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People interested in putting together local events can contact Richard Kinane, Earth Day 'SO, Suite 510,1001 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20036, or call 202 1 293-2550. Tile Coalll io n for ,J Non-Nuclear Wo rld will sportsor anti-rlue/ear uctlllities ill Wasllington, DC, Apri l 25-28 , with parallel actions in PhoeniX . Ari;:ona. Lobby Day. Teach-in. March & Rally, ReliglOllS Service. and Nonviolent Civil Dlspbcdirnce at th~ Dept. of Energy. COlltatt tile Coalition at 236 Massachusetts Avr. N.£. , #506, Washingtorr. DC 2DOO2, 2021544-5228. "Celebration at the Crossroads" is the theme of the 11th annual Whole Earth Festival May 2-4 on the UC Davis campus. Workshops. new games. cr",fts, natural fouds. music and speakers (including Holly Near and Brooke MedicineEagle). Contact ; Pat Echevarria. 6 Lower Freeborn, UC Davis. Davis. CA 95616, 91617522568. The National Science Foundation has announced the establishment of an experimental program in appropriate technology. The program will seek to aid in the development of appropriate technologies with a potential for generalization and contribute to an improved understanding of a.t.'s social, economic and scientific impact on American life. Unsolicited proposals may be submitted at any time to: Dr. Edward Bryan, A.T. Program Manager, Room 1108, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 20550. April 17 is BIg Business Dlly! Its spon sors (Ralplr Nllda, 'olrn Kenneth Galbraith and James Fa rmrrlllllong tlrem) want the event to do what Earth Day. Food Day and Sun Day did for tlleir slIbirets by providrng a forum to expose abusr alld explore altematives. In communities natIonwide th ere will be alternatives-to-bigbusiness fairs. promotioll of small bllsiness and appropriatt' technologies, nominations fo r a "Corporate Hall of SlIame," ilnd symboli "bread lines" lit blinks wlliell red-line commllnitIes For IIIforllllltion (ontllct Big Busirless Day , 1346 COllneetiClII A ttCllllf N.W. , Rm . 411. WasIl mgt orr . DC20036,202/861-0456. The National Center for Appropriate Technology has announced a $150,000 grants program which will allow low-income people in a hundred communities nationwide to receive hands·on training in solar greenhouse construction this spnng. Grants will be awarded to local Community Action AgenCIes (CAAs), and NCAT will provide preparatory ,vorkshops for the grant~s in greenhouse construction, design and horticulture. Grantees will then purchase building materials with the grant funds and hold local workshops. For details, contact NCAT Grants Office. r.o.Box 3838, Butte, MT 5970] , 40614944572. Courses & Conferences How can individuals and communities decrease their dependence on expensive food and energy? The Faralloneslnstitute Rural Center has announced an intensive fourweek summer program (July 28-August 22) to provide community organizers with practical skills in small-scale solar systems and conservation techniques. Other upcoming courses at the Rural Center include "The Edible Landscape" (May 19-June 20) and "Nutritional Gardening" (August 25-29). For information, contact Alison Dykstra or Donna Clavaud, Farallones Institute, 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA 95465,707/874-3602 or 874-3060. The Fourth National Conference on Rural America will be held in Washington. DC. June 24-26. Subjects to be discussed include housing. health, the elderly, support for the fast-fading family farm, enforcement of the reclamation law, minonty access to land, energy development. and rural transportation. Contact Rural America. 1346 Connecticut Avenue NW. Washington. DC 20036. Amory Lovins of Friends of the Earth and Barbara Blum of the Consumer Protection Agency will be keynote speakers at the annual conference of the National Association for Environmental Education to be held May 25-27 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Theme of the event will be " An Environmental Agenda for the '80s." For information, contact J. Heidelberg, NAEE, P.O. Box 400, Troy, OH45373, 5131 698-6493. Sol West '80. an international confererrce sponsored ;ointly by tile Solar Energy Society of Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest Solar Energy Association. will be held in Vancouver. B.C., August 6-10. Contact Kate Allen. PNWSEA, Sol West '80 Headquarters. Economy Buildi ng, 93 Pike Street. Rm. 314. Seattle. WA 98101.206/624-6409. The ethics of energy d~velopment and consumption; energy and social policy ; human needs and corporate perspectives-these are examples of the kinds of topics to be discussed at an "International Symposium on the Human Side of Energy" to be held in Laramie. Wyoming. July 79. Contact Joseph Davenport 111. Symposium Planning Committee, Wyoming Human Services Project. Merica Hall #312 . University of Wyoming. Laramie. WY 82071 . A panel of homeownen with first-hand experience in using wind-generated electricity will be featured at a conference on practical applications of wind power, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota, April 25-26. For information, contact Alternative Sources of Energy, Inc., Milaca, MN 56353, 612/9836892. TlrrL'1! short courses art being offered in till' Davis-SlIcraml'nto area litis spring by t"~ UIIIversit y 01 Califonria (DlltlIS) to help do-i t-yourselfus build allmergy-rf!ioent small hom~ or makt an existing home more pncrgy-efficient. Tile course! li re; "Errergll Efficient Passive Solar Design ." May J. and "Pas.ive Solllr Water Healer Workshop ," May 9-10. bolh In Davis , atlll"DesignlPlg tile Small HOlIse." May 17-18 & 31 in Sacramento. For details, co~ltact Urrilll'rsity £rtensioll . University of Calilomia . Davis, CA 95616.916/752-0880. An mtensive four-week workshopcovering vegetable and herb production. floriculture, propagation, chicken~ and goalS, compostmg, SOIl husbandry, bees. and fruirculrure. will be offered at Camp Joy ncar Sama Cru>:. CaUfornia. August 1-28. Write Camp Joy, 131 Camp Joy Rd., Boulder Creek. CA 95006 The third meeting of the Latin American Committee of Appropriate Technology for Underdeveloped Countries will meet in conjunction with the Third International Symposium of Engineering to be held in San Salvador, EI Salvador, July 25-30. Theme of the symposium will be "Basic Needs and Technology" and registration fee will be $100 for professionals and 550 for wives (I). For further information, write to Ing. Ricardo A. Navarro, Universidad Centroamerica "Jose Simeon Canas," Apartado Postal (01) 168, San Salvador, EI Salvador (and be sure to inquire about the registration fee for husbands of professionals!). Tht' American Wi"d Inergy Association will hold its natiollal confert'ncr in Pittsbur811, PA, /lInl' 8-11 . Fo r illfo rmatlon , (otl/act AWEA . 1609 ConncdiCllt Ave: N.W., WashlngtoPl. DC 20009.202/667-9137. Brazil. the site of so much recent rcsea.rch and development in alcohol fuels, will be the site of the Fourth InternatiOnal Symposium on Alcohol (and other Biomass Fuels}Technology, October 5-8. Simultaneous translation m Portuguese and English Will be provided at all sessions. For details. write: lnstiruto De Pesquisos TecnologicasJ [PT. IV Alcohol SympOSIum, Art. Nedo Eston De Eston. COlxa Poslal 7141, 01000. Siio Paulo. Brazil. Help Wanted ACORN, a multi-issue nineteen-state grassroots community organization developing political power for low and moderate income people, has openings for community organizers. Contact Kay Jaeger, ACORN, 404 Lodi Street, Syracuse, NY 13203, 315 1 476-5787.
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