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Every year I try to join a non-profit society of some sort. Last year was the Cartoon Art Museum here in lovely San Francisco. This year I'm feeling the need to contribute to something that fits into my eco-lovin' boots, so when I found out that The Sierra Club is based in San Francisco as well, I thought I'd found my cause.

After checking out their website, though, I discovered they're a bunch of naturalists. I respect nature (and naturalists), but I'm not really interested in actively supporting such things. So I was at a loss yet again.

Today, though, Sh sent me this article about the Slow Food movement and the plan to feed the homeless of San Francisco with organically-grown foods (which nicely dovetails into the recent Grist article about the unaffordability of organic foods, which, hey, looky that, mentions Slow Food). Not only does "Slow Food" fit into the culinary training that Sh is pursuing, but it's also about reducing the resources required to deliver the necessities of life, which fits well into my Weltanschauung.

Best of all, there's a San Francisco "convivium", which apparently was the first convivium in the United States.

Sure, the Slow Food guiding principles lean a little toward granola hippiedom, but overall it seems like the right choice.

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