Page 18 RAIN August/September 1978 FILM Soft Energy Paths-Toward {! Durable Peace, 70-minute videotape on two 3/4" video cassettes, June 1978, available for reproduction at no charge for anyone submitting blank videotape or tapes from : Gail Penman Oregon Legislative Media Systems Oregon State Legislature Salem, OR 97310 A videotape of Amory Lovins making a presentation ummarizing his book and recent th ughts on the "soft energy path" before a state legislature committee and an audience of about 150 people. I was there .. . it was his usual excellent, wry cxplanation; perfect for high school and college classes as well as local citizens' energy groups, anti-nuclear intervenors, decommissioners and alliances. - LJ Build Your Own Greenhouse-Solar Style, 16mm, color/sound, 21 min., purchase $315, rental $55, from, Danamar Film Productions 275 Kilby Los Alamos, NM 87544 Bui/fJ Your Own Greenhouse is the documentation of a solar greenhouse workshop. The general principles and building techniques are shown and the benefits discussed. The film comes with twO books: The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse, by Rick Fisher and Bill Yanda, and An Attached Solar Greenhouse, in English and Spanish. by Bill and Susan Yanda. This movie is a nice introduction and effective spark to interest people in a lowcost and effective solar structure on a local leve\. -JM Living the Good Life with Helen and Scott Nearing, 30 minutes, color, 1976, sale $375, rental $30 from, Bullfrog Films Oley, PA 19547 During the Depression, Helen and Scott Nearing moved to Vermont and more recently to Maine, each time building their own home by hand, growing their own food, providing their own heat, as well as continuing with their own professions. Scott is an economist and social critic and Helen is a concert violinist. Living the. Good Life reflects their belief in the value of hard work, self-subsistence and a healthy, natural environment. The Nearings have created a "good life" for themselves where their activities are inherently satisfying and contribute to the general good of the earth. This film shows the actualization of their values, the environment they have created for themselves and the people they are. A good example of lifestyle and economic alternatives. - JM More Nuclear Power Stations, by Per Mannstaedt, photography by Teit Jorgensen for Flip Film Productions, 1975,55 minutes, color, rentals from: Green Mountain Post Films P.O. Box 177 Montague, MA 01351 413/863-4754 This film's astounding visual impact is a result of its absolute realism. A Danish film crew has gained entrance into several nuclear facilities in Western Europe and Britain. What follows is a step-bystep documentary of the activities involved in the nucle~u fuel cycle. from plant operation to waste treatment and disposaL In singularly straigh tforward photography and carefully objective commentary the technology is allowed to speak for itself in vivid detaiL The message is startling. Nuclear power is more than a complex technology requiring vigilant control: it is the height of contorted values-the bending of nature to the threat of our own 'extinction. This film should be seen by people everywhere-community groups, labor unions and students. However, I strongly recommend presenting it along with a talk or film that stresses the positive energy options available to us that are infinitely renewable and life-affirming. -SA Movie Advertising Tired of paying to see a movie only to have to sit through advertisement for junk food, auto dealers, beer, etc., and then through "featurettes" on how wonderful the U.S. Army is (it's pure advertising, folks) before you can see what you paid for? The Federal Trade Commission has the power to require theaters to tell you if they show advertising. If you want them to do so, write: Federal Trade Commission, Seventh and Pennsylvania Aves., Washington, DC 20580. - TB PLAY Ways to Play: Recreation Alternatives, edited by James McCullagh, 1978, 320 pp., $6.95 from , Rodale Press 33 E. Minor St. Emmaus, PA 18049 A vibrant book about ways in which people and their communities can take hold of recreation. Tells how children and adults can participate in each others' games, and describes direct involvement in the construction of neighborhood parks, playgrounds and other open space, as well as discovering an.d building local trails. Includes many first-person accounts from people who have invented alternative, non-competitive play ala "New Games." As someone who's already experienced the fun of cre'ating a neighborhood playground in southeast Portland and of "beating swords into playshares" by putting a Flint and Walling waterpumping windmill atop a destroyer escort mast, it seems a very useful next book would be one focusing on how to do such a project, complete with models and case studies from towns around America, covering from acquiring land and volunteer labor to the use of local materials and super-graphics. How about it, Jim? - LJ
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