One Utah

Even President Bush now believes that climate change is a problem. It officially joins resource depletion, pollution and overpopulation as unsustainable trends that must be dealt with immediately. The problem is Bush and our state and federal elected representatives don’t have solutions they are willing to fight for. Heck, the Democrats won’t stop the war [...]

As the government in Myanmar is finding out, it’s hard to keep oppression, corruption and institutional violence a secret in the age of blogging, satellite surveillance and global economics. So when Dick Cheney and others convened in Salt Lake for a meeting of the “secret” Council for National Policy, I was skeptical. After all, this [...]

Things get pretty angry here at One Utah. Heck- that’s one of the reasons I read and write for it. But anger can be a positive influence. It motivates many of us into taking immediate action- even if it’s just out of self-defense. Here in Utah, we have a serious problem that needs to be [...]

A new study shows that Americans are about the laziest workers in the world. Seems odd given that generations of us have grown up believing America is THE land of opportunity and the way you get ahead, especially in Utah, is by hard work, creativity and, above all, money. But in the decades following World [...]

As Utah anxiously watches modern-day robber baron Robert Murray cry to his mommy over those nasty things Governor Huntsman said about him, punitively lay off our fellow citizens and shutter his death-trap mines, we all need to read Jeff Goodell’s excellent reality check on coal: The future for Utah is not coal but the extraordinary [...]

What’s left to say about the disaster that is Crandall Canyon? The federal government and a strident, political mine owner tell us they know what they’re doing. They refuse help from a highly-trained, unionized mine rescue team. They ignore reports showing continuous, human-induced seismic activity in the mountain. Now, after more than a week of [...]

On the heels of the Crandall Canyon disaster and numerous rejections of new coal plants nationwide, this urgent message comes from Tim Wagner of Utah’s chapter of the Sierra Club:
Dear Clean Energy and Clean Air Activists,
Our friends in Sevier County desperately need our help. The Sevier Power Company is pushing hard to obtain clearances to [...]

Listening to Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray on TV the other day, I heard him but saw only rainbows, twinkling stars and happy children playing outside in the middle of January. Here was the operator of a notorious facility in a notorious industry not pulling the community together and giving us the truth about [...]

Let me begin by saying I apologize. I’ve been gone promoting my new movie, hob-nobbing with Hollywood bigshots and lowlifes, and basking in the human-induced tanning machine that is southern California for a while (note driving with the top down and AC off to prevent damage to ozone-layer but lack of hands-free cell headset to [...]

Dedicated to Glenn, Richard and all the other closeted household appliance geeks of One Utah:
When I saw water trickling out of the downspout on a clear, sunny morning this week, I knew something was wrong. To people who live in dry climates like Utah, the evaporative, or more affectionately, “swamp” cooler is as common as [...]