September/October 1984 RAIN Page 29 On August 1, RAIN left the Rainhouse. We spent the month of July sorting through nine years of books, periodicals, reports, and personal belongings collected by the numerous staff members who used the Rainhouse. We recycled three tons of back issues, and a few more tons of other paper. But don't worry—we've saved all the useful material (and some of questionable value) for the Rain Community Resource Center. We've moved across the river to Northeast Portland. Our new home is the Eliot Energy House, an energy-efficient demonstration house we described in the March/April 1984 issue of RAIN ("Burden of Dreams: Building Community with A.T."). We will continue to publish the magazine, and we will also operate a resource center focusing on energy, food, agriculture, and appropriate technology in the Eliot Energy House. Drop by for a tour! From now on, you can reach us at our new address: RAIN, 3116 North Williams Avenue, Portland, OR 97227. This summer. Rain Community Resource Center is once again providing technical assistance to Southeast Asian refugees in running a community garden and a small truck farm. Vegetables from the truck farm are being sold to the largest organic-produce distributor in the Portland area. Vegetables are also being RAINDROPS RAIN HAS MOVED! sold at the Portland Farmer's Market, which is co-sponsored by Rain and Responsible Urban Neighborhood Technology, the owner of the Eliot Energy House. The farmer's market is open every Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm, at North Williams Avenue and Knott Street in Northeast Portland. Drop by and purchase some quality, locally grown produce at low prices. —RB We've been doing some thinking about this much-celebrated notion of "self- reliance." Obviously, it is something we promote here at RAIN, along with its companion principles of decentralization, decreased specialization, and import substitution. But the promotion of self- reliance as a Good Thing raises several questions: For any particular thing, at what level does self-reliance make sense? At the household level? The community? The bioregion? The nation? How do we determine where import substitution is appropriate? In any given case, what is gained by replacing imports with local production? What is lost? How do we evaluate the trade-offs? What are the factors that must be taken into account? Over the next couple of months we will continue to think about these sorts of questions and solicit opinions from friends and colleagues. If you have any ideas or know of any resources that would contribute to the discussion, please send them in. Once we have gathered and synthesized enough ideas to substantially clarify the issues, we will write something up in RAIN. We're shooting for the Jan/Feb issue, so send in your ideas by November 1. Send to F. Lansing Scott, RAIN, 3116 North Williams, Portland, OR 97227. —FLS Index to RAIN Volume X Vol. IX, No. 6/Vol. X, No. 1, October/ November 1983 (64 PP) Special 10th Anniversary Issue The Magazine from Ecotopia: A Look Back at the First RAIN Decade, by John Ferrell, 5 The State of the Umbrella, by Rob Baird, 10 The State of the Movement: Energy, by Amory and Hunter Lovins, 12 Economic Development, by Harriet Barlow, 16 Shelter, byTom Bender, 16 Agriculture, by Mark Musick, 18 Information/Communications, by Sandy Emerson, 19 Recycling, by Judy Roumpf & jerry Powell, 21 Bioregronal Planning, by Michael Helm, 22 Between the Cutting Edge and the Flaky Fringe: An Unorthodox Index to RAIN, compiled by Steve Johnson, 24 Remembrance of Themes Past, 26 Sharing Smaller Pies, by Tom Bender, 28 An Open Letter to the Ecological Movement, by Murray Bookchin, 32 Access Excess: A RAIN Parody, 36 Rainmakers; Where Are They Now?, by Ann Borquist, 38 Rainmakers Look at the Future, compiled by Jeff Strang, 40 Rainmakers' Favorite Books, by John Ferrell, 42 A.T. in Oregon; Conservation Innovation, 44 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 48 Taking Pictures and Taking Souls, by Tom Bender, 64 Vol. X, No. 2, January/February 1984 (40 pp.) Bridging Hemispheres: Peace Through Communications, an interview with Joel Schatz, 5 Exploring the Globe: A 1:8,000,000 Replica of Planet Earth, by Than James, 12 Creating Nuclear Free Communities, by Don Skinner, 20 Tinkering and Informing: Appropriate Technology in Action, by Kris Nelson and Ann Borquist, 26 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 30 Vol. X, No. 3, March/April 1984 (40 pp.) “It Beats Reading Cereal Boxes"; Readers Reflect on RAIN, by Than James, 4 Avoiding the CRUCC: Creating a Community Currency, excerpt from The Handbook of Tools for Community Economic Change, 10 Hidden Costs of Housing, by Tom Bender, 12 Burden of Dreams: Building Community with A.T., Meg Roland, 20 Voices of Reinhabitation: The Prairie Bioregion, 28 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 30 Vol. X, No. 4, May/june 1984 (40 pp.) Acupuncture: Balancing the Patterns, by Tanya Kucak, 6 Profile of Dr. Henry K. S. Wong, by Nancy Cosper, 9 When is Acupuncture Appropriate?, by Tanya Kucak, 9 Dragons of (Democracy (in Spain?): Lessons from the Mondragon Co-ops, by Scott Androes, 14 ATimely Prescription for Healthy Forests, excerpt from The Forest Farmer's Handbook: A Guide to Natural Selection Forest Management, 18 Notions of Community; Skeptical Activist Explores Community Roots, by Steven Rudman, 20 Findhorn at 21, by Steve Rudman, 22 Culture, Land, and Education at Chinook, by Mimi Maduro, 24 A Bioreglonal Vision, by Kirkpatrick Sale, 28 Voices of Reinhabitation: Southern Appalachia, 30 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 32 Vol. X, No. 5, luly/August 1984 (40 pp.) Ecology as the Basis of Design: Salt Marsh Restoration and Cathedral as Bioshelter, excerpts from Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming, by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd, 4 Itching to Learn about Ethnobotany?, by Cathy Baker, 10 Weaving Green Threads: Holistic Politics in the U S., excerpt from Green Politics, by Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak, 12 Plugging Leaks in Local Economies, by Kris Nelson, 15 Mudpies and Mosques, by Jeff Strang and Tanya Kucak, 19 Japans Dying Pines: Fukuoka's Last Straw, by Alfred Quarto, 22 Jumping onto the Micro Wave: Computer Co-ops, by Timothy Clark and Beverly Stein, 26 Voices of Reinhabitation: TheOzarks,28 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 30 Vol. X, No. 6, September/October 1984 (40 pp.) Special Issue: Art in Everyday Life Art in Everyday Life, by Tanya Kucak, 2 We Have No Art—We Do Everything As Well As We Can, by Tanya Kucak, 3 Bamboo in Everyday Life, by Tanya Kucak, 9 Bamboo as a Building Material, by Mary Vogel and Gail Vittori, 11 Bringing Life to Communities: Cultural Animation, by Bill Flood, 14 The New Deal: Community Arts Applied, by Bill Flood, 18 High Culture, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, by F. Lansing Scott, 19 Cultural Work in Syracuse, by Dik Cool, 24 Holly Near and Cultural Work, by Tanya Kucak, 25 Public Art and Community Cardens, by Paul Winkeller, 27 Bioregional Congress Unites Movemen. ^>v Kris Nelson, 31 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report, 32
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