construction evaluation, what public officials can do to start a compost program, solving the landfill crisis, improving the economics of composting, odor control, building markets for ~Judge compost, and wastewater recycling in southeast Florida. The $195 registration fee includes field trips to.a sewage-sludge composting facility, research center, and wastewater treatment plants. The workshop is sponsored by Biocycle magazine and the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation. Contact Biocycle, Box 351, Emmaus, PA 18049; 215 /967-4135. The Columbia Willamette Futures Forum (CWFF).is presenting its second annual Critical Choices '84 conference on November . 16-17 at Portland State University in Portlanc!, Oregon. This year, the conference will focus on the future of regional services in the areas of libraries, parks, and transportation. Contact Carol Kelsey, Conference Coordinator, CWFF/ CUE, 0245 SW Bancroft, Portland, OR 9720.1; 503/221-0984. Interested in'nutrition? Learn more at a conference on The Ecology of Nutrition on November 3 at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon. The conference will present an exciting, innovative, and multidisciplinary look at nutrition, offering physiological, environmental, and c~ltural perspectives on what we eat and why we eat it. Registration fees are $15 (full-time students) and $20 (community professionals). Contact . Paul Katz, Continuation Center, Univers·ity of Oregon, 333 Oregon Hall, Eugene, OR 97403. Environmental Consultants in Asia-The conclusions reached at the international conference E11viro11111e11.t and Develop111e11t: The Future for Consulting Finns i11 Asia, help.February 14-17, 1984, ip Singapore, are now available from the World Environment Center. The market for consulting engineers is changing in Asia. There will be fewer big contracts and many more smaller ones. One of the fastest growing areas for consulting firms to expand is in the area of integrated environmental planning and training. The current need for new environmental skills, and the nature of those needs and skills, is shown in several case histories, and is thoroughly discussed in the 40 papers and panel and workshop reports in the 345-page conference p.roceedings. The proceedings are available for $85 plus postage and handling ($5, North America; $15, elsewhere). World Environment Center, Department E, 605 Third Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10158; 212/986-7208 (Libby Bassett). Software for Nutrition-The Center for Science in the Public Interest is the only publisher of educat~onal software that takes on· the controversies of nutrition and the environ- . ment from a consumer's point of view. The two programs, Nutri-Bytes a11d Eco-Paradise, entertain as well as inform. They each portray researched facts in the political and economic context of current events. Both programs are November/December 1984 RAIN Page 37 A two-day conference for women in business will be held October 26-27 at Jantzen Beach Thunderbird in Portland, Oregon. The Northwest Women's Business Ownership Conference will have two distinct educational tracks, one for women business owners and one for managers/professionals. However, you are not limited to only one track. Speakers include Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR); Patricia Nettleship, President of North Pacific Construction Company; Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR); and ~oya Lear of Lear Fan, Ltd. RUSH designed for ages 12 and older. Contact .D'J\nne DuBois, Assistant Marketing Director, CSPI, 1501 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Superinsulation-The Superinsulation Information Service offers numerous services, including: a twice-monthly newsletter of superinsulated construction techniques, products, policy issues and events; a publication distribution service; various seminars; design and construction consulting and a professional-services listing. For more information, contact Superinsulation Service, 56 JFK Street, Suite 7, Cambridge, MA 02138; 617/ 497-1453. Contact U.S. Small Business Administration, Room 676, 1220 SW 3rd, Portland, OR 97204. Newsletter Editing, Design and Production is an intensive one-day seminar that focuses on newsletters as a representative printed piece. The seminar runs on October 30-31 in Boston, November 7-8 in San Francisco and November 13-14 in Los Angeles. This seminar will teach you ways to improve all your promotional materials. Contact Promotional.Perspectives, PO Box 7341, Ann Arbor, MI 48107. Free Science Resources-The U.S. Library of Congress offers a series of free bibliographies on various scientific subjects, including several on horticultural topics, such as herbs, edible wild plants, and organic gardening. These "LC Science Tracer Bullets" direct novices to readily available materials, including texts, bibliographies, abstracting services, and organizations. For .a list of the su.bjects covered by the LC Science Tracer Bullets, contact the Science Reference Section, Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress, 10 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540. Illich !Wetwork-lvan Illich-author of Deschooling Society, Medical Nemesis, Energy and Equity, Tools for Conviviality, and other booksvisited Maine this summer to participate in the Institute on Democratic Alternatives. At the institute, he asked TRANET, a quarterly newsletter, to introduce a new page dedicated to drawing attention to trends of thought that question the assumptions common to large and small technologies: "We should question the assumption that information should be managed, be it for control or enablement. We should question the assumption that the world constitutes a resource to be managed, whether by the people themselves or by elites that dominate them." The items listed on the Illich page will be new publications, republications, or new studies or biographies that view the
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