Page 2 RAIN July 1981 LETTERS Dear RAIN: Jim McPhee? Shades of Jim Cheever, Jim Updike, and Karl Vonnegut. Please let your readers know that John McPhee wrote the excellent New Yorker article on small hydro. The name may stir some positive connections in their minds, for McPhee is a wellknown and widely admired writer. That aside, I enjoyed Car:lotta's article , immensely. Your work is,invaluable; Best, • • . -·· One of your many friends in Ne~ Hampshire Dear Showering Down, Happy May Day! Thanks for sending some of those April showers our way. We've been having precipitation almost every day for the last week, relieving me from the responsibility of watering my gardens. Also, putting my drought concerns on the back burne'r for a little while at least. • Here in Mass. we're planting nut trees and berry bushes on public lands and grafting apples to dwarf root-stocks to plant next year. So far the state Fruition program has distributed close to 1000 plants-walnuts, raspberries, blueberries, chestnuts arid so forth. We've also got a group going through Boston Urban Gardeners (BUG) that's examining permaculture concepts for city gar9erts, presently concentratiqg on plants for 'natural fencing hoping·to build up something like the great European hedgerows with many varieties of plants creating multifarious habitats. We go slowly, one seed at a time. The solar scene is happening too. Urban Solar Energy Association has about 850 members now and its last public meeting drew over 100 people to talk about greenhouses. USEA got a grant to continue its ··.RAIN: 1Volume VII No. 9 Journal of Appropriate T ~chnology RAIN is a national information access journal ma,king 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 ecologicklly sound. RAIN STAFF: 'Laura Stuchinsky, Mark Roseland, Carlotta Collette, John Ferrell, Kevin Bell, Steve Johnson, Steve Rudman, Nancy Cosper, Scott Andros. 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© 1981 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be:reprinted without w~tten permission. Typesefting: Irish Setter Printing : Times Litho Cover Photograph: Ancil Nance
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