This Group is about Exploring Life in the Hemingway Tradition with an emphasis on Culture, Continuing Education and The Occasional Adventure. :: :: :: Life is not a spectator sport ... ... and physical reality is infinitely more interesting than virtual reality. :: :: :: There is no life on the internet; no sense of space in cyberspace. :: :: :: This group was created to encourage exploration of and participation in cultural and educational opportunities in the Greater Cambridge area and oc …

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 …

The BSA Boston Architecture Meetup Group is an informal forum for architects, designers and other professionals to network and socialize and shape the future of the building industry! We get together for all kinds of design-related events like tours, films, lectures, etc. Come and talk about mentoring, ethics, work/life balance, green design, the future of architecture as a profession, and more. Our members include: architects; designers and other design industry professionals; engineers; c …

Cheers all, and Welcome! Meet or talk with other people who are interested in helping their community utilize the Transition Town concept to effectively and positively address the issues of reduced energy, economic crisis and changing climate. While this meetup will provide information on awareness raising and sanctioned training events happening in Maine, anyone from any community is welcome! The Transition Town concept is unusual in that it: *  is based on permaculture principles *  is bottom …

Join the most premier national and local community of business leaders in the Green and Sustainable Business Space. Along with with Revolve Nation Boston Entrepreneurs Group, this is the largest community of business leaders and entrepreneurs in the city of Boston. This group focuses on leaders in sustainable business and new energy and offers the opportunity to meet, network, and engage in detailed discussions with business leaders on challenges and opportunities for sustainable businesses. …

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.

The Transition Towns and Permaculture movements are positive, creative, community-led responses to the challenges of climate change, economic uncertainty, and the pressing need for sustainable energy. The momentum began building with the advent of Permaculture in the seventies. Permaculture isthe design science rooted in the observation of nature’s eco-systems. Its purpose is to create an approach to living that emulatesthe enduranceand resilience of those natural systems. While Permaculture is …

Check out our website and blog here: www.urbanhomesteadersleague.org The Urban Homesteaders’ League is a community venture dedicated to inspiring and empowering individuals and communities to shift from a lifestyle of passive consumption to one of active participation, creation, and connection. We are committed to re-imagining the good life as one that is meaningful, pleasurable, environmentally sustainable, and socially just. We place the home at the center of that pursuit and see it as a s …

Community. Local skills. Local Food. Adapting in place. But self-reliant, no. We are in this together. In these unsure times of climate change, peak oil, and economic instability, the one thing we do have is each other. To quote Toby Hemenway, "When we create a web of interdependencies, we grow richer, stronger, safer, and wiser." Permaculture is a means to develop life skills and enhancements for sustainable living and beyond. "To practice permaculture is to actively create a positi …

Some of the produce we eat travels an average of 1,400 miles from farm to plate. Food has to be picked and transported for days before they reach peak ripeness, compromising their taste and nutrition. Conventional methods of monocultural food production use large amounts of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that can also end up on our plates. Cities offer a number of resources for food production that have been traditionally overlooked. There are better ways to grow food right where we li …

Do you care about what you eat? This is a group of folks who want to support local, humanely raised, environmentally sustainable, fairly traded, "green" food. Thinking about joining a CSA? Maybe considering a tomato plant on your balcony this spring? How bout a new compost bin for your backyard? Maybe you work on or own a farm in Massachusetts? Or sit on the board of a an urban non-profit that brings produce to people in need......or you're a policy student, interested in finding ways of lobbyin …

6pm weekly "Meet The Beekeeper Mondays" [and More!] Harvard Square was commenced by Follow The Honey as a free educational community forum to illumine the many platforms, perspectives & creations inspired by our co-evolutionary kindred, the honey bee. Come beeline on the REDline to share curious forage, cross people pollinate and germinate collective nectar flow; through bees in the arts, spirit of the bees, science, literature [Virgil, Plath, etc.] ~ you name it, bees are a vector  ~ join our i …

Do you want to learn more about the sharing economy? Do you want to learn about a new way of life where people share their time, objects, space and resources for a better world? Then join Sharers of Boston! This is an economy where peers, neighbors and people help one another meet basic needs, providing access over ownership. This group will facilitate bringing all of the sharers out there together to hang out, attend events, dinners, and meetups to tell stories and meet others who have the sam …

This is a new group forming to activate the Transition Movement in Portland and to be a resource for Transition-minded folks who want to work together to start an initiative in their neighborhood. This group is currently focusing on community-building meetups to further the development of a core group of leaders who will eventually host support a local Transition Initiative. Transition Towns is a local response to three global realities: Climate change, peak oil, and economic crisis. It is an-al …

We are all about fusion of ethnic/urban dance styles from various parts of the world: Bollywood, Hip Hop, Latin, and more! We are individuals and teams passionate about spreading the joy and benefits of dance, along with the messages of greater good organizations committed to sustainable community change and development.

Here in New Hampshire, where town-meeting local government, Yankee ingenuity and frugality are part of our heritage, finding local solutions to larger societal problems may be in our genes. A question worth asking in these difficult economic times is how can we tap these age-old community values to address new problems such as the ever-increasing cost of energy, the reliance on distant and anonymous suppliers to meet our local needs, and our ability to help one another through times of stress an …