RAIN December 1976 RAIN PUBLICATIONS , ~BACK Issues Descriptions following each back issue only indicate feature artic~es contained therein. All issues contain resource listings of groups, activities, events, books anq periodicals on a wide variety of subjects: appropriate technology, agriculture, food, community, energy, shelter, maps, conservation, economics, health, land use, learning, small business, communications, sewage, media, recycling, whole systems, self reliance, networking, environment, transportation, consciousness and good things. II, 2 (Nov. '75) Free Tree Energy/"On Inflation" by E. F. Schumacher/NW Energy Directory/Too Many Books and Too Few (alternate libr-ary literature)/ Paths to a Solar rransition/The World from Above (maps)/Touch & Go II, 9 (June '76) Special Northwest Habitat issue: Rural roots/Information Springs/Community Building/<;::ommuni ty Inventories/Energy II, 4 (Jan. '76) Eating High and Lightly/ II, 10 (July '76) "Plant a Tree" by E. F. Schumacher/Natural Land Inventories/ 1'In Touch: Community c'ommunication Access/Passive Solar Systems/Spirit and Space/Women & Health ' Towards a Federation of Ecotopian Nations/Wood Cook Stove Selection and Repair/The Great Recycling Race (the ORE plan)/Seven Laws ofMoney excerpt by Michael Phillips/Touch & Go III, 1 (Oct. '76) Pleasant Undertaking by Malcolm Wells (on simple burial)/ Appropriate Technology Update/Pedal Power by S. S. Wilson/Cycle Discoveries /Pioneering Communities by Dulcie Brown/Costs of Tourism II, 6 (Apr. '76) Special poster issue: I, 7 (Apr. '75) Roughdr~ft III: Centers/ NW Eiwironmental Groups Update/ "Sharing Smaller Pies" excerpt by Tom Bender Visions of Ecotopia/Goodbye to the . Flush Toilet/Make Where You Are Paradise/Dollar Power I, 8 (May '7 5) Roughdraft IV: Networking/Small Industry Development Network/Self-Sufficiency, Energy, Rural Skills, Schools and Programs II, 7/8 (May '76) Country Auctions/ Red Star Over China/What's Growing in Iowa/Capturing the Sun Through Rioconversion/Small Scale Computer Activities · III, 2 (Nov. '76) Tofu & Miso (eating high·and l_ightly)/Stolen Goods 'by Tom Bender/Wood Stove Consumer's Gui.de by Bill Day/Place ••• • 'Gi- • • Other Publications: Solar Workshop Manual, by Lee Johnson & Ken Smith of Ecotope Group, 15 pp., with photos and diagrams, Septembet: 1976, $3. Step-by-step instructions, material and tool lists and plans for a do-it-yourself solar hot water heating system with 60 sq. ft. of solar collector; adaptable to existing gas or electric home hot water heaters and costing $250-$3 50 wholesale in materials. Based on the authors' experiences conducting solar workshops t~roughout the Pacific Northwest. ' Woodstoves, Rainpaper No.1, November 1976, $1. Compiled ~eprints from articles by Bill Day on selection, maintenance and repair of woodstoves of all kinds. Bill is a third-generation repairer of woodstove~ who owns a store in Portland, Oregon.. O.A. T. Bibliographies, August 1966, 50¢ apiece. A series of resource lists prepared for the California Office of Appropriate Technology. Each annotated bib!'iography runs two to five pages and contains overviews, technical evaluation, models, how-to and access information. Bibliographies available on the following topics: Direct Solar Heating Cooling, Energy Conserving Landscaping, Wind Energy, Solid Waste Utilization, Drying Up the Toilets, Diseconomies of Scale, Bioconversion: Methane Production, Weatherizing: Home Insulation, Costs of Urban Growth, Natural Pest Control, Appropriate Technology, Low-Cost Construction. Coming Around: An Introductory Sourcelist on Appropriate Technology, prepared by Lane deMoll, 12 pp., revised edition, September 1976, $1. A general listing including general theory, economics, and energetics, community, manufacturing, tools 'and hardware, financial institutions, agriculture, health care, shelter, transportation, self-reliance and energy. Does not include how-to publications but directs you to them. Employment Impact Statement, October 1976, 2 pp., 50¢. A simple, step-by-step way to figure the employment impacts of a new industry and consider the benefits of different options. Ecotopia Poster, by Diane Schatz, 2'x3', $3. A reprint of the "Visions of Ecotopia" line drawing that appeared in the April '76 poster issue. Great for coloring. Environmental Design Primer, by Tom Be~der, 206 pp., 1973, $5. Meditations on an ecological consciousness. Essays and poetry about moving our heads into the right spaces before our places. Living Lightly: Energy Conservation in Housing, by Tom Bender, 38 pp., 1973, $2. Early ideas on the need for change in building and lifestyle; compost privvies, Ouroboros Project (self-sufficient experimental house in Minnesota) and the "problem of bricks in your toil.et." Sharing Smaller Pies, by Tom Bender, January 197 5, 38 pp., $2. Discussion of the need for institutional change tied in with energy and economic realities.·Begins to lay out new operating principles, including some criteria for appropriate technology.
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