Friday, September 18, 2015
Dear clerk(s) of the Strawberry Creek Dime-A-Gallon Fund,
With Leonard's guidance, I'm
resending this rewritten proposal renamed "Green Quaker Great University
Brownbag and Online Talk Series".
Friendly-informed CC World
University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare,
is planning to offer free online CC university degrees, and would like to apply
to the Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting (Quaker) "Dime-a-Gallon" fund
- https://sites.google.com/site/dimeagallon/dag-guidelines -
to develop a “Green Quaker Great University Brownbag and Online Talk
Series.”
World University and School’s
project aligns with the “directly reduce the use of fossil fuels,” “support
sustainability education,” and “support the healthy interdependence of people
with nature,” grant-making goals of the Dime-A-Gallon fund by seeking further
to develop a sustainable online environmentally-conscious University and School
with this Friendly lecture and conversation series.
Here’s World University’s
mission statement for this “Green Quaker Great University Brownbag and
Online Talk Series”:
World University is
planning free best STEM CC OCW accrediting online degrees, and is a CC free
online wiki for open, educational resources, where YOU can teach. The
mission of the “Green Quaker Great University Brownbag and Online Talk Series”
is to develop Friendly-informed World University to “directly reduce the use of
fossil fuels,” “support sustainability education,” and “support the healthy
interdependence of people with nature.” With these talks World University seeks
to generate a Quaker Great Universities' learning conversation on the web about
these themes, which will include a focus on an environmentally activist
Friendly academic Internet perspective, engaging Friends' Testimonies broadly
construed. In these talks World University seeks also to offer, partly by
building out into cyberspace and learning from this, a forum for Friendly thinkers,
academics and Quaker graduate students online, for example, to share
their environmental activism research in these D.A.G. areas on the World
Wide Web and re Friends' education “to align our behavior with our Quaker
values,” with Quaker Q&A sharing of ideas to follow presentations.
- How much support is being
requested?
$1000
5 week lecture series to be
streamed online and saved.
Budget detail –
Honorarium to speakers: $50
per talk, or $250 for 5 weeks
Production of “Green
Quaker Great University Brownbag and Online Talk Series,” contacting potential
speakers around the world, setup with laptops, probably in Google + group video
Hangouts, etc. - $670 or $124 per event
Rent in Berkeley Friends’
Meeting new Community Room for Quaker group - $16 per time x 5 = $80
$250 honorariums
$80 rent
$670 series’ production
= $1,000
World University and School
will seek Friendly speakers who are especially reaching out on the web
especially to “directly reduce the use of fossil fuels,” “support
sustainability education,” and “support the healthy interdependence of people
with nature.”
World University engages some
of these environmental goals via the following main WUaS Subject pages:
- “Ocean & Climate
Management Plan” wiki page and related links at WUaS -
- “Solar Energy” page and
related links -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy#World_University_and_School_Links
- and for both Solar Vehicle and Electric and Hybrid Vehicle).
- “Energy Courses” World
University and School page and links -
- and many other related WUaS
wiki pages.
- These "Green Quaker
Great University Brownbag and Online Talk Series" events will also be
aggregated and curated on a Youtube page, and eventually added in the new
upcoming WUaS wiki to the “Quakers – Religious Society of
Friends" wiki page at World University and School -
- Are there any opportunities
for the Strawberry Creek community to participate in the project apart from
donating funding? If the proposal is for a non-Quaker community initiative, are
any Strawberry Creek members or attenders already actively involved?
Yes. WUaS would welcome
Strawberry Creek members to talk about these SCMM goals to “directly
reduce the use of fossil fuels,” “support sustainability education,” and
“support the healthy interdependence of people with nature,” with an
online Quaker education if possible. I've talked with Leonard Joy about this,
and he has encouraged me to submit an application.
- If the project is for
individual travel/educational support, how will this experience be re-invested
in the meeting and/or enrich the Earthcare witness of other Quaker bodies?
There are many environmentally
oriented wiki pages/schools at World University with much MIT OpenCourseWare,
which will eventually be for credit, for example.
In addition to presenting,
Strawberry Creek Friends and Bay Area Friends are of course very welcome to
come to these Brown Bag talks at Berkeley Friends’ Meeting.
Thank you very much for your
consideration of this proposal.
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod
- Scott MacLeod - WUaS Founder
& President
- Member of San Francisco
Friends Meeting
- Tel. 415 480 4577 - P.O. Box
442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
-
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
-
meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org
- Friendly-informed World
University and School is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare,
and is is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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