Page 32 RAIN Nov 1975 ... A PROPOSAL, "Social Sleepwalkers," calls for social impact statements involving agricultural research. Copies from U. of California, Davis, CA 95605. ... THE Division of Technology and Environmental Education, directed by Walter Bogan, FY 1976 grant applications are due Dec. 1, 1975.... "TRANSITION," the final report of the State Energy Research and Planning Office, is out of print. The Oregon Times reported (October) that Lon Topaz, present director of the new State Energy Office, has no plans for reprinting it, though there are still requests coming in.... FOOD Day for 1976 is being planned by Center for Science in the Public Interest. Write to: Food Day, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.... SENATOR Packwood has introduced legislation to control the use of fluorocarbons in aerosols, refrigerants and air conditioners.... COMMUNITIES West, the magazine about the communal movement in the U.S., has moved to the Northwest and has plans to become more regionally and less commune (exclusively) oriented. P.O. Box 117, McMinnville, OR 97128. . .. IN THE first formal report from the Worldwatch Institute, Erik Eckhom draws attention to another energy crisis: "denuding the earth's forests for fuel and timber lies at the heart of what will likely become the most profound ecological challenge of the late 20th century.... "THE Potential of Handicrafts as a Viable Economic Force," U.S. Dept. of Commerce, May 1974, 80¢. Available from Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Surveys the present status of crafts as viable employment alternatives, good bibliographic references. .. . OPEN, NW Rush Information Network, has moved and changed names, and with an as yet unstated new project focus. ComNet, Box 5599, Seattle, WA 98105.... According to a recent report, military spending creates unemployment. From 1968 to 1972 the net annual job loss nationwide, when the military budget averaged about $80 billion, was about 840,000 jobs. "The Empty Pork Barrel" is available at $1 from Michigan PIRG, 615 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48933. ... NEWORLD Fair, 998 Sanchez St., San Francisco, CA 94114. These folks are planning a Renaissance Fair/Bicentennial Celebration/Consciousness Festival for Summer 1976. Write to them for suggestions, ideas and information (SASE). 1975 CATALOG of Federal Domestic Assistance, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (order from: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402), 1975, 872 pp., $17 includes looseleaf update.... ANOTHER People's Yellow Pages, $2/yr. Collective Research Committee, P.O. Box 371, Ukiah, CA 95482. ... TWO energy conferences planned in Oregon: one for about Feb. '76 on energy conservation, funded by an EPA grant to Roy Hemingway (c/o Oregon Environmental Council, 263 7 SW Water, Portland, OR 97201); and the other a statewide conference on "The implications of the end of the Hydro-Electric Era," funded by a HEW grant to OSPIRG, scheduled for around Jan. '76. ... PAMPHLET No. 1, Shelter. P.O. Box 279, Bolinas, CA 94924, 25¢. Looks like a file box I had once (though it's a pamphlet)-facsimile of clippings, entries, miscellaneous how-to.... UTOPIAS On Puget Sound, 1885-1915, Charles P. Le Warnve, U. of Wash. Press, RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 97210 Address Correction Requested 1975, $12.50. Do you remember "Home," the utopian experiment development at St.Joe's Bay in 1896, with its nudity, radical press, etc. ... ANOTHER People's Yellow Pages: New West Trails, for Tucson, 745 E. Fifth St., Tucson, AZ 85719, $1.50.... SIM VanderRyn (director, Farallone Institute) has just become state architect of California. He'll be working to facilitate appropriate technology within that system . ... ACCORDING to an opinion poll by Opinion Research Corporation, six out of ten Americans feel it is important to pay the price to clean up the environment... . FOXFIRE III is out. 512 pages of new similar type goodies. Also a new book, "The Foxfire Experience,"·by Eliot Wigginston. Published by Institutional Development and Economic Affairs Services, distributed by Cobblesmith, Star Route, Box 18, Ashville, ME 04607.... "PUBLIC and Private Rights in Land: Regulation vs. Taking," will be the subject of a conference to be held Jan. 30-31, Pacific Science Center, Seattle. Write to Polly Dyer, Institute for Environmental Studies, 112 Seig Hall, Fr-40, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. ... OREGON House Joint Resolution 66 directs Oregon schools to teach and practice skills of recycling and resource and energy conservation.... ACCORDING to the NW Chamber of Commerce, "Forest Products Industry," the most complete and accurate study of Oregon's total forest resources is soon to be complete at Oregon State U.... "A NEW Life for the Abandoned Service Station," A.L. Kerth, P.O. Box 142, Massapequa Park, NY 11762, $15 for 83 pp. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, ORE. PERMIT NO. 548
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