RAIN Journal of Appropriate Technology AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1977 VOLUME ONE DOLLAR INSIDE: Peanut Butter Power Prisons of Steel, Prisons of Mind Household Economy Stores
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August/Septe mber 1977 RAIN Pagc 3 RAIN is a monthly information access journal and reference service for people developing more satisfying patterns that increase local self-reliance and press less heavily on our limited resourcesWe try to give access to: * Solid tecbnical support for evaluating and implementing new ideas. Ecological and pbilosopbical perceptions that can help create more satisfying options for living, working and playing. Up-to-date information on people, evenrs and publications. Coalition for Economic Altematives ' Box 323 Ashland, WI 54806 CEA is a private, non-profit community development corporation involved in generating more appropriate forms of economic development in northwest Wisconsin. They are currently involved in development of a woodsworker cooperative to better match work and workers in the local forest products industry; encouraging the U.S. Fore st Service to replace chemical techniques with labor-intensive ones in pine-release programs; education on the use of wood for home heating and other projects. Membership is $5/year. -TB High Eleaation Regeneration of Western Oregon Forests, Randal Lee O'Toole, 1976, $1 from' Cascade Holistic Economic Consultants 1604 N.E. 48th Portland, OR972l3 Timber companies cut thousands of acres without replanting, then turn around and accuse the government of putting loggcrs out of work by preserving our last remaining remnants of 1000year-old redwood. forests. Nitrogenfixing alder is killed by herbicides so Douglas fir can grow faster, then nitrogen fertilizcr has to be applied. We're far fr,rm rcally sane forcstry practices applicable to our quite varied topography and climate conditions. This booklet is a start-a careful analysis of actual reforestation success and failure at higher elevations. It concludes that clearcutting should not occur above 1300 meters, and above 1000 meters should occur only in areas with protection from the afte rnoon sun; only in areas away from rockslides, ridgctops and other locations with thin, rocky soil; only without broadcast burning of residuc; and only where immediatc rcplanting takes place . -TB TRANSPORT Burley/Oakg Bicycle Trailer P.O. Box 155 Creswell, OR 97426 These folks have designed a simple bicycle trailer made from steel tubing and aluminum castings that has a very low center of gravity and an improved hitch to the bicycle for use with heavy or bulky loads. Will rake 24" ro 27" whcels and either front or rear hubs. Recommended load limit-8o lbs. Trailer retails for $55 without wheels. -TB Tbe Way of a Sbip, Alan Villiers, 1953, $5.95 from, Charles Scribner's Sons 597 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 This was referred to several times in the Seriatim article on Dynaships (Rl1N, luly'77), so we checked it out and found it to be a fascinating and defini tive starting place for anyone interested in further evolution of the commercial usc of wind-powered ships. Covers the design, rigging. operatit-rn, cconomics, performance and navigation of the great square-rigged sailing ships still in commercial use in the 1930s and the dYnamics of the ir usurpation by low-cost fuels. -TB MeruDeru HAUL ! ) ( =O+..tFr Tecrc r ( z I \ tlro!o a.utolttr[. I lH l Cathy Macdonald Steve Johnson Typesettrng: ter Printins, Times Lirho RAIN Tom Bendcr S'IAFF, Lane deMoll CONTRIBUTING EDITORS, Marcia Johnson Lee Iohnson Bill Day
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of British Columbia. The 52-page book is divided according to state and includes names, addresses and brief descriptions of environmental organizations and their purposes. -LJ Idabo Enoironmental Quarterly. To get on the mailing list, Doris Schneider Division of Environment Idaho Department of Health & Welfare Statehouse Boise, ID 83720 This newsletter reviews the top environmental issues confronting Idaho. The most recent issue included articles on sewage construction grants, breast cancer x-rays, the use of wastewater on crops, air pollution in Pocatello, new regulations for swimming pools, and the outlook for drinking water shortages in Idaho communities. -LJ AGRICULTURE My Garden Companion, Jamie Jobb, 1977, $9.95 from, Sierra Club Books Charles Scribner's Sons 597 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10017 