Please join if you enjoy sharing or wants to learn more about a new economy, a new way of life where people share their time, objects, space and resources for a better world. This is an economy where peers, neighbors and people help one another meet basic needs, providing access over ownership. More connection --> less stuff. This group will facilitate bringing all of the sharers out there together to hang out, attend events, dinners, and meetups to tell stories and meet others who have the same …
… The basic goals of a bioregional approach are as follows: restore and maintain natural systems, develop sustainable means for satisfying basic human needs such as food, water, energy, shelter, resource materials, waste handling, and cultural information, create and support a broad range of activities which make it possible to fit better into the life-place. The bioregional approach is intended to simultaneously include many aspects of the natural and human life in a community. It will have a d …
I'm reading Charles Eisenstein's book "Sacred Economics" after attending a workshop he did for Transitions in Berkeley a few weeks ago. He's got a totally refreshing vision about how money works, how our cultural norms create a feeling of scarcity and how we could start to do things differently. I would like to get the sacred back into materialism! I would like to read the book with others and become advisors to one another on sacred economic ventures we could integrate into our lives. If yo …
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Thanks for your interest in California Crowd Funding. Why This Group? This group is needed to rally public support for a crowd funding law letting entrepreneurs raise startup money from the general public. Silicon Valley and California is bursting with small companies ready to launch. The 2008 crash slowed Angel investments in startups. So to create new jobs and let people pursue their business dreams, a California Crowd Funding exemption is needed. Crowd funding lets the general …
Evolvers are hope fiends and utopian pragmatists. We see the creative chaos of this time as a great gift and opportunity to rethink, reconnect, and reinvent. Evolvers appreciate pristine mountains, open source economics, and the precocious laughter of small children. Evolvers belong to the regenerative culture of the future, being born here and now. As part of the Evolver Social Movement, the Spores serve as hubs of cultural incubation and environmental activation that bring together diverse ind …
… We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's ep …
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