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All the critical issues involved in transitioning to a more sustainable world.
What you’ll find in this issue.
It’s not as if all the regular shenanigans and triumphs that usually make the news are nonexistent, now that pandemics and social injustices and awakenings command the headlines: T …
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Health and Racism: Covid 19 and Black Lives Matter have forced us to reexamine our society’s basic assumptions of what is fair and unfair. What is just and unjust. What we need and what we don’t really need.
Economic discrimination and racism are needed by tyrants big and small to perpetuate their unfair and unjust dominion. Locally, two of the most egregious unfair, unjust and unneces …
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July 2020 Almanac: A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond.
July 1 Average temperatures today: high 90º, low 64º. Sunrise: 6:10am. Sunset: 8:56pm. July 2 Garlic at a glance: Hardneck and softneck (Allium sativum) and elephant (Allium ampe …
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Environews roundup for July 2020
Central Wasatch stewardship The Central Wasatch Commission is the governmental entity that emerged from the Mountain Accord process, which focuses on transportation, economy, recr …
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Something good comes from Covid: Air pollution decreased dramatically during lockdown
From March through April when Utahns were asked to “stay home, stay safe” as much as possible to reduce the number of Covid-19 cases, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) s …
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From France to the USA: Two different takes on being biracial
January, 2019, Utah. I traveled 5,000 miles to a foreign country that would be my home for the foreseeable future. I’d left France, my country of birth, to marry the love of my lif …
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A budget is a reflection of our values. Decarcerate Utah co-founder explains the Defund the Police movement.
When I was first getting into prison abolition in 2016, I wrote a future manifesto for 2021 titled “WE HAVE PEACE! NO MORE POLICE!” to commemorate 50 years since the September 1971 …
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Essential: Local libraries meet evolving needs during the pandemic
An estimated one million people pass through the doors of the Main City Library every year, logging on to the library’s public computers, checking out the latest display of new boo …
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That’s news to me: Print will go away
I’m far more concerned about journalism. I’ve debated abortion with evangelicals and politics with demons of all afflictions, but I have never seen the hate, sarcasm and shaming as …
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Setting goals for authenticity and accountability in allyship and toward racial justice
Author’s Note: The heinous murders of black people in our country have named the evil of racism and how it exists under the guise of white supremacy in the nation broadly, in our h …
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