August/September 1977 RAIN page 2l ft' iP.i )rS; $ ffi s3 CORREOS satisfying if a little frightening) chance to get in touch with some really deep sati sfac ti o n s. And methinks wc have need of some satisfactions even independently of the ecological and ethical issues. Lately I was on a vacation and drove around a lot to visit bookstores, health food stores and such, basically to check out what was available to be consumed. And some days I stayed home and did repairs, mending and such. And one day I just happcned to compare the two kinds of days from my immediate experience and discovered how much more satisfied I'd been doing than consuming. While I believed that intellectually before, I never felt it so deeply. So I'd just like to see rhe ideas in Sharing Smaller Pies, about the fun and the satisfactions of the conserver life, reach all the people who are afraid and threatened by the changes that are working their way to coming up fast and furiously. Average Americans are real live people, too, who can get as big a kick out of singing words they wrote themsclves as simpleJifestylers do out of working in a community garden. What's important is re-discovering the simple ple asures in doing things in a personal way. Knitters know it. Do-ityourself carpenters know it. And if somehow everyonc had a taste of it, it would make our culture 's transition so much easier. Yours, Suc Tideman 816-l/2 S. New Hampshire Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90005 B.C. RESOURCES . .l musr say it did my hearr rand prob_ rbly that. of municipal dump salvagcrs all over the country) good to hear*such a tasty term as "firching" atrachcd to an activity which has somclimes had [o shield itself from thc epithet ,,bloody scroungers" with the equally weighty title "garbalogical reseaich." Redistributing (locally known as porlarching) the overflow of rampant consumerism is. at first, like most novel preoccuparions. one you can't get enough of. But as the actual rons of odd-voltage standby batteries (from pub. util. emerg. rransformers), actual miles of slightly detcriorated fish net (the first milc is handv for keeping the birds ot,t of your strr*- berries), 16' sections of crumpled stainless steel pipe (explosion ar rhe saw mill) etc., etc., etc. pile up, you begin to realize that the province of B.C. rhrows Lway a town the size of Youbou complete with population about every six months, so you're not going to be able to use it all and you become more relaxed and selective about the whole thing; even miss a few days at the dump after all, the original plan was not to bccome a skillful parasite on a dcgenerate society; that would mean you couldn't pick up and leave. I expect the disappearance of class B salmon liccnses will produce whole boats in the dump this timc ncxt year il thcy'rc nut burnr or sunk; wouldn't ren or twelvc 30-plus foot long gillnctters piled in thc 6ackyard give you a kind of uneasy fceling when the wind commenccd to rise ? Pertine nt Documents Dept.: Oyster Farming in B.C. Title cxplains all; well enough donc ro sell out in weeks at $2 per. Compendium of several Marine Resources Branch Rcports on oyster fishing (title is approximate) should be available through, Min. of Rec. & Con., Info. & Educ. Branch (whose publication list of free & etc. I sent, I think, along with that Consumer Ed Task Force Book), 512 Fort Street, Victoria B.C. or as same source for Fisheries Management Report No. 5, "Manual for Assessmcnt of Oyster Growing Areas" which.a.ras free and covcred same ground from pcrspe cr ivc of aquaculturally positive cnvironment and includcd highly uscful Foreshore Lease Application Forms which no "How to Feed 'Em & Talk to'Em book docs,512 Fort St., Victoria. Alternate Metbods f'or Treatment and Disposal of Community Waste Water-probably contains thc odd technical error in the area of assumptions, but thc language and the illustrations are totally accessible to the novice r,vho may be confronting a rural building inspector with his Clivus or Hargraves Digest-o-matic or purely conve nrional drain field or wish ro ger rhe local taxpayers interestcd in provincial funding and cost curves for secondary trcatment plants, se ttling lagoons or yearly community cost of septic tank pumping as opposed to just running the shit into the ncarest oyster bcd or spawning stream. Describes various bodics of water and their inhabitants lvho have bee n viewed as targets for human sewage and outline s e coharmonius adjustments which are technically feasible Healtb Aspects of Seuage Effluent Irrigation separate report expanding a singlc paragraph from above book - dcscribes agricultural porential for byproducts of conventional scrvage, secondary rrearme nt plant product, bld silage, papermill wastc, etc., indicates ' haz-ards and additional rreatment requircd to eliminate toxins and parasites, givcs many examples for utilizatlon, current examples of , in order tcr rclieve the minds suspicious and convention addled rvater and sanitarv engineers one might encornt.r ori the way ro Ecotopia. Thcsc rwo rcports are available in limited numbeifrce from, The Public Information Office, Pollution Control Branch, B.C. Watcr Resources Service , Victoria, B.C. T. Bcndcr's little koan/cssay twange d a porvcrfully familiar note . After eight years in thc bush, sleeping in lands and fields under rhe srars without numbcr, I must admit to feeling the same giddy apprehensions about such places as he docs about the solar suburb; good job wc live for years and years or our doubts and cautions would ncver let us scttlc down. Kecp in touch, J.R. Dc Wccsc
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