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Intentional Communities Newsletter: November 2008
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Position available: Communities magazine Art Director
2 We'Moon Date Book at sale price
3 Communities magazine current and upcoming issues
4 Communities Directory & Communities magazine subscription combo
5 How to multiply your good works for the planet: share!
1 Position available: Communities Magazine Art Director
Please inquire by email to communities_jobs~at~ic.org
Overview: Communities magazine is a quarterly publication. This location-independent contract position is part-time in the sense that the production cycle has lighter and more active periods.
The Art Director:
- Is responsible for the overall look of the magazine. This includes: refining the design and creating templates as needed; laying out each issue; soliciting and selecting all photos and illustrations along with captions and credit information; working with the text supplied by the Editor; and working with ads (both in-house and paid) generated by the Business Manager.
- Should have the ability to interpret ideas visually that the writers, Editor, or advertisers may want to communicate as well as to hold the aesthetic visual standard for Communities magazine, in collaboration with the Editor, as established by the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) board.
- Should have the ability to multitask, prioritize, and organize.
- Will prepare the files for printing and send digital copy to the printer in accordance with specs established by the printer.
- Is expected to be available from the beginning of the layout phase until prepress issues are resolved and the proofs are approved.
- Needs to have the hardware and software (preferably a Mac and Adobe CS Suite) necessary to perform the tasks required as well as layout and photo manipulation experience and skills to produce a visually high-quality magazine.
- Needs to be a self-starter who can work in collaboration with the Editor, Business Manager, Liaison to the FIC Board, and Editorial Review Board.
Please inquire by email at communities_jobs~at~ic.org
2 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
We'moon Date Book 2009: At The Crossroads
2008; 240 pages; 5.5" x 8"; spiral bound paperback; ISBN: 1-89093-152-0
Created by, for, and about women, the twenty-eigth edition of the We'Moon date book is dedicated to the elders and ancestors who have come before us and who can serve as our guides in these troubled times. The world is indeed at a crossroads, poised on the 
edge of an uncertain future. A full-color feast of women's art and poetry from around the world helps to create a compelling portrait of this theme led off by a stunning painting of an owl on the cover.
We'Moon 2009 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 ways that delight the eyes and the mind, it provides an important source of support in daily life.
Regular price $18.00 Sale price $15.00
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3 Communities Magazine Current Issues, and More
#140 (Fall): Politics in Community
#141 (Winter): Scarcity and Abundance
#142 (Spring): Festivals and Gatherings
Fall Issue: Politics in Commun
ity
In tribute to the election season, the theme of our fall issue (#140) is Polit
ic s in Community.
Here's some of what readers will find:
We Refuse to Be Enemies: Community Spirit as an Antidote to Separation by Leila Dregger.
A World of Possibility: Communities and Global Transformation by Ethan Hughes and Sarah Wilcox-Hughes.
Living the Wild: Ecological Citizenship and the Audubon Expedition Institute by Arin Trook.
Email, Politics, and Permaculture by members of the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv.
Every Politician Should Live in a Commune by Nick Licata.
Searching for Republicans...And Other Elephants in the Community Living Room: A Politics in Community Survey by Chris Roth.
Politics at Twin Oaks: Distinguishing "Acceptable" from "Combustible"
by Valerie Renwick-Porter.
Pulling Proposals Out of a Hat (or Some Orifice) by Laird Schaub.
Politics on Open Land by Ramón Sender Barayón.
The issue also includes letters, notes from the new Communities
team, a Good Meetings panelist discussion of "Business and Well-Being," a publisher's note on "Whole Foods: Half a Solution?," articles on Los Angeles Eco-Village, Ecovillage Network of Canada, and SomerVille Ecovillage, a review of Diggers &
Dreamers, REACH ads, and four pages memorializing community visionary and founder Kat Kinkade.
Please ask for Communities at your favorite local cafe or natural foods store, or subscribe today.
Winter and Spring issues: The theme for the winter issue (#141) is Scarcity and Abundance and the theme for the spring issue (#142) is Festivals and Gatherings.
If you're interested in submitting articles, photos, or illustrations to future issues of Communities, please follow this link for details.
Contact Communities Editor
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Sample issues $5 plus $4 S/H by US standard mail.
Shop online for lower shipping rates and more shipping options.
Subscriptions: one year, 4 issues:
$24 US; $29 Canada; $31 Other.
Order by phone, fax, or mail:
FIC * 138 Twin Oaks Rd * Louisa VA 23093
800-462-8240 * fax 540-894-4112
4 Communities Directory & Communities Magazine Subscription Combo
Communities Directory & Communities Magazine Subscription Combo
We're offering a special deal when you buy our Communities Directory, the essential reference for finding or creating an intentional community, and our quarterly magazine Communities.
Save $12 off the cover price when you buy a new or renewal one-year subscription to Communities
magazine plus a copy of the Communities Directory. Final price $42. This offer good for delivery within the United States only.
This combination makes a great gift for anyone new to community. Buy one for a friend or relative who is looking to find out what community is all about.
Order Now!
Regular price $54.00 Special price $42.00
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 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
http://store.ic.org/membership
To request a membership form by mail, or to email, or to talk with a human,
contact us at:
RR 1 Box 156
Rutledge MO 63563
800-995-8342
To learn more about the mission of the organization visit
http://fic.ic.org
Many thanks from all of us in the Fellowship.
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