We are connecting the dots by telling stories: about life we are living, about travel we took last winter, about last movie we saw, about premonition over last night's dream, and about food. Sharing stories over food is a tradition, something we all have done since we were able to recognize lights and sounds. Taken from a dictionary, the definition of "Food" is, a noun: "any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote grow …

Meet others in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). HTM is a new computing paradigm that replicates the structure and function of the human neocortex. Join this group to help you understand HTM and begin building intelligent systems.

Meet people in the Silicon Valley Area interested in building a green home or making their homes environmentally friendly. Discuss green construction, remodeling, maintenance, furnishing, and other related issues! Green building increases the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and remo …

This group cooks elegant and delicious food together using fresh ingredients straight from the Farmer's Market that are grown locally, sustainably, humanely, and taste sublime. We pour premium wines sourced from our extensive private cellar that pair with the meal. No cooking experience required. We provide the wine, recipes, kitchen, and the ingredients that are purchased the morning of the meetup from the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market. We will typically meet on Saturday at our home in Burlingame …

Would you be TOTALLY excited to see water-guzzling, pollution-producing, "seen-and-not-touched" lawns, replaced by edible gardens and drought-tolerant native plant landscaping? Do you believe, like I do, that if one or two of those GIANT homes in upscale neighborhoods (or tiny homes in the flats) were to replace most of their front and back lawns with gorgeously eco-scaped edible gardens, other neighbors would follow suit...? Especially if there was a massive PR campaign highlighting the transfo …

TThe San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Investment Association is an organization focused on Networking to find and build your power team. Through casual networking events, the San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Investment Association is able to bring both new and old real estate investors together to get deals done and develop actionable investment plans that will lead to individual levels of success. If you are an individual looking for a better way to invest your money and time --then come …

The voice of the Divine Feminine is re-emerging in human consciousness bringing with Her a new vision of the sacredness and unity of life. Her voice is needed during these chaotic times. Our stressful, fast paced culture that emphasizes masculine ideals such as competitiveness, control and domination often confuses and dis-empowers women. Confused as to what is appropriate feminine behavior, many women become over-involved in care taking others, are afraid to say no, or to set healthy boundaries …

We read ingredient labels. We're always looking for healthier ways, safer things, or we're attempting to consume less, tread more lightly... We're not heavy, we're sistahs, and we like to have fun while learning from each other. Connecting women who have green businesses, ideas, experiences... Some of us have already taken giant steps towards sustainability & greener living; some would like to take baby steps to "go greener" but don't have the support network to make it happen. Let's connect onl …

This group is offered as an exploration of creativity, sound, voice, and music, as tools to deepen our experience of everyday life. We access the sounds in our environment as well as in our own bodies - our breath, voice, silence, and resonance as human beings. We may explore meditation, yoga, singing, art, food, nature, writing, or any other aspects of human expression. Circles are led by a rotating members from a cohort of sound healing practitioners trained at the California Institute of Inte …

We work under the principles that there are three key elements to start with that will create a successful startup: good people, a product the market actually wants, and money (either by spending as little money as possible or having access to enough money to it see through to customer interaction). Startups that fail at any one of these three key elements will likely fail. But all three are doable. And that’s what makes startups so exciting – they may be hard but they are doable. Cofounder Clu …

CLINE was established to encourage and facilitate the scientific exploration of the intersection of computation, language, information, complexity, and intelligence as they are influenced by, and influence, the process of evolution. Of particular interest to this group is the development of self-evolving systems. The assumption is that apex systems evolve toward greater and greater complexity-handling capacity. Some call this "artificial intelligence," but we have trouble with the term as it: 1 …

Business Executives for Measurable Management is a group formed to welcome Robin Byrne, founder of Measurable Management, to the Bay Area. Mr. Byrne management initiative was recently nominated by the United Nations (UN) to receive their prestigious Positive Peace Award. To celebrate this nomination, Mr. Byrne is touring the country and sharing his management methodology with Corporate America. He plans to stop in San Jose in May 2011 to deliver a free training. ABOUT MEASURABLE MANAGEMENT I …

Are you tired of trying to find the right place to meet mature (48-65 ish), eligible single folks?  I am.  Bars send the wrong message; singles events are mainly about dancing and loud music with no opportunity to actually get to know folks; dating websites are expensive or just not very helpful and some other meetup groups seem to more like a singles "meat market", only for young folks, or they are non-singles events. I have started this group because I love going out to dinner and socializing …

