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#130, Peak Oil and Sustainability (Spring 2006)

• Peak Oil and Community Food Security
• Living the (Almost) Petrol-freeLife
• Preparing for a Post Carbon World
• Community Survival During the Coming Energy Decline
• An Energy Primer: How We Consume Our Ancient Sunlight
• Helping Friends and Neighbors Prepare
• City Repair and the Opportunity of Peak Oil

#129, Urban Communities & Ecovillages (Winter 2005)

• Richard Register—The Village Can Save the City
• Our Sustainable Urban Acre
• Living the Good Life Downtown
• Lois Arkin—An Urban Ecovillage of the Near Future
• A Farm Grows in Portland
• A Home-Grown Ecovillage on Our Street
• "Urban Biotope"—Japanese Style
• Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?

#128, Resolving Conflict in Community (Fall 2005)

• Trust, Connection, and Clear Agreements
• The Gifting Circle: A Communication Process that Feels Good
• 71 Ways To Build Trust & Connection or Reduce or Resolve Conflict
• Our Toughest Membership Decision Ever
• Ask the Experts: What Do You Do When . . . ?
• Creating Community Where You Live—From Eco-Home to Sustainable Neighborhood
• How Walnut Street Co-op Financed Its Property

#127, The Face of Cohousing in 2005 (Summer 2005)

• The Face of Cohousing in 2005
• The Next Phase: Senior Cohousing
• What Have We Learned in Five Years?
• Cohousing to EcoVillages: A Global Feminist Vision?
• A "Green" Architect Falls in Love--With FrogSong Cohousing
• Joining A Cohousing Community: Risks & Rewards

#126, The Arts in Community (Spring 2005)

• 101 Art Projects Your Community Can Do
• Painting and Dancing for Community Spirit
• Creativity as "Learning Game"
• Confessions of a Process Warrior

#125, Life After Student Coops (Winter 2004)

• Are co-opers moving on to other forms of community?
• Moving to the suburbs? Keeping ties with their student co-ops?
• How else do co-ops influence their members later in life?
• Current debates in the student co-op movement

#124, Spiritual Community (Fall 2004)

• Avoiding Spiritual Community
• Rocky Mountain High
• Why I'm Moving to Findhorn
• On the Edge of the Abyss
• Spiritual Beings, Material World
• Do we Really Value "Diversity"?

#123, A Day in the Life (Summer 2004)

• By the Plume of Popocapetl
• A Spring Day in Portugal
• La Caravana Arcoiris por la Paz
• Piligrimage in a Desert Monastery
• How to Really Support Ecovillages (Not Just Hugs and Theories)

#122, Community Seeker's Guide (Spring 2004)

• My Marathon Tour of Communities
• From a Community Seeker's Journal
• Planning a Community Visit
• Tips for Guests & Hosts
• When and Why to Block Consensus
• Seeking Community in New York City.

#121, Thriving in Community (Spring '04)

• Ecology in Community: Committment to Place
• Finding My Heart at Camphill Soltane
• Good Cooks, Good Morale
• Commitment to Place
• Still Thriving After All These Years

#120, Communities Directory Update

#119, Right Livlihood in Community (Fall '03)

• Recipe for a Thriving Community
• An Honest Days' (Village) Work
• Findhorn's Ecovillage Economy
• Healthy and Unhealthy Communal Economies
• Right Livelihood in a Camphill Village
• Redwoods, Rugged Cliffs, and Mineral Baths
• Developing Trust in Communities

#118, Lovers in Community (Summer '03)

• Make It or Break It
• Breaking Up (While Staying in Community)
• Living Outside the Box
• Relationships in the Crucible
• Lovers, Friends, and Parents
• I Can't Live Without Women
• Relationship by Consensus

#117, Ecovillages: What Have We Learned? (Spring '03)

• What is an Ecovillage
• Creating "Ecovillage Zoning" with Local Officials
• Why Urban Ecovillages are Crucial
• A 73-Year-Old Ecovillage in the Land of Ice and Fire
• Accountability and Consequences

#116, Can We Afford to Live in Community? (Fall/Winter '02)

• Inventing a Rural Community Economy, Business by Business
• The Making of a Community Entrepreneur
• Developing a Hybrid Economy
• "Family Style" Income Sharing
• No Funds? How One Community Did It.

