… Provide a place for collective learning on new technologies, best practices and solutions to challenges that individuals and organizations face in urban agriculture work.

This group is dedicated to: - learning why bees need help (they are disappearing) - how to keep bees in urban environments - beekeeping in authorized public and private spaces - bee outreach and education - potlucks and celebrations around bees - community outreach - honey!

… Our members include: architects; designers and other design industry professionals; engineers; contractors; planners; interior designers; landscape architects; developers; real estate professionals; building materials suppliers and other vendors; consultants; urban renewal, environmental and other community organizations and more! This group is sponsored by EPNet (the Emerging Professionals Network) which is a community of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA. www.architects.org/epnet Sub …

Meet experts, devotees and newbies who are interested in creating a more sustainable world. Our Meetups help generate ideas and spur action to raise public consciousness, with a goal of dramatically lowering our carbon footprint, and improving our health and happiness. Find others concerned about the peak in oil production, the growing climate crisis and the consequences of an unraveling economy. We will not limit ourselves to peak oil & climate change...if you enjoy nature, or know about techno …

Sharing knowledge, skills, enthusiasm and surpluses to create local systems that function beyond sustainability. Permaculture is a design method that can be used to build regional and home scale systems to address the effects of resource depletion and environmental degradation. Relocalization, food security, community building are further goals for this group.

Living in cohousing can be compared to life in a village, where you know all your neighbors, often chat and get together for work and play, and yet have your own privacy. If you're new to the concept of cohousing, this is a place to find out more. If you are a cohousing group member, let's get acquainted, share stories, discuss common cohousing concerns, find new members, and plan visits to area communities. Most of all, let's get together and make new friends! This MeetUp is made possible b …

I started this groups so that I could share upcoming events with the wonderful Meetup community. Groundwork Somerville is a non-profit working to hard cultivate healthy communities in and around Somerville. GWS runs elementary school gardens and curriculum, provides youth jobs through greenteams, and advocates smart city planning. Here are links to learn more. www.groundworksomerville.org http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/03/30/farm-to-fork http://nextgenerationproducers.wordpress.com/growing-hea …

Our purpose: 1. to discover and identify the plants and animals living amongst us 2. to learn their habits and survival requirements 3. to implement landscaping and other wildlife accommodations, such as nest boxes, feeders, brush piles, rock piles, tree snags, ponds and other water features.   Meetings will alternate between trips to public greenspace and private homes. We'll search for plants and animals and learn how they function in our ecosystem. We'll take turns visiting meetup members' ho …

Real Estate Investors are what is holding the fragile RE market together.  With almost 30% of the deals being transacted with cash we can see that Investors are at work, literally.  We will be seeing more and more discontinuity in the coming years, with good hard working people with solid credit being denied due to the overly tight underwriting.  Enter investors with creative financing techniques and seller financing alternatives. Every Investor survives by the strength of his or her Power Team. …

The Sequitoria: The Synthesis of Culture and Nature ... ... and the only hope for this planet. The relationship between humankind and the natural world has been fractured. In some places, there is no relationship in evidence at all. Every problem facing mankind*: from inter-personal conflict to international conflict; from social isolation to economic inequality to climate change; from social justice issues to environmental challenges - all have been exacerbated by this growing bifurcation. T …