Happy New Year! I remember you all from the original group that began in Pacifica. My members and meetups were so limited there.  But we had fun while it lasted! I have since moved to downtown San Mateo, and am reviving this group! Let's go drink and chat! I have a few new members that I am extremely excited about.  And even a new fellow organizer!  Coming soon! "San Francisco is a very vegetarian friendly city, and we are so lucky for that! However, on the outskirts of the city, in towns such …

Please join us on our journey We welcome everyone who seeks a religion guided by love, reason and conscience. Respecting the worth and dignity of each individual, and treasuring what we learn from each person's unique experience, we welcome a diversity of ages, sexual orientations, races, gender identities, classes, abilities, theologies and religious heritages. We are united not by a single creed, but by a covenant of mutual respect. We encourage spiritual curiosity in our children and we eager …

Wonderfest’s Mission is to inspire and nurture a deep sense of wonder about the world. Through science education programs, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning.  Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Beacon of Science, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. http://wonderfest.org http://facebook.com/wonderfest http://twitter.com/wonderfest http://www.youtube.com/tuckeroo11

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center is committed to... Changing U.S. foreign and domestic policies to ones that meet human needs and human rights. A demilitarized society and economy. True justice for all, at home and abroad, regardless of economic status or beliefs. An end to racism, sexism and all forms of discrimination. Giving ordinary people the information and opportunity they need to be involved and effective in the efforts to change our country and our world. Website: http://peaceandjus …

Are you observing the game being changed in Health, Education, Journalism, Finance, Economic Development? Have you been pondering what's happening and what kind of future is unfolding? Have you wondered if and how the game might be changed? "I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the …

Canine Classical Concerts: This group is for anyone who wants to have a unique bonding experience with their dog. Enjoy beautifully arranged classical music specially arranged to calm the canine nervous system. Dog lovers who are interested in learning how to improve their human sound environment to help their dog's health and behavior will also enjoy this group.

Participate in our Dojo as we to work together to leverage and expand your skills in digital media storytelling. Storytelling is the fundamental component of how human beings relate to the world around them. Stories are present on multiple levels - there are personal, local, global and civilization stories. Whether it is politics, soap operas, or sports, it is the stories within them that give each topic meaning and influence our actions at each level. Your brand is becoming it's own media outle …

The Humanist Community at Stanford seeks to build, educate, and nurture a diverse community of Atheists, Humanists, Agnostics at Stanford and in Silicon Valley. We accomplish this by hosting a variety of events, including public lectures from luminaries such as Richard Dawkins (Oct. 2012), day trips such as our excursion to the San Francisco Film Festival, pub nights, barbecues, dinners, comedy nights such as our upcoming event with Jamie Kilstein, art gallery visits, discussion meetings, and ta …

Join our community of next generation startups. Let's get together to network, socialize and share best practices about the new way of building and running your business more efficiently and competitive than ever before. We will organize various events and workshops with the support of the world's leading online work platform. These events will be a great opportunity for you - as an entrepreneur, small business owner or startup enthusiast - to network with like-minded people in your area, learn …

To be human is to experience suffering.  To be in recovery, is to be aware of suffering and willing to let go of that which causes suffering.  Each of us has our own life experiences which have brought us to this point, and each of us must walk a distinct path.  Buddhism offers a framework to become more aware of the nature of suffering, and how to end suffering.  I hope you'll accept my invitation to try these tools yourself, and find ease in your own life.

Calling all those gaga for a chihuahua or other chihuahua-sized dog! My chi Lolita would like to meet some other small dogs to play and run with at Shoreline Dog Park in Mountain View. She's afraid of big dogs. We'll meet once a week or more at Shoreline in the small dog enclosure so that the dogs can play. There's a picnic table in the shade so human and dog snacks can be available.

We are eco-aware nature lovers and food growers who want to surround ourselves with beautiful, productive landscapes that support an abundance of wonderful life forms. A deep nature garden is a human-managed ecosystem that constantly evolves, designed primarily for beauty and diversity, and also for production of food and other useful products. An enclosed eco-farm is a human-managed ecosystem designed primarily for production of food and other useful products, and also for enjoyment of its beau …

This will be a group of enthusiastic referral partners who work together as a team to not only help generate new businesses through referral but also help create a closely-knitted business community where we look to: • Improve ongoing business and market strategies by getting to know each others' fields and expanding out • Grow the professional’s business via solid interpersonal relationship • And be the business support for the business partners The goal through this group is to create a team …