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<description><![CDATA[Communities Magazine: Life in Cooperative Culture - A selection of articles from our magazine about intentional community (ecovillages, cohousing, co-ops, and more) are posted online.]]></description>
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<title>Second Family</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1353/Second_Family</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A mother responds to empty-nest syndrome by discovering her new family in community.]]></description>
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<title>Nudging at Boundaries</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1346/Nudging_at_Boundaries</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Easing themselves in and out of each other's houses, yards, and chicken coops, members of White Hawk Ecovillage find traditional borders becoming more porous.]]></description>
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<title>Health and Quiet</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1342/Health_and_Quiet</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Noise and quiet can both affect well-being profoundly. Gordon Hempton's <i>One Square Inch of Silence</i> offers ear-opening stories and perspectives, practical suggestions, and simple, radical wisdom.]]></description>
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<title>Gut Health</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1330/Gut_Health</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Both in traditional cultures and at La'akea, close loving relationships, consistent community connection, a life close to nature, fresh non-processed food, satisfying work, regular exercise, clean air and water, attunement to biological rhythms, joy, and laughter all support health.]]></description>
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<title>Garden as Therapist and Community Organizer</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1328/Garden_as_Therapist_and_Community_Organizer</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Neither the therapist diagnosing Major Depression nor the psychiatrist prescribing an antidepressant asked the fundamental question: <i>Do you like to garden?</i> When the author discovers this doorway into the natural world, he also finds community and inner and outer health.]]></description>
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<title>Embracing a Terminal Illness</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1327/Embracing_a_Terminal_Illness</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A community rallies in support of a long-time member diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, discovering opportunities and possibilities for new connections with each other and becoming more present to the priceless experiences of both living and dying.]]></description>
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<title>Growing a Culture of Community Health and Well-Being at Earthaven Ecovillage</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1324/Growing_a_Culture_of_Community_Health_and_Well_Being_at_Earthaven_Ecovillage</link>
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<description><![CDATA[At a permaculture-based ecovillage in North Carolina, care for the earth, care for people, and care for inner health all benefit from a dynamic culture based on local self-reliance, holism, and community.]]></description>
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<title>Health and Well-Being</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1323/Health_and_Well_Being</link>
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<title>Cultural Etiquette</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1024/Cultural_Etiquette</link>
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<title>Throwing in the Founder's Towel</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/203/Throwing_in_the_Founders_Towel</link>
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<description><![CDATA[After many years of dealing with the unique struggles inherent in starting a community, a community founder discovers her vision manifested elsewhere, and becomes a community joiner.]]></description>
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<title>Shared Living--When Home Is a Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/200/Shared_LivingWhen_Home_Is_a_Community</link>
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<description><![CDATA[An ex-resident of Casa Caballeros reflects on the wealth she found in the realms of personal growth, shared resources, spontaneous celebration, and financial freedom even in economic downturns.]]></description>
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<title>Emergency Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/199/Emergency_Community</link>
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<description><![CDATA[After serving thousands of meals, a community of  post-Katrina relief kitchen volunteers moves to the West Coast and acquires a mortgage, a baby, full-time jobs, and the challenges of the mundane.]]></description>
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<title>Hard Times at Orinda</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/195/Hard_Times_at_Orinda</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Watching their collective fortunes decline, the members of Orinda adopt a new spirit of frugality, find that they are living more sustainably, and discover true wealth in relationships with friends and family.]]></description>
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<title>Lighten Up</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/188/Lighten_Up</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Organized around common ecological values and a shared appreciation for the epic of evolution, a group of neighbors reduces its collective energy consumption by 25 percent.]]></description>
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<title>How Ecology Led Me to Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/181/How_Ecology_Led_Me_to_Community</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The author recounts some of the off-beat marching orders he received from an eco-oriented "different drummer"--and how, instead of becoming a hermit, he became a communitarian.]]></description>
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<title>Sharing and Climate Change</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/175/Sharing_and_Climate_Change</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A simple solution could drastically reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the modern citizen, and it does not require new technology or a drastic reduction in quality of life. We all learned about it in Kindergarten, and statistics from Twin Oaks prove its effectiveness.]]></description>
