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Intentional Communities Newsletter: August 2007
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Communities Directory 2007 New Edition available!
2 Twin Oaks Communities Conference
3 New Website Feature - Intentional Communities Wiki
4 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices
5 Communities Magazine Summer Issue
6 More Guests At Our Fellowship's Potluck Table
1 Communities Directory 2007 New Edition!
We are happy to announce that the new print edition of the Communities Directory is back from the printer and available for shipping now! This is the second edition of the book produced based on our Online Communities Directory http://directory.ic.org and we are very happy with the results.
This all-new Directory edition lists over 900 intentional communities in North America, including ecovillages, co-ops, communes and cohousing projects, and 300 communities from around the world. Also included are detailed cross-reference charts, an index, and maps. For the first time we include maps showing community locations world wide as well as detailed maps of North America.
You can order your copy now for $24 (plus shipping.) This is a 20% discount for those ordering direct from the FIC so don't wait until you see it in stores. Please contact us for discounts on 5 or more copies.
Help us promote the new book by telling your friends or better yet, order them a copy!
Fifth Edition Communities Directory
2007; 432 pages; paperbound; 8-1/2x11 inches
published by the Fellowship for Intentional Community
http://store.ic.org/directory/
The price direct from FIC is $24 plus S/H.
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1.00 S/H for each additional item
S/H prices are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US.
Order by phone fax or mail
FIC :: 138 Twin Oaks Rd :: Louisa VA 23093
800-462-8240
540-894-4112 fax
And remember to visit our online Directory to check for updates received since the book was sent to the printer
http://directory.ic.org
2 Twin Oaks Communities Conference
August 17-19 near Louisa, VA
An FIC co-sponsored event - not too late to attend!
Twin Oaks is pleased to invite you to participate in our annual Communities Conference, August 17 - 19 (begins just nine days from today), in Louisa, Virginia (2.5 hours south of Washington DC).
Featured workshop topics this year include Peak Oil and Community, CoHousing, Effective Conflict Resolution, Creating your Tour of Communities, Running a Business in your Community and more. You'll also have a chance to Create-Your-Own-Workshop and network with others who share your passions.
Our "Meet The Communities" event creates space for representatives from over 25 communities to tell you about their community, and give seekers (like you) a chance to explore prospective community homes.
No Communities Conference would be complete without our Saturday night extravaganza including dessert party, talent show, auction and all-ages Dance Party. So mark your calendar now, and visit this site for more information:
We have a brand new website devoted to this event
http://www.communitiesconference.org/
3 New Website Feature - Intentional Communities Wiki
By Tony Sirna
The Intentional Communities Wiki is proving to be a great source of information and a venue for collaboration.
Wikis are user-created web sites, written and edited by their online community of users. Wikipedia
is the best known example. Our Intentional Communities Wiki is a place to share information that is useful to those living in, wanting to live in, or wishing to start intentional communities and those seeking more community in their lives.
You can browse or search the ICWiki for articles on different types of community, legal options for incorporation, sample community documents, decision-making systems, community design options, and much more. Even more, if you have information to share on any topic related to community you can add or edit an article or even just fix typos and grammar.
Some of the most popular pages on the Intentional Communities Wiki include:
Seven steps to getting started
News articles on Intentional Communities
Finding your community
Starting a community
Community Networks
The ICWiki is brand new so there is a lot of room for new material and we would love to have a wide group of people contribute to this shared knowledge repository. We see this as an amazing chance to use web technology to cooperatively share information about cooperation!
We hope you enjoy browsing the ICWiki and look forward to many of you contributing to it as well.
http://wiki.ic.org/
4 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Prices
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
The specials for this month are three titles from our current booklist that focus on helping you develop and enhance important areas of interpersonal communication. They offer well-organized information that is ideal for self-paced study.
 The Art Of Communicating: Revised Edition by Bert Decker
1996; 103 pages; 8" x 10"; paperback; ISBN: 1-56052-409-X
The Art of Communicating is a book that mixes common sense and a wealth of proven communication techniques. It takes the view that communication in verbal or written form is a skill that can be learned, whether it involves an individual or a group. And the author offers the promise that, with practice, you can raise communication to the level of an art form - one that is truly yours. This book will give you confidence in expressing yourself to others in every kind of situation.
