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Communities #162 looks at gender, sexual identity, gender relationships, and much more.

Your Health Connection has created a series of three videos on cohousing and how it can help enhance people’s health. The site generaly focuses on health care and and medical issues but did a special report on cohousing as a healthier lifestyle. Videos include interviews with folks from Frog Song C…

Some creative solutions are starting to counteract cohousing’s demographic homogeneity, but significant obstacles remain.

Leave Your Legacy of Cooperation and Sustainability by Harvey Baker, President of the FIC Board of Directors We often think of the last day of the year as an important deadline for making contributions to our favorite charities. When thinking long term, no matter our age, we can plan any day of …

Localization: Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness By Helena Norberg-Hodge Edited by Steven Gorelick and Kristen Steele This month’s free resource comes from our friends at Local Futures, who work to renew ecological, social and spiritual well-being by promoting a systemic shift towards…

Living in an intentional community is one of hardest things you can do. Why? Well, despite our social nature we’ve managed to create a hyper-individualized society. The luxury is that you don’t have deal with people very much, and people are hard to deal with! The downside is we’re left empty, turni…

“What being raised in an intentional community actually gives her is something less photogenic and far more profound. It is the daily presence of multiple trusted adults who are not her parents.” A perspective on what it is like to raise your child in community.

On the land where his grandfather was born a slave, the founder of a nascent intentional community reflects on the challenges of attracting people of color, and the project’s next steps.

Support the Global Ecovillage Network Summit From July 6-10th, hundreds of activists will gather at the Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland for the GEN+20 Summit. They will celebrate 20 years of uniting people around ecological solutions, and plan the next steps to spreading sustainability around the g…

Kim Scheidt has been the FIC accountant since 2006. Full bio below. For more 30th blog posts click here. This year the Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) celebrates its 30th anniversary. It is hard for me to believe that I have been involved as a FIC staff member for the past 11 of tho…