Communities Issues

 

Communities magazine covers a wide range of themes within the world of intentional communities. Every issue of Communities magazine is available in the Back Issues. (Some back issues are not available as originals but only as photocopies.) Complete back issue sets are also available. Communities issues starting from 2007 have some articles available online.

Cover for Issue 158: Affordability and Self-Reliance
Cover for Issue 157: Endings and Beginnings
Cover for Issue 156: Ecovillages
Cover for Issue 155: Diversity
Cover for Issue 154: Spirituality
Cover for Issue 153: Permaculture
Cover for Issue 152: Right Livelihood
Cover for Issue 151: Intimacy
Cover for Issue 150: Mental Health: Challenges and Hope
Cover for Issue 149: Elders
Cover for Issue 148: Power and Empowerment
Cover for Issue 147: Education for Sustainability
Cover for Issue 146: Family
Cover for Issue 145: Health and Well-Being
Cover for Issue 144: Community in Hard Times
Cover for Issue 143: Ecology and Community
Cover for Issue 142: Festivals and Gatherings
Cover for Issue 141: Scarcity and Abundance
Cover for Issue 140: Politics in Community
Cover for Issue 139: Green Building
Cover for Issue 138: Women in Community
Cover for Issue 137: Making a Difference
Cover for Issue 136: Is Beauty Important?
Cover for Issue 135: What Do You Eat? Where Does It Come From?
Cover for Issue 134: Temporary Community - What Do We Learn?
Cover for Issue 133: Helping Your Local Economy Thrive
Helping Your Local Economy Thrive
Winter 2006 – Issue 133
Table of Contents: How a Steady State Economy Can Change Our Lives — An Abundance of Small, Sustainable Solutions — Our Own Money: Recipe for Healthy Local Economies — Local Currencies — How Ecovillages Can Grow Sustainable Local Economies — When We Should Use “Blocking Power” — Seeking Community — Founding Community
Cover for Issue 132: Will You Live Your Elder Years in Community?
Will You Live Your Elder Years in Community?
Fall 2006 – Issue 132
Table of Contents: Good Meetings — Community Where You Are — Seeking Community — Founding Community — Living in Community — The Giant Sea Turtle in Our Shower — Ecotopia in Japan? — Graying in Community — Healing in the Common House (With a Little Help from My Friends) — Elder Cohousing—An Idea Whose Time Has Come? — Publisher’s Note: “Ruth” or Consequences — Ecovillages Worldwide: The Palestinian with a Green Thumb — Federation Update
Cover for Issue 131: Good Works in Community
Good Works in Community
Summer 2006 – Issue 131
Table of Contents: Prescott’s “EcoHood” — Start a Neighborhood Newsletter — Intern at an Ecovillage — The Overly Powerful Community Member — When Oprah or Geraldo Call . . . — Seven Months in the Gulf — “How Can We Help?”: The Farm’s Plenty Organization — Building Bridges of Clay, Mud, and Straw — I Can Do It Because I Live in Community — Communities That Serve Others . . . and Love Doing It — It Shows Our Neighbors We Want to Contribute — Heirloom Gardens, Clean Water, and No GMOs
Cover for Issue 130: Peak Oil and Sustainability
Peak Oil and Sustainability
Spring 2006 – Issue 130
Table of Contents: Community Survival During the Coming Energy Decline — An Energy Primer: How We Consume Our Ancient Sunlight — Peak Oil and Community Food Security — City Repair and the Opportunity of Peak Oil — Peak Oil as “Opportunity”? — Helping Friends and Neighbors Prepare — Preparing For A Post-Carbon World: Why I´m Joining O.U.R. Ecovillage — Living the (Almost) Petrol-Free Life
Cover for Issue 129: Urban Communities & Ecovillages
Urban Communities & Ecovillages
Winter 2005 – Issue 129
Table of Contents: The Village Can Save the City — Our Sustainable Urban Acre — Living the Good Life Downtown — An Urban Ecovillage of the Near Future — A Farm Grows in Portland — A Home-Grown Ecovillage on Our Street — “Urban Biotope” — Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?
