Page 2 RAIN October 1978 APPROPRIATE · TECHNOLOGY Appropriate Technology Resources, Report Series No. 30, 1978, 55<1 from: Citizens Energy Project 1413 K Street, N.W. 8th Floor Washington, DC 20005 This seven-page pamphlet is a nice short introduction to appropriate technology that you might want to have handy to give to people who come into your office or to show to people at a booth. It describes the general concepts, gives examples of projects and lists basic groups, periodicals and books. - LdeM A.T. Small Grants Program for the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, Program Announcement and Grant Application Form, available from: U.S. Dept. of Energy Region X 1992 Federal Bldg. 915 2nd Ave. Seattle, WA 98174 Finally, a DOE appropriate energy technology grants program for our region run out of our region with regional a.t. people making sure it is done right. Those eligible for grants to $50,000 include: individuals, local non-profits, local governments, Indian tribes and small businesses. Although there's $144,500 in management money to run the program, our region gets only about $300,000 ... meaning administration amounts to 48 percent of the total grant monies. Ironically, the administrative dollars can only be used for program management and cannot, we're told, be transferred to the grant side so that more good ideas can be funded. We can only hope that next year's grant monies are allocated according to this year's overwhelming number of good proposals. -LJ RAIN "Summary of Projects funded in Region IX Appropriate Energy Technology Grants Program," 1978, GPO: 1978-789-159/1015, free from: Catole Gates U.S. Dept. of Energy Appropriate Energy Grants Program Oakland, CA 94612 Describes over 100 projects which received grants in the a.t. pilot program run during 1977-78 in the states of Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii and the Pacific Trust Territories. Extremely useful to anyone considering trying for an a.t. grant during 1978-79. - LJ Invention Management, monthly, 8 pp., $48.00 per year from: Institute for Invention and Innovation, Inc. 85 Irving St. Arlington, MA 02174 Patents, licensing, product development and other topics of interest to the inventor are in each issue. Perhaps you can get your local inventor's resource center to subscribe. -LJ Information Service on Industrial Equipment (ACE Service) Industrial Information Section Industrial Services and Institutions Division United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) P.O. Box 707 A-1011 Vienna, Austria This United Nations service publishes a number of information/access sheets on technologies and equipment available in developing countries in recycling, industrial and farm equipment, etc. A series on comparable alternatives for grain storage facilities, grain dryers, hotmix asphalt plants, low-cost roofing, etc. is particularly useful in presenting a range of alternatives available for each need. Write above address for more information on the series of publications available. -TB Resources for Appropriate Technology in Santa Clara County; a sourcebook prepared by the Santa Clara County Office of Appropriate Technology, 1978, 106 pp., available to residents of that county free plus 50<1 .postage from: Santa Clara County Office of Appropriate Technology P.O. Box 5651 San Jose, CA 95150 The folks at Santa Clara Office of Appropriate Technology have done a fine job of putting together a regi9nal sourcebook (a la Rainbook) that is chock full of information, as well as being an exemplary model for other counties in the nation. The section on food and agriculture is appropriately . one of the strongest sections in a book that is geared towards a once completely agricultural community. As the Santa Clara Valley has been radically developed from a lovely orchard/plant/food producing paradise to a smoggy caroriented apartment slurb, this sourcebook lists the important groups, tools, books, and people to connect with in surviving there in a positive way. - LS International A.T. Group Update It seems like keeping in touch with our overseas counterparts is unusually difficult, what with mail delays, language barriers and so forth. Nevertheless, RAIN would like to update and broaden its contact with foreign organizations, movements and journals that are involved in a.t.- particularly those located in overdeveloped nations like our own, • where the tools and ideas being developed would be more transferable to the circumstances in this country-and vice versa. In a future issue we will try to update you all on just what is happening abroad. ·Our readers, here and overseas, could help us out greatly by forwarding literature and contact persons to us, or by showing a copy of RAIN to their foreign friends. Let's make some international networking happen. Tak sa mycket. -SA
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