Money is never THE only issue but it is by far the key issue for a successful society or equivalent. I won't soapbox but of course you do need to have talented and dedicated people. Will they work without compensation? I doubt it. Moreover, a news letter is not enough. You need a publication medium or media. Ideally you must find funds to support small grants since there is no current source. An annual workshop would be a great help. Having founded a major IEEE society, two IEEE journals and a major annual meeting, I can tell you for sure money is the key even though I had put in a few hours daily at no pay..
From: kcalde...@gmail.com [mailto:kcalde...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ken Caldeira Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:36 AM To: euggor...@comcast.net Cc: global_froz...@yahoo.com; geoengineering Subject: Re: [geo] Re: I am Planning A New Geoengineering Foundation I don't think money really is the issue. One way to start is by developing a good newsletter. If someone wanted to take the time to put out a quarterly (or monthly) newsletter, summarizing in a balanced way recent developments, with pointers to recently published literature, worthwhile popular press accounts, and so on, it would be good and helpful. The newsletter could take the form of a pdf and web site. (It could be more or less a monthly or quarterly distillation of the best of what appears on this email group.) I think the key is that it would be a true service effort and would be undermined if it turned into a soapbox for the newsletter editor to opine on everything. So, money is an issue, but doing this is mostly time -- and the key is to find somebody who has the time, ability, motivation and emotional balance necessary to undertake such a venture. It could even start as a monthly email to this group summarizing the most important things said here in the previous month, with pointers back to the original discussion. I think there are a growing number of people who would like to follow developments but do not have the time to wade through every email on this largely unedited email group. If well done, such an effort could be a real service to many people. ___________________________________________________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA kcalde...@ciw.edu; kcalde...@stanford.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/DGE/CIWDGE/labs/caldeiralab +1 650 704 7212; fax: +1 650 462 5968 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Eugene I. Gordon <euggor...@comcast.net> wrote: I point out that the idea of forming a formal Geoengineering Society and what its mission might be has been considerably discussed in these e-mails going back at least a year or more. It included a publication, an online newsletter, a meeting, a small operating staff and possibly some funding for research. The issue was and is where do we get sufficient money to support it? It is still THE issue. What would be the mission of a non profit Geoengineering foundation. Where would the support come from? Remember the Golden Rule. "He who has the gold makes the rules." Eugene I. Gordon (908) 233 4677 euggor...@comcast.net www.germgardlighting.com -----Original Message----- From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [mailto:geoengineer...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of global_frozing Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:59 AM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: I am Planning A New Geoengineering Foundation First of all, there is no any information center for geoengineering yet, besides this google group. I do not think that this group can work as such a center, because there is all mixed inside the one sequence of messages. The information should be filtered and structured. Some another system, like "Google sites" can be used to collaborate and to create and manage the really good web portal. This can be done for free or very cheap. This can be the first step for the foundation. No need to squabble about money to do this :-) On Oct 12, 11:56 am, Neil Farbstein <pro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I'm thinking about starting up a nonprofit geoengineering foundation. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
