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...
Communities #191: Ecological Culture
Communities #191 Summer 2021 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Our Summer 2021 issue of Communities, #191, focuses on Ecological Culture. Articles range from in-depth stories of ecovillage life, to examinations of the role of language in culture, to...
Los Angeles Eco-Village: The Ups and Downs of Reinventing How We Live in Cities
By Lois Arkin I’m vulnerable. At 83, with the COVID-19 surge, I am told to stay in, get help for my groceries, mask myself before opening my apartment door. Since I plan to live to be 100, and the future incarnations of this and similar viruses are uncertain, I wonder...
The Virtue of Virtuality: DNE Is Still Dancing
By Paul Freundlich What to do with a community that is defined by physical contact, at a time when physical distance is the law of the land and possibly a matter of life or death? That’s a conundrum which many communities confronted in March of 2020, but none more...Cross-Class Cooperation and Land Access
It is important to not only talk about the role class privilege plays in our movement, but also celebrate the ways that cross-class cooperation can be a form of much-needed solidarity.