== 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!