Page 22 RAIN April 1978 areas. Organic Agriculture Directory Service Now I have complete faith that fold1. CETA programs, especially Title Watertree Environment Health is seeking ing bike will become popular becaus,e support/participation in establishing an there are 0 many details that seem VI, and the upcoming youth employment programs, are, in most instance, "Organic Agriculture Directory" for coming together to make them far more begging for ideas and direction. Third World Mini tries. Most Third practical than the early folders of dec vcrything from commercial forestry through World countries are not protected by ades ago. environmentally sound farm practices. I am 63 years old and now recover people rather than chemicals and equipment to con truction of solar panels If you wish to be on call for advice/ ing from an auto accident and looking for the elderly or poor seem possible demonstration or support with a small for someplace to move to where bicycles under the rather broad mandates of donation, send information, your are more likely to be accepted. My life specialty, to: story is so full of things that most peo the e programs. And more may be initiated soon. Regional MANPOWER Bill Quealy ple are not prepared to hear or pass or State employment agencies are often Watertree Environment Health judgment on that I will not attempt clo 1004 Ocean St. the best place to insert ideas. Training to ~rite it- it would be too long anySanta Cruz, CA 95060 how. projects, equipment fabrication, community assistance ... all are available. But if you are interested in someAnyone know about small·scale tech· one who is enthusiastic about telling 2. The Department of Agriculture is giving increased emphasis to solar energy noIogy for the pressing of oil from how to convert bikes to fQld, let me and extension activities, especially under indigenous plants? We thought of know. I visited Grants Pass in 1936 VITA (3706 Rhode Island Ave., Mt. and like that area. Hope to hear from authority of PL 95-113 (Food and Agriculture Act of 1977). DOA is now into Rainer 20822) and the CECOCO peo you and be glad to answer any quesple (P.O. Box 8, Ibarahi, Osaha, Japan), tions. aquaculture, is evaluating its extension but maybe someone else knows more. John L. Coffin service, is expanding several special Contact: Missouri Hotel information collections, and will establish, under Section 1450 of 95-113, Ed Kruse Springfield, OR 65803 Box 94 a solar energy research information sysPorters Falls, WV 26162 tem. It appears to me to be a time of opportunity, when these systems can Dear Lane, be influenced. 3. The National Sea Grant Program, In response to your comments on files, I wanted to share my recent ex within NOAA (Commerce) is now in the process of evaluating and focusing its perience with a smile. I just moved and direction. Again, at both the local and went through files I established approxinational level, there is an opportunity mately 2 years ago. I threw out over an for input, assistance, and a chance to apple box fuJI of paper and now have over 1-1/2" stack of unused (cmptied) nudge the direction of these programs. Peace, file folders. With glee, I threw out obscure files, waiting for the next person Peter Ryner to ask me to share that information P.O. Box 220 with them, whcn I will be able to say, Suttons Bay, MI 49682 " I threw it out." After all, when I wanted/needed it, and had a use for it (which I don't now), I was able to go out CORRECTIONS and find it. And, ycs, I resorted and refiled: files AAF thjs, that, the other and Francis Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins misc. have become file AAF- 4 into one. are selling their book Food First for And misc. piles found subdivisions. I'm $7.95 rather than its $10.95 commercial no longer afraid either of the absurdity price. It's available from Institute for of the files acquired, meaninglessness, Food Development Policy, 2588 Mission or of the misc. piles, containing notSt., San Francisco, CA 94110. See the god-knows what. I know what's in there February/March 1978 and October 1977 - "appropriately filed" or not- and I RAIN for reviews and excerpts from the could find it one way or the other. book. The best to you, Joyce Schowalter It's Don P.O. Box 172 Beattie, not Bob, and he's Acting Ass't. Sec'y for Conscrvation & Solar Ellensburg, WA 98926 Dear Rain, I was reading Lee Johnson's Bees Applications, not Administrator, as printed in the Feb.lMar. '78 article, v. Greedy Bears in the February/March Dear Rain, "DOE-AT Grants Program: Good, But 1978 issue. It is a good article and set Folding bikes are the coming thing Underfunded . " me to thinking. Especially if one is and the very best is thc converted kind. into a.t. for something other than in Movement for a New Society (MNS) I have been using folding bikes of my own come (it can be interestingly difficult own conversion for most of the years does indeed have street theater workduring personal and cultural transitions), shops five times a year and more, but since 1944. there arc three areas that people might they are a part of their overall two-week Multi speeds are all right if you are focus on for necessary capital and to willing to fuss with the cables and con training programs in social change and influence the winds of change. Maybe non-violence. (RAIN, Feb/Mar, '78, trols, but I much prefer a plain coaster this has already been said, so please p. 17). More on MNS in an upcoming brake or one of thc new two speeds forgive if already working in these issue! with automatic shifting.
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