This comprehensive guide should be a August/September 1977 RAIN Page 5 welcomed friend to any novice gardener. Written for children, it appeals to thar part of all of us looking for advenrure in the mystery of the seasons and the magic of mother nature. Wonderfully composed and enchantingly illustrate d, one might expect to find a tale of silver bells, cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row but instead discovers a wealth of detailed how-tos from evaluating your soil and climate to plant breeding and organic pest control. Including Planter's and Picker's Pages with botanic and biological bug control and seed catalog directories and a "Digger's Guide to Soil Supplies," My Garden Companion is a helpful handbook, good source list and rare treasure. -CM Wow, Jung was right about synchronicity . . . what's called coincidence. The three items below came up from my nebulous pile and into a pattern that should help illuminate the wetlands-subdivision problem and provide focused techniques for citizen action. Lord, let your humble servant see more such patterns. Ready the white charger, here goes' Promised Lands 2: Subdiztisions in Florida's Wetlands, 1977, $20 from' Inform 25 Broad St. New York, NY 10004 A3-Il2 year study led to this report, which is a textbook on the destructive consequences of irresponsible development practices. Focusing on 9 recently built coastal suburbs, it relates the devastating consequences of greed in paradise. These environmental case studies should raise your ire. If you need an argument with a dollar value, keep reading. "Putting Wetlands to Work," in May{une 1977 Mosaic, $1.45 from' Editor Mosaic National Science Foundation Washington, DC 20050 Cypress domes and peatlands offer ecologically sound, energyconserving municipal wastewater disposal. Conventional tertiary treatment, so-called advanced facilities, are expensive to build and to operate, as you may have noticed from local bond issues or property tax increases . . . $20 billion nationally for construction only; according to the EPA. This article exPlains the NSF-funded research, by Kadlec of U. of Michigan and the famous "net-energy" Odum of U. of Florida, that suggests wetlands cannot only absorb treated effluents, treating them in a natural rather than energy-consuming, artificial way, but can benefit from the fertilization secondarily treated effluents are able to provide. And, where such wetlands are still unpaved, money can be saved. Convinced? Then use the last item as a model for the way to put all this info together and act. -LJ Commanity Workbook, Vol, 1: Subditsision, by Environmental Information Center, lune 1977,20 pp., free from' Environmental Information Center P.O. Box 12 Helena, MT 59601 An excellent, step-by-step primer on how to stop a suburban development. There are actually a number of laws and regu- - iation ihat give you a strong say in the future growth of youf town. None of them requires you to have any legal or scientific expertise, or eve n a great deal of money. What they do require is your commitment to collect good information like that assembled for you above, make sound decisions, and back it all up "vith some hard work. Although designed for Montana, this workbook can be translated to your own wetland vs. suburb crisis and start you on the path to local citizen action. -LJ
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Talking with Scott Burns at the Business and Rigbt Liaelibood Conference in June, Bob Schwartz and Alan Greene came up witb tbe idea of francbising Houseb old E conomy stores-ubere y ou could get the tools, equipment and information for economically and culturally more self-reliant and rewarding liaing. Eacb product would haae an analysis of its economic costs and benefits along witb otber data. Beat tbem to tbe punch, and don't bother witb the francbise trip-do it yourself. More and more s.talk-in and mail-order stores are springing up tbat focus on products for self-reliance. Tbey're often as interesting for tbeir organizational set-up as for tbe amazing, hard-to-get products they carry. Here are some we know of-you cany it from bere. -TB The Whole Earth Access Co. 2466 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Whole Earth Access is the granddaddy of the self-reliant hardware stores coming out of the Wbole Earth Catalog. An amazing hodge-podge of things crammed into a tiny store jammed with people and clerks walking on top of the counters trying