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Utah Gov’t Needs to Focus on the Real Public Health Crisis: Air Quality

April 28, 2016

Four to eight percent of deaths along the Wasatch Front are attributed to air pollution. Utah’s air quality is associated with higher rates of breast, lung, cervical, brain, nasal, pharyngeal, liver...

The Minimalist Movement Manifesto: Make Memories, Not Money

The Minimalist Movement Manifesto: Make Memories, Not Money

April 26, 2016

I walked away from 10 years of financial security, a 401k, great health benefits and all of that “adult” stuff that college preps us for. My decision was called “childish” and “impulsive.”...

The World Cant Afford The Economic Impacts Of Climate Change

The World Can’t Afford The Economic Impacts Of Climate Change

April 18, 2016

Our changing climate doesn’t care about free markets, unfettered capitalism or whether or not you’re a registered Republican or Democrat. While implementing an effective climate reduction policy is...

Disposable Culture Is Throwing Away Our Future

Disposable Culture Is Throwing Away Our Future

April 11, 2016

We live in a society of convenience. It's easier to throw away paper plates than to do the dishes. Buying fast food is much easier than growing food. Society is so fast-paced that we constantly make shortcuts...

Guantanamo Bay Should Be Turned Into An Ecological Center

Guantanamo Bay Should Be Turned Into An Ecological Center

April 4, 2016

Under the Warsaw Pact, Cuba sent rum and sugar to fellow communist countries in exchange for food, oil, machinery and petrochemicals (like pesticides and fertilizers). But when the Iron Curtain fell, assistance...

SeaWorld Needs To Do More Than Simply Ending Killer Whale Shows

SeaWorld Needs To Do More Than Simply Ending Killer Whale Shows

March 30, 2016

In response to plummeting stocks over the past three years, and over $25.4 million lost, SeaWorld has finally responded to the public's demands and announced that it will stop all captive breeding of orcas...

Tombstones Fort Douglas Military Cemetery at the U in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.

Go Green Even After Death

March 21, 2016

All organisms that live, die and return to the soil are recycled into new life. In nature, nothing is wasted. Humans have detached ourselves from all things natural, even in death. We are awakening to...

People at the Bennett Federal Building at the Utah Against Police Brutality rally and march for Abdi Mohamed in dowtown Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday, Feb.29th, 2016. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

Op-Ed: Institutional Racism Fuels Continued Shootings of Unarmed Black People

March 7, 2016

Our beliefs and values shape the way we look at the world and the way we treat it. Unfortunately, our paradigm of normal has exempted accountability for those who hold positions of power. When we give...

Vacancy in Supreme Court Reveals Inability of Partisan Politics to Go Green

Vacancy in Supreme Court Reveals Inability of Partisan Politics to Go Green

March 3, 2016

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Republicans went into panic mode and a political power struggle took precedent over the healthy functioning of our democratic system....

The U.S. Needs to Lose the Ego Trip Because It Is Doing Environmentalism Wrong

The U.S. Needs to Lose the Ego Trip Because It Is Doing Environmentalism Wrong

February 16, 2016

Americana is a brand built by industry and powered by coal. Our heritage is polluted by our past of conquering native lands and peoples. Our image as a political superpower was formed, in part, when we...

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