“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most  responsive to change” (Charles Darwin) This group is about developing solutions, connections, techniques and skills - strongly rooted in permaculture - to create resilient and truly sustainable communities. This group is about moving in a positive and productive direction: resilient people, households and neighborhoods full of creative abundance.   This group is about starting wherever you are and …

The Lewiston Auburn area Transition Town and Permaculture Meetup is to help you become more self-sufficient. Our goal is to reduce our use of fossile fuels, and to develop a self-sustaining community in the Lewiston/Auburn area. We will learn from each other ways to effectively increase our resilience in food production, use of local resources, the manufacturing of needed items. Most importantly, we will develop a tight community where we can rely on each other's talents and gifts.

The purpose of this group is to foster the development of resilient and sustainable communities in the Penobscot Valley region (roughly, the Greater Bangor-Orono area).  By planning and producing permaculture design projects, we aim to cultivate skills and support beneficial relationships among our members and the broader community.  We work through the lens of permaculture to engage in collaborative design projects that support the shift to a more sustainable culture and healthier ecosystems. P …

Welcome to our Back-to-Basics Study Group! Here you can meet other individuals interested in co-creating a new world, back to basic alignment with the original organic version of Earth in it's PRISTINE  PURE  un-adulterated state. Yes, there are many challenges which we can no longer ignore, such as those discussed in the videos which will come up if you click on the links below. (If some are preceded by short commercials, you can click to bypass that part.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIV …

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 …

The Central New Hampshire Permaculture Meetup Group is dedicated to creating real, face-to-face community, as well as an online calendar of events and Permaculture information & discussions. Permaculture is the practice and theory that builds permanent agricultural and human systems based on patterns in nature. Through permaculture, we learn essential skills that help us design a way of life that is in harmony with the natural world, including: Sustainability organic, regenerative farming & gar …

Providing opportunities for members and non-members to passionately master forgiveness, compassion, balance, excellence, integrity, abundance, generosity, true service, true humility, inner peace, and charity to bring about Peace on Earth SOUL is a linguistic, energetic and inclusive, contextual beingness, to become Source for, and to make available to All, the Creative Force that will birth and nurture a new paradigm of compassion, unity, respect, honor, systemic health, wealth and bliss that …

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 …

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 …

Come join the "North Shore Meditates " Meetup Group initiated by members of the international Art of Living Foundation. This meetup functions as movement to spread awareness about the benefits of meditation, and hosts meditation and breathing workshops, meditation mixers, and free meditation experience sessions. Most of us are now leading hectic professional and personal lives. In fact, the busier one is the more one has to meditate. Meditation, when used as a daily practice helps one dive inwar …