Page 22 RAIN April 1981 LliJU®l?@ llilW~rn An alcohol fuel technology and production workshop will be held at Navarro Col/ege in Corsicana , Texas, April 16-18, and again May 21-23. Topics will include economics, chemistry, microbiology, and federal and state regulations relating to alcohol production. Also included wil/ be hands-on experience in processing and distil/ing alcohol . Contact Wayne Burkhalter, Jr., Project Director, Navarro College Agriculture Dept., Box 1170, Highway 31 West, Corsicana, TX 75110, 2141 874-6501 , ext. 278. "Crisis Survival and the Self-Reliant Community" will be the theme of seminars to be held in San Francisco, April 17-18; Portland, Oregon, May 22-23 ; and Goldendale, Washington, May 24. Featured will be Don Stephens, designer of earth-sheltered homes and author of many articles on appropriate technology, crisis avoidance and survival. The formation of small planned villages based on individual and community preparedness, cooperation, and alternative food and energy production will be discussed. For information contact Larry or Meg Letterman, Ponderosa Village, P.O. Box 4, Goldendale, WA 98620,4151967-6551. "Solar Rising," the annual meeting of ASI ISES (American Section, International Solar Energy Society) will be held in Philadelphia, May 26-30. Commercialization and solar utilization in the cities will be the two themes of the conference. For information contact Richard Ross, Conference Manager, Bennett Hall, Room B-2, 3340 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. "Passive Solar Multi-Family Housing: Design, DetJelopment, Finance and Marketing Strategies" is the theme of workshops to be held April 20-22 in Columbus, Ohio, and April 27-29 in Lansing, Michigan. Sponsor of the workshops is the MidAmerican Solar Energy Complex (MASEC) . Contact Mary Rollwagen, TLH Associates, 900 Minnesota Bldg., 4th and Cedar Streets, St. Paul. MN 55101 , 6121227-8866. ECOS is a Social Ecology conference and fair sche4uled for May 9 and 10 in Connecticut. Two full days of workshops, panels, and discussion will include speakers Murray Bookchin, Rosemary Ruether, Winona LaDuke, and RAIN's own Mark Roseland, plus music by Tom Paxton and Holly Near. For more information contact ECOS, 69 High St., Middletown, CT 06457 , 203/347-4048 . Nevada City. California, will be the site of the Owner Builder Center's Summer Resident Housebuilding Program . Two- and three-week sessions will be offered from June 14 to September 5. There will be both hands-on and classroom instruction , and students will have an opportunity to work on a passive solar house. Contact the Owner Builder Center, 18244th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, 4151 848-5950. "Tenant-Sponsored Cooperative Conversions" is the theme of a series of workshops to be held in various cities during April and May. The workshops, sponsored by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, the National Urban Coalition, HUD, and the National Consumer Co-op Bank, will provide intensive training in the principles, development process. and financing options of converting rental units to cooperatives. The workshops will be held in Minneapolis. April 2728; Chicago, April30-May 1; Detroit, May 6-7; and Hartford, May 13-14. For information contact National Association of Housing Cooperatives, 101214th St. N.W., Suite 805, Washington, DC 20005, 2021628-6242. Hazel Henderson, Bill Mollison and William Irwin Thompson will be among the speakers at the Onearth Gathering to be held in Hawaii, June 13-21. Host for the event will be Peter Caddy of the Findhorn Foundation. Contact Onearth Gathering, P.O. Box 1538, Kihei, Maui, HI 96753, 808/879-8268. The Rural Education Center in Wilton, New Hampshire, announces its Spring Program for practical training in rural skills . Workshops will be offered in plant propagation, apple tree restoration. cheesemaking, solar greenhouse design and construction. and intensive urban gardening. For detailed workshop descriptions and registration forms , please contact Susan Stepick, the Rural Education Center, Stonyfield Farm, Wilton , NH 03086.6031654-9625 . ACORN, a multi-state grass-roots community organization, and the Institute for Social Justice, an organization providing technical assistance and training in community organizing, are cooperating in sponsorship of a summer internshtp program which will run from June 15 to August 22. Internships will begin with a three-day orientation in Little Rock, Arkansas, after which interns will go to a city in one of the seventeen states in which ACORN is active. Interns must provide for their own living expenses. For more information and to apply, contact Kaye Jaeger, Institute Summer Project, 117 Spring Street, Syracuse, NY 13208, 315/476-0162 . The Farallones Institute, New Alchemy Institute and Chinamerica Corporation announce sponsorship of a series of two- and threeweek China study tours between June and December. Participants will be able to select a tour emphasizing either agriculture or renewable energy systems. For details, contact China Study Tours, Farallones Institute, 1516 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, 415/5258081. Country Workshops, a non-profit educational organization located in Marshall, North Carolina, announces a series of summer workshops in traditional folk arts: "White Oak Basketry," July 20-24; "Country Woodcraft," August 3-7; and "Chairmaking," August 1721. Traditional methods and tools will be emphasized. Contact Drew Langener, Country Workshops, Route 3, Box 221, Marshall, NC 28753,7041656-2280. Frances Moore Lappe is preparing II telltll anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet and is inviting people to submit new recipes as well as personal statements about IJOW tile orig;,rll l Diet's explanation of the political implications of food changed their eating habits. lifestyles and political commitments. Send recipes and comments by April 15 to Frances Moore Lappe, Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2588 Mission Street, San Francisco , CA 94110. The Farallones Rural Center, an appropriate technology educational organization providing training in food and renewable energy systems, has openings for a site manager and for a public relations coordinator. The site manager will be respon~ible for design, construction and repair of buildings, equipment and grounds. The public' relations coordinator will handle public information, consulting services, memberships, slide shows, and public tour programs. Send letter of application and resume to Donna and Christopher, Farallones Rural Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Road , Occidental, CA 95465. The Center for Ecological Technology, a nonprofit educational and research organization, will be offering a series of renewable energy workshops during May and June at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Topics will include fundamentals of using solar energy in New England, do-ityourself solar retrofitting, horticultural management of greenhouses in the Northeast, and solar water heater installation. Some scholarships are available. Contact Alan Silverstein, C.E.T., 74 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, 413/445-4556.
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