#115, The Heart of Sustainability (Summer '02)

• The Village Blooms in the City: Portland's Natural Building Convergence
• Sustainability in the City of the Angels
• "More Sustainable Than Thou": An Eco-Communitarian's Recovery
• The Haybox Cooker
• Everybody Loves Strawbale

#114, What Do Children Learn in Community? (Spring '02)

• Community-Based Education: Superior to Public Schools?
• Self Reliance, Self-Esteem, and Social Confidence
• A Place in the Tribe
• Low-Cost Health Insurance for Communities or Anyone Else

#113, Communication and Process: The Heart of Healthy Community (Winter '01)

• Getting Real -- Ten "Truth Skills" for Emotional Connection, Intimacy, and Well-Being
• Birthing Co-Creating Community
• Toward Clarity and Honesty
• Agenda Planning -- Making Meetings Flow
• The Fine Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback

#112, Multigenerational Community (Fall '01)

• To the Ecovillage! Three Generations Move to Community
• What Can You Expect of Me as an Elder
• Resources: Communities Seeking Elders
• An Eternal Optimist: Elder Leadership in Cohousing

#111, Creating "Magic" Culture: Appropriate Technology and Intentional Community (Summer '01)

• In a Hawaiian Rainforest...Living the Good Life
• Going Solar? Making It Happen
• Ecovillage Design Down Under
• Resources for Appropriate Technology
• Getting There: Transportation Alternatives at Dancing Rabbit
• Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant "Seashells" and Sustainable Culture

#110, Student Coops: What I Really Learned in College (Spring '01)

• I Was a Teenage Homeowner
• It's a Magical Life
• High Rent and No Voice? No Thanks!
• Who Says We Have to Move Out?

#109, Decision Making in Community (Winter '00)

• Twelve Myths of Consensus
• When People Miss Meetings
• Alternatives to Full Consensus
• Multi-Winner Voting

#108, Let's Go! Learning Opportunities in Community (Fall '00)

• Hosting Students and Interns
• Designing My Own Education for the "Ecovillage Millenium"
• An Intern's-Eye View
• Communities Where You Can Learn

#107, Song, Dance, and Celebration: What Creates "Community Spirit"? (Summer '00)

• Dancing for Peace, Joy, and Community
• Celebration and Ceremony

#106, Cohousing (Spring '00)

• Clearly Something Is Happening Here
• What Do You Mean, "Community"?
• Community Member as "Lightning Rod"

#105, Transition and Change (Winter '99)

• Hard Road to Accountability
• Transition and Change at Skywoods
• Communities in the 21st Century

#104, Conflict and Connection (Fall '99)

• Assessing Community Well-Being
• Opposing Leadership
• Difficult Behaviors in Meetings
• Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection

#103, Walden Two Communities: Where Are They Now? (Summer '99)

• Science of Behavior, Si!
• Growing Up at Los Horcones
• Path with a Behaviorist Heart

#102, Health and Healing (Spring '99)

• Patch Adams on Health and Healing
• Is Community Good for Your health?
• Staying Healthy in Community

#101, Communities, the Millenium, and Y2K (Winter '98)

• The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation
• How Communities Are Preparing
• How I "Got It" about Y2K

#100, Political Activism in Community (Fall '98)

• Health Care as Politics in Ecuador
• Risking Jail, Creating Community
• Organic Growing, Activism, and the Good Life

#99, Sustainable Communities (Summer '98)

• Living the Permaculture Dream
• Building Design that Fosters Community
• What Does Your Land Say?
• Building with Mud!

