Overcoming Our Americanness
Unless we learn from past and present communities, and collate lessons from our own, we will bob as separate crafts on the ocean of our uncooperative and ahistorical Americanness.
Tracing Windward’s Memeology
The Haudenosaunee, the Oneida Community, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, with its vision of a “polyamorous line family,” all form part of Windward’s conceptual ancestry.
Learning from Our Past
Forty-five years of researching, writing and teaching about, and living within intentional communities yield personal lessons with global implications.
The Value of Community: What Defines Success?
Short-term experiences of intentional community, and short-lived communities, can still have powerful, life-changing, and society-changing effects.
The Communal Studies Association
CSA and FIC partner to spread awareness of communal groups past and present and the vital lessons they offer, in areas ranging from conflict resolution, sustainability, and equality to the dangers of authoritarianism.
Living Out a Gift Economy in Community with Others
Putting love into practice can be done even when you have nothing materially.