Communities Magazine Back Issues

Good Works in Community
Susan DeFreitas—Prescott’s “EcoHood”; Dan Chiras & Dave Wann—Start a Neighborhood Newsletter; Diana Leafe Christian—Intern at an Ecovillage; Caroline Estes, Bea Briggs, Tree Bressen, and Laird Schaub—The Overly Powerful Community Member; Darin Fenger—When Oprah or Geraldo Call . . .; Ralph McAtee—Seven Months in the Gulf; Peter Schweitzer—“How Can We Help?” The Farm’s Plenty Organization; Michael Livni, Mark Naveh, Alex Cicelsky—Building Bridges of Clay, Mud, and Straw; Rosy Betz-Zall—I Can Do It Because I Live in Community; Darin Fenger—Communities That Serve Others . . . and Love Doing It; Alyson Ewald—It Shows Our Neighbors We Want to Contribute; Phil Tymon, Brock Dolman, Adam Wolpert, Dave Henson—Heirloom Gardens, Clean Water, and No GMOs

Peak Oil and Sustainability
Jan Steinman & Diana Leafe Christian—Community Survival During the Coming Energy Decline; Jan Steinman—An Energy Primer: How We Consume Our Ancient Sunlight; Ethan Genauer—Peak Oil and Community Food Security; Lydia Doleman and Mark Lakeman—City Repair and the Opportunity of Peak Oil; Jonathan Dawson—Peak Oil as "Opportunity"?; Megan Quinn—Helping Friends and Neighbors Prepare; Guy Prouty—Preparing For A Post-Carbon World: Why I´m Joining O.U.R. Ecovillage; Patricia Greene—Living the (Almost) Petrol-Free Life

Urban Communities & Ecovillages
Richard Register—The Village Can Save the City; Our Sustainable Urban Acre; Living the Good Life Downtown; Lois Arkin—An Urban Ecovillage of the Near Future; A Farm Grows in Portland; A Home-Grown Ecovillage on Our Street ; "Urban Biotope"—Japanese Style; Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?

Resolving Conflict in Community
Trust, Connection, and Clear Agreements; The Gifting Circle: A Communication Process that Feels Good; 71 Ways To Build Trust & Connection or Reduce or Resolve Conflict; Our Toughest Membership Decision Ever; Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?; Creating Community Where You Live—From Eco-Home to Sustainable Neighborhood; How Walnut Street Co-op Financed Its Property

The Face of Cohousing in 2005
The Face of Cohousing in 2005; The Next Phase: Senior Cohousing; What Have We Learned in Five Years?; Cohousing to EcoVillages: A Global Feminist Vision?; A "Green" Architect Falls in Love--With FrogSong Cohousing; Joining A Cohousing Community: Risks & Rewards

The Arts in Community
101 Art Projects Your Community Can Do; Painting and Dancing for Community Spirit; Creativity as "Learning Game"; Confessions of a Process Warrior

Life After Student Coops
What I Learned Last Summer; Ruined for American Culture; Now I Want to Join a Community (or Maybe Start My Own); The Toughest Issue We Ever Faced

Spiritual Community
Avoiding Spiritual Community; Rocky Mountain High; Why I'm Moving to Findhorn; On the Edge of the Abyss; Spiritual Beings, Material World; Do We Really Value "Diversity"?

A Day in the Life
By the Plume of Popocapetl; A Spring Day in Portugal; La Caravana Arcoiris por la Paz; Piligrimage in a Desert Monastery; How to Really Support Ecovillages (Not Just Hugs and Theories).

Community Seeker's Guide
My Marathon Tour of Communities; From a Community Seeker's Journal; Planning a Community Visit; Tips for Guests & Hosts; When and Why to Block Consensus; Seeking Community in New York City.

Thriving in Community
Still Thriving After All These Years; Where There Are Cooks, There's Good Morale; Finding My Heart at Camphill Soltane; Ecology in Community: Commitment to Place; Living the Spiritual Quest of Elder Years.

Directory Update
Directory 2000 Third Edition Update. Note: this issue was produced solely as an update to the Third Edition Directory.

Right Livelihood in Community
Recipe for a Thriving Community; Findhorn's Village Economy; An Honest Day's (Village) Work; Healthy & Unhealthy Communal Economies; Right Livelihood in a Camphill Village; Redwoods, Rugged Cliffs, & Mineral Baths; Developing Trust in Communities.

