Communities Magazine Back Issues

Table of Contents: Wisdom from Within, Wisdom from Without -- Seeking Community: A Conversation to Shape Our Future -- Being Human -- Expressing Gratitude in Community -- Sharing Community Wisdom -- The Values of Shared Ownership -- The Veterans Writing Group and the Military Community -- Community Archiving: Denison University Homestead

Table of Contents: Self-Reliance, Right Livelihood, and Economic “Realities”: Finding Peace in Compromise -- Affordability: Angst and Angels -- Creating a Community of Homesteaders -- Lessons from a Childhood in Maine -- Affordability: What It’s Good For -- Achieving Affordability with Cohousing -- Making Lymeade: Turning Mid-Life Crisis into Opportunity -- Affording Communities -- An Interview with Ira Wallace

Table of Contents: Crossing over the Threshold: Transitioning the Windward Community to the Next Generation -- The Hermitage Now and To Come -- Gratitude, Loss, Rebirth, and Community -- The Bookends of Community -- Community for a Minute: Discovering Nature, Self, and Group at Sixth-Grade Camp -- Journeying on the Ark: One Woman’s Experience at L’Arche -- Greening Your ’Hood -- New Beginnings at Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing -- Cycling toward Sustainable Community: Within Reach

Table of Contents: An Ecovillage Future -- Aspiring to the Working Class -- My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage -- Ecovillage Infrastructure: The Skeleton of Community -- Creating eCohousing -- Coming of Age: 21 Years of EcoVillage Planning and Living -- Dandelion Village: Building an Ecovillage in Town -- Vision and Reality in Ecotopia: Making Lemonade out of Lemons at the Port Townsend EcoVillage -- Living the Questions

Table of Contents: Diversity Issues in Los Angeles Eco-Village -- The Paralysis of Racism in Social Change Groups -- The Limits of Diversity: How Religion Figures In -- Real Diversity Is Internal: The Story of a Mental Minority -- The Art and Ethics of Visitor Programs -- Busting the Myth that Consensus-with-Unanimity Is Good for Communities: Part 1 -- “Busting the Myth”: Some Questions -- Busting the Myth, or Changing the Terms? -- The Lighter Side of Community: A Communitarian Appreciates Wanderlust

Table of Contents: Creating Community Ritual -- Sharing the Path: Simple and Inclusive Practices for Integrating Spirituality into Groups -- Creative Spirituality in American Communities of the Past -- Monasticism, Community, and “The Great Work” -- Creating Spiritual Community at the Hermitage -- Common Ground in an Uncertain World -- Inviting God to Dance -- Spirit in the Woods -- The Church of Fermentation

Table of Contents: Permaculture 101 and Attending to Zone Zero -- Social Permaculture -- Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution -- Permaculture at The Farm: Climate Prophylaxis -- Hugelkultur on the Prairie, or Learning from Our Mistakes -- Growing a Culture of Gratitude in Argentine Patagonia: A WWOOFer Experiences Community Living -- The Sharing Gardens -- Doing It, or Are We? -- How Permaculture Stole My Community! -- Communal Studies Association Honors Communities

Table of Contents: Right Lively 'Hood -- Work Less, Simplify More -- Remade in Edinburgh: The Story of a Community Vision for a Reuse and Repair Centre in Scotland -- Crowdfunding: A Communal Business Model -- Which Comes First, My Community or My Career?: For an Out-of-Work Philosopher, Suddenly It’s Not So Theoretical -- The Gift of Compost -- The Lenox Place News -- Buddha Being...Buddha Doing -- Unto the Second Generation: Can Cohousing Survive and Thrive?

Table of Contents: A Nomad Ponders Family and the Ecstasy of the Group -- Honesty and Intimacy -- The Relationship of Relationships to the Group -- Three Perspectives on Intimacy in Community: The Cavalry Is Just Around the Corner; When You Feel All Alone; Little Intimacies -- Intimacy in the Village Setting -- The Solace of Friends in Community -- Fascinating Selfhood -- A Communitarian Conundrum: Why a World That Wants and Needs Community Doesn't Get It

Table of Contents: Gifted, Mad, and Out of Control -- Communicable Gifts -- Tough Grace: Mental Illness as a Spiritual Path -- Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart: Peer Counseling in Community -- Shadow Sides of NVC and Co-Counseling -- Prescription Facebook: How can Facebook act as an agent of mental health to a community fragmented 20 years ago? -- Rx for “Mental Illness”: Caring Community -- Nurturing Healthy Minds -- Hopeful New Stories from the Old World: A New We

Table of Contents: Getting Elder All the Time -- It Takes a Community to Grow an Elder -- Elderhood, In and Out of Community -- Further Thoughts on a Community’s Changes -- On Becoming Elders -- And I Listen: Staying connected and building trust when adult children choose the “alternative” lifestyle of living in community -- Remembering Jane Owen: New Harmony’s Joyful Elder -- Poor Minutes Lead to Wasted Hours: Keys to Effective Notetaking

Table of Contents: Being “Overthrown”—A Celebration: Coming to Shared Power -- Balancing Powers: Leadership and Followship in Community -- More Perspectives on Leadership and Followship: A Response to Elizabeth Barrette -- Power and Powerlessness in Community -- Power and Disempowerment on the Ecobus -- Call in the Experts? -- The Community that Dines Together, Aligns Together

Table of Contents: Education for Sustainability -- Live and Learn: O.U.R. Ecovillage Builds Learning Community -- To Learn Sustainability Is To Learn Community: An Example from South Portugal -- Seeing the Good in the World: Connecting Communities and Students for Sustainability Education and Transformation -- How to Add Zest to Your Sustainability Education Program -- Open Meetings: Worth the Risk?

Table of Contents: An Abundance of Dads -- Nudging at Boundaries -- Parenting in Community: The Voyage from Fantasy to Reality -- Growing Family in Community -- Second Family -- Exploring Family -- From Visions of Utopia to “The Many Faces of Community” -- Together and Apart; Eden Within Eden

Table of Contents: Health and Well-Being -- Growing a Culture of Community Health and Well-Being at Earthaven Ecovillage -- Embracing a Terminal Illness -- Garden as Therapist and Community Organizer -- Gut Health -- Health and Quiet

Table of Contents: Hard Times at Orinda -- Emergency Community -- Shared Living—When Home Is a Community -- Householding: Communal Living on a Small Scale -- Throwing in the Founder's Towel

Table of Contents: Sharing and Climate Change: A Human-Sized Answer to a Global Problem -- How Ecology Led Me to Community -- Environmental Activism: Securing Your Community’s Quality of Life into the Future -- Lighten Up: A Community Energy-Reduction Experiment -- Visions of Utopia, Part Two

Table of Contents: Festivals and Gatherings on The Farm -- Network for a New Culture Camps -- Chicken ŕ la West Birch Avenue

Table of Contents: Best Meetings -- All We Have Is All We Need -- Abundance and Scarcity in the Goodenough Community -- The Richness of Giving -- Free to Serve: Notes from a Needs-Based Economy

Table of Contents: Business and Well-Being -- Every Politician Should Live in a Commune -- Running for Office from the Commune -- Searching for Republicans...and Other Elephants in the Community Living Room: A Politics in Community Survey

Table of Contents: The Quest for Community: A Personal Journey into the Grey Zone -- Natural Building and Community: Two Ways to Build Connection -- The Marriage of Natural Building with Conventional Building

Table of Contents: The Power Balance: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It -- What's Masculine, What's Feminine, and What Am I? -- Building a Business in Community

Table of Contents: Preventing "Tyranny of the Minority" -- From Eco-Kooks to Eco-Consultants -- A "Wife Swapping" Adventure

Table of Contents: When Someone Blocks Far Too Frequently -- Does It Really Matter What It Looks LIke? -- The Meandering Paths of Arcadia

Table of Contents: Celebrating the Food Revolution -- Making New Choices, Planting New Seeds -- Privacy and Transparency

Table of Contents: When Some of Us Don't Support an Existing Agreement -- What Interns & Work Exchangers Say...About Us -- Hello, Goodbye -- Natural Building Blues: Lessons from a Community Internship

Table of Contents: How a Steady State Economy Can Change Our Lives -- An Abundance of Small, Sustainable Solutions -- Our Own Money: Recipe for Healthy Local Economies -- Local Currencies -- How Ecovillages Can Grow Sustainable Local Economies -- When We Should Use “Blocking Power” -- Seeking Community -- Founding Community

Table of Contents: Good Meetings -- Community Where You Are -- Seeking Community -- Founding Community -- Living in Community -- The Giant Sea Turtle in Our Shower -- Ecotopia in Japan? -- Graying in Community -- Healing in the Common House (With a Little Help from My Friends) -- Elder Cohousing—An Idea Whose Time Has Come? -- Publisher’s Note: “Ruth” or Consequences -- Ecovillages Worldwide: The Palestinian with a Green Thumb -- Federation Update

