Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save our Lives
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
Economic insecurity is the American nightmare.
Tag: intentional communities
Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project
By Kim Eckart, YES! magazine
The cluster of townhomes and apartments brings together low-income elders and nine adults who have adopted or are in the process of adopting children out of foster care through an organization that provides on-site services and creates a support network for all.
An Intentional Egalitarian Community as a Small-Scale Implementation of Post-Capitalism
By Katarzyna Gajewska, P2P Foundation Blog
It takes systematic work and engagement to build up a reputation that gives one more influence and support for one’s project. The non-hierarchical relations imply a lot of self-responsibility but also a feeling of empowerment.
One Family’s Move From Cohousing to a Smaller, Tighter Community
By Fellowship for Intentional Community Staff, Shareable
This is the story of Rebecca Reid, her family, and their decision to move from a cohousing community to a farmhouse.
For a Resilient Future, Put Community First
By Pamela Boyce Simms, Resilience.org
Both The Transition Towns (Transition) and Intentional Communities movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.
What Does Community Mean?
By Sky Blue, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Community is an important buzzword these days. People recognize that social structures are deteriorating and that people want more of a sense of connection with others.
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: Living Abundantly on 10%
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
Almost 20 years later, Dancing Rabbit (DR) is a fully functioning ecovillage with around 60 full-time members who live happily on just 10% of the resources the average American consumes.
Forty Years of Longo Maï
By Simon Fairlie, The Land
Communities, these days, are arguably less likely to break up than nuclear families.
Atamai Village: An Experiment in Resilient Community
By Jack Santa Barbara, Ken White, Resilience.org
Post Carbon Institute’s Associate Director Ken White recently visited Atamai Village, an evolving resilient community outside of Motueka, near the top of NZ’s South Island.
Review: The Kingdom on the Edge of Reality by Gahan Hanmer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Self-reliant, “intentional” communities, as they're often now called, have been around for centuries. They have come in a myriad of forms, including monasteries, secular communes, co-ops, cohousing communities and many others.
Peak Moment 224: Dignity Village – A Community By and For the Homeless, part 2
By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television
“No violence. No theft. No drugs or alcohol. No constant disruptive behavior. Everyone must contribute to the village.” While finishing our tour, Jon Hawkes lays out the five agreements residents must abide by, all forged by real-world experience. What would it be like if our entire society followed these rules? Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Dignity Village is an organically evolving, self-organizing intentional community — and a model for others.
