Page 28 RAIN Sept/Oct 1975 TERRA ONE is an experimental home being built at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, utilizing various energy conserving techniques (solar heated, etc.). Major participants are OMSI, Pacific Power & Light, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. ... DENNIS Livingston sent us a good bibliography on "positive alternative futures;" having all the touchstones I'm familiar with and then some. Good listing for environmental teachers and others. Send $1 to him at Department of History, Renssalear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12181. ... CLIFF Cox, one of the founding members of Nomadic Tipi Makers, now makes sails in Olympia; also still makes Sioux tipis, Deschutes tipis for stoves. Cliff Cox, Sailmaker, Rt. 14, Box 510, Oyster Bay Rd., Olympia, WA 98502 .. . . THE Women's Art Center (2700 19th at York, San Francisco, CA 94110) is putting together an environmental piece and is looking for works from women around the country.... THE Idaho Study Group (P.O. Box 8482, Moscow, ID 83843) has been formed to do research into the power structure of Idaho.... THE United Nations' new center in Nairobi, Kenya, may provide on-site tests of "now exotic" technologiesmethane generation, discouraging private auto, wind-generated power, etc. ... THE International Association for Education, Development and Distribution of Lesser Known Food Plants and Trees is working toward the public understanding and utilization of now little used plants. Which sounds interesting, but they left off their address? ... GUIDE for Prospective Water Well Owners, Dept. of Ecology, St. Martins College, Olympia, WA 98504.... THE Sacramento County office of education produces a jam-packed newsletter, lots of environmental news and resources, some northern California focus. J. Martin Webber, editor, Science Activities Newsletter, 6011 Folsom Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95819.... FUTURES Lab (Box 120, Annex Station, Providence, RI 02901) has announced it is working on "World Models," an introduction to the state of the art.... TROJAN (the condom makers) are advertising their products on KNTV in San Jose. One ad shows a young coupie running on the beach with the quotation, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.... THE Environmental Education Association Rush of Oregon (P.O. Box 5484, Eugene, OR 97405) sponsored a statewide in-service program on Oct. 10-11, the first major activity of this newly-formed coalition. .. . A REPORT by the census bureau made public last December said that from March 1970 to March 1974 an estimated 5.9 million persons moved out of metropolitan areas, while 4.1 million moved in, a net loss of 1.8 million; although some of the rural growth is just the outer extremes of metropolitan growth, some is growth of small towns far away from large cities.... CO-OP Contacts is still plugging along, now about 10 pages, 50 people per issue making contact, 9305 S.W. 12th Drive, Portland, OR 97219. .. . THE Compendium of Current Environmental Studies in Puget Sound and Northwest Estuarine Waters and a bathymetric map of the continental shelf and slope off the Washington coast are both available from: Oceanographic Institute of Washington, 312 1st Ave., N. Seattle, WA 98109. $16 for the compendium and $4.95 for the map.... THE City of Portland decided that the office of information coordination was dispensible, so left Molly Weinstein who had helped people weave their way through names, offices, files, figures, and produced that fine guide we reprinted in Nov. 1974 RAIN. .. . THE Upland Hills Farm (481 Lake George Rd., Oxford, MI 48051, 30 mi. north of Detroit, offered workshops this summer in solar, wind, methane . . .. THE Washington State Energy Office has opened another office at the Institute for Environmental Studies, 112 Sieg Hall, U. of Washington, Ed Sheets, staff person, 543-7749.... KARL Hess has left Community Technology to live on a farm in West Virginia . ... WASHINGTON University is studying the relationship of the quality of city air and soil and the quality of city grown food. Environmental Response, Box 1124, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 23130 (Environmental Action Bulletin).... HEARD on radio: a forest ranger recently found some people with a jeep in a wilderness area where no vehicles are allowed. He made them get out without the use of their motor and was fining them for each day they were in ; when last heard from the vehicle was stuck in the mud and they had sent for mules to pull them out.... BYRON Kennard informed us of the success of the conference on smallness held this summer in New York; especially that the example part of the conference was instructive. Carl Pope with Sierra Club is working on a west coast version.... THE Environmentalists for Full Employment, seeking to promote job creation in areas that will benefit and improve the environment, is recently established, working closely with the Center for Growth Alternatives and the National Council for the Public Assessment of Technology, 1785 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20036.... WEKSLER Instruments, 80 Mill Road, Freeport, NY 11520, makes a good line of thermometers useful in tweaking a solar hot water thermsiphon system toward the best possible performance. ... TRAILWAYS has a special bus rate on round trip tickets for card-carrying unemployed.... THE Living Learning Center at Southern Oregon College has lost its funding, but some of the students have managed to continue their special form of studies and maintenance of the organic gardening area, and handling of natural foods distribution on campus. . . . LOW-Impact Technology has changed its name to Conservation Tools & Technology, P.O. Box 134, Kingston, Surrey, KT2 6PR, U.K. Membership in CT&T includes a subscription to the quarterly illustrated newsletter, Alter- ·, native Energy Sources. Ask for their catalog of conservation tools. ... THE Index to Alternatives, Vol. 3 & 4, is now out in Alternative, Vol. 4, No. 4. Send $1 to Alternatives, Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada... . A neat map: Population Distribution, Urban & Rural, in the U.S., 1970. Stock No. 0324-0024 from Asst. Public Printer, Gov't. Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Unbelievably beautiful pattern of white towns and cities on a deep blue background like stars in a clear night sky. Perfect desk top size.
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