said were intended to drive farmers off the land and create a large pool of cheap labor for industry. Things proceeded according to plan, as rural economies withered. Not one to mince words, Quinn stated emphatically: "The biggest cost of industrial agriculture is to our health, as more people fall prey to chronic disease.” For instance, the rate of diabetes in the U.S. was less than 1% in 1958. Today it is nearly 10%, at an annual cost of $147 billion. From denatured wheat to high fructose corn syrup, what we eat has taken its toll. “Instead of debating which healthcare system is best, ask why so many people are sick. If you have the desire and willpower to answer that question, the healthcare costs of this country will be a fraction. Instead, we’re trying to figure out how to pay Big Pharma to produce more pills."
Quinn’s personal journey As a kid, Bob had a garden. “I loved my garden more than anything else. My grandfather didn’t buy into the chemical model, and taught me, instead, to compost using manure." But in college, where he majored in botany and plant pathology, he learned more about the chemical system that his father embraced, because “that’s what was going to feed the world,” he was told. In grad school, Quinn grew more and more disillusioned by the industrial approach to farming. Married and with three kids by now, in 1978 he moved his family back to Montana where started Montana Farm and Grain, selling Montana wheat to California artisanal bakers, who preferred the grain from his family farm over that from the prevailing industrial farms. When customers began to request organic, Quinn was dismissive: “Plants can’t tell the difference between a molecule of nitrogen that comes out of manure from one that comes out of a bag of ammonium sulfate,” he said at the time. But he planted a 20-acre test plot and started going to organic farm conferences, taking his parents with them. Bob became an enthusiastic convert, even speaking at conservative Farm Bureau meetings about his newfound approach to farming. To his surprise, his dad, too, came out as a strong proponent. Within a few years, they had transitioned all their fields out of chemical. That was 30 years ago—time enough for him to also see that the organic system also has a notable advantage in the face of climate change.
Kamut and a new economy Organic or not, as a wheat farmer Quinn was troubled to see the wheat-free gluten-free trend arise, with almost 20% of the country’s
population claiming wheat sensitivities. “How is it that the staff of life, which was the foundation of great civilizations, can be so destructive?” he asked himself. Ever the scientist, he began studying the history of the wheat seed and stumbled upon an ancient variety with large, nut-flavored kernels that was supposedly significantly higher in im-
The sum of these endeavors puts Quinn at the heart of revitalizing a food system that employs some the most promising greenhouse gas reduction solutions on the planet. portant nutrients than conventional wheat. He recognized the seed as some that he’d been given years earlier, accompanied by a romantic story about the seeds coming from “King Tut’s tomb.” As good luck would have it, his dad had a stash of these seeds in the barn from 1981. Quinn planted half an acre in 1986. That half acre has since blossomed into 100,000 acres of carefully managed Kamut wheat grown by as many as 250 farmers for his company, Kamut International. Flour from that first crop went to a San Francisco pasta company, and word got back to him that people who had difficulties eating wheat found they could eat this pasta. Curious, Quinn decided to investigate. “Some people don’t like privately funded research, but this was research that no one else would do, as we were going against the grain, so to speak,” he said. He found success working with scientists in Italy: “Italians take their pasta very seriously.” Millions of research dollars, two dozen studies and 31 publications later, Quinn says the evidence demonstrates that “ancient is good for you.” Quinn has trademarked Kamut, but the trademark does not prevent anyone from growing it—he says it is just a way to guarantee his product is always organic, pure, nonGMO, disease-free and high in selenium and protein. He requires growers to alternate crops with a year of legumes for nitrogen, resulting in very high levels of protein for the Kamut crops. Further, this drought-tolerant grain grows best where there is low rainfall. He and the farmers who grow for him practice dryland-farming—
no irrigation, resulting in lower yields but a more nutritious product. Asked if he thought the wheat/gluten epidemic was a fad, Quinn answered, “Celiac, an autoimmune disease, is a very specific disorder. There’s zero tolerance. Allergies are a histamine response but they’re mostly tossed in with sensitivities, or vice versa. But some of the symptoms are actually caused by glyphosate contamination.” Glyphosate is best known as the active ingredient in the weed killer RoundUp. Sprayed on wheat in the fall, it hastens the maturing process so heads are ripe to harvest before it snows. “The makers of glyphosate say it has no effect on humans because it works on certain metabolic pathways that humans don’t have. But we know it’s disrupting metabolic pathways in bacteria, both in the soil and in the gut.” At the conference, we also heard briefly from co-author and fellow Montana native Liz Carlisle, currently lecturer in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University and former assistant to Democratic Montana Senator John Tester. “My grandmother’s family lost the farm in the dustbowl. I learned from her the agrarian life is special and that we need to learn more about stewarding our soil,” Carlisle said. She met Montana farmers and heard their stories as she traveled throughout the country working on her book, Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America (Avery, 2016). She’d first heard of Quinn in 2008 from Tester, who referred to Quinn as a “visionary.” The fact that Quinn claimed to be Republican held no sway with Tester. “There’s plenty of things we don’t agree about, but the main thing I’m up against here in DC is not Republicans; it’s multinational corporations that have a stranglehold on agriculture and energy and don’t give a lick about the hardworking Montanans whose livelihoods depend on these industries,” Tester told Carlisle at the time. “Instead of being beholden to these multinationals, we need to build our own economic opportunities, based on renewable resources and good, green jobs that won’t go away after the next oil boom. And that’s what Bob Quinn is doing.” ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is the founder and editor of CATALYST. In ancient times she was a staff writer at Countryside, an organic farming magazine. Bob Quinn will give a talk and sign Grain By Grain Friday, March 29, 7pm at the Petersen Family Farm, 11887 S. 4000 West, Riverton. PETERSENFAMILYFARM.COM
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TRANSPORTATION
A legacy worth keeping Legacy Parkway residents are fighting to protect a cherished Utah roadway. In the face of opposing forces, they are not giving up. BY ANN FLOOR
