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Visions of Utopia


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Communities Featured in the Video


Spiritual Communities

Ananda Village ('68, Nevada City CA) • Part One
A large spiritual meditation/yoga community in the Sierra foothills, with several sister communities worldwide. Disciples of Yogananda.
Camphill Special Schools ('61, Glenmoore PA) • Part One
Residential village providing rehabilitation and community for disabled children, who live with the staff families. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner.
Catholic Worker House ('85, San Antonio TX) • Part Two
Urban ministry to the poor, including a soup kitchen and temporary shelter, support, and referrals for families in need.
The Farm ('70, Summertown TN) • Part Two
Originally a '60s hippie spiritual commune, now reorganized with a hybrid economy with over 30 nonprofits & businesses.

Rural Egalitarian Communities

Remote Hamlet ('78, