Best of Communities XIII - Cooperative Economics and Creating Community Where You Are

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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 XIII – Cooperative Economics and Creating Community Where You Are

Localizing our money is a radical act. This can occur not only in our consumption, but also in our sharing, supporting, and rebuilding. The following 20 articles look at how cooperative economics are an important ingredient in cooperative living and the strength it exponentially creates.

In this book you’ll discover:

• how communities are taking their cooperation beyond the boundary of shared property
• what we’ve learned about values-based ways to make a living
• why cooperative economics should and could be a model for the dominant culture

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 XIII includes the following articles:

1. This issue of Cooperative Economics and Creating Community Where You Are includes Recipe for a Thriving Community
2. Regaining Our Sense of Oneness through Localization
3. Our Own Money: A Recipe for Local Economic Revival (including Local Currencies, Stephen Burke) by
4. When a Dollar Is Worth More than 100 Cents
5. Social Class & Money in Community
6. Our Community Revolving Loan Fund: How Walnut Street Co-op Financed Its Property
7. Inventing a Rural Economy, Business
8. Self-Reliance, Right Livelihood, and Economic “Realities”: Finding Peace in Compromise
9. Communities That Serve Others…and Love Doing It
10. Free to Serve: Notes from a Needs-Based Economy
11. Householding: Communal Living on a Small Scale
12. Balancing Act: How Much Are You Willing to Share?
13. The Values of Shared Ownership
14. The Quest for Community: A Personal Journey into the Grey Zone
15. Gardens of Gratitude: A Two-Day Garden Party Blitz in L.A.
16. Chicken à la West Birch Avenue
17. Lighten Up: A Community Energy-Reduction Experiment
18. What Are the Boundaries of an Intentional Community? An Experiment in Geographically-Dispersed Community-Building
19. Greening Your H’Hood David Leach, #157
20. Let’s Do Greywater First!

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Volume XIII 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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