Cover for Issue 128: Resolving Conflict in Community
Resolving Conflict in Community
Fall 2005 – Issue 128
Table of Contents: Trust, Connection, and Clear Agreements — The Gifting Circle: A Communication Process that Feels Good — 71 Ways To Build Trust & Connection or Reduce or Resolve Conflict — Our Toughest Membership Decision Ever — Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ? — Creating Community Where You Live — How Walnut Street Co-op Financed Its Property
Cover for Issue 127: The Face of Cohousing in 2005
The Face of Cohousing in 2005
Summer 2005 – Issue 127
Table of Contents: The Face of Cohousing in 2005 — The Next Phase: Senior Cohousing — What Have We Learned in Five Years? — Cohousing to EcoVillages: A Global Feminist Vision? — A “Green” Architect Falls in Love–With FrogSong Cohousing — Joining A Cohousing Community: Risks & Rewards
Cover for Issue 126: The Arts in Community
The Arts in Community
Spring 2005 – Issue 126
Table of Contents: 101 Art Projects Your Community Can Do — Painting and Dancing for Community Spirit — Creativity as “Learning Game” — Confessions of a Process Warrior
Cover for Issue 125: Life After Student Coops
Life After Student Coops
Winter 2004 – Issue 125
Table of Contents: What I Learned Last Summer — Ruined for American Culture — Now I Want to Join a Community (or Maybe Start My Own) — The Toughest Issue We Ever Faced
Cover for Issue 124: Spiritual Community
Spiritual Community
Fall 2004 – Issue 124
Table of Contents: Avoiding Spiritual Community — Rocky Mountain High — On the Edge of the Abyss — Spiritual Beings, Material World — Do We Really Value “Diversity”?
Cover for Issue 123: A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life
Summer 2004 – Issue 123
Table of Contents: By the Plume of Popocapetl — A Spring Day in Portugal — La Caravana Arcoiris por la Paz — Piligrimage in a Desert Monastery — How to Really Support Ecovillages (Not Just Hugs and Theories).
Cover for Issue 122: Community Seeker's Guide
Community Seeker’s Guide
Spring 2004 – Issue 122
Table of Contents: My Marathon Tour of Communities — Planning a Community Visit — Tips for Guests & Hosts — When and Why to Block Consensus — Seeking Community in New York City.
Cover for Issue 121: Thriving in Community
Thriving in Community
Winter 2003 – Issue 121
Table of Contents: Still Thriving After All These Years — Finding My Heart at Camphill Soltane — Ecology in Community: Commitment to Place — Living the Spiritual Quest of Elder Years.
Cover for Issue 120: Directory Update
Directory Update
Special 2003 – Issue 120
Table of Contents: Directory 2000 Third Edition Update. Note: this issue was produced solely as an update to the Third Edition Directory.
Cover for Issue 119: Right Livelihood in Community
Right Livelihood in Community
Fall 2003 – Issue 119
Table of Contents: Recipe for a Thriving Community — Healthy & Unhealthy Communal Economies — Right Livelihood in a Camphill Village — Redwoods, Rugged Cliffs, & Mineral Baths — Developing Trust in Communities.
Cover for Issue 118: Lovers in Community
Lovers in Community
Summer 2003 – Issue 118
Table of Contents: Make It or Break It — Breaking Up (While Staying in Community) — Living Outside the Box — Relationships in the Crucible — Lovers, Friends, and Parents — Relationship by Consensus.
Cover for Issue 117: Ecovillages: What Have We Learned?
Ecovillages: What Have We Learned?
Spring 2003 – Issue 117
Table of Contents: What is an Ecovillage — Creating ” — Ecovillage Zoning” — with Local Officials — Why Urban Ecovillages are Crucial — A 73-Year-Old Ecovillage in the Land of Ice and Fire — Accountability and Consequences.
Cover for Issue 116: Can We Afford To Live in Community?
Can We Afford To Live in Community?
Fall-Winter 2002 – Issue 116
Table of Contents: Inventing a Rural Community Economy, Business by Business — The Making of a Community Entrepreneur — Developing a Hybrid Economy — ” — Family Style” — Income-Sharing — No Funds? How One Community Did It.
Cover for Issue 115: The Heart of Sustainability
The Heart of Sustainability
Summer 2002 – Issue 115
Table of Contents: Sustainability in the City of the Angels — The Haybox Cooker — Everybody Loves Strawbale.
