The purpose of this group is to foster the development of resilient and sustainable communities in the Penobscot Valley region (roughly, the Greater Bangor-Orono area).  By planning and producing permaculture design projects, we aim to cultivate skills and support beneficial relationships among our members and the broader community.  We work through the lens of permaculture to engage in collaborative design projects that support the shift to a more sustainable culture and healthier ecosystems. P …

Join your fellow Mainers as we dine for a cause!  Our goal is to generate more interest in and acceptance of a vegan lifestyle by encouraging restaurants to offer more vegan selections.  We believe this will reduce animal suffering and hunger as well as to help the environment and our health.  Between June of 2007 and December of 2012, our group enjoyed well over 1,400 meatless meals while educating restaurants about our mission and the market force vegans have fast become.  We are a part of Veg …

The Transition Towns and Permaculture movements are positive, creative, community-led responses to the challenges of climate change, economic uncertainty, and the pressing need for sustainable energy. The momentum began building with the advent of Permaculture in the seventies. Permaculture isthe design science rooted in the observation of nature’s eco-systems. Its purpose is to create an approach to living that emulatesthe enduranceand resilience of those natural systems. While Permaculture is …

My interest is in creating a group to study A Course In Miracles. I have had nearly 20 years of experience studying the Course and have participated in other study groups and so can be instrumental in beginning a Group. My idea is that the Group would follow an organized protocol including silent meditation for a few minutes before and after the discussion. The discussion would center around a sequential movement through the text and/or workbook of A Course In Miracles.

We are a diverse group of people whose common denominator is that we care deeply about our communities, our country, and the planet. Our purpose is to effect positive change through peaceful means. The 99% movement is a non-partisan, grassroots, leaderless (some would say leader-full!) movement of citizens who want to get the corrupting influence of money out of politics; stop the looting by Wall St.; end excessive military spending and unnecessary wars, and end corporate domination over environ …