Dec. 82/Jan. 83 RAIN Pa~e32 From: The Edible City Edible City Project The Edible City Project has been established by PACT (Portland Action Committees Together) to locate, identify, and utilize produce-bearing trees and shrubs within six inner southeast neighborhoods in Portland. For more information contact: Midge Tarbutton, PACT, 3534 SE Main, Portland, OR 97214,503/233-8491. Tilth Moves to Portland In a move to locate its office more centrally in the region, Tilth, (a Northwest regional agricultural association), is moving to Portland and into the RAIN house. This may hold some promising interactions for both groups which trace their relationship back to 1974 when they were both founded. It is hoped the groups will be able to share resources, including libraries, and that the region can benefit from this alliance of an urban and a rural information center. Conservation Act Coalition In response to a mandate by the Northwest Regional Power Act that a twenty-year energy plan be written for the region, the Northwest Conservation Act Coalition has prepared and presented to the Power Council, the overseers of the Northwest Regional Power Act, a "Model Electric Power and Conservation Plan for The Pacific Northwest." The Coalition, comprised of 37 environmental, ratepayer, labor and other citizen groups, by putting forth the model plan, is working to ensure that the conservation and renewable resource priorities of the Act are implemented as intended. For copies of the model plan, or information on local organizing efforts, contact the Coalition Director Mark Reis, 1516 Melrose Ave.lP.O. Box 20458, Seattle, WA 98102 Urban Agriculture Park The Neighborhood House in Seattle has begun an urban agriculture park on a 3-acre site caned the Allen Morris Hillside Garden Park, located in a public housing community. They presently have 40 family garden plots and a 2,400 square foot passive. solar greenhouse situated on a south-facing hill. The greenhouse is planned to support a combination of community horticulture activities and a small business to raise revenue for the project. They are currently looking for information that wiII help them make effective use of the greenhouse. Contact Rebecca Sadinsky, Neighborhood House, Inc., 905 Spruce Street, Seattle, WA 98104,206/447-4520. Home Resource Center The Home Resource Center is a community self-help center in southeast Portland, operated by Portland Action Committees Together (PACT). The goal of the Center is to develop a skilled, hard-working and self-reliant community whose members are able to assist each other in meeting common survival needs. The Center has a tool lending library with a variety of useful tools for loan, including a rototiller, a food dryer, and a sewing machine. The Center also sponsors classes in home repair and carpentry, and, along with the WEB Energy Co-op, they provide weatherization education and assistance. Solar Energy Association of Oregon The Solar Energy Association of Oregon (SEA of 0) has hired a director, Allen Brown, and he has opened its office at 2637 SW Water Avenue, Portland, OR 97201. 5031224-SUNS. (See summary of Solar 82 for one of the Association's major activities lately) Self Help in Seattle The Inner City Self Help Program of the Central Area Motivation Program in Seattle, the inheritor of the Community Action Agency's Community Action Program, offers a variety of programs designed to help people help themselves. The Program offers classes and workshops on various aspects of home repair and energy conservation. Tools to help residents do their own house repair and energy conservation are available through the Tool Bank which lends out an average of 100 tools per month. To encourage people to share skills and resources, the program has established the Labor Exchange, modeled after the Northend Rehab Co-op skins exchange operating successfuny for several years in North Seattle.
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