Order – April 16, 2014 @ 04:10 PM

What is an Intentional Community? Intentional Community is the radical notion that how we live ought to be based on our values. Strange that this is “radical” but the truth is, many people struggle to integrate their values into their daily lives, and intentional community provides a rare forum t…

It is important to not only talk about the role class privilege plays in our movement, but also celebrate the ways that cross-class cooperation can be a form of much-needed solidarity.

Kara Huntermoon of Heart-Culture Farm shares her community’s affordability strategies.

A Q&A with Hank Gamel and Fran Biederman, about living in an intergenerational neighborhood called Hope Meadows. Excerpted from Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection edited by Samantha Paige Rosen.

For a while, peer-to-peer lending platforms were going to be the next big thing. Instead of borrowing from big banks, we could borrow from each other, on platforms like Lending Club and Prosper. But pretty soon big banks starting getting involved, and the loans weren’t really so “peer-to-peer” af…

Does the culture of women-only space still serve a worthwhile purpose, or does it perpetuate division? A long-time leader of women’s circles advocates inclusivity.

How can we do right by the native peoples whose ancestral homelands now host our intentional communities?

The former Elderhostel coordinator at Holy Cross Monastery explores personal and monastic history to explain her unlikely presence there.

 

This article first appeared on Cohousing USA’s blog here. By Charles Durrett. The last nails are being hammered in. Fresh paint still clings to the damp air. In Port Townsend, Washington, residents of the newly-built Quimper Village Senior Cohousing eagerly await moving into the neighborhood th…