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hen North Salt Lake resident Angie Keeton recently learned that large trucks could soon be allowed on Legacy Parkway, a road located about 800 feet from her home in the city’s Foxboro neighborhood, she freaked out. Construction of homes in the Foxboro subdivision began in 2003, before Legacy was built. Today Foxboro has expanded along the parkway and its houses are home to hundreds of families. Keeton and her husband Seth had been following news reports about a plan by the State of Utah to build an “inland port“ in Salt Lake City’s northwest quadrant near the Salt Lake International Airport. That is how they learned that the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) had always intended for this naturescaped 14-mile stretch of 55mph road, between I-215 at the south end and Farmington at the north, to become just another freeway. News on the inland port project included a reminder that a longtime ban on large trucks on Legacy Parkway was due to expire in January 2020. The ban was part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed and won by environmental groups against UDOT in 2005 before road construction began. Now it seemed that allowing large trucks on Legacy could be important to the success of the inland port because of its direct route
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through south Davis County to I-215 and I-80 out to the port’s site. Keeton checked in with her neighbors through Facebook and found that roughly 90% of them were not aware of the plan to eventually allow trucks. Concerns were that allowing
Several Utah legislators are affiliated with or receive donations from the very businesses that would benefit from opening the road to large trucks, including the trucking industry itself. Legislators’ potential conflicts of interest are not part of the discussion. trucks and the accompanying higher speed limit would forever degrade the quality of life enjoyed by the many families who live along the parkway, exacerbating the already poor air quality, adding noise pollution, and increasing safety concerns. She got to work and organized a public
meeting for residents, Davis County officials and other interested community members to learn more. A panel of five people, including Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, Rep. Melissa Garff Ballard, R-North Salt Lake, Rep. Ray Ward, R-Bountiful, Bryce Bird, director of the Utah Division of Air Quality, and Jason Davis, UDOT’s deputy director of operations and maintenance, listened to the concerns of the more than 250 residents who showed up for the meeting at Foxboro Elementary (whose fenceline borders the road) on January 16. At one point, Rep. Ballard asked those opposed to allowing trucks on Legacy to stand. Every person but one stood up. Residents reported over and over again that when they had bought their homes, no one told them large trucks could be allowed on Legacy in the future. Sen. Weiler had agreed prior to the public meeting to run a bill during the current legislative session to keep the truck ban in place. When it failed in the Senate Transportation Committee, Rep. Ballard submitted a similar bill in the House—H.B. 339, which asks for the ban to be retained for five years to allow time to explore options and for residents to figure out their future. The mayors and city councils of Farmington, Woods Cross, North Salt Lake and Centerville have signed resolutions to keep the truck ban in place and the Davis County Council of Governments added its support on February 20. It’s no surprise to learn that several Utah legislators are affiliated with or receive donations from the very businesses that would benefit from opening the road to large trucks, including the trucking industry itself. Legislators’ potential conflicts of interest are not part of the discussion. A row of 16 more houses is under construction in Shamrock Estates near Foxboro. “They are building up to the edge of the Legacy Trail, just 150 feet from the roadway,” says Keeton. She wonders if developers and realtors will be transparent and properly advise new buyers
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Using what the industry calls “context sensitive design,” where roadway development practices are flexible and sensitive to community values, the Legacy Parkway provides a civilized, relaxing and enjoyable driving experience. Features include a meandering road (two lanes each way), slower speeds (55 miles per hour), no bill boards, dark sky lighting and noise-reducing pavement. A pedestrian and bike trail parallel to the road encourage healthy outdoor activity, and the Legacy Nature Preserve provides spectacular and unimpeded views to the west. Also as part of the plan, FrontRunner was up and running prior to road construction. Legacy Parkway opened September 13, 2008, with Governor Huntsman leading out on his Harley as a parade of bikes, cars, and (small) trucks followed him onto the road. that the parkway could become a freeway. Keeton is also concerned about the taxpayers’ investment that went into creating and protecting the parkway in the first place. “It’s unique. Legacy was a smart solution to growth and transportation issues that took into account the space around it and how valuable it is to residents and commuters alike. Legacy Parkway, with its Legacy Trail and Legacy Nature Preserve, has set a new precedent for how people want to live here and in the state. It’s a great success that should not be thrown away.” “If the projected environmental impact of allowing trucks on Legacy when it opened justified a temporary ban, what has changed in the 10 years since to justify lifting the ban? “ Sen. Ballard wrote on February 24. “The health risks and needs of the community are far more important than satisfying the desires of the trucking lobby. The ban needs to be extended.” ◆ Ann Floor is co-chair of Utahns for Better Transportation.
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… OF COLOR
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Plays by Olivia Custodio, Bijan Hosseini, Iris Salazar & Darryl Stamp BY JERRY RAPIER
“Life is learning to hold paradox.” – from The Frailest Thing, by Bijan Hosseini, one of four short plays comprising …OF COLOR
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f I hear one more person say ”I don’t see color,” I might lose my mind. Why? Because it’s not true. It’s just a thing people say when they want other people to see them as progressive. Let me rephrase that: It’s a thing white people say when they want people of color to see them as progressive. You will never hear a person of color use that phrase. Because it’s not true. Nor should it be. What matters is what you do with what you see. Think ”color conscious,” not ”color blind.” I will tell you right now that when I enter a room, the first thing I do – I have always done – is scan the room and take a headcount of the other people of color. Every room.
Every time. Why? Because I feel a pressure to act differently if I am the only non-white person in the room. And I have yet to talk to another person of color who does not do the same thing. Call it POC-GPS. If there’s more than one of us, we intuitively split The Load of Representation, aka The Expectation of White People That People Of Color Represent Their Entire Race And, In Certain Situations, All Non-White Folks. I am tired of not seeing myself in narratives on stage, television, in print, in film, in conversation. I am tired of diversity and inclusion—excuse me: Diversity & Inclusion, capital D, capital I— being reduced to boxes to be checked off to help white folks feel like they’re doing The Work. I am tired of ”good intentions” excusing ignorance. And so, as a Gaysian with a theatre company, I’m doing something about it. I am good at making theatre, specifically helping playwrights find, use and celebrate their voices. And that, my friends, is a really long introduction to …OF COLOR.
