Arts
On the cover
Marci Erspamer grew up in Salt Lake City and considers Utah her “happy place.” The mountains, valley and natural beauty still inspire many of her paintings today. Marci has partici …
Environmental Politics
Sustainability: A Love Story
Who could resist a love story about sustainability? Walker’s previous book of personal essays, Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013) is about watersheds and growing up in Salt Lake C …
Environmental Politics
Environews for April 2019
What’s cool about snow? Cooler than lemons? One flake at a time builds a whole watershed. Is it foolish to imagine that little changes can have a big impact? —Nicole Walker (Su …
April 2019 Almanac
A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond April 1 Sunrise 7:11am; sunset 7:52pm. SLC temps: low 38 F; high 58 F. Probability of precipitation: 24%. ” …
Intuitive Arts
April 2019 Metaphors
Osho Zen Tarot: Ice-olation, Silence, Change Medicine Cards: Mountain Lion, Squirrel Mayan Oracle: Akbal, Cimi Ancient Egyptian Tarot: The Hierophant, Seven of Wands, The High Prie …
Food & Health
Don’t forget…ducks!
An egg lover shouldn’t go through life only eating chicken eggs. Duck eggs are a real delight. Larger than chicken eggs, these oval packages contain a higher concentration of fat a …
Mindfulness, Yoga
Peak experiences
Nice, but sometimes an impediment People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but …
Memoir
Secret Samurai of Salt Lake City
Four of the Aoki children, Salt Lake City, ca 1910 Your past, spoken or unspoken, is carried in your blood I was kidnapped when I was three months old. My 24-year-old mother left m …
Food & Health
Ode to the hen’s egg
Spring recipes and memories of cooking with mom Imagine some curious ancient human 70,000 years ago picking up the egg of a wild junglefowl, breaking it open, then poking a finger …
Garden, Local Harvest
Grow a living mulch!
Kickstart your soil mojo with mycorhizal fungi and under cropping Nature abhors bare soil. Bare soil is constantly losing soil carbon and the fertility associated with it. A garden …
Social Justice
Passing of the old guard
Remembering two SLC activists and good friends who died three weeks apart In Utah’s world of grassroots activists and community builders we recently lost two great men— Robert “Arc …
Garden
Bring the natives home
Raising backyard native bee species is a plus-they sting less and pollinate more Creating habitat for native bees is one of the most fun and magical things I have done with my kids …
Food & Health, Resources
We have a food waste crisis
Waste Solutions rescues healthy edible food Food insecurity, where a person is without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, affects about 800 mi …
Catalyst at the Capital: 2019 Legislative wrap-up
How did the environment do? Another legislative session has come and gone, and like most years before this one, there was a range of positive and negative legislation passed (or no …
Garden
Waterwise gardening
Tips on plant selection and irrigation from the lead horticulturist of the Water Conservation Garden at Red Butte Garden There has never been a better time to start using less wate …
Gender Equality, Politics
ACLU and Planned Parenthood of Utah Files Lawsuit Against State of Utah Over Anti-Abortion Bill
Pro-choice and women’s rights activists rallied at the state capitol as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Utah and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) announce …
Arts, Enjoy
Honor Mother Earth at “Pale Blue Dot”
Metal Print by Kurt Beswick, featured in “Pale Blue Dot” “There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, …
