s ~ ':; t.:) e Q It A Guide to Cooperative Alternatives including a Directory ofIntentional Communities, Ed. by Paul Freundlich, Chris Collins, and Mikki Wenig, 1979, 184 pp., $5.95 from: Communities P.O. Box 426 Louisa, VA 23093 For those of you who enjoy directories and resource guides, here's another to add to your eollection. Paul Freundlich, Chris Collins and Mikki Wenig of Communities, Journal of Cooperative Livillg have pulll:d together information on groups, organizations, individuals and publications who are working in such arcas as community organizing, health and well being, food, energy and environment, education, decision making, etc. Not only do they provide the reader with information on the different groups, but they have a general overview on each area written by someone who is active in that ficJd. Also included in each section is an article writren on a particular group (usually written by someone in the group) which provides an even greater insight into the cooperative movement. - YL The Portland Book: A Guide to Community Resources, Edited by Steve Johnson, 1979,208 pp., $6.95 plus 504 postage from: Center for Urban Education 0245 S.W. Bancroft Portland, OR 97201 The Portland Book is described best by its editor, "a handbook of information sources in and about the Portland community, including descriptions of 2000 organizations and 1000 documents." Steve Johnson, former Rain editor, has produced an excellent model for other communities who arc interested in providing their citizens with access to the wealth of knowledge and services that lie within their boundaries. Leafing through the pages, I came across such groups as the Cosmic Science Research Foundation, an information center devoted to sharing the expanded teachings of Jesus and preparing the world for visitors from other planets. I also realized that the Amateur Brewers can coexist in the same town with the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Government agencies. special libraries. local publications. essays on IOformation systems. trade and professional groups arc all listed in the guide. This book is a must for anyone interested in learning about the nooks and crannies of Portland. - PC Working Together: A Manual for Helping Groups Work More Effectively, Bob Biagi, 1978,124 pp., $5.00 from: Citizen Involvement Training Project 138 Hasbrouck University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 This manual contains techniques and exercises to improve the group process skills of grass roots organizations. Emphasis is on maximizing the usc of the group's human resources by increasing membership participation. Facilitating. group self-observation. listening and communicating and consensus decision making are skill areas covercd. --PC Urban Nongrowth: City Planning for People, Finkler, Toner and Popper, 1976, $16.50 from: Praeger Publishers 111 Fourth Avenue New York, NY 10003 This lay in my·pill:s for many moons because I thought it was going to be another land use planning tract. Fortunately it isn't. It is an exploration of community power and an explosion of the development myths that a community must say yes to every crackpotripoff development scheme. It even makes an excellent case against land usc zoning. arguing that a community should keep its land in the most restrictive use and parcd it out piece by picce to other uses- giving more bartering power to the community. It makes a convincing case that land usc planning without economic planning is useless. An important and thought-provoking document for anyone intef\;sted in local self-reliance or control of local economies. - TB ~ APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ~ ] /4:':"" '\) Making Charcoal: The Retort Method, ~ $/- '('~ $2.25 from: 1 . ~ u ~-. - ' <5".k~ 0 t' VITA .... .---: _ _ _ "' U 01 3706 Rhode Island Ave. ~ CD~~- ',>, Mt. Ranier, MD 20822 Plans and instruction for constructing a ~ .-t~, portable charcoal retort from 55-ga\lon &](;..r . . \ . ~";'.. _ \ -: -. . .1.' , drums- can be used to produce useful tars as a byproduct or to be partially 8r t ck or 51"-----"= one .". -- ~~\... .~ self-fueling. - TB Appropriate Technology-Technology with a Human Face, P.D. Dunn, 1978, $5.95 from: Schocken Books 200 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 An excellent overview of the application of a.t. in developing countries and the work of the Intermediate Technology Devclopment Group in particular. Illustrated with many specific examples of projects and tlquipment developed and applied in a wide variety of l;Ountries. A good overview of the other side of thc a.t. coin from that scen in the U.S. - TB
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