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

Date: 2008-12-20T05:38:24.000Z
Author: BenSibelman
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[[SolSeed]] < '''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.

== Title Ideas ==

* ''Becoming SolSeed: A Survival Guide for the Human Race''
** Makes the title stand out, but maybe too sensationalist
* ''SolSeed: Building a Community of Starfarers''
* ''SolSeed: Growing New Living Worlds''
** Could these two be combined without being awkward?

== Tentative Table of Contents ==

'''Introduction:''' The core principles of SolSeed

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

:Chapter 1: How to be a starfarer

:Chapter 2: Getting organized
:* Growing the movement
:* Forming SolSeed communities
:* In it for the long haul

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

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

:Chapter 4: Mars as a first step
:* Getting there
:* Terraforming/ecopoeisis
:* The problem of perseverance

:Chapter 5: Living in space
:* Orbiting mini-worlds
:* Generations between the stars
:* The high cost of high speed

:Chapter 6: Taking root among the stars
:* On our own, far from home
:* Bringing dead worlds to life
:* Coexisting with alien biospheres

'''Conclusion:''' Interstellar civilization?