In June of 2017, we at Plan-B hosted the firstever gathering of Theatre Artists of Color in Salt Lake City to: (1) get to know each other and create a stronger network, (2) provide a space to discuss the challenges of working as theatre artists of color in and around Salt Lake City and (3) to dig deep to see what stories we are able to authentically explore onstage in future seasons and how best to diversify who writes, performs and designs them. Fifty-one artists attended that June gathering. The desire to tell stories authentically was at the forefront of the conversation. I committed right then and there to organize a free writing workshop for the attendees who expressed interest, suggesting Julie Jensen as the instructor but, given the nature of the group, asked candidly if a non-POC playwright should teach this workshop. It was unanimously agreed that each potential participant was anxious to learn the craft from Utah’s most produced playwright. Julie immediately agreed to lead the first iteration of Plan-B’s Theatre Artists of Color Writing Workshop nearly 18 months ago for the eight folks who signed up. Halfway through it I commented, ”This is like a mini-MFA.” Julie replied, ”Yes, yes it is.” A week later Julie emailed me: ”The work we heard last night was amazing. I've never had a group like this, this good, ever! Just you wait.” I replied, ”If they’re as good as you say, we’ll commit to a full production.” And here we are.…OF COLOR is unlike anything ever undertaken in the history of Utah theatre. Not only is it the world premiere of four short plays by four Utah playwrights of color, each making their playwriting debut, it includes Utah’s first world premieres by Latina and Persian playwrights. Olivia Custodio’s ”Drivers License, Please” is a dark comedy about rental cars, rednecks and finding your voice. Iris Salazar’s ”American Pride” is a very, very dark comedy about making America great again. Darryl Stamp’s ”Roar” is a dramedy about stand-up comedy. And Bijan Hossein’s ”The Frailest Thing” is a drama about the line between wanting to live and not wanting to die. In the theatre, we talk about the color of language, the way performance and subtext bring color to a text. I invite you to be the first to experience these stories created by African American, Brazilian, Mexican and Persian/Japanese playwrights. Stories told by African American, Japanese, Honduran/ Filipino and Puerto Rican actors and a Japanese director. Stories by and about people of color. Don’t blind yourself to the color onstage. Consciously look and listen. Color begets color. ◆ Jerry Rapier has been Artistic Director of Plan-B Theatre Company since 2000. He directs …OF COLOR, premiering March 28-April 7. Tickets and details at PLANBTHEATRE.ORG/
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Editing is the key to happiness
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idy is such a passive word. You can’t ruthlessly tidy but you can ruthlessly edit. Tidy is the new word that goes with the Marie Kondo cult. There is nothing wrong with her philosophy. We all aspire to clean out the garage and junk drawer… someday. We share the dream of filing our taxes early and digitizing those 5,000 Ektachrome slides we inherited. Just as often, I dream of arson or a climatic act of god that will make the tidy decision for me. As long as I have our insurance up to date and we get out of the house with the dog, I would not be entirely sad about hitting the reset button on our possessions. To be fair, Maria Kondo is a pretty ruthless businessperson with a sales pitch of getting rid of stuff that you already bought because of someone else’s sales pitch. It is the inverse, mind meld Zen of anti-consumerism and Amazon returns. On her Netflix series she actually kneels and says a little prayer in the pre-tidy homes she takes on. That is pretty brilliant because all she is selling is her philosophy; sort of like the Seven Habits guy. The Chicken Soup for the [Fill In The Blank] Soul guy seems to have fallen out a favor. I thank vegans and animal rights activists. Kondo’s checklist is relatively straightforward for inhabitants of first world countries. You tidy in this order: clothes, books, paper, komono (miscellaneous Items) and sentimental items. I’m imagining people in second, third, fourth world countries and homeless shelters saying, “You have clothes and books? We just want some tidy food.” Having a category with an exotic name (komono, not to be confused with the giant human- eating dragon) that translates to miscella-
BY DENNIS HINKAMP neous seems a bit of a cheat. Long haul moving companies refer to miscellaneous as “chowder”— the stuff that resides in the hellish, indecisive limbo between dumpster and garage sale. The verb “edit” seems more straightforward to me since I have spent most of my life manipulating words. On a daily basis I edit words, video, audio, email and anything else that gets in my way. Editing feels good, even if it is just electrons. Editing can be angry, arrogant or gentle. You have to negotiate between competing egos. Not all editing is necessary; not all clutter is bad. Material clutter is what keeps Deseret Industries and thrift stores in business. Deseret Industries provides jobs, hours of entertainment and holiday costumes to millions. It also keeps you humble by introducing you to people who really need to shop there. Not far behind are dollar stores and their edgy best-usedby-date products. Who doesn’t appreciate vintage tuna? I like the old En Vogue anthem, “Free your mind and the rest will follow.” If you can tidy/edit your mind, the rest will follow. Can you edit out those past relationships, perceived slights and grudges that visit you in your pre-waking hours? It has got to be the next big thing. Heck, we are editing animal and plant genes right now. It can’t be too much of a techno advance to ask someone to “edit out stepdad and while you’re there that really embarrassing thing when I was 16.” Mental clutter can be a good thing. It is what keeps you from focusing on the real politics, death and taxes. Reality can be too stark and tidy. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp turned 63 yesterday and has a lot more to edit from his timeline that you younger folks.
