Yeah, our site provider hiccuped and deleted the whole site. Looking for a new provider. Sorry about delay in response.

My own project is a script for a podcast -- I tend to *think* in novel form, but that's too slow for what I'm trying to get done. What I'd had in mind for *this conversation* is more you do your thing, I do mine, and we talk about them with each other so as to gain support and enthusiasm.

I'd like to start a writing gathering in SE. I'm open to suggestions, but for a start how about Pappacino's Coffee on Woodstock Blvd. near SE 45th Ave., at 11am on Wednedays?

*noodge*

For the moment, would you be willing to consider corresponding via email? If you want to describe Solarpunk Denver to me, I can happily respond with a description of Solarpunk Portland. You can do so to joelsolarpunk@gmail.com, if you wish.

Colorado does make it problematic to invite you over for dinner.

Long distance works fine. I'm not sure how to work it in this format, however. I think I have to do it as attachments, rather than messages.

I'm new here, and didn't know you had to add a hashtag to a post.

#portlandwriters

I run Solarpunk Portland, and I've got a ficton going there with the two overlapping purposes of providing a positive model of the future (a la original-series Star Trek) and showing off an explicit model of the Solarpunked Portland of 2040.

Anybody want to play a part, or discuss?

@pdxoregon50501.bsky.social

I'm hosting a visioning brainstorming at my place in SE this Sunday the 22nd at noon; lunch included. DM me if you're interested in joining us or have policy thoughts you'd like to contribute but can't make it to deliver them in person.

I'm having what would be nightmares, if I could sleep, about spending the rest of my life in lawsuits with the property mismanagers I'm renting from.

Can't friend you on Discord unless we've got a server in common. Mine is discord.gg/eCcgvrdN53 .

If there's a way to send you a direct message, I haven't found it yet. Replying to your own should work, I hope.

Are you asking me for my ideas, offering to share your own, or both? Welcome, no matter which.

Not sure I'll be able to, but I will if I can.

I am interested to hear your possible ideas. (If you've got less-possible ideas, them too.)

Fully agreed. Big difference, tho', between balloon-popping and hard-question-asking. Can't *resolve* the hard questions 'til they've been asked, so I find *being* asked to be a favor. Also nice if the asker is willing to help work towards a solution.

I am pleased. You've only found one of the three hard questions I was expecting to get hit with. Since I don't like nonconsensual guessing games, the other two are 1) How do you recruit the people to do it, and 2) How do you get the political approvals needed to make it happen.

Initially, my pocket, and volunteers. After that, it forks, with the physical-engineering side getting funding from commercial contracts and municipal sources, and the social-engineering side developing into a Metro agency, Metro being a regional gov't that includes most of the Portland Metro area.

Aha! I found the 'reply' button. solarpunkportland.us is the website, yes. Our mission is what I put in our first post. We have a file of a few dozen projects that would be useful in achieving it, and my next step is to recruit project managers to run them and Citizenry Aides to help people.

@clockworkbanana asks for more detail on Solarpunk Portland.

First, you're right, solarpunkportland.us is the website. It's a bit out of date, as I've been preoccupied with other issues.

Joel here, of Solarpunk Portland, trying to build a rosy, positive, optimistic scientific and technological future for all of Portland. Anybody wanna come play?