Cover for Issue 114: What Do Children Learn in Community?
What Do Children Learn in Community?
Spring 2002 – Issue 114
Table of Contents: Community-Based Education: Superior to Public Schools? Self-Reliance, Self-Esteem, and Social Confidence — A Place in the Tribe — Low-Cost “Health Insurance” for Communities–Or Anyone Else.
Cover for Issue 113: Communication & Process
Communication & Process
Winter 2001 – Issue 113
Table of Contents: Getting Real–Ten “Truth Skills” — Birthing Co-Creative Community — Towards Clarity & — Honesty — True Consensus, False Consensus — Agenda Planning-Making Meetings Flow — The Fine Art of Giving & — Receiving Feedback.
Cover for Issue 112: Multigenerational Community
Multigenerational Community
Fall 2001 – Issue 112
Table of Contents: To the Ecovillage! — It Takes All of Us — Elder Leadership in Cohousing — What Can You Expect of Me as a Community Elder? — Seriously Seeking Community, Part II — Myths About Intentional Community.
Cover for Issue 111: Creating
Creating “Magic Culture”: Appropriate Technology & Intentional Community
Summer 2001 – Issue 111
Table of Contents: In a Hawaiian Rainforest… Living the Good Life — Going Solar? Making It Happen — Moderating the Vocal, Encouraging the Shy, Equalizing Participation in Meetings.
Cover for Issue 110: Student Housing Co-ops: What I Really Learned in College
Student Housing Co-ops: What I Really Learned in College
Spring 2001 – Issue 110
Table of Contents: I Was a Teenage Homeowner — High Rent and No Voice? No Thanks — Who Says We Have To Move Out?
Cover for Issue 109: Decision Making in Community
Decision Making in Community
Winter 2000 – Issue 109
Table of Contents: 20 Things You Can Do To Improve Meetings — Multi-Winner Voting — Sociocracy at Ecovillage of Loudon County — When People Miss Meetings — Using Dynamic Consensus to Empower Ourselves — 12 Myths of Consensus.
Cover for Issue 108: Let's Go! Learning Opportunities in Communities
Let’s Go! Learning Opportunities in Communities
Fall 2000 – Issue 108
Table of Contents: “Wilderness Is Our Classroom” — Designing My Own Education for the “Ecovillage Millenium” — Communities Where You Can Learn — The Rainbow Family Diaspora.
Cover for Issue 107: Song, Dance, & Celebration
Song, Dance, & Celebration
Summer 2000 – Issue 107
Table of Contents: What Creates “Community Spirit”? Dancing for Peace, Joy, and Community — Community Spirit after Cohousing Move-In — How Rumors Can Ruin Community Friendships — Finding New Community Members — Your Publicity Toolbox.
Cover for Issue 106: Cohousing: Building Community One Neighborhood at a Time
Cohousing: Building Community One Neighborhood at a Time
Spring 2000 – Issue 106
Table of Contents: Finding the People, Finding the Money — Community “Process” Issues vs. Development Issues? — Building Green Community on a Budget — Conflict — Community Member as “Lightning Rod”.
Cover for Issue 105: Transition & Change: The Hard Road to Accountability
Transition & Change: The Hard Road to Accountability
Winter 1999 – Issue 105
Table of Contents: Death & — Rebirth at Skywoods — Emissaries of Divine Light — Communities in the 21st Century — Finding New Community Members — Leadership Dynamics in Community.
Cover for Issue 104: Conflict & Connection: Assessing Community Well-Being
Conflict & Connection: Assessing Community Well-Being
Fall 1999 – Issue 104
Table of Contents: Living “Naka-Ima” at Lost Valley — Assessing Community Well-Being — A Healing Impulse — About Open-Hearted Listening — Working With Difficult Behaviors in Meetings — Nonviolent Communication — Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection.
Cover for Issue 103: Walden Two Communities: Where Are They Now?
Walden Two Communities: Where Are They Now?
Summer 1999 – Issue 103
Table of Contents: Science of Behavior, Si! (and What Is It?) — Growing Up at Los Horcones — Path with a Behaviorist Heart — Communal Child Rearing at Twin Oaks — Damanhur: A Magical Mystery Tour.
