Page 22 RAIN November 1976 ENERGY CONSERVATION Continued - "Why Not just Build the House Right · in the First-Place?" by Raymond W. Bliss, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1976, pp. 32-40. A simple yet powerful conventional analysis of the individual and national energy-and dollar-savings possible via direct solar plus energy conservation home design, using Boston, Mass. climate examples. A Natural~y Air-Conditioned Building, by Harold Hay, $1.00 plus stamped, large self-addressed envelope from: Skytherm Processes & Engineering 2424 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057. Introduction to the "water-bed roof f,or thermal mass" concept, which heats and cools the Hay-designed Atascadero, California, home. NEW ·ADDRESSES Dulcie Brown, author of Community in Oregon (RAIN, October 1976), now lives at 2646 N. First, Fresno, CA 93703. Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) has relocated all of its operation back at: 9 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8HN, England (same now as IT Publications). TOOL, the Dutch appropriate technology center, authors of Lectures on Socially Appropriate Technology (RAIN May 1976), has a new address: Stichting TOOL, Mauritskade 61a, Amsterdam, · .The Netherlands. RAIN's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone (503) 227-5110. I Marcia Johnson Lee Johnson RAIN Staff Tom Bend,er Steve Johnson Rhoda Epstein Lane deMoll Anne McLaughlin Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: 'Times Litho Thanks' to: Laur~ deMoll ., RAIN DROPS During the past six weeks we've received about 175 renewals and 130 new subscriptions. Thanks to all of you for your interest. We're aiming to increase our total number of subscribers to a point where we'll be self-supporting. Tom has written about that in this issue. See "Show RAIN to a friend." About renewing your subscription: we're starting to code our mailing labels with a number indicating the last issue to be received before expiration. For example, "III-10" _means that Volume III, No. 10 will be your last issue. Many _subscribers' labels·haven't yet been coded, but it should happen within the next .couple of months. In any case,. you'll get two fairly obvious reminders to renew: a letter with a renewal form, then your last issue, marked "renew· now, this is your last issue." Your early renewals are appreciated. Also, if you renew promptly you won't miss any issues and I won't have to choose between (a) keeping your file cards in case you ren~w after a few months and (b) throwing them away only to have to re-type them later. If you renew without using our renewal form with your label on it, please include the mailing label from a recein issue. I've found that many people change their , name or address without realizing our records are different, and it gets hard to track them down. On our subscription blank we're now including an'option of First Class Mail within the USA. It seems that the farther you are from Portland, the longer it.takes RAIN to get to you and that some of you would like to be able to get it sooner. We expect that this issue will have been mailed by November 8, in case you'd like to see what your delivery time is (this applies only to subscribers on our list as of October 22). ) If you'd like back issues or any of our other publications, you can write now for a list of those available, or wait till the, next issue (we can't guarantee prices or availability of items if you use an old blank). As our list of other publications has grown fairly long, we'll be printing it in alternate issues rather than every month as we have before. If you're a subscriber who missed any issues because you moved without notifying us, you'll need to order them by the same process (see "Moving Soon?" box). When we raised our prices in May, we eliminated the "institutional" subscription, which provided for three copies of each issue. If you would like multiple copies to the same address . ~ach month, write and ask about special rates. If you write to us at RAIN and don'·t want your letter printed as you wrote it, please say so'. We do.n't pr.int all letters, but if one is pertinent to a topic, weld like folks to see it. And if you write to anyone we mention in RAIN and want an answer, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, often abbreviated SAS'E. Comings and goings: we have another Johnson at RAIN now. Marcia Johnson is doing' layout for the magazine and some of our other publications. She is not related to Steve or to Lee (who are not related to each other, .either; and, while I'm identifying us, I should add that Lane is a woman). Lane's sister, Lauri deMoll, will arrive tonight to be here helping for a while. (AM)
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