I have decided to start this group to get connected with people who have an entrepreneurial mindset. Eastern Mass, New England, and the country are changing dramatically in a way that is making a regular paycheck a part of the past. My goal is to bring together those who want to survive in the future within a community of people that have respect and are willing to share, information, ideas, and services that are geared towards the success of the whole rather than a powerful few. If you like thi …

… 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 preservation, time exchanges, conservation, community-building, relocalization transition towns etc.    

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 …

We are a network of neighbors and friends dedicated to local food, good eating, and building community.  We are based in the Whipple Hill area, which is the junction of Winchester, Arlington, and Lexington but have members from a wide area.  We rely on farms we know and our own gardens to get food on the table year round, using food traditions that unlock nutrition and taste unknown in the industrial system.  If this sounds like you, please join our group! Our cooperative structure efficiently …

In an effort to create a new kind of book club, this group is dedicated to combining a few wonderful and creative elements: literature, libations, and community. It is my hope that this group can explore a variety of literary works from best sellers to classics as dictated by the group. If you are a 20-30 something, interested in meeting up to discuss books, have good conversation, and perhaps some excellent wine or beer this is the group for you!

Socializing for Justice (SoJust) is all about building a cross-cultural, cross-issue progressive community, network and movement in Boston based on the Philosophy of Abundance. We're doing it by putting the SOCIAL back in SOCIAL JUSTICE. We host events twice a month to meet each other and make connections. No Program. No Speaker. Just Us. Newcomers always welcomed! **You must be a member to RSVP or post an event on the message board. Not a member? It's free to join - share as much or as little …

StudioShare.org® transforms the way the photo community collaborates. We help photo professionals share and facilitate their valuable resources through a unique online collaboration platform. Resources can be studio space, photo-related services, and equipment such as cameras, lenses, camera stands, light meters, and studio accessories. (Check out: http://www.studioshare.org) Learn more about how the platform works and help defining future features. Meet the founders, other photo professi …

In these uncertain times, the Great Recession has reminded us of our vulnerabilities. Unemployment and Anxious Employment. Debt. Foreclosure. Evaporating Savings. Rising Costs. Job Insecurity. In response, Resilience Circles (also called Common Security Clubs) are forming around the country! Together, these circles of people learn about the causes of the economic and ecological challenges and how to face them, while simultaneously building relationships that strengthen our communities and build …

Fields Corner Main Street (FCMS) is one of 19 Main Streets programs in the City of Boston working to make the city’s historic commercial districts stronger and livelier. Focusing on the Dorchester Avenue business district from Melville Avenue to Freeport Street, FCMS' mission is: To ensure that Fields Corner continues to be a thriving, welcoming, secure district comprised of diverse businesses serving residents and attractive to visitors. To promote Fields Corner, encouraging more people to live …

Seeking & discussing new Fund Raising ideas for non-profits including your Church, your Club, your Association, your Organization or your PTA. Members of your church or association may seem to have plenty, but the majority of them are probably struggling to make it. With all of their bills - credit cards, student loans, car payments - they don't know how they can afford to live, let alone, giving to charity or a good cause. In the real world, the average person is more concerned about paying his …

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 …

Over a year ago New Craft Artists in Action team captain launched MOLTENi Net Works in Boston. Bringing together makers and players in collaborative exchange, the project aims to create functional, hand-crafted basketball nets for neglected public hoops. Dr. James Naismith created the game of basketball in Springfield, MA in 1891. He posed a recycled peach basket as the first hoop. Now nets help break a ball’s fall, give players a sense of depth for good aim, and allow refs to see that a bas …

Scottish Heritage Events is a Meetup group sponsored by Scots' Charitable Society of Boston, the oldest charitable organization still existing in the United States. The Scottish Heritage Events Meetup group is devoted to the cultivation of personal and social relations of all its New England based members, cherishing the associations of the land from which they originated.