April Showers 1976 National Composting and Waste Recycling Conference May 12, 13 & 14 at the Sheraton Hotel in Portland. Sponsored by Rodale Press, P.S.U., RAIN Magazine and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Compost toilets, home sewage recycling, Stop the 5-Gallon Flush, sewerless society, Oregon's testing of alternative systems, methane digestion, modifying existing municipal systems, sewage sludge, theater and live music, garbage anthropology- and more. If the waste recycling poster interests you, come to the conference for the real scoop. For registration details contact RAIN, Attention: Waste Conference. Conference on Building Community, April 17-18, at Olympia Community Center: clinics, land use, child care, media, co-ops, etc. Contact Carol Costello, Washington State Energy Office 106 Maple Park, Olympia, WA 98504 206-753-2417 Does anyone know Zeljko Kujundzic, whom we mentioned in RAIN as having a solar-heated kiln. A reader would like to get hold of him and we have no address. Corrections Oops! The error djin struck again last month. How is it that in an article about forgetting to cover our friends ... you guessed it ... we forgot some of our best friends? Gigi Coe is one of the founding members of Tilth, and Jeff Barnes and Howdy Reichmuth of Bear Creek Thunder are responsible for the technology and design of the Tilth/Prag Greenhouse. Apologies all around! Karl Hess (Community Technology) will be speaking at the University of Idaho, the Borah Symposium, March 31. For details, contact Jeanette Driskell, U. of Idaho, Moscow, ID. It is hoped he will also be coming to the Portland area about the same time. AERO Solar Construction Workshop, March 27-28, in Billings, Montana, coordinated by Ken Smith and Lee Johnson of Ecotope/ RAIN Magazine. Starting Saturday morning with slide-film lecture-discussion on the energy crisis; energy conservation and renewable energy sources such as methane, wind and solar, and how to build a solar hot water heater. Saturday afternoon begins a hands-on, workgloves collector construction session which ends Sunday evening with two complete solar hot water thermosiphon systems. Contact AERO, 418 Stapleton Bldg., Billings, MT 59101 (Attn: Solar Workshop) or call 406-259-1958. A "Sierra Club Agriculture Policy" is now being formulated, and "briefs" of their ideas and opinions are requested from interested citizens. Write Sierra Club, Mills Tower, San Francisco, CA 94104 (Attn: Agric. Policy Statement) The Schumacher essay on land speculation was from Think About Land by E. F. Schumacher, $1 airmail from Catholic Housing Aid Society, 189a Old Brampton Road, London, SW5 OAR, England. Our good friend Bill Day, of course, wrote the wood stove article, "Don't Burn Your House." The Johnson Creek article should mention the Metropolitan Service District. Beau Portland Community College classes starting the week of March 29th (call Community Education, 503-244-6111, for details): (1) "Intervention & the Environment" (W781), taught by Lloyd Marbet, successful intervenor in Pebble Springs Nuclear Power Plant hearings; how to improve your effectiveness in public hearings, methods of intervention, pertinent laws and procedures, with special attention to energy hearings, utility rate determinations and the initiative process. Mondays, 5 wks., $6.50. (2) "Home Insulation Special" (W782), taught by Jack Warren of Portland General Electric; how to cut heating costs, options for insulating and reinsulating old and new homes discussed and demonstrated. Thursday, April 8, free. (3) "Energy from the Sun" (W779), Thursdays, 10 weeks, $13; practical instruction in do-it-yourself water and home heating, food drying; "Build Yourself a Solar Dryer" (W764), Sat., April 3 & 15; materials provided, limited enrollment; "Build Yourself a Solar Cooker" (W772), Sat., May 1, $21; materials provided; all the above taught by Ron Warsher. (4) "Land Use Pla11ning-How to Get Effectively Involved" (W780), Tuesdays, 8 weeks, $13, taught by Marie Reeder, Sierra Club. Primer on local land use planning for citizens baffled by planning agency maze or seeking understanding of neighborhood group planning process. National Federation of Community Broadcasters, meeting spo'nsored by WAIF, Cincinatti, Ohio, 2525 Victory Parkway, 45206, 513-961-8900. Held Feb. 27-29 (time lag problem). Among topics outlined: update community radio directory, a training manual, national marathon for fund raising, equipment and bulk purchases, joint programing. In a week we had five people contact us about either working with us or for ideas about other jobs in related (ASE, AT, energy-environment) jobs. What can we do? We'll be glad to start putting in a contacts section in RAIN for people looking for jobs, etc. Or what else? News on the back page is really Bean News. "More Is Less" from Capitol Community Press (Nov. issue, p. 18) is $2.25 postpaid, not $1. And finally, we hope, correct addresses on the Ore Plan should be: Julie Massy, 156-1/2 3rd St., Ashland, OR 97520; Len Casciato, 4241 S.E. Hawthorne, Portland, OR 97215. Will try to do better!
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