Journey To and Through Communities
By Riana Good (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 10-12; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) It was July of 2016, a damp, cool day in the foothills of the White Mountains. I poured a steaming mug of tea and nestled into a pale, overstuffed...The Ecstatic Communion and Revelatory Foibles of Sun House
Review By Chris Roth (excerpted from Communities #201, Winter 2023, pages 50-57; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) Sun House David James Duncan Little, Brown & Company, 2023, 784 pages. I love this book. I rarely read, let alone recommend, 784-page...
Communities #200: Adaptation
Communities #200 Fall 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #200, Adaptation, explores how we as individuals, as groups, and as a species can adapt to changing circumstances, both internal and external. Articles describe experiences with...
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...Village-Building Stumbles: A few of the things Earthaven Ecovillage has gotten wrong
Those of us privileged enough to find ourselves in an intentional community often imagine that our environment will be free of the horrors and evils of the world. But alas, we bring it all with us.