Permaculture

The facilitator of a telephone support group offers 14 suggestions from current or aspiring communitarians with significant financial resources.

The New York Times carried an op-ed about forming community bonds in existing neighborhoods. A do-it-yourself approach, with no investment needed, other than time and effort. Peter Lovenheim writes, Why is it that in an age of cheap long-distance rates, discount airlines and the Internet, when we ca…

An interesting article about women and intentional communities! http://www.more.com/home-not-alone

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

To a former communitarian and long-time student of community, utopian experiments—some sweet, some gone sour—offer valuable lessons about oneness, diversity, and intimacy.

A Boston real estate paper reported on the completion of a new cohousing development, Richdale Place Cohousing. This is a developer driven cohousing community and is built as single building rather than townhouses (common for more urban cohousing). But its not clear how much community has been buil…

Two community founders recognize that it’s time to hand over the reins and move on.

In 2024, the Foundation for Intentional Community launched its inaugural event, Convergence of Intentional Communities. Daniel Greenberg recalls its successes.

Some communities, like the Tonic Housing project in the U.K., were founded as a way to provide cohousing to LGBT elders in rapidly gentrifying cities. Others offer a refuge away from the city, a place where like-minded people can gather for retreats and other seasonal festivities. For decades, the …