Communities #208: Fire and Rain

Communities #208 Fall 2025 FIRE AND RAIN Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #208, Fall 2025, Fire and Rain, explores the impacts of climate change, natural disasters, climate anxiety, and related mental health struggles on intentional...

Communities #207: Breaking the Spell

Communities #207 Summer 2025 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. And thanks to donor generosity, for a limited time you can view and/or download a complimentary digital version of this issue here. Communities #207, Summer 2025, Breaking the Spell, explores...

Communities #202: Finding Community

Communities #202 Spring 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. In Communities #202, Finding Community, authors reflect on personal journeys and offer guidance on finding a wide array of different forms of community, from residential intentional community...
Exploring Cooperative Futures, Part Three: The Ties that Bind

Exploring Cooperative Futures, Part Three: The Ties that Bind

By Paul Freundlich Excerpted in Communities #192 (available here). See Communities #191 for Parts One and Two of this article series. Community, both as ideal and reality, has the capacity to transcend the usual boundaries. Not only in shared living, it flourishes in...
Modeling Urban Homesteading for Climate Resilience in Portland, Oregon

Modeling Urban Homesteading for Climate Resilience in Portland, Oregon

By Rachel Freifelder Before I tell you about my intentional community, let me tell you about my community. I’m walking back from the Cully Urban Farm Store with 50 lbs. of duck feed in the wheelbarrow, when I meet my neighbor Carolyn on her way to get a newspaper from...
On the Road to a Solar Future

On the Road to a Solar Future

By Debbie Piesen On I-40 West in New Mexico, 200 miles from our destination, Cheryl blew a tire. Cheryl is our trailer, and she was heavily loaded down with the solar equipment that we planned to install in Tsaile, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation. When we pulled over we...