Page22 RAJ June 19tH RUSH This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Peace Corps (has it been that long?) and on June 19 and 20 former Peace Corps Volunteers and staff will be participating in the Second National Conference of Returned PCVs and staff at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The agenda includes addresses by prominent Third World and American leaders, individual country-specific seminars, and workshops on community action skills, development issues, and ways to become involved domestically and internationally in community development efforts. For a registration packet or more information, contact Bill Reese, Room M-104, 806 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20525, 202/ 254-7678. 810GAS of Colorado is sponsoring a three-day digestion technician s('minM and workslrop orl Ilm~ 17-19. Billed as "tlr~ best resource available in tire methane prodllctron field." tlte seminM will inclllde a broad approaclr to digesters of mallY kinds and sizes, combmirlg tlr!' practlCalllsl! of m easll remenl lechniqllL's wit lr tlr.. theory of digt'stlon. TIle class is limited to 20 people; only tlrose witlr an intense interest are encollraged to att end. Write BIOGAS of Colorado, 5611 Kelldall Court, Amada. (080002 , or call 3031422-4354. A variery or residential programs along with shorter workshops are being offered tlus summer by the Farallones Institule Ruml Center. TopICS of the workshops include solar water heating. edible landscaping, solar space heating, and summer pruning. For detailed brochures send a large selfaddressed envelope to FaraJlones, 15290 Coleman Valley Road. Occidental, CA 95465, or call 7071 874-3060. The tenth annual Rainbow Peace Gathering will take place in Washington State from July 1 to 7. For further information and a map to this free event, contact Box 9712, Seattle, WA 98109, or Box 5577, Eugene, OR 97405. Wilson Clark will b~ amoJlg the spt'akl'rs at a oneday conference on global perspectiv~s in renewa ble energy 10 be luld in 5eattl~ lilly 2. Tire t'1J III. 10 be co-sponsored by the U Droelopmen t Programme and tire Seattle Metro Center YMCA, will be preparatory to lilt U intrnra/lllllal confewlcl! on New and Renewable Energy which will lake place III Naimbi, Kenya. Augus110-21. Tllr Sealllt rof/l t will comlder till.' 4feets of both Ilew and tradItional energy onns on Third World (oIlTll ries. For further dctalls contad Usa HicKey, Metro ellter YM A, 909 4th Avenue 5eatt/~, WA 981 , 2061447-3628 . The Farallones Insrinlte, ew Alchemy Institute Bnd Chinamencan Corporotion announce sponsorship of a series of twtr and three-week China study tours between June and December. PartiCIpants wiU be able to select a tour emphasizing either agriculture or renewable energy systems. For details contact China Study Tours, Farallones Institute, lS16 Fifth Street, Berkeley, A 4710, 4151525-8018. The Farallones Institute Integral Urban House is accepting applications for a house manager. The house manager lives in the Integral Urban House and is responsible for house and site maintenance, as well as participating in other staff responsibilities. For further information, please contact the Integral Urban House, 1516 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, or call 415f525-1150. Tlrl' pla(r-roolt'lI, I'cologimlly, dallted ('dlleatiolllll J1rogram of the Wriglu-Illi(ra lltlm Illstilult· COIltinues witlr the eighth su nlllt'r intensive course ill Intl'gTiltive tudics . Held at the Illstilute's 640acre !reid station onthe Colorado High Plains. tlr~ nint-weEk program begins Iwu 15tll. FI III .lnml'ntal prillciples ill scientific and (lilt ural disClplilles are examilled and interrelated with <In (.mphasi _ on dialoglle aUlI ield st"dh·s. Opl'll to sradulltt studerlt ,IIpper dlt.islOII rmdugra.fuatf5 alld otlrer qllalrfied individuals. For fllrtlll'r illlormlltioll, contact : Educationa l oordinator, Wrigll t-lrlgm ham Instilllte, 1228 T~rrace Road. Colorado Springs, CO 80904, 303/633-7m 1. Buckminster Fuller will be the featured speaker at "World Game '81/Critical Paths to a Sustainable World," held July 17-19 at the International House in Philadelphia. The World Game, developed by Fuller, is an innovative global planning tool to engage in the development of strategies for making the world work for 100 percent