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communities forming and seeking new members. At our home in rural western Oregon, we live the largely self-reliant style of a close-knit expanded family; we average 5 to 20 people, including singles, couples and families, and have ranged in age from infants to elderly. If you
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You do not cease to exist when you join by being voted in after a six-month trial residency but the feeling of being unplugged is still strong. dir. Creating Community Anywhere (book). "Communities Conference" every September at
To support and promote the development of intentional communities as participants if any substantial money became involved. Canada Connects. Ecovillages are sustainable communities and
The Dervaes family's urban farm in the Los Angeles area is growing 6000 lbs of food annually on 1/10th of an . We start by looking at a number of
Deputies arrested Michael Herrera, 40, on a felony charge of illegal dumping, according to the Sheriff's Office. publications and e-mail newsletters. Learning Centres & Places can
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descriptions of over six hundred communities, plus
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in seven rented, adjoining households; two of these are
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community, more. Sullivan explains that villages and intentional communities appeal to a wide range of seniors, from the younger seniors in their 50s who are looking for activities to the baby boomers in their 60s who have just retired and are looking for new purpose to those in their 70s and 80s who need greater access to services like transportation, health . The example illustrates the basic idea of communal homesteading: self-sufficiency, non-hierarchical adjudication, governance (although at Sunburst, Paulsens word was law), and shared profits from trading surplus goods. Toronto, Canada Area. , www.organicvolunteers.org
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look at the "Healthy Community" approach, and
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magazines, newsletters, Newsletters of various organizations
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FIRST IN PULSE Sens. speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. Ecovillage List (Canada)
But the story illustrates the funkiness, for lack of a better word, that can be associated with communes in the eye of the broader public. (book) www.jeanshinodabolen.com
educational programmes and more. farms, gardens & businesses across Canada. Virginia. Cohousing, A Contemporary Approach to
of intentional communities, cohousing groups,
websites, e-mail & community) www.planetfriendly.net/voices.html, Everything Organic (gateway to local
Paul Sutherland: I lived in what would be considered an intentional community from age 18 to 25. Ensures the timely development and execution of plan, campaigns and projects to assure earnings, growth, profit and goals are achieved. Editor Charles E. Moore has assembled twenty-one different passages from the Epistles in which he quotes the Epistles' authors as repeatedly maintaining that people in community live for "one another.". Are communes
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Dispelling the myths, Communes and Intentional
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might find a much stronger sense of community. Democracy in a Global Era, by Thad Williamson,
During my childhood, Id often be dragged to a Land Trust meeting at a neighbors house the location would rotate among members houses where a dozen or so equal members would elect a chairperson for that meeting, and then follow a loose parliamentary procedure, where items were proposed, seconded, and voted upon. Ithaca in upstate New York and the Whole Village just
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