( WIND ) "Rain" StQry Helps Sell Moses Lake Wind-Turbines to California. We just received word from Wilson Clark, Gov. Jerry Bi::own's energy advisor, that due partly to the article "Small Groups, Big Windmills," (Jan. '78 RAIN), the state of California is considering buyirig $10 to $15 million worth of large windgenerators to power water pumps for the State Water Project, or about twenty 600 and 2700 kilowatt Schachle & Sons wind-turbines. Southern California Edison, a~ electric utility, is buying one 2700 kw Schachle mill for testing at San Gorgonio Pass, where Edison is thinking of installing 100 megawatts of wind power capacity. , Watch your local newspaper for an Associated Press story mentioning RAIN, or see the Sacramento Bee, Friday, Jan. 13, 1978, p. B3. On to Nebraska, Iowa and Montana! (See Raindrops). Wouldn_'t it be deliciou~ to see a couple thousand megawatts of windpower installed before DOE and Boeing even finish their design? To place your order or to get an illustrated brochure and technical data sheets, write Charles Schachle & Sons, 1032 Grant St., Moses Lake, WA 98837, or call ?09/765-9696. -LJ Solar Greenhouses, Windgenerators and Solar Greenhomes, contact: Jack Park Helion, Inc. ) Box 445 Brownsville, CA 95919 Jack and Helen have moved, so change your address for Helion, folks. His excellent book, Sfmplified Wind Power Systems for Experimenters, and his 12/16 windgenerator plans are selling briskly. The Kedco Co. (9016 Aviation Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301), which builds a wind-turbine of Jack's design, has switched to gear-box transmission from the timing belts used in earlier m0dels, and the company is working on an 8kw unit. "Assemble-it-yourself" kits for gear-box drive generators based on the Helion 12/16 are available from: Topanga Power Co., Box 712H, Topan~ ga, CA 90290. Send a SASE for details and prices. - LJ (Gooo THINGS) The Goodfellow Catalog of Wonderful Things, Christopher Weils, 1977, $7.95 from: Berkley Windover Books 200 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 . t Beautiful photographs of wonderful things and the people who make them: jewelry, clothes, toys, pots, pipes, musical instruments. A good catalog for present buying or selling your wares if you don't have a Saturday Market in your town. It's designed for direct orders-you don't go back through Christopher. There's a Goodfellow Review of Crafts too: $8/y<:ar from: 2839 Forest Avenue, Berkeley; CA 94705. - LdeM intercom, quarterly, $6/yr., $1. 7 5/ single issue, from: The Center for Global Perspectives 218 E. 18th St. New York, NY 10003 ·Mostly for teachers, tries to bring global perspectives to issues and is full of really good and useful stuff . .·. see "Langu·age Arts: The Human Experience Across Culture," in Intercom , No. 88; Dec. '77. (Courtesy Nancy Bell Coe) Country Crafts in Pictures, J. E: . Manners, 1976, $9.95; Woodland Crafts in Britain, H. L. Edlin, 1949, $12.95 from: David and Charles North Pomfret, VT 0505 3 One reason we seem hesitant ·to give up our demands for resources that others need more'is that we've lost sight of the forgotten resources that surround us. We don't value rose hips if we don't know they're a fine source of Vitamin C and release us from our "need" fororange juice. These books are about local resources. Country Crafts . .. is , filled with local materials being turned into useful products-ideas that with a twist can come up with new jobs and income sources as well as self-reliance. Wo·odland Crafts . .. gives a sense of the special qualities of different woods and their unique uses- it's amazing what -we waste _and trample underfoot! -TB from Country Crafts in Pictures February/March 1978 RAIN Page 3 The Acorn People, Ron Jones, 1977, $1.25 from: • Bantam Books, Inc. 666 Fifth Avenue· New York, NY 10019 Ron's story reminds us of both the toughn·ess and the fragility of life, two qualities never more evident than in the young. His story is very clear and simply written but very poignant. )'hese kinds of closely shared and intense experiences will reveal to us that part of us that eternally yearns for summer. Pri- •orities will reshuffle a bit after reading this, for he makes us aware of the necessity to take time to care about those small interactions that most of life is made of. Ron also reminds us that we do share a common denominator of "all being a little nutty" as well as sharing an unexpected strength. - JM MANAS, 8 pp./issue, 44 issues/yr., $10/ yr., from: Manas Publishing Co. P.O. Box "32112 Los Angeles, CA 90032 Richard Merrill turned me on to this fascinating, intellectual-ideas journal a few years ago and it's been my personal favorite ev<tr since. It sets me thinking down new and unrutted pathways. Here's what Manas says it is (it does an excellent job of sticking.to its credo): "Manas is a journal of independent inquiry, concerned with study of the principJes which move wo;ld societ'y on its present course, and with search for contrasting µrinciples-that may be capable of supporting intelligent idealism under the conditions of life_ in the twentieth century. Manas is concerned, therefore, with philosophy and with • practical psychology, in as direct and simple a manner as its editors and contributors can write. The word "manas" comes from a common root suggesting "man" or "the thinker." Editorial articles are unsigned, since Manas wishes to present ideas and viewpoints, not personalities!" -LJ
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