Page 2 RAIN is a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environ· mental Education Grant The office is at Environmental Education Center, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Or. 97207. (503) 229-4692 Usual deadline for material: 18th of each month Eco-Net/Energy Center/OMS! Charles Auch 248-5929 Bob Phillips 248-5929 Lee Johnson 248-5929 Marcia Lynch 248-5920 Rusty Whitney 248-5903 Dean Ivy 248-5941 Mary Lawrence 248-5940 J RAIN/EEC (503) 229-4692 David Heath (typesetting) Anita Helle Steve Johnson (editor) Mary Wells (layout, design) EEC (503) 229-4682 Randi Krogstad Don Stotler Laura Williamson Initials after entries are those of contributors listed in credits. This issue thanks also to: · Bob Benson Mark Musick Carol Costello Steve Schnieder Ed Goehring Julie Seltz Ancil Nance Jack Eyerly r ~r Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Ancil Nance CORRECTION FOR RAINI/1, page 13, entry for Coos County Carrying Capacity: "Mary Pederson" should have been "Larry Peterson." MEDIA GUIDE An arrangement with the Center for Urban Education, to publish their excellent, justcompleted media suiVey of Portland, got entangled. We will be sending it out soon to Northwest Rain readers. Others may write and request copies. c;GRICULTURE ·F009) People and Land Center for Rural Studies 345 Franklin St. San Francisco, Calif. 94102 Periodical, 50¢ an issue. Covering land reform ideas, movements, legislative action. Excellent design and arrangement of information. "What is money? It comes quickly and is spent and gone. But the land is there forever. What good is money compared with land? If land is torn up, if the water is taken, our people will staiVe." (Mina Lansa, Hopi leader) International Independence Institute, Inc. West Road, Box 183 Ashby, Ma. 01431 (61 7) .386-5358 Since 1967 providing people with information and consultation about land tenure, reform, land trusts, credit and financing, intermediate technology, and small scale farming and business enterprises. Ask for publications list, and sample newsletter (which is $1 0/year). The Padfic Homestead Published in the early 1900's out of Salem, Oregon. An agricultural tabloid. Family Storage Plan· Bookcraft Publishers 1848 w. 2300 s. Salt Lake City, Utah 84120 $1.95. From the Mormons, who have prac· ticed storage as an alternative insurance for years. How to Grow More Vegetables Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula 2251 El Camino Real Palo Alto, Cal. 94306 Recommended to me by a friend who grew his stuff this year following the book's suggestions with real success. November; 1974 Ceres Bimonthly Periodical of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Powers International, Inc. 551 5th Ave. New York, N.Y. 10017 $6/yr. There is an intemational food crisis, and here's a periodical giving you some of the stories. Also contact Friends of the Earth, 529 Commercial St, San Francisco, Cal 94111. Through their Rome Food Eco. project, hoping to present information to the World Food Conference happening in Rome this month. Farm Town, A Memoir of the 193O's Photographs by J.W. McManigal; text and additional photos, Grant Heilman. Stephen Greene Press Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 $7.95 Photographic portrayal of the depression and rural life. Soybeans have become the leading U.S. export, surpassing sales of wheat, corn, and even high technology products, like computers. America produces twothirds of the world's soybean crop, and supplies 90% of all soybeans entering the world market. · The Magic of Findhorn Gardens Paul Hawken, East West journal 3t Farnsworth St. Boston, Mass. 02210 Peter and Eileen Caddy through communication with an assortment of gods, or voices, or strange impersonal mental communications, began Findhom in 1962. Pan and 4Q-lb. cabbages, harmony and unsettling your normal feeling;; about agriculture. When you gets down to your last bean, your backbone and your navel shakes dice to see which gits it.
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