User:Chriswaterguy/travel plans
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[edit] Clear ideas
Latest thoughts based on cheap tix & timing: Melbourne - SNG, London, Alexandria, Iceland, Colorado, Southern CA, then overland going north. After OSN conference: Fly to Guatemala, then overland to Mexico & US.
[edit] People and places
Everywhere I go I will be looking for:
- eco geeks (as well as ecoGeeks)
- sustainable communities and community projects, including ecovillages, cohousing and urban agriculture.
- people empowering others and working for change
- people helping people share knowledge
- Green DrinksWP LUGs and other such gatherings: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=Green-Drinks+OR+Enviro-Drinks+OR+EnviroDrinks+OR+Linux-User-Group+OR+OLPC+OR+Engineers-Without-Borders+OR++%22Engineers+for+a+Sustainable+World%22+OR+%28geeks+OR+wikipedia+OR+permaculture+OR+ecovillage+meet+OR+meetup%29&btnG=Search - and add city name.
- BarCamps
- GreenCamps
- Video opportunities, especially re the work of Appropedia and likeminded spirits. Will place on Youtube, and submit elsewhere (maybe something like Cinéma Prospérité Video Contest - Ending Global Poverty Through Enterprise Based Solutions | SEVEN Fund.org before September 15, 2008.)
- Latin dancing
| Place | Dates | Activities | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne? | before flight... | NGO's | |
| Singapore | video camera? | ||
| Java? | maybe a few days in June | ||
| Alexandria | 17-19 July | Wikimania | geekorama! |
| Iceland | Vinay, Smari... | ||
| Boston | IDDS, MIT labs...? (incl http://cities.media.mit.edu/ ), Olin College; Mel's friends, Scott Albritton?; makerhouse; | ||
| Night bus to Ithaca...? | Ryan & friends? | ||
| Night bus to Chicago | ILXO office, Mel & Friends | ||
| Denver | in Denver:
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| California | from mid-August in San Diego | Reinder knows ppl at Caltech...; California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture; ask Curt, David, Lonny, CS... || | |
| CA: Los Angeles | Cultivating Sustainable Communities | ||
| Burning Man 2008 | Aug 25-Sep 1 | AE people[1] & Hexayurt people... | |
| CA: Silicon Valley | Curt (Los Gatos) & kJames (Sunnyvale); I hear there's lots of green tech these days? | ||
| CA: San Francisco | Full Belly Project?; David.reber (talk · contribs) | ||
| Northern CA: Humboldt | Lonny, HSU... | ||
| Seattle | Weekend Sep 27-28 | http://www.infocamp.info/; also look up google:Seattle Sustainability community in Ballard - 1000 ppl? | |
| San Fransisco? | Oct - which weekend? | Open Sustainability Network Conference 2008 |
Contact and ask: I'd like to visit - will you be around? And can you make the Open Sustainability Network Conference 2008?
[edit] Vaguer plans
Want to see, maybe in 2009.
| Place | Dates | Activities | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | If I'm flying back via the pacific, I'd love to stop off in Taiwan and spend some more time here. | Bangkok | mid/late June (1 week?) | NGO's, family | ||
| North Thailand and/or Cambodia | End June - (mid or late July?) | EWB/RDIC, watch date for BarCampChiangMai | ||||
| Java | orgs like Dian Desa in Yogya; Jakarta; visit North coast of Java (Pekalongan, Tegal, Lasem) | |||||
| Aceh (and/or E Timor) | NGOs, view progs. Visit Lonny's ex-student, 3rd yr with UN. | |||||
| India | no time in 08? (Egypt for Wikimania then India before Boston is very roundabout... how expensive?) | "Village Earth and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) held our flagship course Participatory Practices for Sustainable Development at Bidhan Chandra Krishi University (BCKU) in Calcutta") | India has many NGO's, people with IT know-how, people with ideas, and English is fairly widely spoken. Could be an ideal place to look for Appropedia contributors. | |||
| Bangladesh | Grameenc, BRAC, Cholera hospital (ICDDRB?), cloth filterWP and CLTS projects. |
[edit] How can I afford it?
Aside from not being extravagant (I'm traveling to meet people, not to stay in flash hotels):
- CouchSurfing
- Round the World on LETS - James Taris in Kingsbridge
- I buy shawls, jewelry and masks (from Indonesia and Thailand so far) and sell them where I can. I prefer to buy from the village, as close to the maker as possible (direct if possible). Always looking for new sources and buyers.
- If need be I'll do work for accommodation Help Exchange - there's some interesting organic farms and such with an interest in appropriate technology. "Will work for bandwidth."
