October '1976 RAIN Page 3. ' ' RAIN is a monthly info.rmation access journal and: reference·.service for people developing more satisfying living patterns that·increase local self-reliance and press l~ss heavily on ~mr limited resources. ·. We.try to give access to: ·· . · . . · · · . • Solid technict:zl support for evaluating new ideas and implementing them. . • Ecological and philosophical perceptions that can help create more satisfying options for living, working and playing. • Other people; information and resources. • Up-to-date information on current pr<;>jects, groups, events and publications. dation. The Federation is also partidpat:- ing in the noncommercial FM rulemaking currently before th~ Federal ComIT}Unications .Commission. Associate memberships are available for $15; members receive the 8:-page monthly NFCB Newsletter. · .The .Radio Program Service of the NFCB make~ available tapes from Fed-. . eration stations ·to other noncommercia:l . stations (such as National Public Radio, affiliates a,nd college' radio stations) at a cost of $5 per 1/2-hour tape. Contact: Bill Thomas, 7os N. Lincoln, Urbana, . IL 61801, for mol;'e information on the service. (RE) · Sex & Broadcasting: A llandbook on . Starting a Radio Station for the .Community, by Lorenzo Milam, 3rd r~vised edition, 1975, 352 pages, $5 from: · Dildo-Press 251~ Maple . Dallas, TX 75201 . . . A literary surprise. Not for radio cnizies only. (RE) · · National Alternative R~dio Conference · (NARC) . In June 1975,.150 community radio · people from around the country held the first gathering of radio folk in three years in Madison, Wisconsin, and called it NARC. A year later they met again in Telluride, Colorado, under the sponsorship of the NFCB. This is the place · to meet people actively involved in community radio. Stay tuned for NARC IlL (RE) · Media Report to Wome# 1977 Index/ Directory · 3306 Ross Pl. NW Washington, DC 20008 Martha Leslie Allen, ed. Accepting listings for women's media groups and individual media women. All listings are free and limited to 15 words (not including name, address, phone). Deadline Nov. 1. Half-price $3 rate for those listed in Index. (RE) . TAP New~l(!tter, · 4 pgs., $4 for io issues per year,' from: · TAP . ·Room 504 152 W. 42nd St. New York, NY 10036 Remember bh.ie boxes,. p.hone-freaking and blind kids with perfect pitch whistles who learned .how to call arourid the world for entertainment? Well; TAP is their newsletter full of helpful hints that makes the phone company cringe and · electric and gas utilities worider how many of their meters are·stopped or running backwards. The technology runs from beginner to advanced, and many ideas are submitted by and for non-technical people. TAP is expand- . ing irito such frontier areas as pirate radio stations, lock·picking, and getting your money's wort-h frorri a vending. ·. . ma.chine. For information purposes 'only, of course. Nikolas Tesla would have understood, but not Tom Edison. (LJ) (ENERGY SAVING) Skylight Energy Performance and. Systems Analysis for Skylight Energy Performance, by Donald A. Moore, 197 5, · from: · · Center for Industrial and Institutional Development McConnell Hall .University of New Hampshire · Durham, NH 03824 · Skylights and roof windows are excellent ways to get daylighting and solar heating far inside of buildings. They save electricity for lighting, fuel for heating and make rooms feel good. Combined with insulating shutters, or Zomeworks' "Skylid," and letting the sun shine on water-filled containers, they make a simple and effective direct solar heating system. These ·two papers evaluate the savings and extra costs from use of skylights over a year's time and show that if properly ,designed they will save energy in almost every climate. The second report is a guide to both manual ~nd computer calculations to enable engineers, code officials or people to analyze overall performance of skylights-including data necessary. (TB) Energy Conservation through Automobile Parking M.(magement, Newsletter Number 6 of the Energy Conservation Project, May 1976, fre.e from: · Environmental Law Institute. 1346 Co~necticut Ave~, N~W. ·Suite 620 · · Washington, DC 2003.6 ·. · The Energy Conservatiort_Project is pre- .paring a series of handbooks addressed . .to state and local officials, legislators and interested citizens setting out al- .ternative legal strategies for conserVing energy (available Spring 1977 from · Ballinger Publishing Co:). This issue . from one of these books, Energy Cons~rvation and Urban Transportation, provides a useful exploration of legal ways to reverse the subsidy to automobile transportation and sprawling urban patterns that people have felt helpless . trying to control. Valuable information on effectiveness and problems ofexisting projects that are trying various strategies of taxing, residential parking permits, parking bans, zoning, subsidy elimination, and redesign of parking fa- . cilities. (TB) . Energy Costs of Usi.ng Columbia River Water for Irrigation, by David ·1' .. Schuy, jan. 1975 (E.M~ 3891), available from: Cqoperative Ext~nsion Service Washington State University. Pullman, WA 99163 This study describes an old shell game on a grand scale. Large corporations in. eastern Washington and Oregon request use of Columbia River water t() irrigate the desert- "We need food, you kiww." Removal of the water from the river would decrease hydro-electric genera.; tion, requiring new and ex·pensive nuclear power plants to make up the deficit. The irrigation would also require a lot of electricity itself to pump and distribute the water. And who pays the costs? Not those who benefit, but the electrical users of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and California-to the · tune o~ $88 million per year. The ga.me is called passing the buck. "The Columbia River as a Resource" by Hastay, Millard, et. al. (State of Washington Water Research Center Report No. SA, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, June 1971) discusses similar proposals for eastern Oregon. If we wouldn't pave our good fields, we wouldn't have to farm the desert. (TB)
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