Page 6 RAIN ·· October 1976 Appropriate Technology People are always asking tis who's doing what in appropriate technologies, and if anyorie is putting together a directory so they can contact other people. Well, this has been the summer of directori'7s-:-a number have beenor are being prepared: e Probably the most.comprehensive listing :for the U.S. is being prepared by Integrative Design Associates, 1740 N St., . N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (Eugene Eccli, Cecil Cook, Ann Becker), in conjuncnion with other groups around the cou11-. try as part of a,n NSF grant. To appear· in final form around the first ofthe year,it nowcontains 700-800 listings and is coded in twenty-five categories relating to the group's/person's activities.. It will be free to the listed groups, with probably a small charge to others to cover printing costs. e . The Northeast Appropriate Technology.Network, ·c/o Craig Decker, Box 134, Harvarq Square,,Cambridge, MA 021l8, has prepared a list of people in that area interested/working in a.t. who participated in the Towards Tomorrow Fair in Massachusettes this summer. They are also planning a new.sletter-for .a.t. people in the Northeast. · e A Handbook on Appropriate Techno'logy, $7.50 from the Canadian Hunger Foundation, 75 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Canada; K1P 5A5, contains a good listjngof groups and individuals involved in international a.cdevelopments, along with essays explaining a.t., case studies from many countries, a catalog of tools and equipment, and a useful bibliography. As wit~ all these directories, the listings are incomplete .and I . miss many active groups; also they don't tell you who is doing what and who does good work and who's just ·riding the wavebut no list can give you thitt! e A short~r list of major international centers that have been active for some time in a.t. work was prepared by OECD, reprinted in the May 1976 RAIN ($1 from 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210) and expanded with the list of participants in the Habitat Exposition of Appropriate Technology in their flyer. William Ellis,7410 Vernon Square Dr., Alexandria, VA 22306, who coordinated that exhibit at Habitat, is now coordinating the 'development of an internationala.t; network, TRANET, based upon those groups and the participants in the . activities at Habitat Forum.· e In the preparation of the U.S. Agency for Internati.onal . . Development's proposal for their appropriate technology cen- . ·ter, voluminous surveys of a.t. organizations active in Africa · ·and the Indian subcontinent (Attachment "I", prepared by ITDG) andLatinAmerica (Attachment "J", prepared by VITA) have been compiled. These listings, again, have not been annotat-ed or evaluated in·regard to the kindandquality of work done an<;! would at this point be of use only to people with special and specific interests in those areas. A small number of Xerox ·copies are available.from Ted Owens, Di'rector of Rural Development, U.S. AID, Department of State, ~ashington, DC 20523. {TB)' California Office of Appropriate Technology P.O. Box 1677 . Sacramento, CA 95808 Judy Michalowski, coordinator; Things are moving along at OAT.. Current projects underway include de.signing a traveling energy van,.putting together materials on the relationship between joqs and en~rgy, training solar technicians,: and the incorporation of a.t. ideasinto the Capitol Area Plan (a design for thedowntown Sacramento urban renewal area). They're also beginning a project to ·test the health problems of waterless toilets for urban and rural areas; as well:as.a study on the use of waste heat from state heating plants and buildings. A series of annotated bibliographies 'are available on a.t., solid waste management, sun-tempered greenhouses, landscaping ·for energy conservation, methane and more. Write for a complete publications list. . · . . · . . Meanwhile, a few blocks away,·Sim VanderRyn, California State Architect (who is also director of OAT), is hard .at work .along with his staff and Living Systems of Winters, California, · on an exciting design for a new state office building. The building is to be totally heated and cooled by passive (direct) systeins..:_sun shading, naturallighting,and ventilation, the works. It's the largest such system we know about yet attempted. We'll keep you posted .on its progress as it develops. ·· ·· .(LdeM) . . _Discovery of the South.Pole Van Loon·'$ Geography, Hendrick Willem van Loon, Simon and Schustet:, 1932, . into a colorful map! We paid $4. Here's what he was saying in 1932: "We are all of us feilow passengers on the same plan~t and we are all of us equally responsible for the happiness and·the wellbeing of the world in which we happen to live. (LdeM) out of print · Found this when.we went to a used bookstorewith Wilson Clark last week (a trip in itself-we decided that Wilson . has missed his calling!). A truly beautiful and basic book on the geography and history of our planet--:-one to read aloud in frorit of the fireplace. The pen and ink illu~trations are gems that will blow your mind and tweak your perceptions of how things are. Check in the library or old bookstore and try to find one with a dust jacket-it folds out
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