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DANCE
March 2019
Children’s Dance Theatre has helped build Utah’s dance-positive culture BY AMY BRUNVAND
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n the pages of the December 1949 issue of Dance Magazine, modern dance pioneer Virginia Tanner (1915-1979) announced the formation of her new company: “We now have a CHILDREN’S DANCE THEATER in Salt Lake City and this past season, on May 2, 1949, we gave a full concert in tribute to Doris
Not surprisingly, a large number of professional dancers and dance teachers in Utah have CDT on their résumés. Humphrey, the internationally known choreographer.” Tanner was pleased to note that in Salt Lake City, children “do the child’s dance parts in plays rather than using adults pretending to be children.” She predicted that her new company “will contribute richly to dance in a community that is eager to accept the beauty these
Poster for the very first CDT concert in 1949 next to this year’s offering.
children offer in the form of dance.” Seventy years later, the Children’s Dance Theatre (CDT) is still fulfilling that promise. Nowadays CDT is a performing company of about 280 young dancers aged 8 to18, associated with the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program. The company tours nationally and internationally, and puts on an annual children’s show here in Utah. But even if you don’t have kids you’ve probably seen CDT dancers on stage. They have performed with the Utah Symphony for Carnival of the Animals; they were the gingerbread children when Utah Opera did Hansel and Gretel; they danced two-by-two when the Madeleine Choir School sang Benjamin Britten’s opera
Noye’s Fludde; they danced at the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Not surprisingly, a large number of professional dancers and dance teachers in Utah have CDT on their résumés. Linda C. Smith, cofounder and Executive/Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) got her start as a CDT dancer, as did RDT Artistic Associate Nicholas Cendese. At West High School, Virginia Tanner’s alma mater, the dance teacher is Natosha Washington who danced the starring role in CDTs 2007 production of The Dream Stealer. Likewise, Jacque Lynn Bell who teaches choreography at the University of Utah declares on her résumé, “all of my teaching is influenced by my background with [Virginia Tanner] in creative dance.” Mary Ann Lee, who has been CDT Director since 1979, trained with Virginia Tanner and was a member of Children's Dance Theatre. The anniversary program this March is a revival of The Dancing Man, based on a storybook by Ruth Bornstein, first performed by CDT in 1986. But this won’t be a replica of the previous show. Emma Featherstone, CDT Program Manager and a former CDT dancer herself, says the dancers are creating their own choreography together with their teachers. Featherstone says the story is particularly special, “because it emulates our philosophy here at Tanner Dance. In the story, there’s a little boy who lives by the Baltic Sea and one day a man gives him a pair of silver shoes. At first they don’t fit, but the boy grows into the shoes and becomes a dancing man himself, spreading the joy of dance.” The image of shoes reminds Featherstone something Mary Ann Lee once said: “When I stepped into Virginia’s magic shoes, I knew that her feet and mine were different sizes. But I also knew that the philosophy had to be continued and the program expanded to include many of the people that Virginia had so beautifully inspired and trained.” Since the founding of CDT 70 years ago, Tanner’s silver dancing shoes have passed through generations of kids who got a chance to dance the children’s parts. ◆
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March 2019
DRAWDOWN
Putting waste to use
At Wasatch Resource Recovery, the inevitable detritus of our culture does not rot in vain
BY MARY MCINTYRE
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ituated on a piece of land in North Salt Lake, abutted by a field of grazing cows, is a new player in the Zero Waste arena: Wasatch Resource Recovery. A public/ private venture with a 50/50 partnership between the South Davis Sewer District and Alpro Energy, Wasatch Resource Recovery (WRR) is the first anaerobic digester in the Mountain West to collect food waste. While an anaerobic digester may sound like a science experiment gone awry, it’s actually an innovative way to divert food waste from the landfill. It is also rated #30 on the Drawdown Project’s list of top 100 practices that can re-
“Food” is a broad term. The digester eats brewery waste, food processing waste, bones, oils, fats and liquids along with items more generally recognized as “food.”
photos by Peter Vordenberg. verse global warming (DRAWDOWN.ORG). We have a huge problem in our country with food waste, with estimates that 40% of food produced in the United States is wasted, along with the inevitable . Rotting food waste in landfills releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is up to 84 times more potent the carbon dioxide (CO2). By diverting food waste from our local landfills to the anaerobic digester, WRR will be helping to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into our local airshed. WRR estimates that processing the food waste in the anaerobic digester will be equivalent to taking about 50,000 cars off of the road each year. The life of our landfills also gets extended by keeping food waste out.
So, what is anaerobic digestion and how does it work? Anaerobic digestion is the natural process in which microorganisms break down organic materials made of plants or animals in a closed space where there is no air (oxygen). WRR has contracted with local waste haulers, like Momentum Recycling, and participants, like Park City Mountain, Harmons, Publik Coffee Roast-
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1: Organic waste is separated Businesses collect their source-separated organic waste in designated collection containers on-site. (WRR will accept food waste that is packaged or bagged.)
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What we’re doing is completing the circle where we end up with a clean product that goes back into the earth and energy production to offset power generation.” Being responsible in meeting their sustainability goals is what attracted Park City Mountain to this project. Park City Mountain is a part of Vail Resorts, which announced its Commitment to Zero in 2017, an ambitious sustainability goal to achieve a zero net operating footprint by 2030. This commitment includes zero net emissions, zero waste to landfill and zero net operating impact to forests and habitat. “Park City Mountain’s waste diversion project is a huge step towards our waste goal as we anticipate it will divert 420 tons of waste from the landfill over the next two years,” says Tom Bradley, Environmental Manager for Park City Mountain. “Food waste is a significant percentage of the waste that we are sending to the landfill. The WRR project gives Park City Mountain the opportunity to divert 100% of our food waste.” After nearly two years of building, WRR started accepting food waste in mid-February, receiving eight tons of food waste on day one. As they continue ramping up the volumes during these early operational days, we’ll check back later in the year to see how it’s all progressing. The anaerobic digester promises to
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February 2018
Connect and release A yogic approach to neck pain
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BY CHARLOTTE BELL
begin most of my yoga classes by asking if students have “requests.” These requests include types of poses they’d like to practice (maybe standing poses or twists), or areas of the body that need attention (hips, hamstrings, low back). Almost every time I ask, someone requests help for a tired, stiff neck. From the frequency and emphatic tone of these requests, I sometimes wonder if there’s an epidemic of neck pain inherent in our culture. There could be several reasons for this. The vertebrae in our necks are quite a bit smaller and more delicate than those in the rest of the spine, as are the structures that surround the cervical spine. Our necks often make up for a lack of mobility in the thoracic spine, causing us to overuse them. For example, when we’re driving and need to look behind us, we often twist from the neck and leave the ribcage behind. Add to this the problems inherent in bending forward to look at our devices much of the day, which substantially increases the weight of the head relative to the neck—the modern-day malady called “text neck.”