to reach things hung from the ceiling. They used to have a long table in the middle of the store with racks of catalogs from various producers of exotic and useful things and would sit down and help you figure out what to order directly. They now wholesale to other retail stores as well as mail order and walk-in sales. Good catalog filled with hard-to-find things-from portable Japanese wood planers and groovecutters to Alaskan mills to food mills to log splitters and woodstoves. Sometimes short on sound advice and long on counteiculture jive, but lots of good stuff. We've had problems getting paid for stuff they've ordered from us but have been told that things have improved there recently. Tbe Good Neighbor Heritage Catalog, $1 from' Lehman Hardware and Appliances Kidron, OH 44636 A hardware store that grew up a generation ago in the heart of America's largest Amish and Swiss Mennonite communify in eastern Ohio and provides solid products many people can't find or don't know eiist. Oil cookstoves, gasoline-powered clotheswashers, washboards, kerosene freezers and irons, coal-fired hot water heaters, coal/wood/ oil or coal/wood/electric stoves, noodle makers, bottle cappers and much more. Amertcan Village Institute Pro du cts Catalog, $2 from: A.V,I. 440 Meyers Street Kettle Falls, Ul A 99141 1977 RAIN Page 7 presses, corn shellers, foot-powered wood lathes, sashsaws, and treadle powpower units, have been chosen as suitable for production in their apprentice program, and thus make those programs self-supporting. Plans and hardware kits are planned (you do the woodworking). Some products are available only periodically when produced by the apprentice programs. Membership programs and a bi-monthly journal, The Cider Press-are available. Both products and programs look commendabie-hope they do well. A well-thought out operation. Northeast Carry Trading Company 110 Water Street P.O. Box 187 Hallowell, ME 04347 Set up by the Northeast Carry a.t.. group in Maine to provide quality tools, hardware and information for selfreliance. A store, mail-order service and book lending library are operable now, and workshops are planned. In addition to the usual products, they sell a nicelydesigned hot water heating system, water-carrying yokes, one-quart flush toilets, and a variety of wood cooking stoves. $6 membership fee. Pioneer Lamps and Stoaes Company Catalog, $4 from' 71 Yesler Street Seattle, WA 98104 Catalog is expensive for what it has, and the set-up seems aimed to milk the nostalgia boom, but they do have a complete line of oil lighting fixtures, Hillcrest, Ridgetop and Olympic stoves and Alaska commercial wood and coal ranges for feeding a whole herd of hun- -TB AVI surfaced a-year or so ago with a catalog offering long unavailable handand foot-powered equipment and free apprenticeship programs in foundrywork woodworking and metalworking. Sounded suspicious -what was paying for it all? Inquiries went unanswered, and no one seemed to know what happened to this new comet. Well, they've surfaced again, somewhat dazed at the end of an epic five-month move of 30 tons of machinery to a new location in eastern Washington. New staff pe ople have joined them, including Barbara and Larry Geno, and both production and educational programs seem to be getting into full swing. Their products, such as grain mills, fruit and cider press- gry lumberjacks. I t August/September HousercH Economy Stores
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The Hay Box: The Energy Saaing Cooker, Frank Bambrick & Brian Hurley,20 pp., 1977, $1.00 postpaid from, Low Energy Systems 3 Larkfield Gardens Dublin 6, Ireland Here's a really neat and delightfully easy way to conserve gas or electricity at your stove: bring the food to a boil and pop the pot in this insulated box faced with aluminum foil on the inside. It'll just keep on cooking with no additional heat! Low Energy Systems is at work on other a.t. ideas ask for their publication list. And hello Irish! -LJ Early Winters Ltd. 1977 Catalog, $l from, Early Winters 110 Prefontaine Place South Seattle, WA 98104 Do you remember the still-suits worn on Frank Herbert's "Dune "? Well, the latest technological fashion in camping/ rain gear approaches still-suits. Yes, Gore-Tex. Now you can wear'feflon with nine billion holes in every square inch, which prevents water from passing through but lets wate r vapor out. l'm still a bit leery of such technology, re, membering always being cold in l\,tinnesota winters in my