Intentional Communities Newsletter: September 18, 2010
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
Community Bookshelf Titles on Sale
Reviewed by Ma'ikwe Ludwig, Bookshelf Manager
CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNITY
Community Bookshelf offers resources to address many aspects of our changing
world, on sale this month.
Last month, I talked about Bill McKibben's book Deep
Economy. Last night, I followed a link from a friend's Facebook page
to see a clip of McKibben on David Letterman, talking about his latest
work, Eaarth. Eaarth is so titled because, as McKibben
says, "The Earth we were born on is not the same Eaarth we are currently
living on."
Now I promise the Community Bookshelf enews will
not always be about McKibben, but hearing him speak about how we've already
gone over the line of irreversible climate damage to the planet got me thinking
about how I choose books that Bookshelf carries and why the work of FIC is
so important. Essentially, the FIC is here to support people choosing to
be deliberate about how they live their daily lives, and this means that
we support people learning, in practical terms, to address the major issues
of  the
times, should they choose to do so. Bookshelf reflects that in carrying titles
that feature intentional community (those social laboratories where people
are developing profoundly new ways of living) sustainability (surely one
of the major issues of our times!) and cooperation (because if we can't get
along and make decisions together, we just aren't going to get that far as
a people).
When McKibben talks about the immediate changes
we need to make as a people in order to get off oil and stop cooking our
home, what comes up for me is wanting to encourage folks to use FIC's full
range of services and resources to help us make that transition. I
have on 15% sale this month nine important titles we carry for
supporting your holistic journey to addressing climate change in your own
life, whether you currently live in a residential intentional community or
not (here are the top three, read on down to see the other six)
- The Post-petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook is a fun and practical distillation of The Farm's Albert Bates' best thinking on how we got here and how to get us out.
- Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change, where the
 "C" in the title refers to Community
- The Transition Handbook, which is great for folks not living in an intentional community to help their town or city start to change
And of course, our package of basic resources to help you make the jump to intentional community living if you are ready: the Communities Directory, two part Visions of Utopia video set and Communities magazine (whose timely focus this issue on Power and Empowerment is something we need to garner a lot of to make an impact on climate change and other important issues!)
 Save 15% on all sale titles.
At the heart of everything we do as an organization is a commitment to living
in a more connected, more just and more sustainable world. We are happy to
share the journey with you; please let us know what we can do to help.
In Community, Ma'ikwe
PS: wanting to go deeper? Here are a few other titles that might be interesting,
depending on your focus. These titles are also on sale
this month:
- Deep Economy (reviewed last month)
- Building United Judgement, is the FIC's recommended guide for
learning consensus decision-making, a powerful way to move toward the goal
of our social movements and communities not leaving anyone behind
- The Art of Facilitation, a well-balanced guidebook for helping
you develop your skills in keeping your group evolving in a healthy way as
a meeting facilitator
- Passion as Big as a Planet: Evolving Eco-activism in America is
the ideal title for people ready to look at sustainability as a personal
journey, and activism as a spiritual pursuit, and get moving on making a
difference
- Ecovillages, which includes resources, advice, tips, etc. from
folks who have pioneered ecovillage living projects
- Creating a Life Together, former Communities magazine editor,
Diana Leafe Christian's excellent guide to starting your own project in sustainable
cooperative living.
COMING SOON to Bookshelf are some new titles you can look
forward to which also speak to aspects of our rapidly changing world, including: Local
Money by Peter North, Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy
and Money in a Post Peak Oil World by Michael C, Rupert, and McKibben's Eaarth,
plus the DVD The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. We'll
get these up online as soon as we can.
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