### Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- [SolSeedSong](/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](/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!