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30 Years of Service to the Intentional Communities Movement

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  • October 31, 2017
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Happy 30th Birthday!!!
Foundation for Intentional Community

30 Years of Service to the Intentional Communities Movement

For 30 years the FIC has provided networking and support to co-ops, land trusts, Cohousing, ecovillages, communes, and collective living of all kinds. We’ve helped people find communities, helped communities find people, and helped people who want to start communities find each other. We’ve also been a face and point of interaction for media, researchers, and allied movements.

Find out more and help us celebrate.

30 Blog Posts, 30 Days, Covering 30 Years

Starting November 1st we’ll be posting a blog post every day touching on where we’ve been over the last 30 years, and where we’re heading. Links to the posts are here.

Social Media Raffle – #togetherresilient

How does community make us more resilient?

Go to our Facebook page, Like it, make a post using text and images responding to this question, and add the hashtag:

#togetherresilient

At the end of November, three entries will be randomly selected to receive a copy of :

  • Communities Directory, 7th edition
  • Communities magazine #177 – Urban Communities.
  • Together Resilient: Building community in the age of climate disruption

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Please join the FIC, renew your FIC membership, or make an additional tax-deductible gift to the FIC today! Your support furthers the intentional communities movement and makes community accessible to all those who seek it.

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Codicts Team
Sun May 2016

Queer, Person of Color, or Low-Income; Is Cohousing Possible for Me?

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Some creative solutions are starting to counteract cohousing’s demographic homogeneity, but significant obstacles remain.
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Cedar Moon
Sun Dec 2016

Social Permaculture: Applying the Principles

  • Living in community
  • Relationships
Permaculture’s 12 principles apply to human groups just as much as to any other ecological system.
  • Articles
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Codicts Team
Wed Aug 2008

Aquittal in Ganas Shooting

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Becky James, the woman accused of shooting Ganas member Jeff Gross, was aquitted on all charges by a New York Jury. A woman was cleared of all charges Monday in the shooting of a commune founder nearly killed by a shadowy figure on the stairwell of his compound. The jury took less than five hours t…
  • Articles
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Codicts Team
Mon Jul 2017

Public Banks and Credit Unions: What's the Difference?

As we’ve been thinking about intentional communities as alternative loci for power, the question of money and other ways for storing and using it naturally also came up. This article by Marc Armstrong first appeared on Cowboys on the Common’s blog here. Anything that takes control from Wall Street…
  • Articles
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Codicts Team
Mon Jun 2009

Visions of Utopia, Part Two

  • Living in community
  • Relationships
Author: Tim Miller Published in Communities Magazine Issue #143 Visions of Utopia, Part Two Experiments in Sustainable Culture A Documentary by Geoph Kozeny Available from store.ic.org or 1-800-995-8342. ($30 plus shipping; or $50 plus shipping for Parts One and Two together; additional dis…
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Codicts Team
Mon Dec 2007

Quaker walkers visit Rosewind Cohousing and Port Townsend Ecovillage

  • Sustainability
Well travelling bloggers do seem to stop in communities often and its nice to get their first hand descriptions of the place. And if you thought biodiesel or bikes were eco, check out these folks who are walking from Vancouver to San Diego. They stopped at Rosewind Cohousing and Port Townsend EcoVi…
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Christopher Roth
Fri May 2019

Notes from the Editor: Introducing the Sexual Politics Issue

  • Living in community
  • Relationships
Sharing the truth is not always easy, but as #MeToo has shown, breaking the silence is the first step toward healing and toward the evolution of healthier sexual politics.
  • Articles
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Codicts Team
Mon Nov 2016

You Are The FIC

  • New to community
You Are The FIC! After last Tuesday, could it be any more obvious that the world is in crisis? When the unimaginable happens, how do you respond? My request to you: Don’t despair. Use this as an opportunity. Trump has brought into stark focus the problems that already existed. It doesn’t mean we ha…
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Codicts Team
Mon Jan 2008

Co-op America Highlights Eating Co-ops

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Co-op America published an article on eating co-ops in its Real Money newsletter. The article profiles a variety of groups around the country who have gotten together to share cooking and/or meals together. From college campuses to apartment buildings, and from suburban neighborhoods to cohousing co…
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Codicts Team
Mon Apr 2017

This Novel Explores A Tuscon Community's Response To Climate Change

  • Governance
A new novel by Susan Feathers, called Threshold, explores one community’s response to climate change. Inspired by her experiences with the Building Resilient Neighborhoods program in Tuscon, Arizona, Threshold combines interlocking plot-lines with the latest scientific research to bring the concept …

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