Table of Contents/No. 94. Spring 1997

DEPARTMENTS

Letters
Publishers Note
Directory Update
Calendar
Classifieds
Reach

FEATURE FOCUS

Making A Living

From the Editor

Diana Leafe Christian

Boss? What Boss?

East Wind Nut Butters manager Anna Young  tells what it's like for 60 people to have no boss, rotate work assignments, and operate their own hammock, sandal, and nut butter businesses.

The Expanding Circle

Entrepreneur Blue Evening Star  moved her tipi and yurt business to Aquarian Concepts community, where she happily employs community members.

Straw Into Gold: Creating Value-Added Products

Turning soybeans and sorghum into food products people want. Diana Leafe Christian

Profit Is Not a Dirty Word

Julie Mazo  relates how Heartwood Design, a worker-owned co-op at Shannon Farm, came to using workable, profitable business procedures.

'I Own Isadora's Restaurant'

Community Alternatives Society created social activism projects that benefitted the larger Vancouver community and  created jobs for themselves. Jan Bulman

Investing in Our Lives: Work and Commitment in Two Communities

Harvey Baker  reflects on the relationship between the availability of outside jobs or entry-level positions in a community and its ability to attract - and keep - new members.

Making It On Our Own

Bill Becker  describes how Sunrise Ranch rallied when it lost its long-time income source and had to support itself for the first time.

Kommune Niederkaufungen

How the 12 community businesses of Germany's largest secular community make enough money to live well and help worthy causes. Sven Borstelmann

The Great 'Changeover' at the Farm

Michael Traugot  recounts how the Farm discovered its staggering debt - and what they did about it.

Telecommuting: You Can  Take It With You

Diana Leafe Christian  profiles communitarians who make a living long-distance.

Sawdust, Cow Manure, and Confidence

Living in community and serving as dairy manager empowered Nina Barbara Cohen  to start her own business in a new community.

COLUMNS

PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN--'Making a Living?'...A Curious Concept

Geoph Kozeny

COMMUNITY GRAPEVINE--Shared Living Now Legal in Boulder

ECOVILLAGE REPORT--Moving Toward Sustainability in Los Angeles Ecovillage

Lois Arkin

COMMUNITY LIVING WORLDWIDE--Cennednyss

Bill Metcalf

MY TURN--Caretaking: One Way to Make a Living

Gary Dunn

HISTORIC COMMUNITIES--'Becoming Someplace': Kaweah's Big Dream

Steven P. Bjerklie

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES--Making a Living or Making a Life

David Janzen

FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH--A Communitarian Council of Economic Advisors?

Mike Cummings and Harv Bishop

GROWING COMMUNITY--Planting the Seeds of Earthaven's Economy

Peter Bane

CHILDREN IN COMMUNITY--Why Educate in Community?

Daniel Greenberg

FEDERATION UPDATE--Does 'Success' Spoil the Commune?

Gordon Sproule

FELLOWSHIP NEWS--Restructuring Continues

Jillian Downey and Diana Leafe Christian

REVIEWS

Diana Leafe Christian  reviews When Sons and Daughters Choose Alternative Lifestyles, The Cohousing Handbook, and Shared Visions, Shared Lives;Ellie Sommer reviews Simplicity and Down to Earth; Tony Sirna reviews A New Covenant With Nature.

Cover photo: Harvesting winter salad greens at Sunrise Farm and CSA Garden, a new business at Sunrise Ranch, in Loveland, Colorado. David Lynch and Judy Morris. Photo by Ann B. Foorman.

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CREDITS

EDITOR
Diana Leafe Christian
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Lansing Scott 
(SeaChange Media Co-op)
COVER DESIGN
Paul DeLapa
ILLUSTRATIONS
Billie Miracle
(WomanShare)
CARTOONS
Jonathan Roth
PHOTOS
Albert Bates (The Farm)
Jillian Downey (Heiwa House)
Ann B. Foorman (Sunrise Ranch)
Geoph Kozeny (Community Catalyst Project)
Martha Lorch (East Wind)
PROOFREADING
Geov Parrish
REACH ADS
Patricia Greene
(Clearview)
DIRECTORY UPDATE
Jonah "Cecil" Scheib 
(Dancing Rabbit)
BUSINESS MANAGER
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Velma Kahn
(Abundant Dawn)
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Valerie Renwick
(Twin Oaks)
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Betty Didcoct
(TIES)
Geoph Kozeny
(Community Catalyst Project)
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)