Page 2 RAIN is a publication of Eco-Net, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Family Foundation and an Environmental Education Grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The office is at the Environmental Education Center, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 97207. Director: Don Stotler. Energy Center I Oregon Museum of Science and Industry 4015 S.W. Canyon Rd., Portland, Or. 97221 503-248-5900 or 248-5920 Linda Craig, Lee Johnson, Mary Lawrence, Shabtay Levy, Rusty Whitney, Rick Siewert RAIN I Environmental Education Center Portland State University Portland, Or. 97221 (Room 317, Lincoln Hall) 229-4692 Anita Helle, Lee Johnson, Steve Johnson (editor), Mary Wells (layout, design) Environmental Education Center Portland State University Portland, Or. 97207 (Room 373, Lincoln Hall) 229-4682 Randi Krogstad, Don Stotler Cover Photo: Ancil Nance Typesetting: Irish Setter ~PLEASE NOTE Laura Williamson, former manager of the Environmental Education Center, is now working at OSPIRG coordinating the work of student interms. She can be reached there: 408 S.W. 2nd, Portland, Or. 97204. (503) 222-9641. Rain~7 cover. Steve, Anita, and Lee sharing a small pie. Sorry, bad print job. €GRICULTURE · FOO~ Alternative Market Newsletter P.O. Box 554 Republic, Wn. 99166 An outgrowth of the Nov. '74 agriculture conference. The newsletter serves as a vehicle of communication among food coops, food producers and small trucking groups. The first issue has a listing of over 100 food coops in the northwest. RAIN UPDATE First things first. We are in the process of hiring a person to help us set up the subscription base for RAIN (will be hired by the time you read this). We are taking time, so please bear with us, especially those of you who may not want to be receiving RAIN or thos~ of you receiving several copies. It's a large task to sift through the mailing list, and, as presently staffed, we barely have time to make corrections and additions as they come in. But it will for sure happen before the next issue. A curious stage of development. It seems that the information flowing our way comes in waves. For example, this month we got notices of several women's consciousness groups, review copies of books about women, etc. And I don'.t really have an explanation, but we're not in a position right now to judge such materials. We expect to do a top to bottom, side to side analysis of RAIN's scope, come up with editorial guidelines, etc., but it will probably have to wait till this summer when we can look at it from a discrete distance. The same is true for other subject areas: some areas of information we've dropped temporarily (such as games) because we were deluged with press releases about new teaching aid/games with inadequate background to judge, review, select. We are interested in some of the subject areas we've temporarily banned, but we feel we should sit back for awhile, stUdy the area and/or find someone with the necessary background to act as sub-editor. In general: it is very difficult for us to respond to skeletal press release-type information, especially in regard to books, magazines, etc, and when we've had no previous contact with the sender. Sometimes we will enter the information when it seems the resource is sufficiently unique-one of a kind. But, please, if you can afford it, send as complete information as possible. The RAIN Catalog is in process. We are researching the areas of information we've covered so far in RAIN and updating, correcting. Most importantly, we are filling out the information base to form the sections into introductory guides. If you would like to help in this process, write to us about resources we've failed to mention, or write telling us what areas you might be able to help with. Trees of Washington \L Cooperative Extension Service College of Agriculture Washington State University · Pullman, Wn. 99163 Revised. Free. 41 pp. Bulletin No. 440. American Farmers and the Rise of Agribusiness: Seeds of Struggle. Arno Press New York Times Co. 330 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y. 10017 Arno is an established reprint publishing house, and this collection, which in total (46 books) costs $1,200, is obviously a library purchase. (Editions may be bought separately but not inexpensively.) For anyone doing research on the politics of agriculture in the U.S., this is an important collection. (Write for description of the books in collection.) They have also made available the Annual Agriculture Economics bibliographies which were published by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture from 1929 to 1942. Steve johnson The Hows and Whys of Food Coops Environmental Action Bulletin 33 E. Minor St. Emmaus, Pa. 19049 March 22, 1975 issue. Devoted to survey of food cooperative ventures around the country; regional buying networks, and description of Pumpkin Sour and other canning cooperatives, started by the Ball Corporation. (Joel M. jackson, Food Preservation Program, Ball Corporation, 1509 Macedonia Ave., Muncie, Indiana 47302.) Organic Farming Yearbook of Agriculture, edited by Ray Wolf. $2.9S ppbk from: Rodale Press Organic Park Emmaus, Pa. 18049 How large-scale commercial organic farmers are flourishing amidst high fertilizer and pesticide costs, increased insect and weed resistance, drought and soil erosion. From "What it is" to animal manure, sewage sludge, weed and bug solutions, and marketing. You'lllearn a lot just reading the index in the back.
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