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There's a young couple in New Hampshire who—in their own small way-are devoting much more than lip service to the future welfare of mankind. Naoto and Berri Inoue (carpenter and craft kit designer, respectively) decided early this year that the time had come for them to actively involve themselves in working for a better world. Here, in their own words (extracted from a letter they wrote to MOTHER), is what they did.

"Our main objective for the past five years has been to achieve self-sufficiency. We've been lucky to have had much success with our projects, but we must admit that there are no free lunches ... we've put a lot of sweat and love into them. But the point of this letter is not to show off what fortunate situations we've fallen into. It's to explain how we felt that- in order to completely achieve our life goals—we couldn't just look towards our land, our two geodesic domes, our woodshop, and our reputations as skilled workers,

"We realize that there are countless causes to be worked on...and we also know that we can't get much done with all our energy dipped into many pots. So the cause that we've chosen is the elimination of nuclear pollution.

"We had lots of thoughts on how to bring forth action, or at least education. But unfortunately all of them required money (for stickers, literature, etc.). Need we say that money for such projects is not easily come by?