Page 2 RAIN January 1981 ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!! Due to some horrible screw-up with our computer mailing service, several subscribers have not been receiving their magazine. Others have been getting two or more copies. Please tell your friends that RAIN is alive and kicking. And let us know if you're having problems receiving the magazine. Thanks. Also, all you librarians and mailbox watchers might want to note that there will be a longer-than-usual delay between issues next time. This is not a mailing problem. Our combined February/March issue (Vol. VII, No. 5) will come out in late February. Nothing to worry about-just some time for us to work on other projects! -Rainmakers LETTERS Dear RAIN, I couldn't help but respond to your coverage of Tom Hayden's remarks in the November RAIN. Mr. Hayden's suggestions are meaningful, though it is unfortunate he is a politician first and solar activist second. As such he is in a perfect position to explain why the solar transition is not occurring. Tom Hayden, it can be remembered, is a top aide to Jerry Brown, the California governor who recently campaigned for president under a myriad of contraditory foreign policy platforms (depending at any particular time on what the media was leading voters to believe). Hayden vigorously campaigned against Ted Kennedy, the Senator with a solid human rights record and the only prosolar major candidate, even after Brown had obviously lost (not exactly an effort to build a solar coalition). Further, Brown's campaign accepted contributions from California agribusiness, and now Brown is avidly supporting Inappropriate Agriculture's quest to build a peripheral canal and waste even more huge amounts of water and energy. What's next? Photovoltaic cells on crop dusters? Personally, I think Mr. Hayden should stay in California and put his preachings into practice, instead of travelling around spreading fancy rhetoric that does not produce results. As far as indulging in California's successes, I wonder how far the Brown administration could have pushed A. T. if they weren't so intent on taking over the country. Comparing California's success to other states' plans is like saying the United States has a better government than the Soviet Union because we support less fascist dictators. Let us not ignore our failures. Fortunately, some of us have not become pro-A. T. during prime time and otherwise during the rest of the day. May your magazine maintain its purity. With love (and with a pencil that's on fire), Carlos Portela Eugene, OR Dear Rainpeople, Just to put in my 2 cents worth-I RAIN wouldn't be averse to discrete, appropriate advertising if it means RAIN can go on without raising subscription prices out of sight for us "living lightly" folks. I'm sure you can screen what you print so that it's not only A. T. but pertaining to Ecotopia (or is your readership now more national than regional?). Best wishes from a long-time Rain-friend, Marjorie Posner Blodgett, 0 R Dear RAIN, We would like to receive some practical ideas from RAIN readers on our "project." We are in the process of creating a selfreliant cooperative community we call "Ponderosa Village." We have many ideas-some well-formulated-but more inputs are certainly welcome. This is more than a dream-we already have over 1000 acres of beautiful land, mostly sloping toward the south, with pines, firs, oaks, and grassy meadows. The propJournal 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 society that is durable, just and ecologically sound. RAIN STAFF: Laura Stuchinsky, Mark Roseland, Carlotta Collette, John Ferrell, Kevin Bell. Linnea Gilson, 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
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