Meet nearby Advocates for Sustainable Living! The Seacoast Sustainable Living Community provides opportunities for those interested in living more sustainably. We try to offer monthly meetings designed to inspire, educate and bring people together around such topics as: reducing your personal carbon footprint, peak oil, composting, slow foods, local agriculture, permaculture, water cachement, wind power, solar power, and biodiesel fuel and other renewable & less polluting fuels. Members of the …

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. …

Come join the "Boston Meditates" meetup group. Initiated by Boston-based young professionals and students from MIT and Harvard, Boston Meditates is a new movement to spread awareness about the benefits of meditation. We organize and host meditation and breathing workshops, meditation mixers, free meditation experience sessions and more fun activities in the area. Bostonians are known to lead hectic professional and personal lives. The busier one is, the more one has to meditate. Meditation helps …

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 …

For those entrepreneurs with a social mission and passion for contributing to the creation of a sustainable future.

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 …

Green Drinks Boston/Cambridge is a group where people in the Greentech, Renewable Energy, and Sustainability fields can share their experiences and ideas, find new opportunities, learn about acquiring capital and other resources, and keep current on their industries in a casual, fun atmosphere. From time to time we will may have speakers in to inform everyone of new opportunities, programs or policies that can benefit greentech businesses in the area, but first and foremost, we want to provide t …

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.

Central Massachusetts Preppers is the local Chapter of the Massachusetts Preppers Network, and the American Preppers Network. We are about homesteading, survival, preparedness and sustainable living.

This group is about learning and sharing skills and techniques to thrive and survive through the challenges presented by climate change, peak oil, environmental degradation and cultural shifts. There is a place for you here to expand on positive reactions to these challenges whether through edible landscapes, gardening, farming, renewable energy, green building, local currency, rainwater harvesting, composting, mushroom cultivation, local food, forest gardening, herbalism, "green" living, food …

InnerTuning introduces and sharpens individual skills for balanced psychospiritual growth. It builds on the ancient Tantric and Vedic traditions of India, enriching contemporary psychology and science in order to meet the needs of modern times. Its distinguishing features include: • A unique and detailed explanation of chakras (Microchakra Psychology and its microchakras), which are centers of energy in the subtle body. • An understanding of how the relationship between openings and blocks for t …

This group is for Practical Idealist to share ideas, skills and resources….a place to vision, debate and collaborate. Let's have conversations that have never happened before! Let's create real world solutions that celebrate our individual desires and honor the needs of our collective future. Let's enjoy the process and each other. I'm hoping to gather a diverse group of creative, positive people that truly embrace the gift of different perspectives and are excited to cross-pollinate. If you as …

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 …

The Goal of this Group is to enable clean technology, sustainable energy, green start-ups, entrepreneurs and inventors to network, find resources, receive & give mentoring, and connect with and take advantage of the numerous other support organizations in the Boston area. The organizer Bill is a Power Electronics and Alternative Energy Engineer, and has designed, developed and managed solar power converters, satellite solar systems, megawatt power systems, is a product development expert and pa …

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 …

As seen on Nightline and the New York Times, OneTaste teaches Female Orgasm through the practice of Orgasmic Meditation (OM). Female orgasm is vital for every woman and man on the planet. In a world where technology and social networks have increasingly replaced in-person interaction, female orgasm nourishes our fundamental need for visceral, human to human connection.  Through a fifteen minute practice (OM), men and women access the universal socket for connection. It's deliberate and structure …

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 …

SEAREI is a not-for-profit organization designed to promote cooperation and affordable renewable energy systems for homeowners in the Piscataqua region of New Hampshire and southern Maine. Our Mission: Prepare communities to contribute to a sustainable 21st Century by increasing the community’s accessibility to renewable energy. SEAREI is modeled after the traditional New England style "barn-raising" of neighbor helping neighbor.

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 …

Meetups focused on Cleantech in the Greater Boston Area

The Greater Boston Environmental Meetup is for all the people who are interested in conserving wilderness, biodiversity, alternative and renewable energy, recycling, pollution (toxins), air/water issues, sustainability, organic gardening, and various environment issues. This meetup is a way to meet other like-minded people to get together to discuss a way to create a better tomorrow through documentary screenings, discussions, lectures, green parties, activism, and social outings.

The Monadnock Region Permaculture Group, sponsored by The Sustainability Project, Inc., provides a community forum and an online calendar of events for Permaculture information & discussion. 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: organic, regenerative farming & gardening, biodiver …

This Meet Up is for all things LCA. If you are a professional or a researcher that works in the field of Life Cycle Assessment in the Greater Boston area, please feel invited to join our group for a monthly pre-competitive dinner. We intend to discuss current trends and challenges in a casual environment. If we manage to create some interesting research projects and/or case studies, even better...

This is a group for environmentalists, naturalists, and members of the community who are interested in helping to preserve the environment and create a sustainable future. The Nature Conservancy is facilitating "The Future of Nature," a three-part lecture series focusing on the future of food, energy, and water. We invite everybody to participate in the discussion. The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands an …

This group facilities informal get-togethers for those who work, research or play in the field of power electronics. Exchange ideas, find solutions and invent the future with folks that share the same interests.

EcoSessions bring together designers, industry and consumers to discuss change: in behaviour | fashion | choice | beauty | materials | living. This group is perfect for eco/ethical designers, those in apparel industry, students of either and for consumers who eat organic, support the slow food movement, love green energy and/or shop local.