Lovers in Community
Make It or Break It; Breaking Up (While Staying in Community); Living Outside the Box; Relationships in the Crucible; Lovers, Friends, and Parents; I Can't Live Without Women; Relationship by Consensus.

Ecovillages: What Have We Learned?
What is an Ecovillage; Creating "Ecovillage Zoning" with Local Officials; Why Urban Ecovillages are Crucial; A 73-Year-Old Ecovillage in the Land of Ice and Fire; Accountability and Consequences.

Can We Afford To Live in Community?
Inventing a Rural Community Economy, Business by Business; The Making of a Community Entrepreneur; Developing a Hybrid Economy; "Family Style" Income-Sharing; No Funds? How One Community Did It.

The Heart of Sustainability
The Village Blooms in the City: Portland's Natural Building Convergence; Sustainability in the City of the Angels; "More Sustainable Than Thou": An Eco-Communitarian's Recovery; The Haybox Cooker; Everybody Loves Strawbale.

What Do Children Learn in Community?
Community-Based Education: Superior to Public Schools? Self-Reliance, Self-Esteem, and Social Confidence; A Place in the Tribe; Low-Cost "Health Insurance" for Communities--Or Anyone Else.

Communication & Process
Getting Real--Ten "Truth Skills"; Birthing Co-Creative Community; Towards Clarity & Honesty; True Consensus, False Consensus; Agenda Planning-Making Meetings Flow; The Fine Art of Giving & Receiving Feedback.

Multigenerational Community
To the Ecovillage!; It Takes All of Us; Elder Leadership in Cohousing; What Can You Expect of Me as a Community Elder?; Seriously Seeking Community, Part II; Myths About Intentional Community.

Creating "Magic Culture": Appropriate Technology & Intentional Community
In a Hawaiian Rainforest... Living the Good Life; Going Solar? Making It Happen; Moderating the Vocal, Encouraging the Shy, Equalizing Participation in Meetings.

Student Housing Co-ops: What I Really Learned in College
I Was a Teenage Homeowner; It's a Magical Life; High Rent and No Voice? No Thanks; Who Says We Have To Move Out?

Decision Making in Community
20 Things You Can Do To Improve Meetings; Multi-Winner Voting; Sociocracy at Ecovillage of Loudon County; When People Miss Meetings; Using Dynamic Consensus to Empower Ourselves; 12 Myths of Consensus.

Let's Go! Learning Opportunities in Communities
A Midwinter Month's Dream; "Wilderness Is Our Classroom"; An Intern's-Eye View; Designing My Own Education for the "Ecovillage Millenium"; Communities Where You Can Learn; The Rainbow Family Diaspora.

Song, Dance, & Celebration
What Creates "Community Spirit"? Dancing for Peace, Joy, and Community; Community Spirit after Cohousing Move-In; How Rumors Can Ruin Community Friendships; Finding New Community Members; Your Publicity Toolbox.

Cohousing: Building Community One Neighborhood at a Time
Finding the People, Finding the Money; Community "Process" Issues vs. Development Issues?; Building Green Community on a Budget; Conflict; Community Member as "Lightning Rod". Photocopy.

Transition & Change: The Hard Road to Accountability
Death & Rebirth at Skywoods; Emissaries of Divine Light; Communities in the 21st Century; Finding New Community Members; Leadership Dynamics in Community.

Conflict & Connection: Assessing Community Well-Being
Living "Naka-Ima" at Lost Valley; Assessing Community Well-Being; A Healing Impulse; About Open-Hearted Listening; Working With Difficult Behaviors in Meetings; Nonviolent Communication; Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection.

Walden Two Communities: Where Are They Now?
Science of Behavior, Si! (and What Is It?); Growing Up at Los Horcones; Path with a Behaviorist Heart; Communal Child Rearing at Twin Oaks; Could Skinner's Fictional Community Work In the Real World?; Damanhur: A Magical Mystery Tour.

Health & Healing: Community is Healing
Patch Adams on Health & Healing; Is Community Good For Your Health?; Staying Healthy in Community; Community Medicine Chest; Loving to the End; "Everyone Feels Useful Here"; Toxic Emissions, Toxic Omissions.

Communities, the Millennium, and Y2K
The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?; How Communities Are Preparing; How I "Got It" About Y2K; Home-Made Power; Making Our Own Sustainable Local Economy; Patch Adams on the Movie "Patch Adams"; The Millennium Last Time Around.

