Women and Intentional Communities

The Seattle P-I Reader’s Blog has a great interview with Cohousing Association Executive Director Craig Ragland on the topic of what cohousing has to offer baby boomers. Craig gives the following benefits that cohousing offers: It brings more meaning to my life. I share leadership of this commun…

Community Bookstore Feature Free Downloadable Resources at the FIC Bookstore by Kim Kanney, Community Bookstore Manager Free Downloadables Our primary aim at the FIC Bookstore is to get essential information about community and cooperation to you, our readers. Sales help us keep the bookst…

Is Cobb Hill a model of how to do community and farming cooperatively, or a case study in their challenges?

The wonderful folks at Manazita Village hosted the FIC for a productive 4 days of meetings on the future of the organization. more photos on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151632648808013.1073741826.213878248012&type=1

I always love seeing communities in the real estate section. Not when they are for sale, but when it seems they can’t figure out where else to put them. This article is from an online source calling itself “The People’s Media” which allows users to post news for distribution. It’s not the most accu…

For reasons both practical and ideological, intentional community has long been a hotbed of eco-building activity. In Communities’ “Eco-Building” issue (Summer 2018, #179), authors share their eco-building journeys, ranging from nearly-free stick-framed shelters to high-end green developments. They …

Previously on the path to community acceptance, an applicant experiences for the first time “the direct sting of bigotry, the shock of exclusion based on stereotypes” when her family is denied on the basis of polyamory.

Instead of asking whether technology is a “friend or foe,” perhaps we should be asking how to better help friends and reduce foes through the use of technology.

Both in traditional cultures and at La’akea, close loving relationships, consistent community connection, a life close to nature, fresh non-processed food, satisfying work, regular exercise, clean air and water, attunement to biological rhythms, joy, and laughter all support health.

An archiving project helps define a pioneering experiment’s cultural impact.