Plantago major: Is there a way with planting trees, broad leaf plants and other flora as well as with cultivating algae in the ocean to reverse global warming ... Plant these at strategic times of the year and in specific places of high CO2 generation to absorb and transform it with a localized approach targeted for certain times? What serious academic thought has gone into this? I'll add much of such research to the Ocean and Climate Management Plan at WUaS, Plant broad-leaved high CO2 absorbing living species, especially agriculturally? Soybeans? Related literary literature, Related science articles about this, Added these to the "Forestry" wiki subject page at WUaS

... Is there a way with planting trees, broad leaf plants and other flora as well as with cultivating algae in the ocean to reverse global warming ... Plant these at strategic times of the year and in specific places of high CO2 generation to absorb and transform it with a localized approach targeted for certain times of growth and high CO2 production on a huge scale?

What serious academic thought has gone into this?

I'll add much of such research to the Ocean and Climate Management Plan at WUaS, if it exists ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


Plant broad-leaved high CO2 absorbing living species, especially agriculturally?

Soybeans?


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Ursula Le Guin's "The Word for World is Forest"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest

Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees" as a metaphor for hope ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_who_Planted_Trees

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Q & A ...

To what extent could planting trees help solve climate change?
2012. [http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/29/planting-trees-climate-change To what extent could planting trees help solve climate change? This Q&A is part of the Guardian's Ultimate climate change FAQ]. November 29. London, UK: www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/29/planting-trees-climate-change .


NIEMELÄ, PEKKA, F. STUART CHAPIN, III, KJELL DANELL and JOHN P. BRYANT. 2001. [http://www.lter.uaf.edu/pdf/590_niemela_chapin_2001.pdf HERBIVORY-MEDIATED RESPONSES OF SELECTED BOREAL FORESTS TO CLIMATIC CHANGE]. Finland: www.lter.uaf.edu/pdf/590_niemela_chapin_2001.pdf .


Planting trees may not reverse climate change, but it will help locally. 2013. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201090616.htm Planting trees may not reverse climate change, but it will help locally]. February 1. (Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, a new study finds). (BioMed Central Limited).  Rockville, MD: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201090616.htm .


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Added these to the "Forestry" wiki subject page at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Forestry

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California tiger salamander: WUaS in MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process ... potentially in 3 or 4 languages to begin, British Friend Programmers, Guidestar Gold level, Erinn Andrews, Former Stanford Admissions Officer who is GuideStar’s "Senior Director of Nonprofit Strategy," Inspiring Stanford University's Guidestar profile

Juan, Sach, other developers among sporadic Universitians,

Great ideas for a course of yours, Juan ...

From across the Atlantic and the USA - from Spain to the SF Bay Area - would you like to co-develop WUaS in MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process ... potentially in 3 or 4 languages to begin ... possibly En / Es / De (which I speak some) and Hindi together?

The new World University and School website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - has database capabilities.

Have any of you installed MediaWiki before?

Might we get started this week?

Best regards,
Scott

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Dear Ti, 

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, and very nice to meet you at Quaker Meeting at SFFM some years ago. I'm writing to inquire whether you might be able please to help develop Friendly-informed MIT OCW-centric World University and School as we move from our current Wikia to MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons in the process, perhaps in the role as lead, or as a facilitator, and perhaps by identifying Friendly British programmers and coders, in the Cambridge, England, area and beyond, who might be interested in WUaS as a service project. 

This could occur in potentially 3 or 4 languages to begin ... possibly En / Es / De (which I speak some) and Hindi together (some people on the sporadic Universitian list are from/in these countries)? 

The new World University and School website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - has database capabilities. 

Do you know Ffriends who have worked with MediaWiki / qLabel / Wikidata / Wikibase / SemanticWiki accessing Wikicommons or who might be involved in the Wikidata / Wikitech / Semantic Wiki email list communities? 

Three germane ones are: 

Wikidata: 

wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Wikitech: 

wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Semantic Wiki: 

semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net

WUaS would like to start growing as an organization from the SFFM Meeting House itself during weekdays (when it is mostly unoccupied) if at all possible. 

Thank you. 

Friendly regards,

Scott

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Dear Universitians, 

New WUaS Board member Jayni and I began addressing the following questions last night toward getting the Guidestar Gold level ...

"The Gold level gets at qualitative programmatic data, specifically asked via the Charting Impact questions: What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your strategies for making this happen? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? How will your organization know if you are making progress? And what have and haven’t you accomplished so far?"

These questions are from a blog entry at Guidestar by Erinn Andrews, who went to Stanford, was an admissions' representative at Stanford -

Erinn Andrews, Former Stanford Admissions Officer, Video Case Study #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XL8vBBB7o -

and who is GuideStar’s "Senior Director of Nonprofit Strategy" - http://trust.guidestar.org/2014/06/30/guidestar-exchange-june-25-webinar-follow-up-questions/ - and who has responded to me in email directly. After obtaining our Gold level designation, Erinn might be able to highlight in one way or another specific foundations for WUaS to apply to. Maybe she could become head of Admissions at WUaS even and across languages eventually. I've added Erinn's video to the Admissions' page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#Select_Video_and_Audio.

