… LOW COST VACCINATION CLINICS: www.luvmypet.com SPAY/NEUTER: Washington Humane Society Spay/Neuter Clinic offers affordable sterilizations in the DC Metropolitan area. http://www.washhumane.org/snclinic.asp The Animal Welfare League of Arlington offers a low-cost program (income below $40,000. If you can't afford the reduced fees, the League has another program for which you may qualify. Call 703-931-9241 x200 for details. http://www.awla.org/spay-neuter-program.shtml The Animal Welfare Lea …

This group is for vegans who are looking to get together to leaflet, educate, and enjoy the company of like-minded people. If you are interested in interacting with the public to benefit our non-human brothers and sisters, then this is the group for you. Please join if you plan on being active. In addition to animal rights, we will also enjoy some socialization. Please note, we will focus on animal rights/veganism, not animal welfare.  Please also note that this is an ethical vegan group, not a …

The Center for Inquiry–DC (CFI–DC) offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists to work for positive change in society. In addition, the D.C. Center sponsors social events for freethinkers as well as intellectual programming. CFI provides an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews. In this time of rising religiosity, anti-intellectualism and political turmoil on ethical issues, it is critical that rationalists and freethinkers join t …

We meet weekly on Mondays to explore the meaning of, and need for, liberty, equality, freedom, and justice for all in matters of religion, government, commerce, and society. The basic premise of our explorations is that the experiences and pleasures of the erotic are the proper foundation of human motivation and accomplishment of personal growth and vital maturity. Stated simply, Sex is sacred, always has been, always will be, because it is the time of our most intimate personal communion with L …

The purpose of this group is to inspire people to learn, network and expose themselves to a group of Conscious Entrepreneurs. Conscious Entrepreneurs are defined as individuals and organizations who recognize a social problem and use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a Conscious entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact on society as well as in …

… According to the Skoll Foundation, an SE is : "society's change agent: a pioneer of innovation that benefits humanity." and "A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change."

    The term "Zeta Male" refers to the 4th social hierarchy among males.  The idea, apparently borrow from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, being that the Alphas are on the top, the Betas below and the Omegas on the bottom and, also as with Huxley's novel, these divisions are driven by a consumerist society.  The difference with Huxley's novel, is that these divisions exist many in terms of how men are valued by women and, in reality, these divisions really indicate how men define themselves …

… As for the voice of women, we are dedicated, hardworking, and loyal workers and because of that, women in our modern society play an integral role in our community and our economy.  We dominate, representing a larger part of the economy, we are the larger participants of the workforce.   We get up to fix breakfast for our children, get them on to the school bus on time, we take them to their sports practice, to their orthodontist appointments, we report to work, we bear the children. We are home …

Muslims for Progressive Values - DC was founded in 2004 as Washington DC Progressive Muslim Meetup to provide a place for Progressive Muslims and their friends to meet and discuss Islam from a liberal perspective. While a variety of definitions of "progressive Islam" can be found, this group is guided by the words of Professor Omid Safi: "Progressive Islam encompasses a number of themes: striving to realize a just and pluralistic society through a critical engagement with Islam, a relentless pu …

Do you want to reduce your consumer impact on the earth, humans, and animals? Are you concerned about the wastefulness of our consumer society? Do you live in the Washington DC area? We're forming this group to get a group started that can dumpster dive together, swap stuff we don't need, and any other strategies we want to work on together to keep stuff out of landfills and help each other to live simply and richly.