Page 22 RAIN December 1980 Rodale Press is gathering material for a project book on handmade house details. Ownerbuilders, custom builders, and craftspeople who have designed and built unusual and beautiful details in their own homes or for others are invited to contribute. The emphasis is on natural materials, and details to be included are doors, windows, walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces, stairways, lofts, tubs, sinks, and decks. Rodale will pay for photographs and manuscript copy or for interview time if your project is selected to be included in the book.As afirst step, send a snapshot of the detail and a brief description of the building process you used to Amy Zaffarano Rowland, Rodale Press, 33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18049 or call 215/967-5171 ext. 457. "Earth-Sheltered and Passive Solar Housing" will be the theme of a one-day serriinar to be held at Jordan College in Cedar: Springs, Michigan, on January 24. For details contact Linda Bouwkamp, Energy Programs, Jordan College, 360 West Pine Street, Cedar Springs, MI 49319, 616/696-1180. , The Center for Responsive Governance and Delphi Research Associates will convene a symposium on "Living with Scarcity: European Perspectives on Energy Futures" in Austin, Texas, December 1011. For information contact Nelson Rosenbaum at the Center for Responsive Governance, 2000 Fiorida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009, 202/ 265-4818. The Grantsmanship Center will offer its fiveday intensive funding workshop in a number of cities during December and January, includ•ing Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, New York, Washington, Salt Lake City, and Houston. The workshops will include presentations oit program planning, proposal writing, an,d federal, coworate, and foundation funding opportunities. Contact Joan Sullivan, Program Registrar, Grantsmanship ' Center, 1031 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA90015. The federal Department of Energy and the Solar Energy Research Institute will sponsor a Solar Industrial Process Heat Conferen~e, December 16- .19 in Houston, Texas. For details contact Donna Post, Conference Manager, SERI Conferences Group, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401, 303/ 231..:1861. Where can you find thousands of books and magazines on renewable energy, organic agriculture, recycling, appropriate technology, and all the other subjects covered in each issue of RAIN? At the Rainhouse, of course! Stop in when you're in the Portland area and browse as much as you like. Our usual library hours are 9 to 5, Monday through ~aturday, but call ahead (227-5110} to make sure we're in. The strange people you may see scurrying about, mumbling something about a "copy deadline," are generally harmless and will be glad to help you with your reference needs. A Passive Solar and Earth-Sheltered Housing Conference will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, February 19. The event will be sponsored by the Alabama Energy Extension Service and the Home Builders of Tuscaloosa. For more information contact Alabama Energy Extension Service, Auburn University, Au- , bum, AL 36830, 205/826-4718. National Land for People is offering internships which will involve public interest research, organizing, food processing and distributing, natural farming, plant propaga'tion, and low-tech energy and construction. There is a minimum time commitment of six months; full year preferred. Food and sleeping space provided, but no stipend for first six months. Academic credit is possible. Contact National Land for People, 2348 N. Cornelia, Fresno, CA 93711, 209/237-6517. The California Office of Appropriate Technology currently has openings for an Architect/SolarConservation Designer, a Mechanical Engineer, and a Design Team Manager. For details, contact Governor's Office of Planning and Research, 1400 Tenth Street, Sacramento, CA 95310, 916/3223170. INTERN WANTED. The Farallones Rural Center is looking for a person to fill a oneyear internship in an edible landscaping program. Focus will be on tree crops and intensive methods of tree crop culture. The program will involve lots af hands-on experience supplemented by some lecture and directed study. Persons sel~cted will be asked to pay $200/mo. for room and board. Send resume to Robert Kourik, Farallones Rural Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA 95465, or call 707/874-3060 9 to 5 weekdays. "Energy from Biomass and Wastes" will be the topic of a conference to be held in Buena Vista, Florida, January 26-30. The Institute of Gas Technology is the conference sponsor. Discussion will center around conversion processes, integrated systems, biomass production, factors affecting commercialization, net energetics, and more. Contact Kathy Fisher, Institute of Gas Technology, 3424 5. State Street, IITCenter, Chicago, IL 60616, ~12/567-3650. "Zoning for Solar Access" is the subject of a short course to be offered January 15-16 by University of Wisconsin Extensi9n in Madison. The same institution will offer "Alcohol Production for the Farm" January 17-23. For details on either course contact University of Wisconsin Extension, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Science, 432 N. Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706. The-Owner Builder Center in Berkeley is now accepting applications from people interestedin being trainecl to teach housebuilding courses in their own communities. Emphasis will be on the potential for inexpensive, selfreliant approaches to housing. Next training program will be held January 25 to February 8, 1981. For further information contact the Owner Builder Center, 1824 4th Street; Berke:- ley, CA 94710, 415/848-5951. Antioch University's No.rthwest Regional Branch offers graduate education in appropriate technology under its Urban Studies and Planning masters program. Courses are rurrently available in Seattle and may soon be available in Portland as well. For information on the program contact Ted Gage, 1729 17th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122, 206/3232270, or Donna Grund Slepack, 817 Brighton, Oregon City, OR 97045, 503/657-3811. Corrections: We published an access piece in our October issue (p. 9) for the President's Clearinghouse for Community Energy Efficiency in which we stated that one of their jobs is to provide energy conservation information tq-"the general populace.",They inform us that their mandate is actually to inform local government officials.
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