Learning from Our Past
Forty-five years of researching, writing and teaching about, and living within intentional communities yield personal lessons with global implications.
The Value of Community: What Defines Success?
Short-term experiences of intentional community, and short-lived communities, can still have powerful, life-changing, and society-changing effects.
The Communal Studies Association
CSA and FIC partner to spread awareness of communal groups past and present and the vital lessons they offer, in areas ranging from conflict resolution, sustainability, and equality to the dangers of authoritarianism.
Living Out a Gift Economy in Community with Others
Putting love into practice can be done even when you have nothing materially.
Community Is the Best Medicine: A guide to cooperative living on a disability income
Those living with disabilities have many options for finding community; here are suggestions on where and how to look.
Servant Leadership in Cooperative Business: Stirring It Up at East Wind Nut Butters
An egalitarian community’s General Manager reflects on embodying collective values and ecological sanity in a three-million-dollar-a-year business.
Mobile Home Parks: A Fast and Inexpensive Path to Cohousing
Mobile home and RV parks present an unequaled opportunity to accelerate the transition to more widespread community living.
Community as Economic Engine
A long-time communard suggests ways non-income-sharing communities can better support their members’ economic well-being.
Participatory Budgeting in an Income-Sharing Community
How does one share income and expenses among a hundred people? Twin Oaks discovers how to supplant apathy with widespread engagement.
The Gift Economy of Standing Rock
The principles of indigenous culture informed the Water Protectors’ camps: generosity, compassion, and collective survival took precedence.