STEPP.ING STONES Table of Contents PART I-THE PARTY'S OVER Introduction Speak to the Earth and It Shall Teach Thee-C. R. Ashbee Changing Possibilities-Tom Bender Lessons-Stewart Brand Net Energy It Takes Energy to Get Energy-Wilson Clark Energy, Ecology and Economics-Howard T. Odum Cosmic Economics-Joel Schatz & Tom Bender Value and Values Clothesline Paradox-Steve Baer Household Economy-Scott Burns Buddhist Economics-£. F. Schumacher Conscious Culture of Poverty-£. F. Schumacher New Values-Tom Bender Technology for What and for Whom Radical Monopoly-Ivan Illich Isn't Nature Neutra~? - Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins Time to Stop- £. F. Schumacher Technology with a Human Face-£. F. Schumacher PART II-APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY DEFINITIONS Introduction from A.T. and State Government-Sim VanderRyn from Big and/or Little?- Wilson Clark from Towards a Liberatory Technology-Murray Bookchin from Rainbook-Tom Bender Nature of Tools-Ivan Illich Horsedrawn Tools and the Doctrine of Labor-SavingWendell Berry Size On Size-Leopold Kohr Testimony to the Senate Small Business CommitteeBarry Stein The Briarpatch Network-Andy Alpine Sustainability The Soil and Health-Sir Albert Howard Forest Farming-]. Sholto Douglas & Robert Hart Biotechnology-John Todd The Road Not Taken-Amory Lovins Simplicity Voluntary Simplicity-Richard Gregg On Citizenship and Conscience-Wendell Berry Building with Mudbrick-Hassan Fathy An Ecologically Sound Architecture Is PossibleMalcolm Wells PART Ill-BEYOND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY Introduction Flight from Freedom-Karl Hess Why Big Business Loves A.T.-Tom Bender Can Americans Convert to Lower Energy Use?- Margaret Mead Nurturing a Responsible Agriculture-Gil Friend Independent Cities: Changing the Nature of Economic Development-David Morris . Neighborhood Energy: Designing for Democracy in the 1980s-Lee Johnson Getting through the Looking Glass-Tom Bender RESOURCES INDEX October 1978 RAIN Page 11 We are now taking orders for Stepping Stones: Appropriate Technology and Beyond-the a.t. reader edited by L<1,ne deMoll and Gigi Coe this summer. As you can tell from the table of contents it is a collection of classic essays that have appeared over the past several years, plus five new pieces on new directions and possibilities. It's perfect as a text for classes or for anyone wanting some in-depth philosophical background on this strange beast called appropriate technology. The book will be out sometime in November, so send us your $7.95 today. Bookstores and other bulk orders should go directly to our publishers-Schocken Books, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. detail from STEPPING STONES POSTER Ever wonder how all our wacky ideas fit together? As you can see from our cover this month, Diane Schatz has come through once again with a vision that combines lots of appropriate technologies into an amazing landscape. It was done as the cover for Stepping Stones, and RAIN is making it available for $3 as a full-sized poster- companion to our Urban and .Suburban Ecotopia posters. How can anyone resist it? -LdeM
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