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<title>Visions of Utopia, Part Two</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/173/Visions_of_Utopia_Part_Two</link>
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<title>Chicken a la West Birch Avenue</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/162/Chicken_a_la_West_Birch_Avenue</link>
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<title>Network for a New Culture Camps</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/153/Network_for_a_New_Culture_Camps</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Participants in NFNC's Summer Camps explore intimacy, transparency, freedom of choice, personal responsibility, sexuality, and new ways of being, teaching, and learning.]]></description>
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<title>Festivals and Gatherings on The Farm</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/148/Festivals_and_Gatherings_on_The_Farm</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A long-time events organizer reflects on the rewards, challenges, logistics, and community dynamics involved in hosting gatherings large and small.]]></description>
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<title>When Some of Us Don't Support an Existing Agreement</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/132/When_Some_of_Us_Dont_Support_an_Existing_Agreement</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Expert advice from five community process and communication consultants.]]></description>
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<title>Natural Building Blues</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/130/Natural_Building_Blues</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Natural building teacher Mark Mazziotti looks at how what could have been a stellar intern program went awry.]]></description>
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<title>Hello, Goodbye</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/129/Hello_Goodbye</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Jules Pelican of OAEC in northern California examines the mutual influence of interns and community members. Is it painful to invest emotional energy in people who will soon leave? Does living in community, even temporarily, nevertheless benefit people?]]></description>
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<title>What Interns &amp; Work Exchangers Say...About Us</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/127/What_Interns_Work_Exchangers_SayAbout_Us</link>
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<description><![CDATA[<i>Communities</i> magazine asks interns, work exchangers, and residential course participants what they think of us. Do our programs deliver what our websites promise? Are they comfortably housed and fed? Do we treat them well?]]></description>
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<title>Making New Choices, Planting New Seeds</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/121/Making_New_Choices_Planting_New_Seeds</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In the mountains of New Mexico, Lama Foundation is making new food decisions to unhook from the fossil fuel-based agricultural systems.]]></description>
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<title>Celebrating the Food Revolution</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/120/Celebrating_the_Food_Revolution</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/120/Celebrating_the_Food_Revolution</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Red Earth Farms cofounder Alyson Ewald loves it that her rural community wildcrafts, grows, processes, ferments, pickles, and celebrates food.]]></description>
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<title>Privacy and Transparency</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/116/Privacy_and_Transparency</link>
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<title>When Someone Blocks Far Too Frequently</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/100/When_Someone_Blocks_Far_Too_Frequently</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/100/When_Someone_Blocks_Far_Too_Frequently</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Our consensus trainers and communication and process experts advise what to do about "repeat blockers" in community.]]></description>
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<title>The Meandering Paths of Arcadia</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/99/The_Meandering_Paths_of_Arcadia</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Builder and old-house renovator Alex Daniell fell in love with the charming, old-world village atmosphere of 8-year-old Arcadia Cohousing. He asks Giles Blunden, the group's architect, how he did it.]]></description>
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<title>Does It Really Matter What It Looks LIke?</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/94/Does_It_Really_Matter_What_It_Looks_LIke</link>
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<description><![CDATA[We asked 50 communitarians about attitudes about beauty in their communities. Did they value aesthetics in their buildings and landscape? Would they trade environmental or economic needs for beauty? their answers may surprise you.]]></description>
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<title>A &quot;Wife Swapping&quot; Adventure</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/92/A_Wife_Swapping_Adventure</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Can an ecovillage gal live for a week in a mainstream household--with a microwave oven, processed food on paper plates,five SUVs, and six tiny pedigreed show dogs--and make a difference?]]></description>
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<title>From Eco-Kooks to Eco-Consultants</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/90/From_Eco_Kooks_to_Eco_Consultants</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/90/From_Eco_Kooks_to_Eco_Consultants</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ecovillages are increasingly being sought for their expertise--in wastewater treatment, environmental education, renewable energy, organic agriculture, leadership skills, communication training, and more.]]></description>
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<title>Preventing &quot;Tyranny of the Minority&quot;</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/86/Preventing_Tyranny_of_the_Minority</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/86/Preventing_Tyranny_of_the_Minority</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Our consensus trainers and communication and process experts advise what to do about inadvertent "minority rule" in community.]]></description>
