Source: September 11, 2014: Online Work Bee

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== Agenda ==
* Check in
* Review WWWs
* Weekly event logistics
* Review Agenda
* Fall Equinox 
** Write some questions for the presentation
** Have Ben indicate he’s coming on the Meetup
** Register the event with 350.org
** Work out logistics
* Discuss daily practice checkmarks (tdp.me perhaps?)
* Project work
* Evaluation

== Check-in (gratinews) ==
* Brandon … grateful that I get to be working on Serene and SolSeed
* Ben … I’m grateful that I have a cat in my lap.  She usually doesn’t sit in my lap at this time of day.  And I am grateful to have an external motivation to work on an interesting project, namely the presentation for the 20th
* Eric … grateful that John Halstead invited me to work on an environmental statement with 40 others from various Pagan groups

== WW(W)s from last time ==

* <s>Ben … put together a Meetup description for the sign-making/climate education event … by tomorrow
* Ben … start working on the educational presentation
* Ben … think about some small daily practice aimed at being more proactive … by next call</s>
* Brandon … get metric numbers together for last week so that we understand what the number looks like … Sunday after next
* Brandon … start a dashboard for us to collect and visualize our metrics on … by Thursday
* Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday after next
* Brandon … write a “stewards circle outside of glassfrog” policy proposal … by Thursday
* <s>Brandon … ask Shelley about a ‘make the sign’ meetup on Saturday before the triathlon … by Today</s>
* <s>Brandon … post the equinox meetup … by Thursday</s>
* <s>Eric … Take part in John Halstead’s pagan statement on the environment</s>

== WWWs ==
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... 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
* Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Brandon … get metric numbers together for last week so that we understand what the number looks like … Sunday after next
* Brandon … start a dashboard for us to collect and visualize our metrics on … by Thursday
* Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday after next
* Brandon … write a “stewards circle outside of glassfrog” policy proposal … by Thursday
* Brandon … materials for the signs … by Saturday the 20th
* Brandon … supplies for the climate presentation … by Thursday the 18th.

== Weekly Events Logistics ==
Weekend
:Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
* September 13 Service: 9 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT  (Eric)
* September 14 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT

Midweek
* September 18 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT (Ben possibly out)

== Fall Equinox ==

Ben proposed attending one or more People’s Climate March events
* The one in New York City includes a conference before the march, which we could cosponsor: http://convergeforclimate.org/sponsor-convergence (but it might be too left-wing for us)
** Eric is definitely not going to this

* The one in Portland, http://act.350.org/event/peoples_climate/7762, would be the easiest for the Sanders
** Start with a sign-making event on Saturday
*** Also include educational stuff about the climate crisis (see below)
** Should we bike or walk to Waterfront Park for the march (which starts at 3 PM)?
** Perhaps we could bike to a restaurant afterward

=== The sign-making/educational event ===
http://www.meetup.com/SolSeed/events/206743302/

Name: Make “Smart” Climate Signs for the PDX People's Climate March

Facebook cover photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/4178689572 

==== What would Ben want people to know? ====
* Current ppm of carbon in the atmosphere, trajectory, and where it ought to be
* Parsing out the difference between amount of temperature increase, ppm, and the amount of carbon we are emitting
* Arctic is warming faster, fluctuations in the jet stream leading to some extreme weather
* What is it going to take to stabilize the climate even at its current level of disruption.

==== What does Brandon want to know? ====
* Current state of the world … what we know for sure (even if there are some different interpretations).
** What does the community of “working scientists” agree on?
** What are the main talking points for various advocates.
** Who predicts what scenarios.
*** e.g., severe storms that kill 2 million people on average per year
*** e.g., sudden stoppage of the ocean currents (gulf stream, etc) causing massive cooling across Europe

==== Useful websites ====
* http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/mote/
* http://www.pdx.edu/esm/profile/forests-climate-change-and-future 
* http://skepticalscience.com 
* http://www.katu.com/amnw/segments/The-Cartoon-Introduction-to-Climate-Change-266626241.html
* http://whatweknow.aaas.org/get-the-facts/

== Evaluation ==
* Eric … I really enjoy being like we’re all in neighboring cubicles working for the same company … one that I’m excited about
* Ben … I guess when we all go off to do our own thing it makes me wonder whether people are getting enough out of the meeting.
* Brandon … Fascinated by the EarthShip Stuff.  Looking forward to the Meetup.