Meeting #4 Notes

Good Wednesday peoples. We had our fourth meeting of the summer last night with Myself, Brooksy, Cholls, Andy, Schriebs, and Bash. At the previous meeting we laid out the 3 steps needed to start creating content so step one (brainstorming) was our first initiative last night. Heres what we came up with for short term goals:

1. written articles on relevant material
- go2 members write articles/blog postings dealing with sustainable issues that are interesting and relevant to the company.

2. furniture and bike restoration
- gathering free/cheap furniture and flipping/artistically refurbashing for profit

3. design competitions
- entering a number of design competitions under the go2 name

4. product "nutrition facts"
- creating a carbon/materials fact list for products similar to the nutrition facts on food items to tell the consumer about the amount of materials that go into a product (carbon, mileadge, water, etc...)

After going through the who, what, when, where, and hows of each of these ideas the first two we are going to try and start are 1 and 2.

So our first project deadline is as such:

By July 31st:

I. Anyone interested in writing an article dealing with a topic releavant to go2 to write one or more rough drafts and post on the blog. When it's on the blog anyone else interested in the topic can chime in/offer criticism or insight and hopefully create some sweet ass articles.

II. Refurbish a table Colin has into something creative and interesting for sale or just to generate interest. There is also the possibility of creating a beer pong table for corey to take with him to ECU and gain even more publicity.

So our first goals are set! hopefully by the end of the month (2 weeks) we will have our first bit of content and be closer to launching the website but we need everyones input and help on making this happen. Let the groupone2 revolution begin!

Cameron Sinclair

Hey we talking about TED the other meeting, and this guy did the same thing we want to do, but with disaster relief. He started off with a friend and a website kind of like what we want to do. Check him out if you all got a chance.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4456076614071928368&q=Cameron+Sinclair&ei=5s53SIrhCYT-qgL4pLjOBg

Carbon Count for Maintaining your Front Yard

I was thinking the other day how much energy it must take to keep all the lawns in Cary in pristine conditions. I would need some help with calculations (thinking Brandon or Bash) on how much energy is used to maintain the typical America lawn. We can also include water and money to show people how much they can save if they switch to drought tolerant native landscaping. We could also include some renderings of potential successful lawns and research the best plants. With this initial data for one lawn the total for America would be ridiculous!

The end result could be a very simple comparison. An image on the left with total energy water money and an alternative showing how much they would save. Could be humuourus, Andy whats the famous painting of the couple farmers w/ pitchfork in front of their house?

(On the defense of lawns however there are few things I love more than a fresh cut yard, the act of mowing, the smell, the pattern are all American symbols. However, it may be the price we pay for drinking water in some parts of the country.)

American Density Visualized

I want to produce a couple of images of the United States, simple renderings showing how much land in urban development we take up. The first will show all the current development centralized in the middle. Then there will be a series of others, if we continue at our current densities, what if we built like Rome or we all lived in Manhatten? I think this will help people visualize the density and development of America and realize that we can not continue to build at todays suburban densities.

Feedback? I'm thinking simple handdrawn and scanned images...

Welcome to groupone2's temporary blog

Alright, the creation of content which our webpage is dependent on is underway. After a solid meeting between myself, Andy, Schriebs, and Cholls we came to a few final decisions:

1. Bio's are complete, thanks for the info
2. Mission Statement: we created one using the most frequently used words or descriptions from all the examples given on the facebook thread, thanks:

groupone2 is an interdisciplinary collection of young professionals dedicated to producing innovative designs and solutions rooted in the ideals of sustainability. We are a modern-day renaissance firm.

3. Steps to producing content:
a. Share ideas (individual ideas that as a group we will comment on and try to enhance)
b. Choose ideas that represent the company and critique/research/further explore
c. Produce/Write/Render/etc. ideas to show as content on website

We are officially beginning Step A on this blog so everyone spend some time and try to contribute ideas. These could be anything from articles people are interested in writing to product designs to future goals of the company. The sooner we start brainstorming the sooner we can create content and launch the website. Website = Money which is also good. We can also post up links/books/articles that seem relevant or deal with some of the ideas put forth. This is our internet whiteboard so Create!