Communities Magazine

"Offers fascinating insights into the joys and challenges of communities - society's R & D centers - by their foremost pioneers."
- Corinne McLaughlin, co-author of Builders of the Dawn

Since 1972, Communities has been 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 also focusing increasingly on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods. Articles and columns cover practical "how-to" issues of cooperative living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, ecological living, and much more. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.

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In Communities magazine you'll find:

Issues organized around a particular theme.
Ongoing columns by experienced communitarians and community founders.
Reach ads - helping communities looking for members, and people looking for communities, find each other.

Communities is published by Fellowship for Intentional Community, which also publishes the Communities Directory.

To help you get a sense of Communities magazine,see our back issues available on-line as well as the table of contents of the current issue. Please check it out and enjoy, and let us know what you think!

Order Communities magazine sample issues, or purchase back issues, or subscribe. We also carry reprint packets.

Themes

Past themes have included:

Green Building
Women in Community
Making a Difference
Is Beauty Important?
What Do You Eat? Where Does it Come From?
Temporary Community: What Do We Learn?
Helping Your Local Community Thrive
Will You Live Your Elder Years in Community?
Good Works in Community
Peak Oil and Sustainability
Urban Communities and Ecovillages
Resolving Conflict in Community
Can We Afford to Live in Community?
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
Walden Two Communities
Health and Healing
Political Activism in Community
Sustainable Communities
Vision and Leadership
Growing Up in Community

Columns

"Cohousing": reports from the cohousing movement
"Ecovillage Living": stories from ecovillages
"My Turn": our readers share their visions, concerns, passions, about community
"Community Living Worldwide": international perspectives
"Good Meetings": experts on process and facilitation answer readers' questions
"Reviews": books and resources related to community, cooperative living, and sustainability