Projects in the Making
Envisioning the Real — Realizing Visions

by everyone
on this day on, and all days following

Introduction

This is a listing of suggested, proposed, launched, regenerating, ongoing, and completed projects.

What exactly is a "project"?

It can be a gathering, a task or set of tasks, a show-and-tell, a study group, research, evidence collection, a how-to, a do-it-yourself, a demonstration of something, a picket, a boycott, a teach-in, a be-in, a talk, a discussion panel, a rally, an intervention, a parody, a detournément, some event, attendance at some event for some purpose, etc.

New

1 new project proposed and adopted:

Seeds of Self-construction

Ongoing

1 ongoing project underway and reported:

Gregory Gardens Free Trade Fair

One-time

0 one-time projects underway and/or reported, thus far...

Completed

0 completed projects reported, thus far...

Suggestions

Here are some ideas for expository and exclamatory action-based projects

1. local GMO purveyors – boycott, leaflet, picket;
   
   
2. local styrofoam purveyors – boycott, leaflet, picket;
   
   
3. local Monsanto purveyors – boycott, leaflet, picket;
   
   
4. local pus-filled milk purveyors – boycott, leaflet, picket;
   
   
5. local antibiotic and ammonia filled meat purveyors – boycott, leaflet, picket;
   
   

Here are some ideas for secure communication projects

1. ham radio – learning about, building, test-studying, sharing wisdom/parts/tools;
   
   
2. satellite and transceiver technology – FTA get/put internet and send/receive;
   
   
3. "pirate" tv/radio broadcasting – learning about, building, sharing wisdom/parts/tools;
   
   
4. secure your cell phone – using Google-free Android technology, programming encrption, filtering, using the RedPhone app;,
   
   

Here are some ideas for energy-based projects

1. creating an energy first-aid kit – needs, deployment;
   
   
2. DIY solar panels – materials, steps, configuration;
   
   

Here are some ideas for health-based projects

1. avoid AMA doctors and ADA dentists – who and why to seek for wholistic-preventative approaches;
   
   
2. yoga – styles, exercises, techniques;
   
   
3. stretching and nourishing muscles, ligaments, & tendons – exercises for groups and specifics;
   
   
4. meditation – learning and sharing techniques;
   
   
5. isometrics – muscle, use, and zone isolating & focusing;
   
   
6. breathwork – endurance, relaxation, enhancing flow of chi, id, orgone>, em-field;
   
   
7. relaxation – integrating motion with emotion;
   
   
8. alternative oral and dental hygiene – techniques, supplements, diet, parctices;
   
   
9. mobility and agility exercises – nutrition and techniques;
   
   
10. focal muscular strengthening exercises – nutrition, exercises, tools, techniques;
    
    
11. eye strengthening exercises – nutrition, exercises, tools, techniques;
    
    
12. body movement – techniques which express rather than bind, block, trap, di-stress;
    
    
13. wholistic (internal and external) first-aid kit – defining, discovering, and sharing components;
    
    
14. protecting seed rights – saving, germinating sowing, storing;
    
    
15. gardening your own food – planting, watering, soil analysis, soil amendments, pH transforming, harvesting;
    
    
16. gardening your own "medicine" – growing, harvesting, drying, oil-extracting, diagnosing, treating;
    
    
17. food drying and storage;
    
    
18. creating "live" and fermented foods; – pickles, sourdough, kombucha, kim chee, raw cheese, sauerkraut, etc.;
    
    
19. recovering your mouth; – food grade hydrogen peroxide, ozone, ghee, butter oil, silk floss, removing mercury/plastics;
    
    
20. ionic minerals for health; – analyzing for deficiencies, treating, doses;
    
    
21. amino-acids for health; – analyzing for deficiencies, treating, doses;
    
    
22. vitamins for health; – analyzing for deficiencies, treating, doses;
    
    
23. glandularvitamins for health; – analyzing for deficiencies, treating, doses;
    
    
24. enzymes for health; – analyzing for deficiencies, treating, doses;
    
    
25. logics and plans of eating and supplementing; – self-analysis, performance, vitality, regeneration, and general health;
    
    
26. seasonal gardening;
    
    
27. nutrition enhancing and depleting food preparation methods;
    
    
28. kitchen toxins – spotting, removing, and replacing with organic, biodegradable, safe, cheap, readily-available alternatives;
    
    
29. bathroom toxins – spotting, removing, and replacing with organic, biodegradable, safe, cheap, readily-available alternatives;
    
    
30. yard toxins – spotting, removing, and replacing with organic, biodegradable, safe, cheap, readily-available alternatives;
    
    
31. cooking toxins – spotting, removing, and replacing with organic, biodegradable, safe, cheap, readily-available alternatives;
    
    
32. garage toxins – spotting, removing, and replacing with organic, biodegradable, safe, cheap, readily-available alternatives;
    
    

Here are some ideas for legal-based projects

1. how to prevent being swindled – "get it in writing", know what to write, get a witness' signature;
   
   
2. how to defend yourself against "neighbors from hell" – legally and socially fight local purveyors of noise and pollution;
   
   
3. how to protect yourself with written contracts – avoiding [human] capital extraction, preventing swindles, "getting it in writing", knowing what to write;
   
   
4. how to use tax-exemptions – receipts proving the [exchange-]value of donated items and volunteer work;
   
   

