- the largest thrift store you've ever imagined. Employees pull useful things out of the junkyard/landfill and sell em to you cheap. AMAZING PLACE, you can find things you didn’t know existed from the last couple hundred years here.note_redirect.php
(seemingly one of every species from every ecosystem on earth, organized as such, fucking amazing) and other on campus Museumsbotanicalgarden.berkeley.edu
(industrial waste/urban art/graffiti/adobe-concrete forts painted in unimaginable color schemes)en.wikipedia.org
/Botanical Garden. (Maaassive park, take the bus from UC-B's NorthGate straight up the berkeley hills into Tilden) Bike or Hikewww.ebparks.org
: Monday through Friday, cooking and serving from donated resources to make vegetarian food for the whole community. Sunday also has a (temporary) kitchen. Typically begin organizing around 9 am and prep for cooking by 11 am. Cookhouses vary day by day. Mealsites: People's Park daily at 3 pm, Oakland Recycling Center on 14th and Mandela on Thursday. All are welcome regardless of cooking ability to help in the kitchens, serve meals and/or wash dishes. Benefits: choice of free food, fresh produce and great company!www.ebfnb.org
; minus any dogma; (only borderline mysticism); practices straight from Gautama himself) Highly recommend. It has helped me and my friends with all kinds of thing and keeps me reminding myself to be happy.en.wikipedia.org
(downtempo dancing, social tea tasting, place to meet very genuine/warm people)www.mettadance.org
- google the address Go Visit. Don't Read about it. Just bring comfy shoes. Defunct :(jejuneinstitute.org
- Free Classes almost every day of the week. Taught by my friends, model SFcans.www.sffreeschool.com
- (public teahouse, though more like being at home. Super open minded, often intellectual people with which to interact. (VERY relaxed environ, feels more like you're at home than at a bar.)www.omshantea.com
- Like Noisebridge but less Tech, more Variety, Social Reform & DIY & Dancewww.cellspace.org
LOW COST MASSAGE. SMILEY CUDDLY PEOPLE AND FREE TEA (3rd Sun)www.indybay.org
, one in ocean--Red Rocks, must check local tidal charts for negative tide, often corresponding with Full and New Moon cycles, one inland (anybody know where they are specifically? link me to a good website?)chaos.berkeley.edu
(last Sundays) Pay-it-forward Donation Brunches Seated with friendly Strangerswww.karmakitchen.org