Political Activism in Community
Health Care as Politics in Ecuador; Risking Jail, Creating Community; Organic Growing, Activism, and the Good Life; Following the Lord ... Into Chicago Politics; Patriot Survivalists on an Idaho Mountain; Compassion & Political Correctness.

Sustainable Communities
Living the Permaculture Dream; Building Design That Fosters Community; What Does Your Land Say?; Building with Mud!; Use It Again, Sam: Salvaging Building Materials; Using the Internet to Find Your Community. Photocopy.

Values, Vision, and Money: Manifesting Our Dreams
Money as "Shadow" Issue at Findhorn; Identity and Money at Shenoa; Social Class & Money in Community; How Much Is Enough?; Investing in Your Values; Confronting the Petty Tyrant.

25th Anniversary Issue
Lessons from the Communes; The Way We Were; The "Shadow Side" of Community; "No Bad Vibes"; Students' Stumbling Start-Up Succeeds; What Price Community?; 25 Years Older ... 25 Years Wiser?

Breaking Bread in Community
Food Fight!; Dinners at the Sharingwood Cafe; Kashrut and Compromise at Ofek Shalom; Wildcrafting in Our Yard; Growing Your Own & Selling It, Too; Tastes of Short Mountain; Dining in Cohousing.

Sustainable Building and Design
Building with Nature, Earth, and Magic; How Not to Build Your Community Home; Whole-Systems Design for Earthaven Village; Recycling Old Buildings at Mahantongo Spirit Garden. Photocopy.

Making a Living
Boss? What Boss?; Profit is Not a Dirty Word; Creating Value-Added Products; Making It On Our Own; Work & Commitment in Two Communities; Telecommuting; Making a Living or Making a Life.

Celebrating Arts & Creativity
And the Tree of Life Rises; Let's Dance!; The Flowering of Art at East Blair; Chaos, Control, & the Courage to Create; Community as Performance Art.

Christian Communities Then and Now
A Shiloh Sister's Story; Southern Hospitality, "Cotton Patch" Style; Where Have All the (Seventies) Communities Gone?; Authority and Submission in Christian Communities.

Ecovillages
What Is an Ecovillage?; Setting Up an Ecovillage Where You Are; Planning and Zoning-Encouraging News; Ecovillages in Ithaca, Israel, Canada, Scotland, Senegal. Photocopy.

Diversity, Homogeneity in Community
Are We Keeping Culturally Diverse People Out?; A Multicultural Neighborhood; Hidden Selectors; Cultural Etiquette; Racism and Denial in Community

Growing Older in Community
Choosing to Age in Community; Supporting the Aging Process in Community; Listening to the Wisdom of Our Elders; Stephen Gaskin on Rocinante; "Benevolent Dictators" in Community? Photocopy.

Intentional Communities & "Cults"
What Really Happened at Waco?; Religious Intolerance, Not 'Cults' Is the Problem; 'Benevolent Dictators'? Deprogramming Our Members; Creating a Network of Reunion. Photocopy.

Love, Romance & Sex
Community Ideals & Personal Loves; Re-Sacralizing Marriage; Smorgasbord of Alternatives; ZEGG; Healing from Sex/Power Abuse in Community; Spiritual Growth & Multiple Relationships. Photocopy.

Nurturing Our Potential
"We Have to Keep Growing?"; Toward Gender Harmony; Challenge of Conflict; Aikido; Gestalt Practice; Multiple Parenting.

What We Have Learned
The Transition at King View Farm; Co-op Wars; A Closer Look into "Cults".

Growing Up in Community
Idyllic, Nurturing, Humorous, Confusing, and Frightening Aspects of Community Childhood - In Commune, Kibbutz, The Farm, Charismatic Christian, Bruderhof, Political Activist, and Secular Egalitarian Communities.

Celebration of Community: Highlights of the Aug 1993 gathering, Olympia, WA
Kirkpatrick Sale/Bioregionalism; Dorothy Maclean/Findhorn; Corinne McLaughlin/Leadership; Gordon Davidson/Spiritual Economics, Noel Brown/Environment; Founders Panels.

Women in Community
Women at Twin Oaks, The Farm, Shannon Farm; Women in Bruderhof, Hutterite, Shaker, Oneidan, Mormon, Owenite Communities; Maggie Kuhn.

Vision & Leadership
The Four-Fold Way, Buddhist Community, Goodenough, What Happened to Kerista?, the URI Split Up, Sunflower House, Co-op America, Collaborative Decision Making, Servant Leadership, Bullies & Egos, Paradigms of Control & Harmony.