Preventing neck strain There are several ways to approach yoga for neck pain. The first is prevention: the intention to do no harm during practice. From my experience, the most important element of preventing neck pain is to keep your head connected. This means turning your awareness inward and feeling what is actually happening in your head and neck in every asana. For example, we might throw our heads back in Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose). Because
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t h i s causes the h y o i d bone— the small U-shaped bone at the top of the throat—to jut forward, throwing our heads back in Cobra not only compresses the back of the neck, but it also causes strain in the low back. It’s helpful here to understand how the cervical vertebrae are designed to move. The neck can flex (bend forward), rotate (twist) and bend laterally, but it cannot extend (bend backward). The facet joints—the joints where the vertebrae come together—articulate in such a way that there are brakes on extension, while in other movements the vertebrae can slide over one another.
How we hold our jaws— in daily life as well as in yoga class—influences neck comfort or discomfort. Consequently, when we throw our heads back in any pose, we may stretch some muscles in the front of the neck, but we are not actually extending the neck. Instead, only our heads bend backward and we compress the structures just below the base of the skull. For short periods of time, this may not be a problem. But for those who have had neck injuries or who may be developing arthritis, extending the head backward can cause dizziness and/or nausea. Another common head disconnect is to lift the head in forward bends such as Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) and especially in Parsvottanasana (Pyramid Pose). People often lift their heads in these poses to avoid the intensity in their hamstrings or in the effort to
straighten their spines. Instead, it’s important to lengthen the back of your neck in these poses. Finally, because so many asana photos show people turning their heads to look up toward the sky in standing poses such as Trikonasana (Triangle Pose) and Parsvakonasana (Side Angle Pose), this is often misconstrued as the fullest expression of these poses. Turning your head in these poses can strain your neck. I prefer to teach these poses with the head in a neutral position—facing straight ahead. If you turn your head at all in these poses—and it’s certainly not necessary—turn only for the last breath or two. The core of neck pain prevention is to be conscious of your neck’s relationship to the thoracic spine. Because our necks are inherently mobile, we tend to overuse that mobility in our practice. In every pose, make sure your neck follows the trajectory of your thoracic spine. This will likely mean that you won’t be stretching your neck as much as you’re used to. Avoid flexing, twisting or side bending so far that you feel strain.
Relax your jaw The jaw and neck are intimately connected. How we hold our jaws—in daily life as well as in yoga class—influences neck comfort or discomfort. Try this: press your teeth together and feel the muscles in the back of your neck. Then let your teeth part and feel the muscles in the back of your neck. Feel a difference? Letting your teeth part is one element of relaxing your jaw. But there’s one other refinement. Simply opening your mouth is not enough. When you relax your jaw, do so from the back of the jaw, at the joint where it meets the skull. Place a few fingers at the junction where your jaw meets your cheekbones. Open and close your mouth a few times and feel how your joint moves. Now let your jaw release downward, away from the cheekbones. There are many yoga poses that can help you release tension in your neck, but the most important element of alleviating neck discomfort is to develop habits that can help prevent neck tension in the first place. Of course, we may suffer from neck pain no matter how healthy our habits. Accidents happen. Long hours looking at devices takes a toll. And then there’s aging. But learning healthy habits—on the yoga mat and in your daily life—can go a long way toward easing present pain and possibly avoiding future problems. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several yoga-related books and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City. CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM/
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801.467.6636, 1900 S. 300 W., SLC. We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood. Free in-home estimates. Please visit our showroom. KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET
HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/19
801.595.8824, 380 West 200 South, #101, SLC. Founded in 2001 by Babs De Lay, Urban Utah Homes & Estates is an independent real estate brokerage. Our experienced realtors have skill sets to help first-time to last-time buyers and sellers with residential sales, estate liquidations of homes & property, land sales, new construction and small business sales. WWW.URBANUTAH.COM
DINING
FreeSpace: Compassionate Clutter Solutions 08/19
801.815.1852. Overwhelmed with home, garage or office clutter? Life change left you with more stuff than you can handle? Support to deal with it can make all the difference. Let's work together to make space for what
Café Solstice DA 3/19
801.487.0980, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. (inside Dancing Cranes). Loose teas, specialty coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmos-
phere. WWW.CAFESOLSTICESLC.COM SOL-
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Coffee Garden DA
801.355.3425, 900 E. 900 S. and 254 S. Main, SLC. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.
Oasis Cafe DA 11/19
801.322.0404,151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual style dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more. WWW.OASISC AFESLC.COM
HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Alethea Healing Acupuncture5/19
512.658.2485, 2180 E. 4500S, Suite210-L, Holladay. Facilitating childhood and adult health through acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, nutrition, and lifestyle. Helping chronic/acute pain, sleep, digestion, respiratory, fatigue, hormones, stress,
anxiety and more. Sliding scale rates for return patients, private clinical setting. $25 ACUPUNCTURE HAPPY HOUR M-F 2-5pm. www.ALETHEAHEALINGACUPUNCTURE.COM
Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/19 801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr.
