Lessons from a Childhood in Maine
In rural Maine in the ’70s, community was everyday reality, and everyone needed help sometimes.
Affordability: Angst and Angels
Kara Huntermoon of Heart-Culture Farm shares her community’s affordability strategies.
Self-Reliance, Right Livelihood, and Economic “Realities”
Life in a small rural ecovillage can mean embracing complex choices while balancing idealism with necessity.
Cycling toward Sustainable Community
After 6,500 miles of pedaling and 100 community visits, a couple documents the promise of intentional community and cooperative living.
New Beginnings at Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing
A forming cohousing group experiences its share of bumps, but comes together to move forward.
Greening Your ’Hood
Kibbutzes, ecovillages, cohousing communities, and pocket neighborhoods offer us opportunities to make a new start.
Journeying on the Ark
Questioning her community’s philosophy and practices, a live-in caregiver ends her involvement there in order to focus on greater self-expression and self-care.
Community for a Minute
Children in outdoor programs face—and often overcome—three major obstacles to learning and growth.
The Bookends of Community
Marking endings and beginnings with ritual can add intentionality, understanding, and connection to our lives.
Gratitude, Loss, Rebirth, and Community
Endings and beginnings grow from one another and make personal and group renewal possible.