Fiberfill parka until I went to add some extra lining and found all the fiberfill had disintegrared and all I was wearing at 30'F was a glorified wind breaker! How docs GoreTex hold up? What does it do to you? A bit too sophisticated? If you try it, let us know. Early Winters sells the fabric as well as rain gear, tents and sleeping bags made of it. TB DON'T BURN YOURSELF! As Heatber McGregor of High Country News wrote in a recent Rainbook reztiew, we "neper hesitate to hand out praise." In fact, we agonized oaerlNood Heatfor tbree months! It would baae been easy, too easy perbaps, to simply ignore it or to "damn it with faint praise." But wben contributing editor Bill Day, wbo urote our "Wood Stoue Consumer's Guide," kept on caring enougb to @rite to Rodale and to ask our local fire department wood beating expert what be tbougbt of tbe book, we decided to print it. -LJ Wood Heat, John Vivian, 1976, $4.95 fromt Rodale Press 33 E. Minor Emmaus, PA 18049 A great deal of interesting wood burning lore is contained throughout this entire book. Some really handy advice is offered on such subjects as the repair of faulty chimney flues. In some chipters, though, I'm concerned with the amount of misinformation concerning chimneys and stove installations. Danl gerous expediencies which could result in loss of life, limb or properry should not be recommended. A business person distributing these same recommendations could easily spend a grear deal of his or her life in a defensive position in our nation's courtrooms. A sure method of incinerating your home would be to follow information on these pages in Wood Heat: it is reasonable to expect the single wall pipe to disintegrate (especially if 1 and p, 57; 'The ludicrous illustration indicating a merhod of by-passing the house eaves with an exterior chimney is dangerous because 1) even galvanized pipe deteriorates rapidly and needs freguent replacement when exposed to the elements, 2) the single wall smoke pipe (due to its rapid cooling effect) will /v likely load up with creosore in a short time, and 3) in case of a chimney fire, August/September 1977 RAIN p p. 58, Flues for temporary or inrermittent use. To my knowledge there is nev)er an excuse for using makeshift chimncys of single wall stovcpipc or "cattied" mud and stichs. Prefabricated, insulated chimneys are readily available, and their cost is low. Primitive homes or cabins often havc little or no available fire protection, which increases the danger of this expediency. In convcrsation with Matt Greenslade of the Portland Fire Bureau (Oregon), he indicated that the "lining of the [chimney] flue with stovepipl" (pp. 46-50) is especially dangerous when efficiency-oriented wood stoves are used. The expected accumulation of creosote contains formic acid, ',vhich rapidly corrodes rhe srovepipe. This book should be avoided by the wood-burning neophyte . -Bill Day Undergr o un d Design s, Malcolm Wells, I977, $6 from, Malcolm Wells Box 183 Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 Malcolm has been mumbling about the benefits of building underground for almost 15 years and he's done it more than probably any other architect since Ajanta. This book of his designs, thoughts and consrruction de tails shows how to-get sunlight into all rhe rooms, deal with codes, watcrproofing and insulation, structure and comfort. Along wirh Tbe IJse of Eartls-Coaered Buildings, this should give a pracrical srarr to people wanting to explore rhe energetic, ecological and spiritual advantages of warm, cozy living. TB 2 have occurred) lj7 w::w4 ll'r '' Aa, ,",ffi -*:," \ \ Wft
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- i August/September 1977 RAIN Page 11 I AM RAGE. I am a srorm, dark, heavv. omnipotcnt. I am unmitigated violence. I am fury, exploding, blinding lighrning, roanng thunder, howling wind. isurse' like the sea, unconrrollJle in .y ,^f.. , I am hot, volcano spewing rnott.ri hate. I am unstoppabli, she 6ear pro_ tecting my cubs. I am outraged, bu.k_ ling earth swallowing towns and cities whole. I am bombs guns knives kicks punches slaps insults. I am hurt impenetrable. I am hurt invulnerable. I tear my victims apart with talons and beak, claws and fangs. Like a female preying mantis, I eat my"lover's head as he penetrates me with our own species' destiny. I am concentrated death, angry rattlesnake. DON'T TREAD ON ME. I am mugger thief rapisr. I am greed murderlust. I am arson pillage wa"r. I am laughing whore smug dori juan bully con