Agenda
- SolSeedSong Meeting
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Mid-Spring Event
- Earth Day
- Evaluation
Meeting with John and Will
Intro to SolSeed
- Brandon:
- Life is precious
- Individual and group more-or-less-aliveness
- Life bursting through boundaries, ex. emergence onto land and now into space
- Life has invested in us
- Ben
- Started out as a kid who loved space exploration
- Became an environmentalist and wondered how humans can be beneficial rather than harmful to nature
- My answer was in both traditional restoration work and bringing life to other worlds
- Discovered a group that shares this ideal
- Eric
- Also environmentalist and sci-fi fan
- Disappointed in environmental battles being always defensive, preventing harm
- Only way to create benefit instead is to bring life to space?
- Deep time story isn't over, and the most important part of it is about autotrophs (plants)
- How can plants be better?
- Bringing life to deserts or Antarctica as well as to space
What should the next Terra Lumina album include?
- Brandon: Something to help people understand deep time
- Eric: Including the future (Freeman Dyson)
- Brandon: Structure of the human brain/mind (Jonathan Haidt)
- Also systematic flaws in human thinking
- Ben: Energy sources humans use and their consequences
- Brandon: Sequoias and other giant trees
- Ben: Science done by space probes, maybe a Mars song
Style for the SolSeed song
- Style leaning toward "From Old Creating New"
- Dramatic instrumentals inspiring sense of wonder
- Also include more "down to earth" sections? more like "Shifting Light"
- Brandon: Soaring, inspirational, building toward a climax
Check In
- Eric ... sorry I was late again ... got distracted with a post someone put on my Facebook account
- Brandon ... I am sharing the latest SolSeed post
- Ben ... stomache at the beginning of the call that has now gone away
WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... watch Allan Savory's TED talk ... by next call
- Brandon ... talk with Shelley about Earth Day and stuff (http://ecowiki.pdx.edu/opportunities/view/get-involved-psu-earth-day-festival) ... by next call
- Brandon ... add two more images for the SolSeedCreed v2.2 ... by next call</s>
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... check out Les Brasseurs du Temps... by next call
- Eric... watch Allan Savory's TED talk ... by next call
- Shelley ... put together photos from recent events (ice skating, story telling, etc) for the newsletter ... by next call
WWWs
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... add the May 11 tree-planting event to meetup ... by today
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... read some of the SolSeed Book of Days ... by next call
- Ben ... finally create a page for the 2012 Space Elevator Conference
- Ben ... write the newsletter ... by next call
- Shelley ... look up some ice-skating photos and send them to Ben ... by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday April 13, 9:00am PDT 12:00 EDT (Ben) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Shelley, Ben
Work-Bee Sunday April 14, 1:30 pm PDST 16:30 EDT
Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is 2013-04-21 13:00 EST
Mid-Spring event
- Brandon suggests the May 11 sunnyside tree planting event http://www.friendsoftrees.org/calendar/calendar-portland-vancouver
- Eric will have a Meetup on the same day
- The Dalai Lama will be in town for an Environmental Summit the next day, May 12: http://www.dalailamaportland2013.net/
Earth Day
- Brandon has contacted Jessica about having a table at PSU Earth day on Monday April 22 from 11am-4pm
- The sign-up period is about to end, and we're not sure whether they'll have spaces left
- Include the planter and the mural painting
- Hoping to have 6-foot-tall sequoia pictures to display
- Goal is to get people to sign up on our email list
Evaluation
- Brandon ... I can't wait for the song ... looking forward with anticipation.
- Ben ... my stomache ache came back, and now I am wondering whether the dalai lama or the tree planting WITH MY FRIENDS event is more important
- Eric ... I was really distracted during this call and I want to apologize ... but it is supposed to be a work bee and I did get Brandon's cat story reedited (and the meetup adjusted) during the call