If you are interested in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design you are always welcome to join. Let's get together every first week of the month over happy hours to learn about LEED and of course have some fun with it. Whether you bike, carpool or walk, eat or drink local foods and bevs, recycle , choose not to smoke...whatever it may be, there are so many ways to personally implement LEED credits into our daily routines. Learn how to get your credits and get involved in the community! Ma …

Solar Austin is a group working to accelerate the transition to clean renewable energy in Central Texas in order to build a healthy community and a strong local economy. We promote renewable energy, energy efficiency, and smart energy technologies as well as transportation solutions that create healthy communities, and we encourage policies and programs that advance the use of renewable energy and assure that clean energy options are available to people at all income levels. Solar Austin holds r …

Our Mission Statement: "To create a cultural shift toward deeper and more sustainable communities though the sharing of possessions." "Let's share items, meet new people and live free." We are a group of happy people that enjoy sharing. Together we all have more. RSVP today and remember to tell your friends and family about our weekly event. Come to our events and meet our community. Acts Of Sharing is growing in Austin. Read our event details. You may also call me for more details, 832-600-61 …

We're a social group of people who are interested in getting together to chat about honeybees and other pollinators, share books and ideas on the subject and establish some cooperatively managed honeybee colonies around town. Right now “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD) and other diseases threaten our honeybee population. We need to discover more about how we can help them, and make sure they are here to pollinate the flowers and fruits of future generations. While there is limited consensus about …

Let's read the book and then watch the movie! Lots of great movies are based on books: Fried Green Tomatoes, The Shining, Wag the Dog, Trainspotting, Blade Runner, Munich... It's fun to experience both forms of storytelling.

A calendar of events helping Christians connect with other Christians in Austin. For July events we have a July 4th picnic, free play at Zilker Park, The Sound of Music, and Blues on the Green free concert. We are planning more events and activities for this summer and fall and would love your ideas about ones you would like. This group is open to all ages, single, married, families. We have a focus for each month like forgiveness, peace, freedom, love, etc. that will be the topic of discussion …

An Austin group that focuses on home coffee roasting. We can share tips, discuss green bean varieties, roasting equipment and techniques, organize group buys, etc...

Make the most out of creating, promoting & rocking out your personal brand. Discover and uncover your inner rock star at our social media marketing events! This meetup is hosted and sponsored by Rock Star Media, LLC, who provides green, wind powered website and blog hosting, Wordpress websites and training, social media marketing services, and new media branding strategy for entrepreneurs, independent professionals and small businesses. If you or your business is a social media or blogging …

We meet at the Zhi Tea Gallery during non-business hours to explore, learn, share, and enhance our experience of tea through stillness, attention, preparation, and opening our senses to the wonders of tea. While our intention is to dive into the experience of tea and allow it to reveal all is wonders, this is not dour or serious. This is a chance to joyfully explore a deeper experience of nature as it is expressed through the Camellia Sinensis leaf. We have fun! We meet new people, we share in …

Moksha Yoga is an international yoga collective based on a series of postures focused on alignment, flexibility, and rehabilitation. Above all, Moksha is about green living and community! Join Moksha teachers Gillian and Meghan for donation-based classes in public parks around Austin! No yoga experience is required. A suggestion donation is $10-15 per class. We ask that you simply pay what you can. We believe that yoga is for everyone, regardless of physical or financial situation.

This group was created to encourage awareness of and access to the Balcones Canyonland Preserve (BCP). Through the promotion of public educational opportunities, our members will be in the loop of special access hikes and lectures. The BCP is not one single tract of land but a system of preserves located in Travis County that exists as a multi-agency conservation effort operating under a regional 10(a) permit issued under the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFW). In …

Basically we will watch different sci-fi movies and shows at each meetup. We will watch high budget blockbusters to low budget indies. Likely movies include old and new Doctor Who, The Lost Room, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings. Here are some movies for the next meetup. I like most of these. (Thanks to Brian for sending them over). Any preferences for any particular movies? Campy and kind of campy: Enemy Mine Silent Running Dark Star Short Circuit,( not sure if this is really sci-fi, …

Austin Conscious Evolutionaries is a resonant group of pioneering souls who believe we can co-create with Spirit, Nature, Universal Design, to positively impact the evolution of our planet. Members embody evolutionary life practices such as powerfully living to their full potential and acting as social agents for bringing in higher levels of consciousness into every day life.

This is a group for anyone in Austin or the Austin area who is interested in eating and living low carb. A low carb diet usually consists of meat, fish, eggs, and green vegetables. A low carb diet and exercise are beneficial for better controlling blood sugar, grain and fruit allergies, and weight. Let's get together and support one another in eating and living low carb! Some of the books on low carb include Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's, Diabetes Solution, Drs. Volek and Phinney's The Art And Scie …

Are you following or aspiring to follow a plant-based diet or know anyone that is?  Have you struggled to lose weight or maintain this lifestyle in a world that typically follows the Standard American Diet?  In this professionally facilitated group, we will get a chance to meet each other, talk a little bit about the benefits of this lifestyle and discuss some of the topics that will be addressed in coming in upcoming meetings.  Expect to gain support, motivation and new plant-based friends!  Ho …

Because our culture is overly focused on individualism, individual success is honored and rewarded. But at a certain point, people need other people in order to forward their vision. This group offers productive and supportive community for creative and practical collaborative projects. We support each other in an organized way, working on one community-selected project per month. Like a barn raising, the community comes together to help one person accomplish a task that is essential to a thrivi …

This is a group that is set up for those that adore ridding around in their cherry red, yellow, mint green, orange, or whatever color vespa. We are lucky to live in such a great city that allows us to easily crisscross this town with a breeze with these sweet machines. In this group you can meet up with like minded vespa fanatics like you. It doesn't matter if you don't know the mechanics of the vehicle itself. Everyone is welcome! This is for those who LOVE their Vespa. Once a week (or perhaps …

This meetup began as the Austin Mike Huckabee for President 2008 Meetup Group. Since that dog died, and since the organizer believes in something called Christian Democracy, the group has been changed to reflect this. Everyone from Huckabee days is welcome to stay, and all others that are interested in Christian Democracy are welcome to join. WHAT IS CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY? Christian Democracy is not a religion. It is not a church. It is not Christianity per se. Christian Democracy is a 130 year …

The mission of this group is for individuals who have an interest in developing small scale housing & commercial projects to meet for the purpose of sharing information, ideas and finding potential partners for projects. Ideally members will bring expertise in architecture, engineering, law, planning, finance, real estate, interior design etc to the group. Crazy ideas and finding new ways to do things are always welcome!