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...
Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199 Summer 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing,...
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...
Communities #191: Ecological Culture

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...
Notes from the Editor: Up, Down, and All Around

Notes from the Editor: Up, Down, and All Around

By Chris Roth When the theme for this issue (originally simply “Scaling Up”) entered our conversations well over a year ago, we envisioned it in a fairly cut-and-dried way. The basic premise of the theme, as I remember it, was this: Intentional communities and similar...