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Intentional Communities Newsletter: October 2007
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Fall Organizational Meeting & Art of Community Day
2 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices
3 Communities Magazine Fall Issue
4 Communities Directory 2007 New Edition
5 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
1 Fall Organizational Meeting & Art of Community Day
October 24-26, 27 Austin TX
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING. We invite you to join us for the FIC's fall organizational meeting, followed immediately by a one-day Art of Community event. It has been 13 years since we last met in the Lone Star State, and we've picked Austin not just because of the live music scene--it is also a hotbed of student co-ops and interest in cohousing.
What's queued up for the three days of board attention? We'll be diving into:
- a major review of Communities magazine after two years of donor-supported work to overhaul its design and quality
- the early responses to the release of our fifth edition of Communities Directory, the launching of wiki.ic.org, and a forum for feedback comments about communities listed in our online Directory
- work to capitalize our Directory Endowment
- plans for our next Art of Community weekend, slated for Albuquerque spring 2008.
There's always room for one more in the circle, and we hope you'll join the party. It's a great chance to spent time with some of the folks who keep the Communities Movement in motion. You'll get to witness consensus veterans in action, and have an opportunity to put your own oar in the water, adding the pull of your voice to help determine the Fellowship's direction in the months and years ahead.
DATES & TIMES:
- Wednesday, Oct 24 FIC Organizational Meeting begins at 9am
- Friday, Oct 26 Closing Circle around 4-5pm
- Saturday, Oct 27 a one-day community event brought to you by the FIC Events Team. For more information email Ma'ikwe Ludwig at avatar -[ at ]- ic.org
LOCATION, FEE, AND REGISTRATION: We will be meeting, sharing meals, and sleeping in quarters dispersed among cooperative houses around the University of Texas college campus in Austin. Sleeping arrangements will include floor space and sofas in the large living rooms with guest rooms available. The total space for accommodations in the co-ops is for about 25 people. Meetings and meals will be held in Pearl Street Co-op which is part of College Co-ops.
The fee for meals is $3 per meal and will be paid directly to Pearl St Co-op at each meal you attend. Other fees for snacks and meeting space will be $12 per day paid to FIC. Meals start with breakfast on Wednesday and go through dinner on Friday. A list of nearby motels will be provided upon request.
TO REGISTER for the Org Mtg, contact Jenny Upton from Shannon Farm Community in central Virginia, 434-361-1417 (after 5pm eastern time zone) or email to jenny -[ at ]- ic.org Please include arrival and departure dates as well as any food allergies.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE is Oct 5, 2007 [Date has just passed but you should still be able to get a reservation if you contact us right away.]
We hope to see you there!
http://fic.ic.org/org_mtgs.php
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ART OF COMMUNITY ONE-DAY EVENT
Austin Texas
Saturday Oct 27
The FIC will be offering a one-day Art of Community event at the Rhizome Collective in Austin, TX. Workshops will cover consensus, starting an intentional community, legal options, cohousing, and more.
For information about the one-day community event contact
Ma'ikwe
avatar -[ at ]- ic.org
505-514-8180
http://fic.ic.org/aofc/
2 Community Bookshelf Titles At Sale Prices
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
Passion As Big As A Planet: Evolving Eco-Activism in America
by Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig
2007; 219 pages, 9" X 6"; paperback; ISBN: 1-43032-196-2
This book is firmly rooted in the author's more than twenty years of deep personal growth work and intense community involvement. Although she speaks in detail about her chosen spiritual path and how it has influenced the course that her activism has taken, it is done purely from the viewpoint that it will help the reader to understand the model of beliefs being expressed in action that she is offering. Ma'ikwe Ludwig establishes that good activism begins with personal responsibility and that
one must walk their talk to mark a mark in the larger world.
What this book does is to provide a general framework for those wanting translate their personal beliefs into effective activism. The author advocates acting from a compassionate and ethical stance not only on the intimate level, but also on the planetary level. The model for achieving this incorporates listening deeply, finding connections with others, working toward partnership, living simply and acting mindfully based on an ecological awareness.
Although there is much to like about this book, I particularly enjoyed the way that the author has woven her varied experience in intentional community into the fabric of the narrative. For those particularly interested in community life as an expression of belief and action joining together fruitfully, this will lend a richness and depth to the guidance being offered.
