Page 22 RAIN May 1982 Cont.------- What a great way to learn how to design and build your own home! The Heartwood Owner-Builder School in Washington, Massachusetts is offering 3-week summer resident courses that focus on designing for affordability, energy efficiency and beauty, essential drafting skills, site selection, and a lot more. Tuition, food and lodging costs run from $800 to $875 per person. For more information, write to: Heartwood School, Johnson Road, Washington, MA 01235. "The Renewable Challenge" is the theme of the conference and exposition sponsored by the American Section of the International Solar Energy Society, June 1-5. Sessions are scheduled on International Energy Development, Advanced Design B Technology, the Solar Market, and Solar B the Utilities. Interested! Contact: Russel Smith, Conference Coordinator, 1415 Larimer Square, Denver, Colorado 80202, 5121472-1252. Earth shelters may be the homes of the future. Learn more about them by taking a half-day bus tour of earth homes in Mlnneapolis/St. Paul, on May 15th and 16th. The tour fee is $25. Write to: Earth Shel-TOURS, 902 Grand Ave., Suite 105, St. Paul, MN 55105, or call 612/788-9248. The Harvard Graduate School of Design/MIT Joint Summer Continuing Education Program is offering a number of short, intensive seminars on such topics as Community Planning, Design for Housing in Developing Countries, Financing Community Development, and Low Energy Approaches to Commercial Building Design. For further information and a detailed brochure, contact: Arlayna Hertz, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 506, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138,617/495-2578. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) will hold a Summer Study in Santa Cruz, California, August 21-28. The theme is "What Works? Documenting the Results of Energy Conservation in Buildings." The aim of the week-long Study is to generate a credible document on energy efficient options to guide the future investments and policy choices of businesses and corporations. For further information, contact: Jeffrey Harris, ACEEE 1982 Summer Study, c/o Energy Efficient Building Program, 90-3028, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, 415/486-4632. i$ . . WANTED: Capable and creative person to serve as copy editor for nationally-respected journal of appropriate technology and community self-reliance. Demonstrated writing and editing abilities, strong design sense, and promotion skills required as well as personal familiarity with organizations/practitioners in A.T., self-reliance, and community change fields. Person selected will work closely with a production editor, editorial advisory board, and other staff and contributors. Long hours, low pay, high rewards. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. Send resume, letters of recommendation, and samples of written work to John Ferrell, RAIN Magazine, 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Deadline for receipt of applications is June 1. For further information call 503/227-5110. The Grantsmanship Center's Program Management Training is not the usual stand-up lecture routine. The intensive five-day workshops combine instruction and practical exercises in covering topics such as Clarifying Goals and Objectives, Managing Personnel, and Complying with Funding Source Rules. The workshops cost $395 and are held in 19 states throughout the U.S. For details, write or call Program Registrar, the Grantsmanship Center, 1031 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90015, 800/421-9512. Don't be an ASS, be an ACE (ASS=Agent of Social Stagnation, ACE=Agent of Conscious Evolution) . The Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution will hold a conference June 18-20 in Menlo Park, California. Selected workshops will be offered with themes of "Relationships," "Personal Transformation," and "Science and Technology," The cost is $190 per person. Address inquiries to: 2418 Clement St., San Francisco, CA 94121. The time has come to stop and reverse the arms race and to transfer funds from military budgets to programs meeting human needs. Come join the June 12th Rally in New York City in support of the Second United Nations Special Sesson on Disarmament. The rally is sponsored by a coalition of peace, labor, religious, third world, environmental, and women's organizations. Write to: June 12 Rally Committee, 853 Broadway, Suite 2109, New York, NY 10003, or call 212/460-8980. Tired of trimming your hedge and mowing your lawn? You could just munch on them periodically if you followed the instructions of Robert Kourik of the Farallones Institute in his course on Edible Landscaping. It will be given at Stoneyfield Farm in New Hampshire; tuition for the May 22 seminar is $35. On May 29th, there will be a workshop on the fundamentals of how to raise sheep and pigs, also at Stoneyfield. An intensive urban food production seminar which is specially designed for community garden organizers will be held May 14-16; tuition is $100 for the weekend. For more information, special tuition assistance, or barter arrangements, write to: The Rural Education Center, Inc., Stonyfield Farm, Wilton, NH 03086, or call 603/654-9625. A RAIN reader living near Dublin, Ireland, will be vacationing in America this summer and would like to find a family to mind his "large, ancient, lovely but somewhat ramshackle Irish country house" while he is away. The "house sitting" would involve maintenance of four acres of land, containing a garden and orchard and "loving care" for a menagerie of two donkeys, two dogs, three cats and some hens. Care (not necessarily loving!) would also be required for several hives of bees. The temporary tenants would have free lodging in a picturesque portion of Ireland, rights to the food produced by the garden, and bicycle access to the ocean and nearby hills. If interested, write to D. Hopkins, Riversdale, Dargle Rd., Bray County, Wicklow, Ireland. The 7th annual National Passive Solar Conference wil be held Aug. 29-Sept. 1 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The program will include presentations on integrated heating and cooling concepts, energyconscious passive solar retrofits, and will also translate sophisticated design tool methods into a language usable by builders, designers, and architects. For more information, write to: American Section of ISES, 205B McDowell Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711. If you're on the international road this June, perhaps you'll want to check out the Mind-Body- Spirit Festival in London, England. The festival, which claims to be the world's largest gathering of people concerned with alternative lifestyles and social/technological options, will address the areas of health, ecology, fitness, arts and crafts, and spirituality. It will take place June 19-27. For further details, contact: Johanna Jacobius, Shire Hall Press B Public Relations, 9 Gees Court, London Wl, United Kingdom. Country Workshops is a non-profit educational organization established in 1978 to meet the needs of those wishing to pursue an interest in traditional woodworking. During July and August, week long seminars will be held at which a master woodworker will teach courses in the use of traditional hand tools, chair making, and various other skills. Tuition per workshop is $180. For more information, write or call them at: Route 3, Box 262, Marshall, NC 28753, 704/656-2280. What we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, and how we take care of ourselves all affect our ability to stay healthy. A symposium entitled "Staying Healthy: The Healing Brain" will be held May 15-16 and 22-23 in Seattle and Los Angeles respectively. Self-diagnosis and treatment, coping with stress, and nutritional supplements are among the topics to be discussed. General admission is $135 which does not include accommodation. For further information, contact: Continuing Education, Pacific Medical Center, P.O. Box 7999, San Francisco, CA 94120,415/ 563-4321, ext. 2761. How are effective people's organizations built? What are the best strategies and tactics of citizen action? These are just two of the questions which will be addressed at the Community Organizing workshops sponsored by Organize Training Center. The five day, $350 sessions will be held in July and October in southern California. Contact: Organize Training Center, 1208 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94120,415/551-8990 for details.
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