Page 10 RAIN I ARCHITECTURE· continued from page .7 Energy Conservation Design Guidelines for New·Office Buildings, 2nd Edition, $2 from: Regional GSA Business Serv. Centers or Business Service Center ( 3 F 1) General Services Administration 7th & D St., S-.W. Washington, DC 20407 This latest ed1tion features new sections on computer software programs useful for energy design and analysis, and the state-of-the-art in solar energy. ' @oMMUNITY • North Idaho Access, $1.94 - Box 8367 Moscow, ID 83843 ) There you go, proving that you don't ne~d cities to have need of a yellow pages; these people have created a lovely guide to services, goods, food, rivers, history, legal aid, libraries, art galleries, and on and on. If you have friends there, if you p_lan to visit, if you want tc>' •know what the beautiful boot filled with mountains is doing ... ~ Construction with Surface Bonding, B. Carl Haynes, Jr. and J..W. Simons, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Ag. info.rmation Bulletin No. 374. Contact: B. Carl Haynes i I ~ ' Environmental Engineering Lab • tl ~ · Richard B. Russel Agricultural . • J • ·L., , P.O~;;;:~~;;hter O . ~~ Athens, GA 30604 . , . , . . Use of fiberglass-reinforced cement plas- North American Student Cooperative ter on both sides of concrete block Organization walls built without mortar joints has P.O. Box 130l been shown to be easier to build and Ann Arbor, MI 4 8106 1 bl k d A campus-based consumer cooperative· stronger than conventiona oc an, , mortar construction. Such walls are federation devoted to the spread and effective use of cooperative ventures, strong enough for two story construction. They also are finding use in low especially in student housing. The New cost containers for solar heat storage Harbinger, quarterly, covers developand low cost, water-filled Trombe wall ments in co-ops internationally. A re- . h cent issue was devoted to international P assive solar he'ac storage systems sue scale; an issue in the near future will be as designed at Max's Pot (RAIN, Nov. '7 5) in Texas. This bulletin gives details on more small scale energy co-ops. Many for construction techniques, which dif- publications on various levels of generalfer somewhat from normal processes.· izations and subjects, including: What Is A Co-op (free);' Co-op Housing Informa~ Journal of the Society for the Creatiqn ofPrimitive Cultures, by Robert Kertell, $2 postpaid from: Robert Kertell 4630 S.W. Viewpoint Terrace Portland, ORV97201 Cut and fold on dotted line 1st edition 9f a colorful poster of environments for cosmic kids, sensitive grown-ups and landscape architects ... a museum for superfluous material goodies, a garden hideaway amid your standard slurbia,.a symbol house. Simple technology (solar water heaters, parabolic solar cookers, water pumping windmills), combined with a balanced ecology of water and green growth, the journal presents the supposed designs of a fictiti,ous (maybe) architect. Next edition: a serialized account of architect Berll's entry into the field, plus "The Palace of Simple Pleasures." Think I'll .go find the scissors. tion Kit (50¢); Accounting for the • Simpleton (75¢.); The Nanaimo Experience (Nanaimo, BC, direct charge co-op, 35¢.) ... Wind Bell Zen Center 300 Page Street San Francisco, CA 94102 $4/yr., '3 issues. Reports on activities of the San Francisc;o Zen Center. Recent issue contained a lecture by Baker-roshi and ariicles on community projects such as t,he Green Gulch Greengrocer- a neighborhood store set up to make available organic produce and oven-hot • Tassajara bread to the community surrounding the center. Also a neighbor:. hood park .and neighborhood foundation organized to help,residents rehabilitate the _area. The spirit with which all these things are done and its implications for everyday life 'are well worth becoming aware of. ,. Basement R9ots Library 314 Laurel St. Santa Cruz, CA The Hobbits s·ent us some material they have produced, including bibliographies on education and-California politics, as well as a People's Yellow Pages for the Santa Cruz area. • They act as a clearinghouse for information not available through normal libraries; wit~ some funding and assistance from the Sou~h Bay Social Responsibilities Round Table-of the Arrierican Library Association. They are especially interested in possibilities of the new time/space frame in education created by the availability of paperback books. An interesting book they sent along explains what's happened to publishing: "The Paper Book Goes to School," published by BIPAD, Bureau of Independent Publishers & Distributors. Guifie to Neighborhood Ecology Center for Visual Environment 1525 New Hampshire Ave., N!W.· Washington, DC 20036 $1.00. A clearly designed/organized intro,ductory information resource guide to city environment, historic preservation, parks, signs, pubJic art, urban conservation, community gardens, etc. Ask them about other services and publications. (EDUCATION ) Free Poster Charts and Maps, $2.95 Sources of Free Teaching Materials, $3.95 from: Mr. Dale E. Shaffer Library Consultant 437 Jennings Ave. Salem, OH 44460 20 years ago I received a book called 1001 Frer; Things', which started me on a life of mailing for things. It has its ups and downs. The free things are not always really free-it costs us via company expenditure for PR as passed through ret~il sales. And.the pamphlets, charts, poste,rs, would often sound like they would come with brass bands-and instead pieces of dull paper would arrive. Also there are many good free things, and these guides are obviously wellresearched. Good stuff for class supplements, visuals, attention getters, or for us mail freaks lots of things to send ourselves or friends. Most people, I think, would feel they could at least get their money back from buying Mr. Shaffer's guides. Continued on page 15
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