Cover for Issue 102: Health & Healing: Community is Healing
Health & Healing: Community is Healing
Spring 1999 – Issue 102
Table of Contents: Patch Adams on Health & — Healing — Is Community Good For Your Health? — Staying Healthy in Community — Community Medicine Chest — Loving to the End — “Everyone Feels Useful Here” — Toxic Emissions, Toxic Omissions.
Cover for Issue 101: Communities, the Millennium, and Y2K
Communities, the Millennium, and Y2K
Winter 1998 – Issue 101
Table of Contents: The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation? — How Communities Are Preparing — How I “Got It” About Y2K — Home-Made Power — Making Our Own Sustainable Local Economy — Patch Adams on the Movie “Patch Adams” — The Millennium Last Time Around.
Cover for Issue 100: Political Activism in Community
Political Activism in Community
Fall 1998 – Issue 100
Table of Contents: Health Care as Politics in Ecuador — Risking Jail, Creating Community — Organic Growing, Activism, and the Good Life — Following the Lord … Into Chicago Politics — Patriot Survivalists on an Idaho Mountain — Compassion & — Political Correctness.
Cover for Issue 99: Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Communities
Summer 1998 – Issue 99
Table of Contents: Living the Permaculture Dream — Building Design That Fosters Community — What Does Your Land Say? — Building with Mud! — Use It Again, Sam: Salvaging Building Materials — Using the Internet to Find Your Community.
Cover for Issue 98: Values, Vision, and Money: Manifesting Our Dreams
Values, Vision, and Money: Manifesting Our Dreams
Spring 1998 – Issue 98
Table of Contents: Money as “Shadow” Issue at Findhorn — Identity and Money at Shenoa — Social Class & — Money in Community — How Much Is Enough? — Investing in Your Values — Confronting the Petty Tyrant.
Cover for Issue 97: 25th Anniversary Issue
25th Anniversary Issue
Winter 1997 – Issue 97
Table of Contents: Lessons from the Communes — The Way We Were — The “Shadow Side” of Community — “No Bad Vibes” — What Price Community? — 25 Years Older … 25 Years Wiser?
Cover for Issue 96: Breaking Bread in Community
Breaking Bread in Community
Fall 1997 – Issue 96
Table of Contents: Food Fight! — Dinners at the Sharingwood Cafe — Kashrut and Compromise at Ofek Shalom — Wildcrafting in Our Yard — Growing Your Own & — Selling It, Too — Tastes of Short Mountain — Dining in Cohousing.
Cover for Issue 95: Sustainable Building and Design
Sustainable Building and Design
Summer 1997 – Issue 95
Table of Contents: Building with Nature, Earth, and Magic — How Not to Build Your Community Home — Whole-Systems Design for Earthaven Village — Recycling Old Buildings at Mahantongo Spirit Garden.
Cover for Issue 94: Making a Living
Making a Living
Spring 1997 – Issue 94
Table of Contents: Boss? What Boss? — Profit is Not a Dirty Word — Creating Value-Added Products — Making It On Our Own — Work & — Commitment in Two Communities — Telecommuting — Making a Living or Making a Life.
Cover for Issue 93: Celebrating Arts & Creativity
Celebrating Arts & Creativity
Winter 1996 – Issue 93
Table of Contents: And the Tree of Life Rises — The Flowering of Art at East Blair — Chaos, Control, & — the Courage to Create — Community as Performance Art.
Cover for Issue 92: Christian Communities Then and Now
Christian Communities Then and Now
Fall 1996 – Issue 92
Table of Contents: Southern Hospitality, “Cotton Patch” Style — Where Have All the (Seventies) Communities Gone? — Authority and Submission in Christian Communities.
Cover for Issue 91: Ecovillages
Ecovillages
Summer 1996 – Issue 91
Table of Contents: What Is an Ecovillage? — Setting Up an Ecovillage Where You Are — Planning and Zoning-Encouraging News — Ecovillages in Ithaca, Israel, Canada, Scotland, Senegal.