We're Back
FIC Highlights; Directory Update.

1990-91 Directory of Intentional Communities
All Feature Articles in First Edition of Directory; 129 pages. Photocopy.

Education in Community
Twin Oaks Childcare Program; Cooperative Alternative Education; Stelle Children and Education; Mt. Madonna School, Centrepoint Community, Camphill Villages, The Farm School.

Planetization
Gaian Politics, Faith for the Planetary Age, Green Movement, Eco-Feminism, Deep Ecology, Christian Stewardship.

Urban Middle-Class Communes
Sirius; Clairemont Project; Ozark Regional Land Trust; Aprovecho & End of the Road; Alternative Special Education; Findhorn. Photocopy.

Federation of Egalitarian Communities - Ten Years
Social, Gender, Political, Organizational Issues. Photocopy.

Model Communities
Past, Present, Future; Historic Future Cities; Kerista - Polyfidelity.

Travelling in Community
San Francisco Bay Area; Co-ops; Clinics; Housing; the Cheeseboard Collective.

International Communities
South Africa; Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries; Community Homes for the Mentally Disabled; New Zealand; Windstar Foundation.

Historic Communal Societies
The Shakers; Harmony; Zoar; Amana; the Mormons, Icarians, Fourier-ists, and Llano. Photocopy.

Technology in Community
Sunrise Ranch, Ponderosa Village, Windstar, High Wind, 100 Mile Lodge, Stelle.

Directory 1985/1986
Builders of the Dawn; Stelle; Rainbow Gathering.

Greenham Women's Peace Camp
The Farm; Education for Cooperation; Justice in India; Spiritual Fraud; Jubilee Partners. Photocopy.

Social Notes
The Great Alternative Life Group; Old Folks in a Future World; Case Against Consensus; Kibbutz and Education. Photocopy.

Living in Community
Stelle, Emissaries of Divine Light; Peace Efforts in Nicaragua; Women's Peace Camp; Democratic Management. Photocopy.

Progressive Economics & Politics
Co-op Housing; New Ideas for your Community and Kibbutz Society.

Parenting, Childcare, & Education
Co-op Housing; Syracuse Cultural Workers; Planning. Photocopy.

Gatherings 1983
Michigan Public Schools; Solidarity. Photocopy.

Computers: Are They For You?
Cooperative Arab/Jewish Settlement; Volunteer Service; Holistic Living; Growing Pains. Photocopy.

Co-op America Debut
Catalog; Sisterfire; Consumer Co-op Bank. Photocopy.

Women in Business
Feminist Therapy; Audubon Expedition; Women's Resource Distribution Company; Science Fiction; Peace Movement.

10th Anniversary Issue & Directory 1983
Best of Communities. Photocopy.

Building Economic Democracy
Co-op Bank; Legal Network; Workers Trust; Worker Buyout; Unions.

Peace
Bright Morning Star Interview; Social Activism; Community Land Trust; Meg Christian; Kibbutz.

Spiritual Communities
Lama, Sirius, The Farm, Renaissance, Abode of the Message, Shambhala.

Barter Network
Santa Cruz Women's Health Collective; Worker-Owned Businesses.

Dying
Hospice, Grieving, Death in Community, Rituals, Practical Guide to Home Death.

Tempeh Production
Overcoming Masculine Oppression; Social Change; Consumer Cooperative Alliance; Housing; Credit Unions; Energy; Insurance. Photocopy.

Communities Around the World
Cuba, China, Israel, India, Spain, El Salvador, England.

Stories
Community Organizing; Economics and Work; Culture. Photocopy.

Directory 1981
Culture; Pregnancy; Economics; Potlatch. Photocopy.

Art Collectives
Freestate Anti-Nuke; Rainbow Family; Women in Oregon Communities. Photocopy.

Consumer Cooperative Alliance
Housing; Food; Arts; Health; Energy. Photocopy.

Health and Well-Being
Massage; Setting Up a Tofu Kitchen; Feminist Retreat; Radical Psychiatry; Community Health Clinic.

Regionalism - The Southeast
Another Place; Co-op Anti-Nuke; Community Resources. Photocopy.

Relationships
Friendships, Family, Sexuality; Renaissance Community. Photocopy.

Worker-Owned Businesses
Community Development; Urban Ecology; Feminist Credit Union; Trusteeship. Photocopy.

Federation Women
The Hutterites; Travel Ashram Community; Healing Waters; Industrial Co-op Association.