Table of Contents: Prescott’s “EcoHood” -- Start a Neighborhood Newsletter -- Intern at an Ecovillage -- The Overly Powerful Community Member -- When Oprah or Geraldo Call . . . -- Seven Months in the Gulf -- “How Can We Help?”: The Farm’s Plenty Organization -- Building Bridges of Clay, Mud, and Straw -- I Can Do It Because I Live in Community -- Communities That Serve Others . . . and Love Doing It -- It Shows Our Neighbors We Want to Contribute -- Heirloom Gardens, Clean Water, and No GMOs

Table of Contents: Community Survival During the Coming Energy Decline -- An Energy Primer: How We Consume Our Ancient Sunlight -- Peak Oil and Community Food Security -- City Repair and the Opportunity of Peak Oil -- Peak Oil as "Opportunity"? -- Helping Friends and Neighbors Prepare -- Preparing For A Post-Carbon World: Why I´m Joining O.U.R. Ecovillage -- Living the (Almost) Petrol-Free Life

Table of Contents: The Village Can Save the City -- Our Sustainable Urban Acre -- Living the Good Life Downtown -- An Urban Ecovillage of the Near Future -- A Farm Grows in Portland -- A Home-Grown Ecovillage on Our Street -- "Urban Biotope" -- Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?

Table of Contents: 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 -- How Walnut Street Co-op Financed Its Property

Table of Contents: 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

Table of Contents: 101 Art Projects Your Community Can Do -- Painting and Dancing for Community Spirit -- Creativity as "Learning Game" -- Confessions of a Process Warrior

Table of Contents: 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

Table of Contents: Avoiding Spiritual Community -- Rocky Mountain High -- On the Edge of the Abyss -- Spiritual Beings, Material World -- Do We Really Value "Diversity"?

Table of Contents: 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).

Table of Contents: My Marathon Tour of Communities -- Planning a Community Visit -- Tips for Guests & Hosts -- When and Why to Block Consensus -- Seeking Community in New York City.

Table of Contents: Still Thriving After All These Years -- Finding My Heart at Camphill Soltane -- Ecology in Community: Commitment to Place -- Living the Spiritual Quest of Elder Years.

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

Table of Contents: Recipe for a Thriving Community -- Healthy & Unhealthy Communal Economies -- Right Livelihood in a Camphill Village -- Redwoods, Rugged Cliffs, & Mineral Baths -- Developing Trust in Communities.

Table of Contents: Make It or Break It -- Breaking Up (While Staying in Community) -- Living Outside the Box -- Relationships in the Crucible -- Lovers, Friends, and Parents -- Relationship by Consensus.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: Sustainability in the City of the Angels -- The Haybox Cooker -- Everybody Loves Strawbale.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: In a Hawaiian Rainforest... Living the Good Life -- Going Solar? Making It Happen -- Moderating the Vocal, Encouraging the Shy, Equalizing Participation in Meetings.

Table of Contents: I Was a Teenage Homeowner -- High Rent and No Voice? No Thanks -- Who Says We Have To Move Out?

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: "Wilderness Is Our Classroom" -- Designing My Own Education for the "Ecovillage Millenium" -- Communities Where You Can Learn -- The Rainbow Family Diaspora.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: Finding the People, Finding the Money -- Community "Process" Issues vs. Development Issues? -- Building Green Community on a Budget -- Conflict -- Community Member as "Lightning Rod".

Table of Contents: Death & -- Rebirth at Skywoods -- Emissaries of Divine Light -- Communities in the 21st Century -- Finding New Community Members -- Leadership Dynamics in Community.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: Science of Behavior, Si! (and What Is It?) -- Growing Up at Los Horcones -- Path with a Behaviorist Heart -- Communal Child Rearing at Twin Oaks -- Damanhur: A Magical Mystery Tour.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: Lessons from the Communes -- The Way We Were -- The "Shadow Side" of Community -- "No Bad Vibes" -- What Price Community? -- 25 Years Older ... 25 Years Wiser?

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents: And the Tree of Life Rises -- The Flowering of Art at East Blair -- Chaos, Control, & -- the Courage to Create -- Community as Performance Art.

Table of Contents: Southern Hospitality, "Cotton Patch" Style -- Where Have All the (Seventies) Communities Gone? -- Authority and Submission in Christian Communities.

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

Table of Contents: Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned -- Racism and Denial in Community -- Are We Keeping Culturally Diverse People Out? -- A Multicultural Neighborhood -- Hidden Selectors

Table of Contents: 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?

Table of Contents: What Really Happened at Waco? -- Creating a Network of Reunion.

