Have you seen this flyer around? The Service Learning Class with Salt lake Community College is throwing a yard sale to benefit US!

Signs may help curb idling

Utah Moms for Clean Air, Recycle Utah join with Artists’ Association

Greg Marshall, Of the Record staff

http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_11907320?source=email

Posted: 03/13/2009 04:09:34 PM MDT

It may not be the most insidious of social ills, but idling cars waste gas and cause unnecessary pollution. Turning off engines during long waits adds up to cleaner air, advocates say.The Park City Professional Artist Association joined the Summit County chapter of Utah Moms for Clean Air and Recycle Utah Tuesday at the Kimball Art Center to paint signs encouraging drivers to turn off their engines while they wait to pick up children from school.

The signs, painted on reused sandwich boards collected from Recycle Utah, will be given to elementary schools in the area. Marsh Painting, Inc., donated the paint for the project to make it more eco-friendly. “We wanted to give back to the community without spending a ton of money,” said Bruce Larrabee, the owner of Artworks, 461 Main St., and a member of the association.

The sign-making project was the first time the association collaborated with Utah Moms for Clean Air, which started a chapter in Park City just last year.

The artists association is a nonprofit organization meant to help artists network with galleries, patrons and consumers in Summit and Wasatch Counties, says Gincy Carrington Plummer, one of the heads of the organization. About 50 artists meet on the second Tuesday of every month for seminars on a variety of topics. April’s meeting will focus on breaking into the wholesale market. The artists’ association holds its annual membership drive in April, tentatively scheduled at The Sidecar. Membership costs $30 and plugs artisans into a website and registry.

Plummer and her colleagues also find ways to give back to Summit County. Partnering with the Kimball, the association raised $500 during the winter holidays selling handmade ornaments. The money will fund a scholarship given to a Park City High School student who wants to pursue art.

The artists will build birdhouses in the early spring for their next service project. People interested in joining the Park City Professional Artists Association should visit www.parkcityart.com for more information.

THE WASATCH FRONT FORUM: A Celebration of Environmental Activism

Westminster College presents the Wasatch Front Forum on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gore Auditorium in the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business.

This month’s Wasatch Front Forum will present a panel of local environmental activists. Hear what sparked these extraordinary individuals’ passion for the environment and how they continue to maintain their dedication and drive.

Wasatch Front Forum activists include Jim Westwater, founder of the Utah Valley Sierra Forum; Kathy VanDame, Utah Air Quality Board; Tim DeChristopher, a student and passionate environmentalist; Cherise Udell, founder of Utah Moms for Clear Air; and Zach Frankel, founder and executive director of the Utah Rivers Council from 1995 to 2003.

This event is free and open to the public. The panel discussion will be moderated and podcast by KRCL radio. For more information, visit www.westminstercollege.edu/wfforum/.

WHO: Jim Westwater, Kathy VanDame, Tim DeChristopher, Cherise Udell, and Zach Frankel

WHAT: Wasatch Front Forum

WHERE: Westminster College
Gore Auditorium, Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT

WHEN: March 24, 2009
7:30 p.m.

Interfaith Power & Light is participating in Earth Hour. http://www.earthhourus.org/main.php

You can join us by turning off non-essential lighting in your homes at 8:30 PM local time on March 28th. Your congregation can send a strong message by turning off steeple lights and other outdoor decorative lighting. We are partnering with Earth Hour to send the message that the faith community is concerned about global warming and to demonstrate commitment to finding solutions.

Last year, 50 million people representing 400 cities on all seven continents turned out their lights in the largest climate event of all time.

Keep the faith,

The Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham

http://www.utahipl.org/

Watch a video about Earth Hour 2008.

http://www.earthhourus.org/video.php

We hope you’ve already received an invitation — if you haven’t, send us a line and we’ll hook you up.

The incomparable Red Divas are hosting a bootie-shaking red hot fundraiser shindig on Saturday, March 21st from 7pm until 2am and this year they are donating all proceeds to Utah Moms for Clean Air!

We hope to see many of you on Saturday decked out in your reddest, finest party clothes for a celebration of the work we all do to clean up the air and a chance to re-energize ourselves to keep at it until we’re all breathing easy.

Again, if you didn’t get the invite yet, let us know and we’ll send one with all the details.

Two articles on a new ozone study in the SLTrib and the LA Times.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11892792

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-ozone12-2009mar12,0,2086958.story

Also, see a position paper on ozone from San Juan Citizen’s Alliance in Durango, CO who is fighting to clean up some real air quality issues in the four corners region. It’s a large file (66 MB) so happy reading!

http://rcpt.yousendit.com/663179471/9b4f5d0c203ca1ff05c7d40d0b7a5ffe

SEE the 2018 ozone predictions for the Intermountain West, pgs 4-5ÂÂ

We had a great group of people turn out this morning to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade! Thanks to all those that were able to make it. We had awesome reception from the crowd the whole length of the parade. It was also the perfect length for kids to walk or ride bikes (or ride in strollers or wagons), so if you missed us this year, gear up for next year as Cherise said this will most likely be an annual event for us.

Every day should be a Green Air Day! This year Utah Moms for Clean Air has a spot in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade hosted by the Hibernia Society. We get to march among Scouts, bagpipers, and more! The parade winds around the Gateway shopping center near downtown SLC and should take about 2 hours. Everyone participating should be at the check in point, 200 N and 400 W, between 9:00 am and 9:15 am. We are staged as #26 so we will begin walking around 10:15 am. Please take TRAX if you can (parking may be congested). Bring cheerful green signs, families, strollers, and good walking shoes.

What: Salt Lake City St. Patrick’s Day Parade
When: Saturday March 14, 9:00 – noon or so, plus festivites afterwards
Where: Gateway Shopping Center in SLC, Planetarium TRAX stop