Transition US is a resource and catalyst for building resilient communities across the United States that are able to withstand severe energy, climate or economic shocks while creating a better quality of life in the process. There are Transition Towns in SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and Albany. www.transitionus.org/
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Shareable is the online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And share how-tos so you can make sharing real in your life.
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Bay Food Shed initiatives include Garden to Table, a program where locally grown produce is donated into locally owned businesses, and Local Lemonade, which sets up free lemonade stands with donated fruit. Bay Food Shed is a project of Transition Albany. http://www.facebook.com/bayfoodshed/info
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Generation Waking Up - Igniting a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just sustainable world. http://genup.net/
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Psychedelic Society SF creates a safe place to discuss entheogens and the expansion of consciousness in San Francisco. www.psychedelicsf.org/
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North Atlantic Books publishes the Evolver Editions series. NAB's mission is to affect planetary consciousness, nurture spiritual and ecological disciplines, disseminate ancient wisdom, and put forth ways to transmute cultural dissonance and violence into service.
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The Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education group’s mission is to provide a forum for the furtherance of three areas in the entheogenic dialogue: 1) discussing contemporary research and scholarship involving sacred medicine and proposing new horizons and directions for it; 2) creating and holding a safe space in which to share and integrate transpersonal experiences; and 3) envisioning a new educational paradigm in which the ancient wisdom of plant teachers, long held by indigenous cultures, can be reframed to be relevant within a modern, Western context.http://erievision.org/
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The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) provides essential legal tools — education, research, advice, and advocacy — to support this transition to localized, resilient economies. Our work focuses on practices that promote justice and sharing, including cooperatives, community currencies, community enterprises, local investing, cohousing, urban agriculture, and other innovative economic strategies.
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The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank is a community of reciprocal exchange that aims to create a resilient web of relationships between individuals and with community service organizations. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system.
http://www.bace.org
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Bay Bucks is a TransitionSF project to create a community currency for San Francisco Bay Area that is designed to have significant impact on increasing local resilience. We are now working with local sustainable businesses and non-profits. Contact us if you want to be part of this project! http://www.bay-bucks.com
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The Tribal Convergence Network is a synergistic web of social architects aligning with conscious individuals and organizations to develop sustainable and generative whole systems design templates which cultivate harmonious alliances and collaborative interdependent communities. http://tribalconvergence.com/
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The Perma-Culture Community Network is an organization focused on creating non-monetary based communities through permaculture education and bringing them into an organizational structure. The goal of the PCCN is to have thousands of people living in symbiosis within these communities all over the country and eventually the world. http://pccn.info/
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The Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) is a gathering of visionary women healers, scholars, activists and artists who study consciousness and altered states. The WVC supports the transfer of knowledge among women who apply the insights of their research and spiritual path. We gather annually on beautiful land in Northern California to renew our community of adventurers and visionaries. We also hold one-day salons in cities around North America.
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The Seven Sisters Mystery School is dedicated to restoring the ancient way of the priestess –– and the authentic priest –– in service to today’s world. Like the mystery schools of old, we help you unite intellectual knowledge with high-level intuitional information so that you may cultivate evolutionary understanding of the most ecstatic levels of wisdom.
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