Two amazing community events in California

Two Amazing Community Events In California
West Coast Communities Conference Sept 29 – Oct 1
Building Resilient Communities & Permaculture Convergence Oct 5 – Oct 8
Co-Sponsored by the Foundation for Intentional Community

The FIC is proud to sponsor the third annual West Coast Communities Conference, and the Building Resilient Communities & Permaculture Convergence.

West Coast Communities Conference
Hosted this year by Terra Madre Gardens in Escondido, CA, the event’s keynote presentation will be by Diana Leaf Christian, sociocracy trainer and author of Creating a Life Together, the definitive guide to building intentional communities.

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This year’s theme is Thriving, Not Just Surviving, focusing on equitable and sustainable income and affordability.

Building Resilient Communities & Permaculture Convergence

Evolving from 12+ years of the NorCal Permaculture Convergence, the BRCC brings together sustainability enthusiasts, permaculture designers, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, social justice activists, people from the NorCal Bioregion, the West Coast, and beyond for a dynamic, engaging, and celebratory gathering designed to build a powerful movement for community resilience.

Come learn game-changing ,cutting-edge solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing problems from top-notch community organizers, permaculture designers, and global change agents. Learn ways to design and establish systems that provide for humanity’s material and non-material needs such as food, water, shelter, energy, economies, health, and happiness in a way that humans and Nature can thrive.

A Few of Our 2017 100+ Speakers:

Jon Young – Mentor, Naturalist, Author, Speaker; 8 Shields Institute

Ferananda Ibarra – The Metacurrency Project, VillageLab

Starhawk – Renowned Global Justice Activist, Award Winning Author, Teacher, Speaker

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Wed Dec 2007

Tryon Farm working towards eco-zoning in Portland

EcoSpace has an article about Tryon Farms and how they are working in Portland to help create more ecologically friendly zoning and building codes. Compost toilets, grey water, cob, eco-villages– these terms are entering mainstream vocabulary more and more. Yet many old-fashioned codes and regulatio…

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Thu Sep 2016

"Ecotopia" Art Installation Brings Visions of Permaculture to the London Design Festival

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From Sept. 17-25, 2016, the London Design Festival will feature an art installation inspired by Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 book Ecotopia. In the book, a journalist visits a newly-formed country in the Pacific Northwest that’s built on sustainable permaculture principles. The installation will explore …

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Sky Blue

Mon Sep 2017

Our Commitment to Social Justice

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Intentional communities are intrinsically idealistic. They’re based on a radical analysis of social problems and are an attempt to address them. They represent a personal desire to live in a way that feels more satisfying, but also the desire for a better society for all people. They are a recogniti…

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Mon Feb 2017

Communities and Climate Change, #174 Contents

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Our Spring issue examines how intentional communities and other groups are responding to the challenges presented by climate change. Through stories from more than a dozen diverse communities, we learn about steps being taken both to mitigate the intensity of climate disruption and to adapt to its e…

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Tue Jan 2014

Climate Changes

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Intentional communities are in a unique position to respond to climate change.

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Tue Jun 2008

Back to 'The Land' - Sixties Commune Reunion

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InsideBay Area.com has an article about a group of communities that formed in the hills near Palo Alto, CA in the late sixties and early seventies with such names as Struggle Mountain, Rancho Diablo, Earth Ranch and most famously, “The Land”. Most of these communes disbanded in the 70s but members r…

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Mon Nov 2016

The Damanhur Community In Italy Has Its Own Currency and Constitution

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The community of Damanhur in northern Italy is known for the Temples of Humankind, a 5-story series of underground chambers built by residents of the community as a spiritual gathering place. Begun in 1978, they were discovered by authorities in the 1990s, and nearly shut down. Now, they’re open to …

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Wed Sep 2010

Power and Powerlessness in Community

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A community member transcends a feeling of powerlessness when he inadvertently comes up with a brilliant idea about how to organize cooking groups, and others join him in implementing it.

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Fri Dec 2012

New Beginnings at Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing

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A forming cohousing group experiences its share of bumps, but comes together to move forward.

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Tue Sep 2025

Food as Social Fuel

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Savannah Fishel has visited 54 intergenerational communal housing models across Australia and the US, and she found one important social glue in every community is food.