thing in their life—much like the Integral Urban House or the [New Alchemy Institute] Ark. Those projects had grant money, and there were two or three highly skilled people for whom the project was their life. The Eliot Energy House was a totally different kind of thing.” Chicvara observes, "There was no genuine sense of shared need on the part of the community that was theoretically to build the Eliot Energy House. Building an energy demonstration house is not as relevant to a communtity as, say, building a fire hall." To Conti, what's important is the collective spirit of the group. "At the beginning, there was a lot of vision; people got very excited. The trick lies in keeping that vision." RUNT has come through a long struggle, fraught with setbacks, burn-outs and disappointments. Although those involved feel that it has met many of its goals and that they personally learned a great deal, it seems that the project has lost heart somewhere along the way. In many respects, it is like a person: It began full of dreams and lofty expectations but has suffered the burden of attempting to realize these ambitions. What remains to be seen is if RUNT's "adolescence," so to speak, has tamped out the fire or if the project will, after a respite, reawaken its heart of dreams and pursue them again—only this time with the depth and maturity that can only come through experience and with age. □ □ March/April 1984 RAIN Page 25 ACCESS: Integral House Projects Interested in finding a RUNT house in your region? At last count, there were 22 of them. The following information comes from Jeff Ball of Suburban Homesteaders, who has been compiling a directory of integral house projects in the U.S. and Canada. The list below is from the fourth edition of the directory (May 1983). (If you write to Jeff-or any other contact people listed here—be sure to include at least a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a reply.) —TK Integral Urban House The Farallones Institute 1516 Fifth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 J. Brody Ecology House 12 Madison Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5R 2S1 Canada Dave Coon TERAD House West Virginia University Technology Education Program 2945 University Avenue Morgantown, WV 26506 Paul DeVore Eliot Energy House Responsible Urban Neighborhood Technology 3116 North Williams Avenue Portland, OR 97227 Energy and Self-Reliance Center Energy Research and Information Foundation 3500 Kingman Boulevard Des Moines, lA 50311 Linda Nicholson Long Branch Environmental Education Center Big Sandy Mush Creek Route 2, Box 132 Leicester, NC 28748 Paul Galimore Princeton Education Center at Blairstown Maclean House, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Gisland Farm Maine Audubon Society 118 U.S. Route One Falmouth, ME 04105 Christina Donovan Dudley House 305 Dudley Street Providence, RI 02907 Dahlem Environmental Education Center Jackson Community College 7117 South Jackson Road Jackson, MI 49201 Guelph Energy Conservation Centre 15 Suffolk Street East Guelph, Ontario NIH 2H7 Canada Pat Gibson Energy House 5000 Tacoma Street Philadelphia, PA 19144 Hap Haven The Mesa Project Community Environmental Council 930 Miramonte Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109 Urban Options Energy House 135 Linden Street East Lansing, Ml 48823 Resource Management, Inc. Route 2, Norman Drive Fletcher, NC 28732 Ian Booth The Urban Environmental Laboratory Brown University Center for Environmental Studies Box 1943 Providence, RI 02912 Harold R. Ward Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center 2575 Indian Lake Road Oxford, MI 48051 Energy Information Center of SPEC The Canadian Society Promoting Environmental Conservation 2150 Maple Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3T3 Canada Susan Raschlau Kalamazoo Nature Center 7000 North Westnedge Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Doug Wood Suburban Homesteaders, Inc. 17 Greenhill Road Springfield, PA 19064 Jeff Ball The New Alchemy Institute 237 Hatchville Road East Ealmouth, MA 02536 Conserver House Conservation Council of New Brunswick 180 St. John Street Eredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4A9 Canada Dana Silk
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