Table of Contents: Community Ideals & -- Personal Loves -- Re-Sacralizing Marriage -- Smorgasbord of Alternatives -- ZEGG -- Healing from Sex/Power Abuse in Community -- Spiritual Growth & -- Multiple Relationships.

Table of Contents: "We Have to Keep Growing?" -- Toward Gender Harmony -- Challenge of Conflict -- Aikido -- Gestalt Practice -- Multiple Parenting.

Table of Contents: The Transition at King View Farm -- Co-op Wars -- A Closer Look into "Cults".

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

Table of Contents: Kirkpatrick Sale/Bioregionalism -- Dorothy Maclean/Findhorn -- Corinne McLaughlin/Leadership -- Gordon Davidson/Spiritual Economics, Noel Brown/Environment -- Founders Panels.

Table of Contents: Women at Twin Oaks, The Farm, Shannon Farm -- Women in Bruderhof, Hutterite, Shaker, Oneidan, Mormon, Owenite Communities -- Maggie Kuhn.

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Table of Contents: FIC Highlights -- Directory Update.

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Table of Contents: Twin Oaks Childcare Program -- Cooperative Alternative Education -- Stelle Children and Education -- Mt. Madonna School, Centrepoint Community, Camphill Villages, The Farm School.

Table of Contents: Gaian Politics, Faith for the Planetary Age, Green Movement, Eco-Feminism, Deep Ecology, Christian Stewardship.

Table of Contents: Sirius -- Clairemont Project -- Ozark Regional Land Trust -- Aprovecho & -- End of the Road -- Alternative Special Education -- Findhorn.

Table of Contents: Social, Gender, Political, Organizational Issues.

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Table of Contents: San Francisco Bay Area -- Co-ops -- Clinics -- Housing -- the Cheeseboard Collective.

Table of Contents: South Africa -- Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries -- Community Homes for the Mentally Disabled -- New Zealand -- Windstar Foundation.

Table of Contents: The Shakers -- Harmony -- Zoar -- Amana -- the Mormons, Icarians, Fourier-ists, and Llano.

Table of Contents: Sunrise Ranch, Ponderosa Village, Windstar, High Wind, 100 Mile Lodge, Stelle.

Table of Contents: Builders of the Dawn -- Stelle -- Rainbow Gathering.

Table of Contents: The Farm -- Education for Cooperation -- Justice in India -- Spiritual Fraud -- Jubilee Partners.

Table of Contents: The Great Alternative Life Group -- Old Folks in a Future World -- Case Against Consensus -- Kibbutz and Education.

Table of Contents: Stelle, Emissaries of Divine Light -- Peace Efforts in Nicaragua -- Democratic Management.

Table of Contents: Co-op Housing -- New Ideas for your Community and Kibbutz Society.

Table of Contents: Co-op Housing -- Syracuse Cultural Workers -- Planning.

Table of Contents: Michigan Public Schools -- Solidarity.

Table of Contents: Cooperative Arab/Jewish Settlement -- Volunteer Service -- Holistic Living -- Growing Pains.

Table of Contents: Catalog -- Sisterfire -- Consumer Co-op Bank.

Table of Contents: Feminist Therapy -- Audubon Expedition -- Science Fiction -- Peace Movement.

Table of Contents: Best of Communities.

Table of Contents: Co-op Bank -- Legal Network -- Workers Trust -- Worker Buyout -- Unions.

Table of Contents: Bright Morning Star Interview -- Social Activism -- Community Land Trust -- Meg Christian -- Kibbutz.

Table of Contents: Lama, Sirius, The Farm, Renaissance, Abode of the Message, Shambhala.

Table of Contents: Worker-Owned Businesses.

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Table of Contents: Hospice, Grieving, Death in Community, Rituals, Practical Guide to Home Death.

Table of Contents: Overcoming Masculine Oppression -- Social Change -- Consumer Cooperative Alliance -- Housing -- Credit Unions -- Energy -- Insurance.

Table of Contents: Cuba, China, Israel, India, Spain, El Salvador, England.

Table of Contents: Community Organizing -- Economics and Work -- Culture.

Table of Contents: Culture -- Pregnancy -- Economics -- Potlatch.

Table of Contents: Freestate Anti-Nuke -- Rainbow Family -- Women in Oregon Communities.

Table of Contents: Housing -- Food -- Arts -- Health -- Energy.

Table of Contents: Massage -- Setting Up a Tofu Kitchen -- Feminist Retreat -- Radical Psychiatry -- Community Health Clinic.