Cover for Issue 90: Diversity, Homogeneity in Community
Diversity, Homogeneity in Community
Spring 1996 – Issue 90
Table of Contents: Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned — Racism and Denial in Community — Are We Keeping Culturally Diverse People Out? — A Multicultural Neighborhood — Hidden Selectors
Cover for Issue 89: Growing Older in Community
Growing Older in Community
Winter 1995 – Issue 89
Table of Contents: Choosing to Age in Community — Supporting the Aging Process in Community — Listening to the Wisdom of Our Elders — Stephen Gaskin on Rocinante — “Benevolent Dictators” in Community?
Cover for Issue 88: Intentional Communities &
Intentional Communities & “Cults”
Fall 1995 – Issue 88
Table of Contents: What Really Happened at Waco? — Creating a Network of Reunion.
Cover for Issue 87: Love, Romance & Sex
Love, Romance & Sex
Summer 1995 – Issue 87
Table of Contents: Community Ideals & — Personal Loves — Re-Sacralizing Marriage — Smorgasbord of Alternatives — ZEGG — Healing from Sex/Power Abuse in Community — Spiritual Growth & — Multiple Relationships.
Cover for Issue 86: Nurturing Our Potential
Nurturing Our Potential
Spring 1995 – Issue 86
Table of Contents: “We Have to Keep Growing?” — Toward Gender Harmony — Challenge of Conflict — Aikido — Gestalt Practice — Multiple Parenting.
Cover for Issue 85: What We Have Learned
What We Have Learned
Winter 1994 – Issue 85
Table of Contents: The Transition at King View Farm — Co-op Wars — A Closer Look into “Cults”.
Growing Up in Community
Fall 1994 – Issue 84
Table of Contents: Idyllic, Nurturing, Humorous, Confusing, and Frightening Aspects of Community Childhood – In Commune, Kibbutz, The Farm, Charismatic Christian, Bruderhof, Political Activist, and Secular Egalitarian Communities.
Cover for Issue 83: Celebration of Community: Highlights of the Aug 1993 gathering, Olympia, WA
Celebration of Community: Highlights of the Aug 1993 gathering, Olympia, WA
Summer 1994 – Issue 83
Table of Contents: Kirkpatrick Sale/Bioregionalism — Dorothy Maclean/Findhorn — Corinne McLaughlin/Leadership — Gordon Davidson/Spiritual Economics, Noel Brown/Environment — Founders Panels.
Cover for Issue 82: Women in Community
Women in Community
Spring 1994 – Issue 82
Table of Contents: Women at Twin Oaks, The Farm, Shannon Farm — Women in Bruderhof, Hutterite, Shaker, Oneidan, Mormon, Owenite Communities — Maggie Kuhn.
Cover for Issue 80: Vision & Leadership
Vision & Leadership
Spring/Summer 1993 – Issue 80
Table of Contents:
Cover for Issue 79: We're Back
We’re Back
Winter 1993 – Issue 79
Table of Contents: FIC Highlights — Directory Update.
1990-91 Directory of Intentional Communities
November 1990 – Issue 77
Table of Contents:
Cover for Issue 76: Education in Community
Education in Community
Spring 1990 – Issue 76
Table of Contents: Twin Oaks Childcare Program — Cooperative Alternative Education — Stelle Children and Education — Mt. Madonna School, Centrepoint Community, Camphill Villages, The Farm School.
Cover for Issue 75: Planetization
Planetization
Summer 1988 – Issue 75
Table of Contents: Gaian Politics, Faith for the Planetary Age, Green Movement, Eco-Feminism, Deep Ecology, Christian Stewardship.
Cover for Issue 74: Urban Middle-Class Communes
Urban Middle-Class Communes
Summer 1987 – Issue 74
Table of Contents: Sirius — Clairemont Project — Ozark Regional Land Trust — Aprovecho & — End of the Road — Alternative Special Education — Findhorn.
Cover for Issue 73: Federation of Egalitarian Communities - Ten Years
Federation of Egalitarian Communities – Ten Years
Winter 1987 – Issue 73
Table of Contents: Social, Gender, Political, Organizational Issues.
Cover for Issue 71: Model Communities
Model Communities
Summer/Fall 1986 – Issue 71
Table of Contents:
Cover for Issue 70: Travelling in Community
Travelling in Community
Spring 1986 – Issue 70
Table of Contents: San Francisco Bay Area — Co-ops — Clinics — Housing — the Cheeseboard Collective.
