Community Where You Are
Expressing Gratitude in Community
Posted on June 7, 2013 byCommunities and their members can change and drift apart, but the lessons and tools gained in community endure.
Seeking Community
Posted on June 7, 2013 byThe Tamarack Institute helps people talk and learn together about the possibilities of community.
Being Human
Posted on June 7, 2013 byA veteran of Washington, DC’s Sojourners Community reflects on wisdom her group gleaned from Central Americans and from one another.
Wisdom from Within, Wisdom from Without
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Life in and out of community offers valuable lessons about governance, membership, vision, struggles, and deepening connections.
Lessons from a Childhood in Maine
Posted on March 7, 2013 byIn rural Maine in the ’70s, community was everyday reality, and everyone needed help sometimes.
Cycling toward Sustainable Community
Posted on December 7, 2012 by1 Comment
After 6,500 miles of pedaling and 100 community visits, a couple documents the promise of intentional community and cooperative living.
Greening Your ’Hood
Posted on December 7, 2012 byKibbutzes, ecovillages, cohousing communities, and pocket neighborhoods offer us opportunities to make a new start.
Community for a Minute
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Children in outdoor programs face—and often overcome—three major obstacles to learning and growth.
The Sharing Gardens
Posted on December 7, 2011 by2 Comments
An innovative approach to collective community gardens nurtures a culture of giving while allowing participants to feed both themselves and those in need.
The Lenox Place News
Posted on September 7, 2011 byA fifth-grader takes initial steps toward right livelihood by creating a neighborhood newspaper that embodies and helps bring together her local community.
The Gift of Compost
Posted on September 7, 2011 byTo the Compostmeister at a collective house, the cycles of compost embody a new economics that focuses upon human needs and relationships.
Which Comes First, My Community or My Career?
Posted on September 7, 2011 byBelieving that the next phase in human evolution involves a return to the “local” and to community with neighbors, the author focuses his job search close to home, and includes any useful type of work.
Crowdfunding
Posted on September 7, 2011 byA collective financial approach that allows individuals to pool their resources in support of favorite projects, crowdfunding both encourages and thrives upon community.
Remade in Edinburgh
Posted on September 7, 2011 byIn Brixton, South London, and Edinburgh, Scotland, right livelihood finds a home in innovative, resource-conserving, grassroots projects.
Right Lively ‘Hood
Posted on September 7, 2011 by1 Comment
Finding meaningful, socially and ecologically responsible work cannot be done in a vacuum. Right livelihood depends on networks of relationship.
A Communitarian Conundrum
Posted on June 7, 2011 by1 Comment
Despite widespread desire for community, structural and cultural obstacles to intentional community in the modern world loom large.
Honesty and Intimacy
Posted on June 7, 2011 by3 Comments
In the author’s first, very intense intentional community immersion, revealing the truth led to love and intimacy. He left that group, but, in many spheres of life, emotional and intellectual honesty became his religion.
A Nomad Ponders Family and the Ecstasy of the Group
Posted on June 7, 2011 byTo a former communitarian and long-time student of community, utopian experiments—some sweet, some gone sour—offer valuable lessons about oneness, diversity, and intimacy.
Rx for “Mental Illness”
Posted on March 7, 2011 by3 Comments
How can we best support mental health? Caring attention—even from amateurs—can promote healing unattainable through impersonal approaches or drugs.
Prescription Facebook
Posted on March 7, 2011 by5 Comments
Ex-members of the Emissaries of Divine Light reflect on their shared past and discover more holistic approaches to inner wellness as they reunite online.
Tough Grace
Posted on March 7, 2011 by4 Comments
For 12 years, a once-proud career woman struggled with manic depression, becoming a “bag lady” and experiencing more than a dozen hospitalizations, before entering recovery.
Remembering Jane Owen
Posted on December 7, 2010 byIn reviving and restoring the site of two historical intentional communities, a town’s benefactor revitalized its sense of present-day community as she continued to dream, create, grow, and give.
Elderhood, In and Out of Community
Posted on December 7, 2010 by2 Comments
A disenchanted community founder leaves her group, and finds that her rural hometown farming community and international travel and service better match her vision of honorable elderhood.
Being “Overthrown”—A Celebration
Posted on September 7, 2010 byThe founder of Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage describes what it’s like to be criticized, marginalized, stripped of leadership responsibilities, and given the opportunity to explore a new role.
From Visions of Utopia to “The Many Faces of Community”
Posted on March 7, 2010 byGeoph Kozeny’s community documentary brings forth reflections on Hearthaven, discussions among neighbors and friends, and ultimately a new intergenerational family community.
Garden as Therapist and Community Organizer
Posted on December 7, 2009 byNeither the therapist diagnosing Major Depression nor the psychiatrist prescribing an antidepressant asked the fundamental question: Do you like to garden? When the author discovers this doorway into the natural world, he also finds community and inner and outer health.
Emergency Community
Posted on September 7, 2009 by1 Comment
After serving thousands of meals, a community of post-Katrina relief kitchen volunteers moves to the West Coast and acquires a mortgage, a baby, full-time jobs, and the challenges of the mundane.
Lighten Up
Posted on June 7, 2009 byOrganized around common ecological values and a shared appreciation for the epic of evolution, a group of neighbors reduces its collective energy consumption by 25 percent.
Environmental Activism
Posted on June 7, 2009 byWith a long history of protecting the local watershed, Trillium Farm Community in southern Oregon grows not only organic food, but ecological activists.
Chicken à la West Birch Avenue
Posted on March 7, 2009 byAuthor: Hilary Giovale Published in Communities Magazine Issue #142 We used to be a typical neighborhood. People were friendly enough and we waved to each other on our way into… Read More
