Page 26 RAIN May/June 1984 ACCESS: Community Chinook Learning Community PO Box 57 Clinton, WA 98236 206/321-1884 Write to Chinook for information on upcoming workshops. The next major event at Chinook is a conference on "Creating a New Economy: Work, Money, and Identity," which will be held May 9-13 on Whidbey Island, just north of Seattle. Major presenters include Paul Hawken, Robert Schwartz, Terry Mollner, John Graham, Shann Turnbull, and Patricia Mische. Regional resource people from business, government, banking institutions and co-ops will also attend. Attendees will gain skills and learn strategies to use in the working world, and also in the community and at home, to create a new economy. —TK Findhom Foundation The Park Forres IV 36 OTZ Scotland Write to Findhorn to find out about the guest programs, including experience weeks, workshops, and a conference on "The New Economic Agenda: A Sharing of Perspectives," October 13-20. The foundation also publishes the bimonthly journal One Earth, available for U.S. $12 surface rate, $18 airmail. —TK Earth Coiwnuiiity: Living Experiments in Cultural Transformation, by Susan Campbell, 1983, 242 pp., $8.95 from: Evolutionary Press 2418 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94121 This book is both a resource guide and a study of over 30 intentional communities on the West Coast. Examining the values and issues communities are dealing with—vision, leadership, sharing power, work and economics, inner development, and health—Campbell sketches for us a scheme of the many different approaches to these issues in these communities. Several chapters draw parallels between the relationships of communities and individuals with the earth and interpersonal relationships within communities. The resource guide lists books, periodicals, projects, and organizations under each of the issues described in the earlier chapters. For those wanting an overview of the "earth community network" on the West Coast and access to learning more about it, this book is an important first step. (By the way, to find out about one of the communities in the earth community network, see "Sometimes the Magic Works: Alpha Farm Ten Years Later," by Caroline C. Estes, RAIN VIII:8.) —Mimi Maduro Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 5 issues/year, $10/year individuals, $15/year institutions from: Communities Publications Cooperative Box 426 Louisa, VA 23093 This is the place to find information on intentional communities in the U.S. Communities publishes articles about living in community and cooperatives in general, as well as an annual guide to cooperative alternatives. —TK EarthBank Association POBox87 Clinton, WA 98236 The EarthBank was organized to assist in creating socially responsible banking and financial institutions. These institutions will make capital available within a region and loan it to members for ecologically sound uses. The EarthBank ethic supports individual, community, and regional self- reliance and cooperative enterprises. Membership ($5) provides you with information on credit unions, finance companies, commercial and savings banks, community development funds, and socially responsible investments. —Mimi Maduro "Being a Planetary Villager," special issue of In Context, no. 1, winter 1983, quarterly, $14/year from: In Context PO Box 30782 Seattle, WA 98103 Variations on the theme of community: 19 articles that explore the experience of community and being a planetary villager. In Context regularly publishes theme issues. —TK Community Dreams, by Bill Berkowitz, 1984,255 pp., $8.95 from: Impact Publishers PO Box 1094 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 What we imagine, we create. A society that spends more time visualizing a nuclear holocaust, nuclear cloud, or the like than visualizing optimistic images of the future has a way of setting up the expectation, if not giving the initial go- ahead, to make it happen. Community Dreams, a collection of both the possible and the actual, ought to be a text for every high-school civics course in the country. It postulates realistic ideas for making our cities and neighborhoods more than "livable," but actually stimulating, joyful places to grow and work: from universities of the sidewalk and neighborhood yearbooks to community dream banks and pizza shop/youth recreation centers. It's a written version of Diane Schatz's posters, depicting ecological, peaceful, energy-efficient communities, and activists of any hat shouldn't be without it. —KN "Future Communities," TRANET, no. 29 (winter 1983-84), from: TRANET PO Box 567 Rangeley, ME 04970 Each 16-page issue of TRANET includes a special four-page directory; the winter issue listed alternative communities around the world. TRANET stands for transnational network for appropriate/ alternative technologies. The organization has been giving away appropriate technology libraries—100 best books for the core of a technical library in the Third World. The quarterly newsletter is available with membership in TRANET (individuals $15, libraries $25, organizations $100). —TK
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