Page 2 RAIN Sept/Oct 1975 RAIN is supported by your subscriptions and a grant from the N.W. Area Foundation, administered through the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210, 227-5110. RAIN I Full Circle Staff Tom Bender Lane DeMoll Lee Johnson Steve Johnson Nancy Lee Anne McLaughlin Mary Wells With much thanks to patient Michele Pells for keeping track of our readers. Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho EDITORIAL SIGNPOSTS Suggestions for people sending stuff for publication in RAIN: There's nothing hard and fast around here but trying to catch ourselves by surprise one night and define our shared intuitions we came up with the following editorial signposts: We wish to share with people information that is: workable ... novel ... successful ... practical ... perceptive ... loving/humorous ... integral ... cosmic ... down-to-earth ... fitting, .. . appropriate . . . sane .. . infertilating .. . hopeful .. . encouraging .. . non-redundant (don't reinvent the wheel) ... way over there there's someone else doing what you are doing .. . we try to find seeds ... RAIN helps things grow . . . interests that dovetail . . . information rather than opinions .. . not trippy ... have them send photos and graphics .. . they should look at what things we're looking for in future issues ... they should look at past issues of RAIN ... include comparisons to other books/ projects . . . not stuff that gets known through major news media .. . include address, phone, price, who is it designed for ... They should send the stuff to other places as well, like Tilth, Epilog, Mother Earth News, Environmental Action Bulletin, Alternative Sources of Energy, AERO, Workbook, etc. An EPA-sponsored study rating the quality of life in 243 metropolitan areas across the country found only Portland among the 65 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 500,000 to achieve an outstanding rating in all categories rated. RAIN DROPS Future issues: In the next issue we want to do special collections on: • Employment (examples of environment-enhancing, energy-conserving kinds of livelihoods, and groups working in those areas, etc.) • Personal changes (the relation of perception/mental tone and environmental enhancement; "becoming," not "having") • Library journals (and other small access journals) • Plants and energy conservation • Looking down from above (aerial photographs, the world from above, etc. • Wood heat In upcoming issues we're also looking for information about: your favorite example of appropriate technology, health insurance, regional resource inventories, craft/small industry newsletters; local/by region sources of information for urban and rural farming; learning exchanges; public interest ... research groups; and a directory of video/cable projects, books, etc., especially in the N.W. Please send us your ideas. Deadline is about the 20th of each month )Please also note that for items for the calendar.) €GRICULTURE·FOO~ Eugene Food Action Council P.O. Box 1255 Eugene, OR 97401 Some exciting developments this summer in Eugene as the council sponsored the first community food conference. Groups formed at the conference are working on 1) forming a theater group to work with groups on food and health, 2) more "large" scale distribution of food among organic/ natural foods distributors, 3) a lobbying group, 4) an urban farm learning site, 5) skill resource sharing newsletter, and otherwise disseminating information through existing networks. A directory and resource inventory were prepared among conference members; and recently (Sept. 27) they held a harvest festival, where demonstrations included heating with wood, food preservation, natural foods bake-off, square dancing, a bicycle-powered blender. •Weare out of RAIN, Vol. I, issues 1-<6. 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(Subscription Form, p. 31) IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements) 3 Chemin de la Bergerie 91700 Ste. Genevieve des Bois, France American contact: Rodale Press 33 East Minor Emmaus, PA 18049 Primarily a vehicle of communication for member groups. Exhaustive listings each month of new books and periodicals in the field. Last issue of newsletter had article on a growing international seed bank. Important crossAtlantic network. ($13 individual and $26 institutional membership rates.) Southern Institute for Alternative Agriculture is in the formative process, at the pre-funded state looking for input according to Elizabeth Gottschalk, cofounder. (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Fla. 32307.) The Institute would research, disseminate, demonstrate: low-energy agriculture, organic gardening, general environmental education, and aid for the small farmer. continued on page 4
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