November, 1974 Saturday, November 23: 9:00 am Alternative Marketing, Economics, and Finance SUB The format and participants for this session are not yet final; Buying groups, farmer-consumer co-ops, crop contracting by co-ops, farmers' markets, community development funds, and organic certification programs will be discussed. --Don Newey, founder of Devcor and Farmco; author of "What Price Miracle?'' --Pat and Dorothy Langon, President of N.W. Organic Food Producers Ass'n. --Don Shakow, Alternative Finance, Seattle (not confirmed) 12:00 Lunch 1:00 pm OPEN FORUM Munson We~ll continue as long as the energy holds out; the facilities will be open through Sunday, November 24. General Information Housing: We have reserved the use of Munson Hall, a comfortable old dormitory of 119 beds, for the entire conference period.. The facilities consist of 2 beds to a room, 2 rooms to a bath, and are available at a cost of $6.00 per person, per day. We·d like to see a kind of group feeling .emerge at this conference. the kind that results when everyone is living and working together, and Munson is the right sort of place for this to happen. We encourage you to make use of it, but if you absolutely can't afford the rooms, let us know and we'll try to arrange some place for you to roll out a sleeping bag. Meals: While we can't provide all of the meals for the conferencs period, we are planning to put together Natural-Foods, low cost (about $1.50) dinners for Thursday and Friday evenings, and we hope that everyone will take advantage of these additional opportunities for exchange. Child Care: We'll set up a co-operative child care facility, so that those of us with little people can take turns. Information Center: There will be a series of tables set up in Munson Hall for the distribution and sale of papers, articles, and books. We invite you to bring and disRJay any informative brochures or other printed materials which might be of interest to others at the conference. ~~-~·J;.:o=.i}; This conference is sponsored by Tilth, a newlyformed, non-profit educational'organization; taxexempt status is pending. Ti!th's address is Poplar Hills, Route 1, Box 64, Palouse, Washington 99161. Page 5 <;uDIO VISUAL ) The Creative Outlet journal 201 SE 12th Portland, Or. 97214 (503) 233-3654 List of video-tapes produced for lowenergy living. lTV-Instructional TV Jefferson High School Portland, Ore. Ferris Top, director. Catalog of instructional tapes being developed by Jim Simpson. Also hands-on workshops, guest speakers in TV or media. Information on making tapes, call Janice Curtis, 28 7-1265. Eugene Filmmakers Cinematheque Monthly showing of local films, sponsored by the Eugene Community Video Access Center. Contact Phillip Perkins or Scott Fraser at (503) 342-7806 for more information. The Animator, Quarterly Publication of The Northwest Film Study Center Portland Art Museum SW Park and Madison Portland, Or. 97205 Increasingly good at giving a good range of Northwest film, video information/events. $2/yr. individual, $4/yr. institutional News about activities of the public video access center. Free. Oregon Division of Continuing Education Film Library 1633 S.W. Park Ave. P.O. Box 1491 Portland, Ore. 97207 229-4800 Linda Bohnaker (DCE film librarian), 229-4842 Distributes films to anyone in the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii. Large free catalog, Films 1974-75. Listed by title and subject. Generally very inexpensive rental. Updated listings, new films, newsletter Film Library News also free. C~sponsoring with NW Film Study Center, series of 5 programs, "The Identity Crisis," for presentation free to adult public audiences in 4 Oregon communities: Newport-Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26,Jan. 2. Contact Bob Adolph, Ore. Mental Health Assn. 265-8511. Pendleton-Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Contact Larry O'Rourke, Blue Mtn. Comm. College, 276-1260. Portland-Nov. 21, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26. Contact Bob Sitton, NWFSC, 226-2811. Roseburg-Dec. 19, 26,Jan. 2, 9, 16. Contact Donna Warlace, Douglas Co. Library, 672-3311. Programs developed by Na-tional Project Center for Films and Humanities U.E.) Tom Detwyl'efv-r Dept. of Geography U. of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. 48704 (313) 764-0342 List prepared for course taught at university. Environmental Education: A Beginning Division of Tech. and Env. Ed. Office of Public Affairs U.S. Office of Education Washington, D.C. 20202 Free Rental Film. (L.W.) see also Media, Information €oMMUNITY ) A recent study of urban communes in Minneapolis, sponsored by the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, found that energy use was lower in urban communes than in conventional urban homes. Center for Urban and Regional Studies University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. Carolina 27514 Opinion survey/study of quality of life, from 7,000 people in 36 "new" communities. continued on page 7
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