Page 2 RAIN is a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded b by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education Grant. The office is at Environmental Education Center, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Or. Or., 97207. (503) 229-4692 Usual deadline for material: 18th of each month. ECO -NET/Energy Center/OMSI (503) 2: ":;~~ Charles Auch 248-5929 Linda Craig 248-5941 Dean Ivy 248-5929 Marcia Lynch 248-5920 Mary Lawrence 248-5940 Bob Phillips 248-5929 Rusty Whitney 248-5903 RAIN/EEC (503) 229-4692, 229-4683 Anita Helle Lee Johnson Steve Johnson (editor) Mary Wells (layout, design) EEC (503) 229-4682 Randi Krogstad Don Stotler Laura Williamson Cover Photo: Ancil Nance Typesetting: Irish Setter THANKS TO: Mary J o Anderson Julie Seltz Bill Bree Randy Skoog Casey Burns Fred Wiebe €GRICULTURE·Foo9} Jay Glatt, a director of the Oregon Dept. of Agriculture development program, will lead a five-member sales team representing U.S. agricultural products to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait in March, 1975. The cadre will display products in provided facilities as well as attend puissant business engagements. Oregon-Washington Farmers' Union 215 Front St. N.E. Salem, Or. 97301 The monthly publication ($1/yr. $10 for membership) is increasingly aware of alternatives, choices, crisis in energy and agriculture. Interest in general is in helping the small farmer survive. Recel)tly the Consumer Power League has taken over the back page. February 1975 RAIN RAIN is a monthly bulletin board. As stuff comes our way by phone, mail, feet, hands and mouth we make entries, abstracts, paragraphs. We emphasize environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information; and we are interested in the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections. Our geographic emphasis is the Pacific Northwest, though our prejudi-ce will be Oregon, and more specifically Portl~d. You can correct our bias by your feedback, sending us information on projects, exciting books, pieces, newsletters, ideas, photos, corrections. Positions and Situations is a place for you to locate others, more or less without our editorial intervention. If you are thinking about thinking about doing something here's the place to find next steps and connections. We have spent nearly as much time constructing our mailing list, as compiling the newsletter. It is presently composed of environmental educators, people doing energy related research, other newsletters, other centers, community organizers, governmental and private environmentally related groups and agencies. If you have other persons you think should receive RAIN, drop us a note. Why you may not be entered: We 'on't know about you, you are lost in brown boxes and manila envelopes, or we ran out of time and space. You will notice initials following some entries: The person submitting the entry is found in the list of contributors. In addition to RAIN, during the year we expect to publish: 1) City Survival, a short directory (or series) to information resources in Portland, 2). A Directory of Environmental Information Resources in the Paczfic Northwest, 3) How To Sheets, guides to getting things done, like how to find your way through governmental bureaucracies, 4) An Access Guide, to materials at EEC/Energy Center. Please mention RAIN when asking for information from individuals and groups, as it then encourages those people to keep us posted. The Organic Directory Prepared by Rodale Press Emmaus, Pa. 18049 $2.95 A 150-page directory to hundreds of natural foods, health foods outlets. 100page introduction includes general nutritional information, how to shop, food co-ops and conspiracies (how to start). Seedling stocks, according to Daryl Ray, state forest nursery manager, are running low, with no stock left of ponderosa pine, incense cedar, grand fir, black locust or hybrid poplar. Oregon 1973 timber harvest totals: 9.3 billion board feet (compared to 9.6 billion in 1972). Of that total: 3.5 billion from state forest lands, 1.5 billion Bureau of Land Management, 3.8 billion U.S. Forest Service lands,94.5 million Bureau of Indian Affairs. TILTH Rt. 5, Box 699 Shelton, Wn. 98584 (S.J.) The Agriculture Conference Directory is nearing completion. Maybe the first week of February. Copies will be distributed to conference attendees first. Forbes magazine, Nov. 1, 1974, reported that 800,000 living units were torn down in 1973 nationally ... if the U.S. builds at an annual rate of 1.6 million units, it means a net gain of only 800,000 units. Canned food as investment portfolio. The Sunday Telegraph, an English newspaper, has suggested to its readers that they put their money where their mouths are-"you can't eat share certificates, and you can't eat fine art. But a portfolio of food will always have an alternative use."
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