WELCOME! The Sarasota Permaculture & Transition Meetup is a forum open to all interested parties to learn about and to implement permaculture design concepts. We can provide opportunities for learning and implement sustainability concepts into our lives. We can accomplish this through information sharing, presentations and active participation in projects that will take knowledge, (i.e. that which we bring to the group and that which we learn from others), into the realm of action by engaging pa …

Since becoming a Florida State Registered beekeeper, I have learn a lot of "what not to do". They say, "If you asked 10 beekeepers one question, you'll get 20 different answers". Don't know if you want to work with honey bees? Here is your chance to open a hive along with experienced beekeepers. Let's discuss the basics, get you comfortable in handling your honey bees, and understand our need for honey bees and other pollinators. Tree huggers and plant lovers are welcome. Those who want to be "b …

Transition Venice is part of the worldwide grassroots Transition movement to make our communities more food and energy resilient. You should join if you want to know what you can do to make your life less vulnerable to peak oil and if you are concerned about climate change. We have members who have ran an organic farm, designed energy efficient buildings, built their own solar hot water and electric systems and built electric bicycles and home gardens. We want to make the transition to a better …

Learn practical homesteading skills classes on self-reliance, gardening, cooking, raising animals, canning, soapmaking, mushroom cultivation, solar panel making, blacksmithing, traditional crafts and much more...

Creating awareness of The Zeitgeist Movement Global and The Venus Project concepts

Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground and a common house. The Tampa Cohousing grou …

Our group provides for the opportunity to engage in intellectual discussion about topics we are mutually passionate about. Specifically, environmentally related topics such as factory farming or animal advocacy topics such as a vegan/vegetarian diet.

The LIVING IN COMMUNITY NETWORK was proud to host Ms. Marianne Kilkenny Our sister community organizer of Women for Living in Community in Asheville, NC has been making news for some time. Watch the most recent video of her shared living experience as reported by Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News.

We are a group of men and women from the St Petersburg area who ride larger displacement scooters, usually 250cc or more. Whether you own a Yamaha, Suzuki. Vespa, Lambretta, Aprilia, Italjet, Kymco or any other scooter, join up and find other scooter riders like you! Our group rides are designed for bikes that can maintain a speed of 45mph unless otherwise noted, unfortunately most 50cc models are unable to meet this requirement. There is another club in town designed for the smaller scooters an …

We are here to learn from each other and from our Mother Earth. Technology will not save us from ourselves.

The purpose of this Meetup is to facilitate a watershed based Bioregional Permaculture Design Project for the Tampa Bay Watershed. We will be using the Permaculture Flower and the Permaculture Carbon Cluster as organizational frameworks along with permaculture ethics and design principles to transform this watershed into a resilient and regenerative ecosystem.The base camp for this project is centered within this watershed/bioregion at The Permaculture Guild Research and Resource center in Tampa …