June 1975 Finding Facts Fast Alden Todd William Morrow & Co.1972 $2.50. For price and sensitivity to a range of users, this is one of the best introductions to reference tools. It reminds you of common sense routes to information resources, picking out the most widely useful texts. You'll need other access tools when really digging into local resources, but for whai generally can be found in many libraries, this is a good guide. Healing Yourself, by Joyce Preusky, 64 pgs., $1.50 softcover, from: Country Doctor Clinic 4O2 llth Avenue East Seattle, Wash. 98112 Full of feel-good graphics, a friendly, precious preventive medicine guide to colds, teeth, asthma, herbs, babies, skin, diet, birth control, pregnancy, vitamins; recommends other books in each area. Quick-glance index. $1.50 helps support the community clinic. LAND USE Evergreen Land Trust Association P.O. Box 311 Clear Lake, Wash. 98235 Evergreen Land Trust is hopping/running now with 8 staff persons working to pulf things together ro creare land-baied alternatives. Persons willing to donate land or put it in trust are welcome. I'm working with them part-time, other persons include Becky Deryckx (Tilth), Henry Boothe, Pat Coburn (wrote supertanker/oilspill book on Puget Sound), Dave Whitridge (legal beagle/attorneyafter-passing-the-bar), Tom Strotkamp (Skagit Design Service/architect), Jim Anderson (media specialist), Bobbi Baker (public administration background), Joyce Siniscal (information/ librarian/engineering), Dave Erickson (print design/etc.) and a cast of incestuous relationships. Anyhow, the trusr has the information resources now (particularly legai,t to really give people a hand with either setting up rheir own trusts, setting legal precedents for land reform issues, or working with people who wish to put their land in trust. (Bob Ness) MEDIA Page 19 Wbo Takes Oat tbe Garbage in DC and Prospectus for a Self-Sustaining Neigbb orbood Centered Co mmunity Detselopment Corporation for Col, lection and Recycling of Housebold, Apart?nent and Basiness Waste Neil N. Seldman Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1717 18th NW Washington, D.C.2OOO9 Road Apple hess Rt. 1, Box 778 Winlock, Wash. 98596 (206\ 785-3379 They publish delightfully "downhome,' (b-ut professional) books. One especially of interest is Tbe Vegetabte Garden Diiplayed, a reprint of a 1940s vegetable garden, how to do it, published by the Royal Horticultural Society, London. Of course, some of the information is not perfectiy appropriate, but generaily good stuff, and some techniques I,ve not seen elsewhere. 300 photos. A good book to hold. $2.50. Ask about otlier publications. They will also help people publish worthwhile materials/resource tools and help on occasion train people in the use of offset press techniques.- New Directions Radio is a growing network of ham radio operarors originally initiated by Copthorne McDonald. There are roundtables, regular exchanges of information. For example, on alternative sources of energy. One northwesr member publishes i newsletter: Mitt Nodacker (WA TTFE), New Directions Radio, p.O. Box 8557, Pocatello, Idaho 83209. Outline similar to Rich Duncun's "Ore Plan" (and the centers in Portland using decentralized waste collection: Sunflower and Fisher & Everett). Good preliminary for people in other cities wanting to do cost comparison studies of forms of collection and recycling. NETWORKS Fuel E conotny Annotated Bibliograpby Traffic Engineering & Safety Dept. American Auto Association 8111Gate House Rd. Falls Church, Ya.22O42 'I'his 15-page descriptive bibliography surveys materials on both large scale fuel economy as well as individual application. POPULATION Population Reference Bureau, Inc. 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20036 (202\ 232-2288 Through the popularion education program here at PRB, we try to serve as a central bank of information and materials for secondary school teachers. Interchange, the population education newsletter, is now distributed free on request to teachers. The newsletter informs teachers about new materials and programs being developed in the field. In addition, the lead issay of each issue focuses on population in relation to other topics such as women, transportation, energy, or aging. The activity sketch is geared to the lead essay for classroom use. . Options, A Study Guide to population and the American Future, is available in bulk for a 50d shipping fee. This 75-page guide can be used independently or in conjunction with the U.S. Commission report and film on population and tbe American Future. In addition, we offer a special teacher membership to PRB for $5. Through this membership teachers receive pbpulation Bulletins, PRB Reports, and tie annual World Population Data Sbeet, as well as Intercbange. (Judith R. Seltzer) tContinued on page 2O
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