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Kindista helps you share with people nearby
Posted on March 16, 2015 by1 Comment
Kindista helps you share with people nearby Looking for a plot to garden in, or someone to landscape your yard? Wishing for a dog walker, or offering mural painting skills?… Read More
Every Eight Seconds
Posted on March 14, 2015 byAs intentional communities model new approaches to elder care, baby boomers can lead the way in transforming how we age in our society.
How to Thrive on 10%
Posted on March 13, 2015 byHow to Thrive on 10% It is often taken for granted that the United States consumes and wastes 5 times more than the rest of the planet. At the same… Read More
Good Meetings – Learn More – Best of Communities IV
Posted on March 9, 2015 byCommunity Bookstore Featured Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop Good Meetings by Erica, Community Bookstore Manager Best of Communities Volume IV Good Meetings Digital downloadable compilation PDF FIC is… Read More
Free Land on a Tropical Island!?
Posted on March 6, 2015 by6 Comments
Free land on a tropical island!? Pitcairn, a small remote paradise-like island in the South Pacific is running out of people. They are giving land for free to people who… Read More
Living Intergenerationally at Dancing Rabbit: “The Times They Are A-Changin’…”
Posted on March 4, 2015 by1 Comment
Finding themselves to be elders in a multi-generational community, two baby boomers resist, accept, then finally embrace the idea that age DOES matter.
UN Report says Organic Farming is Key
Posted on March 3, 2015 byUN Report says Organic Farming is Key In a new report, with the dramatic title, ‘Wake up Before it’s too Late’, “the United Nations is once against sounding the alarm… Read More
Southern Exposure Seed Cooperative Nurtures Community Gardeners
Posted on March 1, 2015 bySouthern Exposure Seed Cooperative Nurtures Community Gardeners Acorn Community Farm is an intentional community a few miles from Twin Oaks in Mineral, Virginia. It was founded in 1993 as an… Read More
40+ Years of Communities magazine Back Issue Yard Sale!
Posted on February 28, 2015 by40+ Years of Communities magazine Back Issues Yard Sale Christopher Kindig, Business Manager Communities magazine has chronicled the challenges and celebrations of community living since 1972. This stacks up to… Read More
The New Communities
Posted on February 26, 2015 byOur new format features 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper, as well as color throughout the issue—better reflecting both our ecological values and the richness of life in cooperative culture.
Community for Baby Boomers, #166 Contents
Posted on February 20, 2015 byWhat role can baby boomers (born 1946-1964) play in a new resurgence of intentional community living? Where can they find and offer support to meet their and others’ needs over their final decades of life? How can aging baby boomers regain the sense of community that defined much of their generation as youth and young adults? What gifts do baby boomers offer to younger generations? In “Community for Baby Boomers,” our contributors explore these questions and many more.
Best of Communities III. Leadership, Power and Membership
Posted on February 10, 2015 byCommunity Bookstore Special Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop Leadership, Power, and Membership by Erica, Community Bookstore Manager Best of Communities Volume III Leadership, Power, and Membership Digital… Read More
Why should you care about Intentional Communities?
Posted on February 9, 2015 byWhy should you care about Intentional Communities? FIC Board Member Sky Blue reviews the successful systems and culture Twin Oaks has built to allow it to thrive. “Twin Oaks Community… Read More
Life with the Solar Kitchen
Posted on January 30, 2015 byThe Tamera Solar Village combines solar thermal and biogas technologies to create a kitchen that not only promotes responsible relationships to the earth and sky, but also builds human community.
Commons Transition Project
Posted on January 27, 2015 byLast week, commons advocates the P2P Foundation, Guerilla Translation, and their partners launched Commons Transition, a public forum to further commons-oriented policy-making. Commons Transition is based on the groundbreaking work… Read More
YES Youth Europe Self-Empowerment Cooperative
Posted on January 21, 2015 byParticipants: 28 young people (18 – 30 Years) – 1 from each EU country and 8 from other continents as guests Date: 26th April to 3rd May 2015 Place: Schloss… Read More
Social Media or Social Isolation? Or is there a third way?
Posted on January 19, 2015 byAvoiding computers can mean losing out on connecting with others when one is desperate for connection, yet a rich, computer-free, community-based social life is also possible.
Reasons why Comfrey is perfect for permaculture
Posted on January 13, 2015 byComfrey is a fairly humble looking plant. It has large hairy green leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, typically colored either purple or white. However, what it may lack in striking… Read More
Kindista: Technology for Living More Freely
Posted on January 9, 2015 byBorn of collaboration, an innovative technology helps build community by encouraging trust, appreciation, and giving from the heart.
Best of Communities II: Seeking and Visiting a Community
Posted on January 6, 2015 byCommunity Bookstore Special Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop Seeking and Visiting a Community by June, Community Bookstore Manager Best of Communities Volume II Seeking and Visiting a… Read More
6 fascinating people who own almost nothing
Posted on January 4, 2015 byMost of us can only handle stacking, storing and stepping over our stuff for so long before we start to feel claustrophobic. We go on a cleaning spree and give (or… Read More
Followup: Are People Happier Living in Community?
Posted on December 30, 2014 byAre people happier living in community? Three intentional communities who responded won cash prizes! Laird Schaub FIC Executive Secretary Researcher Bjorn Grinde (top left, visiting Findhorn Community.) Who’s Happier Now? Durham… Read More
Technology on the Path to Reality: Snapshots from the Pre-Post-Digital Age
Posted on December 29, 2014 by1 Comment
Misadventures with a cell phone help the author dial into more enduring, meaningful adventures and relationships not dependent on an electronic-communications hamster wheel.
Back to Life: Returning from the Virtual to the Real
Posted on December 19, 2014 byTo shake our addiction to modern technology, we must understand its true costs. Stillwaters Sanctuary works to create a culture of greater connection, where it is easier to live without industrial society.
What Would You Give for World Peace?
Posted on December 13, 2014 bySeasons Greetings from all of us at FIC! from Laird Schaub, FIC Executive Secretary SEASONS GREETINGS FROM ALL OF US AT FIC! This is the time of year when we… Read More
Technology: Our External Thumb
Posted on December 8, 2014 by2 Comments
Instead of asking whether technology is a “friend or foe,” perhaps we should be asking how to better help friends and reduce foes through the use of technology.
“Appropriate” Technology and Community on the Path to Resiliency
Posted on November 28, 2014 by1 Comment
At Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, efforts to foster a renaissance in land-based living go hand in hand with judicious use of modern design and communication technologies.
Best of Communities: Intentional Community Overview & Starting a Community
Posted on November 25, 2014 by1 Comment
Community Bookstore Special Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop Intentional Community Overview And Starting A Community by June, Community Bookstore Manager Best of Communities Vol. I Intentional… Read More
Technology, Nature, and Community
Posted on November 21, 2014 byHow does modern technology affect our ecological and social literacy? Are computers and their kin suppressing or enhancing the awareness, skills, and qualities essential to our nature as humans?
Technology: Friend or Foe?, #165 Contents
Posted on November 14, 2014 byIn our issue on “Technology: Friend or Foe?,” authors examine the impacts of modern technology on their experience of community. Has the digital age brought us closer together, or moved us apart? How has it impacted our relationship with the rest of the living world? What does “appropriate use of technology” look like, and what is “appropriate technology”? We explore the full range of sentiment from technological optimism to technological skepticism.
