Community, Resources
Utah Recycling Alliance
Businesses rewarded for implementing greener ways The Utah Recycling Alliance encompasses all the Rs—reducing, reusing, refurbishing, repurposing…and when all those avenues have …
Alternative Therapies, Connect, Expand, Gatherings, Heal, Psychology
Psychedelics, science and mental health
First Intermountain Psychedelics Symposium meets in Salt Lake City this month If you’re a regular reader of this publication, chances are you’re already familiar with psychedelic t …
Culture, Enjoy, Entertainment
Singing to the Brine Shrimp
Belong to where you are I’ve moved many times in my life, growing up in Kentucky, living in Missouri, Texas, Indiana, and for a year Bristol, England. But before I got my job at We …
Community, Eat, Local Harvest
The Utah Farm and Food Conference
A cross-cultural gathering of growers, makers, purveyors and eaters Now in its fourth year, the Utah Farm and Food Conference returns to Cedar City to showcase an impressive array …
Alternative Therapies, Heal, Health
Chakra Series part 1
Reclaiming the caduceus Introduction to the chakra system The caduceus, better known as the medical symbol, with its central staff, entwined snakes and feathered wings on top, look …
Community, Community Profiles, Connect
Lives in the shadows
A conversation with Kip Yost Last summer, curious to learn more about Salt Lake’s new homeless resource shelters, I was reading everything I could find on the topic. Since the impl …
Intuitive Arts, Spirituality & Mysticism
The year of the yang metal rat
Each year, as we have for at least 12 years now, we celebrate Chinese New Year by inviting feng shui practitioner Valerie Litchfield to share her reflections and predictions for th …
Home, Think
Notable Utah-related books published in 2019
40 Years with Bagley, Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune. Can you believe that Bagley has been making fun of Utah politics since 1979? Best Friends, Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham, MacM …
Heal, Yoga
Manual adjustments in yoga class
What to do and what not to do Years ago, one of my former students took a yoga class at a local health club. My student had been practicing for several years and had developed a he …
Enjoy, Entertainment
Cold will bring us together
Utah winters generally last November through May, adjourning for a frenetic season of road construction. It’s that time of year when we alternately curse and exalt the four-letter …
Astrology, Expand, Intuitive Arts
Metaphors for January 2020
Osho Zen Tarot: Going with the Flow, Success, Guilt Medicine Cards: Horse (contrary), Fox, Dragonfly Mayan Oracle: Etznab (upside down), Kan (upside down), Transparency (upside do …
Mindfulness
Urban Almanac
Jan 1 Average temps today: high 32º, low 22º. Sunrise: 7:51am. Sunset: 5:10pm. Here’s a timely spiritual practice from Bulgarian philosopher and mystic Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov (190 …
Heal, Health
Indoor air quality
Inversions are natural events due to cold temperatures and our surrounding mountains (for a more detailed explanation, take a look at CATALYST’s January 2018 issue). When air becom …
Live, Nature
Environews
A community in the thrall of the attention economy feels like an industrial farm, where our jobs are to grow straight and tall, side by side, producing faithfully without ever touc …
Heal, Social Justice
Just Imagine
What Utah would look like without prisons. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any nation in the world, including China…. In 2016, the Brennan Center examined convictions and se …
Expand, Think
December 2019 Almanac
DECEMBER 1 Average temps today: high 43º, low 28º. 20% chance of precipitation. Sunrise: 7:32am. Sunset: 5:00pm. DECEMBER 2 Red Butte Garden in the winter is especially fetching. …
