I. Calendar

*point was made that we need an established program and schedule of speakers for meetings.(Karen will be in charge of this). This is to be posted on the website after being approved at the preceding meetings
*Oct. 27th= Margaret Held will be giving an update on the Vestal Site. She will be addressing funding, location, description of the site, etc.
*Nov. 10th= Will Kidd and "Natural Step" (?) confirmation pending...
*Nov. 24th=

II. Business

*PRIORITIES: What we need- people with a common purpose who are committed and have the time and money to devote to the ecovillage project
1. Outreach=
-Website: ours needs to be improved and the minutes from each meeting need to be posted by the end of the week
-Need for maps and some sort of visual display to be posted at FGS
-Event Booths: we need some "target events" (i.e. ETVS Thanksgiving Dinner)
-Business cards with our website address and possibly a video: will be item of business at next meeting
2. Fundraising=
-Margaret Held will address this as it pertains to the Vestal Site
-all members put up $X each (?)
-need for grantwriters
-need for proposal writer and a proposal to present to prospective donors

III. Gene Monaco's Presentation on Pattern Language

*(this is a condensed version of the condensed version.) "We live in a universe that has an appearant reality. It is a series of events. You are an event in an event sequence. All things exist in an event sequence: they begin, expand, and die away."
-Cultural perception differences: Western= Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Eastern=Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, Water
-"We are surrounded by media which have differences in concentration, temperature, etc. There is tension between these differences. This causes surface pressure which is released in explosion. This is an event. Every event can be seen as an explosionary attempt to relieve the tension in the differences."
-"We can understand form, but not substance." However, form is not measurable because of constant change. All measures are subjective, for we can only measure what we make with something we make.
-We see patterns all around us... sand, trees, lungs, kidneys, weather, etc.
*Gene also explained some pattern applications that can be used with agricultural and architectural designs