San Francisco to turn Treasure Island into an ecovillage

In August Worldwatch published a nice article about ecovillages and cohousing and how they can help reduce one’s ecological footprint. This article is still getting picked up by other media, this time by Natural Life magazine of Canada. Many ecovillages are reducing energy use, localizing farming a…

Why am I asking you to give to the Foundation for Intentional Community? A message from Sky Blue, FIC Executive Director Intentional Communities: What is Being Learned? Humanity is facing unprecedented danger, mostly self-inflicted. What is being learned in intentional…

Sharing, living close to the earth, honoring the cycles of life, and developing leadership and communication skills are essential parts of a healthy community experience.

We’ve been wanting to have more video pieces on Community Buzz but video on community is just not as easy to find. We hope to start posting at least one video a week but to do so will need to include not just the latest and greatest videos. If you have a favorite online video on community let us kno…

The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) recognizes Diggers & Dreamers as the 2020 recipient of the Kozeny Communitarian Award, honoring the indomitable spirit of Geoph Kozeny, who devoted his adult life to creating community in the world. The award was presented by FIC Exec…

The St. Petersburg Times has an article about a group of Christian intentional communities in St. Petersburg and Tampa whose mission is enhanced by simple, communal living. The article profiles one house in a group of communities calling themselves New Monasticism. (Note, at time of writing, their “…

The Charlotessville Daily Progress has an article on the first cohousing community in central Virginia, Blue Ridge Cohousing. “It’s like a regular development except people have chosen to live closer to each other and be more interactive in their community,” said Lazar, who lives in Shadowlake Villa…

Research in 2020 showed how intentional communities have responded to the coronavirus crisis. With people’s lives upended across the globe, we can’t help but wonder, how would we have responded to the coronavirus crisis if we all lived in intentional communities.

Wow! This woman has it all! She’s the answer to so many of our current dilemmas! What could possibly go wrong? A lot.