Communities #197 Winter 2022 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. In Communities #197, The Long Haul, authors look at what it takes to endure as a communitarian and/or as a community over the long term, as well as what it will take for our species to weather...
Communities #195 Summer 2022 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Issue #195, “Place and Planet,” looks at how individuals and communities relate to their local places and to the larger world. Stories explore back-to-the-land experiments, restoring fire to...
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...
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...
Communities #188 Fall 2020 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Our Fall 2020 issue explores “scaling” from many angles. We look at cultural changes necessary for groups to scale up a more inclusive form of community; reasons to scale out, rather than up;...
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...
