Ce-RCHITECTURE ) • Water Cons'ervation and Wastefl~w Reduction in the Home, by William Sharpe, Special Circular-No. 184, available from: • Pennsylvania St. University , College 0£ Agriculture Extension Service University Park, PA A less technical introduction to water use reduction than the NTIS document, this report gives one an excellent feel -for what is easily possible to do in this area. Contains photos, cost analysis of flow reduction options and a bibliog-. raphy. Our next problem after energy and food costs? • . Humus Toilet Bromat Enterprises 739 2nd St. Coeur d'Alene~ ID 83814 208-667-6610 Unfortunately, it is electrically heated and uses 3-4000 watts daily in stirring the human and kitchen waste. But it is another option, and I think I'll add it to my files. Thermal E_nvironmental Engineering, Second Edition, by James L. Threlkeld, 495 pp., $16.1 S from: Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 0763,2 Comprehensive coverage includes elementary thermodynamics and heat transfer, refrigeration, psychrometrics, solar radiation, applications of heating and.air conditioning principles, and special topics such as heat pumps and· solar collectors. Should be on your bookshelf next to Solar Energy Th.ermal Processes by Duffie and Beckman, $12.9S from Wiley-lnterscience, New York. Both are excellent professional level treatments and both are recommended for,colleges beginning solar energy and energy c1 onservation courses. New Energy Technologies for Buildings, , by Schoen, Hirshberg & Weingart; edited by Jane Stein, $S.9S from: • Ballinger Publishing 'Cambridge, MA Another excellent Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project report, this time on the institutional barriers to energy conservation and solar technologies arid methods to remove them: Trade unions, building codes, sun rights, the housing construction ind.ustry. An excellent overview. .See also Reis Leming's talk to Portland Savings & Loan executives in this issue. Demonstration of Waste Flow Reduction from Households, PB-236 904, Sept. 1974, $5.2S print c<>py, $2.25 micro- , fiche from! National Technical Information Service • U.S. Dept. of Commerce Springfield, VA 22151 A 2-year demonstration program was conducted to evaluate water savings, costs performance and acceptability of various water-savings devices. Reduced , flow toilets and flow limiting showers were installed in 8 single-family dwellings. In 3 of the homes bath and laundry water were filtered, disinfected and reused for toilet flushing and/or lawn sprinkling. Toilet water savings were 25%, with reuse of water for lawns resulting in an additional 16-18% water savings. For single-family homes recycle·system could give cost savings in high water and sewer use rate areas and in areas of poor septic system drainage. ' {§oMMUNITY Asahel Curtis Sampler, $4.95 Puget Sound Access - P.O. Box 4100 Pioneer Square Station Seattle, WA 98104 The Asahel Curtis photograph collection, housed at the Washington State History Society, contains about 60,000 negatives, ·mostly of Seattle, in the period 1900-1915. This volume, edited by David Sucher (who several years ago compiled the Puget Sound Access Catalog) is a selection of about 100 photos with accompanying text. It is difficult to watch a place (or us) grow old. Written history is a sampler: and here too-100 photos chosen out of 60~000, and 60,000 out of how many taken, out of how many taken in proportion to how many that could have been taken, or? ... A couple of years ago I attended a slide show developed by Ernie Munch, a Portland architect, about the growth of Southeast Portland. Though I had lived in Southeast·Portland for.20 years, I realized how small my vision was, accepting many things as givens, many of which-,had been non-exis~ent 125 years ago. In this keep-cm-truckin' socjety, we often move through homes like scenes from movies, seldom knowing how things came to be wh'ere.they are. The Asahel Curtis Sampler is a clearly-designed slide show kind of book, and it should be of interest to Seattle ·lovers as well as a model for sele_cti~e historical photo perspectives. Nov 1975 RAIN Page 5 Street: Magazine of the Environment Pratt Center for Community and Environmental Development 240 Hall Street . Brooklyn, NY 11205 The Summer 1975 issue has an excellent summary of housing problems: good articles on "red-lining" (lending institutions' practice of refusing loans and mortgages in deteriorating neighborhoods, thus ensuring their demise), the use of the National Environmental·Policy Act of 1970 for urban envirqnments, and sweat equity cooperatives to rehabilitate housing. Ea.ch article gives address and phone numbers for people to cont~ct. Many of the programs mentioned are federal; others, though specific to NYC, could be adapted anywhere. Lots of good ideas here. "A Sense of Community" Dept. of Community Development Office of Neighborhood Planning 306 Cherry St~ Seattle, WA 98104 A free fold-out brochure/poster outlining six ways to improve one's neighborhood bicycles, neighborhood organizations, planting trees,'safety, playgrounds, traffic diverters. I America the Beautiful Fund , 219 Shoreham Bldg. ,-washington, DC 20005 202-638-1649 Paul Bruce, with the America the Beautiful Fund (who published Old Glory, a catalog of the Grass Roots History move- _• ment in the U.S.), wrote to remind us of the other programs, including advisory services, workshops and one-time seed money grants. Journai of Community Communications Published by L&G Engineering 1807 Delaware St. Berkeley, CA94703 A feeler issue (Vol. 1, issue O),. for those interested in non- or low-hierarchical communication systems. Good 2-3 page summa,ry of the history of the Bay Area Community Memory Project. UoucATION Population Education: Sources & ·Resources Population Reference Bureau 1754 N St., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 ) Here's probably the best item you can get cheap_that will lead you to the right .teaching materials. Includes audiovisual materials, schools and organizations. $1. continued on page 8
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