Greta's Notes

CSA Utah Open House

2010-02-25T10:42:00.001-08:00

Tuesday, March 2nd from 7 to 9pm.

Appetizers and cash bar will be available. Come visit you with local CSA farmers to learn about how and where they farm and how you can participate in Community Supported Agriculture in Utah. CSA farmers are invited to RSVP by Feb 23rd to Jeff to get on the agenda.
There will be presentations and plenty of time afterward to meet your local farmer. Come prepared to take advantage of early season deals, make sure to bring your checkbook and get signed up in favorite CSA.

The first 25 customers to become shareholders will receive two Chico reusable CSA Utah bags.

http://www.csautah.org/

Beginning Organic Gardening class

2010-02-19T12:00:00.001-08:00

Sat, Feb 20, 10a-12p.

$10, scholarships available

Learn the basics of organic gardening from Wasatch Community Gardens. We will be covering basic soil health and amending, compost, natural pest control, crop diversity, what to plant when and more. Look for Intermediate and Advanced topics in March and April. Registration required. Register online at:

http://wasatchgardens.org/event/beginning-organic-gardening-basics/2/20/10 or call 801-359-2658 x10.

Location : Main Library, 210 E 400 S
Contact : Carly Gillespie

Star Coulbrooke at City Art TONIGHT!

2010-02-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

Star Coulbrooke will read from her work at the Salt Lake Public
Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Teresa Jordan was forced to cancel her reading that was scheduled for tonight due to family circumstances.

Star Coulbrooke teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts
and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in Ellipsis,
The Teacher's Voice, City Art Journal, Sugar House Review, Tertula Magazine, Sunstone, Poetry International, Hunger Magazine, and others She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her work has appeared in the anthologiesA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Hooves and Standing: Poetry by Idaho Women. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center and teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs.

http://www.slcityart.org

TOMORROW: Science Movie Night

2010-01-04T14:45:00.001-08:00

The Utah Museum of Natural History presents "Supervolcano – It's Under Yellowstone. And it's Overdue" at Science Movie Night. It portrays the potential environmental, political, economic and social effects an eruption of the volcanic caldera under Yellowstone National Park. Join Jamie Farrell of the Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics for a discussion of his research on the seismicity Yellowstone.

Location: Salt Lake City Library

Contact: 801-581-6927

http://bit.ly/5M50rv

Interactive in-season food map

2009-12-30T14:01:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-08T15:28:00.001-08:00

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?

2009-12-04T17:18:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-03T12:49:00.001-08:00

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!

2009-11-16T11:16:00.001-08:00

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

2009-04-10T10:33:00.001-07:00

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

2009-02-06T14:47:00.000-08:00

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...

2009-02-06T14:29:00.000-08:00

...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.

Hello CAT readers!

2009-02-06T14:21:00.000-08:00

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