Bay Area Building Activities

Food

Eat what's in season | 120 page paper Organic Guides for SF and some of North Bay (any reviews?)

Bay Area Farmers' Markets by county | California Farmers' Markets | more (same?) | USDA's California list

downtown SF farmers' market - Four days a week!

Oakland: Old Oakland (9th/Broadway), Fri 8a-2p | Grand Lake (Grand/MacArthur?) Sat, 9a-2p | Jack London (Broadway/Embarcadero) Sun, 10a-2p (year-round) and Wed 10a-2p Water St (May-Oct)

Berkeley: Tues 2-7p Derby/Milvia) | Thur 3-7p organic Shattuck/Vine | Sat 10a-3p Center/Milvia

Long Life Vegi House in downtown Berkeley serves lunch for $4 with enough left-over for dinner. | Happy Cow list of restaurants/stores | Citysearch lists VeGan? and VegeTarian? restaurants (among others), sorts by price, etc. Rainbow Grocery is an excellent worker-owned cooperative in San Francisco.

UrbanGardening? projects -- SLUG (San Francisco) | Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative | Oakland Community Gardening Program (need more links!)

CommunitySupportedAgriculture?: buy directly from nearby farms -- U.S. listings (and other information) | U.S. Department of Agriculture on CSA

Food Not Bombs feeds people -- East Bay | San Francisco | ( list of more)

Bay Area organic agriculture

Travel

Berkeley is redesignating and redesigning a grid of streets as bicycle boulevards, mainly thanks to the efforts of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition. The East Bay Bicycle Coalition links to many bicycle maps

Also see the San Francisco Bike Coalition, East Bay Bike Coalition, and Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition.

CriticalMassBikeRides -- Berkeley: 2nd Friday every month, 5:30pm from Berkeley BART | San Francisco: Last Friday every month, 5:30pm from Embarcadero BART | Peninsula (more there): 3rd Friday every month, 7:00pm from Millbrae Caltrain

Pedestrian advocacy -- Walk San Francisco | Peninsula Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition

Bay Area bicycle clubs | Bay Area Bicycle Ride Catalog

Excellent source on public transit information -- http://transitinfo.org/

Off the InterNet, you can dial "511" on the telephone through much of the BayArea? and get a voicemail system on public transit, carpool, traffic conditions, bicycling information. Also see the nifty Next Bus service (only for systems that have GlobalPositioningSystem?)!

PersonalRapidTransit -- http://www.cities21.org/ and http://www.electric-bikes.com/prt.htm

If you choose to combust oil, how about joining a car share program: http://www.citycarshare.org/ and/or finding a car pool: http://www.rideshare.511.org/

Economics

Berkeley's hour-based currency, BREAD, is alas defunct :(

Community-based banks?

Living/Miscellaneous

Barrington Collective - networking, housing, skill sharing etc. among Bay Area collectives & co-ops

Intentional communities (California's almost exactly half-way down this list)

Long Haul Infoshop (radicals; mostly resistance, but very alive)

Craig's List

Computer Recycling Center

Volunteer through One Brick

Media

CommunityNetworks -- Bay Area Wireless Users' Group | sflan | SF Wireless | Bay Area Research Wireless Network | Marin Community WiFi Network | South Bay Wireless Networks

Free wireless Internet access -- East Bay ( near UC Berkeley) | San Francisco | also see Worldwide and WireLess

Low-power radio -- Berkeley Liberation Radio (website gone!) -- 104.1 FM (are they on-air or off now?), 510.665.4852 | Berkeley Free Radio | more links!

Media Justice: Media for ALL the people -- A Declaration of Media Independence | Youth Media Council | Youth Media Network

Be the Media -- SF Indymedia | SF Bay Area Indymedia | Third World Majority

San Francisco Bay Guardian (independent alternative weekly)

Learning, books

BayNVC (NonviolentCommunication) | Focusing

Open Exchange and Common Ground list lots of personal development type trainings.

Decent community colleges exist throughout the area.

The Distributed Library Project -- everybody lists their books; when you borrow or lend you'll also be meeting someone new.

Mediation, facilitation, bridge-building, etc.

East Bay Community Mediation | Community Boards (SF) | Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California

For more see http://cgl.org/OtherGrpResources.html#Negotiation

Calendars

The Bay Area Progressive Directory's list of calendars has many events listings (mostly mixing ResistanceActivities and BuildingActivities).

Haven't checked them all, but i particularly like Ecology Center calendar.

If we could get those who publish such lists to also publish them with RssSyndication then it would be easier to track what's going on.