Table of Contents: Another Place -- Co-op Anti-Nuke -- Community Resources.

Table of Contents: Friendships, Family, Sexuality -- Renaissance Community.

Table of Contents: Community Development -- Urban Ecology -- Feminist Credit Union -- Trusteeship.

Table of Contents: The Hutterites -- Travel Ashram Community -- Healing Waters -- Industrial Co-op Association.

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Table of Contents: British Columbia -- Circle of Gold.

Table of Contents: Income and Resource Sharing -- Utopian Heritage.

Table of Contents: Hoedads, Alpha Farm, Co-op Grocery, Salvage Business, Other Activities in California & -- Oregon.

Table of Contents: Mothers & -- Daughters -- Virginia Blaisdell Interview -- Ffeminism in Movement for a New Society -- Non-Traditional Work.

Table of Contents: Federation of Egalitarian Communities -- Cerro Gordo -- Karass -- The Community Soap Factory.

Table of Contents: Teaching and Learning for All Ages -- Spiritual Abortion.

Table of Contents: School of Living and Deep Run Farm -- Financing -- Roger Ulrich Interview.

Table of Contents: Consensus -- Leadership -- Group Consciousness -- The Ark.

Table of Contents: A Political Community -- Middle-Aged Men in Community -- Ex-Twin Oakers -- Tucson Peoples Yellow Pages.

Table of Contents: Social Class -- Long-Range Planning -- Older Women -- Plowshare Community.

Table of Contents: Urban Co-ops - Austin, New York, Washington, D.C., Greenbriar Community.

Table of Contents: ...join an existing one instead -- Neighborhood Planning Council in DC -- First Assembly of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities -- International Communities.

Table of Contents: Physical Design -- Culture -- Decentralized Politics -- Directory 1977 -- Another Place Farm.

Table of Contents: Rainbow Family -- Leaving Community -- Project America.

Table of Contents: : Kibbutz family -- norms vs. rules -- community market -- Findhorn.

Table of Contents: Local Relations -- Ananda Co-op Village -- Social Planning -- Food Co-ops.

Table of Contents: How to Start -- Interpersonal Skills -- Teenagers in Communes -- Sharing Housework.

Table of Contents: New Haven -- Twin Cities -- Philadelphia Life Center -- Taking Back the Night -- Structure and Decision Making.

Table of Contents: Government -- Twin Oaks -- Project Artaud -- East Wind.

Table of Contents: Gay Relationships -- Gender Roles -- Childrearing -- Spiritual Marriage -- German Communes.

Table of Contents: Ecology and Economics -- Short and Long-Range Contingencies -- Why Plan? -- Land Use -- Alternative Energy.

Table of Contents: Survival Schools -- Martial Arts -- Paolo Soleri Interview.

Table of Contents: Encounter Groups -- Spiritual Therapy -- Overcoming Jealousy -- The Farm.

Table of Contents: Christian, Ashrams, Secular, Atheist, Ritual -- Composting.

Table of Contents: Karum -- Networking -- Building a New Society.

Table of Contents: Planning -- Living on the Land -- Paolo Soleri -- Energy. -- Ownership & -- Use

Table of Contents: Labor Credit Systems -- Times Change Process.

Table of Contents: Iris Mountain -- Twin Oaks -- Ananda

Table of Contents: Jealousy, Open Relationships, Couples, Singles -- Christian Homesteading.

Table of Contents: Women in Community -- People of Color and Community.

Table of Contents: May Valley Co-op -- Christian Communes -- Back-To-The-Land.

Table of Contents: Community Culture -- Boston Co-op Houses -- Group Relationships.

Table of Contents: The Vale School -- The Farm -- Community Heritage.

Table of Contents: Ananda -- Economic Clearinghouse.

Table of Contents: Rural Poverty -- Open Gate -- Papaya -- Changes Therapeutic Community. -- Country Life -- Conferences -- Meadowlark Therapeutic Community -- School of Living -- Mulberry Farm -- Arthur Morgan.

Table of Contents: Membership Selection, Camphill Village -- Twin Oaks -- Women and Communal Societies. -- 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. -- A New Community Journal -- Virginia Communities -- Philadelphia Life Center -- All Feature Articles in First Edition of Directory -- Alpha Farm. -- 129 pages. -- Past, Present, Future -- Historic Future Cities -- Kerista - Polyfidelity. -- Double Issue on Community Participation, Social Change, Well-Being, Appropriate Technology, Networking -- Directory of Intentional Communities -- Resource Listings - 184 pages.