CURRENT MISSION

We seek to make a better world while enjoying it.

ABOUT ME

* Welcome *

We're Jewish, American, progressive, vegan-leaning vegetarian, eco-conscious, non-smoking, non-drug using, friendly, informal, intellectual, educated, atheist, playful, curious, and we love taking walks in our beautiful city and elsewhere.

We have lots of tea, but no coffee.

We try to be considerate and respectful of others and appreciate when others are considerate and respectful as well. It makes the world a better place to live.

We appreciate timeliness: we like to be on time and we expect others to be on time, too. If you are delayed or plans change, please let us know; we'll do the same.

We like cleanliness, but there will be some dust balls roaming around.

Personal websites:

Eco-Eating: https://sites.google.com/site/eatingtheearth/
(Eco-comiendo: http://sites.google.com/site/ecocomiendo)
(环保膳食: https://sites.google.com/site/huanbaoshanshi)
(पर्यावरण भोजन: https://sites.google.com/site/hindiveg)
(Öko-Essen: https://sites.google.com/site/okoessen)
(الطعام البيئي / At-ta'am Al-bay'i: https://sites.google.com/site/arabicveg)

Food for Thought---and Action: https://sites.google.com/site/foodfood411

The Vegetarian Mitzvah: http://www.brook.com/jveg

No Smoking?: http://www.brook.com/smoke

Bernie: https://bernieforamerica.wordpress.com

No GOP: http://vegnik.wixsite.com/nogop

Julie's blogs:

CEB Blog (legal): https://blog.ceb.com

Life in the Eco-Apt. (eco): https://julieontheway.wordpress.com

Dan's e-books:

GO! Travel Quotes to Send You Off (inspiration):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/520214

Daydreaming in Kyoto (haiku & photos):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/301871

An Alef-Bet Kabalah (mystical): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1653

Che Forever (poetry): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1662

Social Truths (sociology):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242645

Brook's Book (wisdom):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/718072

Justice in the Kitchen (cookbook):
https://justicecookbook.wordpress.com/

Please check them out.

Follow me on Twitter @GlobalWeirding
Join VEG+ on G+: https://plus.google.com/communities/118042481358574754035

PHILOSOPHY

We seek to make a better world while enjoying it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In addition to CouchSurfing,
we like and support related pro-community orgs, ideas, & activities, such as:

Simbi (https://simbi.com),

Really Really Free Market (http://www.reallyreallyfree.org),

Critical Mass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass),

San Francisco Veg Society (http://sfvs.org) & SF World Veg Fest (http://sfvs.org/wvd),

Daily Good (http://dailygood.org),

SFBA Progressive Calendar (http://bapd.org/notices.html),

craigslist (http://craigslist.org),

Little Free Library (http://littlefreelibrary.org),

Power to the Peaceful (http://powertothepeaceful.org),

Food Not Bombs (http://foodnotbombs.net),

Curry Without Worry (http://currywithoutworry.org),

Peace in the Park (http://www.peaceintheparksf.org),

organic farm surfing (http://wwoof.org),

freeganism (http://freegan.info),

Freecycle Network (http://freecycle.org),

Community Thrift Store (http://www.communitythriftsf.org) (and their partner orgs),

Neighborrow (http://neighborrow.com),

Peerby (https://peerby.com),

The Green Umbrella (http://thegreenumbrella.org),

Happy Cow (http://www.HappyCow.net) & VegDining (http://VegDining.com),

Occupy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement),

Karma Wish (http://www.karmawish.com),

Poems-For-All (http://sacfreepress.com/pfa),

alternative economic initiatives (http://find.coop),

Global Exchange (https://globalexchange.org/),

Greenpeace (https://www.greenpeace.org/international), etc.

Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org), Wiktionary (https://www.wiktionary.org), and WikiVoyage (https://www.wikivoyage.org) are also great, as is the entire Wikimedia Foundation (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home).

We'd love to see these and many other great ideas, dreams, NGOs, and projects keep
s p r e a d i n g . . . worldwide!

(please check them out, participate, support, share, blog, donate, expand, copy, innovate, enjoy!)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We stay with people when we can and allow people to stay with us when we can.

Interests

Vegetarianism (https://sites.google.com/site/eatingtheearth), food (https://sites.google.com/site/foodfood411), activism, social justice, sharing, learning, playing word games, reading, writing, poetry (including haiku), listening to music, knitting, walking, living in SF, and of course traveling.

• animals
• writing
• books
• poetry
• beauty
• education
• environment
• dining
• vegetarian
• vegan
• meditation
• walking
• thrifting
• politics
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• knitting
• music
• hiking
• jewish
• atheism
• teaching
• languages
• law
• science
• social science
• sociology
• food
• tea
• forests
• social justice
• health
• activism
• mindfulness
• healthy lifestyle
• happiness
• compassion
• peace
• trees
• climate change
• awareness
• judaism
• haiku
• justice
• awakening
• progressive politics
• jewish culture
• veg

Music, Movies, and Books

We especially like classic rock. And we read a lot.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We've seen and done so many amazing things. When we're open to it, we can even find amazement in the mundane. That said, seeing the sun rise over the Taj Mahal was really cool.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can talk and teach about sociology, politics, law, history, knitting, writing, education, dinosaurs and other animals, food, vegetarianism/veganism, climate change, environment, activism, Judaism, America, San Francisco, music, philosophy, spirituality, relationships, Thailand (especially Chiang Mai) and Laos, traveling, spirituality, chess, Scrabble, Boggle, words, haiku, happiness, and much more!

We'd like to learn more about other people, cultures, countries, languages, possibilities, wild projects, dreams, and lots more.

We're very passionate, very inquisitive, and very opinionated.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ecuador, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Thailand, United States