P.age 22 RAIN July 1980 A "Women and.Energy Conference" will be held in Portland, Ort;gon on August 2. Goals of the conference include educating women about political analysis of energy issues and finding ways to involve women in energy policy decisions. For information contact Nancy Cosper, Ratepayers Union, P.O. Box 14244, Portland, OR 97214. Antioch University West in San Francisco offers a graduate program in Ecosystem Management and Appr.opriate Technology. Program areas for the 1980-81 academic year will include passive solar design, environmental planning, horticulture and landscape design, integrated pest management, habitat protection and restoration, and sustained agricultural de,velopment. For further information contact Director, Ecosystem Management Program, Antioch University West, 650 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA 94108. The Freedom from !"f unger Foundation, a private nonprofit international development organization, is seeking a Technology Program Director. Requirements include a food technology background; interest in small-scale food processing technology, and ability to work both as hands-on technologist and program director. Considerable overseas travel. Salary low '20s. Contact Dr. Hugh Roberts, Vice Pres. for Programs, Freedom from Hunger, P.O. Box 680, Santa Monica, CA 90406. Solwest '80, a joint conference of the Solar Energy SQciety of Canada and the U.S. Pa- . cific Northwest Solar Energy Association, will be_held at the University of British Co- , lumbia in Vancouver, August 6-10. For information write Solwest '80, 504 Davif , Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2G4 Canada. The Colorado Open Space Council, a stafewide conservation coalition, seeks an executive direc-. tor. Job will include administration, fundraising, policy intervention, and supervision of staff in areas of wilderness, mining, air, and water. Salary: $12,000/yr. plus benefits. Deadline for resumes is July 7. Contact Clint Jones, Colorado Open Space Council, 317 South Ogden, Denver, co 80209, 303/399-9453. ' The University for Man, a free university that offers noncredit tuition-free education to the general public, seeks a director for its outreach program to develop and disseminate its free university model in~idwest rural communities. Position requires organizing ability, commitment to and familiarity with rural areas, experience with grant-writing and staff management, and a willingness to travel. Salary range is $1216,000/yr. Send resume and letter explaining your interest in job, postmarked no later · than July 14, to Sue Maes, Director, University for Man,_1221 Thurston, Manhattan, KS 66502,913/532-5866. CORRECTION , The Trilateral Connection poster accessed in the Feb.i Mar. RAIN is available for $5.00, not"$3.50, from the Black Hills Alliance, Box-2508, Rapid City, SD 57709, 605/342-5127. The poster is a fundraiser for the Black Hills/Paha Sapa Report • which provides information on the struggle against uranium mining in the Black Hills and on the International Survival Gathering July 18-27 in the ~lack Hills. " It's your gift to a nervous population on the verge of becom-·• ing responsible.' " That's how Joel Schatz described the beautiful recycling posters we showed you last month, and we agree. • 'Recycling is shaping up nationally better than most other environmental programi,, but it still needs direction and attention. Here's a quick, certain_and rewarding way to give a boost to the recycling campaign-take the initiative yourself! Put these posters up in schools, libraries and other public buildings. They're not just beautiful artworks, bu:t excellent educational • tools as well. It's your gift in another way, too..Your money goes to )'ransition Graphics and to RAIN. Transition Graphics, which was set up to print and distribute these full-size color originals, • will use the money fo_r future posters on solar energy and related subjects to support non-profit groups. RAIN will use our share of the money for sorely neeqed operating capital, so that we can promote our community resource library, retrofit the Rainhouse, and start a million other projects we've been dreaming about. If every RAIN reader bought a set of recycling posters (7 posters for $18.00), we'd take in about $19,000· (and faint!). So send for your posters soon, OK? Use the order form in the last·issue, if possible. Otherwise, contact Transition Graphics (P.O. Box 30007, Eugene, OR 97403, 503/364-0140). And tell 'em we sent you. -RAIN° • HELP WANTED PRODUCTION MANAGER/ART DIRECTOR needed for lively Rocky Mountain newspaper with national readership. Design layout and supervise paste-up crew for 16-page tabloid. Some proofreading, ad production and work on promotion materials. Design and/or layout experience necessary; art skills helpful. Low salary. Health insurance. Application deadline Aug. 11; send resume and sample of · work to Geoffrey_ O'Gara, High Country N~s, Box K, Lander, WY 82520. "Through the '80s: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" will be the theme ofthe First Global Conference on the Future, to be held in Toronto, Ontario, July 20-24. Among the many speakers will be Marshall McLuhan, Hazel Henderson, and Lester Brown. For further infor~ation contact World Future Society, 4916 St. Elmo Avenue, Washington, DC 20014, 301/656-8274, 1 r Global Conference, Suite 1701, One Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario MSE 1E6, Canada, 416/ 361-1080. "Community Renewable Energy Sys~ems (CRES); Solar forrthe Cities," a conference to stim1,,1late tlieuse of community renewable energy systems in urb_an areas, will be held Sept. 3-5 in Seattle. Among the topics to be discussed will be funding of local energy projects, renewable energy and economic development, land use planning for solar access, solar ordinances, and solar applications in the rental market. For informa- I tion conta<:t the Conference Group, Solar Energy Research Institute, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401, 303/231-1467. CORRECTION In our June issue we failed to note that the interview we excerpted from William Valentine and Frances Moore Lappe's What Can We Do? was with Nathan Gray of the Institute for Community Economics, 639 Massachusetts Ai;e., Cambridge, MA 02139.
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