The 7 Steps

Based on this, the “plan” for SEE is as follows:

(1) Find and secure the use of a piece of suitable property that is “wild” and rural enough to be challenging, but close enough to high-tech civilization to make development, along the lines of the “vision” stated above, feasible. (A 20-acre tract in Bastrop, Texas was selected and purchased.)

(2) Establish a homestead on this property -- that is, make it possible for one person, then more people, to live there

(3) Develop the property (and the community) ecologically -- this means with full knowledge and use of activities like recycling, composting, sustainable gardening, ecological septic and waste management, indigenous nutrients, etc.

(4) Concomitantly incorporate modern technologies such as hydroponics, aquaculture, aquaponics, alternative energy generation, Internet communications, etc.

(5) When and if we have developed SEE-1 (in Bastrop, Texas) to a point where it satisfactorily demonstrates these ideas, establish SEE-2 at a harsher, more desolate and challenging location -- then SEE-3 . . .

(6) and then to “near” space habitats on artificial satellites, asteroids, the Moon, and Mars . . .

(7) and then to “far” space habitats, envisioned, at this point, as continent-size space vehicles with millions of inhabitants and hundreds of diverse ecosystems, setting out on decades- (even century-) long voyages to other stars.