OCF We all had a great time at the Oregon Country Fair. Unfortunately, there just wasn't time (or space!) to do a proper article on the Fair this year. So, here's a thumbnail... In addition to the HP crew, the Fair featured Electron Connection with the PV powered "Solar Fountain", Larry from SunFrost with one of his super-efficient refrigerators, Dave Katz and the Alternative Energy Engineering crew with a pretty amazing PV powered hydrogen generator, voted the "Mr Wizard" award for 1991 by the HP crew, Don Harris of Harris Hydro, Leo Morin of Free Energy Options, Tom Scott's "Copper Cricket", a Real Goods display, and Warren Stokes with the Heart Interface booth. Solar cooking was a happening thing with displays by Joe Radabaugh of Heaven's Flame and the Solar Energy Education Network's mirrored parabola potboiler. The HP/EC booth ran a line from their PowerStar UPG1300 over to the stage to power up amplifiers from the sun. When word of that got around, the Fair's Energy Park had a sudden influx of unscheduled but excellent electrified performers. Other exhibits ranged from organic farming to masonry heaters to recycling. And yes, the drums never stop... Do no harm. From the native healers in the Australian bush to the neurosurgeons in the world's largest hospitals, it's the first precept of medicine. Ply your trade, do what you can, just don't make things worse. Perhaps the same rule applies to our relationship with the planet. Enjoy your life, use what resources the earth and the sun provide, but use them wisely and don't make things worse. The Earth has a remarkable capacity for regeneration. After all, the planet has been breaking down and recycling the waste products of its inhabitants for millions of years. Given time, it will heal itself from the pollution that we've been causing. Every ounce of particulate not spewed into the air, every pint or pound of fossil-fuel not burned today gives the planet a little more time to catch up. Living lightly, using only what we need and no more, will give us that time. Do no harm. It's a concept whose time has come for living on the planet as well. BobÐO Schultze