Page 2 RAIN June/July 1983 IN THIS ISSUE... Articles Real Security—by Amoiy Lovins and Hunter Lovins.................................... 4 The Politics of Weeds—by Diane Cameron..................................................... 8 Is Socialism the Answer?—by Tom Bender..................................................... 12 The Game of Landfill Salvage—by Daniel Knapp.................................. .14 Computers, Cooperation, and Making Lots of Money While Avoiding the Dumb Death of the Species as We Know Us.—by Anne Herbert ... .16 Choosing the Future: Social Investing...............................................................18 Klamath Knot...........................................................................................................20 Water Under the Bridge: Experimenting with Micro-hydro...................... 26 RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology Volume IX, Number 5 June/July '83 Staff: Rachel Adelman Rob Baird Ann Borquist Nancy Cosper Steve Johnson Kris Nelson Jeff Strang Contributors: Robin Havenick Carolyn Hitchcock Alan Locklear Mimi Maduro Lance Regan George Resch Terry SoRelle Mary Vogel Graphic Design: Linnea Gilson Comptroller: Lee Lancaster Printing: Times Litho Typesetting: Irish Setter Cover Photograph: David Brown 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 6 times a year by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a nonprofit 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 $6000 a year). Copyright © 1983 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. Features Calendar.................................... 38 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report..................30 Access Information Agriculture................................10 Economics................................. 10 Energy.......................................... 3 Good Reading............................22 Information/Communication . .17 International Development........7 Working at RAIN has always been a very personal undertaking. Life and work—the merging and appropriate separation of the two—has always been a hot topic. RAIN has been dependent on individuals whose commitment goes far beyond 9 to 5, and the take-horrte pay. Running an organization on low- income salaries and devotion to good work has its advantages. For example, we hardly notice large economic recessions, since we are perpetually in our own personal recession. Raindrops................................... 2 Rush.......................................... 37 Touch and Go................ 40 Organizational Development . .11 Organization Reviews...............23 Periodical Reviews....................24 Social Investing........................19 Toxics........................................ 25 But there are disadvantages too. People tend to give it all they can, and then either burn-out or at least feel the need to make sudden and dramatic lifestyle changes. So people come and go. Usually the balance is maintained: as many new people come as leave. In the last year several key staff members have left RAIN. We have survived one transition after another. But the most recent person to leave RAIN has left us against her own will and wishes, and it has been a traumatic loss. RAINDROPS i
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