Guide to Cooperative Alternatives
Double Issue on Community Participation, Social Change, Well-Being, Appropriate Technology, Networking; Directory of Intentional Communities; Resource Listings - 184 pages. Photocopy.

Kerista
British Columbia; Circle of Gold. Photocopy.

Consumer Co-op Bank
Income and Resource Sharing; Utopian Heritage. Photocopy.

West Coast Communal Movement
Hoedads, Alpha Farm, Co-op Grocery, Salvage Business, Other Activities in California & Oregon. Photocopy.

A Woman's Issue
Mothers & Daughters; Virginia Blaisdell Interview; Ffeminism in Movement for a New Society; Non-Traditional Work. Photocopy.

Future of Community
Federation of Egalitarian Communities; Cerro Gordo; Karass; The Community Soap Factory.

Learning in Community
Teaching and Learning for All Ages; Spiritual Abortion.

Directory 1978
School of Living and Deep Run Farm; Financing; Roger Ulrich Interview.

Democratic Management
Consensus; Leadership; Group Consciousness; The Ark. Photocopy.

Seabrook
A Political Community; Middle-Aged Men in Community; Ex-Twin Oakers; Tucson Peoples Yellow Pages.

Movement for a New Society
Social Class; Long-Range Planning; Older Women; Plowshare Community. Photocopy.

Rebuilding the City
Urban Co-ops - Austin, New York, Washington, D.C., Greenbriar Community.

Don't Start a Commune in 1977
...join an existing one instead; Neighborhood Planning Council in DC; First Assembly of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities; International Communities. Photocopy.

Building Community
Physical Design; Culture; Decentralized Politics; Directory 1977; Another Place Farm. Photocopy.

Women & Work in the Kibbutz
Rainbow Family; Leaving Community; Project America. Photocopy.

Networking in the Ozarks
: Kibbutz family; norms vs. rules; community market; Findhorn. Photocopy.

Kibbutzim
Local Relations; Ananda Co-op Village; Social Planning; Food Co-ops. Photocopy.

Middle Class Communes
How to Start; Interpersonal Skills; Teenagers in Communes; Sharing Housework. Photocopy.

Urban Communities
New Haven; Twin Cities; Philadelphia Life Center; Taking Back the Night; Structure and Decision Making. Photocopy.

Directory 1976
Government; Twin Oaks; Project Artaud; East Wind. Photocopy.

Family, Sex, & Marriage
Gay Relationships; Gender Roles; Childrearing; Spiritual Marriage; German Communes. Photocopy.

Planning
Ecology and Economics; Short and Long-Range Contingencies; Why Plan?; Land Use; Alternative Energy. Photocopy.

Research & Education in Community
Survival Schools; Martial Arts; Paolo Soleri Interview. Photocopy.

Therapy
Encounter Groups; Spiritual Therapy; Overcoming Jealousy; The Farm. Photocopy.

Spiritual Life in Community
Christian, Ashrams, Secular, Atheist, Ritual; Composting. Photocopy.

Directory 1975
Karum; Networking; Building a New Society. Photocopy.

Land Reform
Ownership & Use; Planning; Living on the Land; Paolo Soleri; Energy. Photocopy.

Work
Labor Credit Systems; Times Change Process. Photocopy.

Children in Community
Iris Mountain; Twin Oaks; Ananda; Children's Books. Photocopy.

Individuality & Intimacy
Jealousy, Open Relationships, Couples, Singles; Christian Homesteading.

1974 Directory
Women in Community; Prisoners' Struggles; People of Color and Community. Photocopy.

Overseas Community
May Valley Co-op; Christian Communes; Back-To-The-Land. Photocopy.

Personal Change/Social Change
Community Culture; Boston Co-op Houses; Group Relationships. Photocopy.

Schools and Community
The Vale School; The Farm; Community Heritage. Photocopy.

Community Market Development
Ananda; Economic Clearinghouse.

Law, Communes, Land Trusts
Rural Poverty; Open Gate; Papaya; Changes Therapeutic Community.

Directory 1972
Membership Selection, Camphill Village; Twin Oaks; Women and Communal Societies. Photocopy.

Country Life; Conferences; Meadowlark Therapeutic Community; School of Living; Mulberry Farm; Arthur Morgan.

*Communitas was a predecessor to Communities that ran only two issues.

A New Community Journal; Virginia Communities; Philadelphia Life Center; Alpha Farm.

*Communitas was a predecessor to Communities that ran only two issues.