Guidestar is an information exchange for philanthropies to learn about WUaS (e.g. such as the Gates' Foundation). 

Feel free to join this Guidestar conversation by responding to these questions via email. 

Sincerely,

Scott 

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Here's inspiring Stanford University's Guidestar profile ... with an unusual Mission Statement - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/94-1156365/stanford-university-board-trustees-leland-stanford-ju.aspx - and which is more a narrative than statement. 

And here again is World University and School's Guidestar profile -  https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx - to which we added last night, especially vis-a-vis the key words of "free degrees." 

Regards, 

Scott

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Rainbow from a desert thunderstorm: Glancing, rainbow streamers Soared

Glancing, rainbow streamers
Soared air-wise from
Vineyards in full green
Summer leaf in Napa
while flying
on the road.

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African Harrier Hawk: Fundraising ideas, Guidestar, pacing WUaS, and even meeting space in San Francisco?

Hi Universitians, 

I just had, yesterday, the 2nd free good (monthly) 45 minute conference call with Paul Jolly, a professional fundraiser, and friend from the SF Bay Area living in Adelphi, MD. He has many good fundraising ideas (vis-a-vis his company called Jump Start Growth) which he shares occasionally in his newsletter (http://www.jumpstartgrowth.com/ - and which I've mentioned before) ... 

And then he sent around this blog post today via Guidestar - http://trust.guidestar.org/2014/08/19/whoosh-doldrums-whoosh-the-power-of-an-ambitious-goal/ - which is also the information exchange for 501 (c) 3s tax exempt organizations affiliated with the IRS, where WUaS just got listed recently ... https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx - and which new WUaS Board member, Jayni Shah and I are going to develop further .

WUaS will have to get focused with fundraising, pacing ourselves like swimming laps in a pool, is one idea I glean from this blog post, especially with an ambitious goal such as WUaS, (among many other good ideas in this blog post) to start generating monies ... On to pacing ourselves / myself with fundraising goals for WUaS ... 

May seek to begin to do this, as an exploration, at the Quaker Meeting in San Francisco on 9th Street, which is right across from Twitter's main offices and many other tech startups (for possible collaboration?), during business hours (I don't think the Friends' Meeting House is used during the week) ... and with other Universitians and fFriends who might find their ways there, especially for idea exchange and collaboration in person. 

Possibly as early as this Monday morning? ... will explore this possibility further with the House at San Francisco Friends Meeting.

Sincerely, 

Scott 

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Pangolins: Edifying pro-information technological revolution Harvard conversation about a) teaching in virtual worlds, b) wikis and c) Harvard's openness and digital education, and by Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and his daughter, Rebecca, both of whom are Harvard trained lawyers, In a recent new Harbin chapter proposal of mine, I further propose to examine ... an "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" approach (collaborative building in OpenSim/Second Life, co-writing wikis, and developments from these), as a new methodology

Edifying pro-information technological revolution Harvard conversation about a) teaching in virtual worlds, b) wikis and c) Harvard's openness and digital education, and by Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and his daughter, Rebecca, both of whom are Harvard trained lawyers ...

Charles and Rebecca Nesson discuss CyberOne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilS_lgWcWeE

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2006/09/13/charles-and-rebecca-nesson-discuss-cyberone/


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I was a student and an At-Large participant in their course (with Gene Koo, as well) in 2006, and have posted previously in this blog about this.


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You'll meet Professor Charlie Nesson's avatar Eon, Dean of Cyberspace, in the next 2 videos ...

Second Life: Open Education and Virtual Worlds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3sblfBjh_4


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IvyGate: Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson Is Insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNAhzwZkdU


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In a recent new Harbin chapter proposal of mine, I further propose to examine ...


"I'm writing to propose a chapter for your ”Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay” book. I’m currently editing a 400 page draft manuscript of an actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book tentatively entitled “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." While my actual anthropological field site, Harbin Hot Springs, is in northern California – http://harbin.org - my ethnography examines both “actual” and “virtual” Harbin ethnographically as placeless in a variety of ways, including comparatively, digitally and conceptually.

In this chapter I plan to develop an "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" approach (collaborative building in OpenSim/Second Life, co-writing wikis, and developments from these), as a new methodology, in creating a multimedia virtual Harbin to study anthropologically the blurring of the real and the virtual, as well as the blurring articulations between a physical place and a corresponding multimedia game/world. ... "

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Pygmy Hippo: "Letter to RSWR Supporters regarding Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone" with specific health information about the deadly Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone and how the Quaker organization "Right Sharing of Resources" is helping, To the "Sierra Leone" World University and School, the "Quakers" WUaS, as well as the "Hospital" at WUaS (on which we and Sierra Leoneans could wiki-post a video accessible from mobile phones in key Sierra Leone languages about using chlorine and water), I've added the following resources so Ffriends who come to these pages might give financially

Hi A, Ffriends and SFFM, 

Thanks for sharing this letter - "Letter to RSWR Supporters regarding Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone" ... http://www.rswr.org/letter-to-rswr-supporters-regarding-ebola-virus-in-sierra-leone/ -  with specific health information about the deadly Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone and how the Quaker organization "Right Sharing of Resources" is helping all of us to help. 

