The first annual conference on Community Renewable Energy systems will be facilitated by the Dept. of Energy at the Univ. of Colorado in Boulder, Aug. 20-21. The conference will demonstrate the ideas of renewable energy sources and their applications and successes. Contact: Vicky Curry, Conference Coordi~ator, Solar Energy Research Institute, 1536 Cole Btmlevard, Golden, Colorado 80401, 303/231-1467. A weekend conference entitled "A NonViolent Perspective on Race and Class" is scheduled for July 20-23. The War Resisters League is holding this gathering at Camp Kiwanis in Hidden Valley Tennessee. Contact: War Resisters League, 108 Purefory Road, Chapel Hill, NC 2 7514. The Pacific NW Solar Energy Association will hold a conference, "Solar '79" from Aug. 10-12 at the Seattle Center. Emphasis will be placed on state-of-the-art applications and their feasibility in the Pacific NW. Direct inquiries to Jill July 1979 RAIN Page 23 JOBS The Alaska Center for the Environment is looking for a General Manager for a· recycling plant to open Sept. 1 in Anchorage, Alaska. Responsibilities would be all day-to-day operations of the recycling center, financial, employee and community relations. Qualifications include appropriate college degree plus 6 months recycling or business management experience. Applications should be in by July 1, but qualified applicants should phone after this date as the position may still be unfilled. Salary $1000 to $1500/mo. Contact: Paul Lowe, Executive Director, Alaska Center for .,,..--~- Goodnight, Coordinator, Solar '79 NW, the Environment, 1069 W. 6th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. 907/274-3621. The 5th Annual National Organic Farmers Association Conference, "Essentials of a Native Agriculture," will run from August 17-19 in Lynden, Vermont. Many aspects of Biodynamic Agriculture, and of natural living as well, will be demonstrated at this event. Write: NOFA, Box 123, Hyde Park, VT 05655. City of Seattle Energy Office, 920 Arctic Building, Third and Cherry, Seattle, WA 98104, 206/625-383 5. Labor and Solar Energy is the topic of a one and one-half day seminar at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in River Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday, July 20, and Saturday, July 21. Solar Codes, Solar Certification, Training Opportunities and The Role of the Solar Installer are subjects that will be addressed in the conference, co-sponsored by the West CAP program and the Red Wing Vocational Technical Institute. For a brochure and more information, contact: C.L. Johnson, West CAP, 525 2nd St., Glenwood City, WI 54013, 715/ 265-4271. Special opportunity with a growing alternative magazine. Need one person to do business management, list maintenance, promotion, and ad program supervision. Also supervise fulfillment on auxiliary products and services. Salary equal to senior staff, grows with magazine. Experience important.·For more details, contact Co-Op, Box 7293, Ann Arbor, MI 48107. ,--------------------- -- -- -- -- -- -... -- - I No Nukes Strategy Co~ference Report: Readers, take note: The address we listed in our April issue for obtaining copies of the National No Nukes Strategy Conference Report is no longer deliverable. However, copies of this excellent networking tabloid can be obtained by writing to Peggy Bishop at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), 1536 Sixteenth St. N.W., Washington, DC 20036. Copies are $2.00 each, postpaid. The manual, Build a Drain-Down Solar Water Heater, reviewed in the May issue of Rain, does not use electric valves as we incorrectly stated. RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology Subscription 2 yc:ars/20 issuc:s, $25.00 $ ------ 1 yc:ar/10 issuc:s, $15.00 $ ------,--- 1 yc:ar/10 issuc:s, Living Lightly (income: kss than $5,000), $7.50 $ -----:--- Forc:ign surfan· mail-add $2.80 (inquire: for air ratc:s) $ ------ Sampk copy, $1.00 $ ------ My Name: __________ Sc:nd Gift Sub to -------- Back issurs of RA /N currently available: Vol. I: No. 7, H, Y; Vol. 11: all 9 issucs; Vol. Ill: all 10 issues; Vol. IV: all 10 issues; S1 .00 each. Vol. V and on, Sl.50 each. For a list of what's inside each back issue of RAIN through Vol. IV, send us a SASE or si·c the center section of RiJi"4tx . RAIN Publications·(indintc quantity) $ ------ - - Stepping Stones, $7 .95 __ Cosmic Economics: $1 .00 __ Rainbook, $7.95 __ Environment-al Design Primer, $5.95 __ Stepping Stones Poster, $3.00 __ Eme_rging Energ-y_Policy- Principles, $1.00 _ _ Urban Ecotopia Postc·r, $3.00 __ Sharing Smalkr Pies, $2.00 __ Suburban Ecotopia Poster, $3.00 __ Consumer Gu1dt' to ~oodstoves, $2.00 _ _ Living Lightly, $2.00 __ Employme~t Impact Statement, $.50 _ _ Raindex, $4.00 __ RAIN back issues: ------ 40% discount on orders of 5 copies or more except on books from Schocken (Stepping Steines, Rainbook and Environm..ntal Design Primer) , Donation {tax deductible) s - ---- Total Enclosed (all ordc:rs must be: prc:paid in u. s. dollars) $ ------ ·-----------------------------------------I
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