A MONTHLY EMAIL PUBLICATION of the FIC since 1999, serving over 5000 subscribers. October 14, 2006 1 Communities Directory Online & Next Print Edition 2 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices 3 Communities Magazine Has A New Look 4 Wiki Contributors Wanted 5 Communities Magazine Issues 6 Help Build A More Cooperative World! _________________________________________________________________ 1 COMMUNITIES DIRECTORY ONLINE & next PRINT EDITION By Tony Sirna _________________________________________________________________ COMMUNITIES ADDING AND UPDATING LISTINGS. The deadline has passed for updating listings for our upcoming print edition of the Directory. We currently have over 1200 communities ready for print and over 300 we are reviewing for possible inclusion. If you missed our deadline but want your community included in our book contact us and we may be able to make some minor post deadline changes. PAID DISPLAY ADS IN PRINT EDITION. The deadline for display ads for the print edition of our Directory is *tomorrow* October 15th (extensions may be possible). The book is a great place for communities looking for members to advertise or for those with products of interest to communities and community seekers. If you are interested in an ad contact our ad sales manager Alyssa Martin alyssa at ic dot org ONLINE ADS. We also continue to offer a discount on advertisements on our Online Communities Directory to FIC members. FIC members receive a special 40% discount on online directory ads. Some communities have seen a doubling in the amount of traffic to their listing thanks to their online paid ad. Its a great way to attract more interest to your community while supporting the FIC and the http://www.ic.org website. For more information see http://directory.ic.org/advertise.php READER SUGGESTIONS SOUGHT FOR NEXT PRINT DIRECTORY EDITION Work on Directory 5 (planned for 2007) has begun. We're interested in hearing your suggestions on what could improve the book. Some changes are already planned: 1. The short listings section will be dropped. All communities will have full listings or will not be present in the book. Thus there will be no grey type in the maps section. 2. There should be around 1200 listings as opposed to 730 for the last edition(!) 3. There will be more articles. The article subject matter is under consideration. Please send any and all suggestions to directory at ic dot org _________________________________________________________________ 2 COMMUNITY BOOKSHELF TITLEs at SALE PRICEs Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager _________________________________________________________________ FEATURED BOOKSHELF TITLE AT SALE PRICE Reviewed by Catherine Nicosia Community Bookshelf Manager 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 ---------- NEW COMBINATION DEAL JUST POSTED Communities Directory plus Video at low combo price. Save $12 off the cover price when you buy a copy of the Visions of Utopia Video and a copy of the Communities Directory. This is a special combination deal: a DVD or VHS copy of Visions of Utopia Volume 1 plus a copy of the Communities Directory for only $48 plus S/H. Normal price is $60 for the combination. http://store.ic.org/catalog/specials.php ---------- CONTINUING COMBINATION OFFER Communities Directory & Magazine Subscription Combo Save $10 off the cover price when you buy a one-year 4-issue subscription to Communities Magazine with a copy of the Communities Directory. This is a special combination deal: a one-year new or renewal subscription to Communities Magazine plus a copy of the Communities Directory for only $40 plus S/H. Normal price is $50 for the combination. This offer is good only for subscriptions delivered by periodical mail within the United States. ---------- 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 _________________________________________________________________ 3 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE HAS A NEW LOOK By Laird Schaub _________________________________________________________________ Communities has a new suit of clothes! We've busied ourselves the last two years with overhauling the look and feel of this magazine. Now we're ready to show it off. After a decade as the publisher, FIC had to face the economic reality that this periodical was steadily losing money. Too much money. When coupled with the bleak national trend toward declining magazine sales, we decided that we either had to get better, or get out. Bankrolled by generous and dedicated supporters who believe in Communities' ability to make a difference in the world, we’ve been working our fannies off to make this publication downright irresistible. Over the last 18 months, we've switched to four-color covers (issue #127); started paying photographers for higher resolution cover images (issue #128); bumped up the quality of our interior paper stock to address muddy images (issue #130); hired a Photo & Illustrations Editor, and bought a professional-grade design monitor for our Layout Manager's computer (issue #131); and redesigned our cover and interior (issue #132). What's more, we've done all this without diluting one iota our dedication to offering informative and insightful articles about community living. Hopefully, you -- and all those potential new subscribers out there -- will like the result. _________________________________________________________________ 4 WIKI CONTRIBUTORS WANTED By Tony Sirna _________________________________________________________________ The FIC is working on a new feature for the Intentional Communities website. We are planning to add a wiki, which is a website that allows collaborative editing of site content by all site users. Our hope is that this will allow the whole communities movement to share information and knowledge with each other and the wider world. We are looking for a few people with wiki experience and community experience to help us out. We are hoping to get help seeding the wiki with appropriate content and getting a basic structure set up before the wiki goes public. If you have interest in helping us out with our new wiki, email directory at ic dot org with a bit about your experience. ___________________________________________________________________ 5 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE ISSUES Fall Issue (Elder Years) and Upcoming Winter Issue By Diana Leafe Christian _________________________________________________________________ FALL ISSUE Issue #132 Will You Live Your Elder Years in Community? This issue was mailed to subscribers in September and includes: * "Ecotopia in Japan?" by Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach, who visits Yamagishi Toyosato * "The Dilettante's Journey, Part I, How do you pick a community to join if you're interested in . . . everything?" Frank Beaty. * "A Bittersweet Blessing--The Joys & Sorrows of Life as 'Community Elder'" Darin Fenger * "Elder-Only Cohousing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" Neshama Abraham * "An Elder's Perspective: Would I Ever Live in Community Again?" with High Wind founder Lisa Paulson * "Organize a Neighborhood Dinner Co-op!" * "The Rhizome Collective: Starting an Activist Urban Community" by Austin, Texas activists Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew * "How to Not Get Bogged Down in 'Endless Processing!'" with process and communication experts Bea Briggs, Laird Schaub, and Tree Bressen. Diana will be leading workshops on starting new communities this fall in Amherst, Massachusetts (10/28-29). She's also a presenter ("Ecovillages as 'Lifeboat Communities'") at the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference in Detroit (10/22-22). ---------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Special Feature: Can We Create Thriving Local Economies? * Recipe for Healthy Local Economies * An Abundance of Small, Sustainable Solutions * How a Steady State Economy Could Change Our Lives * "Mutual Enterprise"--Creating New Jobs Locally * How Ecovillages Can Foster Sustainable Local Economies Creating Community Where You Are: * Choosing Locally Grown Food and "Relationship Economics" Good Meetings * What’s the Appropriate Use of "Blocking Power?" Seeking Community * The Dilettante’s Journey, Part II Founding Community * To Be or Not to Be an LLC: Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream Voices * 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 ---------- 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. Subscriptions one year 4 issues $20 US :: $24 Canada :: $26 Other Order by phone fax or mail FIC * 138 Twin Oaks Rd * Louisa VA 23093 800-462-8240 fax 540-894-4112 _________________________________________________________________ 6 HELP BUILD A MORE COOPERATIVE WORLD! _________________________________________________________________ E. B. White once said, "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." Like many of us faced with the same dilemma each morning, you can choose to improve the world in a way that also helps you (and many others) to savor it at the same time. Join the FIC! If you've already joined, donate! It's easy, it's fast, it gets you discounts and other benefits... but best of all, it's a way to both enjoy being part of a vast network of community-minded folks, and also enable the growth of that very network. So, don't fret over whether to improve the world or enjoy it--do both. Savor community living while bringing it to more people. Please join us. 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 fic at ic dot org To learn more about the mission of the organization visit http://fic.ic.org/index.html Many thanks from all of us in the Fellowship.