Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond
Columbia Ecovillage, Cully Grove Garden Community, Kailash Ecovillage, River Road Neighborhood, and elsewhere embody diverse, promising approaches to re-greening our lives.
Compact Community at Maitreya EcoVillage in Eugene, Oregon
Urban development needs sufficient density to support functional public transit, bicycling, and walking—while also staying beautiful, fun, green, and rich with community.
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage: A 13-Year-Old Retrofit Ecovillage in Cincinnati, Ohio
While it involves inevitable struggles, this replicable model both forms community and provides an ecological framework for living in the city.
Honoring the Conversation: Turning a Neighborhood into a Community in Intown Atlanta
Face-to-face conversation strengthens the sense of community among the diverse constituencies of a nonprofit Land Trust.
DC Community Evolution and Change: Perspectives from Lutheran Volunteer Corps
While time has brought increased gentrification, a faith-based community’s fight for social justice in DC is far from over.
Back to the City!
As Compersia and Point A aim to demonstrate, a city can be the perfect place to start an egalitarian, income-sharing community.
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.