Recycle?, 1972, $.7S League of Women Voters, 1730 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 The most comprehensive, concise and accurate study we've seen on the reasons for recycling; obstacles to recycling such as price biases, taxes, shipping rates and other laws favoring use of virgin materials; the present state of the art; and ways to encourage recycling. Solidly documented and unarguable logic. Reduce?, 197S, $1. , League of_Women Voters 1730 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Companion _to Recycle? Pinpoints the sources of our excessive use of resources and generation of solid waste. The best case we've seen for reducing our unnecessary consumption of energy and ' materials. 47 pages jammed full of data. "It is estimated that using f ,000 tons of corrugated containers 5 times would use 80% less energy, produce 57% less air pollution, 98% less ~ater pollution and 77% less solid waste than using single-use corrugated containers." "Almost half of all paper production, 3'/4 of all glass produced, more than 8% of all steel, 14% of all aluminum and 29% of all plastics are used for packaging and containerization." (i"RANSPOR"fATIO~ Bicycle Tra'!sportation, by Nina Dougherty and William Lawrence, Environmental Protection Agency, 1974, $.94. Supt. of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 Just about everything you wanted to know about bicycles as alternative transportation: energy efficiency, use statistics, problems and programs (both in the U.S. and abroad). Also an extensive bibliography. Good, hard data. Nov 1975 RAIN Page 29 LETTERS· B.C. News On the shelter front: Matter To Build On, collected by Nette Pereboom and Ralph Sonen, printed by The Pre~s Gang, non-profit community printing on recycled paper, 1000 copies printed and distributed free from September '74. Breakaway front runner best book on shelter in the material world I've seen and will send you my copy when I ever get it back. Covers government programs (loans, lease, co-ops, rehabilitation of existing dwellings), purchasing, squatting, salvaging and grading to building codes, used materials, alternate sources of new lumber, logs, stone, how to build a house in six months (by the 38. mothers-architectural designer/builder group with S<?me professional training and a lot of imagination) from first inspiration to last hammerstroke. Could try to gabble on abotlt this slim volume for pages, alternatively will try to find you a copy. This book was funded by one of the-two Guv'mint innovative redistribution of the wealth plans: Local Initiative Program (LIP and Opportunities For Youth) of which Alvin Toffler reports in the Eco-Spasm report-"invites the unemployed to come up with proposals for projects that will provide jobs and serve some useful need. It then funds the best of these projects. In this way, projects vary from place to place; they meet distinct local needs; they draw on the talents and energies of the unemployed themsdves. The problem, in short, is attacked from the bottom up, rather than the top down." The .coverless copy of Credit Union Magazine is for your Salem group. The manager of the local er.edit union was of the opinion that it contained many stateside addresses that would be useful to . such a group. I have included some copies of the Fed Up Food Co-op's Newsletter* to . make into courage amulets for those just starting out. Fed Up has gone from a tiny storefront through various OFY, LIP and other bits of grant manipulation to being a fairly large (though as yet not institutionalized) operation as the list of co-ops served will indicate. Wish I could find their early issue with the essay on "Prime Mover Burn-Out" (the tendency of all novice alternative groups to produce a "prime mover" ace fund manipulator, energy channeler, shaman firstaidperson who overloads himself, burns out_and leaves the group hanging with its individual decision-making ,apparatus in a clangerous state of atrophy) and "Paternalism Is Alive and Well at Fed Up" (which rel~tes the complaints of a bigender kitchen crew who have been left out of some essential, µecision making when they were unconsciously rated by their work, which still had the traditional classification "kitchen work-shit work") as these ate two, if not the two petards on which co-operative endeavors habitually hoist themselves. The Land Acquisition Series may or may not have its p,arallels in the states . (I got a lot of enabling legislation relating to preserving agricultural land out of the Tilth newsletter, which I use to point out to grumblers about our Land Commission (Land Freeze) Act, "See, even the yanks are doing it,"_but for folks already here or thinking (and immigration is essentially closed to out front back~to-the-landers without cash and highly.marketable talents) of coming, it points out the two major obstacles to low cost lease land (access road cost and survey cost), which, I , maintain, are surmountable if the rural hair ghetto reenfranchises itself and shows the government how many people (i~ will still be a comparatively small number) are willing to take on such a project and have come up with believ- ~ble self-support systems (Je·rusalem artichokes, which grow virtually anywhere and are being viewed as a potential low tooth cavity sugar source, or frost-resistant soybeans, for example). The news -release on whales is selfexplanatory: . *The Fed-Up Newsletter is impressive. Only equivalent I ~an thin_k of is Food Coop Nooz. 2141 Pandora St., Vancouver, B.C. $3.00/yr. Randolph also includes ·a news·reading on the banning of capturing killer whales in the territorial waters of B.C. Ellensburg Library I'm in the pro'cess of starting a-library here. It consists of a file box of 3x5 cards having name of book, author, summary, and name of-person who owns the book on each card. A person·who wants to use a book listed in the interpeople library makes arrangements directly with the owner of the book as to conditions of use or borrowing. One of my main purposes in organizing this . library is to make individual subscriptions to periodicals available to many people. The file boxes I have at present concern agriculture and natural life. styles. Joyce Showalter 211-1/2 S. Pearl •Ellensburg, WA 98926 continued on page 30
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