Cool projects with materials you can get locally.

• City Council members could hold little meetings at their neighborhood ice cream place. You know which one I'm talking about.

• Make the Park Project dream come true by educating yourself and friends via Ann Arbor Parks and wheat-paste! Vigilante education for the masses!

• Turn a traffic island into a meeting place (add a bench? a chalkboard?) (via: bkerr del.icio.us)

• Make a green lamp: get ivy from your neighbor (or a2freecycle), wire from Stadium Hardware or Downtown Home and Garden.

• Make rice balls with sticky rice from Mana Oriental. (maybe we should have a food page?)

• Add a node to Wireless Ypsi and continue showing up Wireless Washtenaw and similarly stalled top-down projects.

• Make a rain barrel. Cost, $15-$80

• Print stickers with the bus schedule. Cost, $15-$30

• Spend some time adding content to ArborWiki.

• Do a guerrilla knitting project for wayfinding. Cost, [cheap yarn]

• Figure out how home power meters broadcast their data, and make a script that reports on your usage over time. AMR -- cost: [time to research]

• Make a gutter garden:

A traffic island:

Data

• Animal control
• Trees
• City Council / voting data
• Meeting attendance
• Track City Council decisions
  • Then start categorizing / identifying threads across time