Dec. 82/Jan. 83 RAIN Page 2 RAIN: Joumal of Appropriate Technology Volume IX, Number 1 Dec. 82/Jan. 83 Staff Rob Baird Ann Borquist Nancy Cosper Pennv Fearon John Ferrell Steve Johnson Kris Nelson Contributors: Gail Katz Alan Lockler Patrick Mazza Carlos Portela George Resch Jim Riker Roz Riker Mark Roseland Laura Stuchinskv Graphic Design: Linnea Gilson Comptroller: Lee Lancaster Printing: Eagle Web Press Typeseting: Em Space Cover Photogaph: Dapid Bml.l'1l RAIN Magazine publishes infonnation which can help people lead more simple and satisfying lives, make their communities and regions more economically selfreliant, and build a society that is durable, just, and ecologically sound. RAIN is published 6 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 $2S/yr. for institutions, $IS/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. IN THIS ISSUE ... Articles Green Deserts: Planting for Our Very Lives . . ............ . ...... . ... 6 Puppet Show in Sudan - by David Mulligan . .. ... . . ..... .. . .. .. . . . 8 S'ustainable Agriculture: A Tradition in West Africa - An Interview with David and Mark Freudenberger .. . ....... . .. . . .. .. .. ... . . ... .. . . ... 12 Wallowing in Development: The Loss of Ecological Information - by Jim Riker . .. .. . . ...... . ... . . . . . .. .. . ... . . .. ...... . .... . ..... 20 Chinese Aquaculture: Fine Tuning AT - by Christina Rawley and Ron Zweig ....... .. .. . .......... . ...... 40 Water For Food For People - by Rob Baird . .... . . . ... ...... . . . . . . ... 28 Features Calendar . . .... ... .. . . ....... 38 Raindrops . . ....... . . ... . ... 4 Letters . ...... . . ... .. . . . . .... 2 Rush . .. . .... .. ..... . .... .. . 37 Pacific Northwest Touch and Go .. ...... . . . . . . . 17 Bioregion Report ..... ..... 31 Access Information Communication and Organizational Reviews ...... 15 Information ... . . . . ...... .. 4 Periodical Reviews .......... 18 International Forestry .. ...... 10 Resource Sharing ........ .... 25 Organizational Development . 14 Working .. . ....... . . . ..... . . 23 LETTERS Dear Rain, After reading Jim Springer's article and which are rooted not in individual about the Trident resistance I feel com psyches but in our socioeconomic and pelled to respond to what seems to be a political institutions. fairly common attitude within the move The first factor is the boost that miliment against nuclear arms. I refer to the talY spending gives to the domestic attitude that "the cause of arms creation economy. Weapons production is exand war is rooted inside each of us;' and tremely lucrative, and it just so happens that in working for arms reduction it is that the top military contractors are important to first overcome the "tridents among the largest and most influential within ourselves." This view is expressed corporations in the country. by many leaders of the movement who Secondly, a strong military force is are Christians and/or pacifists and who necessary to maintain the imperialistic see the arms race as primarily a moral policies of U.5. multinational corporaissue rather than an economic and politi tions. These corporations depend on forcal one. I believe the notion that we eign countries for their natural resources, should focus on our "inner work" is a their additional markets, and their cheap wonderful sen timen t bu t a lousy stra tegy. labor, a point brought out in Tom Bender's At the risk of oversimplifying a com fine article, True Security. plex sitution, I would like to suggest three A third factor contributing to military factors which I believe greatly contribute escalation is the vehement anticommunist to "the cause of arms creation and war" ideology which is so important for sup
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