Regular price $17.00 Sale price $14.00
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Another special offer just posted to our site:
Communities Directory & Finding Community Combo
Save $10 off the cover price when you buy a copy of the Communities Directory with a copy of Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community.
Regular price $55.00 Sale price $45.00
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Still on sale, until the end of the year:
We'moon 2008 Datebook: Mending The Web
Regular price $18.00 Sale price $15.00
http://store.ic.org/catalog/specials.php
Shipping/handling on mail or phone orders
4.00 S/H for first item
1.00 S/H for each additional item
S/H prices shown are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US.
Community Bookshelf
RR 1 Box 156
Rutledge MO 63563
800-995-8342
Shop online for lower shipping rates, more shipping options, and more sale items.
Information, catalog, ordering
http://store.ic.org/bookshelf
3 Communities Magazine Fall Issue
Issue #136 just mailed to subscribers
Is Beauty in Community Important? is the theme of the Fall 2007 issue of Communities magazine.
Articles include
- Notes on Beauty in Community by renowned cohousing architect Chuck Durrett
- Does it Matter What It Looks Like?, a sample of communitarian opinions across North America
- The "Ten Most Beautiful" Communities in the World, an informal, highly unscientific poll of some the world's most widely traveled community activists
- We Walk in Beauty about Huehuecoyotl Ecovillage in Mexico, where la ecologia es arte (ecology is art)
- When Adobe Pueblo Meets Star Trek about the astonishing-looking Yulupa Cohousing in California (featured on our cover)
- The Meandering Paths of Arcadia, about the charming, old-world village atmosphere of Arcadia Cohousing in North Carolina.
Non-theme articles include
- When Someone Blocks Far Too Frequently, in which consensus trainers and communication and process experts Bea Briggs, Caroline Estes, Laird Schaub, and Tree Bressen, advise what to do about "repeat blockers" in community
- On the Road with Zephyr, Part II: further community-seeking adventures
- Tragedy's Hard Questions: a fairly gripping tale about a serious accident at Sandhill Farm
- Community, Love, and Healing: an especially poignant Peripatetic Communitarian column from Geoph Kozeny
The theme of the following Winter issue #137 will be: Influencing the Wider Culture.
Communities magazine is now seeking articles and photos for the Spring 2008 issue, Women in Community. For more information or to obtain article guidelines, please contact Interim Editor Alyson Ewald using our contact form
Communities
magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian, whose new book, Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, came out in June, will be keynote speaker at the Urban Ecovillage Conference in Chicago in November. She'll also be one of several keynote speakers at the Japanese Ecovillage Conference in Tokyo, also in November.
NOTE: Diana has just retired as editor after many years of service. See the next issue of our magazine for the full story.
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Get a Communities sample issue, renew or subscribe here
http://store.ic.org//communities/sample.php
http://store.ic.org/cmag
Sample issues $4 plus $4 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
540-894-4112 fax
4 Communities Directory 2007 New Edition
By Tony Sirna
The brand new 2007 edition of the Communities Directory has been flying off the shelves since its release in August. This is the second edition of the book based on our Online Communities Directory http://directory.ic.org and we are very happy with the results.
This all-new Directory edition lists over 900 intentional communities in North America, including ecovillages, co-ops, communes and cohousing projects, and 300 communities from around the world. Also included are detailed cross-reference charts, an index, and maps. For the first time we include maps showing community locations world-wide as well as detailed maps of North America.
You can order your copy now for $24 (plus shipping.) This is a 20% discount for those ordering direct from the FIC so don't wait until you see it in stores. Please contact us for discounts on 5 or more copies.
Help us promote the new book by telling your friends or better yet, order them a copy!
http://store.ic.org/directory/
Fifth Edition Communities Directory
2007; 432 pages; paperbound; 8-1/2x11 inches
published by the Fellowship for Intentional Community
The price direct from FIC is $24 plus S/H.
Shipping/handling on this item is as follows
4.00 S/H for first item
1.00 S/H for each additional item
S/H prices are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US.
Order by phone fax or mail from
FIC :: 138 Twin Oaks Rd :: Louisa VA 23093
800-462-8240 540-894-4112 fax
And remember to visit our online Directory to check for updates received since the book was sent to the printer.
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 coop! 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
fic -[ at ]- ic.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.
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