Very special thanks to: Jered Lawson, Laura Ohanian, Mike Lee, David Heine, Marc Bouvier, Charlie Mote, Howard Davis, Jerry Finrow, Michael LaFond, Chris and Pamela Alexander, Steve Johnson, Mark Roseland, Efrem Lipkin, Forrest Iawain, Eric Belfort, Axel Schaefer, Sherry Phillips, Ruth Bryant, David Atkin, Kathy Ging, Shea Dean, Stefano DeZerega, Krystee Brumbaugh, Greg McKenna, Chris Carlsson, Peter Berg, Marie Dolcini, Greg Holmes, Jason Moore, Duane and Elaine Janes, Jeff Land, Adam Diamond, Dan and Cyd Long-Coogan, Leon Rosselson, Peter McCallum, Allan Hesch, Hans Loidl, Bruce Robertson, Arun Narayan Toke, Leslie Rubinstein, Ulrich Richters, Kurt Jensen, Dean Price, Jessie Glaser, Erkhart Hahn, Richard Katzev, Carsten Peterson, Paul Ollswang, Shanti Sosienski, Brian Wilga, Nils Vest, David Brandt, John Welch, and Jacqueline Woge. Apologies to anyone who we have momentarily forgotten to include here. Illustrations: Paul Ollswang, Michael LaFond Printing: Corvallis Web Press Editors: Greg Bryant and Danielle Janes RAIN attempts to publish quarterly. ISSN 0739-621 x Subscriptions are $20/year, foreign $28/year, single issues $5, available from: RAIN P.O. Box 30097 Eugene, Oregon, 97403, USA. Indexed in the Environmental Periodical Bibliography. Printed with soybean-based ink on recycled new sprint. RAIN publishes information that can help people live simple and satisfying lives, make their communities and regions economically self-reliant, and build a society that is durable, just, amusing, beautiful and ecologically sound. Copyright © 1994 RAIN Magazine. Written permission required for broad reproduction and distribution (beyond 50 people). Raindrops The most obvious news is that we now print on newsprint, using a WEB press. Our old printing process was of higher quality, but was so expensive that it always took many months to recover from financially. Although we hope to move back to our old printer eventually, the immediate consequences of the lowered costs are quite exciting. The most important is that we can publish more often. Our next issue is not far from being done, and in three months we should have enough money to print it. Telling your friends about us, and subscribing, will help us to shorten our publication intervals. The other major cause of delay has been our involvement in a great many projects, something we hoped to curtail after the last issue. As we said then, it is very difficult to write about inspiring community projects and then fight the temptation to organize something similar locally. This certainly helps to focus the magazine's subject-matter, and ensures that we know something about what we write, but it creates unacceptably lengthy gaps between releases of the magazine, Some of the projects we have worked with have had a certain success. Others have been disasters of nearly titanic proportions, and have inspired in a great many people a certain caution when embarking upon community-saving activities. Happily, these experiences now inform our editorial eye, and we hope that the pieces you find in this issue emphasize as much as possible the reasons behind the success of the innovative projects covered. Contributor's Guidelines Readers are always welcome to submit: 1. Notices, press releases, announcements, access to resources in areas of interest, and items for review. 2. Articles of any length on existing, successful projects and initiatives of community-scale. This means something that any group of people can just get up and do. This means no: fiction, speculative futures, grand political schemes, state-reform legislation, authoritarian programs, or corporate public relations. Please try to pry principles from the experience that will make the piece useful to other activists and community members. No public relations pieces: we want honest, though uplifting, accounts. Since we don't find market capitalism very inspiring, no eco-businesses unless focusing upon some useful methods or appropriate technologies. We do not consider articles on the hypothetical wonders of modem technology. Please query before embarking on writing. Articles may be heavily edited, depending on the quality received. Author should obtain photos. RAIN Summer 1994 Volume XIV, Number 4 Page 61
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