Page 2 RAIN June 1976 RAIN DROPS We raised our subscription prices as of our last issue. RAIN is now $10/year. We have a "living lightly" rate of $5/ year, and I guess we'd define "living lightly" as "having an income low enough that $10/year isn't affordable." Anyone who's sent $5 after May 1st without specifying "living lightly" will get a 6-month subscription. We now have about 1100 subscribers; the Berkeley Solar Group recently became the 1000th. This issue of RAIN will be going out as a sample copy to people on the mailing lists of People and Energy, The Elements, and some of Co-Evolution Quarterly's. We hope you who haven't seen RAIN before will be interested in subscribing. This deal also means that RAIN subscribers will be receiving sample copies of these publications. We've discussed each of these exchanges separately; they're carefully chosen. We'll lend our mailing list only to publications we value and use ourselves. If you don't want any, let us know on your subscription order and I'll code your mailing label to hide each time we make copies for exchange. Some housekeeping notes: If you write to us and don't want us to print your letter as-is, please say so. When you write to us and would like us to keep track of you at all, please write your address on the letter itself. We don't always remember to save envelopes till it's too late. And if you have For subscription prices, see subscription blank on next-to-last page. This blank can also be used to send us change of address messages. RAIN's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone 503227-5110. RAIN Staff Anne McLaughlin Lane deMoll Nancy Lee Mary Wells Steve Johnson Lee Johnson Rhoda Epstein Tom Bender Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Ancil Nance Thanks to: Kye Cochran Nick Licate Heidi Godding Brian Livingston Bill Jeske Ed Sheets Correction: Several issues ago we mentioned the A.I.D. appropriate technology appropriation but incorrectly said it was focused on export of appropriate machinery to developing countries. The intent of the program is actually to a detailed request or other message to send with your subscription, it's a good idea to use a separate sheet of paper to write it on. If it's all together, either the subscription or the message is liable to get lost. If you're moving soon, please read the "MOVING?" box on this page. If you live in the USA, the Postal Service won't deliver your RAIN if your mailing label isn't correct. That means that if I type, for example, 235 instead Moving Soon? If you soon will want RAIN sent to a different address, please let me know about a month ahead if you can. Otherwise, you'll probably lose at least one month's RAIN. Your copy will be used by the Postal Service as a messenger to us, saying you've moved. If we want to get that copy to you, we have to take a fresh copy, put extra postage on it, re-address it and mail it. Right now there are probably five subscribers a week who move without letting RAIN's subscription person know about it. This includes people who tell somebody else at RAIN, figuring that we all remember to pass on such info when appropriate. I'm Anne, the subscription person. Please tell me directly; it helps me smile more. THIS ISSUE Sometimes keeping in touch with what is under[oat gets out of hand. RAIN tries to be both national and regional. For this issue only we have focused on what is happening in this nel'k of the woods. In order to find out what was happening, we sent out 250 letters, made phone calls, acted as on-the-road reporters. We found more than we could use. A very important section on inventories of the land was cut, as were some other sections which we will try to get into the the next issue. Thank you all for responding. (SJ) directly fund a.t. development centers in developing countries. The help of ITDG and V.I.T.A. are being sought to identify people actually doing significant a.t. work in those countries and preliminary planning on centers in two -countries-Columbia and Honduras-is presently underway. of 234 as your address, they 'll probably return the copy of RAIN to me saying "unknown." It also means they return it if your zip isn't right. When they return it, it costs RAIN 1 O</, postage due and if we want to send it again, to the correct address, it costs us a new RAIN and 24</. non-bulk rate postage. Please, then, put your complete address on subscription orders. If you would like back issues (and the current issue is now a back issue), the subscription blank has a list of those available. They're $1 each. From now on I'd like to begin all subscriptions with future issues. Back issues can be ordered as back issues. If you'll send us $1, we'll send a sample of RAIN to each of five friends of yours. Please don't forget their zipcodes either. A subscriber worried recently that we'd charge him the $5 billing fee if he forgot when to renew his subscription. Don't worry, folks. We'll have some sort of renewal notice. The billing fee pays for the extra time it takes to deal with purchase orders, filing and unfiling that special category of "billed but unpaid" subscribers, etc. We charge it to people who ask to be billed. When you make new contacts via RAIN, we'd like to know. Also, when you write to them, think about whether they could use a stamped, self-addressed envelope to answer your questions in. (AM) G ,1!1)7~~~ ~' r~......c......c~~~ I 2nd Confer=~~n~:!ative State I and Local Public Policies I Institute for Policy Studies 1901 Que St., N.W. Washington, DC 20009 We reported on the 1st Conference in I Madison last fall-this one in Austin, Texas, June 10-13, sounds equally exI citing. A gathering of alternative mayors, legislators and other officials and staff people to discuss tax reform, insurance I legislation, you name it. Who's doing what where and how we all can help each other. There are more of us in positions of power than one might think! The National Conference Center pub1' hes a newsletter which is full of ideas experiences ($5/yr., 4 issues) and a ~~......c~~
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