Life Lessons for Community Longevity
The founder of Bellyacres Artistic Ecovillage profers advice inspired by the nearly three decades he was immersed in the experiment.
Why I Study Communal Societies
By Susan Matarese The study of intentional communities, both past and present, is a rich and rewarding enterprise for the student of political theory. The members of intentional communities, whether historic or contemporary, religious or secular, short-lived or...Overcoming Our Americanness
Unless we learn from past and present communities, and collate lessons from our own, we will bob as separate crafts on the ocean of our uncooperative and ahistorical Americanness.
Tracing Windward’s Memeology
The Haudenosaunee, the Oneida Community, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, with its vision of a “polyamorous line family,” all form part of Windward’s conceptual ancestry.
Learning from Our Past
Forty-five years of researching, writing and teaching about, and living within intentional communities yield personal lessons with global implications.
The Value of Community: What Defines Success?
Short-term experiences of intentional community, and short-lived communities, can still have powerful, life-changing, and society-changing effects.