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Intentional Communities Newsletter: February 2008
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Laird Schaub Blogging on Community and Consensus
2 Community Buzz Blog
3 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
4 Communities Magazine Current and Upcoming Issues
5 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
1 Laird Schaub Blogging on Community and Consensus
By Tony Sirna
Laird Schaub, Secretary for the Fellowship for Intentional Community, has started a blog discussing two of his favorite topics: community and consensus.
You can view the blog (short for web log) at:
http://communityandconsensus.blogspot.com/
There you will find Laird discussing his home community of Sandhill Farm, his travels and work as a process consultant and consensus/facilitation trainer, and all his experiences as an activist in the communities movement.
You can read posts on:
Starting new communities
Agenda Planning Committees
Selecting Facilitators
When Is It Time for a Community to End
You can view Laird's Blog on the web at:
http://communityandconsensus.blogspot.com/
via RSS at
http://communityandconsensus.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
or you can get blog posts sent to you via email (using FeedBlitz) by signing up on the blog's homepage.
2 Community Buzz Blog
By Tony Sirna
Our new Community Buzz blog http://communitybuzz.ic.org has been getting a lot of attention lately from other blogs and social networking sites.
Our recent post about Renewable Energy and Cohousing was picked up on Hugg! a site that collects environmental news from around the web.
You can help us get even more traffic by registering at Hugg! and "hugging" articles on our site using the Hugg button  on each post.
Hugg!
is one of many social networking sites people are using to share interesting stories and find interesting articles and websites. In addition to Hugg! we are encouraging our readers to sign up on  ,  del.icio.us
, and  and using these tools to promote intentional community. Once you have registered you can submit links to stories and websites related to intentional communities and add your vote for stories and sites already submitted. Collectively, we can help get the word out about community!
You can view the Community Buzz Blog 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
Some Recent Community Buzz Posts:
Area Communities featured in Seattle Times
Ecovillage Helps Ithaca Rank as 2nd Greenest City
Cohousing Communities in Small Towns Nationwide
Cohousing in the Los Angeles Times
Ecovillages in E Magazine
Co-op America Highlights Eating Co-ops
3 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad.
by Frances Moore Lappe
2007; 208 pages; 8" x 6"; paperback; ISBN: 0-97941-424-5
Many of us feel frustrated by the increasing power of corporations and interest groups over the social and economic areas of American life. This frustration often makes it easy to let fear, anxiety and hopelessness block effective action. Frances Moore
 Lappe, a prolific writer and veteran activist, asks us to rise above these limits on our vision and see that there are viable alternatives to the status quo and that it is in our power to create them.
Few writers have Ms. Lappe's capacity to inspire readers and she speaks to each of us on an almost personal level. We all can play a role in making change. But she doesn't expect anyone to do this alone and speaks eloquently of grass-roots groups acting in their communities for positive ends. She packs this book with lots of factual information about people who have successfully mobilized to pressure large, power- seeking entities to act in the people's interest. I consider this book a
must-read! I personally found it very inspiring and it made me hopeful that there are real ways to better our world.
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4 Communities Magazine Upcoming Issues
Winter issue: Communities Making a Difference
Spring issue: Women in Community
Summer issue: Green Building in Community
Making a Difference is the theme of the Winter 2007 issue of Communities magazine. This issue was mailed to subcribers in mid-December.
 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 next issue (spring #138), planned for release in March, will be Women in Community
, with articles by Janaia Donaldson, Anissa Ljanta, Colette Hoff, Mollie Curry, Alline Anderson, Calliope Kurtz, and others.
Coming in the summer issue of Communities in June: Green Building in Community.
contact Interim Editor Alyson Ewald
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5 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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