Auburn, CA city council proposes cohousing

“In a legally binding move, founders of The Integral Center, LLC have voluntarily relinquished their rights to control their company as owners. Instead they have ceded authority to a purpose-centered governance process called Holacracy, a model that distributes authority across the organization and …

The Haudenosaunee, the Oneida Community, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, with its vision of a “polyamorous line family,” all form part of Windward’s conceptual ancestry.

An archiving project helps define a pioneering experiment’s cultural impact.

Peak Moment TV has a 30 minute video on cohousing featuring Bellingham Cohousing in Bellingham, WA.

“What can I do?” It’s the right question—almost.

Thanks to a magic borne of community, a five-year-old overcomes her fears.

The history of the Intentional Communities movement runs deep, and the Foundation for Intentional Community was birthed from this movement more than 40 years ago. Read more about its history and the people who made it happen.

The author recounts his personal history with the “mentally ill”—social misfits who can show us the way to a better world, if they are allowed to make the journey.

Even an anti-authoritarian household needs agreements—but who and how to enforce them is another question.

For years, the news media has been looking to Silicon Valley as the epicenter of the new “sharing economy.” Maybe it should be looking to Toronto instead. Over the past few years, the Institute for a Resource Based Economy has been expanding the concept of collaborative consumption throughout the ci…