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 …

Hello and Welcome to the Red Line Book Club! (Formerly the Davis Square Book Club). "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." This is a club where friendly interesting people meet to discuss the books we have all read together. If there is a general theme to the books we read, it's that we read "great" books: enduring classics and new books with lots of potential. You have the entire rest of the world with whom you can discuss Stieg Larsson; here we try to dig at least a little deeper. Fo …

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 …

Meet with other nonprofit professionals and volunteers to share ideas, networks, resources and key learnings.

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 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.

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 …

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.

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!

ClosestCloset.Com of Southern Maine is a new group for members (or people interested or curious about membership) of the website. The site offers free Local Lending and Skill Sharing. Meetups will be based on saving money, the conservation of household goods, and skill sharing. Once a month, we have a free "Drop and Shop" for people to bring unwanted household goods, and shop among what everyone has brought. We are working on putting together skill-sharing nights, for members to teach one an …

FRIENDLY IN BOSTON - Be cool.  Be kind. Do you love living in Boston, but not the not-so-friendly Boston vibe? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Friendly in Boston is a newly founded community, whose goal is to funkafy Boston with a more friendly vibe, as well as explore the concept of kindness/friendliness. Who we are and what to expect. Do I need to be a “touch-feely happy person” to join? Simply put, no. While we may “do good”, we are not innately a group of “do-gooders”, but rather a gr …

The Mission of the Capital City Organic Gardeners is to collectively share, learn and teach organic vegetable gardening methods, encouraging members of our community to grow healthy food and reduce their environmental impact. Anyone interested in organic vegetable gardening is invited to join the group.

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 …

This web site is meant to be an information-sharing hub for citizens of South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough Maine who want to move from fossil fuel dependence to local resilience. At this time it is not about creating "a new group," but rather connecting all of the good work that is already happening, communicating among ourselves and collaborating on shared efforts when it makes sense! _______________ More details coming soon (and some preliminary organizational chats, I'm sure!) but …

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 …

For many years I had regular Friday night social gatherings of close friends. We'd often vent our frustrations at the stupidity of the system around us that glorified superficial choices and failed to support people.  Sometimes we just hung out, other times we'd work on a project together.  We'd show up at a friends house with five vehicles for  a one-day household move that ended with pizza and laughter instead of frustration and stubbed toes.  We had movie nights and made mead and hosted dinne …

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.

Join us!!! If you live in the southern NH/northern MA area and love to make new friends, have fun, learn new things, stay healthy and active, and sometimes have the option to bring the family (and dog!) along, then we're your group!!! SHINE stands for share, honor, inspire, nourish and enlighten. We are seeking to bring all these qualities into a shared experience by means of various workshops, seminars, outings, gatherings and excursions. As individuals, we can sometimes get stagnant. Corporate …

Welcome to the LARP Alliance Meetup Group! We are a non-profit 501c, education and charity based corporation dedicated to promoting the art and hobby of LARP (Live Action Role Playing). In addition, we assist new and current LARPers and Events by providing information and supplying resources, transportation for players, classes, media tools, and more. As a new hub for the LARP Alliance effort, LARP Alliance Boston will require some time to fully realize the network of support we have establish …

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 professiona …

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 …

If you're sick of all the emails from Meetup.com: Subscribe to the BYC email list for updates Whether or not you just graduated school or are new to Boston, we all know how difficult it can be your first few years as a professional. Let's use this group to bridge that knowledge gap, the experience gap, and the networking gap. I'm talking ALLLLLLLL kinds of creatives: writers, artists, bloggers, designers, developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, builders, doers, movers, shakers. Use this gr …

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 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 …

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 …

EAA106 is the largest and one of the most active Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) chapters in New England (201 members in MA, NH, RI, CT, and beyond - as of 12/31/12). ~1/3 of our members have built or are building their own aircraft, ~1/3 are pilots of production aircraft (including CFIs & ATPs), and many are student pilots, aviation veterans, mechanics, and aviation enthusiasts! We host monthly aviation presentations/seminars covering a wide array of topics, host an annual fly-in with ~ …

We believe in using COMMON SENSE IDEAS to build a healthier and happier community. What do we mean by Common Sense? We agree with the Webster's definition: "Beliefs or propositions that most people believe prudent and of SOUND judgment without reliance on esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what they see as knowledge held by people in common.  Thus common sense (in this view) equates to the knowledge and experience most people ALREADY HAVE." We believe that even with ALL O …

Lions Clubs international is the World's largest service club organization, with a network of 1.35 million men and women in more then 207 countries and geographical locations.We serve where we live, as well as globally,and we have fun doing it.................. Through well known for its successful initiatives in vision health,Lions service is as diverse as its members.We meet all sorts of needs, from assisting the elderly to helping victims of natural disasters. Lions give 100 percent of donati …