Cover for Issue 69: International Communities
International Communities
Winter 1986 – Issue 69
Table of Contents: South Africa — Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries — Community Homes for the Mentally Disabled — New Zealand — Windstar Foundation.
Cover for Issue 68: Historic Communal Societies
Historic Communal Societies
Fall 1985 – Issue 68
Table of Contents: The Shakers — Harmony — Zoar — Amana — the Mormons, Icarians, Fourier-ists, and Llano.
Cover for Issue 67: Technology in Community
Technology in Community
Summer 1985 – Issue 67
Table of Contents: Sunrise Ranch, Ponderosa Village, Windstar, High Wind, 100 Mile Lodge, Stelle.
Cover for Issue 66: Directory 1985/1986
Directory 1985/1986
Spring 1985 – Issue 66
Table of Contents: Builders of the Dawn — Stelle — Rainbow Gathering.
Greenham Women’s Peace Camp
Winter 1984 – Issue 65
Table of Contents: The Farm — Education for Cooperation — Justice in India — Spiritual Fraud — Jubilee Partners.
Social Notes
Fall 1984 – Issue 64
Table of Contents: The Great Alternative Life Group — Old Folks in a Future World — Case Against Consensus — Kibbutz and Education.
Living in Community
Summer 1984 – Issue 63
Table of Contents: Stelle, Emissaries of Divine Light — Peace Efforts in Nicaragua — Democratic Management.
Cover for Issue 62: Progressive Economics & Politics
Progressive Economics & Politics
Spring 1984 – Issue 62
Table of Contents: Co-op Housing — New Ideas for your Community and Kibbutz Society.
Cover for Issue 61: Parenting, Childcare, & Education
Parenting, Childcare, & Education
Winter 1984 – Issue 61
Table of Contents: Co-op Housing — Syracuse Cultural Workers — Planning.
Cover for Issue 60: Gatherings 1983
Gatherings 1983
October 1983 – Issue 60
Table of Contents: Michigan Public Schools — Solidarity.
Cover for Issue 59: Computers: Are They For You?
Computers: Are They For You?
July 1983 – Issue 59
Table of Contents: Cooperative Arab/Jewish Settlement — Volunteer Service — Holistic Living — Growing Pains.
Cover for Issue 58: Co-op America Debut
Co-op America Debut
April 1983 – Issue 58
Table of Contents: Catalog — Sisterfire — Consumer Co-op Bank.
Cover for Issue 57: Women in Business
Women in Business
February 1983 – Issue 57
Table of Contents: Feminist Therapy — Audubon Expedition — Science Fiction — Peace Movement.
10th Anniversary Issue & Directory 1983
December 1982 – Issue 56
Table of Contents: Best of Communities.
Cover for Issue 55: Building Economic Democracy
Building Economic Democracy
October 1982 – Issue 55
Table of Contents: Co-op Bank — Legal Network — Workers Trust — Worker Buyout — Unions.
Cover for Issue 54: Peace
Peace
June 1982 – Issue 54
Table of Contents: Bright Morning Star Interview — Social Activism — Community Land Trust — Meg Christian — Kibbutz.
Cover for Issue 53: Spiritual Communities
Spiritual Communities
April 1982 – Issue 53
Table of Contents: Lama, Sirius, The Farm, Renaissance, Abode of the Message, Shambhala.
Cover for Issue 52: Barter Network
Barter Network
February 1982 – Issue 52
Table of Contents: Worker-Owned Businesses.
Cover for Issue 51: Political Paradigms for the '80s
Political Paradigms for the ’80s
December 1981 – Issue 51
Table of Contents:
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Dying
October 1981 – Issue 50
Table of Contents: Hospice, Grieving, Death in Community, Rituals, Practical Guide to Home Death.
Cover for Issue 49: Tempeh Production
Tempeh Production
June 1981 – Issue 49
Table of Contents: Overcoming Masculine Oppression — Social Change — Consumer Cooperative Alliance — Housing — Credit Unions — Energy — Insurance.
Cover for Issue 48: Communities Around the World
Communities Around the World
April 1981 – Issue 48
Table of Contents: Cuba, China, Israel, India, Spain, El Salvador, England.
Cover for Issue 47: Stories
Stories
February 1981 – Issue 47
Table of Contents: Community Organizing — Economics and Work — Culture.
