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Intentional Communities Newsletter: March 2008
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
2 Communities Magazine Current and Upcoming Issues
3 Position available - Communities Magazine Editor
4 Ecovillages online newsletter
5 FIC Events Coming Up
6 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
1 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
Co-op Villages:The Next Evolution
By Jack Reed, Jen Chendra and Jim Costa
2007; 290 pages; 9"x 6"; paperback; ISBN: 0-97948-650-5
At the time that I first received a review copy of this book, it ended up in a big stack of other books that I needed to look at. When I finally did sit down and spend some
time with it, I was impressed by the wealth of information that is contained between its covers. The three authors have done an incredible amount of research. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future is going to present all of us with more challenges.What all their work underlies is an in-depth look at the ways in which intentional community can help us to meet those challenges.
This book is not heavily theoretical. Instead, it is brimming with ideas and concrete plans for building community. There is everything here including different house plans, land-use schemes, business ideas, labor needs and finances. Not only the physical needs of the group are considered but also the less tangible areas that ensure the health and well-being of its members. All these plans and ideas provide an outline that can be fine-tuned and adapted to meet the needs and circumstances of
individual communities. There is much here that will be of use to both those starting a community life together and those already a part of an existing group.
Regular price $20.00 Special price $16.00
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2 Communities Magazine Current and Upcoming Issues
Spring #138: Women in Community
Summer #139: Green Building in Community
Subscribers, watch your mailboxes in late March for our issue on women in community. Non-subscribers, ask for Communities at your local stores, or consider subscribing today. This is an issue you don't want to miss!
Explore parenting, gender identity, intimacy, leadership, culture, growth, entrepreneurship, and more--with a group of talented authors who range from experienced communitarians to first-time community members.
Here's a taste of our Special Feature articles:
Valuing a Culture of Women
--For over 25 years the women of Goodenough Community have been developing a program for nurturing women's growth and well-being and providing each other with caring support. Colette Hoff and other women describe how it has changed their lives.
From Intentional Community to Building a Tribe
--When Anissa Ljanta moved from a large rural community in the US to live alone in Auckland, New Zealand, she faced many challenges amidst the outrageous realities of suburban life. Dealing with the stereotypes, the violence against women, and the difficulties of parenting became much easier once she broke through the isolation and found her tribe.
What's Masculine, What's Feminine, and What Am I?
--Mollie Curry hoists a chainsaw and finds herself entangled in a perplexing web of sticky questions. Here she attempts to untangle the threads, both within herself and within her community.
Transgendered at Twin Oaks--Calliope Kurtz, having just spent her first full year arduously "passing" as a woman, moves from the San Francisco Bay area to a commune for a chance at a new life.and meets some unexpected opposition.
Journey Inn: Gleanings from the World of Women--What was it like to live in an all-women collective house in Palo Alto in the 1970s? Janaia Donaldson recalls this family of women and the trust, safety, and intimacy that made it feel like "deep home."
Building a Business in Community
--There wasn't much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile.-creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.
Other articles include:
How to deal with a power imbalance in your community; how community values can help conquer climate change; leading women in the cohousing movement; ecovillage activists in Japan; and a photo memorial of Geoph Kozeny.
The theme of the next issue (summer #139) will be Green Building in Community, with articles by Michael G. Smith, Mark Lakeman, Matthieu Lietaert, Elke Cole and Brandy Gallagher, and others.
Contact Interim Editor Alyson Ewald
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What would you like to see on our Back Page?
The passing of Geoph Kozeny has left a gaping hole not only in many hearts, but also on the last pages of Communities magazine. In his regular Peripatetic Communitarian column, Geoph reached out to readers personally, sharing his warm, insightful musings on community life, and telling stories directly from the many communities he visited.
Now Geoph is no longer with us, and no longer is his wonderful column. We want to use those pages to inspire, inform, and/or entertain you, our readers.
What would you like us to print on the last one or two pages of Communities magazine? Photos? Quotations? A short story or poem? We want to hear from you!
Please send your ideas to Interim Editor Alyson Ewald. Thank you!
