Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- SolSeedSong
- Project to get us some moral authority (the OneProjectPlan)
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... I like the Old Testament posts Eric is doing
- Eric ... I am beginning the work ... thinking about Brandon's statement that "moral authority comes from doing things" and about a community organizer in my neighborhood who got the money and people together to build a community garden, via a community association she built
- Ben ... training was interesting to meet a bunch of other Sierra club activists, but I didn't feel like I learned a lot ... upward spirals are runaway feedback loops ... some may not turn out to be as upward as we'd like (Brandon and Eric both say 'undoubtedly').
WWWs from last time
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... 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
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... contact John to see how things are going with the song and ask if they need anything more from us ... by tomorrow
- Ben ... think about our favorite ideas for the first project ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... go to a PSAS meeting ... Tuesday night
- Brandon ... think about our favorite ideas for the first project ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... think about our favorite ideas for the first project ... by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday May 25, 10:15 am PDT 13:15 EDT (Eric) (Eric will be building a community garden at 8-10 PDT) Rotation: Brandon, Shelley, Eric, Ben Work-Bee Sunday May 26, 1:30 pm PDT 16:30 EDT Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is 2013-10-20 13:00 EST
SolSeedSong
Ben took a WWW to check in with John.
Project
- Ideas
- Build an airship
- Brandon's favorite idea for getting to space is currently skyhooks that drop down into the upper reaches of the atmosphere and dock with giant airships
- To start with, we'd build a small remote-controlled airship (with a camera?)
- Could be used to retrieve or film a rocket at our event or a Portland State Aerospace Society sounding-rocket launch
- http://psas.pdx.edu/
- http://publiclaboratory.org/home
- Even simpler starting point: tethered balloon with a camera
- Other uses: ecological research, growing plants at high altitude
- Construction details
- Mylar would be a cool material to use (NASA uses it for everything)
- Really thin solar panels (printed or organic) to recharge the battery for the propellors
- Tree watering movement
- The expansion of forests into abandoned farm fields is rainfall-limited because seedlings die off in even a slight drought
- Similar to Paul's water-diverting game to reduce erosion
- Learning enough about trees to eventually bioengineer them (next step would be to grow them in a greenhouse)
- Genetic and synthetic ... http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_01_20/caredit.a1200009
- http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page
- Genetic engineering safety guidelines
- Do we have anything like the expertise needed?
- Build a structure that could be useful to the community
- Doable but expensive
- Hold a Kindred festival
- Do we need more moral authority before we can get people to be participants?
- Build a cubesat
- Doable but expensive
- Miniaturize some instruments really small and launch them out of LEO onto an interplanetary orbit (possibly using an ion drive?)
- Help kindred groups with their own events
- Ex. housing and food for Native Americans in northern Ontario
- Religious coalitions that work on environmental or poverty programs?
- Air-droppable greenhouse with remote-controlled automation
- Both a charity project and a test run for providing life support to space colonies
- Doable (?) but expensive
Evaluation
- Brandon ... this is cool (synthetic biology based on standard parts) ... and a little disconcerting ... I wanted to get started on the different projects instead of just talking them.
- Ben ... I'm still just wondering whether anything we do matters ... whether there is a future to work toward
- Eric ... I am really pumped because the call was really good; we are going to do instead of think and write and talk and I think doing is what will make SolSeed more than just a friendship but a religion!