Directory 1981
December 1980 – Issue 46
Table of Contents: Culture — Pregnancy — Economics — Potlatch.
Art Collectives
October 1980 – Issue 45
Table of Contents: Freestate Anti-Nuke — Rainbow Family — Women in Oregon Communities.
Consumer Cooperative Alliance
June 1980 – Issue 44
Table of Contents: Housing — Food — Arts — Health — Energy.
Cover for Issue 43: Health and Well-Being
Health and Well-Being
April 1980 – Issue 43
Table of Contents: Massage — Setting Up a Tofu Kitchen — Feminist Retreat — Radical Psychiatry — Community Health Clinic.
Regionalism – The Southeast
February 1980 – Issue 42
Table of Contents: Another Place — Co-op Anti-Nuke — Community Resources.
Cover for Issue 41: Relationships
Relationships
December 1979 – Issue 41
Table of Contents: Friendships, Family, Sexuality — Renaissance Community.
Worker-Owned Businesses
October 1979 – Issue 40
Table of Contents: Community Development — Urban Ecology — Feminist Credit Union — Trusteeship.
Cover for Issue 39: Federation Women
Federation Women
August 1979 – Issue 39
Table of Contents: The Hutterites — Travel Ashram Community — Healing Waters — Industrial Co-op Association.
Guide to Cooperative Alternatives
Summer 1979 – Issue 37
Table of Contents:
Cover for Issue 36: Kerista
Kerista
January 1979 – Issue 36
Table of Contents: British Columbia — Circle of Gold.
Cover for Issue 35: Consumer Co-op Bank
Consumer Co-op Bank
November 1978 – Issue 35
Table of Contents: Income and Resource Sharing — Utopian Heritage.
Cover for Issue 34: West Coast Communal Movement
West Coast Communal Movement
September 1978 – Issue 34
Table of Contents: Hoedads, Alpha Farm, Co-op Grocery, Salvage Business, Other Activities in California & — Oregon.
A Woman’s Issue
July 1978 – Issue 33
Table of Contents: Mothers & — Daughters — Virginia Blaisdell Interview — Ffeminism in Movement for a New Society — Non-Traditional Work.
Cover for Issue 32: Future of Community
Future of Community
May 1978 – Issue 32
Table of Contents: Federation of Egalitarian Communities — Cerro Gordo — Karass — The Community Soap Factory.
Cover for Issue 31: Learning in Community
Learning in Community
March 1978 – Issue 31
Table of Contents: Teaching and Learning for All Ages — Spiritual Abortion.
Cover for Issue 30: Directory 1978
Directory 1978
January 1978 – Issue 30
Table of Contents: School of Living and Deep Run Farm — Financing — Roger Ulrich Interview.
Democratic Management
November 1977 – Issue 29
Table of Contents: Consensus — Leadership — Group Consciousness — The Ark.
Cover for Issue 28: Seabrook
Seabrook
September 1977 – Issue 28
Table of Contents: A Political Community — Middle-Aged Men in Community — Ex-Twin Oakers — Tucson Peoples Yellow Pages.
Cover for Issue 27: Movement for a New Society
Movement for a New Society
July 1977 – Issue 27
Table of Contents: Social Class — Long-Range Planning — Older Women — Plowshare Community.
Cover for Issue 26: Rebuilding the City
Rebuilding the City
May 1977 – Issue 26
Table of Contents: Urban Co-ops – Austin, New York, Washington, D.C., Greenbriar Community.
Cover for Issue 25: Don't Start a Commune in 1977
Don’t Start a Commune in 1977
March 1977 – Issue 25
Table of Contents: …join an existing one instead — Neighborhood Planning Council in DC — First Assembly of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities — International Communities.
Building Community
January 1977 – Issue 24
Table of Contents: Physical Design — Culture — Decentralized Politics — Directory 1977 — Another Place Farm.
Cover for Issue 23: Women & Work in the Kibbutz
Women & Work in the Kibbutz
November 1976 – Issue 23
Table of Contents: Rainbow Family — Leaving Community — Project America.
Networking in the Ozarks
September 1976 – Issue 22
Table of Contents: : Kibbutz family — norms vs. rules — community market — Findhorn.
