We are into sustainability in all areas of life. We are forming on the ground eco-villages in the Greater Tucson area. If you like green, intentional community, secure healthy food & clean water, sustainable survivability, nature and the environment, spirituality over religion, indigenous ancestor wisdom, science and technology adapted to ethical human uses like do it yourself solar and alternative energy technology, and believe in a bright wonderful joyful and fun filled future for mankind rega …

The official meetup for Garden Pool, a nonprofit organization. Join this meetup to: attend Public Garden Pool home tours throughout the Valley have fun at Food Drives and Potlucks learn at FREE Informative Classes volunteer with GP-Team Public Volunteer Projects to get a first hand experience and help others build and grow get to know others in the community who care about growing food! Garden Pool is dedicated to research and education of sustainable ways to grow food. Our mission as a non-pr …

Arizona's East Valley chapter of the International meet-up, Green Drinks (active in over 581 cities world-wide) see www.GreenDrinks.org Protecting the environmentally-minded from a mediocre social life. The purpose of Green Drinks is to bring together people, every month, from different professions and backgrounds to CREATE CHANGE. Join us every 2nd Tuesday 6-8pm

This is for anyone who would like to share ideas, inspiration, and musings on permaculture. People of every background are welcome to come, especially those without much, if any experience with permaculture! Since permaculture is a design system for creating self-sustaining, abundance- and health-yielding systems, it is inherently focused on ecology. However, since the human mind has seemingly an ecology of its own, permaculture concerns every aspect of human existence. Therefore, permaculture i …

This is a group to help get started with Ruth Stout's year round mulch method also called the Lasagna planting method. I can help provide the information to get free mulch delivered through local tree services including the delivery! We will learn together the best way to apply this method in the valley. It takes a lot of mulch and some time to begin depending on your soil quality. This method is also helpful for using less water and preventing damage from frost. In the end however we will have …

This is for people who want to develop and build devices that use the sun's energy, for home use. Examples would be electricity generation, hot water, solar cookers, & solar powered water pumps. The name comes from "The Lunar Society", which met in Birmingham, England, UK, from 1765 to 1809. The Lunar Society played a major role in the industrial revolution. James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, was a member. We are looking for competent people who like to build things or do research or …

Sustainability is a seriously broad subject, but it is what most are really aiming for in life.  Otherwise you just have to keep doing it over and over with no assurance of success.  Let's take relationships as an example.  How many times do we fall in love only to have the relationship fail, again and again?  Or how can we continue living on a planet that believes we have unlimited cheap oil, food, and fresh water? Our aim in this group is to learn how to do everything sustainably, from housing …

The folks in this group are aware, awake and alive! We live with thoughtfulness and care for ourselves, others and the earth. Looking honestly at our end of life plans may be great cause for inspiration today. It helps us live with more presence. The purpose of our group is to learn and share information about natural after-death care alternatives like home funerals, family-led vigils and green burial. The alternatives may relate to caring for people and animal companions. Consider joining u …

The Tucson AquaPonics Project - www.TucsonAP.org - has been created to bring community-scale aquaponics to the greater Tucson metro area, as well as support backyard aquaponics, by providing training, resources and assembling a network of people who can help each other to successfully implement both private and non-profit aquaponics systems.

Irish Network Phoenix or (IN Phoenix) is a business networking/social organization serving the greater Maricopa County area which focuses our charter in (3) main areas: 1. Business - trade leads, discussion, speakers, best practices etc… with other professionals… all of which have a common bond… Irish Heritage or interests. 2. Irish Heritage - We celebrate our Irish Heritage through activities and involvement with the Irish Cultural Center (AZirish.org), Irish Cultural Learning Foundation, the s …

We avoid the use of deleterious materials in our relationship with the Earth. We encourage the use of nature's resources as a guide for sustainable living. We help newcomers to become knowledgable and skilled in organic gardening, including composting and seed preservation. We also encourage our members to join the Tucson Organic Gardeners (TOG).  That club has been in existence for 41 years, long before there was a meetup.com, or even an internet.  TOG meetings are open to the public, and there …

If you are... interested and interesting, pleasant and passionate, active and aware, this is the group for you!