Page 38 RAIN June/July 1983 CALENDAR The Natural Organic Farmers Association of New England is sponsoring its 9th Annual Conference and Celebration of Rural Life on July 29-31, at Johnson State College in Johnson, VT. Registrants will attend 3 days of farm techniques and economics, food and health systems, homestead skills, and agricultural issues. Murray Bookchin will keynote. Preregistration is required. Contact Grace Gershuny, NOFA Conference, PO Box 101, West Charleston, VT 05872, 802/895- 4366. On Aug. 19 and 20, the Rodale Aquaculture Project will sponsor a workshop on recirculating aquaculture. Participants will be taught the basics of an outdoor system and information on expanding into basement or community scale production. Preregistration is required. Contact Nancy Volk, Steve Van Gorder, or Doug Strange, Rodale Research Center, Rt. 1, PO Box 323, Kutztown, PA 19530, 215/683-6302. Three organizations are organizing events around food this summer and fall. The Community for Creative Non-Violence (Mitch Snyder, 1345 Euclid St. NW, Wash., DC 20009, 202/332-4332) is sponsoring an encampment and open-ended fast beginning on July 4, in Kansas City/Independence, Missouri. The demonstration is intended to encourage the release of some of the $5 billion worth of food stockpiled by the USDA. Fast for Life (Ellen Wilson 942 Market St., #710, San Francisco, CA 94102,415/982-4637), a small international group, will begin an unlimited fast against the nuclear arms race. The First National Let Them Eat Cake Sale (Peter Hamik, 918 "F" St., NW, Suite 611, Wash., DC 20004, 202/ 347-6060) is scheduled to take place in hundreds of communities across the country on Oct. 3. The First National Let Them Eat Cake Sale is being designed as a vast networking and coaUtion-building effort among all the constituencies that are being hurt by current national policies. Windstar Programs will sponsor a Workshop on Soft Energy Paths with Amory and Hunter Lovins on July 16-18. The Lovins will survey both fundamentals and recent developments in designing and implementing an efficient, money- saving energy future powered by appropriate renewable sources. Contact Wind- star Programs, Box 178, Snowmass, CO 81654. A consortium of energy groups, including the Energy Center in Santa Cruz, the Farallones Institute, and the Golden Gate Energy Center, is sponsoring the second Community Energy Groups Conference, to be held at the Farallones Institute Rural Center in Occidental, CA, August 19-21, 1983. The conference will feature speakers on the legal, financial, and computer application aspects of energy group management in an inform^ structure that will allow access to this expertise and inter-group exchange. Conference registration is $20 per person for the three days, including aU meals and camping on the site. Questions and registration should be sent to Brian Williams, Energy Center, 128 West Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, CA 95060,408/425-7652, or to Glen Price, Farallones Institute Rural Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd., Occidental, CA 95465, 707/874-3060. The New England Solar Energy Association will sponsor a three-day conference on Energy-Efficient Construction Practices on Oct. 20-22, in West Dover, Vermont. Builders, architects, engineers, and suppliers from throughout the Northeast will gather to explore the latest developments in energy efficiency for both new and retrofit construction. Contact Alex Wilson, NESEA, PO Box 541, Brattleboro, VT 05301, 802/254-2386. The Institute for Social Ecology will conduct a Summer Program: Community for Social Change, July 15-August 6. Included are courses on Social Theory, Alternative Technology, Ecological Agriculture, Holistic Health, and Feminism and Ecology. College credit is available. Contact Institute for Social Ecology, PO Box 89, Plainfield, VT 05667. The American Solar Energy Society will hold its 8th National Passive Solar Conference and Exhibition on Sept. 5-10 at the Glorieta Conference Center near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The program will include workshops, social activities, and tours of some of the many passive solar buildings in the Santa Fe area as well as the main technical presentations. For information, contact Karen George, ASES, 1230 Grandview Ave., Boulder, CO 80302, 303/492-6017. The U.S.—China Peoples Friendship Association is offering a special tour of the Peoples Republic of China on Oct. 6-27. The three-week tour will focus on Chinese solar and renewable resource development. For more information, contact Susan Padgett, U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Assn., 50 Oak St., #502, San Francisco, CA 94102,415/863- 0537. The Center for Popular Economics is sponsoring a Summer Institute for Popular Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Week-long economics courses for labor activists, religious, community, minority, environmental, and other progressive groups will be held July 10-16, July 31-Aug. 6, and Aug. 14-20. For more information, contact Betsy Hamilton or Lynn Wilson, Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785, Amherst, MA 01004, 413/545-0743. PACIFIC NORTHWEST EVENTS Renewable Resource Inventories for Monitoring Changes and Trends will be the theme of an international conference to be held August 15-19,1983 in Corvallis, Oregon. The conference's objective is to develop methods of inventorying timber, wildlife and soil in order to gauge future losses of these resources. For more information write to John F. Bell, General Chairman, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331. The National Association for Environmental Education \vill hold its 12th Annual Conference in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Sept. 30-Oct. 5. The theme is Crossroads: Society and Technology. For more information, contact Dr. John H. Baldwin, 156 Hendricks, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, 503/686-3698. The Institute of the American West is sponsoring two conferences in August. On Aug. 10-13, the Institute and Hie Coalition for Western Women's History are presenting The Women's West, the first major inter-regional conference to explore the role of women in western history. Admission is free and open to the public. On Aug. 17-20, the Institute will sponsor "Indian Self-Rule: 50 Years Under the Indian Reorganization Act." For information, contact E. Richard Hart or Marcia Jones, Institute of the American West, Box 656, Sun Valley, ID 83353, 208/622-9371.
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