Page 20 RAIN ENERGY (Wind) continued from page 19 "Wjnd Workshop Report," in SunTimes, Vol. 2, No. 10, Nov.-Dec. 1975, single copies $1 postpaid, $10/yr. dues to AERO gets you a subscription to the newsletter. Write: Sun-Times Alternat~ve Energy Resources Organization ' 43 5·Stapleton Bldg. Billings, MT 59101 406-259-1958 Kye Cochran, AERO.director, has done ·it again. She has gotten together: a few , friends: Jack Park of Helion, Hans Meyer of Windworks and Woody Stodda'rd of U. Massachusetts (Heronemus' Wind Energy Group), for a very successful 2day theoretical-to-practical construction session, with talks, slides and films. Anyone organizing energy workshops should get this issue of Sun-Times and learn how to do it ~ell. Ken Smith and Lee Johnson of Ecotope Group will be directing an AERO Solar Workshop in March, 1976. Contact AERO for details. Boston wind shelter, energy and food production classes, write: Boston Wind 307Centre St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 In existence only 6 months, BW is a non-profit, educational institute with classes on windpower for home use,' solar heating systems, owner-built shelter, aquaculture and maric~ltu~e, and food production. They also give slide lectures to interested groups and 1-day wind workshops. Membership is $25/ yr., quarterly newsletter only is $10/ yr. When a new center starts, like the one we started at OMSI or AE.RO (Billings, MT), Max's Pot (Austin, TX) or Farallones Inst. (Occidental, CA), we ought ,to all pay special attention to helping them. After all, that's what this network, any number of religions and Whole Earth consciousness is all about, right? Right. So what could Boston Wind find useful? Well, how about the RAIN, TILTH and AERO newsletters in exchange for theirs; and let's ask Ben and Hans to send their latest Windworks bibliography and info on Gemini; Michael Hackleman of ·Earthmind to send his latest ·publication; Jim DeKorne to send his Survival Greenhouse book, and Tom Bender to share a Sharing Smaller Pies. And maybe·Byron Kennard of the National Council for Public Assessment of Technology and Hazel, Henderson of the_Council for Economic Priorities/Environmentalists for Full Employment, ought to put them on • their mailing lists. And, someone, sometime, really o_ught to sit down and think about how -and what a new group like Boston Wind should be plugged into. It all comes back to all ·of us in the end. (?ooo THINGS ) The Private Lives of Animals, Roger Caras and others; Grosset & Dunlap, 1974, $17.95. Compare this photograph and com- •mentary natural history kind of survey to ones 2~ years ago-something quite different..Better photographic techniques, allowing more behind the scenes_ shots; and also facing up brutal beauty and the qeast. Sex, death, forms of uncivilized behavior-and lovely camouflage photos with a what's-that-feeling. A good gift book. Should be in school libraries. The Mariner's Catalog, Vol. 3, $5.95-. International Marine Publishing Co. 21 Elm St. Camden, ME 04843 We had hoped to draw more attention to this in Vol. II, No. 11; hope this does. It's well worth it. A place to begin and keep perfecting one's understanding (and eventual instincts) about water life and adventure-and lots more, even for . those on rivers, creeks or just b_athtubs. 1"0 Fi11i.,li off 1111 r11d uf ,r;,-,, uot R,·quir,·t/ /u b,· Splired.-- lt 111ay Ii<· that urtcr filling 'an eye in one end uf n "irl'. that • _1·011 ck<-ick fo l<·n1·c the oth_cr end unlillcd, l,ut·p1·e~t rv1·d. nncl h,· nhlc t" handk il wilhuul fc-nr of t_<·arinl( the han,h. I us<· th,· l'ollowiul( nu·thod:- -\\"hip the <·nd neatly au iuch ur lwo, with sail h\ illl' Ill' tlu· likl'. Thc·n make i\ sll'C'\T of nnx ('1111\'llS at.out six im·hcs in lcui:th, an<l JUsl a fruction largl'I' iu circ11111f f,·rcn,·c tlinn the wu·e, hut insleud of usini: ean,·ns for the holtu111 of the sleeve use pig hide; thi~ prevents the ends of the wire from pi,·rdng thrnugh the IJOllc,111 of the skc,-e. Now l(i,·c the 1•11<1 u spot of g1·easc and shp it into the slee,·e hnr<l on lo the hide bottom. Complete by passing n scr\'ing of yarn over· st, c,·c (See Fi,:. ,;o), Fieldbook ofNatural History, E. Laurence Pa.lmer (revised by H. Seymour Fowler), McGraw Hill Books, $19.95. For the person who wants to know quite a bit about every branch of natural history, a selective field guide to plants, clams, mammals, insects, birds, dogs, etc. Clear illustrations, descriptions-that in the case of plants often refer to possible use. How did they ever select; but it seems to be pretty much on target. Sure, you'll not find everything, but to buy the specialized guides for each area covered would cost you 3 to 4 times more, and then you'd always feel there was too much to know. Peoples Almanac, David Wallechinsky, \J:rving Wallace, Doublt:day & Co. $7.95. - This may be the fattest paperback in existence (1500 pages, over 2 inches thick) .. . Adolph Hitler owned 8,960 acres in Colorado.... The traditional listing of countries round the world also lists large corporations: International Telephone & Telegraph, population 438,000... . Also lists who rules, followed by who really .rules.... They have thought of many unanswered questions and answered some of them. . . . A listing of neglected scientists. ... Sports oddities.. : .·It seems like another Whole Earth outgrowth and is maybe a new genre in itself. ... Nearly a month later I'm still fin.ding different pockets, unusual slan~s and inventories. They expect to update: People's Almanac, P.O. Box 49328, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Sun Sign Almanac, 19i6, $3.60 Elizabeth and Wilbur Wood Stone House, Box 12 Roundup, MT 59072 A nice astrological calendar with 20 or so pages at the back on everything from natural birth control to plate tectonics. Basic information on climate, weather, alternative energy, wine-making and astrology. (NFORMATION Comindex Keysort Cards Bob Wallace ) New World Computer Services, Inc. ·P.O. Box 5414 Seattle, WA 98105 Cards of various dimensions with holes on all 4 sides and a knitting needle, and you have a kind of treadle-operated computer: a way of retrieving information through a sophisticated number of com?inations available by cutting out holes cin each card applicable to a given key word-when you slip a needle through the holes at the desired key word point, all the cards with punched holes fall to the desk or floor. Bob Wallace has come up with a modification on the more well-known keysort systems-smaller, cheaper, and an easier way of making mailing lists using the cards. ~ fairly complicated cost set-_up-
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