RAIN ACCESS I PLACE I The Canadian Alternative: Survival, Expeditions and Urban Change, W. W. Bunge and R. Bordessa, 1975, $9.00 from: Dept. of Geography Atkinson College, at York University Toronto, M3), 1P3, Ontario, CANADA This study starts modestly, stating its goal as the qUl:stion of the survival of mankind. A team of geographers spent thl: equivalent of 50 man/years studying the geography of Toronto-but not simply the physical geography. It is about the geography of the urban environment as a complex interaction between human values and needs; social communication networks, relationships between human-kind and machine-kind (technology), the human scape (physical city) and the natural geography/environment. The tone of the book is unusual. One gets the strange image of a team of geographers on an expedition through the wilderness of an urban environment, open-mindedly attempting to perceive the entire city as a complex hybrid of natural and social systems. The attempt to relate the careful observations of a micro-system (one urban area) to the problems of global survival is admirable. The impact is, on occasion, similar to "A Universe in Ten Leaps," forcing one to consider increasingly larger rclations and analogies. And probably the most exeiting aspect of the report to me, is the use of maps to illustrate the human/social and natural clements of an urban environment. Maps that illustrate subjective views of the cities' inhabitants; such things as maps of neighborhood friendliness, perceptions of money and power flows in the city as perceived by different networks and cultural groups. -S) .over the use and misuse of our national forests, focusing in particular on the effects of below-cost sales by the Forl:st Service that rob taxpayers, undercut privatI: timber growers, reduce employment in the Northwest, and hurt communities. It also explodes the myth of high timher prices forcing up housing costs that timber industry executives have heen using to justify raids on our remaining "overmature" forests. - TB LIVING Wood Conserving Stoves, $3.25 from: VITA 3706 Rhode Island Ave. Mt. Ranier, MD 20822 Detailed instruction for the construc tion of Lorena mudhrick cookstoves and for sawdust heating stoves, the former costing $10 and the latter $30 $60. Also contains a good bibliography on other low cost stoves using various fuds. -TB The Harrowsmith Reader, cd. by ) ames Lawrence, 287 pp., 1978, $12.50 from: Camden House Publishing Camden East Ontario, KOK 1)0 CANADA The best articles from the first 12 issues of I-Iarrowsmitb Magazine are in cluded in this beautifully illustrated hook. Information such as what it's like to live with a composting toilet, how to grow your own vegetables and nut trees, how to keep bees and goats, how to make hard cheeses and jams, what seaweeds are edible and how to pre pare them and much more are all in cluded in this easy reading book. If you are a fan of llarrowsmith Magazine or curious as to what kind of homestead ing activities are going on in Canada, this hook is a must. - YL KIDS'STUFF ~ ~ The Ghost ofSan Onofre, A COIOri1lg Book Tale, by BiJleddy, art by Mitsi Nelson-Hall, 10 pp., 1979, $1 from: Ocean Beach Community Free School I P.O. Box 7423 San Diego, CA 92107 If you arc looking for a gift to give to the child in your life, your search is over. This wondcrfullittle coloring "The End of the Wilderness", NRDC book is just the thing to give to someNewsletter, Sept.-Dec. 1978, from: one who wants to know about nuclear Natural Resources Defense Council pown and the San Onofre Nuclear Pow122 E. 42nd St. er Plant (located 60 miles south of L.A.) New York, NY 10017 but is too young to ask . Appealing to An outstanding history of the conflicts the child in all of us. (Thanks to w illiam Brct'l) - YL
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