September/October 1984 RAIN Page 37 CALENDAR Grassroots food experts from all parts of the earth will meet in Rome, November 12-20, to examine food projects, programs, and policies, and to make recommendations to the U.N. and other governmental agencies. The World Food Assembly 1984 will explore the relation of food policies to nutrition, health, and people's welfare; evaluate sociopolitical and economic aspects of local food supply; and comment on assistance provided by governmental organizations. The organizing committee invites local grassroots organizations to prepare case studies of their own food situations—topics may include agriculture, marketing, purchasing, storing, transportation, nutrition, and consumption. World Food Assembly 1984, 15 Devonshire Terrace, London W2, United Kingdom; orTRANET, PO Box 567, Rangeley, ME 04970; 207/864- 2252. “The Small Community: Foundation of Democratic Life," is the subject of this year's Community Service Conference to be held November 9-11 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dr. Donald Harrington, Chairman of the Liberal Party in New York; Ernest Morgan from Celo, North Carolina; and possibly Mark Olson, rural sociologist from Ithaca, New York, will be the resource people. Contact Community Service, PO Box 243, Yellow Springs, OH 45387; 513/767-2161 or 767-1461.' Columbus, Ohio, is the site of the Ninth National Passive Solar Conference, September 26-28. Contact the American Solar Energy Society, 1230 Grandview Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302. On October 10-12, you can attend the Third National Recycling Congress in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Contact National Recycling Coalition, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2350, New York, NY 10020. Find out about new trends in urban development at a seminar entitled, "The New Generation of Community Building: Vanguard Projects and Public Responses in the Mid-80s," September 10-11, in Washington, DC. Contact the Urban Land Insdtute, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005; 202/289- 8500. The city of Atlanta has been selected as the site of a major performing arts concert on behalf of worldwide nuclear disarmament. Atlanta shares this distinction with Leningrad, USSR, which will be the site of an identical concert two weeks earlier. The dates will be September 21 at the Leningrad Sports Arena, and October 7 at the Atlantic Civic Center. The concerts will be given by Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament International. The enhre week preceding the Atlanta concert will be proclaimed by Mayor Andrew Young as a week of concern for nuclear disarmament and world peace. For further information, contact Chip Simone, Atlanta Coordinator, PAND International, Suite 400,151 Ellis Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303; 404/658-6691. Find out about the newest advances in renewable energy technology, solar design, and energy policy at the annual solar conference of the Solar Energy Association of Oregon. The conference will be held in Beaverton, Oregon, September 14-15, and will feature workshop sessions on computer-aided energy design, daylighting, superinsulation, new wood-stove regulations, microhydro, and energy-project financing. Contact Allen Brown, Solar Energy Association of Oregon, 2637 SW Water Avenue, Portland, OR 97201; 503/224-7867. "Across the Border: Transboundary Environmental Issues in the Pacific Northwest" will be the theme of the Third Annual Conference of the Northwest Association of Environmental Studies. The conference, to be held on the campus of the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, November 1-3, will cover the topics of air pollution/acid rain, water and wildlife, public involvement and consultation, offshore oil exploration and development, fisheries, and forestry. Several field trips are also offered, including ocean kayaking, beach walks, tours of salmon enhancement facilities, ethnobotanical guided tours, and salmon fishing. Further information and conference registration forms are available from University Extension Conference Office, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, B.C., V8W2Y2, Canada. The campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, will be the site of a sustainable agriculture conference sponsored by the Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), October 12-14. The focus of the 2Vz-day conference will be on techniques, research, and information applicable to farming in the northern Great Plains and northern Rocky Mountains. Twenty-two speakers will be featured, covering topics ranging from biological weed control to woodlot management. For further information on registration, fees, and scheduling, contact AERO, 324 Fuller C-4, Helena, MT 59601; 406/ 443-7272. Mediation, policy dialogue, and other consensus-building techniques will be the focus of the Second National Conference on Environmental Dispute Resolution, to be held October 1-2 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Conservation Foundation, a nonprofit research and communications organization, the conference will introduce alternative methods for settling disputes, covering public-interest litigation, intergovernmental disputes, hazardous wastes, and water resources. Speakers will include Jay D. Hair of the National Wildlife Federation, William D. Ruckelshaus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Louis Fernandez of Monsanto Corporation. Contact The Conservation Foundation, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036. To bring together leaders in the natural foods industry, holistic health, physical fitness, and personal awareness. Networks magazine and the Philadelphia Health and Fitness Expo are sponsoring the first Philadelphia Health and Fitness Expo, October 27-28, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expo will feature 150 exhibits, workshops, and lectures in the areas of fitness, stress management, whole foods and nutrition, education, natural cosmetics, preventive health care, body-building, and longevity. Contact Philadelphia Health and Fitness Expo, South 415 Park Towne Place, 22nd and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130; 215/569-0770. Recognizing that energy efficiency is an important economic development opportunity, the Nebraska Energy Office is inviting "accomplished scholars and policy-makers" to participate in an interdisciplinary national colloquium on "Community Energy Management as an Economic Development Strategy," October 14-16, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The colloquium will examine planning and management techniques, community-scale approaches to applying conservation and renewable energy technologies, and the financial or economic implications involved in using these strategies. Sponsors are the Department of Community and Regional Planning and the Community and Resource Center, both of the University of Nebraska. Contact Skip Laitner, Nebraska Energy Office, PO Box 95085, Lincoln, NE 68509-5085; 402/ 471-2867. Venice, Italy, will be the site of the International Anarchist Gathering, September 24-30. Central to the gathering will be a conference of studies, entitled "1984: Authoritarian Tendencies and Libertarian Tensions in Contemporary Societies," sponsored by the Libertarian Study Centre of Milan and the Anarchos Institute of Montreal. Themes addressed at the conference will include war and peace, the practice of selfmanagement, and the ecology of freedom. Among the expected participants are Colin Ward, Murray Bookchin, and Joel Spring, You can obtain a complete program of events by writing to the Libertarian Study Centre, Viale Monza 225, 20126 Milan, Italy. Errata—In the July/August issue, there were a couple of errors in the article "Plugging Leaks in Local Economies." First, the population of Tacoma Park, Maryland, is 16,231 (not 1,231). Second, ARABLE—the Association for Regional Agriculture Building the Local Economy—of Eugene, Oregon, has not invested in Working Assets, nor has Working Assets invested in ARABLE. In fact, the possibilities are still under discussion.
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