Page 24 RAIN May 1977 Eartbbeat 77 sounds like an exciting Canadian gathering to be held July 30 to August 7. The focus will be on alternative technology, health and body healing, new games, community service and mystical sciences. Groups wishing booth space or more information sho.uld contact Prairie Front Workshops, No. 30O,223 12th Ave. S.W., Calgary, Alberta. Phone 4O3 /262-7 443. A Great Plains Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies is planned for May 27'29 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The region has been defined for the moment as Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nortb and Soutb Dakota, Wisconsin and WYoming. Tbe conference will focus on the problems of the agricultural beartland and the delicate balance it must s*ike uitb energ/, water and mineral deuelopment. Elected officials, community organizers and otbers are inoited to attend. Write to tbe Conference, c/o P.O. Box 80084, Lincoln, NE 68501. Tbe MacKenzie Riaer Gatbering (MRG) is a new group describing themselves as "funding facilitators" for the Pacific Northwest. They serve as intermediaries between grantors and projects or organizations actively promoting nonviolent, radical social changes. Grants so far have been in the $500-$3000 range, totaling $23,000 for the fall cycle and $50,000 this spring. Funding cri teria include such things as no high salaries, a low-consumption orientation and egalitarian decision-making. Contact them for deadlines and more detailed requirements: Peter Jensen, MRG, 454 Willamette, Eugene, OR 97401 (5O3 1485-2790) or Christine Coe, MRG, 3640 Bagley N., Seattle, WA 98t03 (2051633-2941). The New Hampshire Savings Bank, Concord, NH 03301, bas followed tbe lead of the Seattle Trust and Saoings Bank (804 Second Aae., Seattle, WA 98104) in reducing its loan rate b)/ 2 percent for energ)/ conser?ation home improaement loans. And Wilson Clark bas seaeral banks in California about to start similar programs. It bas been so successful in Seattle (mostly because people are mooing tbeir saaings into tbe bank tbat gaae tbem a good break) tbat tbet/ are looking into a program to pro' pide a lower interest rate for installation of solar equipment. Asbestos and Microuaoes.' Two recent articles in Enaironmental Action (weekly, $15/year from Suite 731, 1346 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 2OO36) cover the growing health hazards of microwaves in the March 12, 1977, issue and asbestos in the April issue. Microwaves from powerful TV and radio transmitters, industrial and consumer appliances, are capable of bizarre emotional and physical ills-as attested by the impacts of Soviet microwave transmissions being used to block U.S. electronic spying on Russian communications from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The widespread use of asbestos in products ranging from baby powder to artist's clay to flooring, sewer pipe and insulation is alarming as astrestos causes a fatal disease-asbestiosis. Many buildings have asbestos dust concentrations far above hazard levels. Worth keeping an eye on. Mission to Earth: I-andsat Views of the Wor|d, publisbed by NASA and aaailable for a gioeaway $14 from Gouernment Printing Office, washington, DC 20402. Consists of a multitude of incredible satellite pbotos of tbe U.S. and tbe rest of the worLd. Eyebending in many ways. (From Bawy Kabn) Rush Nortbern Owner Builder, RD 1, Plainfield, VT 05667, is a good place to order books and design services for people doing their own building. Write for their catalog. The use of phenoxy herbicides sucb as 2,4,5-T and Siluex has been banned in all national forests in Wasbington and Oregon as tbe result of a successful court case by Citizens Against Toxic Sprays-at least until a new EIS giaing adequate coaerage to tbe bealtb bazards of such poisons is prepared. Copies of the 60-page opinion are aaailable from C.A.T.S., 1385 Bailey Aaenue, Eugene, OR 97402 for $5.50 copying and mailing cost. There'll be an Alternate Energy Worksbop May 13-18 by Ianto Evans (director of the Solar Project of the Choqui Experimental Station in Guatemala). The six-day intensive is limited to 15 people. Cost is $5O-pre-registration is required with a $25 deposit. Contact Texas Lake Community, Box 5, Hope, B.C. (604/869-9ss9). --.\:-il // -.-_,---=/// RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 97210 Forwarding and Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR
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