Page 22 RAIN January 1980 Courses and Conferences * A symposium on "The Harmony of Health: Body, Mind and Spirit" will be offered in Los Angeles on Feb. 16 by the Holmes Center for Research in Holistic Healing. Speakers will include Norman Cousins and Dr. Roger]. Williams. For further inform_ation contact the Holmes Center, P.O. Box 75127, Los Angeles, CA 90075. The National Public Law Training Center offers legal advocacy training to community workers serving disadvantaged and neglected populations. Upcoming courses in the Washington, DC area include "Legal Advocacy Skills' (Feb. 4-8) and "Housing Law for NonLawyers" (Mar: 11-14). Contact Pat Poweres, NPLTC, 2000 P St. N.W., Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036. Six free seminars on various aspects of solar energy development are being offered in Eugene, Oregon between Jan. 16 and Mar. 11. Topics include the BPA pilot program in solar water heating, development of solar in southern Oregon, and the role of the Western Solar Utilization Network in solar energy marketing. Contact the Solar Energ¥ Center, Dept. of Architecture, U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. A wood energy trade show and conference for business people and the general public will be held in Seattle, Feb. 4-7. Contact Mary Crandal, WWREC, Puyallup, WA 98317. "Population, Food, Resource and Environmental Policy" is the am_bitious theme of the fourth Capon Springs Public Policy Conference to be held in· Philadelphia, Feb. 22-24. For information, contact Beverly Grafel, Population/Food Fund, 3431 West 64th Ave., Apt. 2, Anchorage, AK 99502. The Farallones Institute Rural Center is offering three residential workshops 'in horticulture. For 1980 they are offering a separate 5-week program in both Bio-Intensive Horticulture and Edible Landscaping. There will be a one-week workshop in Food and Nutrition in the Garden. Fol information send a 9x12 self-addressed envelope with 41 cents postage to The Farallones Institute Rural Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA, 95465. Insultant Technologists Inc., a nonprofit, community service organization, will offer hands-on workshops in conservation techniques and passive solar utilization, Jan. 17-20 and Feb. 7- • 10 in the Portland area. Contact ITI at 5000 N.W. Broadway, #5, West Linn, OR 97068. "Alternatives to Nuclear'' is the title of a Western States legal defense skills and strategy meeting at Laney College, Oakland, CA, Jan. 18-20. Several hundred people are expected to share ideas· and build solidarity between anti-nuclear and other constituencies. Space is limited, so check before sending $20 registration fee to 558 Capp St., San Francisco, CA 94110, or call (415) 2821109. Denis Hayes, M. King Hubbert, David Morris and Garrett Hardin will be among the speakers at a conference entitled "Design for the 21st Century: Food, Energy and Appropriate Technology" to be held Feb. 22-23 1n Davis,·CA 95616. Help Wanted· )t The New Western Energy Show is seeking an administrator to begin work in early spring. The person chosen will help coordinate a traveling road show, technical displays, publications, a library and other activities of the organization, and must have a background in office management and public relations. For further information contact Carol Heyman, NWES, 226 Power Block, Helena, MT 59601, 406/443-7272. Responsible Urban Neighborhood Technology has an opening for a,paid coordinator on its integral urban house project in Portland. Contact RUNT, P.O. Box 40562, Portland, OR 97240. Community clinic seeks full-time physician. Emphasis on wholistic, preventive health care. Malpractice insurance provided. $25,000-$35,000 per year. Contact Douglas Parker, White Bird Clinic, 341 E. 12th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401,503/342-8255. Forelaws on Board, an Oregon group attempting to further environmental and energy consciousness, needs volunteers to help circulate anti-nuclear petitions and staff tables. One petition is to prevent further construction of nuclear plants, another is to close existing plants. In Portland, call 232-0047 or 232-6580; in Salem, 399-1614; in Eugene, 687-2557. General Announcements ~ The 10th Anniversary of Earth Day (remember Earth Day?) will be April 22, 1980. Neighborhood and community groups across the country will be involved in a celebration of the earth. ED '80 will be a time for citizens to look back on the last ten years and forward into the second environmental decade. People interested in putting together local events can contact Richard Kinane, Earth Day '80, Suite 510, 1001 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20036, or call 202/293-2550: SOLAR FINANCING: The Department of Energy is holding workshops throughout the nation to provide the financial community with the information it needs to anticipate the growing demand for solar loans . These one-day sessions will address the practices and policies of lenders, insurers , and utilities toward the solar community . For information about workshops to be held in your area call the National Solar Information Center at 800/523-2929. Pennsylvania residents call 800/462-2983. AMAZING BUT TRUE: Your RAIN staff has been conducting its day-to-· day business with the aid of only one typewriter! If any of our Portland-area readers has an old, unused machine, we'd love to press it into service. MOST WANTED LISTS: RAIN will do another mass mail promotion soon and would like to hear from like-minded organizations interested in exchanging mailing lists. Contact John Ferrell, RAIN Resourc~s Coordinator. WANTED: INFORMATION ON NET ENERGY ... especially net energy from nuclear power as the energy source, or . comparing net energy need to produce nuclear power as opposed to other alternative energy sources. Contact: CASE (Citizens Association for Sound Energy), P.O. Box 4123, Dallas, TX 75208, phone 214/9469446 A SECOND CHANCE? The Department of Housing and Urban Development {HUD) is now reconsidering cases in which a homeowner was rejected by HUD for an assignment of his/her mortgage between May 17, 1976, and January 31, 1979: If you wish to have your application reconsidered, contact your local HUD Field Office.. The Grass Roots Investment Network seeks to facilitate transfer of personal financial assets to constructive channels. It is cur- _ rently compiling a DIVEST List of corporations which flagrantly violate social and • environmental responsibility and a SUPPORT List of food co-ops., community banks, land trusts and other enterprises which play a positive role. Send contributiqns for either list to Ricky Greenwald, GRIN, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002.
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