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3 Position available -- Communities Magazine Editor
The Fellowship for Intentional Community is looking for an editor for our signature publication -- Communities Magazine. We're looking for someone who is enthusiastic about the value of the magazine, has community experience, and who wants to help make it the best it can be.
The Editor holds primary responsibility for conceiving, developing, and producing, along with the production team, a quality magazine consistent with the mission of the FIC.
The Editor is responsible for managing the Production Team that includes our Business Manager and Art Director. S/he is responsible for helping foster harmonious collaboration among the CMag Team using good facilitation.
The CMag Editor is a part-time contract position.
Please send a letter of introduction and resume to
communities_jobs -a-t- ic.org
And let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
4 Ecovillages Online Newsletter
By Diana Christian, former editor Communities magazine
Ecovillages is a new free bimonthly online publication published by former Communities magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian, who is also author of Finding Community and Creating a Life Together. This bimonthly publication is designed to inspire and encourage ecovillage projects in North American and elsewhere with stories and photos of ecovillage projects worldwide. Articles will be written by Diana as well as ecovillage founders and activists.
To subscribe: http://www.EcovillageNewsletter.org/subscribe
5 FIC Events Coming Up
Art of Community Conference, May 30-Jun 1
FIC Semi-Annual Organizational Meeting Jun 2-4
Communities Conference at Twin Oaks Aug 15-17
Art of Community Conference
Please join us in Albuquerque New Mexico, May 30-June 1 for the FIC's Art of Community Conference! Workshops, speakers, tables and networking in the sun, on the theme of Cooperative Culture: Synergy at the Edges.
Art of Community features intentional community, sustainability and community-building topics of all sorts. Presenters include:
- Laird Schaub (the FIC's Executive Secretary, and author of communityandconsensus.blogspot.com)
- Tony Sirna (co-founder of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and editor of the past two Communities Directories)
- Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig (author of Passion as Big as a Planet: Evolving Eco-Activism in America, and lead teacher of New Mexico's Ecovillage Design Education course)
- Margo Adair (author of various books including Working Inside Out: Tools for Change, and creator of Applied Meditation).
Watch the details unfold at: http://events.ic.org/events/ or
register now at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/26402
FIC Semi-Annual Organizational Meeting
Immediately following the Art of Community weekend, the FIC board will meet June 2-4 at Hummingbird Ranch, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 2 ½ hours northeast of Albuquerque. It'll be a great location for three days of discussing where we are and deciding what's next for the Fellowship. Highlights of our agenda will include:
- Define what FIC can offer people hungry to create community where they are.
- Discuss plans to create the Geoph Kozeny Memorial Networking award, in honor of our fallen comrade.
- Introduce the new Production Team for Communities magazine
- Review the Art of Community weekend just completed and future plans for FIC events.
- Select new board members.
Join us for vibrant meetings in a beautiful setting and find out first hand what's happening in the North American Communities Movement.
For more information about the FIC Organizational Meeting contact Jenny Upton: jenny -a-t- ic.org 434-361-1417 (after 5 pm Eastern Time). http://fic.ic.org/org_mtgs.php
Communities Conference at Twin Oaks Community
An FIC Co-Sponsored Event
August 15 - 17, 2007
Twin Oaks Community near Louisa, Virginia
Organizing has begun for the annual Communities Conference at Twin Oaks. With over 25 different communities represented annually, it is a prime opportunity to network amongst other community minded folks. It is an ideal event for people who are looking for community as well for those already living in community to share and learn from each others experiences. It is a co-created conference, with shining eyed people, contributing their helping hands, ideas, perspectives and energy. There will be
the famous Saturday night dance, campfires, singing, open space, workshops by experienced and dynamic presenters, the infamous mudpit, hammocks, good food and more. An unforgettable weekend for many!
Join us at Twin Oaks' conference site in the woods! We'll be delving into the nuts and bolts of community with a variety of workshops on topics such as cooperative decision-making, intentional relationships, forming community, community econmics, and many more. Children are welcome.
The Conference is co-sponsored by
The Fellowship for Intentional Community http://www.ic.org
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities http://www.thefec.org
Twin Oaks Community http://www.twinoaks.org
6 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 co-op! 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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