artist. I am mean cr-uel unfair. I am pain that strikes back. I am pain that won't cry, tears that hurt, unloved, alone, Anger is our re_ venge on the world for mistreating us. Anger-is our punishment to the injus_ tice of life. Angcr is our way of regain_ rng our potency and control. Anger can De a way to re-connect with the world. Anger^is, basically, away of being sepa_ rated trom our enormous hurt and cxpressed) expectations of them. The clearest way to express anger is in terms ot our unmet needs. The often used model for expressins anq€r (and orher ,,ncgarive,' fceiings) isl . I feel (emotion) when you (noiblameful description of tieir bebaaior) because (tangible effects on me). . .t*rpO1.' I fcel angry and disappointed when you cbarge me $2(i more to Jtx my car tban you estimated and it's still broken because I now neirber baae a car to driae to work or any money. , If we are unwilling to express Che hurt that we feel as ,.-rlg., to the people that we hold responsible, we can stili release that anger (which is psychologically and physically much heaithier tlan holding it in). We ian shout sromp curse kick punch pillow, we can get friJnds to b.e surrogates for the peJple we are mad at. Although n-on-speciiic anger release helps us to fcel bctter, in Jrdcr to let go of this anger we need to be aware of who we are angry with. Ex_ p-resslng our anger allows us to forgive. Hanging on ro angcr can be a *"y io malntaln dlstance with a person and/or to conrinuously punish them. F.ighting with a person can be a way ro a"itroy" the badness in a relationship . . . or to destroy the relationship. I was angry witb my friend. I-rold my uratb, my'wratb did end. t uas angry witb my loe. , ,o.1./.,,J. nL,t, m! ,iotb did gror. William Blake,,4 poison .t-ree vulnerabiliry. won't form. I am lifetimes of being abused misused, not understood. I have been the ill fortune of countless parents. I am the victim of all their impotency and fury. - I am angry beyond comprehension. I am canccr of rage, wirh no control I shout curse slam kick break threaten destroy kill. What to do with anser . . . Express you. rng".."If the anger is cur_ rent, we can express it towards the person(s), circumstance, machine, insti_ tution, thar wc are angry at. (NOTE: I Detleve that no one causes our anger. Other people and situations "r. , .?,^ lyst or exc-use for our getring ln tou.t wrrh rhar feeling which problbly is al_ ready.there. As anger is a way to auoid lsurt, burt can also be a ua.y to auoid anger.) , Ytny pcople are afraid to express their anger becausc they bclieve rhev will dcstroy the victimi of their ang!r. Many times I have heard smiling, aigry pcople say "l can't ger angry ar-him7 her. I'll hurt him/hci.,' Th"eie p.;;i; prefer to hurt themselves rarh;r than to release that h_urt by sharing i, *iiii ,f,." person thar they hold rcsp-onsiblc. Obviously, we arc angry b..rur. *. were not treated as we wanted. Someone did not meet our (expressed or unam revenge. am avenger. I am frail human being, unwilling to accepr my frailty. I am anger. What is Anger? Anger is our reacrion to feeling/being -Leaf Diamant Tbe SIIN, March 1977 E p. 129, l3o Urban Bikeway Design Collaborative 635 C St., N.E. Washington, DC 2OOO2 p. 155, 156 Maine Land Adaocate and Sam Elv Community Scrvices are at: P.O. Box 2762 183-ll2 Water St. Augusta, ME 04330 p. 169, t7o Food Co-op projcct 106 Girard Ave., S.E., No. I l0 Albuquerque, NM 87106 p.180 Madness Network News 558 Capp St. San Francisco, CA 94110 p.183 The clinic discount rate for Our Bodies, Ourselaes,is 75 percent, or $1.50 plus posrage. Inquire about the bulk oider rate for the Spanish translation. The llctmen's llealtb Neus Briefs is available for a donation of $10 only to g..;;;--- working with rvomen,s hcalth iro# the Boston Women's Flealth Book Collective, Box 192, Wcst Somerville. MA 02144. p. 194 Septic 'l-ank Practices now sclls for $3. P. 198 Earth Chronicles 811 N.W. 20rh Portland, oR 972lo p.208 Tbe Directory oJ'Nuclear Actiaists is available from: Environmental Action Re print Se rvice 2239 East Colfax Denver, CO 80206 p.221,225 Climatic Data Reference List is now $2.50. p.226 Tbe Food- and Ileat-producing Solar Greenbouse, by Bill yanda ,ni Ri.k Fisher, is no,,v $6.50. p.242 American Wind Encrgy Assn. 54468 CR 3t Bristol, IN 46507
