Subject: ERF Newsletter - Request for subscription.
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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E-mail: erf@rachel.clark.net
July 23, 1997
Dear Friends:
When the staff of Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly first
asked you to support our work, in December, 1996, more than 7% of
you responded with a donation. For this, we once again offer our
heartfelt thanks. Since that time, several subscribers have
written to tell us how much they appreciate our work. For
example, Linda and Gray in New Jersey wrote, "The information
supplied by ERF and Rachel's has been invaluable time and time
again to people working to improve the environment."
Ward and Dorothy are fighting agricultural chemicals in Michigan.
They wrote:
"It is most fortunate for us that your weekly reports seem to
anticipate our needs, and add considerably to our storehouse of
filed material."
Few words of thanks could be more gratifying to us because we
pride ourselves on providing easy access to hard-to-find
information in Rachel's. However, it is no fluke that our readers
tell us the information in our publications meets their needs
remarkably well. We work hard at this aspect of our work. We
listen to your questions and comments, then dig through
journals, computer databases and obscure publications to ensure
that the information you need is available when you need it. All
back issues of Rachel's are also available (fully indexed) via
E-mail. The index is updated every week.
While we are happy to be able to provide this level of service to
you, gathering and disseminating so much information is quite
costly. So, I am writing to you, as I did in December, to ask for
your continued help in defraying the daily costs associated with
our research and publication efforts.
One of ERF's recurring expenses is for books and other research
publications. While we get some books free from the publisher, we
have to buy many of the ones that are most useful to us for
research and reference. As you might imagine, these are
exceedingly expensive because of their scientific, medical and
technical nature. For example, we recently bought a new EPA
report on mercury (which we will be writing about soon in
Rachel's). That one report cost $325.
That report and our other research materials are central to our
efforts to provide the information and services that you have
come to rely on.
We know that many Rachel's readers are community leaders --
thinkers who are focused on real problems that MUST be solved.
The staff of Rachel's is proud to partner with you to help you
find the information you need to be as effective as possible. And
whether you are an activist or a concerned citizen, I know that
you appreciate and value the information Rachel's provides to
you.
We want to continue working with you, providing information and
perspectives on environment and health. Please help us do that.
If you responded to our request in December, I hope you will do
so again. If you are one of our many readers who expressed a
willingness but also an inability to contribute at that time, I
hope you will consider making your donation now.
If we didn't need to ask you for your ongoing help, I assure you
we wouldn't.
Thank you for your support of ERF and Rachel's. For your
convenience, I have attached a donation form. As always, please
do not hesitate to call, write or E-mail us, if we can be of
service to you.
Sincerely,
(signed)
Peter Montague, Ph.D.
Editor
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