Regular price $14.00 Special price $12.00
The Business Of Listening: Third Edition by Diana Bonet
2001; 103 pages; 8" x 10"; paperback; ISBN: 1-56052-590-8
The simple key to effective listening is that you must want to be a good listener. The Business of Listening provides you with the listening know-how that you need. It is an good introduction to the skills that can help you accomplish this goal. The five sections of the book are full of tips, practical guidelines, case studies and checklists. All these ingredients are designed to facilitate skill-building in this critical area of good communication.
Regular price $14.00 Special price $12.00
Giving And Receiving Feedback: Third Edition by Patti Hathaway
2006; 134 pages, 8" x 10"; paperback; ISBN: 1-41886-6491-9
One of the most difficult skills to learn in the field of interpersonal communication is how to handle critical feedback. Whether we are giving it or receiving it, there is both opportunity and peril in any message. Properly handled, critical feedback becomes a constructive tool and provides information on what's working and what's not. But it is not always easy to be assertive, or clear or even to be completely truthful. The author of this book does an excellent job of teaching you the skills
and values of constructive feedback.
Regular price $14.00 Special price $12.00
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Rutledge MO 63563
800-995-8342
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5 Communities Magazine Summer Issue
Current Issue #135
Food self-reliance in communities and organized neighborhoods is the theme of the current Summer issue of Communities magazine: "What Do You Eat? Where Does it Come From?"
Contributors touch on the satisfying and often spiritual processes of growing, raising, wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving food in "Celebrating the Food Revolution" by Alyson Ewald of Red Earth Farms, and "Food, Glorious Food!" by Stan Hildebrand of Sandhill Farm, both in Missouri.
Others describe how their communities are becoming more food self-reliant as they un-hook from the fossil fuel-based food system: "Making New Choices, Planting New Seeds," by Lynn Farquhar at Lama Foundation in New Mexico; "A New Root Cellar, Bulk Buying, and Two CSAs" by Marty Hiller of EcoVillage at Ithaca in New York; and "Gardening in the Alentejo" by Leila Dregger at Tamera in southern Portugal.
Neighbors in the Anderson Valley Foodshed in Mendocino, California, are "relocalizing"--eating only food grown in their bioregion and supporting local farmers and growers--described in "Eating Local" by Sara McCamant.
And neighbors in Seattle glean, gather, grow, trade for, or dumpster-dive for food in a local "take what you need, pay what you can" food co-op, described in "Stocking our Community Pantry" by Mitchell Johnson. Is this the "urban harvest" of the future?
The summer issue also contains articles about one community seeker's travels (to Camphill Kimberton Hills, Heathcote Community, and Innisfree Village), and how a group of ecological activists in Ireland founded a large-scale ecovillage in an existing rural town.
"If you wonder how communities, and organized neighbors, are planning their food future--and how you can--you'll live the 'delicious' articles in this issue," says editor Diana Leafe Christian.
Coming up next in the Fall 2007 issue #136 "Does Beauty in Community Help Create Community Well-Being?"
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6 More Guests At Our Fellowship's Potluck Table
Do you have the sense that more and more people are seeking and finding community in their lives? You're right!
This year the FIC served up fresh and tasty community fare to more people than ever before. In the past we could offer only our print directory to those looking for a community home, or to communities hoping to attract new members. Now, the number of communities listed in our searchable online database continues to grow, meaning better information that's accessible to more of our audience. Even the media seems to be noticing our communities more lately.
We've been offering a more appealing menu by adding interactive maps to our online database, streamlining our print Communities Directory, and upgrading the relevance and appearance of Communities magazine. You, our friends and supporters, have responded by purchasing our products and joining our nonprofit. This in turn helps cover the costs of providing our products and services.
What are you bringing to the table now? Please consider making a donation to FIC today--or joining us as a member. The more the merrier!
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