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August/September I977 RAIN page 13 F, Steel, rs of Mind entire predicament of any power situation. And this quietness of mind will in truth give you more power. One of the secrets of living within a very tense power struggle is the ability to kee p a certain detached humor about your own predicament-not a cynical humor and not a humor of defense, but a cosmic humor of seeing the delight in the dance of life. You will also find that the whole heaviness of power relationships is lessened if you do not get emotionally lost in the power struggles, if you can see the essence or soul beyond the power trip in another being. You are only able to see that in another human being when you can see it in yourself. That is why again and again we emphasize meditation as a vehicle for finding your own dee per spiritual identity. A secret of power relationships is non-activity; that is, not jumping into a reaction for every action of another. your ability to not reacr immediately, and get lost in an immediate reaction, is helped considerably by the use of mantra. For example, when somebody swears at you, instead of reacting to their swearing immediately, you withdraw momentarily inside your mantra and it allows you an instant in which to see the entire predicament you're stuck in, including, perhaps, the fact that it is that individual's frustration that is causing them to lash out. For when you can see that someone else's anger and frustration is their karmic predicament, and only if you get caught in an instant reaction does it become yours you learn how not to buy everything. In that space you can see that if you react immediately, you might make the situation worse, while if you can allow at leasr a moment of quietncss before your reaction, perhaps you can redirect the wholc tonc of the situation into a more positive and productive one. It is that moment of inner silence which you can develop-at first only at momenrs now and then-but ultimately-that moment is every moment and you sit quietly and gently at rest within your being. . 'l'here is the story of thc Buddha and rwo young disciples whose fathcr was very irritated bccause he had wanted them to go into his business. IIc came to the Buddha, and screamed at great length; swore at him for some thirty or forty minutcs. 'lhc Buddha sat quie tly. Whe n the man had finished, the Buddah said, "Sir, in your home , when somcone brings a gift and you do not acccpr it, what happens?" -I'he man said, ,;Wcll, then thcy musr take back the gift and keep it themselves." Buddha said, "Well, I do not accepr your gift." That is, the Buddha did not accept the anger of the man; he left the anger with the man for he himself did not collect it by reacting. ihat is the secret of the quiet mind. . For example, let us say that you are Iiving with somcone who is angry and frustrated and constantly flrovoking, and attempting to irritate you. The first 1,000 times you gct lost in reaction. You just can't stand it and you ycll back ix ynu beat up on them or you rear up their stuff or you get fuiious, and the adrenalin pumps through you for thc firsi l,OoO times. And each time after you've donc it, you sxy, ,,Oh shit, I got lost in it; I blew it again; I forgot; I got caught in rcacting; he got to me ." But thc winner is no1 nccelssarily ihc pcrson who has the last word, but thc person who retains hi.s pcace and his closeness to God. So each time you forgct, whcn you rememtrer, you say, "Oh, I blew it, well, ncxt timc maybe I'll do be ttcr," and the re will be anothcr opportunity, and another and another. Maybe one in twenty iimes you will be able to stay quiet through the provocation-and whcn the arrow comes, you will be able ro send back, if not lovc, at least neutrality. When you'rc rcaliy good at this game, you will be able to convert the person's negative energy, ;ot to ncutral energy but even to positivc cncrgy for both your use and his. Thcn you'll be able to take someone 's anger and scnd it bacl< to them as love. fakc the same encrgy they scnd in spitting words of vcnom, take the ncgativity out of it, offer ii up, - convert it, and see that possibly thcy arc frightcncd, paincci, frustrated individuals who are angry, nor ar you, but at their situation-and that you're just thc obje ct that's most availablc on which they can vcnt thcir splcen. So the process of learning hor,v to not react is donc through constzrnt repctitive confrontation with irn irritant, with somc, thing that will elicit that rcaction until finally you havc learned how ro let it go tbrougb you just as if you wcrc a u; E o F c I l
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