April 7, 2013: Online Work Bee

== 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