' ·· €GRICULTURE·.FOO~ !IJ, '.i,:f !:!. ( I · ., Dec 1975 RAIN Page 3 Should Trees Have Standing: Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects, by Christopher Stone, Avon Paperback, ,1973, $1.50. Survival Journal 5 3 West Angelo Salt Lake City, UT 84115 $6/yr. The] ournal is a pretty sensible balance of pessimism and preparedness. Articles and sourc;:e listings on food storage, food preparation, outdoor survival skills, organic gardening. Some coverage, with a mild tone of "Plain Truth," of why there's good reason to be prepared (coming Dark Ages, fall of Rome parallels, etc.). But lots of good, useful information for urban or rural homesteaders interested in getting out of the1 • , everyday-to-the-store routine. They.are also connected with distributors of survival hardware:.The Great Northern Distributing Co., 325 W. Pierpont Ave., Salt Lake City, UT 84iOl. Ask for pro- , ducts list. Abundant Life Seed Foundation 3826 Eastern Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98103 , Forest Glen Roth has been traveling around since the 1974 Alternative Agriculture conference giving g.ood workshops on seed growing, based on his ex-- perience with starting the Abundant Life Seed Company-and now he and Karl Gaskill are trying to raise money to buy some }and of a departed friend in order to expand their seed propagation research. They are asking for donations through memberships in the foundation. For details write to them. And, while you're at it, -send a dollar for the mushroom-shaped seed catalog. . International Food Storage Association 5806 114th Ave. N.E. Kirkland WA 980 33 We mentioned their initial package, which is now expanded and has some .other.general shortages/survival information. Free if you send self-addressed, stamped envelope, 4x9. Or join the , association for $2/year. The Cultivator Federation of Cooperatives, Inc. Box 107 15 Central Street Hallowell, ME 04347 Another ~egional co-op magazine, this one for Maine. Articles on individual co-ops, the New England Co-Op Loan Fund, recipes, cartoons and a diagram for building an inexpensive storage cellar. The group now sends a truck once a week to Boston to bring back produce for most of the co-ops in Southeastern Maine. Looks good.'(Couldn't· fiQd any p_rice on it.) );W-=+RiiU/ .; -.. Arbor Lib has reminded·us of our un= pardonable omissiol). of this classic from last month's Free Tree Energy Section. A brilliant case for granting legal rights to natural objects, which has already •had impact on our legal system. Resource limits require protecting our resources, and Stone I develops persuasive legal reasoning for allowing groups or individuals to act as guardians for trees 1 • and other living things. CALENDAR Jan. 21-24 Jan. 24-25 Feb. _2-6 Mar. 1-5 Apr. 19-23 Consumer Assembly. Consumer Federation of America, 1012 14th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20005. $50 registration. At Statler Hilton, Washington, DC. . Ways of Healing, Ancient, Modem. San Francisco. Weekend symposium. Details: Mae Ling Yee, Rm. C-135-G, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143. NTIS ~olar Seminar. Houston, Texas. Seminar. $350, Workshop $125, both $475. Write New York Management Center, P.O. Box 2049, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10017 or call 212-953-7266. NTIS Solar Seminar. New York. (See above for address and phone.) 2nd S~utheastern Conference·on Application of Solar Energy. Tutorial sessions, contributed and invited papers at Hilton . Inn, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Write Dr. Ozer A. Amas, Prof. of Mech. Engineering, General Chairman, 2nd S.C.O.A.S.E., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Payne Hollow, by Harlan Hubbard, The Eakins Press, 1974, $5.95; and Sbantyboat, same author, Dodd, 1953. ln the late '40s, Harlan and Anna Hubbard lived on a shantyboat floating-down the Ohib and Mississippi Rivers in the winter and tied up for the summer months in coves and bayous along the way. At the end of their journey they went back to one of the coves called Payne Hollow and built themselves a house along the river bank. And they live there today-"on the fringe of society"-raising almost all their own food, playing vi:olin and cello duets and · pairiting. They/are as close to being self-sufficient as one can be. Really delightful b'ooks. The first (which I fear is out of print-I found it in the Salem library) is full of the joys and adventures of wandering, the second is peaceful and settled. Both are warmly illustrated with nice pen· and ink sketches. I'm giving them to my sister, who lives on a houseboat on the Mississippi, for Christmas.
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