Seeing the Good in the World

After several years teaching about community in the abstract, an anthropologist and environmental studies teacher finds that direct student engagement with intentional communities provides the spark needed for personal inspiration, connection, and the potential for social transformation.

To Learn Sustainability Is To Learn Community

Strained by difficult economic and ecological conditions, farmers Claudio and Fernando discover new avenues toward prosperity and land restoration through alliances with a peace community dedicated to regional renewal.

Live and Learn

The residents of an eco-oriented, education-focused intentional community and demonstration site wear many hats, both public and private.

Second Family

A mother responds to empty-nest syndrome by discovering her new family in community.

Together and Apart; Eden Within Eden

Reviews of two great books on community living, one on life in a convent with surprising insights even for the most secular, and one on the history of utopian experiments in Oregon.

Exploring Family

What do Hopi Indians, John Keats, lost loves, intentional community, and family have in common? For better or worse, they’ve combined to befuddle, enlighten, dismay, and inspire our author.