Pagc 24 RAIN December 1978 Farallones Institute's Rural Center is filling positions, including a gardening and teaching assistant with familiarity in French intensive methods and an ability to help others learn, and an apprenticeship in animal husbandry, with dairy work, sheep, pasture and hay crop management as well as conducting specialized workshops. For either position, contact the Rural Center at 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA 95465. Santa Clara County Office of Appropriate Technology is offering several new CETA-funded positions, including market facilitator (to work with OAT and the Cooperative Agricultural Marketing Alliance), housing coordinator, office support person, management coordinator (to assist in organizing a community owned business), and alternative energy coordinator. Applicants must be CETA eligible. For more information contact Richard Wenn or Howie Simon (for market facilitator position) at Santa Clara OAT, P.O. Box 5651, San Jose, CA 95150. Total Environmental Action has announced its Winter/Spring J978- J979 schedule of Workshops on Alternative Energy, covering a wide range of topics including passive solar, greenhouses, retrofitting, owner building, waste management and water conservation, wind energy and many more. For a complete schedule, contact TEA at Church Hill, Harrisville, NJ-f 03450. The Farallones Integral Urban House is looking for a new resident manageran individual or couple skilled in some aspect of the a.t. and an interest in environmental education and working with the public. The job involves living at the house with primary responsibility for the maintenance of Life support systems. Contact Tom Javits, Integral Urban House, 1516 Fifth St., Berkeley, CA 94710, 415/525-1150. Now out in paperback : Wendell Berry's important recent book, The Unsettling of A merica' Culture and Agriculture, $4.95 from: Avon, 959 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10019 (see Rain excerpts Dec. 1977 and June 1978). The Institu te, providing technical assistance and training in community organizing, has announced its training calendar for the next several months, including several one-day conferences in community organizing beginning December 14 in New York City and ending May 3 in Nashville. Week long workshops in a variety of subjects will be held also at their new training center in New Orleans. For more information contact them at 628 Baronne St., New Orleans, LA 70113. Networking A. T. in California or CrossPollination in the Golden State-It's increasingly difficult these days to keep up with what's happening in a.t. even in one's own town, much less the statc or country. It's a good sign, of course, of healthy activity, but frustrating sometimes. People from the California Office of Appropriate Technology, Farallones Institute, the University of California Davis A.T. program, OCCUR and the regional Department of Energy Office are going to compile a mortthly calendar to network information about events in Northern California. Send material (and ideas for further networking) to Rhoda Epstein, Oakland Citizens' Committee for Urban Renewal, 1419 Broadway, Room 711, Oakland, CA 94612. Small classes on Learning to Use Sun Energy taught by Norman Saunders, P.E., at the Solar Cambridge School, Georgian Road, Weston, MA 02193. Tuition is $70 per course with the next session beginning January 3. RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 9721(; . Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAl D Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR Forwarding and Return Postage Guaranteed
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