Page 8 RAIN Sept/Oct 1975 €RCHITECTURE ) SECA ( Service for Energy Conservation in Architecture) c/o Boston Architectural Center 320 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02115 24-hour a day clearinghouse phone line for energy conservation information relating to the industry that supports it. Acts as a referral service drawing on professional expertise. Earth Covered Building for Energy Conservation Conference Proceedings. Write: Frank L. Moreland, Director Center for Energy Policy Studies Inst. of Urban Affairs Univ. of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019 Covers life-cycle costs, finance and insurance implications, social and behavioral aspects, energy and material consumption patterns, aesthetics, interfaces with city networks, political and legal considerations, technical considerations, environmental impact, implementation strategies. This is the next item for your shelves after Mike Ohler's (Rt. 1, Bonner's Ferry, ID 83805) Mother Earth News story on his $50 underground home in northern Idaho, and Royce LaNier's book Geotecture. :;.3* ':~-,, . Retrofitting Existing Housing for Energy Conservation: An Economic Analysis, National Bureau of Standards Building Science Series 64, $1.35 from U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 An excellent technical analysis comparing the economic desirability of different combinations of adding additional insulation, storm windows, and weatherstripping to existing houses. The first study available which analyzes for a wide range of energy costs as well as climatic conditions. It also.contains a model that can be used to calculate what combinations will give homeowners the greatest savings in investing different amounts of money in energy conservation measures for their homes. Grassy Brook Village. Reprinted with permission from Grassy Brook Village, Inc. Regional Climate Analyses, published by the American Institute of Architects and House Beautiful periodically in the A.I.A. Bulletin from 1949 to 1952. Presently available from: Xerox University Microfilms 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 $15 paperback, $5 microfilm This series of studies of the climate of 15 representative cities and regions of the country is the most useful single source of climate information available for building. It contains detailed graphic information on range of temperature, hours of sunshine, hot and cold days, degree days, clear and cloudy days, solar heat, sun height, hourly direction of the sun, wind direction and strength, precipitation, snow precipitation days, maximum rate of rainfall, relative humidity, and vapor pressures, as well as qualitative analysis of special architectural implications. Beautifully clear graphic presentation conveys immense amounts of information without having to burrow through volumes of tables, charts and graphs. The A.I.A. and House Beautiful should be commended for having sponsored a pioneering study of this quality. If all our professions would make documents such as this, which make sensitive and technically correct action possible for large numbers of people, widely available at reasonable prices, they could contribute far more to our quality of life than their professional activities themselves. The present price of Regional Climatic Analyses, however, is unreasonably high. Why pay $15 for it? You could Xerox the whole 200 pages yourself for $10, or the section on your region for 60¢. It only costs around 85¢ a copy to print a document this size, or only 6¢ for a single region. Xerox it yourself, or write the A.I.A. (1735 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20006) and request they come out with a reasonably priced edition. Living Within Our Means, by Richard D. Blasej and Philip M. Moriarty. Send $1 plus SASE to Grassy Brook Village RFD No. 2, Box 39 Newfa11e, VT 05 345 Subtitled "Towards the development of the small, self-contained community as a focus for ecologically-sound housing on a comprehensible, human scale," this is a practical and philosophical rationale for Grassy Brook Village, a proposed energy-aware & resourceconscious condominium in Brookline, Vt. A perceptive and powerful companion to Sharing Smaller Pies by Tom Bender, it questions whether "more is better" and asserts the worth of a new way, a clearer relationship of humanity and nature in which the link between what we do, how we live, and the consequences are re-established. €0MINDEX ) THE COMINDEX INDEX, which follows, was sent to us by Bob Wallace. As long as I've known Bob, he's been doing this list: It is in our in-process directory and, we feel, makes a good base for a periodic section on computers. Comindex Bob Wallace P.O. Box 5415 Seattle, WA 98105 Design, networking, and services in the computer field. These machines can be a useful medium for community communications, can relieve some of the paperwork for alternative groups, and can be enjoyable as a hobby. Comindex is gathering information in these areas
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