On the Cover: September 2017
Kate MacLeod by Kate MacLeod. In 1979 Kate MacLeod moved from the Washington D.C. area to Salt Lake City to study at the Violin Making School of America. But she eventually chose t …
Slightly Off Center: Stories Are Telling
What’s in a story? Is it truth, entertainment, fiction, lies or bits of each? We live in the golden age of self-indulgent story telling where everyone has a blog or a podcast. A …
Environews: September 2017
Environmental news from around the state and the West. I walk the Bear all summer as it builds strength again, widens into marshes, joins in lush bird-heavy congress with the great …
Editor’s Notebook: September 2017
The joy of feeling small. August reminded me, twice, of this famous exchange between sister and brother in Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town: Rebecca: I never told you about a …
Getting to Zero Carbon
Thinking of solar panels and an e-car? First, work on reducing the amount of electricity you use. There’s one campaign promise Donald Trump may end up keeping. But it’s not his pro …
Home
Keeping Cool for Less $$
Couldn’t take the heat (or a/c bills) this summer? Consider a swamp cooler for next year! The heatwaves of summer are, for the most part, over. As we enjoy the cooler temperatures, …
Think
Non-Duality and a Mind at Home
An interview with Byron Katie. Byron Katie was a real estate agent in Barstow, California much of her adult life. She lived the American dream of brand new, shiny things. She bough …
Community
Reclaiming the Crone
Celebrating the passion and power of older women. Circles of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we’re weak and sing with us when we’re strong. — Sark T …
Community
Labs for Liberty
With the kickoff of each fall and spring semester comes a flourish of activity up at the University of Utah campus. Freshmen scrambling to find classes only five minutes apart (pro …
Environmental Politics, Politics
Methane rule survives GOP attack
The 2017 Conservation in the West poll from Colorado College showed that 81% of Western voters agreed with the statement, “We should continue to require oil and gas producers who o …
Nature, Outdoor
Stewart introduces sham habitat protection bill
Utah Congressman Chris Stewart (R-UT-2) has introduced a sham bill that he says will protect habitat for mule deer and sage grouse, but it’s really just another trick to try to eli …
Politics
Secret Zinke meetings spark lawsuit
County commissioners from Kane and Garfield Counties may have broken Utah law when they held closed-door meetings with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke concerning the possibility of s …
Environmental Politics, Outdoor, Urban Planning
West Davis Corridor impacts expand
It seems inevitable that the environmental footprint of the West Davis Corridor freeway has already increased before any of the new freeway has even been built. In August, the Utah …
