"Building Self-Sufficiency: Challenge and Opportunity" is the title of the seventh annual conference called by Oearinghouse for Community Based Free Standing Educational Institutions. The October 28-30 meeting will have twin focal points: strengthening our communities and strengthening ourselves. It will be held in the Skyline Inn, South Capitol and "I" Streets, SW, Washington, D.C. Registration fee is $35. For more information contact Conference Coordinator, Qearing- house for CBFSEI, 1806 Vernon Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009. The fourth annual Alaska Alternative Energy Conference will meet January 28-31 in Anchorage. It will include workshops, technical sessions, and forums covering alternative energy technologies and public policy issues relevant to Alaskan climate and conditions. For more details, contact Judy Zinicki, Conference Coordinator, Alaska Center for the Environment, 1069 West 6th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501,907/227-2134. How better to deal with the crunch of winter than to set off on an energy tour either to Hawaii (December 2-10) or to Israel (February 17-March 1,1983)? That's just what the folks at Jordan College (and their co-sponsors) thought and have arranged. To find out more, contact Linda Bouwkamp, Director, National and International Energy Programs, Jordan College, 360 West Pine Street, Cedar Springs, MI 49319, 616/696-1180. (And to find out details about energy courses the college offers throughout the midwest at various times, get in touch with Danette Bailey, Director, Statewide and ^ Regional Energy Programs, at the same address and phone number.) Page 38 RAIN Oct./Nov. 1982 RUSH Looking for a location in the Pacific Northwest to practice self-reliant and sustainable life centered around organic food production, children, and crafts? You might want to contact the folks at Folly Farm in thefoothills of the Oregon coast range. For more information, write Jonathan Bekoff, 9380 Hebo Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347. Neighborhood organizing, crime, discrimination, housing and disarmament will be among the topics of two dozen mini-forums at the Portland Community Congress, to be held at the Northwest Service Center, 1819 NW Everett, from 8:30 to 5:00 on Saturday, October 9. Michael Rotkin, socialist mayor of Santa Cruz, California, will be the featured speaker. For details contact the Alliance for Social Change, 503/222-4479. The First Biennial Conference on the Fate of the Earth will be held in New York City, October 19-21. Participants in this major gathering will include Lester Brown,\David Brower, Paul Ehrlich, Amory Lovins, Winona LaDuke, Linus Pauling and Pete Seeger. They will address a wide range of issues centering around the theme of "Conservation and Security in a Sustainable Society." For details, contact Friends of Earth, 1045 Sansome Street, San Erancisco, CA 94111, 415/433-7373. Here's an interesting way to get to know Alaska — its beauty, its people, and its politics: the Internship Program for Alaska. A cooperative venture by a wide variety of advocacy and public interest organizations, the program provides students with opportunities to develop knowledge and job skills, with close supervision. Deadline for spring semester internship applications is December 15. For details — what internships are available, possibility of small stipends, how to arrange course credits — contact Sara Juday or Steven Radish, Internship Program for Alaska, 1069 West 6th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501; 907/274-3621 or 272-8734. Resources '82, a conference emphasizing planning, energy policy development, and program evaluation, will be held October 20-21 in Boise, Idaho. It combines for the first time the Bonneville Power Administration/Northwest States' annual Renewable Resources Conference and the Annual Conservation Management Conference. Early registration fee is $45. For further information call BPA toll-free at 800/452-8429 (Oregon only) or 800/547-6048 (other western states). The National Public Law Training Center offers two 4-day programs, one in October and the other in November. “Law and the Elderly" (October 19- 22) concentrates on ways community workers can help senior citizens defend their rights, get available assistance, and protect