Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture is a primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing

Cohousing

A cohousing community is a type of intentional community composed of private homes supplemented by shared facilities. The community is planned, owned and managed by the residents – who also share activities which may include cooking, dining, child care, gardening, and governance of the...

 groups to ecovillages to rural communes

Commune (intentional community)

A commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income. In addition to the communal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological living have become...

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History

Since 1972, the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. The 80-page quarterly is focusing increasingly on cohousing communities and aspiring ecovillages, as those are two of the fastest-growing kinds of communities in North America today. Articles and columns cover practical "how-to" issues of community living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, and sustainability.

Publisher

Communities is published by Fellowship for Intentional Community

Fellowship for Intentional Community

The Fellowship for Intentional Community nurtures connections and cooperation among communitarians and their friends. It provides publications, referrals, support services, and sharing opportunities for a wide range of intentional communities, cohousing groups, ecovillages, community networks,...

, which also publishes the Communities Directory

Communities Directory

The Communities Directory, A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Community provides listing of intentional communities primarily from North America but also from around the world...

, available both in print and online.

Themes

Each issue of Communities magazine has a specific theme which have recently included:

• Ecovillages: What Have We Learned?
• Can We Afford to Live in Community?
• The Heart of Sustainability
• What Do Children Learn In Community?
• Appropriate Technology in Community
• Student Cooperatives
• Decision Making in Community
• Educating About Community
• Song, Dance, and Celebration
• Cohousing
• Transition and Change
• Conflict and Connection
• Walden Two Communities
• Health and Healing
• Communities, the Mellennium and Y2K
• Political Activism in Community
• Sustainable Communities
• Vision and Leadership
• The Celebration of Community
• Women in Community
• Growing Up in Community
• Passages, What Have We Learned?
• Nurturing Our Potential
• Love, Sex, and Romance in Community
• Intentional Communities and 'Cults'
• Growing Older in Community
• Diversity, Homogeneity in Community Ecovillages
• Christian Communities, Then and Now
• Art and Creativity in Community
• Making a Living
• Sustainable Building and Design
• Breaking Bread: Food in Community

Columns

A number of onging columns appear in the journal including:

• "The Peripatetic Communitarian": Observations of Geoph Kozeny, data collector for the Directory, and visitor to hundreds of communities.
• "Cohousing"
• "From the Horse's Mouth": Research data on community living.
• "Fellowship News": The latest on what's happening with the Fellowship for Intentional Community
• "My Turn": Our readers share their visions, concerns, passions, about community.
• "Community Living Worldwide": International perspectives.
• "Children in Community"
• "Cohousing Report"
• "Ecovillage Report"
• "Christian Communities"
• "Federation Update" (Federation of Egalitarian Communities)
• "Book Reviews"
• "Community Grapevine"
• "Communities Magazine Fiction"
• "Interns' Journal"
• "Historical Communities"

External links

• Communities magazine
• Communities Directory
• Intentional Communities Wiki
• Intentional Communities Wiki page on Geoph Kozeny