Page 14 RAIN February/March 1978 REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Percent of Number of Percent of Millions of Percent of Total Population (millions) Total Population Proposals Received Total Proposals Dollars Requested Dollars Requested California 19.97 87 845 77 16.5 79 Arizona 1.77 8 118 11 2.1 10 Hawaii .75 3 70 6 1.1 5 Nevada .49 2 66 6 1.1 5 TOTALS 22.96 100 1100 100 20.8 100 Source: San Francisco Operations Office, DOE (12/5/77). DATA SUMMARY Total Proposals SOLAR TECHNOLOGY 237 (a) heating & cooling (163) (b) passive ( 31) (c) photovoltaic ( 7) (d) other ( 36) Biomass (methane, ag waste) 35 Agriculture/Greenhouses 47 ENERGY CONSERVATION 218 (a) building systems & materials ( 74) (b) vehicles & transportation ( 68) (d) appliances ( 50) (d) recycling ( 26) Water Conservation or Re-Use 27 Wind Systems 72 Tidal Energy 7 Energy Education & Media 39 Aquaculture 6 Hydro-Electric 19 Integral Energy Demonstrations 21 Mechanical/Electrical Devices 21 Other Ideas 63 TOTAL 812 Source: OAT (12/9/77) FILE AWAY A lot of people come to RAIN asking about our filing system. "How do you keep track of all that information?" I used to feel slightly embarrassed when I looked about at our shelves of books, our stacks of papers and even our two five-drawer filing cabinets but still couldn't really explain our "system." Sometimes we know where things are and sometimes we don't. My stuff carefully sorted generally-by-subject or "currentness" isn't really any more or less retrievable than Lee's piles scattered randomly over his floor and desk in his cubby office and bedroom. We both lose things. We're both pretty damn good at coming up with obscure pieces of paper when we need .them. I've now learned that most of the keys and clues to finding stuff in the Rainhouse are in our collective heads. One of us usually has a pretty good idea how to locate the things that interest us. There are always odds and ends that fall between the cracks-particularly items that we feel we ought to be Percent Dollars Percent Average Dollars of Total Requested of Total Requested 29.18 $4,019,353 24.6 $16,959 (20.07) (2,729,401) (16.7) (16,744) ( 3.8 ) ( 528,701) ( 3.2) (17,054) ( .8 ) ( 100,687) ( .6) (14,383) ( 4.4 ) ( 660,564) ( 4.0) (18,349) 4.3 729,856 4.4 20,853 5.8 816,261 5.0 17,367 26.8 4,799,778 29.4 22,017 ( 9.1 (1,531,781) ( 9.3) (20,699) ( 8.3 (1,760,843) (10.8) (25,894) ( 6.2 ( 940,011) ( 5. 7) (18,800) ( 3.2 ( 567,143) ( 3.5) (21,813) 3.3 718,555 4.4 26,613 8.9 1,102,160 6.8 15,307 .8 176,414 1.1 25,202 4.8 739,201 4.5 18,953 .7 70,050 .4 11,675 2.3 595,505 3.6 31,342 2.6 603,870 3.7 28,755 2.6 605,604 3.7 28,838 7.8 1,348,941 8.3 21,411 100.00 $16,325,548 100.0 $20,105 interested in. But we've learned to relax about those thingsthough it is frustrating to finally throw out all the old copies of obscure co-op newsletters only to have someone ask for them the following week. We can't keep all of it-the house really would collapse. Jack Eyerly, Portland's resident information guru, gave me courage one day when I asked him how he kept track of it all. He said he just keeps going through it-refiling it into different categories as interests change, relegating some onceused items to obscure archives. If he doesn't keep sorting new cuts through it all the time he quickly loses track of what he has. Often even just the_process of looking for something . clicks new things into focus which are useful just a short time later. He said that no indexing system or permanent "right" way is ever possible for him. It just keeps evolving. That made me feel better because I realized that it's exactly how I do it.
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