A MONTHLY EMAIL PUBLICATION of the FIC since 1999, serving over 5000 subscribers. January 7, 2007 1 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices 2 Frequently Asked Questions 3 Communities Magazine Issues 4 More Guests At Our Fellowship's Potluck Table ________________________________________________________________ 1 COMMUNITY BOOKSHELF TITLES AT SALE PRICES Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager ________________________________________________________________ THE POST-PETROLEUM SURVIVAL GUIDE AND COOKBOOK: Recipes for Changing Times by Albert Bates 2006; 286 pages; 7.5 " x 9 "; paperback Albert Bates is a leading activist and teacher in the growing ecovillage movement and has long been a pioneer on the frontiers of sustainability. He is therefore uniquely qualified to act as our guide to what lies on the down slope of our post-petroleum future. In this book, he offers a great array of strategies and skills that will enable us all to move easily into the new realities of life after oil. What is contained in these pages is practical, sustainable and healthy advice for meeting our needs as we encounter the challenges on our path. Writing in a very down to earth and conversational style, the author shows us how to live high while leaving a low impact on the world. He covers what we need to know about such essential topics as water, fuel, shelter and taking care of our other physical needs. The book also covers the broader skills needed to build vigorous local economies and communities. And, oh yes, this is also a cookbook. The recipes emphasize organic, good-tasting, locally-grown food. There is excellent information on how to use basic, wholesome foods in interesting ways. There are also recipes that emphasize the link between growing and cooking your food and that show the possibilities offered by food preservation. Regular price $20.00 Special price $16.00 ---------- http://store.ic.org/catalog/specials.php Shipping/handling 3.00 S/H for first item (combo counts as one item) 1.00 S/H for each additional item Shop online for lower shipping rates, more shipping options, and more sale items. http://store.ic.org/catalog/specials.php S/H prices are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US. Information, catalog, ordering http://store.ic.org/bookshelf Community Bookshelf RR 1 Box 156 Rutledge MO 63563 800-995-8342 bookshelf at ic dot org ________________________________________________________________ 2 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Most popular questions asked about the ic.org website ________________________________________________________________ Since the relaunch of the www.ic.org family of websites in 2005, we've gotten a steady stream of correspondence. Examples of the sort of questions most often asked, culled from that correspondence, are shown and answered here. HOW DO I CONTACT AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY LISTED AT IC.ORG? To contact an individual community listed at http://directory.ic.org, please use the contact information at the upper right of that community's listing. ---------- WHAT TYPES OF ONLINE AND PRINT ADS DO YOU ACCEPT? Print ads, classified and display, are accepted for Communities magazine: http://communities.ic.org/advert.php Online classified ads are described here: http://classifieds.ic.org Advertise your community in the online Directory http://directory.ic.org/advertise.php We allow users to post free announcments of a noncommercial nature at our online bulletin board: http://reach.ic.org ---------- WE'RE STARTING A COMMUNITY. HOW CAN YOU HELP US? Creating a Life Together by Diana Christian is a great resource and can help point you in the right direction for further resources. Diana also gives workshops and does consulting. http://www.creating-a-life-together.org http://store.ic.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=34_51&products_id=73 Also depending on what style of community you are hoping to create you might find good information in some of the cohousing books. Even if you are not doing cohousing per se many of their insights will be useful to you. http://cohousing.org/cohousing-resources.aspx Many of these books are also available at http://store.ic.org You might also find one or more reprints from the Communities magazine reprint collection helpful http://store.ic.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=21_29 ---------- HOW DO I FIND A COMMUNITY IN THE NORTHEAST? The online Directory has several search features designed to answer questions such as this. Communities by geographic list http://directory.ic.org/iclist/geo.php Search using maps http://directory.ic.org/maps/ ---------- HOW DO I FIND A RURAL VEGETARIAN COMMUNITY IN WESTERN CANADA? Try the advanced search feature at our site http://directory.ic.org/records/?action=search ________________________________________________________________ 3 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE ISSUES Current Winter & Upcoming Spring Issue ________________________________________________________________ THE CURRENT WINTER Issue #133 was mailed in the third week of December. The theme for this issue: Helping Your Local Economy Thrive. Table Of Contents #133 Winter 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- How a Steady State Economy Can Change Our Lives The Steady State Economy concept--which claims that the economy is part of the environment and not the other way around, and which seeks a low, sustainable level of natural resource use--is shaking economics today the way Darwin's natural selection idea did to biology, says economist Paula L. Craig. * What is Globalization? * Global Economic Collapse * Resources for a Sustainable Economy An Abundance of Small, Sustainable Solutions Your local community is already rich, says community economist Paul Glover, with enough potential wealth nearby to enable everyone to work a few hours daily, and enjoy healthy food, low-cost housing, clean and safe transport, handcrafted clothes, and household goods-- and do so while replenishing rather than depleting the integrity of the planet. Our Own Money: Recipe for Healthy Local Economies Ecovillage and peak oil activist Albert Bates shows how standard of living is a function of the speed at which money bounces back and forth in the economy. Velocity, not volume, determines how well off we are, as the town of Worgl, Austria, happily demonstrated in the early 1930's. * Local Currencies--Stephen Burke "Mutual Enterprise"--Creating New Jobs Locally An economic system based on mutual enterprise means that good jobs can be generated locally, suggests community economist Paul Glover, since virtually everything used locally can be made locally by small energy-efficient shops using regional and recycled resources. How Ecovillages Can Grow Sustainable Local Economies. Ecovillages can break free from the gravity of the global capitalist economy, asserts Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) president Jonathan Dawson, by creating an alternative economy of bioregional solidarity and by making decisions based on social and ecological criteria, rather than on increasing short-term profit. GOOD MEETINGS When We Should Use "Blocking Power" Advice from community process and communication experts Caroline Estes, Bea Briggs, Karl Steyaert, and Tree Bressen. SEEKING COMMUNITY The Dilettante's Journey, Part II Further adventures of a community seeker interested in way too much of everything. Our dabbler in community continues his tale. Frank Beaty. FOUNDING COMMUNITY To Be or Not to Be an LLC: Changing Horses in Mid Stream How one ecovillage compared the pros and cons of two significantly different legal entities for owning land--and switched to a whole new plan. Kees Kolff. LETTERS Publisher's Note - Laird Schaub No Pat Answers: Can Communities Be a Safety Net for People Struggling in Life? Ecovillage Living Cecile Andrews Creating a Non-residential Ecovillage in Our Seattle Neighborhood Fellowship News - Laird Schaub The Cohousing Conference in Carolina ... A Senior Moment? Federation Update - Tom Freeman Financial Security vs. Freedom of Choice Cohousing Life - Betsy Morris Can Cohousing Communities Help Generate a more Sustainable Economy? My Turn - Louis Wu How Using Money with Nothing Behind it Affects your Personal Buying Power Reviews - Paula L. Craig, Molly Morgan Peripatetic Communitarian - Geoph Kozeny Accounting for Sustainability ---------- COMING in the spring issue #134: Learning Sustainable Living Skills in Community ---------- Get a sample issue, renew or subscribe here http://store.ic.org//communities/sample.php http://store.ic.org/cmag Sample issues $4 plus $3 S/H by US standard mail. Shop online for lower shipping rates and more shipping options. 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