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Ottinger rebutted: 



This program I think in one oi the most exciting programs we have. * * * The 

 purpose of the substantia] expansion of this im is to permit us to go nationwide 



on the very successful pilot program that w.is commenced in California, 



Brown noted the thousands of applications, far exceeding the available 

 funding. Glickman added: 



It seems as though everything we do in this committee is based on high intensity 

 of capital —the Boeings, the United Technology's benefit, but this deals with the 

 innovative spirit of what 1 call individual America, particularly rural areas. 



MRS. CARTER TESTIFIES ON THE MALL 



On April 30, 1979, Ottinger's subcommittee teamed up with the 

 Senate Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Supply to hold 

 appropriate technology hearings on the Mall near the Lincoln Memo- 

 rial Reflecting Pool. It was an occasion which proved to be historic, 

 as the joint hearings opened on a balmy spring morning in what 

 Ottinger said may well be the first ever held in a tent. Huge groups of 

 visitors crowded in from surrounding exhibits of the ACT-79 (Appro- 

 priate Community Technology) Fair on the Mall, which had been 

 going on four days to demonstrate community-based technologies in 

 areas ranging from energy to food production to the arts and housing. 



The lead witness was the First Lady, Mrs. Rosalynn Carter, who 

 informally described a number of conservation and small community 

 technology efforts in areas she had visited around the country. Mrs. 

 Carter graphically described the total effort in Davis, Calif. — a town 

 of 35,000 with 27,000 bicycles- — to apply conservation of energy in 

 everyone's home through such measures as weatherization, in develop- 

 ing the town's streets and facilities to save energy and in practicing 

 self-reliance. She said: 



While I was there somebody gave me a solar dryer. It was a little box about 

 this big (demonstrating), and you know what it had in it — a clothes line and some 

 clothes pins. 



Fuqua, Brown, Wolpe and Glickman were among the participants 

 in this unusual experiment of bringing a subcommittee hearing to the 

 people. Four panels held a lively discussion of various forms of appro- 

 priate technology, rural and urban applications, and the relation of 

 appropriate technology to the Nation's energy consumption patterns. 