themselves. "Negotiation and Mediation Skills" (November 16-19) looks at how to resolve disputes — landlord and tenants', neighbors', family members', or employer and employees' — without costly and slow litigation. For more specifics, call or drop a note to Rosalyn Voige, NPLTC, 2000 "P" Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, 202/872-0660. These issues, as well as many earlier issues of RAIN, are available from us. See facing page for details. Volume VIII Vol VIII, No. 1, October 1981 (24 pp.) Apocalypse When? The Survivalisls in S. Ore., bv Mark Roseland, 4 Survival School? by Mark Roseland, 8 Raindrops: What's Appropriate Now? by Kiko Denzer, 11 Seven Years of RAIN (index to vols. I-VH), 12 Presidential Pollyanna Power Policy, by Kevin Bell, 18 Shootout at the SERI Corral, by Kevin Bell, 19 Vol. VIII, No. 2, November 1981 (24 pp.) Letter from El Salvador, by Ricardo Navarro, 4 No, No, Nairobi: Renewables for the Third World? by Gary Gallon, 5 The Future We Spend Most Time Imagining is the One We Get, by Carlotta Collette, 8 The Tree Enterprise System: Forestry Beyond Herbicides, by Laura Stuchinsky, 12 PURPA People Heaters, by David Morris, 19 Vol. VIII, No. 3, December 1981 (88 pp.) Special Issue: "Knowing Home Studies for a Possible Portland," Now available from RAIN as a book for $6.00 ppd. Vol. vni, No. 4, January 1982 (24 pp.) Paradigm for Our Time? by Joel Schatz, 4 Imagine Peace, by Joel Schatz, 6 Moving the Mountain, by Len Krimerman, 8 Whither Water: Wet Fields or Water Power? bv Diane Jones, 12 Helping Ourselves: Reality vs. Rhetoric — Bruce Stokes Interview, 16 Vol. VIII, No. 5, Februaiy/March 1982 (24 pp.) WPPSS! by Fred Heutte, 5 Ecotopia Emerging (excerpts from the book), bv Ernest Callenbach, 6 Good Cooks in their Own Write, by Nancy Cosper, 12 Okanogan Rendezvous, by Patrick Mazza, 18 Vol. VIII, No. 6, April 1982 (24 pp.) Kirk Sale Weighs Human Scale — Kirkpatrick Sale Interview, 4 The Ecology of Freedom (excerpts from the book), bv Murray Bookchin, 7 Architecture Alive! by Elijuh Mirochnik, 12 The Enterprise Zone Fallacy, by Edward Humberger, 16 Wood & Coal: The Price of A.T, by Gail Katz, 18 Taking the Cities! Santa Monica Leads the Way, bv Ruth Yanatta Goldway, 20 Vol. Vni; No. 7, May 1982 (24 pp.) Imagine Peace: Readers Respond, 2 Greenhouse Blues and Some Good News, bv Carlotta Collette, Visible Alternatives to Invisible Threats, bv Norman Solomon, 4 A Parable of Peace: Living on the World Equity Budget, bv John Ferrell, 8 Faith Into Action: A Revival of Christian Stewardship, by John Ferrell, 12 Faith Into Action: A Renaissance of Jewish Activism, bv Laura Stuchinsky, 13 Look Who's Irate Now, by Patrick Mazza, 17 Volume VIII, No. 8, June 1982 (24 pp.) Spwdal Issue: "Reinhabiting the Land" This Land was Made for You and Me: Finding New Roots in the Past, by John Ferrell, 3 Building Trust: Making Way for the Future, by Anne Maggs, 5 Rekindling Trust: The Adventures of New Society Gardens, Inc., by Lee Lancaster, 6 Sometimes the Magic Works: Alpha Farm Ten Years Later, by Caroline Estes, 8 Bhagwanecology: Riparian Recovery at Rajneeshpuram, by John Perry, 10 To Love, Honor and Convey: How to Create a Communal Ownership Contract, by Becky West, 12 Of Land and the City, by Patrick Mazza, 14 Milking It for All It's Worth: A Scale of Two Farmers, bv Bruce and Ann Borquist, 16 To Beat or Become? That Is, the System, by Mark Roseland, 17 Older and More Manure: New Developments in Rural Information, by Steve Johnson, 18 I've Looked at Codes from Both Sides Now, by Tom Bender, 19 If I had a Hammer: Tools for Owner-Builders, by Tanya Kucak, 21 Vol. VIII, No. 9, July 1982 (24 pp.) Reach Out, Reach Out and Bvte Someone, bv Steve Johnson, 4 TSO KAM ZA BORLA AMASAACHINA: ^If-Help Lessons from Ghana and Elsewhere, by Bruce and Ann Borquist Out of the Pail at Rodale, by Mark Roseland, 19 Vol. VIII, No. 10, August/September 1982 (24 pp.) Manifesting Regional I^tiny: A New Mode! for Americans — William Appleman Williams Interview, 5 The Future is Abundant (excerpts from the book), by Tilth, 11 Eco-Decentralist Design (excerpts from a Plant Drum "Bundle"), 12 Bevond the State: Creating a Continental Community, bv Patrick Mazza, 16 Dead in the Water: Reagan and the Law of the Sea Treaty, by Jim Springer, 20
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