Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Sol 2013
- Project to get us some moral authority (the OneProjectPlan)
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... I've decided to rename Ben to Bane ... as in Bane of Monsanto! ... doin' all right, gettin good grades (in what?), my future is so bright, I gotta wear shades
- Ben ... I've been having throat problems for a few days, too much swallowing and coughing ... Monsanto march: surrounded by signs advertising the myth of pure evil as it applies to GMOs, and I couldn't shake people and tell them we need them for terraforming
- Eric ... I encountered a myth of pure evil person this year, and it was too bad I didn't have any patience for them and I blew them off without empathy ... but I had a great week because the community garden is up and running (me and the mayor and the other lesser dignitaries launched it)
WWWs from last time
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>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</s>
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (missed one thing)
- <s>Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... think about our favorite ideas for the first project ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- 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
- Brandon ... talk to Shelley about food for our family (possibly tofurkey and eve's products?)
- Brandon ... look at what I've got for YayLifeTri
- Brandon ... consider wet suits for the boys
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday June 1, 9:00 am PDT 13:15 EDT (Ben) Rotation: Brandon, Shelley, Eric, Ben
Work-Bee Sunday June 2, 5:00 pm PDT 20:00 EDT
Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is 2013-10-20 13:00 EST
Sol 2013
- Schedule
- Arrive Wednesday June 19
- Sanders at 5pm ... straight to cottage, hang with Michelle and Cocoa, Eric will double back to the airport
- Ben at 9:30pm ... straight to cottage
- Thursday
- Unconference all day
- Friday
- Unconference all day
- Saturday
- Unconference 1/2 day
- YayLifeTri in the afternoon
- Depart Sunday June 23
- Sanders at 8:30am, leave cabin at 6am
- Ben at 6pm - Depart later with Michelle, Patrick, and Cocoa
- Food
- Eric will bring stuff to the cabin the weekend before
- Bedding ... there are beds for everyone except Patrick, who will be there only on Saturday night
- double or queen for Shelley and Brandon, twin for Sequoia ... Ren with Shelley and Brandon
- warm pajamas and sleep sack for Ren just in case
- Laundry ... no machine, but they have a big tub
- Toys ... sticks and rocks? yes! big trucks? maybe
- Car Seats ... Shelley and Brandon will bring their children's car seats
- YayLifeTri
- Bright Yellow Tees with Dark Blue Printing
- Safe way to do the "swim" section?
- The Sanders kids could sit in a kayak and an adult could pull them along
- Bicycles with kid's seats for Ren, preferably in front, and Sequoia, in back
- Unconference
Project
- Ideas
- Mechanical harvester for intercropped farm fields
- to deal with a crisis; high and volatile food prices; many things we can do to increase supply and reduce demand ... basically raise resilience)
- intercropping ... grow two or more crops in the same field ... resistance because machines can't harvest it ... that is a technical problem that can be solved
- visit an intercropped farm and see how it works or how a machine might be able to cope with it
- Eric notes that there are machines that can water various species of plants within a greenhouse and apply chemicals, and outdoor versions as well
- Link to liturgy: gaining experience that could apply to CELSSs
- 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 Winter Solstice event (link to liturgy) or a Portland State Aerospace Society sounding-rocket launch
- http://psas.pdx.edu/
- I went to the first PSAS meeting, I'm going to go again. I have lunch scheduled for this Friday with one of the faculty leaders. I'm planning to attend the launch on June 30 and take nice videos of it. I ordered a MCU (micro controller unit) and a couple of sensors (6 degree accelerometer and temp/pressure/altitude). I helped a little with the code to talk from the flight computer to the MCU. Shelley and I are game to sponsor the rocket.
- http://publiclaboratory.org/home
- http://www.eblimp.com/eblimp/Outdoor_Blimps.html
- 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 Natives 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 (?)
- Start growing things
- Track and measure and be very scientific about it
- Could lead to various other projects
- Brandon: I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about it, I just want to start
Evaluation
- Eric ... I am keen to grow something
- Brandon ... I am keen to grow something and measure it
- Ben ... I am still kind of feeling like it just won't work very well at my end and that bothers me.