Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Windward report
- Fall Equinox
- Another pitch for daily practice checkmarks (tdp.me perhaps?)
- Evaluation
Check-in (gratinews)
- Brandon … I’m enjoying getting started on my daily practice again, and look forward to some super-duper results
- Ben … having a fun time writing my web comic in the form of a novel instead of a web comic … maybe I’ll get it illustrated later
WW(W)s from last time
- 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 … ask Shelley about a ‘make the sign’ meetup on Saturday before the triathlon … by Today
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … put together a Meetup description for the sign-making/climate education event … by tomorrow
- Ben … think about some small daily practice aimed at being more proactive … by next call
- 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 … ask Shelley about a ‘make the sign’ meetup on Saturday before the triathlon … by Today
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- September 1313 Service: 9 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Eric)
- September 1414 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT
Midweek
- September 11 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT
Windward report
Drove to Portland, visited parents for tent and dinner. Ben drove the rest of the way. We got there as it was getting dark. We broke out flashlights after we went to the registration. We were welcomed by Opal and Walt. Walt helped us to set up the tent. A high point of the trip was the ridiculous number of stars we could see. I was less impressed by their kitchen setup. Seems to be rather makeshift. They’re working on making it more … uh, finished. One thing that was a problem for me during the trip was I had this toe infection I had to treat. Andrew was very helpful. He helped me get some hot water to soak my foot in. In the morning we had breakfast with members of the community and other visitors. We talked some about the ecosystem restoration work Andrew is working on. I got to talk with Ruben who does programming of micro-controllers for the biomass methanol project. Then we went on a guided tour of their permaculture projects. Which included a lot of these artificial ridges meant to catch water and keep it on a single contour line. Raised, not flat, and filled with some sort of organic matter that is good at holding water because of the long hot dry summers they get. Those experiments seems to be progressing pretty well. Some plants doing better at the end of the summer than others. They do have other areas where they use drip irrigation. There is a slope where at the top they have a huge water tank. I think the water is drawn from a well. We went down through their garden where they are growing lots of herbs and vegetables. Mostly leafy vegetables. Some root, and some squash. Probably corn and beans (though no corn at that time). And sunflowers. We met a few pigs and sheep. And then we went and had lunch.
I don’t remember what lunch entailed exactly, or what came next. I guess it may have been the part I do have notes for. A Q and A session. Then we went and helped Walt set up a platform for a hydraulic piston for the biomass to methanol project and got the full spiel about that (even though we missed it at the official presentation on Saturday). Walt is impressively smart and fairly convincing about the several merits of the project. We went straight from that back to the campsite. Played a card game Lion had brought with some other visitors, struck the tent, and then left.
Fall Equinox
Ben proposes 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)
- 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
- Or maybe we should 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
Names
- Signs of the Climate
- Climate Signs
- Unobfuscating the Climate Conversation
- Clearing up Climate Confusion
- Do we need a climate?
- Who cares about the climate?
- Climate Q and A
- Signs and Climate Answers
- Make Signs … Get Climate Answers … Fun!
- Make Smarter Signs for the Climate March
- Go Smart Climate Signs?
- Is your climate sign smart?
- Make “Smart” Climate Signs
Then go march with it the next day
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.
- 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
Evaluation
Ben … Sad that no WWWs were crossed off, but I’m glad that Brandon is interested in learning about climate. The more common response is having a set opinion and nothing anyone says will sway you (because it has become so politicized).
Brandon … I’m excited about this; I feel I’ve been irresponsible in not understanding more about the climate stuff