EDUCATION continued from page 10 URECA (Unified & Relevant Education Center Affiliates) School of Education Portla~d State University Portland, OR 97207 The URECA center, formerly the·Environmental Education Center, would like to place student or class generated materials on display froll] Feb. 14-21. Materials on: energy, environment, resources or pollution. Stories,·essays, . poems, posters, experiments, pictures, slides,'models or tapes. Call or write about arrangements. 229-4789. The Whole Kids Catalog, created by Peter Cardozo, designed by Ten Mehter, Bantam Books, 1975.. ' Hundreds of items-mostly access through mail or retail outlets, of things to buy, make, read, cook, think about. The range is frQm free to expensive (such as movie making equipment): kites, puppets, science, history, photography, carpentry, gardening, pets, etc. Seems like a pretty good image of what a "kid" is-though maybe I'm burning out on access to access with emphasis on buy. Farallones Scholarship Farallones Institute 1_5290 Coleman Valley _Road Occidental, CA 95465 707-874-3060 For anyone interested in learning building and gardening skills, whole systems and.energy research, the Farallones Institute has a scholarship available for a student frbm Oregon, made possible by the Carpenter Foundation in Medford. It covers tuition for one year, starting_ April 5, 1976, for the spring session. In . addition, there are still 3 or 4 regular spaces available for this spring. Interested people should contact Farallones as soon as possible: Director David Katz reports that the winter shelters are built and work has begun on a solar heated greenhouse. And thanks to another small grant, re- .. search and construction on the greywater recycling system is proceeding. ) Hothouse Earth, by Howard A.. Wilcox, 181 pp., ISBN 0-275-52910-X, $7.95 from: ' Praeger Publishers, Inc. 111 Fourth Ave. _ New York, NY 10003 . A marine scientist and physicist, director of the U.S. Navy's Ocean Farm Project, warns that rising global heat, a menace worse than the energy crisis or air/water pollution, is at hand. Thermal pollution from our use of heat-producing energy systems at ever-increasing·rates could so, heat up the earth's atmosphere that the polar ice caps melt, the oceans rise, and much of the world's arable land and •most of its largest cities are lost beneath the water. Well-documented evidence, ineluding warnings from the world's leading climatologists, backs up his scenario for disaster. His solution, intensive development ·of solar technology for food, fuels and fertilizers, is sensible and is an area in which he is working. Recommended for those who still don't understand the energy-environment . connection, those who already so relish the understanding of whole systems that they'd love to learn more and for your favorite weather forecaster. "Energy from the Oceans: Fact or Fantasy" Conference, Jan..27-28, Raleigh, NC. For details write: Sea Grant Program 123 5 Burlington Laboratories North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27607 1 Northwest Energy 1>olicy Project, contact: Myron B. Katz, Proj. Dir. N .W :. Energy Policy Project 1096 Lloyd Building 700 N.E. Multnomah St. Portland, OR 9723.2 A 2-year, $1 million study of the social, economic and environmental impaets of long-range energy deyelopment in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, funded by the Pacific Northw_est Regional Commission, they want public participation by individuals and public interest groups in the development of the study. They welcome comments on the kinds of questions you think should be asked and · answered, how the study should be conducted, what state and local policy ·choices merit attenti9n, all of which the consulta_nt' wilf be required to review and consider. , RAIN Page 15 LOF Sun Angle Calculator, $5 from: Attn: Corporate Affairs-MDSE Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. 811 Madison Ave. Toledo, OH 43695 . First.issued in 1951 to help archite~ts design natural daylighting, solar shade overhangs and "giant south-facing picture window with night cur.tain" solar homes, this re-issue includes the classic plastic bubble, a completely revised and updated instruction book and aI?, added daylight availability overlay. Get one quick before the price goes up and thank them for a simple, straightf9rward solar energy tool. Florida Solar Energy Center. For details write: Charles R. Johnson, I'nformation Specialist Florida Solar Energy Center P.O. Drawer N Cape <;:anaveral, FL 32920 Set up to conduct research, test solar ,equipment, coordinate various solar projects throughout the state and engage in other activities "to exemplify the capability of solar en~rgy as a resource for meeting state energy needs." Wood Stove Efficiency Testing FaciJity, . write (enclose st.amped, self-addressed envel~pe): ·or. Jay Shelton Physics Dept. Williams College , Williamstown, MA 02167 Dr. Shelton, refognizing the need to gather information on the thermal efficiency of various wood stove designs, . has established, with the Center for Environmental Studies, a test facility where the amount of useful heat generated by burning wood can be measured. The facility will give interested persons efficiency results from wood stoves tested over the next few months. Net Energy Clearinghouse. Contact:· D. Johnson ,Industrial E·conomics Div. University of Denver Research Inst. Denver. CO 80210 • 303-753-3105 . Heads a team of researchers assembling a clearirtghouse to disseminate information on analyses of "ne-t energy" methods use<) and studies made throughout the nation. Continued on page 17
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