Page 2 RAIN July 1978 APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY META Publications P.O. Box 128 Marblemount, WA 98267 Our friends up in the high reaches of the Skagit Valley have just come out with a new listing of publications available through their mail order book service. Solid, practical and useful information sources on farm equipment, crops, food . processing, livestock, working animals, transportation, food and nutrition, health and sanitation, metalwork, water supply, cottage industries and many other areas. Write for list of publications available-the best mail-order source for a.t. books, plans and technical information around. -TB ~•~"'•I-=- ~:! ~ter ~ from Simple Methods of Candle Manufacture RAIN access Mountain/Prairie Energy Vision (series of 4), Loren Schultz, $2.50 each, from: AERO 43 5 Stapleton Building Billings, MT 59101 The new posters promised by AERO have arrived. Called the Mountain/Prairie Energy Vision, and geared to the bioregional interface of the Great Plains and Northern Rockies, these four separate scenes illustrate how renewable energy sources, various appropriate technologies and changes in commercial infrastructure could be tailored to meet the particular needs of the economies and lifestyles of Big Sky country. The scenes include a plains wheat farm, cattle ranches, mountain homestead/ forested area and a small city. I like these posters for a couple of reasons: first, they footnote each technical idea right on the poster, so someone can get a visual concept then go right to the best source for more information· second, they strike a great balance be-• ' tween vision and practicality, showing the potential these tools have right now for meeting the day-to-day needs of hard-working people. Could this be Montana ten years down the road? You bet it could. -SA Country Woodcraft, Drew Langsner, 1978, $9.95 from: Rodale Press 33 East Minor Emmaus, PA 18049 If you want to understand what it means to learn from doing-if you want to see where focussed attention and love of something can take you, this is your cake. A handbook of traditional woodworking techniques and projects, but another realm from popular mechanics how-to projects. Here the beautiful products seem almost incidental to what ~s sought and gained by the person makmg them. Interwoven with a lot of wisdom about tools and techniques gleaned from an inquisitive nature and a willingness to test things out. A beautiful sense of how to approach doing things. -TB Simple M~tbods of Candle Manufacture, Intermediate Technology Development Group, 1975, $1.75 from: International Scholarly Book Service P.O. Box 555 Forest Grove, OR 97116 Concise and well illustrated introduction to simple methods of candle making suitable for cottage industry. Materials used and their role in manufacturing and use, different techniques for candlemaking, equipment requirements and designs, and heating equipment (solar would work fine). A practical and handy guide. -TB RAIN's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Ph: (503) 227-5110. . RAIN STAFF: Tom Bender Lane deMoll Joan Meitl Lee Johnson . Linda Sawaya Steven Ames Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho
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