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.
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.