In the Making 221 Albert Road Sheffield, York, England 65p single copy, £1.90 subscription (they accept only International Money Orders in UK). "A directory of proposed productive projects in self-management or radical technology''-a typically British publication (with typically British humor) that seems to cover just about everything going on in the field of "jobs without bosses." Industrial Common-Ownership Movement (ICOM) 8 Sussex Street London SW 1, England A group of British companies, most of them small, who are self-governing (including the Scott Bader Company described in Small Is Beautiful). They run a non-profit loan group to assist new ventures and put out a series of publications, including one which describes each of the member companies. Write for information and a publications list (include SASE). IT-USA SS6 San Cruz Ave., #6 Menlo Park, CA 9402S Meetings were held with E. F. Schumacher on the east and west coasts last month by people interested in establishment of an American group similar to Schumacher's Intermediate Technology Development Group in Britain. For further information, contact Peter Gillingham at the above address. Appropriate Technology An Introductory Bibliography Small Is Beautiful, E. F. Schumacher (Harper & Row, 1973), $2.45. Subtitled uEconomics As If People Mattered"-fast becoming a classicby the "father of a.t." Deriving economics appropriate to new philosophical bases, operation of industry on new value systems, and far-reaching insights into restructuring our principles, actions and dreams. Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich (Harper & Row, 1973), $1.25. Probably the clearest overview of our need for changes in all our institutions and the framework within which those changes best occur. Sharing Smaller Pies, Tom Bender, 1975 (2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210), $1.S0. Good discussion of need for institutional change tied in with energy and economic realities. Begins to lay out new operating principles, including some criteria for a.t. Excerpted in April RAIN. Futurist, February,_197S, Sam Love, Ed. A good summary on a.t. with articles on E. F. Schumacher, clivus multrum, experiments in England, etc. "Global Reach," Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller, New Yorker, Dec. 2 & 9, 1974. These articles contain an excellent analysis on the claimed and actual effects of multi-national corporations on our societies (tax dodges, organizational structures, etc.) "Solar Era," Harold Hay, Mechanical Engineering, Oct., 1972. Demonstrates the necessity for insight into the elegance of simple ways of doing things in addition to careful engineering. Making ice in the desert, why black is cooler than white, and elegant houses that heat, cool, make ice and hot water in their roofs. Fire in the Lake, Frances Fitzgerald (Vintage Books, 1972), $2.25. A book about the cultural interfacing of the traditional Vietnamese, modern Communist and our own American societies in Vietnam with very perceptive views of the fundamentally different base from which three cultures arise, act and affect their people. Shows that a range of totally different cultural forms as viable as our own is possible, and that new and more desirable forms can be developed. Nov 1975 RAIN Page 25 Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach (Banyan Tree Books, 197S), $2.75. A scenario about how things might be 20 years after Northern California, Oregon and Washington secede from the union in 1980-he's given form to all .our fantasies. "The Other Way," BBC (Time Life Multimedia, 100 Eisenhower Dr., Paramus, NJ 076S2), $3S rental. •The "Nova" program on Schumacher and intermediate technology-gives lots of examples including a brick works, egg carton plants and a cable-drawn tractor that uses only 1 % the energy that our normal tractors need. RAIN I Full Circle have a 1/2" video which may be borrowed. "Conscious Culture of Poverty," E. F. Schumacher, Undercurrents/Resurgence, April, 1975, or RAIN, Oct. 1975. Raises the concept of ephemeral vs. eternal goods and our mixed-up sense of values. "Directory of Appropriate Technology," Architectural Design, April, 1974. As good a summary as can be found anywhere on the resources available. Whole Earth Catalogue, Whole Earth Epilog, Co-Evolution Quarterly, Portola Institute Continuing update by the granddaddy of the access catalogues-appropriate tools, books, philosophy and stories all mixed in with a bit of gossip on the state of the art. A must if you're not already addicted to it. RAIN Magazine Of course, we think our monthly bulletin board is important-we intend a regular section for a.t. information in the N.W. and beyond. This bibliography is the introductory, general section to a much larger one which is being prepared. Additional sections will appear in future issues of RAIN. The complete thing-about 6 pages-can be had now for $1 from Full Circle.
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