Communities #207: Breaking the Spell

Communities #207 Summer 2025 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #207, Summer 2025, Breaking the Spell, explores ways that communitarians are challenging and finding alternatives to thought patterns, lifeways, and habits of relating that keep us...

Communities #206: Ecovillage Visions

Communities #206 Spring 2025 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #206, Ecovillage Visions, explore what a viable future might look like, both for intentional communities and for the wider world. We take an in-depth look at a...

Communities #205: Across the Generations

Communities #205 Winter 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #205 explore community Across the Generations. A founder reflects on her former group’s legacy among its grown children; grandparents celebrate helping raise their...

Communities #202: Finding Community

Communities #202 Spring 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. In Communities #202, Finding Community, authors reflect on personal journeys and offer guidance on finding a wide array of different forms of community, from residential intentional community...
Exploring Cooperative Futures, Part Three: The Ties that Bind

Exploring Cooperative Futures, Part Three: The Ties that Bind

By Paul Freundlich Excerpted in Communities #192 (available here). See Communities #191 for Parts One and Two of this article series. Community, both as ideal and reality, has the capacity to transcend the usual boundaries. Not only in shared living, it flourishes in...