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Intentional Communities Newsletter: December 2007
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Community Buzz Blog
2 Communities Magazine Upcoming Issues
3 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices
4 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
1 Community Buzz Blog
By Tony Sirna
The Intentional Communities Website is proud to present a new feature --
Community Buzz at http://communitybuzz.ic.org
Community Buzz is a blog (short for web log) where we will post information on articles, videos, and other media portrayals of intentional communities. This is a great way for folks to keep up on what the media has to say about communities and see what kind of spin they have on us.
You can view the blog directly at
http://communitybuzz.ic.org
via RSS at http://communitybuzz.ic.org/feed/
or you can get blog posts sent to you via email (using FeedBlitz) by signing up here http://communitybuzz.ic.org/signup.php
Help us Create a Buzz
This blog is also about all of us creating a buzz about intentional community. We invite you to not just read the blog but to help us create a buzz by sharing a post with friends by email, by submitting posts or news articles to social networking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg, Hugg, and StumbleUpon, or by linking to the blog from your site or blog. Together we can help raise awareness of Intentional Community in the media, on the web, and in the wider culture.
Plus we need your help in finding articles, videos, and blog posts about community. We use Google alerts to get the basics but if you find news that we haven't posted please contact us using the form on our website. If you are interested we might sign you up as an editor so you can post to the blog yourself.
The blog also allows comments so let folks know what you think of the articles and videos we find.
Some Recent Community Buzz Posts:
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage on Fox News St. Louis, Missouri
Ithaca Ecovillage in TIME Magazine
IC article in Common Ground
2 Communities Magazine Upcoming Issues
Winter issue theme: Communities Making a Difference
Spring issue theme: Women in Community
Making a Difference is the theme of the Winter 2007 issue of Communities magazine. This issue will be mailed to subcribers by mid-month.
 Articles include
- Can We Make a Difference? Portland City Repair activists make common cause with city officials, yielding beautiful results.
- When "No" is Just an Uneducated "Yes" O.U.R. Ecovillage's precedent-setting sustainable zoning on Vancouver Island.
- Let's Do Greywater First! TLC Farm/Cedar Moon community works with Portland officials to legalize sustainability.
- From Eco-Kooks to Eco-Consultants No longer considered quite so crazy, ecovillagers are increasingly sought out for their expertise in numerous areas.
- Turning People On to Community Members of Songaia Cohousing share community living with their neighbors, their workshop participants, and even folks at the grocery store.
- A "Wife Swapping" Adventure An ecovillage woman who swapped households for a week with a very different family--and their six pedigreed show dogs--tells all.
Other articles include
Preventing "Tyranny of the Minority" in your community decision-making; On the Road with Zephyr, Part III, in which Zephyr visits three Missouri communities; A tribute to outgoing editor Diana Leafe Christian, by Tony Sirna; Farewell to Geoph Kozeny, the Peripatetic Communitarian, by Laird Schaub.
The theme of the following Spring issue #138 will be Women in Community
, with articles by Janaia Donaldson, Anissa Ljanta, Colette Hoff, Mollie Curry, Alline Anderson, Calliope Kurtz, and others.
Communities magazine is now seeking articles and photos for the Summer 2008 issue, Green Building in Community. For more information or to obtain article guidelines, please contact:
Interim Editor Alyson Ewald using our webform
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3 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
Small Groups: The Process of Change
by William C. Coughlan, Jr.
2007; 167 pages; 8.5" x 5.5"; paperback; ISBN: 0-74144-189-6
Organizing groups in a way that enables them to function effectively is a challenge. All of us at one time or another have been involved in one that did not work. It is discouraging to have this happen and to be aware of lost opportunities. What William Coughlan offers in this book is clear guidance that makes working in groups a positive experience for everyone concerned.
Two things that the author asks his readers to do is think outside the box and to have respect for multiple viewpoints. He quotes the anonymous saying that the point is not how to interpret the world but how to change it. He feels that the key advantage of the small group is that it maximizes face-to-face interaction and participation.
I particularly liked the way that the book explores group structure and process by very deliberately seeing that each step is explored in a thorough and cohesive manner. The examples offered are rooted in real experience and give the lessons a real resonance. I also appreciated the author's bedrock belief is that group process should be firmly rooted in democratic principles. This is an excellent teaching tool and reference for all groups.
Regular price $16.00 Special price $13.00
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Don't forget to take a look at some of the other titles we are currently offering on the specials page of our web store.
If you are looking for the perfect holiday gift, you might find the new We'Moon 2008 Date Book a great choice. Specially priced at $15.00
If you are exploring the link between community and activism, I recommend Passion as Big as a Planet
by Ma'ikwe Ludwig. It offers inspiration and guidance for those on that path. Specially priced at $14.00
If you would like to find ways to reduce your dependence on the automobile, Cutting Your Car Use by Randall Ghent and Anna Semlyen is an excellent source of information. Specially priced at $8.00
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4 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
Q: How can I save energy and money around the house and also help the climate?
A: Switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
Q: But how can I do more than that, and have more fun too?
A: Start an eating coop! Host a sewing circle! Join a car-sharing group! Share stuff!
Many of us are examining our lives to find ways we can reduce our impact on the overheating, overfished, eroded, paved and poisoned planet. Of course there are lots of little things we each can do that will make a small change in our individual footprint, and those are good places to start. But we're realizing that we've reached a time when big changes are called for--and lots of them.
Are we up to it? Well, the good news is that many of the changes we need to make will also improve our quality of life. They don't mean more drudgery and boredom--they mean more companionship, support, freedom, and downright fun. I'm talking, of course, about joining our lives with other people: about community.
More and more people now understand that community and cooperation are a central part of the way forward to a healthier planet and a thriving society. Our communities are even getting positive coverage in places like USA Today and US News & World Report. Over 5,500 people are reading this enewsletter with you, and new communities are constantly appearing online at directory.ic.org--and in the beautiful new print edition of the Communities Directory.
Who talks to the media about community, distributes this enewsletter, and keeps improving that directory? The FIC does. Who refers callers to communities they might like, publishes Communities magazine, and hosts regular events offering the tools and skills needed for cooperative living? The FIC does.
Who needs your membership support in order to keep offering these things? The FIC does! Please join today, and keep multiplying your good works through sustaining the cooperative spirit. For more info on member benefits and to join online using our secure server go to
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