Table of Contents/No. 95. Summer 1997

DEPARTMENTS

Letters
Publishers Note
Community Grapevine
Federation Update
Fellowship News
Reviews
Directory Update
Classifieds
Calendar
Reach

FEATURE FOCUS

Sustainable Buildling and Design in Community

From the Editor

Diana Leafe Christian

How Not  to Build Your Community Home

Straighforward yet humorous advice from owner-builder and community co-founder Buzz Burrell  on what works --and what doesn't--in building a home in community.

Building with Nature, Earth, Magic

Gregg Marchese  offers a glimpse of artistic fantasy housing with natural materials in the Pacific Northwest.

Zuni Mountain Sanctuary: From Habit to Habitat

Permaculture designer Ben Haggard  observes that clustered housing works--for the environment, for communities.

Sirius: Becoming a Spiritual Ecovillage

What a Massachusetts community has done so far to create a sustainable lifestyle on a budget. Jeff Clearwater.

Recycling Old Buildings at Mahantongo Spirit Garden

You don't have to build  all your community structures. Brother Johannes Zinzendorf  tells how.

Whole-Systems Design for Earthaven Village

A group of permaculturists design a site plan that supports their social structure and eco-spiritual values. Chuck Marsh

Architectural Design and "Complex Marriage" at Oneida

How a group of 19th-century polyfidelitous Christians used architecture to reinforce community norms. Albert Bates  gives us a tour.

Eco-Village at Ithaca: The Good News So Far

Liz Walker  reports successes and lessons learned at an innovative community in upstate New York.

COLUMNS

MY TURN--Bloom Where You're Planted

Sandy Cruz and Diana Leafe Christian

INTERN'S JOURNAL--Listening and Learning at Ganas

Margaret Kamp

HORSE'S MOUTH--What Can Outsiders See That Community Members Can't?

Mike Cummings and Harv Bishop

HISTORIC COMMUNITIES--Fountain Grove: "And every priest a Cupid be"

Steve Bjerklie

COMMUNITY LIVING WORLDWIDE--Riverside Community, New Zealand

Bill Metcalf

PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN--Sustainability...and the Next Generation

Geoph Kozeny

Cover photo:Sky House at SunRay School of Natural Building, Sedro Woolley, Washington. Photo, School of Natural Living.

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CREDITS

EDITOR
Diana Leafe Christian
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Lansing Scott 
(Meridian House)
COVER DESIGN
Paul DeLapa
ILLUSTRATIONS
Billie Miracle
(WomanShare)
CARTOONS
Jonathan Roth
PHOTOS
Albert Bates (The Farm)
Dan Brown
Pamela Carson
Gordon Davidson (Sirius)
Tim Leedy
Ben Lipman (Solstice Institute)
Jill Tieman (Earthaven)
COPYEDITING
Tree Ivy Beth Bressen (Acorn)
PROOFREADING
Geov Parrish
REACH ADS
Patricia Greene
(Clearview)
DIRECTORY UPDATE
Jonah "Cecil" Scheib 
(Dancing Rabbit)
BUSINESS MANAGER
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)
DATABASE MANAGER
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)