Page 12 RAIN May 1976 COMMUNITY continued frpm page 11 CDC News Community Development Division American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Free. For the past eight years, community design centers have been pro- . viding free (usually) design services for neighborhood groups. Traditionally they have designed tot lots, remodeled drop-in centers and worked as advocates, with citizens on neighborhood' pians. More and more now they are gettmg . into rehabilitation for energy conservation. The CDC News is a periodic update on their goings on. And I just got "Community Design Centers Profile: 1975-76" in the mail today-a complete listing and description of cq.rrent CDCs. If you have anything to do with architecture/environmental design in the community, you ought to be on their mailing list. (LdeM) €corOPIA "Solar Water Heater Workshop/' April 17, 1976, Mercer Island Alt. H.S., Se- . attle,·Washington. For details contact: Chris Peterson, Manager Environmental Farm Program ESD #110 1410 S. 200th St. Seattle, WA 98148 206-242-9400 Ken Smith (Ecotope Group) and Lee Johnson (Ecotope Group, RAIN Magazine) will direct and instruct a hands-on (i.e. workgloves required) workshop in which 2 solar water heaters will be built. One of 11 sessions in the Central Washington State College course "Energy Efficiency in the Food System" (Envir. • Studies 440); attendance at all eleven earns 4 college credits via CWSC Office of Continuing Education. (LJ) Makara Makara . Pacific Women's Graphic Arts Cooperative Assoc. 1011 Commercial Dr. Vancouver, BC, Canada $6/yr. Canada., $7.5'0 U.S. (6 issues). One of the most beautiful magazines \ I've ever seen-the photographs, drawings and layout are truly fine: Sometimes I get tired of both the glossy New York Ms, filled with make-up ads and the harsh polemics of radical women's things (is it liberated to sleep with men?). This softspoken new women's magazine strikes an appealing middle ground without seeming middle of the road-perhaps precisely because it is c9ming out of West Coast Canadian women. How could it miss? A wide variety of articles on women in prison, radical therapy and women's history, also children and adult fiction and photographic essays. Some of the writing is a bit weak, but then it's put out by artists. I have a feeling it will mature as they attract more talent.,The spirit feels good. Highly recommended for all people. (In.cidentally, anyone needing graphic help in any form would do well to look these women up!) (LdeM) "Eastern Oregon CDC Solar.Project," for details contact: Dennis Naughton, Exec. Dir. Eastern·Ore. Community 'Dev. · Council 801 Adams Ave. La Grande, OR 97850 503-963-3186 • EOCDC has received a Community Services Administration (CSA) grant to design, build and install 6 solar water heaters, 2 each in Wallowa, Union and Baker counties. A construction and installation manual will be produced to aid low-inc;ome citiz~s in the use of solar heaters and the projecf evaluated for continued, more widespread support. A good practical "do-it-yourself" orientation e~phasizing local people, tools and materials. RAIN would like to hear about and cover similar efforts. (LJ) "Original Log House-Construction School,",$20 course fee, $30 per couple, for pre-registration details, contact: Skip Ellsworth Bar E Ranch Redmond, WA 9_8052 206-885-4972, after 7 p.m. Slide-lecture, hands-on construction techniques, discussion session, potluck dinner. (LJ) 1 Working Papers for a New Society, 123 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 $10/yr., quarterly. Collections of often quite useful papers for putting togeth~r, as the title says, a new society. The Winter '76 issue has an-excellent article on the conversion 0f the British Triumph motorcycle factory to a worker-owned •co-op, ·the history and prospects for adfree TV (see below), tax reforms, problems of big lumber companies and independent woodsmen in Maine, the effects of the recent socialist government in BC, and other good things. (TB) • < The Fragrant Garden, Louise Wilder, 1932, $3.50 from: Dover Publications 180 Varick St. New York, NY 10014 Ummm good! I've been looking for this kind of book for a long time: So many garden plants today are hybridized to be big, colorful and showy that we have forgotten how incredibly fine a garden can be that is designed for our noses! ' Daphne and cherry blossoms in Kyoto, wisteria and lilacs outside bedroom windows when we were growing up, the gentle fragrance of nicotinia in the evening, fresh mown fields of mint or alfalfa -we've traded a beautiful symphony of •, smells for auto exhausts and industrial effluents. This book gets into things I never dreame.d of-sweet-leaved geraniums, herbs and grasses, night-scented. flowers, shrubs and trees, orchards and berry patches, ferns, mushrooms, wild scents and much more. Our copy is going to .get well used-this is a real ' breath of fresh air! (TB) Continued on page 14
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