Cover for Issue 21: Kibbutzim
Kibbutzim
July 1976 – Issue 21
Table of Contents: Local Relations — Ananda Co-op Village — Social Planning — Food Co-ops.
Cover for Issue 20: Middle Class Communes
Middle Class Communes
May 1976 – Issue 20
Table of Contents: How to Start — Interpersonal Skills — Teenagers in Communes — Sharing Housework.
Urban Communities
March 1976 – Issue 19
Table of Contents: New Haven — Twin Cities — Philadelphia Life Center — Taking Back the Night — Structure and Decision Making.
Directory 1976
January 1976 – Issue 18
Table of Contents: Government — Twin Oaks — Project Artaud — East Wind.
Family, Sex, & Marriage
November 1975 – Issue 17
Table of Contents: Gay Relationships — Gender Roles — Childrearing — Spiritual Marriage — German Communes.
Planning
September 1975 – Issue 16
Table of Contents: Ecology and Economics — Short and Long-Range Contingencies — Why Plan? — Land Use — Alternative Energy.
Cover for Issue 15: Research & Education in Community
Research & Education in Community
July 1975 – Issue 15
Table of Contents: Survival Schools — Martial Arts — Paolo Soleri Interview.
Therapy
May 1975 – Issue 14
Table of Contents: Encounter Groups — Spiritual Therapy — Overcoming Jealousy — The Farm.
Cover for Issue 13: Spiritual Life in Community
Spiritual Life in Community
March 1975 – Issue 13
Table of Contents: Christian, Ashrams, Secular, Atheist, Ritual — Composting.
Directory 1975
January 1975 – Issue 12
Table of Contents: Karum — Networking — Building a New Society.
Cover for Issue 11: Land Reform
Land Reform
December 1974 – Issue 11
Table of Contents: Planning — Living on the Land — Paolo Soleri — Energy. — Ownership & — Use
Cover for Issue 10: Work
Work
November 1974 – Issue 10
Table of Contents: Labor Credit Systems — Times Change Process.
Cover for Issue 9: Children in Community
Children in Community
July 1974 – Issue 9
Table of Contents: Iris Mountain — Twin Oaks — Ananda
Cover for Issue 8: Individuality & Intimacy
Individuality & Intimacy
May 1974 – Issue 8
Table of Contents: Jealousy, Open Relationships, Couples, Singles — Christian Homesteading.
Cover for Issue 7: 1974 Directory
1974 Directory
March 1974 – Issue 7
Table of Contents: Women in Community — People of Color and Community.
Overseas Community
January 1974 – Issue 6
Table of Contents: May Valley Co-op — Christian Communes — Back-To-The-Land.
Cover for Issue 5: Personal Change/Social Change
Personal Change/Social Change
October 1973 – Issue 5
Table of Contents: Community Culture — Boston Co-op Houses — Group Relationships.
Cover for Issue 4: Schools and Community
Schools and Community
Summer 1973 – Issue 4
Table of Contents: The Vale School — The Farm — Community Heritage.
Cover for Issue 3: Community Market Development
Community Market Development
Spring 1973 – Issue 3
Table of Contents: Ananda — Economic Clearinghouse.
Cover for Issue 2: Law, Communes, Land Trusts
Law, Communes, Land Trusts
February 1973 – Issue 2
Table of Contents: Rural Poverty — Open Gate — Papaya — Changes Therapeutic Community. — Country Life — Conferences — Meadowlark Therapeutic Community — School of Living — Mulberry Farm — Arthur Morgan.
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Directory 1972
December 1972 – Issue 1
Table of Contents: Membership Selection, Camphill Village — Twin Oaks — Women and Communal Societies. — The Four-Fold Way, Buddhist Community, Goodenough, What Happened to Kerista?, the URI Split Up, Sunflower House, Co-op America, Collaborative Decision Making, Servant Leadership, Bullies & — Egos, Paradigms of Control & — Harmony. — A New Community Journal — Virginia Communities — Philadelphia Life Center — All Feature Articles in First Edition of Directory — Alpha Farm. — 129 pages. — Past, Present, Future — Historic Future Cities — Kerista – Polyfidelity. — Double Issue on Community Participation, Social Change, Well-Being, Appropriate Technology, Networking — Directory of Intentional Communities — Resource Listings – 184 pages.