Keith Stevens, OMD, now located at 870 E. 9400 South, Ste. 110 (South Park Medical Complex). . Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and postoperative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM
SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/19
801.521.3337, 242 S. 400 E. Suite B, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($20-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism & more. WWW.SLCQ I .COM
Wasatch Community Acupuncture12/19
801.364.9272, 470 E. 3900 S., Ste 103, SLC. Effective, low-cost relief for pain, anxiety, insomnia, headaches,
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and many other ailments. $15-$40 sliding scale (you decide), plus $15 intake fee for first visit. We're a nonprofit acupuncture clinic located in the heart of the Salt Lake valley. Open seven days a week. INFO@WASATCHACUPUNTURE.ORG WWW.WASATCH ACUPUNCTURE . ORG
APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 12/19
801.613.2128. 619 S. 600 W. Salt Lake's premier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount. Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas. Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM
AYURVEDA Maria Radloff, AWC, E-RYT5006/19
480.600.3765. SLC. Ayurveda is the art of longevity and health. Maria specializes in ayurvedic healing using food choices, lifestyle & routines, herbs and yoga practices. She offers personal ayurvedic consults for preventive health and healing, corporate wellness packages, public workshops and educational events. WWW.MARIYURVEDA.COM
ENERGY HEALING Reconnective Healing6/19
801.386.6420. 1399 S. 700 E., SLC. I immerse you into a comprehensive spectrum of energy, light and information; which allows us to entirely transcend complex energy-healing "techniques" and brings about dramatic, often instantaneous, lifelong healings and life transformations. RH heals on the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental bodies. B ESSIE.MCI NTOSH@GMAIL .COM WWW.B ESSIE M C I NTOSH . COM
Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/19
801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
SoulPathmaking w/ Lucia BC, PC, LMT, Spiritual Counselor, Healer, Oracle 9/19
801.631.8915. 40+ years experience tending the Soul. Individual sessions; counseling, bodywork, soul art-making. SoulCollage® Circle Mondays; Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 3. SoulCollage® gatherings with friends–birthdays, baby-welcoming, weddings, funerals.
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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Leighann Shelton, GCFP, CR, CPT, LMT
303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results. WWW.LEIGHANNSHELTON.COM 8/19
Open Hand Bodywork DA
801.694.4086, Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM
MASSAGE
Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/19 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA
500, MS Psychology. Relax in a warm pool supported by floats, explore the transformative balancing potential of water massage, likened to Watsu. Enjoy table massage using Transformational Neuromuscular technique, hot stones, Reiki and Yoga. We will find the right bodywork blend to meet your specific needs. Wellness coaching, excellent references. www.FROMSOURCETOSOURCE.COM
Healing Mountain Massage School 12/19 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.).A www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM
MEDICAL COACHING Rise + Refuge Wellbeing, Michelle Marthia, End of Life Doula
801.819.2380. Discovering your path to wellbeing during illness and end of life transitions. Michelle is passionate about supporting those navigating these complex territories, creating a path to achieving an embodied life following illness, or embracing the experience of dying peacefully. WWW.RISEANDREFUGE.COM, MICHELLE@RISEANDREFUGE.COM 4/19
M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #103,
SLC. Integrative Family Practitioner utilizing functional medicine for treatment of conditions such as: fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestion, adrenals, hormones and more. Dr. Mangum recommends diet, supplementation, HRT and other natural remedies in promoting a health-conscious lifestyle. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/19
NUTRITION Terri Underwood RD, MS, CD, IFMCP 8/19 801-831-6967. Registered Dietitian/Certified Functional Medi-
cine Practitioner. Food-based, individualized diet plans, high-quality nutrition supplements, and counseling. Digestion, Diabetes, Vegans, CardioMetabolic, Autoimmune, Cancer, Cognitive Decline, Food Intolerance, Fatigue, Weight Loss, Thyroid, Chronic Health Problems, Preventive Health. TERI@SUSTAINABLEDIETS.COM
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Cafe Solstice is for sale. Serious and
intentional inquiries only. SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM 3/19
ENTERTAINMENT Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122
Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG 11/19
LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/19 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals. WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM
TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/19
801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM
VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/19
801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM
WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/19
801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW. H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM
MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School
Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG
801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG 6/19
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Guild for Structural Integration 8/19
MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/19
MEDIA KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC.
801.696.1169 The Guild exists to train and educate students of all diversities with respect and inclusivity. We uphold our values above all through integrity and tradition in alignment with the teachings of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. Hosting local workshops and trainings in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. 150 S. 600 E. Ste 1A. SLC. ROLFGUILD.ORG DA
SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/19
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
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
Tai Chi Chuan Instruction w/ Kayo Robertson08/19
435.563.8272. Skillful response to pressure, tension and stress is a perennial human need. Tai Chi practice offers solution to this need. Principled in nonresistance, nature and unity, Tai Chi cultivates body, heart, mind and spirit. Senior student of Benjamin Lo, 40 years experience, seeks a few sincere students. BEARRIVERTAICHI@HOTMAIL.COM
MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 5/19
Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM
YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19
801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage students to discover their own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM
YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/19
801.521.9642. 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga is for Every Body. 80 public classes are available weekly, in addition to many special workshops and trainings. Experience relaxing yin, restorative yoga and meditation, or energizing power and Ashtanga yoga, and everything in-between. Yoga Soul teacher trainings and immersions are available as well. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM
Mountain Yogaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sandy 3/19
801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is
comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIRE-WIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence. The 5 classes work together, offering a balanced and sustainable yoga practice. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM
PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG
212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalystâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM
INSTRUCTION 1/19 Living Light Institute of Energy Healing Arts Safety Consortium 400 W.
Lawndale, SLC. Offers classes on many topics related to crystals, crystal energy, personal energy management, self-awareness, metaphysics, intuitive development, Crystal Healer Certification, meditation and more. WWW.LIVINGLIGHTSCHOOL.COM
SPIRITUAL COUNSELING Reverend Connie Hillenbrand, B.Msc.
