We are currently in the midst of editing over 1200 community listings for our next print edition of the communities directory.  We're aiming to have that ready next spring. We've also been weeding out listings that are no longer valid with the goal of having everything on our website as accurate as possible.

Meanwhile communities continue to add listings at the rate of about 1 a day. We've had 35 new listings in the last month, plus updates from another 120 communities.

If you'd like to see who is new on the communities directory check out
http://directory.ic.org/iclist/cmtylist_newest.php

For the latest updates see
http://directory.ic.org/iclist/cmtylist_updated.php

We'Moon 2007 Date Book: On Purpose
2006; 240 pages; 5.5" x 8"; spiral bound paperback; ISBN: 1-89093-138-1

Created by, for and about women, the We'Moon date books have been published for twenty six years and have developed a loyal following during that time. The 2007 edition focuses on the role that purpose plays in our lives. A rich, full-color feast of women's art and poetry from around the globe reinforces the theme throughout.

We'Moon 2007 is also a well laid-out appointment book, as well as an astrological and earth rhythms guide. It features a convenient week-at-a-glance format. Combining form and function in a stunning way, it will be an important source of support in your daily life.

Regular price $18.00  Sale price $15.00

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SPECIAL HOLIDAY DISCOUNT - 30% OFF Communities Directory
We are offering a special discount on the current edition of the Communities Directory for the holiday season. The directory is now available at http://store.ic.org/directory for 30% off the cover price -- its now just $21 (plus shipping). This is an additional 10% off our already discounted $30.00 cover price.

Consider the directory as a holiday gift for that friend or relative looking for an alternative. Or give yourself a gift and get inspired about finding more community in your life.

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Though not an FIC project, this forwarded news item should be of interest to anyone wishing to start an intentional community or already living in community and willing to help others get started.

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Greetings Communitarians,

We're announcing a new group for people who are attempting to start up intentional communities. We have named this new group "Initiating Intentional Communities". Here is the URL to the group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InitiatingIntentionalCommunities/

This group is open to all those who wish to, are or have initiated intentional communities. At this group people can meet, support, network and discuss with others of like mind whatever problems and needs people have along their journey toward initiating their IC.

We encourage free discussions and sharing of information and support with all those who wish to initiate ICs. The members of this support group will be sharing with other group members what they are working on or have worked on toward their goals of developing their IC, on what problems and issues they may be facing or have faced as they attempt or attempted to implement their plans for their IC, and on what successes they have enjoyed in their efforts to initiate their IC.

In addition to opening this group to aspiring IC initiators we'd like to outreach to established ICs to see whether there would be anyone in these which would be interested joining in and adding their input into the mix toward helping the IC initiators. We also feel there are many individuals, counselors, process facilitators and authors out there in the communities movement whom we could contact who might help us if they would join in...if people here know of any please invite them to join the group. Also, if people have any suggestions on where we could network this group please share this with us.

To join this group people will need to write up an introduction to the group on their vision, values and goals for their IC, and something on the effort they have made in forming one, and submit this introduction to the group owner before their request to join the group is approved. The new group member introduction will then be posted as their first message to the group, and also posted in the files section of the group for all members to read without their having to search the message archives.

This is not a group to lurk in as it will require a high degree of involvement of it members. Let's bring our passions together for our IC initiating goals so we might benefit many others who share this goal with us.

We hope to meet you there.

Best Wishes, Daniel & Patti EarthStewards 

FALL ISSUE Issue #132
This is the current issue.
The theme for this issue: Will You Live Your Elder Years in Community?

COMING UP IN THE WINTER Issue #133
Thriving in a Healthy Economy

Dear Contributors, staff, and friends of Communities magazine,

As the winter issue on creating sustainable local economics has come together, I've become increasingly proud of the quality of ideas and the writing. I think readers are going to love this issue and we'll get lots of positive comments, just as we did our Peak Oil issue.

One thing that especially impresses me is how our contributors have presented a subject as potentially abstract as the economy in such vital, immediately understandable, readily applicable ways. I find these articles inspiring and energizing, and I'll bet our readers will to.

I'm especially indebted to sustainable economist (and now issue contributor) Paula L. Craig, whose letter to the Editor after our Peak Oil issue suggested this local economics theme.

I thought you'd like to see how the winter issue is shaping up, so here's an outline draft Table of Contents.

Table Of Contents #133 Winter 2006
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 Special Feature: Can We Create Thriving Local Economies?

• Recipe for Healthy Local Economies
• An Abundance of Small, Sustainable Solution
•  How a Steady State Economy Could Change Our Lives
•  "Mutual Enterprise"--Creating New Jobs Locally
•  How  Ecovillages Can Foster Sustainable Local Economies

• Choosing Locally Grown Food and "Relationship Economics"

• What's the Appropriate Use of "Blocking Power?"

• The Dilettante's Journey, Part II

• To Be or Not to Be an LLC: Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream

• Letters
• Publisher's Note: No Pat Answers: Can Communities Be a Safety Net for People Struggling in Life?--Laird Schaub
• Ecovillage Living Creating a Non-Residential Ecovillage in Our Seattle Neighborhood--Cecile Andrews
• Fellowship News: Fellowship News: The Cohousing Conference in Carolina... A Senior Moment?--Laird Schaub
• Federation Update: Financial Security vs. Freedom of Choice--Tom Freeman
• Cohousing Life: Livelihood In Community: The Cohousing Experience-- Betsy Morris
• My Turn: How Using Money with Nothing Behind It Affects Your Personal Buying Power--Louis Wu
• Reviews--Paula L. Craig, Molly Morgan
• Peripatetic Communitarian: Accounting for Sustainability --Geoph Kozeny

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