One Utah

Sustainability Summit:
Practicing Sustainable Community in Greater Salt Lake
Friday, October 3, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The Leonardo (Old SLC Downtown Public Library)

“If we want sustainability at scale, it will only come
from the quality of our relationships with each other.”
Sustainability Friends of the Salt Lake Valley,
We know there are many individuals, groups, and organizations [...]

I’ve been following and sometimes writing about issues of war and peace, human rights, our economy, the environment, and nuclear weapons and our inability to deal safely with nuclear material for about half a century. Never have I seen the interconnection of these issues reach the danger point that we now face. We are in [...]

Paul,
I’ll tell you a bit about myself qua LDS person. I was born and raised in the church, served a mission to Germany, got married in the temple, paid my tithing, did all of the right things. Then one night as I was reading the Book of Mormon in preparation for teaching a Sunday school [...]

Queers behind bushes, queers in dark alleys, queers in positions of power. Queers free on the streets, queers in pulpits, queers bearing arms. And worst of all, queers at the altar! Is no place free of this menace, no institution sacred? Our world teeters on the brink. Can no one save us?
Cue background music, William [...]

Someone sent this to me anonymously with the caption.
An LDS ward parking lot near our home that accommodates over 180 cars, not including overflow on the street. The most of the congregation lives within 0.5 mi of the building.

If every Mormon in Utah walked rather than drove to church on Sunday and during the [...]

Sent to Senator Dmitrich and Representatives King and Mathis
I recommend you vote FOR SB 173 and AGAINST SB202.
SB173 was produced by Governor John Huntsman’s Renewable Energy Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force. I participated with some of the members of that task force in developing the Renewable Energy Portfolio recommendation. That recommendation was modeled [...]

It is apparent that Utah is for sale. Our state is the only state in the Union now identified as being willing to continue as the nation’s nuclear dump site, and now the world’s site as well, without protest and defensive acts by our political leaders.
What will Virginia do with its nuclear leftovers? It doesn’t [...]

If you watch enough TV, ingest too many newspapers, and read a lot of blogs, my own and this one included, you get the impression the world is driving a flaming red Hummer in the fast lane to Hell. That may be true- but it depends on what Hell you’re talking about: the actual ones [...]

This is democracy. Heck- it’s bigger than democracy. It’s life itself and just as important today as the beginning of time (whether 7,000 or untold millions of years ago). It’s called community. And that’s what the Clean Air Summit held Thursday at the Salt Lake City County building was about: saving our community. People representing [...]

So it turns out that some Utah legislators stand to make big bucks on a decision they may decisively influence to bring nuclear power to Utah. We’ve done without this monstrously bad source of power all these years.
Most fundamentally, we still don’t know how to handle nuclear waste without it constituting a huge threat to [...]

The Utah Education Association conference started Monday at the Salt Palace. From an environmental perspective, it’s a clean sweep for the polluters. I volunteered to staff The Nature Conservancy’s information table at the conference. We’re encouraging teachers to sign their classes up for tours of our Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve where I volunteer as [...]

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 [...]