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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, 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, sustainability, and much more.

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In Communities magazine you'll find:

  • Issues organized around a particular theme.
  • Supplements to the 700+ community listings in the Communities Directory. Current, updated contact information, plus new listings since the Directory's last printing.
  • 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:

  • 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
  • The Best of Communities Magazine--25th Anniversary Issue

Columns

  • "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.
  • PLUS: "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."