Best of Communities I - Intentional Community Overview and Starting a Community

Best of Communities Magazine

Communities magazine is the leading publication for all topics related to intentional community. From the broad-stroked overviews to the intimate details, this quarterly publication covers it all. With so much content to explore, we’ve distilled it into a single compilation!

Volume I – Intentional Community Overview and Starting a Community

Do you want to start an intentional community? This book includes 15 of the best articles from Communities magazine about how to build a community. Learn about what it takes to get a community started from people who have done it!

In this book you’ll find:

• first-hand stories from forming communities
• helpful advice about legal structures
• the importance of community spirit
• how to assess prospective property
• the importance of making process agreements before you need to apply them

The following 15 articles will provide a peek behind the curtain at some the pitfalls and challenges facing community builders, so that you’ll have a more realistic idea of what it will take to survive your start-up years and actually become a home.

You will recognize authors leading the intentional community movement, representing cutting-edge thinking and how-to explorations of the social, ecological, and economic aspects of sustainable living.

Volume I includes the following articles:

1. In Community, Intentionally
2. Setting the Record Straight: 13 Myths about Intentional Community
3. A Communitarian Conundrum: Why a World That Wants and Needs Community Doesn’t Get It
4. You Know You Live in Community When…
5. “Cults” and Intentional Communities: Working Through Some Complicated Issues
6. Community Spirit, Community ‘Glue’
7. Wisdom for Within,Wisdom from Without Karen Iona Sundberg, #159
8. Six Ingredients for Forming Communities (That Help Reduce Conflict Down the Road)
9. Legal Structures for Intentional Communities in the United States
10. Buying Your Community Property
11. Throwing in the Founder’s Towel
12. Emergency Community
13. Yes, Wealthy People Want to Live in Community in Sustainable Ways Too!
14. My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage
15. Dandelion Village: Building an Ecovillage in Town

You can have ALL the BEST

Volume I is part of a 15-volume compilation of the Best of Communities magazine. The set includes over 200 articles about intentional communities from the 1990’s and 2000’s. Purchase the entire set and save!

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