Welcome to the Santa Cruz group of the Sierra Club! Here you will find a listing of some of the Santa Cruz Group activities as well as information about the Sierra Club. We welcome everyone to participate and encourage all to become members. ABOUT THE SIERRA CLUB: John Muir co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892 to share his love of nature. Since then, the Club has matured into the nation's largest and most influential environmental organization. The Club’s mission is to explore, enjoy, and protect …

Almaden Hiking Group is a  non-business group organized by people who loves to enjoy the nature, making new friends and geting some exercise. Our primary objective is to explore and enjoy the nature.   We will stop to see the wild flowers, waterfalls or have a small snack.  Almaden hiking group is the right match for you if you are in the age group of 40's to 60's.  Most of our hikes are in the range of 4 to 8 miles and moderate difficulty level. Occasionally we will do longer or strenuous hikes …

This playgroup is for nature lovers with children who want to meet and make friends with other families while camping, hiking and enjoying playdates. When you request to join, plan on being ACTIVE in the group by coming out at least once a month. I also encourage you to check out our members' profiles and reach out to members you think you have something in common with. Most events take place in natural areas surrounding San Jose. Meetups are frequently scheduled in San Jose, the Santa Cruz Moun …

Warm welcome! This is where South Bay Area community comes together to explore solutions and share resources, on ecologically sensible, and sustainable life practices at home. We cover topics like energy efficiency, indoor air quality, waste management, conservation of natural resources and much more. We try to lead by example. At the end of the day, we make new like minded friends and have some fun. Our homes contribute about 21% of our nation’s energy use and carbon footprint. Our u …

There are many other Photography Meetup Groups around but I find myself feeling left out most of time since men usually out number women in most groups.  Also, I am not interested in competing on gears or focus on technical part of photography so I am starting this group hoping to meet other women who loves photography, is willing to share, and wants to go out together to shoot. This group is NOT solid depend on organizer to setup events; everyone in this group are welcome and encouraged to setu …

Welcome to Bay Area Attached Families! Our community is focused on attachment parenting, gentle discipline and natural family living. This group's goals are to: come together and support one another in a community of like-minded families  provide a community of knowledgeable, resourceful people to help one another learn and grow enable our kids to play with other children who are being raised in a gentle/attached environment enjoy time with other parents who have an interest in thou …

We will be hosting different health events throughout the community as well so Doctors including Medical, Chiro, Acupuncturists, Naturopaths are welcome! Join us if you're passionate about infusing health into the life of your family and community! We'll be organizing walks-in-the-park sharing glorious health tidbits & organizing community health events!

Purpose: The Camping and Hiking group exists to explore the beautiful California outdoors and have outdoor adventures. Who should join: If you are looking for adventurous and beautiful day hikes and camping trips, Camping and Hiking is the right group for you. Camping: Each year, we book some camp sites, and post Hiking and Camping activities, most of them are weekend camping trips 1 to 2 days. I would like to share the campsite and hiking trips with others to share the fun and experiences. For …

Visit our site at www.macrochef.org. Our primary activity is putting on a Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner every Monday night in Palo Alto, at the First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue at Bryant, 1/4 mile East of Alma. This is a full vegan dinner which includes soup, grain, beans or bean products, vegetables, dessert, and beverage, prepared by expert natural foods Chef Gary Alinder, our Chef since our inception in 1987. Dinner price is $15, reservations requested by Monday, 9:30 AM, If you …

Welcome to the Santa Cruz Chapter of Leads Club. The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business success. Founded in 1978 by Ali Lassen, and curre …

… This group is for women of any age, who love hiking in beautiful natural spaces, or who would like to give it a try!  

… The goal is to create habitual positive experiences, as natural as brushing your teeth before you go to bed. The result? Living more beautifully with each passing day.Although I love to use positive words like happiness and beauty when thinking about this stuff, understand this isn't about focusing on being happy, to the detriment of your emotional range, sadness, anger, grief. Its about changing your perspective and experience of living, so that you experience the best possible emotio …

Looking for fun activities in or around San Jose? Let’s form a group filled with smart, witty and kind people to have fun together. I was a member of a similar group when I was living in Atlanta, which resulted in wonderful memories and close relationships for many of the members. Following the “if you build it, they will come” idea, I thought I would try to start a similar group here. We typically would have several meetings per month and do a variety of events, mainly movies and book reviews. …

This group is for otherkin in the San Francisco Bay area: elves, faery, sidhe, Tuatha, dragons, angels, nature spirits, unicorns, satyrs, and any other kind of mythical non-human folk. You'd think there would be tons of us here in CA, but over the 14 years I've been awake, I've constantly struggled to find other "others". (I run an otherkin gather here called MythiCalia which had to be cancelled in 2011 due to lack of registrations.) I used to be the organizer of this local Meetup back around 20 …

… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism QUOTE: Holism (from ὂλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) , is the idea that natural systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties, should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts. This often includes the view that systems somehow function as wholes and that their functioning cannot be fully understood solely in terms of their component parts. END QUOTE. The third k …

… Maum Meditation is a non-profit organization that exists for the sole purpose of bringing people out of the mind world they are living in that includes stress, fear, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, resentment, anger, judgment, separation, boredom, purposelessness... all sorts of pain and burden. The human mind is an accumulation of pictures of the past which create false limitations, habits, and a fixed, narrower mind. By subtracting the human mind with the method of Maum Meditation, people can re …