Page 2 RAIN July 1982 Table Of Contents Articles Reach Out, Reach Out and Byte Someone, by Steve Johnson............................................................................. 4 TSO KAM ZA BORLA AMASAACHINA: Self-Help Lessons From Ghana and Elsewhere, by Bruce and Ann Borquist .............................................................12 Out of the Pail at Rodale, by Mark Roseland...............................19 Access Foreign ...............................................................................................17 Freedom ...........................................................................................9 Futures ..............................................................................................20 Good Things .....................................................................................11 Health ...................... 20 Kids .............................. ...........21 Land........................................................................... 10 Networking ......................................................................................8 Women ..............................................................................................18 ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Rain Magazine Editors: Mark Roseland John Ferrell Contributing Editors: Laura Stuchinsky Gail Katz Graphic Design: Linnea Gilson RAIN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER Staff: Rob Baird Ann Borquist Bruce Borquist Nancy Cosper Steve Johnson Steve Rudman Comptroller: Lee Lancaster RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology Volume Vlll, Number 9 July 1982 Printing: Times-Litho Typesetting: Em Space Cover Photograph: Bruce and Ann Borquist RAIN Magazine publishes information which can help people lead more simple and satisfying lives, make their communities and regions more economically self- reliant, and build a society that is durable, just, and ecologically sound. RAIN is published 10 times a year by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a non-profit corporation located at 2270 NW Irving, Portland, Oregon 97210, telephone 503/227-5110. Subscriptions are $25/yr. for institutions, $15/yr. for individuals ($9.50 for persons with incomes under $5000 a year). Copyright ® 1982 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. All you librarians and mailbox watchers might want to take note: there will be a longer than usual delay between this issue and the next one. This is not a mailing problem. Our combined August/ Friends, Religion and appropriate technology? [see RAIN VIII:7;12-16] Maybe the two aren't so far ap>art. How we view ourselves and our planet — and the relationships among species — helps to shape our sense of ethics. James Watt views nature and technology with one set of values. The hunter-gatherer people of the world have somethmg different in mind. Perhaps some of the readers of RAIN are developing a third course that will eventuaUy find a religious expression. Time will tell. I recommend two new books that often focus on the spiritual roots of the September issue (Vol. VIII, No. 10) will be out in mid-August. Nothing to worry about—we just need to work some extra time into our schedule to catch up on a hundred other things!—The Rainmakers ecology movement. Both books may be of special interest to RAIN readers. John Muir and His Legacy by Stephen Fox is more than a biography of the Sierra Qub's half-legendary founder. Historian Fox concludes his work with an excellent chapter on "the religion of conservation." It's a good historical account of the religious impulse behind the work of several prominent American envirorunentalists. (John Muir was published by Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, in 1981.) Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler is a thorough account, critical but Letters
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