\ Page 22 RAIN July 1979 • The Small Towns Institute is seeking information on small community design projects carried out primarily with local finances and which demonstrate the eco- , nomic benefits of effective use of design theory and practice. Further information is available from JoAnne Sperry, -Small Towns Institute, P.0. Box 517, Ellensburg, WA 98926. "The Five Standards for Safe Childbearing" will be co-sponsored by • NAPSAC and The Farm, July 15-17, in Nashville, Tennessee. 1) Good Nutrition, 2) Skillful Midwifery, 3) Natural Childbirth, 4) Home Birth, and 5) Breast[eeding, are the five standards to be emphasized. Contact: Dr. David or Lee Stewart, NAPSA C, Box 276, Marble Hill, MO 63 764. 314/238-2010. Children and ~ommunity, the annual community service summer conference, will be held in Yellow Springs, OH, July 27-29. The effect of community on ·child development and vice versa will be explored in the 3-day workshop. For further information, write: Community Service Inc., Box 243, Yellow Springs, OH 4'5387, 513/767-1461. The Crabapple Center for Homesteading will present a week-long workshop from July 14 to 21. Food production, shelter and waste systems will be covered at the Pacific Coast Center. Write: Crabapple, P.O., Box 1302, Florence, OR 97439. Cost $100. The Dept. of Energy will hold Four Regional Solar Update Conferences focusing on demonstration projects. , Dearborn, Michigan, July 11-13; Orlando, Florida, July 15-17; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 29-31; Los Angeles, California, Aug. 1-3. For information write: Trinity Univ. TX 78284. Call: in Texas, 512/736r8311, outside Texas 800/531-7180. The 2nd North American Soycrafters Conference will be held this summer in Amherst, Massachusetts; at Hampshire College, from July 26-29. All aspects ofsoy products from production to consumption are covered in this 3-1/2 day conference. Write: Soycrafter's _ Assoc. ·of North America, 305 Wells St. , Greenfield, MA 01301, 4131774-5480. "Management Assessment of Peat as an Energy Resource" will be sponsored by . the Institute of Gas Technology, July 22-24, in Arlington, Virginia. Contact~ Wendell W. Waterman, Institut~ of Gas Technology, 3424 South State St., Chicago, IL 60616, 312/567-3880; RUSU The Evergreen State College will offer a program in Alternative Energy Systems at the Olympia campus next fall. The program integrates theore.tical concepts , learned in the classroom with practical, "hands-on" experien_ce in all aspects of renewable energy; biomass, solar, wind, etc. For more infollTiation contact the Evergreen admissions office, Olympia, Washington. 98505 Rooters or Looters? --continued The Trojan.Horse, Steve Weissman, et al., 1975, $3.95'from: Monthly Review Press 62 W. 14th Street New York, NY 10011 RESOURCES: Global Reach, Barnet and Muller, 1974, $6.95 from: Simon & Schuster .1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 A superb compendium of the dreams, claims, actions and effects of multinational corporations. A basic information source for any efforts to change our economic patterns. Highly. recommended. •Imperial Brain Trust, Shoup and Minter, 1977, $17.50 from: Monthly Review Press 62 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 An examination of the role of the Council on Foreign RelaA broader overview of the realities behind the Trojan horse of our foreign aid- police aid for tyrants, CIA covers, aid to U.S. , corporations rather than hungry nations, the destructive effects of food aid, etc. A good eye-opener about who aid _really serves. The Debt Trap, Cheryl Payer, 1974, $4.50 from: - Monthly Review Press 62 W. 14th Street New York, NY 10011 An appalling account of the role of the International Monetary Fund in preventing poor nations frorp gaining control over their own ec;onomies. A series of ex·cellent case studies shows the impact IMF's policies have had in a variety of countries . and how they have undermined the economy of the couqtries. tions in shaping our foreign policy to the benefit of the U.S. Development Without Aid, Leopold Kohr, 1973, $12.95 from: banking and business ~ommunity. The role of business in es- Schocken Books tablishing and funding the council, and the interweavings be- 200 Madison Avenue tween corporate boards, the council itself and_govern~ent , New York, NY 10016 agencies are laid out. Together with the above_ bo<?ks, this . A coll~ction of Kohr's essays on self-reliant developmentfleshes out the corporate/governmental collus10n m plundering ···most valuable for the fund of detailed examples, references, the economies·of developing countries: • quotations and quiet insights. □DODD
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