Page 30 RAIN Sept/Oct 1975 continued from page 29 Jon Schwartz 1030 N.W. Roanoke, Apt. 2-6 Bend, OR 97701 I want to let you know about a new central Oregon journal called White Mountain Mirror. I am literary editor and have high hopes for it. A kind of general audience thing, with an environmental, whole systems approach. Plan is for tri-weekly schedule. Slim (Thurman) L. Reynolds Sumerian (World Improvement Assoc.) I am sending a rough drawing of tunneltype tachai homes for the future. Do you know of an architect or group of young architects that would work at developing new communities and variations of apartments and homes based on the simple tunnel. I would like to supervise a chain of health ranches to get people into the physical improvement of their health and their environment. If you know someone or some group that would finance one or would wish to turn their ranch into a do-ityourself health ranch based on Dr. Bernard Jensen's Hidden Valley Ranch at Escondido, CA, please let me know. - •• '~ ) ' • • ••a••r: ·--1~ - 1, .... ., , • • 31-· Hog Farm, Pacific High School 12100 Skyline Blvd. Los Gatos, CA 95030 Hi. We're hoping you folks might have some useful information for us. We would like not just technical data and filter, but literary material relating to an enlightened relationship between man and environment. The Daily Planet is a guide providing information about this journey, the next revolution around the sun : March 21, 1976 to March 22, 1977. We need any information you have that would make this trip easier, more enlightening, or more fun. Richard Miller, PhD, caretaker Wilbur Hot Springs · Via Williams, CA 95987 Wilbur is an old curing spa which I began restoring 3-1/2 years ago-we are on the path towards being a holistic ecocommunity, a therapeutic milieu which in and of itself is nourishing enough for people to "cure" themselves without the great expense of professional intervention. For those who want or need such professional consultation for training/treatment, we also offer residential programs (gestalt, yoga, love and humor, country living). We hope and work towards using the hot waters for heating, refrigeration and someday air conditioning. Areas we need technical info on are: toilets w/o plumbing, low cost housing, real scoop on methane bio-digesting. J.R. DeWeese Lake Cowichan Information Service General Delivery Youbou, BC VOR 3EO Dear RAIN: Thanks for the piles of ecoengineering newsletters and related documents, which I have sent along to various rural outposts via the regional library bookmobile and by mailing selected bits to various friends .. . . All of the original Vancouver Free University "People's Engineering Group" now live at some distance from each other and are involved in distinctly separate trips .. . such as house and boat building with alternative energy, playing a very quaternary role; we all still keep files on the current state of the art, but no one is building anything (though one of the boat builders sharpens his chisel and plane blades on a functioning pelton no 1 motor/grinder).... I see that credit union banking and co-op food stores are surfacing in your area, and, as these are weil-established organizations with the trade union movement in western Canada, I may be able to provide you with some useful material from these areas or from the new consumer protection act or farm supports and the land lease program. ... I will be happy to supply more details if any of this looks to be of any use to you and your readers.... I have an unopened publication from the People's Republic of China which I think shows their Pearl River Tide generator complex, which irrigates fields by day and makes electricity for the town lights by night. ... Government-run car insurance; $100 a year malpractice policies of doctors from the fed. gov. or whatever. Keep in touch. Steve Mitchell 513 Longfellow Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 902 54 Dear RAIN: A while back I wrote someone who had constructed a bicyclegear-driven blender that could do 10, 000 rpms. Well, we were thinking of possibly putting this together with a pump to help aerate a fish pond. Alas, the info never arrived, and I can't find the source. So, have you heard of this and know where the people can be contacted? Thank you. Alan Garten c/o Food Action Council P.O. Box 1255 Eugene, OR 97401 We're focusing our attention now on the harvest faire, scheduled for Sept. 27. We'll have a free harvest feast and a natural foods bake-off, plus demonstrations on herbal healing, methane energy, heating with wood, bee-keeping, wild foods, food preservation, a bicyclepowered blender, cider press, square dancing, and who knows what else.
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