Seattle to Create the First Free Food Forest

As interest in community living grows, it’s important that we make it easy and accessible for people to get involved with their local co-ops and coliving spaces. For many people, community dinners, art and music nights, and overnight stays are the ideal way to explore whether coliving is right for t…

Alan O’Hashi is a Board member of the Cohousing Association of the US. For more 30th blog posts click here. Documenting the Women’s March in Cheyenne, Wyoming was a big eye opener for me. What’s been on my mind l…

When community members want to place “private” panels on “public” roofs, don’t expect clear sailing.

Living Energy Farm embodies the promise of renewable energy used cooperatively.

Edward O. Wilson’s new book, Half-Earth, offers a timely proposal for the conservation movement: dedicate half of the planet’s surface to nature, and we’ll be able to hold off the worst losses of biodiversity. If half or more wild spaces can be protected from destruction, “more than 80 percent of th…

Tragically for some of us, the Communities Conference and Burning Man both happen over Labor Day weekend. Burning Man is a 50,000 person festival which happens in the middle of the dessert in Nevada and is transformational for many of its participants. Here is a comic review of why you should choose…

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history” – Mahatma Gandhi

A century since the United States’ first citywide zoning ordinance, community founders can find support in unexpected places when navigating land use laws.

Our Winter 2017 issue, Urban Communities, takes readers on a journey from the US East Coast through middle America to the West Coast, then to Canada and overseas. The communities featured span an equally broad range—from communes to cohousing, from outward-focused to more inward-focused, from retrof…

For many tiny house enthusiasts, building the house itself isn’t the hard part. Rather, it is the regulations created for tiny houses that present the challenge. In this article, we introduce Part 1 to a docuseries called “Living Tiny Legally”.