Topic: Live
On the cover: March 2019
Kristen O’Brien finishing the ’truth window’ in home number 5 in Moab, Utah – Spring 2013. The ’truth window’ shows you what is inside your walls and has turned into an artistic tr …
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The Living Building Challenge: a new standard for eco-friendly building that gives LEED a run for it’s money
As 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 …
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Earthships: Recycling at it’s finest
Photos by Kari Larsen On 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 w …
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Three Utah Organizations Discuss Utah’s Air Quality
We know air quality is an issue, especially when we awaken to a skyline of smog. It’s definitely a problem which has caught the eye of many Utah organizations. On Feb. 11, the Univ …
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Valentine’s Day May Have More Potential for Finding Love Than You Thought
How many of us are actually excited for Valentine’s Day? The hyper-commercialized holiday of cheap paper cards and red flowers with ribbons. The holiday of “love.” The only reason …
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A different VR experience: The Wild Immersion Project sets out to protect wildlife habitats
For the first time, on this busy Sundance day, I feel calm and at peace. I’m in a tree with a serene-looking panda, and another moment I’m underwater, watching a shark slowly swim …
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Beyond organic and sustainable
“Regenerative” farming can feed the world – and maybe even reverse effects of climate change. My friend, I have some wonderful news for you. This is news of a new paradigm, of a cu …
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From growing broccoli to farming carbon
Utah’s 3rd annual Farm & Food conference breeds enthusiasm and new ideas Chickens are a great role model for kids. They wake up rarin’ to go, they put themselves to bed early, …
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Dressing our flaws in beautiful penmanship
I have always taken for granted that I can transfer things from my brain box down through my fingers, onto a keyboard and off onto some electronic location. In the old days, I was …
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Sundance 2019: Walden
Billions of trees are cut down each year. This should be no surprise, considering deforestation is a topic we’ve discussed since grade school. Instead of focusing on a forest, howe …
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Sundance 2019: The Elephant Queen
Athena is 50 years old. She is a mother and, like her namesake, a wise leader. She is beautiful and big. She has the longest tusks out of her whole family. She is the matriarch of …
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Environews: New Tracy Aviary Nature Center & Jordan River Park
Salt Lake County is planning a new Jordan River Park along the riparian corridor between highway 201 and 4500 South, envisioned as an urban natural area with a priority on preservi …
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Like farting under the covers
On a clear day, Salt Lake City is a beautiful place, with vistas in all directions that can’t be beat—weather and human activity permitting, of course. On December 28, 2016, two w …
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Clean Air Solutions Fair January 19, 2019
Your opportunity to help clean up our air is coming up soon. It’s getting real out there. In October, the United Nations declared that it’s time to take “unprecedented” actions to …
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LIVE VS. FAKE (OR NONE): CHOOSE THE REAL
If scruples about cutting down a living tree were the main reason driving you skip buying a Christmas tree this year, relax. While cutting down a conifer from somebody’s front yard …
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Last week Hindu chaplain and statesman, Rajan Zed, opened Utah's congressional session with a Hindu prayer. In an effort to impress Hindu concepts of compassion upon lawmakers, Zed read a passage from the Brahadaranyakopanishad: " Lead us from the unreal to the real, Lead us from darkness to light, and Lead us from death to immortality.”
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On March 13 and 14, Hindu chaplain and statesman Rajan Zed will open Utah’s congressional sessions with Hindu prayer in the House and Senate, respe...