Source: SolSeed:Helping Life Thrive, On Earth And Beyond

Date: 2010-10-28T03:15:12.000Z
Author: Brandon CS Sanders
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[[SolSeed]] < [[Media]] < '''SolSeed book'''

In book form, the ideas that make up [[SolSeed]] will be much more "solid" than they are on this wiki--that is, while a wiki is designed to be easy to change, a book can only be revised relatively rarely.  Thus, it's important to plan carefully to ensure that the book represents the best current consensus we can establish about what [[SolSeed]] is, where it came from, and what it intends to become.

Some ideas for this iteration of the book could be drawn from [[Ben]]'s initial work on a previous iteration at [http://www.aboutus.org/Becoming_Earthseed:_A_Survival_Guide_for_the_Human_Race AboutUs.org].

== Title Ideas ==

* ''Becoming SolSeed''
** Too cryptic?
* ''Becoming SolSeed: A Survival Guide for the Human Race''
** Makes the title stand out, but probably too sensationalist
* ''SolSeed: Building a Community of Starfarers''
* ''SolSeed: Growing New Living Worlds''
** Could these two be combined without being awkward?
* ''SolSeed: Helping Life Thrive, On Earth And Beyond''
** [[Ben]]'s current favorite
* ''SolSeed: Bringing Life ... Even Unto the Galaxy''

== Tentative Table of Contents ==

'''[[SolSeed book introduction|Introduction]]'''

'''Part 1: Building a Starfaring Civilization'''

:Chapter 1: [[Being a Starfarer]]
:* Subheadings TBA

:Chapter 2: [[Building a Society of Starfarers]]
:* Growing the movement
:* Forming SolSeed communities
:* [[In it for the long haul]] ''(link is to discussion at [[Seed 2009]])''

:Chapter 3: [[Reconnecting with Mother Earth]]
:* What is [[Gaia]]?
:* Learning to live within limits
:* A joint venture with nature

:Chapter 3.5: [[Getting Involved]]

'''Part 2: Spreading the Seed'''

:Chapter 4: [[Living in Space]]
:* Orbiting mini-worlds
:* Room to grow in many directions
:* Generations between the stars

:Chapter 5: Bringing Planets to Life
:* Getting a foothold on a dead world
:* Terraforming/ecopoeisis
:* The problem of [[perseverance]]

:Chapter 6: Taking Root Amongst the Stars
:* On our own, far from home
:* Bringing distant worlds to life
:* Coexisting with alien biospheres

'''Conclusion:''' Interstellar civilization?