Elder Cohousing in Southwest Florida

One of the biggest hurdles an intentional community can face is figuring out how to make decisions. There are dozens of decision-making strategies to choose from, from consensus to sociocracy. But in today’s busy world, simply gathering around the table together as a community can be a challenge. A…

The co-organizer of the People of Color Sustainable Housing Network shares strategies for deepening your community’s work on issues of race, class, and privilege.

A starter marriage, a spouse’s health crisis, and the small details that define each person shed light on the meaning of intimacy.

At a permaculture-based ecovillage in North Carolina, care for the earth, care for people, and care for inner health all benefit from a dynamic culture based on local self-reliance, holism, and community.

Community can be balm for the discomforts of aging, just as elders’ wisdom and caring can soothe the growing pains of youth.

Bankrate.com, a mortgage info site, published a very extensive article about cohousing: Cohousing creates communities by design Believing that no barriers are needed between good neighbors, in 1986, a pair of homeowners on N Street in Davis, Calif., tore down the fence separating their tract homes…

A Deeper Look Communities Movement Research By Ma’ikwe Ludwig, FIC Development Director (and Junior Researcher) I’ve been looking at data again. I’ve done this on again off again for the past few years for the various nonprofits I work with, but this data is way more fun than, say, budget n…

WMBB discusses the tough question of how our society can care for our aging population as the baby boomers hit retirement. One option for aging boomers is cohousing: “We think boomers are going to find ways to co-habitate to take care of each other,” Thornhill said. “There’s not going to be anybody …

This November the UN Climate Summit (COP23) will be held in Bonn, Germany, where the imperative will be how to massively scale-up and effectively implement the Paris Climate Agreement. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) strongly believes that sustainable communities are already making significant c…

As a climate solutions advocate explains, carbon is not a bad thing; it’s often just in the wrong places right now.