-- ---- SMALL ' BUSINESS Why S.O.B.s Succeed alld Nice Guys Fail in a Sma/lBusiness, $20.65 from Financial Management Associates 3824 E. Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85018 Despite the title and style of th is book, it contains more usefuJ and detailed information for small businesses and selfemployed people than anything else I've ever seen! How to track down the kind of lawyer you really want or need without paying telephone roulette. All sorts of legal and otherwise tax scams and loopholes and how to use them. How to deal with buying or selling a business. Fending off bureaucrats, getting free advertisement, making banks believe you are a good credit risk. All sorts of fair and unfair things that make up the reality of today's business world that you wish you'd known long ago. An excellent resource. Have your library get it so you don't have to pay for it. - TB In Business, Jerry Goldstein, editor, bi-monthly, $14/yr. from: J . G. Press Box 323 Emmaus, PA 18049 The firsl issue of In Bu~ine$s is finally out, and looks off to a good start as an idea, support and networking resource for people in, or thinking of getting into, small business. Accounts of innovative and successful small businesses that give a sense of what qualities are necessary and how to proceed; regular departments on financing, accounling, taxes, mark'eting, etc.-a useful combinarion of the personal qualities in commercial efforts, realistic business operation, and an emerging new world of good products and services. In setting up III Business , Jerry came across and is now working closely with a group called Support Services Alliance, Inc. set up to help self-employed people and small organizations gain economical access to services such as health insurunce, retirement plans, legal inquiry and referral, and to work wgethcr for fairer regulations. An excellent concept (write to them at Two Times Square, New York, NY 10036, for more details), hut a word of caution also- their president is comptroller of the Rockefeller Foundation, and their board of trustees includes presidents of two insurance companies, one large bank, ele. -TB ENERGY People's Energy Plan Plans to compile a national non-nuclear People's Energy Plan were out before the accident at the Three-Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, but with the near meltdown (as I write this it hasn't happened yet, thank God) at that plant, the need for a People's Energy Plan is even greater. The Institute for Ecological Policies, directed by Jim Benson, who is best known for his work on the Long Island Alternative Energy Study and other conservation issues (see RAIN, IRAIN's office is.-t 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Ph: (503) 227-5 110. I RAIN STAFF: Phil Conti Steven Ames Linda Sawaya Lane deMoll Yale Lansky Tom Bender Pauline Deppen Jeff Paine Copyright © 1979 RAIN Umbrella Inc. Layout Jill Stapleton Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing; Times Litho May ~ 979 RAIN Page 3 Vol. IV, No.3), is hard at work organizing what is truly a grassroots effort in compiling such a plan. People from local counties will examine prescnt local energy use; determine how much energy can be saved ; and estimate how much of the remainder can be replaced by county-wide renewable energy sources. Once these county plans are completed, delegates will gather at a national conference and put together 50 state "soft path" energy plans. These state plans will be combined into the National Plan to be presented to federal, state and local officials by the 1980 elections. The institute is preparing a guidebook for local counties who wish to participate in this vi tal and needed project. The guidebook is available for $5 from: Jim Benson, Institute for Ecological Policies, 9208 Christopher St. Fairfax, VA 22031, 703/273-9469 (include name of county and phone number when ordering). - YL NIRS, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, now has a toll-free phone service for safe energy activists. Interested parties can call 800/424-2477 Monday through Friday, between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. (EST). -PC Biomass Believers 20-20-20 is the motto of the International Biomass Institute. Their goal is 20 quads of energy from biomass by the year 2020 (currently biomass contributes 1.3 quads to the U.S.'s annual energy consumption of 75 quads). Dick Munson, coordinator of the Center for Renewable Resources and the Solar Lobby, presides over this non-profit organization devoted to research, education and promotion of biomass application in energy, farming and other fields. A membership newsletter, Bio-Tim es, is published six times a year. For additional information write: International Biomass Institute 1522 K St. N.W. Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006 - PC
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