#98, Values, Vision, and Money (Spring '98)

• Manifesting Our Dreams: Community and the "Ways of the World"
• Money as "Shadow Issue" at Findhorn
• Confronting the Petty Tyrant

#97, 25th Anniversary Issue (Winter '97)

• 25 Years of Communities
• A Clash of Cultures: SpringLedge Ecovillage Project Foiled
• Snapshot of a Moving Target: The Communities Movement

#96, Breaking Bread (Fall '97)

• "No, Its Not a Cult: Relating to Your Family When You Live in Community
• Tastes of Short Mountain: The Culinary Rewards of Community Living
• Growing Your Own and Selling It, Too

#95, Sustainable Building and Design (Summer '97)

• How Not  to Build Your Community Home
• Building with Nature, Earth, and Magic
• Zuni Mountain Sanctuary: From Habit to Habitat

#94, Making a Living (Spring '97)

• Straw into Gold: Creating Value-Added Products
• Profit Is Not a Dirty Word
• Making It On Our Own
• Sawdust, Cow Manure, and Confidence

#93, Celebrating Arts and Creativity (Winter '96)

• Let's Dance!; The Flowering of Art at East Blair
• Interns' Journal: Waking Up at Abundant Dawn
• Federation Update: Musical Theater at Twin Oaks

#92, Christian Communities, Then and Now (Fall '96)

• What You Need to Know about Christian Communities
• A Shiloh Sister's Story
• A Community of Counselor Pioneers
• My Turn: Our Community's "Ode" of Respects and Responsibilities

#91, Ecovillages (Sum '96)

• Sustainability and Sustainable Communities, or, What is an ecovillage, anyway?
• A Training Center for Ecovillagers
• What We Can Learn from African Villagers: Lessons from the Third International EcoCities Conference
• Our Life at Lebensgarten

#90, Diversity, Homogeneity in Community(Spr '96)

• Are We Keeping Culturally Diverse People Out?
• Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned
• Breaking Old Patterns, Weaving New Ties: Building Alliances Across Cultural Differences
• The Myth of the Happy Family: Racism and Denial in Community.

#89, Growing Older in Community (Win '95)

• Choosing to Age in Community
• Supporting the Aging Process in Community
• Retiring to the Good Life: Stephen Gaskin on Rocinante
• Fellowship News--Going Public: Can Intentional Communities Make a Difference in Public Policy for Elders?
• "Benevolent Dictators" in Community? Part II.

#88, Intentional Communities and "Cults" (Fall '95)

• What Really Happened at Waco?
• Religious Intolerance, Not "Cults," is the Problem
• "Benevolent Dictators" in Community?
• Deprogramming Our Members
• Leaving the Hare Krishnas; Creating a Network of Reunion

#87, Love, Romance, & Sex in Community (Sum '95)

• Taming the Wiscoy Wilderness
• The Metamorphosis of Relationships at Dunmire Hollow
• High Wind: Community Ideals and Personal Loves

#86, Nurturing Our Potential (Spr '95)

• More Confident, Less Idealistic
• "You Mean We Have to Keep on Growing?"
• Fellowship News: Is the Communities Movement "Regionally Challenged?"

#85, Passages: What Have We Learned? (Win '94)

• Balancing Justice & Mercy at Aprovecho
• The Founders Dilemma: Lessons from Arden Village
• Community as Crucible: The Love Israel Family
• The Transition of King View Farm

#84, Growing Up in Community (Fall '94)

• Idyllic, nurturing, humorous, confusing, and frightening aspects of community childhood--in commune, kibbutz, The Farm, charismatic Christian, Bruderhof, political activist, and secular egalitarian communities...

#83, Celebration of Community (Sum '94)

• Highlights of the Aug '93 gathering, Olympia, WA: plenaries--Dorothy Maclean/Findhorn, Kirkpatrick Sale/Bioregionalism, Corinne MacLaughlin/leadership, Gordon Davidson/spiritual economics, Dr. Noel Brown/environment; founders panels...

#82, Women in Community (Spr '94)

Women at Twin Oaks, The Farm, Shannon Farm; Women in Bruderhof, Hutterite, Shaker, Oneidan, Mormon, Owenite communities; Maggie Kuhn interview...

#80/81, Vision and Leadership (Spr/Sum '93)

Four-Fold Way; Buddhist Community; What Happened to Kerista?; Goodenough; the URI Split-up; Sunflower House; Co-op America; Collaborative Decision Making; Servant Leadership; Bullies and Egos; Paradigms of Control & Harmony; Ropes Course...

#79, We're Back(!) (Fall '92)

FIC highlights; Directory update.

#78 back to #1

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