801.883.9508. Ordained Metaphysical Minister/Metaphysical Practitioner. Affiliated with International Metaphysical Ministries/ Member of Professional Worldwide Metaphysical Association. Services I offer are Spiritual Counseling/ Spiritual Healing, Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals and other ceremonies. 5/19
PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/19
801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/
Mindful Yoga Collective at Great Basin Chiropractic
readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience. NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET
Suzanne Wagner DA 1/19
707.354.1019. An inspirational speaker and healer, she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.S UZ WAGNER . COM
trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM
Mountain Lotus Counseling 7/19DA
PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking
801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life. PAUL@BIGHEARTHEALING.COM BIGHEARTHEALING.COM 3/19
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, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.
Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19
435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 4665 S. 900 E. #150. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression,
801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities. WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM
Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/19
801.657.3330. 9071 S. 1300 W, Suite 100, West Jordan. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin. NatalieHerndon@HopeCanHelp.net WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET
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
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801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.
SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT Kathleen J. Moroz, DSW, LCSW 3/19
801.440.0527. You may be feeling unsettled and dispirited by the winds of change that are buffeting humanity and the planet. With professional wisdom and humor, Kathleen can help you align with spirit to utilize these energies and achieve your soul’s purpose. Call/Email for a consultation. KATHLEENJMOROZ@XMISSION.COM
RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/19DA
801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy since 1987. WWW.B LUE B OUTIQUE . COM
Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/19
R E S O U R C E D I R E C TO R Y
801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too. WWW.D ANCING C RANES I MPORTS . COM
elry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
Golden Braid Books DA 11/19
HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/19
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
Lotus DA 12/18
801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express
Rd., #200, Draper. For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM
SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products, we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations. WWW.D AVES H EALTH . COM
801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it! WWW. ICONO CLAD. COM
Turiya’s Gifts8/19 DA
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, jew-
line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community
801.919.4742, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Sunday Celebration: 10am. WWW.T HE I NNER L IGHT C ENTER . ORG 3/19
Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple
12/19
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. LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG. INFO@LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG
Two Arrows Zen Center 3/19DA
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801.328.4629, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of
801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular daylong intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG
SPIRITUAL MEDICINE Sacred Heart Kambo 8/19
801.347.4425. Bringing the Heart of the Jungle to you. Kambo is a natural medicine that helps to integrate mind, body and soul, helps with pain, detox, resets the nervous system, inflammation, and more. The call of the frog is not for everyone, call for a free consultation. www.S A CRED H EART K AMBO. COM
Add your listing to CATALYST Community Resource Directory 801-363-1505 The Sound Bath Experience Bringing peace to your mind, body and soul. March 9 (1pm, 5pm) & March 10 (1pm)
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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH
March 2019 BY SUZANNE WAGNER
Osho Zen Tarot: New Vision, Integration, Master Medicine Cards: Badger, Butterfly, Frog Mayan Oracle: Cib, Manifestation, Rhythm Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Seven of Swords, Six of Swords, Seven of Cups Aleister Crowley Deck: Gain, The Star, Strength, Disappointment, Indolence Healing Earth Tarot: Five of Crystals, Woman of Wands, Ace of Feathers Words of Truth: Healing, Hatred, Feeling
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arch madness! That just might be an understatement. As Mercury goes retrograde on March 5 in Pisces, expect miscommunications in media, causing more confusion, and people leaping to conclusions. Many so-called spiritual leaders will fall off their high horses in March, as masses of people notice when someone’s words and actions do not match. Expect even more shocking illuminations along the same line in July. On March 6-7, Uranus finally leaves Aries and moves into Taurus, where it will stay for the next seven years. Uranus shifting signs is a big deal. After all, the planets are always in motion but the signs, for the most part, remain steady. Over the past seven years, Uranus focused the energy of Aries and the obsession with the self, making everyone suddenly an expert in areas that they have no discernment, education, or clarity regarding. It promoted totalitarianism, the Islamic Revolution, and the insanity of those who want to be monarchs. It helped the rich get even richer,
the middle class to suffer, and the poverty level to worsen. Uranus going into Taurus for the long haul may make ownership (a Taurus conception) of land and property go through a fundamental change in perception as it did 84 years ago, just before World War II. Uranus likes to blow things up and in Taurus, it tends to want to blow up money systems, stock markets, banks and real estate. Perhaps it will cause people to learn how to live on less and need smaller homes. Perhaps it will let people find freedom in not having big mortgages over their head. Others may want security that is no longer afforded them because of the changes in the world.
It can take a long time for hurt to thaw and honest conversations to happen. Just remember that Uranus does not do anything small. I expect a ruckus to begin in March and continue for quite a while. Pay off your credit cards, stay on top of your bills, simplify, and don’t take on financial burdens that you can’t confidently handle. The cards ask how we can heal the rampant hatred emerging from the gutters of humanity’s consciousness. Clearly there will be no short and sweet answer. This astrology is frozen in the winter signs. It can take a long time for hurt to thaw and honest conversations to happen. The cards also point to the fact
Pay off credit cards, stay on top of bills, simplify, and don’t take on financial burdens you can’t confidently handle.
that most people do not have roots. Moving without those roots make you insecure and unsure. Your heart grabs at externalities for security. But those things are never really secure. The integrative experiences of life allow you to feel connected and whole. But first you must know your own heart. That allows you to belong and to know where your connection to this world comes from. In owning your power, you face the peril of aloneness. Right now the world is filled with images of self-proclaimed masters and leaders. But mastery is not about mastery over others. It is about having mastery over oneself. One who cannot control oneself controls others through manipulation, shame, lies, fear, guilt and threats. This month, take a look at yourself. Where do you live your truth? Truth cannot be taught. There is no way to teach it. It is something beyond words. It is a pure transmission of consciousness. Truth stands strong against the fires of chaos and destruction. Truth pro-
vokes a longing within that allows a person to grow beyond what they know and into the potential within their own soul. You gain strength from having hope and from using that hope to move past your human indulgences, disappointments and neediness and into the higher vi-
Uranus likes to blow things up. In Taurus, it tends to want to blow up money systems, stock markets, banks and real estate. brations of your potential. May this month open your mind, allow you to see and integrate truth, and reclaim real hope. ◆ Visit WWW.SUZANNEWAGNER.COM/BLOG/ for Suzanne’s Astrological Predictions for 2019.
