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Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities now also focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods, with enhanced coverage of international communities as well. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions. Below is a selection of articles from our most recent issues.  The founder of Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage describes what it’s like to be criticized, marginalized, stripped of leadership responsibilities, and given the opportunity to explore a new role. (From Issue # 148 - Power and Empowerment)  In a healthy community, leadership and followship are equally important roles, each with vital skill sets that can assure effective teamwork. (From Issue # 148 - Power and Empowerment)  The author identifies additional leadership skills, cautions against blind followship, and reflects on the many types of power in cooperative groups. (From Issue # 148 - Power and Empowerment)  A permaculture teachers hits upon a gold mine of effective methods for enlivening her teaching—by drawing from the principles of permaculture itself. (From Issue # 147 - Education for Sustainability)  The residents of an eco-oriented, education-focused intentional community and demonstration site wear many hats, both public and private. (From Issue # 147 - Education for Sustainability)  Strained by difficult economic and ecological conditions, farmers Claudio and Fernando discover new avenues toward prosperity and land restoration through alliances with a peace community dedicated to regional renewal. (From Issue # 147 - Education for Sustainability)  After several years teaching about community in the abstract, an anthropologist and environmental studies teacher finds that direct student engagement with intentional communities provides the spark needed for personal inspiration, connection, and the potential for social transformation. (From Issue # 147 - Education for Sustainability)  Though “baby having” had not been a consensus decision, a small community embraces a newborn, survives his infancy, and bonds like any other family: doing each other’s dishes, snuggling on the couch, and fighting over who gets a shower before the hot water runs out. (From Issue # 146 - Family)  A mother responds to empty-nest syndrome by discovering her new family in community. (From Issue # 146 - Family)
Upcoming Communities themes:
Winter 2010, Issue #149: Elders
Spring 2011, Issue #150: Mental Health: Challenges and Hope
Summer 2011, Issue #151: Intimacy
Fall 2011, Issue #152: Right Livelihood
Winter 2011, Issue #153: Permaculture
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