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<title>Building a Business in Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/75/Building_a_Business_in_Community</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/75/Building_a_Business_in_Community</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There wasn't much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile--creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.]]></description>
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<title>What's Masculine, What's Feminine, and What Am I?</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/72/Whats_Masculine_Whats_Feminine_and_What_Am_I</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mollie Curry hoists a chainsaw and finds herself entangled in a perplexing webs of sticky questions. Here she attempts to untangle the threads, both within herself and within her community.]]></description>
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<title>The Power Balance</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/67/The_Power_Balance</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/67/The_Power_Balance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What can you do if some people in your group seem to have more power than others? Our consensus trainers and group process experts respond.]]></description>
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<title>The Marriage of Natural Building with Conventional Building</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/59/The_Marriage_of_Natural_Building_with_Conventional_Building</link>
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<description><![CDATA[O.U.R. Ecovillage has audaciously invited inspectors, architects, and regulatory officials to participate in their green building programs for the past eight years. In the process, they have fostered cooperative social connections--and received full approval for an eco-housing cluster.]]></description>
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<title>Natural Building and Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/53/Natural_Building_and_Community</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The communities movement and the natural building movement share the goal of forming meaningful relationships--with other people and with one's own home. In fact, natural building practically demands community.]]></description>
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<title>The Quest for Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/50/The_Quest_for_Community</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/50/The_Quest_for_Community</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tree Bressen traces her own path of exploration from commune to collective household, discovering that community isn't always drawn in black and white.]]></description>
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<title>Running for Office from the Commune</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/38/Running_for_Office_from_the_Commune</link>
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<title>Every Politician Should Live in a Commune</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/26/Every_Politician_Should_Live_in_a_Commune</link>
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<description><![CDATA[After living in the PRAG House collective for 25 years before running for office, a Seattle City Councilor recommends that anyone entering politics consider experiencing intentional community first.]]></description>
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<title>Business and Well-Being</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/7/Business_and_Well_Being</link>
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<title>Searching for Republicans...and Other Elephants in the Community Living Room</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/6/Searching_for_Republicansand_Other_Elephants_in_the_Community_Living_Room</link>
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<description><![CDATA[An informal survey raises several compelling questions: Can communitarians
learn to focus on larger-scale politics as much as on internal politics? Should they? What's proper political etiquette in community? And have <i>you</i> ever met a communitarian who is not left of center?]]></description>
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<title>The Richness of Giving</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/5/The_Richness_of_Giving</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Many traditional cultures around the world have an economy based not on buying and selling, but on giving, which fosters an intricate network of social connections.]]></description>
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<title>All We Have Is All We Need</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/4/All_We_Have_Is_All_We_Need</link>
<guid>http://communities.ic.org/articles/4/All_We_Have_Is_All_We_Need</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A group of North Americans establishes a community in Costa Rica and
learns new lessons about simplicity, wealth, change, growth, balance,
and happiness.]]></description>
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<title>Best Meetings</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/3/Best_Meetings</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Three group-process experts answer the question: "Please tell us a story of one of the best meetings you ever attended (as participant or facilitator). What was great about it? What do you think made it turn out so well?"]]></description>
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<title>Abundance and Scarcity in the Goodenough Community</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/2/Abundance_and_Scarcity_in_the_Goodenough_Community</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A community confronts economic adversity by remaining constant in relationship, holding financial losses in common, and working together in fundraising, educational programs, and new projects.]]></description>
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<title>Free to Serve</title>
<link>http://communities.ic.org/articles/1/Free_to_Serve</link>
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<description><![CDATA[While in similar circumstances to his neighbors from Clan Super Size, our author replaces a desperate sense of scarcity and need for low-cost goods with feelings of hope and abundance.]]></description>
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