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SLC People’s Market slates Seed Swap for Jan. 30

0 Comments Published by les January 24th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, SLC, Salt Lake City.

In Salt Lake City as in an increasing number of cities across the country, networks of backyard growers in urban neighborhoods and small-scale farmers along with nonprofits like Seed Savers Exchange and Native Seeds/SEARCH as well as Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste have helped to preserve rare heirloom varieties and other agricultural jewels through [...]

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Outdoor Retailer participants get a good glimpse of OIA’s ECO Index

0 Comments Published by les January 21st, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Customer Service, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

When it started in 2007, the Outdoor Industry Association’s (OIA) Eco Working Group quickly learned that an industry-wide index measuring environmental sustainability in, for example, product development, manufacturing, and packaging should be easy to read, flexibly modular in scope so that small and large companies alike could apply the guidelines, and sufficiently detailed to address [...]

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Outdoor Nation’s unprecedented campaign to ensure no child is left inside

1 Comment Published by les January 20th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Education, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

No one can doubt the most obvious health implications – obesity and diabetes, to just name a couple – being experienced by a generation of American youth who seem perfectly at ease settling into a sedentary lifestyle where avatars and virtual reality more frequently replace direct visceral contact with nature, adventure, and physical exercise. Yet, [...]

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Plan-B Theatre, Utah AIDS Foundation stage timely reading of ‘The Normal Heart’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez kindly provides some follow-up commentary to the reading of Larry Kramer’s work The Normal Heart staged by Plan-B Theatre and the Utah AIDS Foundation. In 1985, Kramer’s work clearly laid out the experiences of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis. Stark and brutal in themes, the play also faced down [...]
SLC filmmaker Andrew James finds a hopeful oasis in Detroit’s blighted landscape ---
‘It’s a war of little battles. The residents fight by lighting their yards, videotaping drug deals, harassing scrappers and chasing off thieves. Their enemy attacks in shocking ways. Like taking over the homes of bedridden old people. Like recruiting kids as dope-house spotters and runners. Like killing people’s dogs.’ – Detroitblogger John, Metro Times, 2010 [...]
Why Sandstrom’s proposed illegal immigration enforcement act is ‘Arizona Light’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a regular correspondent lays out in concise, terse, brilliant form Stephen Sandstrom’s latest foray into making legislation that is ridiculously untenable and intellectually embarrassing. By the way, readers looking to make some intelligible sense of the mindset of Sandstrom and countless other elected officials on this particular issue, please consider Peter [...]
Pride redux: another Latino step forward ---
Editor’s Note: The following is a great piece by Mark Alvarez, our resident contributor who also is an attorney and a frequent commentator on immigration issue. Who says Latinos are slow for freedom? Argentina now has marriage equality. On Wednesday, Luis Majul wrote in his column (Spanish version) for the Argentine daily La Nación: The [...]
‘The Empress’, ‘X-ing’, ‘DemiUrge Emesis’ take top honors at Utah Arts Festival’s Fear No Film ---
Twelve awards were announced today in the Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Short Film of The Year, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable mentions, and the best film in each of six of seven categories around which the film festival was organized. The Empress by [...]