To the "Sierra Leone" World University and School, to the "Quakers" WUaS, as well as to the "Hospital" at WUaS (on which we and Sierra Leoneans could wiki-post a video accessible from mobile phones in key Sierra Leone languages about using chlorine and water to mitigate some of the effects of the deadly Ebola virus) ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sierra_Leone - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends ... 

I've added the following resource you sent (I found the link online) ... 

Graves, Sylvia. 2014. [http://www.rswr.org/letter-to-rswr-supporters-regarding-ebola-virus-in-sierra-leone/ Letter to RSWR Supporters regarding Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone]. (Accessed online: August 16). Richmond, IN: rswr.org/letter-to-rswr-supporters-regarding-ebola-virus-in-sierra-leone/ ...

so Ffriends who come to these pages might give financially to help, for example, especially. 

I also added the great "Right Sharing of Resources" website - http://www.rswr.org/ - to the "Quakers" at WUaS wiki page  - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends#Select_Websites.

I'll probably post part of this email to my blog in the "Quakers" label tomorrow to further get out the word - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Quakers - about ways Ffriends,  and also WUaS, might help with such situations.

Thank you for sharing these ways we can all help. 

Sincerely, 

Scott

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Flying fishes: Piping Live ... "The Worlds" ... in Glasgow ... "Inveraray and District - MSR" set with PM Stuart Liddell ... sweet ... Field Marshall Montgomery Wins with their, and Inveraray's, winning videos, Plus Grade 1 "March, Strathspey and Reel" videos, WUaS's wiki Great Highland Bagpipe page, How to enhance this for VIRTUAL learning by piping with top bands in "The Worlds?"

Piping Live ... "The Worlds" ... 

in Glasgow ... 

"Inveraray and District - MSR" set with PM Stuart Liddell ... 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r/videos/p024xfs5#p024xfx4 

... sweet ... (brought tears to my eyes actually) ...


Here are all of the Grade 1 bans' "March, Strathspey and Reel" videos ... 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r/videos/p024xfs5#p024xg41 .

( Hear "The Worlds" Live today here ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r ) ... 


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Here are the Grade 1 finalists

http://www.theworlds.co.uk/about/latest-news/Pages/Grade-1-Finalists-announced.aspx

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Hi R, 

In Glasgow, The Worlds' top bands' piping competition occurred today as you may know. 

Field Marshall Montgomery won again, and Inverarary and District took second place. 

Here are the videos from the MSR and the Medley:

Field Marshal Montgomery - Medley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r/videos/p024xht3#p024xgs3

Field Marshal Montgomery - MSR

DURATION: 05:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024xf23

Inveraray and District - Medley

DURATION: 08:11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024xhdr

And my favorite: 

Inveraray and District - MSR

DURATION: 04:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024xfx4

(And another favorite of mine)

Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia - Medley

DURATION: 07:14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024xh22

If you listen to more of these top bands - http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r - what are some of your favorites? 

This is really stellar piping ... what is it about PM Stuart Liddell's musicality that's unique (I keep thinking and asking myself about)? 

Happy piping, :)

Scott

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And here's Simon Fraser University pipe band from BC Canada, playing first the March "Miss Elspeth Campbell" (which I've been playing a lot these days, and will play with them for learning) of their MSR - 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewjg9r/videos/p024xfs5#p024xfsr


Will add these to World University and School's wiki GHB page ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ... 


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It's already so easy to play with these Grade 1 bands on Internet video ... 

How to enhance this digitally for learning? 


From my blog post yesterday: 


"Hi R,

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I'm piping with the WUaS Great Highland Bagpipe wiki page videos just now, and in harmony using the book "Seconds from the Edge." 

(I was just playing 'in' the Edinburgh Castle esplanade ... where I played as a 17 year old while attending Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1976-'77, playing in the Fettes' band :) ... 

Can you imagine doing this in the Oculus Rift (digital goggles), or similar, as they becomes more and more interactive, movie realistic, and for learning purposes? :)

Try playing "Green Hills of Tyrol" and "When the Battle is Over" in the Edinburgh Tattoo here -

Fanfare and March in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5WPHtZFM4


(Green Hills of Tyrol. 2010. Fanfare & March in - Diamond Jubilee. (at about 1:30 minutes, followed by "After The Battle" / "When the Battle Is Over") Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Castle Esplanade.
at
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe#Select_Video_and_Audio ... :)

WUaS's wiki pages are proving (for me) to be a great way to personalize (my own) learning :) Feel wiki-free to engage them for this as well. 

Happy piping,

Scott


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/bobbit-worm-volunteer-inquiry-to-wuas.html


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How to enhance this for learning by piping with top bands in "The Worlds?"

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