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.
Community Is the Best Medicine: A guide to cooperative living on a disability income
Those living with disabilities have many options for finding community; here are suggestions on where and how to look.
Servant Leadership in Cooperative Business: Stirring It Up at East Wind Nut Butters
An egalitarian community’s General Manager reflects on embodying collective values and ecological sanity in a three-million-dollar-a-year business.