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New Villages Asso<x. Organisations with .THE similar/related aims. Ecolo NEW BUILOtNGS TRtNITVST COVENTRY Telephono 220O-2204S Journal You are welcome to publicise your future events in these PbrthcomingEvents columns free of charge. Details to the Editor please. 1. Billingham International Folk the Council, Sunderland Met lore Festival.(llth) 9-16 Augu- • ropolitan District Council, st, 1975. 12th August 1976. Council Offices, Houghton- Festival Office, Teeside Corp le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. oration, Municipal Buildings, 7. Alternative in Urban Dev Town Centre, Billingham, elopment, Lower Shaw Farm, Teeside. Near Swindon, October 10- 2. Ipswich: Entertainment for All 12th 1975. Further details - a festival of music and the from the Alternative Society, art 5-19th September - 12th 9 Morton Avenue, Kidlington October 1975. Information Oxford. Office, Ipswich Corporation, 8. Home. Based Education, Lower Town Hall, Princess Street, Shaw Farm, near Swindon, Ipswich. November 8-9th 1975. For 3. Treatment of Offenders: Septem further details contact: ber 19-21st. Lower Shaw Farm, The Alternative Society, Nr. Swindon. A weekend to exam 9 Morton Avenue, Kidlington, ine some of the initiatives Oxford. which have been taken and discuss 9. Towards Alternatives in with Bob Tallemche's working Health, Lower Shaw Farm, party the scope and purpose of near Swindon. December 3-5 the task they have undertaken 1975. Details from The - write to the Alternative Alternative Society, 9 Mor Society, 9 Morton Avenue, Kid- ton Avenue, Kidlington, lington, Oxford. Oxford. 4. The Council for the Protection 10. Towards a Political Alter of Rural England's annual nat native. Prinknash Old Abbey, ional conference at. the Univer near Gloucester, February sity of Kent, at Canterbury, 20-22nd 1976. Details from from Friday 19th September to The Alternative Soceity, 9 . Sunday 21st September 1975. Morton Avenue, Kidlington, Accomodation at Eliot College, Oxford. Non-residential delegates will 11; Making Space to Live in. be welcome to attend individ Lower Shaw Farm, near Swin ual sessions. Further details don March 5-7th 1976. For from: Conference Secretary, details: The Alternative C.P.R.E., 4 Hobart Place, Society, 9 Morton Avenue, London SW1W OHY. Kidlington, Oxford. 5. SarovdayaPeace Conference: 12. New Communities Exchange, Autumn 1975 will cover small CELMI, Tywyn, Merioneth-, scale decentralised ecological shire, June-18-20 1976. society amongst other tKTfigs. Details from: The Alternative Enquiries to Satish Kumar, Society, 9 Morton Avenue, London School of Non violence, Kidlington, Oxford. 2 Amen Court, London EC4. 13. Annual Celebration, Othona 6. Houghton Feast (probably found Community, Bradwell-on-Sea. ed in Anglo-Saxon times) 3- Essex. July 2-4th 1976. 12 October 1976. Clerk of Details from: The Alternative 2. 14. 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Tal-Qroqq, Msida, MALTA G.C. - 30p :- Quite incredibly Ian Hacket starts of by cramming into the BookReview first 30 pages the most com METHANE fuel of the Future: plete condensation of the an assesment by Bell, Boulter, history of civilisations since Dun lop & Keiller: PrisYsn press men began to cultivate crops Stablecourt, Chalmington, Dor and domesticate animals,.that. chester, Dorset DT2 OHB 75p :- I have ever seen. Here the An extremely compact little book is lacking in maps to paperback which takes the help the reader follow through reader step by step through the movements of forces, the process of Methane Gen changes in boundaries and eration, describes how it has consolidation of empires. I been used so far together with would cettainly recommend prospective uses, and outlines anyone to make sure they have certain current experimental a good aeias to hand before developments. In examining the settling down for their bed role of Methane as a fuel of time reading. the future it sets out suggest He then examines the character ions for further research and of the United Nation s Org ideas for political lobbying. anisation, exposes the waste Easy to read and with a most of war and makes out a useful list of references thoroughly workman like case for both further studies, for a new Earth Federation to occasional reading and contacts replace what have become the this is a most useful addition traditional, if not moribund^ to the bookshelf of anyone ideas of U.N.O. and the World considering self-sufficiency, Federalists. In essence his ' alternative fuel systems or suggestion is to break down waste treatments. the super states into their component, self governing, parts,creating around 1000 THE SPRING OF CIVILISATION - autonomous states from the Ian J. Hacket. Published by present 266 or so territories the Campaign for Earth Fed (nations). For example Great eration, University House, 4. s. »»«- uuicu uniba, xueas ana Released 'from Superior dominance recipes for an economical diet. they would then be free to co-oper Intended as.an aid to promote ate within an Earth Federation , Veganism, this booklet explains without the fears of totalitarianism clearly and concisely how easy which some see as implicit in the it is to obtain ^good wholesome idea of World Government. food and plenty of protein both A must for everyone trying to more effectively, efficiently, understand the problems of inter easily and humandy than via national co-operation, the animal products. It then gives difficulties likely to be encountered a series of simple to prepare by anyone promoting the unilateral """"recipes"-'»'•" •• to-J ii i'j prove'• ii •! theiiii.,.iim.r-m„. point..orln,- ••1.^_ establishment of an ecologically K based sustainable society, or merely those who seek a better grading and easy reference in mankinds development.