OP 1B Appendix

Gaia University

Output Packet Specification Form

In summary, the specification gives an overview of the elements and structure you're using in an Output Packet, and the overall approach you are using in the presentation (storytelling, research paper, design process, digital media, etc.). The specification also serves as an abstract to your entire Output Packet. 

Please complete this form for all Gaia University Output Packets.

Associates Name: Gabriel Bridges     

Name of Main Advisor: Saskia Esslinger

Output Packet Name: Learning Intentions and Pathway Design- Leading through examples     

Output Packet Number: 1B

Date of Submission:12/17/10

Please provide readers with the following context:

1. Output Packet Title: Learning Intentions and Pathway- Leading through example

2. Output Packet Description (briefly share the content focus of this Output Packet): An overlook into my life’s pathway of learning and doing for 2011. The intentions of my pathway as well as the logistics of my pathway have been documented. 

3. Purpose Statement (briefly share why you choose the above focus): The pathway I’ve chosen for the year seems to include the best elements to add to my demonstration site and livelihood. 

4. Summarize where and how, who is doing what with whom and why in regards to your content focus and the creation of the Output Packet: I will be working with family, friends and the greater community on installing Subterranean Heating and Cooling Systems at the Love Creek Center for Permaculture (LCCP). Roxanne Roach will be filming it. I will be volunteering at Far West Fungi on several occasions to refine my knowledge of indoor mushroom cultivation. Then I along with family and friends will construct the mushroom cultivation room at the LCCP. I will collaborate with my family and my neighbor Tom Patoff while installing a gravity fed watering system at the LCCP. My longtime friend, Shanan Manuel, and I will be writing a mushroom cookbook, we will be looking for contributions from experts in the field. 

5. Outline the different elements, sections and attachments included in this Output Packet (you may include the main threads, though this should not substitute for an introduction): This output packet includes my main areas of interest and skills which have much overlap, project specifications for the next year, an output packet plan for output packets 2-5, resources, allies, process reflection, self and peer reviews. 

6. Any note to reader about how or where to proceed: It should flow well from beginning to end.

7. Any desire for the reader to leave with a certain bit of information: Take what inspiration you need, if you are interested on how any of these projects are working for me feel free to contact me.

 Provide 2-10 tags for this Output Packet (1-2 word descriptions for data searching): Greenhouse, Subterranean Heating and Cooling System, Mycology, Gravity irrigation, Permaculture, Seed Saving, dry bean farming.