People who believe that the best way to project the future is by creating it. Positively embrace globalization, miniaturization of technology, and dynamic visualization of the future, including, e.g., metrovillages, robotics, advanced personal transportation, education, and sustainability. Look up to seven generations into the future refining scaleable ways of making decisions in the near future.

Join us! San Francisco Bay Area Journalists is a nonprofit group of journalists navigating the transition to the next era of journalism by sharing insights on high quality reporting, sustainable jobs, diversity, editorial independence and press freedoms. (We also have a lot of fun!)  Our meetups are all free or low-cost. SF Bay Area Journalists operates as part of Newswire21.org, an award-winning nonprofit news organization focused on finding sustainable ways to blend the passion of community r …

EcoTuesday is a structured networking event for sustainable business leaders that takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in cities across the country. Here's a brief outline of what takes place at each event: * Arrive at the venue, settle in, and meet new people * Learn about the cutting edges of sustainable business from an expert * Quickly introduce yourself & your project to a roomful of people * Network with people you learned about during the Introduction Circle Please go to www.ec …

Agrion is an international business community that brings together entrepreneurs, investors and corporations involved in clean technology, energy, sustainable development, smart grid, electric vehicles and transportation, and green building.  Agrion furthers the progress of the cleantech industry by providing a platform for professionals to connect, collaborate, identify growth opportunities and foster business development. A complimentary purpose of Agrion is to provide fresh and timely content …

Welcome to Morehouse (Operated More University 1977-1997) "Fun is the goal; love is the way."  —Victor Baranco Inspired by its founder, Dr. Victor Baranco, and now by his widow, Dr. Cynthia Baranco, Morehouse has been a successful group living experiment for over 40 years. The cornerstone of our philosophy and life-style is the concept of perfection. Our working premise is that people and situations are right the way they are and include the potential for change. Our research, started by Vic B …

Revolutionary Raw Conscious Cuisine  is a community hub for individuals interested in Raw Food Cuisine and making conscious choices about how we choose to nourish our bodies. We strive for healthy nourishment that tastes delicious. You can have it all. Revolutionary Raw Conscious Cuisine is about global transformation and sustainability. Our commitment to sustaining our bodies in the most optimal ways is complimentary to our conviction to lifestyle choices that sustain the planet. We would love …

Locally Oakley Permaculture Garden Meetup is the place to meet other locals for environmental networking, education, demos, practical test gardens and more! Let us show you how maximizing biodiversity creates sustainable energy-efficient, intensive living systems for healthy foods and a renewed environment. "Earth care,  People care,  Surplus share"

Congratulations : People over 55 who are ready to change themselves in order to create a more sustainable world! WELCOME!! Let’s create a community of Conscious Leaders, Responsible Elders, Creative Visionaries, Stellar Teachers and Caring Mentors. We are a generation of seekers, consciously aware of the importance of a sustainable lifestyle, staying vibrantly healthy and living with abundance. These are just a few of our deeply held values that guide our choices. We do not settle for mediocrity …

We are a group of Community Members, Business Leaders and Green Companies who further awareness about renewable energy and sustainable living, through education and community participation. Together we will try to make California a leader in emissions reduction, organic farming, recycling, bio-fuels, solar and wind power, energy storage, home efficiency, land reclamation, water management, and lifestyle changes to secure a future for us and our descedants. Please take some time to participate i …

Are you curious about and interested in environmentalism on the planetary scale? We want to understand the Earth's ecological systems -- from a non-technical perspective -- and the crises they are now undergoing.  We include climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, economic collapse, the collapse of civilizations, and the end of industrial society in our discussions.  We want to learn how we can live with global crises and support one another through the worst of times ahead since …

Building a sustainable Oakland and business gateway to the world

Bioregionalism is a concept that goes beyond national boundaries, but rather is a political, cultural, and ecological system or set of views based on naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions. Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solut …

The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This was a group for people interested in issues such as sustainability and economic justice and wanting to create a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. That currency has since been created. Check it out: www.bay-bucks.com. Bay Bucks is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, structured as a non-profi …

Rodgers Ranch is a registered historical site, and used to be a real working farm.  The city of Pleasant Hill has kept and maintained the core of the farm, and has given us the opportunity to resurrect it as a place to learn about gardening and farming. We meet every Saturday as a group.  Official hours are 10am to 12pm, but we almost always stay longer. Members go there on any other day regularly to water or do various tasks. Not everyone comes every week.  No problem.  Come when you can. Objec …

