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increasingly focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods. Articles and columns cover practical how-to issues of cooperative living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, ecological living, and much more. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.
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Last week we rolled out a new Communities Magazine website where you can read a selection of articles from our quarterly magazine online. We will post a handful of articles from each issue so you can get a taste of what Communities
offers. See links below to read some currently available online articles. Check the website periodically--we'll add new articles on a regular basis.
Available
by subscription or sample order, and sold on select newsstands, our winter issue
(#145) focuses on Health
and Well-Being. Here's some of what readers will
find:
Growing
a Culture of Community Health and Well-Being at Earthaven Ecovillage by
Arjuna da Silva. At
a permaculture-based ecovillage in North Carolina, care for the earth, care for
people, and care for inner health all benefit from a dynamic culture based on
local self-reliance, holism, and community.
Read
the above article online .
Health and Community:
A Move to Edinburgh by Sophie
Unwin. Leaving London to regain a sense
of well-being, the author lands in a Scottish housing cooperative, where she
finds mutual support, health, and the ability to be herself amongst others.
Embracing
a Terminal Illness by Fred
Lanphear. A community
rallies in support of a long-time member diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease,
discovering opportunities and possibilities for new connections with each other
and becoming more present to the priceless experiences of both living and dying. Here's
an excerpt from this article:
Garden as Therapist
and Community Organizer by
Craig Chalquist. Neither 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.
Read
the above article online.
Cell Phones, Education,
Farming, and Mental Health by Shepherd
Bliss. A professor and farmer
suggests that the nearly-ubiquitous cell phone may, instead of being the best
thing since sliced bread, endanger our health and threaten our relationships
within human and natural communities.
Gut Health by
Dona Willoughby . Both
in traditional cultures and at La’akea, close loving relationships, consistent
community connection, a life close to nature, fresh non-processed food,
satisfying work, regular exercise, clean air and water, attunement to biological
rhythms, joy, and laughter all support health.
Read the above article
online.
The Shakers’ Secrets
of Longevity by Susan Matarese
and Paul Salmon. For
more than 200 years, a wholesome diet, regular physical activity, hygienic practices,
comprehensive health care, economic security, and social support combined with
religious principles contributed to the Shakers’ general good health and
longevity.
Artabana Solidarity
Communities: New
Paths for an Integrated Health Care System in Germany by
Ina Meyer-Stoll. Based
on principles of freedom, responsibility, solidarity, transparency, giving, sharing,
and healthy, integrated lifestyles, a European-based alternative health care
network offers practical models that could be enacted anywhere.
Healing Work in a
Healing Biotope: An
interview with Dr. Amélie Weimar by
Stephen Davis. Tamera
Healing Biotope seeks to promote healing on
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, within individuals, within
the whole community, and between genders, cultures, humans and nature.
The True Need for
Community by
Joshua Canter. Both
scientific studies and personal experience confirm the importance of community
in healing and healthy living. Mutual support and a sense of connection to a
whole help us thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Community Cured
My Asthma and Allergies by Mandy
Creighton. Turning
to her community for support and advice, and opening up to healing alternatives,
a chronic asthmatic finally discovers the health that has eluded her throughout
27 years of conventional treatment.
Want to Be a Healer?
Be a Creek! by
Niánn Emerson Chase. In
order for us to begin to feel union with others, we must realize that we have
a common need to heal, and that healing is an ongoing process—dynamic,
flowing, moving, and cleansing.
Community and Health: Immigrant
Senior Cohousing in the Netherlandsby
Dorit Fromm and Els de Jong. Innovative
Dutch cohousing projects allow ethnic minorities to spend their elder years
in dignity, community, mutually supportive relationships, greater connection
to their traditions and families, and better health.
Senior Cohousing:
Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation by
Chuck Durrett. Senior
cohousing enhances quality of life, supports physical, social, and emotional
well-being, and allows seniors to live lightly on the planet at the same time.
Health and Quiet—book
review by Chris Roth. Noise
and quiet can both affect well-being profoundly. Gordon Hempton’s One
Square Inch of Silence offers
ear-opening stories and perspectives, practical suggestions, and simple, radical
wisdom.
Read the above
review online.
The issue also
includes letters, a
profile of the
PEACH Health Care Plan, a Cooperative Group Solutions panelist discussion on "The
Bully Question," and a retrospective on the historic community, High
Wind, in which its cofounder, Belden Paulson, reflects
on decades of work at the intersection of academia, community, and sustainable
living.
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foods store, or subscribe today.
Contact Communities Editor.
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Questions?
Get in touch with us at ads -[at]- ic.org. We look
forward to hearing from you and helping promote your community's festival,
gathering, and/or special events.
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