EVENTS------------ Heritage Tipi, Box 910, Station Main, Calgary, Alberta, will be offering oneand two-day workshops all summer long in tipi construction and living, and weekend workshops in wilderness living and foraging that are conducted out in the wilds. Write or call 403/265-8474 for times, locations and fees. One of our favorite papers, Acres, U.S.A., will convene their fourth annual conference in Kansas City on July 2628. This year's conference will open and close with individual and national economics as focal p0ints. The rest of the sessions will focus on ecological agriculture, covering such topics as seed potential, scientific tillage and hydroponics. A special conference luncheon will feature as guest speaker Gene Poirot, author of Our Margin of Life, reviewed in this issue. For registration information call 816173 7-0064 or write Acres, U.S.A. at 10227 E. 61st St., P.O. Box 9547, Raytown, MO 64133. SITKA, a non-profit Center for Art and Ecology located at Cascade Head on the Oregon coast, offers an extensive summer program with courses and workshops in Book Arts, Fibers, Ceramics and a large selection in Ecology. Sample offerings run from "Natural History of the Forest Canopy" to "Bird Sculpture in Wood," with several courses accredited by the Center's co-sponsor, Linfield College. Films and concerts at modest price·s are a regular summer feat_ure of SITKA. For their summer calendar, write to them at Star Route, Box 76, Neskowin, OR 97149. RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving , Portland, OR 97210 Community Service, one of the original organizations advocating small community, will host its annual summer conference this July 28-30 at the Glen Helen forest preserve in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The focus of this meeting will be Building Community Where You Are, and it will include five resource people who have participated in community building in varied settings throughout the Great Lakes area. Registration is $37 per person, including accommodations and meals. For more information contact Community Service at Box 243, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, or call 513/767-1461. Heathcote Center and the School of Living will sponsor their annual Shelter Conference, August 18-29 at Heathcote Center, Freeland, Maryland. This year's conference will focus on do-it-yourself . refitting of existing structure for passive solar/wood burning combinations. Two days oflectures will be foilowed by six days ofactual construction under the guidance of skilled craftspeople. The pre-registration fee is $75.00, which includes sleeping facilities, vegetarian meals and entertainment. For more information contact the Heathcote Center, Rt. 1, Box 129, Freeland, Maryland 21053, or call 301/329-6041. The New Alchemists, our friends in Woods Hole who've been working on a. t. for many years, could really use our financial support right now. Send contributions or memberships ($10 and $25) for which they'll receive matching funds to: Christina Rawley, Membership Chair, New Alchemy Institute, Box 432, Woods Hole, MA 02543. The Small Farm Energy Project; a research and demonstration project in alternative energy and conservation for small farms, will conduct" a Small Farm Energy Seminar at Hartington, Nebraska, August 25 and 26. Alternatives to high costs for energy and fertilizers will be featured during the two-day event, including solar collectors for farm buildings, wind electric generators and composting·systems. The second day of the seminar will be in the field, touring various on-site installations at several farms in the Hartington area. Early registration deadline is August 10. For further information write the Small Farm Energy Project, P.O. Box 736, Hartington, NE 68_7 39, or phone 402/ 254-6893. • Forwarding and Return Postage Guaranteed
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