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.
Mobile Home Parks: A Fast and Inexpensive Path to Cohousing
Mobile home and RV parks present an unequaled opportunity to accelerate the transition to more widespread community living.
Community as Economic Engine
A long-time communard suggests ways non-income-sharing communities can better support their members’ economic well-being.
Participatory Budgeting in an Income-Sharing Community
How does one share income and expenses among a hundred people? Twin Oaks discovers how to supplant apathy with widespread engagement.
The Gift Economy of Standing Rock
The principles of indigenous culture informed the Water Protectors’ camps: generosity, compassion, and collective survival took precedence.
Towards a Joyful Economics
From Gift Circles in Brooklyn to the sharing economy at an ecovillage-based collective house, the author explores practical applications of Sacred Economics.