On a chilly Wednesday evening in mid-January, the brightest lights of the Salt Lake Valley converged upon the Leonardo Museum of Science, Technology, and Art at Library Square to celebrate the CATALYST 100 awardees.

Intentional interdependence.
by Donna Henes

Sponsored by Western Garden Centers

Learn when to plant what with this clip-and-keep chart.

√ plan
√ start seeds
√ interplant
√ companion-plant
√ water
√ thin
√ weed
√ trellis
√ add compost
√ mulch
√ prune
√ harvest
√ admire
√ turn compost pile
√ keep a garden journal
√ succession-plant
√ have a garden party

And what happened there.
by CATALYST staff

by Eric Samuelsen

A deeply personal play about uncertainty and ambivalence in Mormon culture.

In Mormon culture, we feel tremendous social pressure to conform. We all want to appear as though everything's just fine, our kids moving without difficulty down the Eagle Scout/Young Women's Medallion/mission/temple marriage path. Our own marriages are happy and mutually sustaining, we have callings in the Church that we fulfill without crisis or incident. Everything's fine. And it's embarrassing when we have to admit that something isn't fine.

But the really interesting conversations are the ones we have with friends in the Church or with family members when everything isn't fine. My oldest son didn't go on a mission, and although we knew he wasn't going to go, it took my wife and I a long time to admit it to anyone. We'd stall; we'd make excuses. "He's still saving up money," we'd say. Our second child, our oldest daughter, married someone who wasn't Mormon. Again, it was embarrassing, and we had to steel ourselves to tell family members. My wife has a sister whose family is perfect, and we worried about how to tell her about our daughter. We went to see her, and she greeted us with a bombshell. Her oldest son had come out. He was gay. A much bigger crisis for active Mormons.

Feature calendar picks from the print version. Make sure to check our full online listings for continual updates (click Events Calendar along the top menu bar).
by Amber Meredith and Pax Rasmussen

Feature calendar picks from the print version. Make sure to check our full online listings for continual updates (click Events Calendar along the top menu bar).
by Amber Meredith

"Reconciliation" through February 13, 2011 at UMFA.

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You, too, can be a biological pioneer—”an ecological inventor who’s got an elegant and often simple set of solutions for environmental conundrums” (Utne Reader). Meet your cronies and make something happen at the Bioneers SLC Annual Conference: Westminster College, November 5-7.

If you read CATALYST, you’re a likely contender for Bioneers. Years ago, some of our staff traveled to San Rafael, California to attend the annual gathering, which focuses on solutions to today’s environmental and social justice challenges. We saw and heard from, and in some cases met founders Kenny Ausebel and Nina Simons, mycologist Paul Stamets, philosopher Derrick Jensen, visionary activist astrologer Caroline Casey, Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki and many other luminaries whose passion is planetary health.
In recent years, we have been able to keep our carbon footprint smaller and travel only to Sugar House. Again this November, Westminster College will host a rebroadcast of the October national conference’s 15 plenary speakers, flanked by breakout sessions with social and ecological innovators from our own community. This year’s local gathering also includes a public keynote with author Charles Bowden and archivist Molly Molloy, who have been chronicling the violence and social breakdown of Juarez, Mexico. Read on for more info on this year’s breakout sessions and presenters.