Meet local French language and culture lovers for conversation and fun! Come to a French Language Meetup and make new amis as you practice speaking, build your vocabulary and finally figure out those verb conjugations! All ages and levels welcome.

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 …

Maine Ghost Hunters - Established in 2008 This group is hot with *active* participants from all over New England.  We've been bringing together paranormal enthusiasts from near and far since 2008. We have discussion groups, informal investigations, and wanderings to reported public paranormal hot-spots. If you haven't heard of www.MaineGhostHunters.org before, here's your chance to meet the official team and see what we're all about. MGH is a group with all the thrills associated with ghost hu …

Community. Local skills. Local Food. Adapting in place. But self-reliant, no. We are in this together. In these unsure times of climate change, peak oil, and economic instability, the one thing we do have is each other. To quote Toby Hemenway, "When we create a web of interdependencies, we grow richer, stronger, safer, and wiser." Permaculture is a means to develop life skills and enhancements for sustainable living and beyond. "To practice permaculture is to actively create a positi …

Think LOCAL! Community Networking is an organization open to all, dedicated to helping individuals and small businesses grow through effective networking and relationship building, while supporting local non-profit organizations.    A Maine Non-Profit Corporation. www.ThinkLocalCommunityNetworking.org NEXT BIG MONTHLY EVENTS ARE May 30 (NE Office Suites, Portsmouth) & June 4 (Falmouth Country Club) We have morning and afternoon weekly meetups and at least 1 monthly event that you may RSVP for h …

Weekly meet up to read Napolean Hills "Think and Grow Rich" and do the exercises as prescribed by the author.

Maine doesn't have many employment opportunities compared to most states - so there are a lot of people who are forced to do whatever they can to make a living. Maine also has many successful businesses, which are constantly launching new product lines and business ideas to the public - these business owners need third-party experts to assist them with these projects. This Meetup Group is designed to assist people with the great ideas to come together with Internet experts in the area. It's also …

This web site is meant to be an information-sharing hub for citizens of South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough Maine who want to move from fossil fuel dependence to local resilience. At this time it is not about creating "a new group," but rather connecting all of the good work that is already happening, communicating among ourselves and collaborating on shared efforts when it makes sense! _______________ More details coming soon (and some preliminary organizational chats, I'm sure!) but …

We believe in using COMMON SENSE IDEAS to build a healthier and happier community. What do we mean by Common Sense? We agree with the Webster's definition: "Beliefs or propositions that most people believe prudent and of SOUND judgment without reliance on esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what they see as knowledge held by people in common.  Thus common sense (in this view) equates to the knowledge and experience most people ALREADY HAVE." We believe that even with ALL O …

Join a runner group where everyone knows your name and we Respect Everyone’s Ability Level (hence, Team R.E.A.L.). We’re thirty-somethings, grandparents, first-time runners, longtime athletes, 10-minute milers, half-marathon winners, beer drinkers, health nuts, barefoot runners, and even a USATF certified coach. Plus, we’re good company and pretty entertaining, too. This year, we ran Market Square 10K, Hampton Rockfest half- and full-marathon, and countless 5Ks in the Seacoast Road Race series. …

SoulCollage® is a fun path to self-discovery. As someone who is always interested in doing creative things as well as meeting new people SoulCollage® seemed the perfect group to start. SoulCollage® is fun, anyone can do it, and it doesn't require any artistic skills, just being open to trying something new and listening to your intuition. We will collage images from recycled magazines, calendars, your photos etc... and create cards. If you create lots of them you will have a whole deck, each car …

For many years I had regular Friday night social gatherings of close friends. We'd often vent our frustrations at the stupidity of the system around us that glorified superficial choices and failed to support people.  Sometimes we just hung out, other times we'd work on a project together.  We'd show up at a friends house with five vehicles for  a one-day household move that ended with pizza and laughter instead of frustration and stubbed toes.  We had movie nights and made mead and hosted dinne …

Seacoast Skill Sharing is all about building community self-reliance and is based on the simple idea that we can teach and learn from each other. It’s about getting together to experience the wealth of local knowledge; to learn how to do, make, and repair. Over the coming months, Seacoast Skill Sharing will host a series of workshops featuring the skills of….. YOU! So, what is something that you would like to learn? to share with others? Some possible ideas for workshops include: • Organic Garde …

This goal of this group is to help members and friends of First Parish to connect outside of the church.

Funishment - adj - the opposite of punishment. Do you find yourself lacking a group of friends, acquaintances, or even a confident or three? Do you like stuff? Good! Me too! If you're new to the area or even an old pro to the L/A area, sign up here! Again: There's plenty of PORTLAND / Coastal Groups. This one's for Lewiston, Auburn, Turner, Greene: Central Maine. Most events will revolve around there, with occasional trips to Portland. Ever wanted to go some place and talk about stuff and sip so …

This group is for committed professionals, in any business, that are looking to expand through cost effective, grass roots marketing - the old fashioned way... earning referrals from people you know, like and trust. This is the best way to build your business. We thrive from giving and receiving. If we all give, then we all get. Reciprocity is the Recipe for Referral Results. MYNETKING.COM brings the face-to-face meeting and the online community even closer.

This is a new group forming to activate the Transition Movement in Portland and to be a resource for Transition-minded folks who want to work together to start an initiative in their neighborhood. This group is currently focusing on community-building meetups to further the development of a core group of leaders who will eventually host support a local Transition Initiative. Transition Towns is a local response to three global realities: Climate change, peak oil, and economic crisis. It is an-al …

The Heart Link Network® first and foremost, is dedicated to encouraging and empowering women small business professionals to create heartfelt, meaningful relationships with one another that will in turn strengthen their communities. We meet each month at a local restaurant (Food is included) and you get 3 minutes to showcase your business and the rest of the time is spent networking with other woman and building relationships. We have over 200 (growing each week) women networking locations in th …

Lions Clubs international is the World's largest service club organization, with a network of 1.35 million men and women in more then 207 countries and geographical locations.We serve where we live, as well as globally,and we have fun doing it.................. Through well known for its successful initiatives in vision health,Lions service is as diverse as its members.We meet all sorts of needs, from assisting the elderly to helping victims of natural disasters. Lions give 100 percent of donati …

Our Meetup brings together individuals throughout Eastern Cumberland County,(from Cumberland, to NewGloucester, Yarmouth to Brunswick, Maine), who are interested in Permaculture and self sustainability not only individually, but as a community. Everyone has an important role to play and we all can do this by re skilling one another and help encourage more people within our communities to become apart of a solution for environmental, economic or social change. Permaculture is a holistic approach …

Looking for friends to join me on day trips to the beach, Mackworth Island, any other great hiking or riding destinations. Bring a lunch, water, maybe a swim suit as the weather gets warmer. We will try to plan destinations with some sort of rest facility. Rides would ideally be 15-30 miles round trip. Maybe we could start with shorter rides and build as a group. The goal of this group is to have some fun and enjoy some Maine destinations where parking is often prohibitive. This is not a c …