Page 38 RAIN November/December 1984 historical foundations of the present critically. Susan Hunt of Maine, a close colleagu~ of Illich, will edit this section. Contributors will include Wolfgang Sachs (Italy), Jean Robert (Mexico), John McKnight (Illinois), John Ohliger (Wisconsin), and Ivan Illich (West Germany). TRANET's winter newsletter will contain the first Illich page, which will focus on publications analyzing paradigms that shape our daily lives and our futures. TRAN ET, a quarterly newsletter and directory, is available for $30/year from TRANET, PO Box 567, Rangeley, ME 04970. Quinua, Staple Food in the Andes-Quinua is becoming a prospect for a human. food staple. It is, according to agricultural development specialist David F. Cusack, a grain that has been grown and eaten by people in the Andes since-the days of the Incas. Quinua remains the mainstay for over 10 million farmers in South America. It can grow under harsh ecological conditions-high altitudes, relatively poor soil, low rainfall and cold temperatures-unlike other major cereal grains. Quinua is being studied and tested in Colorado by Sierra Blanca Associates, a nonprofit research and educational organization. The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture, with funding from Canada's International Development Research Center, is trying to revive quinua in the Andes as the main crop rather than encourage the farmers to bring in new crops. It is also working to develop new markets, as quinua is not a popular food among wealthy South Americans. The new market target is the U.S. Quinua has a good taste, it is easy to prepare, and it is versatile. A Bolivian woman has put togeth~r a recipe book entitled A Thousaiid DclicaciL'S of Quinua. Contact David F. Cusack, Sierra Blanca Associates, 75 Manhattan Drive, Suite 4, Bmilder, CO 80303. Native Calendar-Akwcsasnc Notes is celebrating its 16th Anniversary as a journal for native and natural people with its 1985 calendar. The calendar contains 1.2 color plates by four wellknown artists who represent different parts of this country. The artists are Linda Lomabaftewa, Hopi Nation; Kahionhes John Fadden, Mohawk Nation; Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Flathead Nation; and Harry Fonseca, Maidu Nation. The proceeds, after production costs and a 25% royalty to.be shared by the four artists, will go into the newly established Akwesasne Notes Building Fund. The calendars are $8.50 each. Akwesasne Notes Calendar 1985, Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk N11tion via Rooseveltown, NY 13683. Seed Search Internships-Students interested in a 3- to 4-week intensive work-study internship in Tucson, Arizona, are invited to send a letter and resume indicating their period of availability; long-term interests and scholastic major; skills in gardening, marketing, agriculture or plant ecology,·data inventory, or journalism; and living requirements. Activities include propagation of desert-adapted crops and their wild relatives, rare wild-plant population monitoring and seed collection and documentation, seed storage in gene banks, and newsletter and display development. Arrangements for college credit will be,made. Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit, taxexempt conservation, education, and research organization devoted to useful plant diversity in the Southwest U.S. and Northwest Mexico. Contact Karen Reichhardt, Native Seeds'/ · SEARCH, 3950 West New York Drive, Tucson, AZ 85745; 602/628-1425. 'Deeds Not Words'-Service Civil International (SCI) was'founded in 1920 by Swiss engineer Pierre Ceresole, whose original work camp brought togetber former enemies from World War II to reconstruct the war-devastated village of Verdun. Through "deeds not . . words," Ceresole envisioned a way to replace compulsory military service ~ith constructive voluntary service. For the past 60 years, SCI has been a nonprofit, self-sustaining group promoting peace and international understanding through voluntary work. SCI has no government, political, or religious 'affiliation. Each year, the SCI network encompasses about 350 work camps. In 1983 more than 10,000 volunteers were active in projects in over 50 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. SCI supports local work groups, educational activities, and long-term projects as well as the work camps. Contact SCI/USA, PO Box 3333, New York, NY 10185. Bishops for A.T.-In Canada recently, a committee of Catholic bishops published two reports advocating the decentralization of industry and the use of appropriate "human" technologies. A copy of the second report can be obtaine? for approximately $3 U.S. from the Chancery Office, Catholic Charities Building, 150 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 2A7, Canada; 604/683-0281. Long Island Cooperatives-The Human Link, in the New York CHy area, is a new group of people researching cooperative working and living options. Its goals are to inform the people in the Long Island area about the cooperative movement and workplace democracy. Human Link plans to exchange views .on and organize one or more econornicalJy viable small cooperative businesses and to possibly establish a self-sufficient living community. Members of the group are welcome to share in either project. Future activities will be based on worker ownership, worker safety, appropriate technology, and networking. Contact Lloyd Schwartz, 1192 Flower Lane, Wantagh, NY 11793; 516/781-6973 (Lloyd) or 212/3478057 (Paul or Cynthia). Gardening Catalog-The National Association for Gardening has its first publications catalog available now. It has listed various types of information, from (!;ardrns For All, The Gardener's Newsmagazine, to its new book series for the garden-project organizer, to the National Gardening Survey. Contact Gardens for All, the National Association for Gardening, 180 Flynn Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401; 802/863-1308. Ecological Hort~culture-The Agroecology Program/U.C. Extension offers a six-mpnth Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, April 3 to September 27, 1985, at,the Farm & Garden, Santa Cruz. Emphasis is on hands-on le.arning, with instruction in horticultural methods (sowing, cultivation, composting, · propagation, irrigation), cultivar requirements (vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits), and pest and disease identification and control. For further information, please write: Apprenticeship, Farm & Garden, Agroecology Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; 408.1429-4140. Third World Computer Grants-Kaypro Corporation of Solana Beach, California, has sent over ~00 computers to 30 different developing countries as part of its International Grants Program. The program was origi1)ally ~et up to develop toxic chemical data bases so· that Third World countries would know what they were getting into when buying drugs, pesticides, and other chemicals that had been banned in developed countries. However, the program soon expanded to promote a variety of uses of computers in developing nations, such as forecasting food shortages, monitoring elections in El Salvador, and coordinating research on the destruction of tropical ecosys- . tems. Appropriate technology? Time will tell.' Erratum__:_The correct phone number for the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, Texas, is 512/928-4786. We cited Max's Pot in an article on bamboo as a building material in the September/October issue of RAIN.
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