Intentional Communities Newsletter: March 30, 2013

Affordability and Self-Reliance - Communities Magazine Spring Issue - Free Articles, Special Prices

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Our latest Communities issue on Affordability And Self-Reliance is proving to be one of our most popular issues. If you haven’t seen it yet, get a copy by subscribing or ordering a sample now!

Our Spring 2013 issue focuses on Affordability and Self-Reliance. Authors describe the many advantages of community living in reducing living costs through sharing and greater self-reliance—and also the obstacles people encounter in making community affordable. Articles document specific strategies employed in cohousing, land trust communities, ecovillages, and elsewhere to create economic accessibility—as well as stories of coping with illness, decision-making quandaries, and elderhood. Please join us!

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Articles Featured Online. The following articles from our new issue have been posted at communities.ic.org

Also in This Issue

• Publisher’s Note: The Dryer, the Chain Saw, and the Laptop by Laird Schaub
• Notes from the Editor: Affording Communities by Chris Roth
• Self-Reliance, Right Livelihood, and Economic “Realities”: Finding Peace in Compromise by Abeja Hummel
• Communities, Political Empowerment, and Collective Self-Sufficiency by Mary Wildfire
• Lessons from a Childhood in Maine by Sarah Fanslau (née Hewes)
• Affordability at Sunrise Ranch by Gary Goodhue
• Money and Sustainability at Green Valley Village by Fen Liano
• Self-Reliance In and Out of Community by Janel Healy
• Achieving Affordability with Cohousing by Joanna Winter and Charles Durrett
• Making Cohousing Affordable: Strategies and Successes by Betsy Morris
• Affordability Strategies and Contrasts by Oz Ragland and Wendy Willbanks Wiesner
• Maintaining Affordability and Sustainability: Saving for the Future by Sharon Villines
• Making It Naturally Affordable: O.U.R. Ecovillage Breaks Regulatory Ground by Brandy Gallagher
• Canadian Ecovillages: Perspectives on Affordability by Russ Purvis
• Working for Spring Time by Capra Carruba
• Affordability for Whom? by Paul Freundlich
• Making Lymeade: Turning Mid-Life Crisis into Opportunity by Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig
• Consensus and the Burden of Added Process: Are There Easier Ways to Make Decisions?--Busting the Myth That Consensus-with-Unanimity Is Good for Communities, Part III by Diana Leafe Christian
• With Arms Spread Wide with Love by Arjuna da Silva
• Women in Community—An Interview with Ira Wallace by Lee Walker Warren

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Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities now also focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods, with enhanced coverage of international communities as well. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.

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