Living Out a Gift Economy in Community with Others
Putting love into practice can be done even when you have nothing materially.
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.
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.
Finding Balance of Public and Private in Community
The erosion of the commons by private interests is a disaster for modern human settlements; a community without shared spaces is barely a community at all.
Public vs. Private: Group Dilemma Laid Bare!
For some neighbors, the logical leap from “glimpse of skin” to “nudist colony” is a surprisingly short one to make.