Resources Alternative Businesses Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping 137 Palmetta Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (408) 425-3514 One way we might “green” urban and suburban neighborhoods is to treat our front and back yards as potential Eden’s. Ken Foster of Santa Cruz, has been replacing pesticide-laden lawns with mini ecological paradises. This successful alternative business not only uses strictly organic methods of landscaping/gardening, but also uses bicycles with trailers for transport. A fine example to follow! Terra Nova also puts out a quarterly newsletter entitled. New Earth News. Appropriate Technology (AT) Home Power P.O. Box 130 Hombrook, CA 96044-0130 For the last five years, this bi-monthly hands on journal of homemade power has grown to become one of the most thorough and thoughtful publications on alternative energy technology around. For just 15 bucks a year, you get six copies (over 100 pages each) covering topics such as, solar architecture, domestic hot water, solar heating, do-it your self projects, and electric vehicles. A must companion for those committed to getting off the grid! American Solar Energy Society (ASES) 2400 Central Avenue, Suite G-1 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 443-3130 Fax: (303) 443-3212 Along with publishing the bi-monthly journal. Solar Today and the annual review. Advances in Solar Energy, ASES is putting on the 22nd Annual National Solar Energy Conference in conjunction with the 18th Annual Passive Solar Conference from the 22-28 of April, 1993 in Washington, DC. If you are an engineer, architect, builder, researcher, educator, utility representative, or just seriously interested in the exchange of information about advances in solar energy, this annual gathering is for you! Read RAIN (Nov-Dec 1984) for details on the cooptation of solar power! Appropriate Technology Project Volunteers in Asia, Inc. P.O. Box 4543 Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 326-8581 or 1-800-648-8043 These folks in Stanford have generated the most comprehensive resource on appropriate technology available!. Whatever it is you need to know for doing any kind of small-scale project, it can be found using the 800 page Appropriate Technology Source Book, and/or the AT Microfiche Reference Library. The Sourcebook, costing $17.95, reviews 1150 of the most useful AT books world-wide. Then, like magic, all of the above books, over 140,000 pages worth of practical info, have been condensed into a portable (tacklebox) library, costing $695 for the fiche, and $225 for the reader. The savings from using a fiche system, over buying the actual books runs across the board, whether in dollars, trees, or storage space. Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Flumboldt State University Buck Flouse #97 Areata, CA 95521 If only every institution of higher learning could make such an effective means of education available to its students and surrounding community! This student- initiated, student-run organization serves as a demonstration household located in a typical residential environment. The whole community, not just students, can go to the “Buck House,” and learn about solar panels, ovens, water heating and refrigeration, passive solar greenhouses, greywater recycling systems, composting toilets, organic gardens, rain catchment systems, wind generators, and more. When they aren’t busy maintaining and improving the above, you can find these folks offering workshops and organizing other community outreach projects, as well as publishing their $1 newsletter. Check out this slick CCAT! Bioregionalism The Planet Drum Foundation (PDF) P.O. Box 31251 San Francisco, Shasta Bioregion, CA 94131 Since 1973 the PDF has been passing on the concept of living responsibly within naturally defined bioregions. They expound the idea of decentralized “eco- govemance” through regional bundles, books, and the biannual review. Raise the Stakes. The $4 review, has great articles, a directory, and resources that can help you answer the questions, “Do you know your bioregion? It’s history? It’s people? It’s carrying capacity? Its wildlife? Its ecosystems?” You'll also find news about their upcoming bioregional conferences. Cultural Survival Cultural Survival, Inc. (CS) 53A Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-2562 For the last two decades CS has promoted the celebration and protection of cultural diversity through social, political, economic, and ecological justice! CS helps indigenous people and ethnic minorities deal as equals in their encounters with industrial society via resource management programs, cultural-based economic enterprises, cross-cultural networking, and public policy programs. They publish the Cultural Survival Quarterly, Action for Cultural Survival, information packets, slide shows, and offer workshops and briefings for schools, community groups, and the media. $45 entitles you to a year’s subscription to Cultural Survival Quarterly and Action for Cultural Survival. Student subscriptions are $25 (include a copy of your student ID). A subscription to just the monthly Action for Cultural Survival costs $25. Environmental Action Ten Mile Creek Association P.O. Box 496 Yachats, Oregon 97498 (503) 547-4097 Jobs vs. Environment — don’t believe the hype. Large-scale centralized logging operations unsustainably exploit both employees and the trees. If we want to continue utilizing such a precious renewable resource, we need to demand the end to clear-cutting and support loggers in their pursuit of decentralized sustainable harvest operations. Ten Mile Creek is working to prevent clear-cutting in their area. Page 60 RAIN Spring 1993 Volume XIV, Number 3
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