Here are some ideas for mobility and migrational based projects

1. creating a vehicle (mechanical) first-aid kit – parts, tools, tool box, etc.;
   
   
2. avoiding border guards and checkpoints;
   
   
3. visas and passports – be prepared "as you" and "as not-you";
   
   
4. hideouts, bug-outs, plans for escape, and "getting lost fast" – safe not sorry (or dead);
   
   
5. creating a "bug-out" bag – emergency camping, going "underground", getting "off the radar";
   
   
6. creating an "off-grid" existence – getting off and out of databases, call lists, mail lists, phone books, "round-up" lists, etc.;
   
   

Here are some ideas for organizational projects

1. integrated budget for surviving what is and for implementing what could be;
   
   
2. calendarize your finanacial payments;
   
   
3. organize your finanacial and legal papers;
   
   
4. synchronize email, bookmarks, and folders;
   
   
5. manage your projects, tasks, & chores – daily, weekly, monthly, annually, one-time, lifetime;
   
   

Here are some ideas for wasteless reparational projects

1. repairing and reconditioning shoes and boots – materials, techniques, constructing a kit;
   
   
2. repairing and reconditioning clothes – materials, techniques, constructing a kit;
   
   
3. reinventing uses with imagination – thinking up new uses, thinking up new solutions; reusing "the old" to bypass the uselessness of and manufactured pre-broken state of the "new";
   
   

Here are some ideas for self-defense oriented projects

1. martial arts;– karate, kung-fu, judo, jujitsu, taekwondo, wing chun, street fighting;
   
   
2. spatial and "vibe" awareness – how to know (e.g., "sense" or "read") when to leave or avoid a situation, environment, condition, group, person, etrc.;
   
   
3. defeating interrogation methods – how to be prepared, under sleepless police detention and hot lights, undercover agent prying, grand jury "lead-in and follow-up" sequence questioning;
   
   
4. avoiding detection – beating surveillance cameras, DNA trails, motion and infrared detectors, blocking RFID chip transmissions, avoiding paper & data trails, drone & satellite trackers;
   
   
5. internet/web/email tracking and spying – how to block, detect, and secure;
   
   
6. telephone eavesdropping and spying – how to block, detect, and secure;
   
   
7. building a perimeter intrusion warning system – materials, kits, multiple uses, waterproof, infrared, cretifying usability as evidence in court;
   
   
8. clear your name off the internet – techniques, steps;
   
   
9. telephone eavesdropping and spying – curing and securing;
   
   
10. recovering humans as litter who litter – stopping the manufacturing of sociopaths, narcissists, and glorified jerks;
    
    
11. squelching the "noise culture" – the culture of quantity, decline, and profiteering (e.g., leaf-blowers, airport flyovers, sirens, car alarms, blaring radios/music, valley-filling concert noise, horns, parental encouragement of yelling);
    
    

Here are some project ideas for facilitating, sustaining, protecting, promoting what's left of wildlife

1. gardening talk, demo, and/or mentoring – Tim (manager) Navlet's Garden Center in Pleasant Hill, The Master Gardners in Walnut Creek, naturalist James "Doc" Hale in Lafayette;
   
   
2. creating supportive habitats – shrubs, bushes, trees, nesting materials, tree boughs, leaves, logs, etc.;
   
   
3. planting food sources;
   
   
4. rescuing orphans;
   
   
5. helping the injured;
   
   
6. slowing down and "de-numbifying" speeding drivers – using their clocks, depart earlier;
   
   
7. group discussions and neighborhood educationals;
   
   
8. specific focus on small mammals – mice, opossums, raccoons, skunks, squirrels
   
   
9. specific focus on insects – butterflies, moths, honeybees, carpenter bees, termites, ladybugs, ants, cockroaches, beetles, flies, gnats, yellowjackets, bumblebees, hornets, centipedes, millipedes, "rollie-pollies" (aka"potato bugs")
   
   
10. worms – making habitats, planting food sources, rescuing orphans, helping injured, educationals;
    
    
11. specific focus on birds – woodpeckers, wrens, robins, bluebirds, hummingbirds, finches, tits, chickadees, juncos, owls, hawks/eagles, doves, turkeys, chickens/roosters, falcons, cowbirds, sparrows, swifts, jays, swallows, etc.
    
    
12. specific focus on bats – types, habits, etc.; planting food sources
    
    
13. specific focus on amphibians – salamanders, frogs, newts;
    
    
14. specific focus on reptiles – tortoises, turtles, snakes;
    
    
15. safeguarding your wildlife sanctuary – feral cats, hawks, mindlessly-driven cars, carelessly-ware drivers, airborne toxins, trappers, poisoners; ignorance versus unawareness;
    
    
16. modifying your yard/garden – weaponized weather, "natural" droughts, "natural" downpours, "natural" cold, "natural" heat;
    
    
17. building wooden bird habitats and feeders;
    
    
18. building safe and hygienic feeding stations for birds;
    
    
19. building in-tree habitats for small mammals;
    
    
20. building burrowed-under habitats for small mammals;
    
    
21. building above-surface ground habitats for small mammals;
    
    
22. building safe and hygienic ground feeding stations for small mammals;
    
    
23. planting non-toxic perennial protective bushes and shrubs;
    
    
24. building squirrel feeders – nutritive & seasonal provisions
    
    

Resources:

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