Intentional Communities Newsletter: February 4, 2012

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Communities' winter issue focuses on Permaculture, an approach to designing resilient, ecologically integrated human settlements and communities, incorporating not only "permanent agriculture" but all aspects of "permanent culture." Articles address a wide range of permacultural concerns, from social permaculture to hugelkultur methods, and (mostly) that middle ground where human and nature, social organization and ecological living skills, "people care" and "earth care," intersect. We hope you find them both instructive and inspiring.


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Articles Featured Online

The following articles from our current issue have been posted at communities.ic.org

How Permaculture Stole My Community!  by Arjuna da Silva
After a painful period stranded in “permaculture heaven,” an Earthaven founder finds her community finally moving back towards balance with its eco-spiritual roots.

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Doing It, Or Are We?  
by Dona Willoughby & Tracy Matfin

On Hawaii’s Big Island, La’akea Community explores sustainability through myriad experiments—from keeping wild pet pigs in the garden to eating 100 percent locally to mowing with sheep. 

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Growing A Culture Of Gratitude In Argentine Patagonia: A WWOOFER Experiences Community Living by James Collector

An organic farming volunteer learns surprising new lessons from his Argentinian hosts—such as how to relax, how to enjoy practical labor, and how to contribute more sustainably by putting personal work first.

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Also in This Issue

• FIC News―Communal Studies Association Honors Communities
• Publisher’s Note―Changeaculture by Laird Schaub
• Permaculture 101 and Attending to Zone Zero by Chris Roth
• Social Permaculture by Starhawk
• Lessons in Building Resilient Neighborhoods: Reflections on the PROUT Institute Community SEED Program by Ryan Dubas
• Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution by Melanie Rios
• Permaculture at The Farm: Climate Prophylaxis by Albert Bates
• eCOOLvillages Comic by Albert Bates and friends
• Hugelkultur on the Prairie, or Learning from Our Mistakes by Alyson Ewald
• The Future of Water: Halting Desertification, Restoring Ecosystems, and Nourishing Communities by Jeff Anderson
• Permaculture on Low to No Budget by Elizabeth Barrette
• Nature’s Friends Wait for Human Companionship by Rev. Marjani Dele
• Cultivating Hope: Using Permaculture to Feed the Orphaned Children in Kenya by Victor Omondi
• The Sharing Gardens by Llyn Peabody
• Farming with Horses...Not Tractors by Bernd Riechelmann
• Permaculture as a Tool for Ecological Community Design by Ethan Hirsch-Tauber
• UMass Amherst Permaculture: Leading by Example by Ryan Harb
• Community Living Worldwide―Tasman Village, Australia by Bill Metcalf
• Cultivating The Neighborhood―Creating Family Where We Are Now by Zane Hamm
• Creating Cooperative Culture―Reunion Under the Redwoods by Diana Leafe Christian
• Reviews―The Growing Edge, Additional Permaculture Resources, and Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth by Chris Roth and Kim Crieger Goodwin

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