Interactive in-season food map

Use this tool on GOOD's website to see what is in season where—get an idea of how far your food travels. http://bit.ly/6qIpsS

Have a beer, hear a bird talk

This month's "Science Night Live!" (presented by U of U's College of Science) is Wed, Dec. 9, 5:30-7 p.m. at Keys on Main, 242 South Main St. (next to Sam Weller's bookstore). Invite a friend, make a date, and stop by after work! Come early, stay for dinner if you like. Learn about"Nature's Musicians: How and Why Birds Sing" from biology professor Franz Goller.

Did you know certain songbirds can turn elements of their song on or off up to 250 times per second!? Songbirds learn their songs in a process similar to how human infants learn to speak. We can learn much from songbird vocal behavior about our own acoustic communication system.

Ride the UTA TRAX to the Gallivan Plaza stop. Or, there is limited street parking available on 200 South and 300 South that is free after 6:00 pm. Perhaps the easiest parking is in the Wells Fargo building lot, accessible from 300 South. See www.keysonmain.com for more info, or call (801) 581-6958.

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Urban goats?

We'd like to learn more about keeping goats in the city. If you keep goats, email pax@catalystmagazine.net! We'd love to come by and ask you all about the pros and cons, and see your setup!

You're invited: Mayor Ralph @ Mayors' Green Team* meeting, Fri., 12/4, noon

Please join Mayor Ralph Becker at this month's Green Team Meeting Friday, December 4th, at 12:00 p.m. in Room #126 of the City & Council Building.

 

The Mayor is looking forward to addressing this month's Green Team attendees and hearing your ideas on how to create a more sustainable Salt Lake City. Bring your questions, comments and lunch this Friday to the City & County Building! 

* Yes, it's "Mayors'," not "Mayor's." This informal, education-oriented group engages citizens with employees of environmental programs for both SL City Mayor Becker and SL County Mayor Peter Corroon. We meet typically on the 3rd Fridays, except this month. Come! 

Greta Belanger deJong: Editor & Publisher at CATALYST Magazine — Healthy Living, Healthy Planet

contact | greta@catalystmagazine.net - 801.363.1505 | 140 S. McClelland St. Salt Lake City, UT 84102

New Jim Hightower!

Check out the new Jim Hightower column on our website: http://www.catalystmagazine.net/jim-hightower

We run two Hightower commentaries every month: one in our print edition (and on the website, of course), as well as an additional column mid-month, each month, which appears only on the web. 

The "Ew" factor—Recycling Event

We usually associate "ew" with something that smells bad. Bad smells are good, in a way ~ they connote decay, Nature's way of recycling. While no application of microbes and moisture will induce your old VCR to rot, there is a way to properly recycle it and other ewaste ~ thus reducing the "ew" factor.

Start now looking in your garage, basement, attic and closets for outdated TVs, computers, stereos, phones and other electronic equipment. Then, on the morning of April 22, Earth Day, bring them to the University of Utah for a massive recycling event.

For details on what you can bring, where to bring it, and why it's important to properly recycle those toys and tools of yesteryear, go here:

http://www.sustainability.utah.edu/initiatives/erecyclingday2009.htm

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

This noon (Friday) CATALYST arts writer Amie Tullius and I dropped by the Salt Lake City Main Library to see the Cedarlake Ballet Company perform in the library auditorium. It had been described as an “installation”; we didn’t have a clue how that would work, and were curious to see. What we saw was more than amazing. I’ve seen quite a bit of dance through the years but I must say I saw moves here that I’ve never seen before. The “installation” aspect was the most delightful: Dancers were on the wide open staircase, inserting themselves into the ample crowd, and ~ most fun of all ~ dancing in the moving glass elevators.
I’m not clear on why they call themselves ballet instead of modern dance. Modern they certainly are, down to the choreography, music and costumes. They perform tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 7) night at Kingsbury. No glass elevators, but my guess is they’ll have other surprises up their sleeves. And, minus such clever delighters, the dancing is very, very good. http://www.cedarlakedance.com/
See them Sat., February 7, at Kingsbury hall. Tickets: 581-7100. http://www.kingtix.com
Taken this noon with my iPhone:

Anyone interested in meditation...

...might want to attend tonight's (Feb 4th) U of U Tanner Lecture Series event with Richard Davidson, foremost neuroscientist and friend of the Dalai Lama. It's going to be great. 7pm at U of U's UMFA, Dumke Auditorium.  IT'S AT 7 P.M. , NOT 7:30 AS THE PRINT EDITION OF CATALYST SAYS!
Also 9am tomorrow morning at the Carolyn Tanner Irish Building, room 109.
See our January story for more information: Click Here.

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Welcome to our newly redesigned website! We hope you like the new feel. Make sure to check back here often, as I will be using this space to let our community know about interesting and important events and happenings around town. As always, feel free to email me with comments, questions and suggestions: editor@catalystmagazine.net