of humanity. For registration information write the World Game,3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Till' Federatio ll of Sorllirem Cooperat ives is a SeTtlict, resollree and adtlocacy associalion for a con51itllellcy of 30,000 low-income families organized illio 100 coopl'rntivcs in rural communities across tire Soulh. Its Rural Training and Research Center IS located near Epes , Alabama , wh er.. workshops I' rotridt training in cooperative organi;:ation, managemer/t, accollnting , marketing, and otiler skills. Co-ops: A Tool for Rural Economic Developrnerrl, June 29-/llly 1; Cooperative Principles and Plril050phy, 'rme 15-19 and September 21-25; and Bookkeeping for Cooperatives, ,uly 20-24, are amollg tire programs being offered. For more information contact Alice Paris at the Federation of SOil/hem CoopL'rativ/?s, Rural Training and Resellrclz Center, P.O. Box 95. Epes. AL35460, 205/ 652-9676. The 6th International Festival for Mind-BodySPIrit is being held June 20-28 in Olympia, london. Thi year Friends of th Earth. in celebration of lheir 10th anniversary, WIll present the main feature of the festival, a landscaped garden foresl shOwing how our environment affects us and how we, in rurn, affect our environmt'nt. ver 70,000 visitors are expectl'ti to attend I!'ctures, workshops, demonstrations. and the Health and Healing Cenler. Write Lisha Simestl'I', 159 George Street, London WIH 5LB, United Kingdom, Tel. 01-7237256_ WHOOPS! "Jobs for the '80s," announced here last month, is out of a job. Due to the Labor Department's termination of their CETA Project at the end of May, the Center for Community Change (CCO has been forced to cancel the conference scheduled for June 16-19. CCC is still hoping for a multi-issue national conference with an emphasis on employment and training in the fall. You can contact them at 1000 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20007, 2021338-4712. ,. oyfCl Od_ in America" is t he th em.' of tire fOllrth allnllal Soycmfters AssodatiO'1conference on prodllclllg and marKet1ll8 soyfoods. fhis full-spectTrlm c[mltren,/!, (overing every aspect of soyf!lods fmm (ommemal to Ihe home letlef, is being held /lI/y 8-1 at Colorado Slate UniverSIty, Fort ollins, Colorado. Tir e conferen e feat ures classes, demonstmtlOns, seminars, a soyfoods expositIon . and a tofu cllCese.ake bake-off. Fo r a completf (0/1 erl'rI ebrochure, contact 100 Heath Road, Co/mm. MA 01340, 413/624-5591. Jordan ollege, Cedar Springs, Michigan, is offering a solar tour to England and France August 22 to eptember 6 to coincid with ISES ongrt'ss in Brighton, England_The tour is co-sponsored with MOllrer Earlh News and Solar Age magazines. The college's energy program schedule for the summer includes workshops in Building Your Own Solar System, June 20; Advan ed Solar Energy for Homeowners, July 10-11 ; Wind Energy onversion System, July 25; Alternative Fuels, August 8. For details on either the tour or the summl'I' program, conta t Linda Bouwkamp, Energy Program" Jordan ollege, 360 West Pine Street, edarSprings, MI 49319. The summer program at the Rural Education Center will include courses in Permaculture Design, Post and Beam Construction, Bio-Dynamic Agriculture, Soil, Plant and Animal Husbandry. For more information contact Susan Stepick at the Rural Education Center, Stonyfield Farm, Wilton, NH 03086, 603/654 %25. The HU/Illm 5ide of Ene rgy IS a forum lUIrOSf goal rs to increase participant awareness and IInderstandirlg of the poterlfial posilive and negative impacts of resource development on comnnwilies, with the nct effect of Iligher quality planning, management and dUislon making on the part of (onrmmlitl!!S. governments, and developers. The FOrl/m will/ake place August 16-19 at the Universily af Alberta, Edmonton. Write for a broclrllre cI a the Faculty of Extension. Corbell Hall, Edmolllon, Alberta , T6G 2G4, Canada. ew Living and Learning weekend workshops on self-su[ficient, cQOperative life-styles are being orfered by a community in Southeastern Ohio. Workshop features include"An Introduction to Building Your Own LOW-Cost Passive Solar Heated Homr: \lnd "Discussions on Rural oop ~rarive living. " Fcr more information write Sunflower Form. 0 Bruce abel, Rt. 1, Box 90, Amt'Svule, OhIO 45711.
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