We are all creating specifics around a sustainable planet, healthy eating and the list goes on and on. iGreen Connect unify us all as one community on the planet creating a strong voice when needed. We meet like minded people interested in having fun, networking, outdoors activities within other groups, interactive social action to expand our green communities while making a difference in all or our lives. We bring amazing fun activities at our meetings for everyone to meet everyone! Become an u …

Toward Sustainability Going green, and Promoting Natural Health Sunflower Droste by Barnoid. http:/www.flickr.com/people/barnoid/ We're Seeking Venues and Sponsors! If you have any leads, please let us know. But first, read our "wish list". Who we are WISB is a network for women who own green-minded businesses. Integrative medicine practitioners are included. WISB was founded by Regina Ryerson, Michele Gachowski and Dror Schneider, WISB Organizers. "People, Planet, Profits" Incorporating gre …

We are a community that has found a better way to work that doesn't involve commuting. We use sustainable alternatives and prefer flexibility, freedom, and a sense of local community in our workplace. Join our diverse group of thinkers, leaders, and entrepreneurs in your own neighborhood. Our goal is to share our experiences in this new frontier of workplace and the broad knowledge base it brings with one another. Welcome! Our website Facebook Twitter Blog

We love to dress up, but we don't like the toll the fashion industry has taken on the environment and our health. So, we're coming up with creative new ways to make fashion more sustainable and democratic. From using recycled and organic fabrics, to manufacturing locally, to openly sharing every step of the production process, we want to explore all the ways the fashion industry can improve. Let's meet up to explore these themes and share ideas!

We want to raise the issues of a healthy, sustainable food supply.  We'll discuss food labeling; food access, genetically engineered food, local sources of food, agriculture's role in climate change, and other food/policy-related issues. We may meet in a coffeehouse, a church, a home near you, or for happy hour or a picnic.  We could arrange speakers, films, workshops, literature, and strategize creatively.  We will enjoy each others’ company, eat, laugh, and take home a better understanding of …

Vital Systems supports people aligning their values, passion and money for community profit and a regenerative economy. Because everyone must eat to survive, our activities are focused on one of the most vulnerable global issues of our time -- food and farming infrastructure. We bring together various communities to collect, frame, and share knowledge about food and farming infrastructure practices that can help build communication processes, interconnect communities, and provide infrastructure …

We the people of the Green Tea Party believe in a world free from pollution. We want people to respect the environment in which we all live. Our goal is to do the best we can to live sustainably. We recognize that preserving the ecosystem is just as important as preserving the economy. In the long run we cannot have a healthy economy without having a healthy ecosystem, and vice versa. We also stand for the freedom of individuals to make choices without governmental or societal interference. This …

Based on the Food Swap model, we gather every 3 months or so on a Sunday afternoon to trade what we produce in our own homes. From jams and jellies to deodorant, cosmetics, soaps, candles, bread, fresh eggs, fresh fruits and veggies and flowers, and anything else perishable, edible, and use-up-able. Basically nothing permanent except the jars. Set in lovely little Brisbane, CA (on the south edge of San Francisco, and a world away from urban cares), we are the vanguard of a sustainability/permacu …

SOCIALLY GREEN is the Meetup group of GreenStreetSF.org. GreenStreetSF.org is a professional networking group for anyone from ecologically-minded consumers to green entrepreneurs and startups who want to connect with other professionals and innovators in the burgeoning green industry landscape. Our mission is to promote education and economic development for green initiatives in fashion, design and technology and awareness about better living through sustainable practice and greener lifestyle ch …

The Sustainability Professionals iNetwork is a group of professionals dedicated to seeing Sustainability measures integrated in all phases of life. Our events will include product demo's, speakers, tours and open brown bag discussions. Open discussions and connections to other events related to building awareness about renewable energy, emissions reduction, urban farming, recycling, bio-fuels, solar and wind power, energy storage, home efficiency, land reclamation, water management and sustainab …

I am looking forward to collaborating with people to build some self-sustaining yurts together!

Visit our homepage here: http://www.ZMSF.Org/ Community/forum homepage: Official TZM:SF Community Forum The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Movement that creates community based activism and awareness through a network of Art/Media Events, Annual Events, Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams and Charity Work. The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated socia …

Uhuru Foods & Pies operates food concessions at festivals and farmer’s markets and bakes thousands of pies for the annual Uhuru Holiday Pies fundraiser. All funds support African community economic development. "Uhuru" means freedom in Swahili. We welcome volunteers who are interesting in social justice in the black community and want to see thriving, sustainable and just economic development. This year, Uhuru Foods & Pies is involved in fundraising and winning support for Uhuru Jiko, a communit …