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March 2019
A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond COMPILED BY DIANE OLSON, ANNA ZUMWALT AND GRETA DEJONG
March 1 Sun rise 7:01am, sunset
March 4 For fun, if you have the
6:18pm. Salt Lake temperatures average 49° F / 32° with an average eight or nine days of rain.
space and light, try growing indoor carrots. Fill a 12-in.-deep pot with potting soil. Water thoroughly. Plant seeds. Water with misting bottle. Needs at least six hours of sunlight each day.
March 2 Time to start outdoor composting. Get an enclosed bin if you compost food waste. Position where it will get sun, and get into the habit of rotating it daily (or almost).
March 5 ‘Bye-bye Mardi Gras beads? Their paint often contains lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. The beads are not biodegradable, either.
March 6 NEW MOON, 9:03. A great day to start something new, like maybe planting by the moon. The next few days would be the time for lettuce and other leafy greens.
March 3 Spare the dandelions! (Or even plant them.) They attract beneficial ladybugs. They are the bee’s first food. Their deep taproot draws soil nutrients closer to the surface. You can eat them. Children love them.
March 7 Clover is gaining popularity as a lawn alternative. A legume, it makes its own fertilizer by “fixing” nitrogen from the air into its roots. The drought-resistent clover grows in poor soil and attracts pollinators (unless you mow it). You needn’t even dig up your old lawn: Just cast the seeds over it and water regularly till established. Choose a type that likes the higher pH of Utah’s soils. March 8 Sing to your seeds. There is evidence that the dulcet sound of a
woman's voice encourages plants to grow, according to the Royal Horticultural Society. Start your warm-weather seedlings (tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants) under grow-lights now.
March 9 Weather permitting, spend some time in your yard tidying up— brown bin collection starts Monday, for those items you’re not equipped to compost.
March 12 Window washing solution: 2 cups cold water, 1/4 cup each white vinegar and rubbing alcohol. Mix in a spray bottle. Use on an overcast day so you can see the streaks better.
March 13 BUMBLE-
BEEWATCH.ORG relies on volunteer beespotters. Create an account. Learn how to St Patrick driving the photograph bees from “snakes” from Ireland. the photo-tip link. SubMarch 10 Daylight Saving Time be- mit your photo via the website's gins. Turn clock one hour deasil record a siting form.
(forward)!
March 14 Albert Einstein’s birthday.
March 11 Ready for a snooze?
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
A Boston University professor and his wife created National Napping Day in 1999 to spotlight the health benefits of catching up on quality sleep. Americans are more ‘nap-ready’ today than usual after losing an hour of sleep to Daylight Saving Time.
March 15 Got insomnia? Check your chocolate consumption. An after-dinner dark chocolate may have as much caffeine as a soda.
March 16 Lips are 100 times more sensitive than fingertips. Lips don't have any sweat glands, causing them to dry up quickly, particularly if you breathe with your mouth open while asleep. Drinking more water can help.
March 17 The “snakes” that St. Patrick was said to have driven out of Ireland were a barely disguised metaphor for the Pagans, who had long lived in that land and who celebrated the vernal equinox (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere) around this time.
March 18 How about trying mass transit today and celebrating Transit Driver Appreciation Day? "Transit drivers don’t have an easy job, they just make it look that way." WWW.RIDEUTA.COM.
March 22 The pecan is the only nut tree native to North America. Pecan trees will grow and flower in Utah but are unlikely to bear nuts, as the summer is not quite long enough (yet).
March 23 "OK" may be the most widely used expression in the world. It began as a joke in a Boston newsroom in 1839, standing in for "all correct." Why not "AC"? Um, editors love typo jokes.
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March 24 Yum, non-tuberculous mycobacteria. It (and other mycobacteria) grows inside showerheads. Healthy people needn’t worry. To be on the safe side, sick people might let the water run for 30 seconds to flush out the bacteria before stepping into the shower.
March 25 Thank a spider today. Spiders eat flies, fleas and mosquitoes. Wouldn’t you prefer a hard-working, hungry spider in your house? March 26 Start planting beets, March 19 Goddess of Fertility Day (the day before the Spring Equinox) honors Aphrodite/Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation.
March 20 Spring Equinox, 3:58 . FULL MOON, 7:42pm. Indoor carrots. Want an early carrot crop? Water thoroughly. Plant seeds in a 12" deep pot. Needs at least 6 hours of sunlight each day.
March 21 Has any reader grown the Japanese haskap (aka Yezberry, Lonicera caerulea or Sweetberry Honeysuckle)? Purportedly very hardy, grows in sun or part shade, is indifferent to soil type, blooms early, requires average wa-
broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radishes, spinach and turnips if the soil is dry enough.
March 27 Plant and transplant fruit trees, shrubs, grape vines, strawberries, raspberries and roses.
March 28 Hops grow well here. Buy rhizomes from brewing shops or get a runner from a friend. Hops blossoms smell great. The vine grows fast. They’re drought tolerant but need water to flower. Hops have a long history as a sleep aid (via consuming and inhaling)—see more at THESLEEPDOCTOR.COM
March 29 As if you didn’t already have great reasons to play in the garden: Research shows ongoing exposure to Mycobacterium vaccae, a bacteria normally found in dirt, strengthens the immune system and also acts as an antidepressant, boosting serotonin production. March 30 Sensitive to gluten? Try
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March 31 Sunrise 7:13 , Sunset 7:51. Average 58ºF / 38º. ◆
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