Bucky Fuller people are putting togetber a prototJ/pe autonomous dwelling tbat is to be tbe next step after tbe Now House (Habitat 1976). It sbould be built tbis summer. Tbey're lpoking for input. Contact Planetary Dwelling Seruice, c/o Robert Blissmer, 27OI Fairoieu Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. The Women's Community Health Center (819 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010, 5151232-9078) desperately needs a doctor for their abortion clinic. Contact them immediately. Just got a press release from a new confe deration of student enoironm ental groups in tbe Nortbwest called N'WEST. Tbey're planning uorksbops and action programs. Contact Jon Alexander, Enaironmental AfJ'airs C ommission, Unioersity of Wasbington, Seattle, WA 98195, or Bruce Walker, Suroioal Center, Uniuersity of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. People keep calling us for lists of NW environmental groups. We don't really have one, but there's a useful list from EPA. It's called Enaironmental Organizatibns Directory, and it's free from Environmental Protection Agency, Region X, 1200 Sixth Ave., Seattle, wA 98101. Rodale's Annual Composting and Waste Req/cling Conference is May 4-6 in Antberst, Mass. Good sessions are planned on cbmpost toilets and grejt uater systems. Contact Jerry Goldstein at Rodale Press (Emmaus. PA 18049). Laurel's Kitcben, Laurel Robertson, 197 6, $13 .7 5 postpaid from ' Nilgiri Press Box 381 Berkeley, CA 9470I I've seen this book reviewed as tEJoy of Cooking for vegetarians. That's not far off. Recipes galore and a hefty, helpful introduction.to the hows and whys of meatiess eating. It also has a great deal of information on the scientific side of food values, protein complements, vitamins, etc. It's a beautifully crafted book, written, printed and bound by'a small meditation community in Northern California. Laurel herself did the lovely woodcuts in it. I almost hate to leave it to the spartered fate of my best-loved cookbooks. I think you'll enjoy. (LdeM) Abundant Life Seeds Foundation (P.O. Box 30018, Seattle, WA 98f 03) just put out its Iovely 1977 catalog. Sorry, it's not mushroom-shaped this year, but it's lovely just the same. They're good people. Send 50C to cover costs. Seeds are also aoailable from Green Valley Seeds,11565 East Zayante, Felton, CA 95018. Write for their catalog. * { \1\ \ 1977 RAIN Page 2l And tbere'll be an Nternative Technology Festival May 7 on tbe State Street Mall, Madison, WI, sponsored by tbe Institu t e for Enair on m ental S tu die s at tbe Uniaersity of .Wisconsin, 120 WARF Bldg., 610 Walnut, Madisott, WI 53706. Contact person is Jon Sesso. Manhattan (Kansas) Energy Fair is two days of exhibits, presentations and home tours focusing on practical household energy projects and products. Free admission to the public; exhibitors can get info by writing' The Manhattan Energy Fair, City of Manhattan Community Development, P,O. Box 748, Manhattan, KS 66502. "Solar '77 Nortbwest:" tbe lst Annual Pacific Nortbwest Solar C onference, is now being planned for four days in mid-July at tbe Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. It's sponsored, so I'ar, by ERDA, tbe Oregon Dept. of Energt and tbe Unio. of Oregon. We'll baue full details in tbe May RAIN. lst Southern Oregon Energy Fair will be held April 22-24 with exhibits, lectures and product displays in a.t,, agriculture, home ecology, recycling, transportation, health, etc. For exhibit regisuation info, write Kathy Ging, So. Ore. Energy Fair, 41 Third St., Ashland, OR9752O. 503 /482-2265. Alliance for Better Land Management (ABLM) bas gotten a temporary injunction against herbicide spraying in tbe Eugene (Oregon) BLM District. Tbey're now looking for input on a.t. for tbe ztoods tree plantittg, resource economics, ecology, labor-intensiae foresty, etc. Good stuff. Contact tbem st P.O. Box 25, Lorane, OR 97451. Kr\ I 7 2i 2. An Enoironmental Question: U.S. Econornic Growtb and tbe Tbird Woild is a conference being held in Bellingham, WA, April 29,3O and May l: Discussions will be based on food, Contact Huxley Environmental Reference Bureau (HERB) at Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA 98225. Contact person is Chico Grppy. Transition: Quarterly Journal of tbe Socially and Ecologically Resp onsible Geograpbers, $3/year from' Laurence G. lVolf Dept. of Geography University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221 From the one issue I've seen, the content of this little journal is pretty limited to geographers, but it's a nice model for the communication of alternatives within a profession, Transition is,trying to encourage geographers to overcome their academic constipation and express themselves more freely-at least to each other. It is hard to get them to write without footnoting every thing, without wrapping up their ideas in jargon, or without limiting their expressions of opinions to opinions about someone else's research. But we are trying. We are also trying to point their noses toward more contact with similarminded groups elsewhere in academia and also "out in the real world." It is the easiest thing in the world to become parochially professional, even ihough, one would think geography the last academic subject in rvhich that would occur. (l.deM)
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