26 Pedestrian Action 28 Explore the ways walkers are creating coalitions to gain influence and make changes at the street level. From Walking Buses to traffic calming, find the resources to make your town more walkable. Walking feeds the heart with joy! Transit Advocacy & Bike Sources Experience Portland, Oregon's fantastic downtown transit. Discover how cities can make the best use of existing railway tracks for lightrail and street cars. Also, uncover unusual publications you can use to convey to those around you your enthusiasm for diverse transportation choices. 32 Rochdale 36 44 56 Cooperation for a better society is not just a modern phenomenon. People have been doing it forever to make their lives easier. Find out about the power of working with your neighbors to gain more control over your quality of life. Time Underground Rube and Fydor Cartoon Travel with your favorite cartoon dogs through time travel tunnels to Salzburg, Austria in 1526. The head muckity-muck, the Archbishop, is sent back to his castle. The town's canines have decided to run their own affairs. CarSharing Interviews Interviews with Carsten Petersen and Markus Petersen, founders of Europe's largest carsharing firm, STATTAUTO Berlin. Find answers to questions that came up after we published the article in RAIN, Volume 14, No.4 on carsharing in Berlin. Learn how to make it work in your town. CarSharing Resources Most information about carsharing is in German, except for here in RAIN Magazine, where you can order many useful resources for your quest to create an alternative to private car ownership. Don't forget to get a copy of RAIN, Volume 14, No.4, if you haven't read much of anything on the subject. $5 per magazine. 57 Order Form I Distributors Get a gift subscription or back issues for yourself, or for your public library. You'll be spreading the tools for a cleaner, better tommorrow. 58 61 61 61 Back Issues List RAIN Magazine publishes information that is useful forever. Gain insight into how to make your body healthier and your home safer. Learn how to galvanize your community into action for the next generation's future. Writer's Guidelines We spend much time looking for brilliant and inspiring projects that make a positive difference. Let us know if there is something we should describe to our eager readers. Better yet, try your hand at explaining it in your own words. See the contributor's guidelines as a reference. Credits All the wonderful people who have helped. Raindrops A note to librarians. Next Issue ! Community Architecture: what is needed to help architects and planners become sensitive to both ecology and community? Articles on programs, institutions and principles of community-directed design. Auto-free development: real projects aiming to develop land with barely any realtionship to cars. Eco-Mongolia: a revolutionary new set of environmental laws in Mongolia may change the destructive habits of third-world development. Food and Aprovecho: a first-world research institute practices what it preaches to developing regions. RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1 Page 1
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