Very special thanks to: Chris Alexander, David Atkin, Eric Bellfort, Marc Bouvier, Krystee Brumbaugh, Ruth Bryant, Howard Davis, David Edrington, Kathy Ging, Demetrius Gonzales, David Heine, John Hewitt, Duane and Elaine Janes, Kurt Jensen, Richard Katzev, Sylvia Kropf, Jered Lawson, Greg McKenna, Carsten Petersen, Markus Petersen, Jan Piper, Bruce Robertson, Axel Schaefer, Rob Thallon, John Welch, Brian Wilga. Apologies to anyone we have momentarily forgotten. Illustrations: Paul Ollswang Layout: Danielle Janes Printing: Corvallis Web Press, Oregon Editors: Greg Bryant and Danielle Janes RAIN's goal is to publish quarterly. ISSN 0739-621x Subscriptions are $20/year Foreign subscriptions $28/year, Single issues $5, available from: RAIN P.O. Box 30097 Eugene, Oregon, 97403 USA Printed with soybean-based ink on recycled newsprint. 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 ©1996 RAIN Magazine. Written permission required for broad reproduction and distribution (beyond 50 people). i dr A NOTE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS We had hoped to get on a quarterly publishing schedule last issue, but many projects, including earning the money to support this magazine, have interfered with our publishing plans. Aside from taking care of life's many transitions, we've spent time on the Eugene Community Trust (a non-profit development group), the Eugene Car Co-op, two documentaries (on carsharing and on sustainable architecture) and a host of local issues that stubbornly demanded attention. To all of you who support us through all of this and who just enjoy the magazine when you get it - a fond thank-you! Whereas other small publications cease due to similar problems, the RAINmakers will get you all the magazines that you paid for no matter how long it takes! A NOTE TO LIBRARIANS The last issue, Volume 14, No.4, was published in 1994. We missed out on publishing in 1995 and this is the first issue for 1996. To help you in your cataloging, we have decided to continue to the next volume for this issue, Volume 15, No.1. We will continue to use a new Volume number after every four issues, even if that does not reflect a new year. 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: poetry, 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 ecobusinesses unless focusing upon some useful methods or appropriate technologies. We do not consider articles on the hypothetical wonders of modern technology. Please query before embarking on writing. Articles may be heavily edited, depending on the quality received. Author should obtain photos. RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1 Page 61
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