Page 2 RAIN October 1980 .:-Sfii.:!IS.St.:-SS:-Sfii.:!IS.:-Ss-;:e-JS.-Sfei.:!-lfei.:!-lt..St-5S.-Ss-;:e-Js;;;;;:-,;s.s59,-;:s S.SSSSSS:Sfe:SI Dear Carlotta, Thanks for the June copy of RAIN. We were glad to see Scott Sklar's plug for Lance's book, Making Alcohol Fuel. You might want to make mention of my book on car conversion. I have driven to Oklahoma and back twice since March. The car has been on straight alcohol for over a year now and has covered 12,0b0 miles with this fuel alone. This is an area where we have a track record ahead of virtually everyone else. The weather has been warm this last week, but is beautifully cool today. Minnesota is a great place to be in the summer. We don't miss the volcanos a bit. Regards, Al Rutan Minneapolis, MN Dear Rainfolks , Sorry to hear about your financial woes. Wish we could give you more. Keep up the good work-we love ya! Best regards, Alan Locklear Marie Valler,oy Seattle, WA Dear folk, I am looking forward to the day when I can contribute directly (my skills) to what has been called counterfoil research. Presently employed as electronic engineering technician at Tektronix, fixing up my old salt-box house, and trying to get a house shop together. For now, please accept this donation to your essential work. Your proud reader, Phil Vayda Portland, OR Dear RAIN, Some food stores charge a premium for "sea salt," implying that it is richer in minerals, less refined, or more natural than other salt. The enclosed excerpt from the book The Forgotten Peninsula evidences what I've suspected: that "sea salt" is purified sodium chloride and doesn't differ significantly from salt extracted from a salt mine (which was also once a sea). As further evidence some friends and I just performed a taste comparison of "sea salt" from a natural foods store and of commercial salt. After crushing each to make the particles the same size, we could not taste any difference. Pat Underhill Philomath, Oregon What about the sugar added to many "processed" salts? - LS RAIN Dear Rainfolks, How nice it is to read your magazine again. Living out in the woods without enough money to subscribe is enough to keep an interested reader away from a good magazine, but now that my friend and I have moved back to the city we are gaining access to your publication again. In fact, we discovered you have a "living lightly" rate, and have pooled together enough cash to subscribe. We enjoy reading your magazine very much. It puts a lot of our feelings into words. In addition, I found your articles on feminism (April 1980) enlightening. It is good that your magazine points out the bad in society as well as the potential good. People must definitely realize something is wrong before it can be corrected, and unfortunately most Americans don't know what's wrong. I admire publications like RAIN, New Roots, and Not Man Apart for their efforts, and hope you can somehow become part of the background media that is so dominated by Time, Inc. and associates. Having worked in a third world country, I was impressed by your foreign access section (July '80, pp. 8-10). It's the kind of article I can xerox and send to my family to help express my feelings toward their work in·third world countries. I've been meaning to find out more about Chinese methane digesters for over a year now, and not surprisingly your magazine pulled through for me. The Chinese Biagas Handbook you reviewed is too expensive for me these days, but I did make it up to the Rainhouse library to see it. Your library is a good one; I've even been lightly thinking of moving to Portland just so I could go through your collection of publications. Truly yours, Carlos Portela (and Anita Coleman) Eugene, OR Journal of Appropriate Technology RAIN is a national information access journal making connections for people seeking more simple and satisfying lifestyles, working to make their communities and regions economically self-reliant. building a sodety that is durable, just and ecologically sound. RAIN STAFF: Laura Stuchinsky,·Mark Roseland, Carlotta Collette, John Ferrell Zonnie J. Bauer, Graphics and Layout RAIN, Journal of Appropriate Technology, is published 10 times yearly by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a non-profit corporation located at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, Oregon 97210, telephone 503/227-5110. Copyright © 1980 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing : Times Litho Cover Photograph: Ancil Nance I
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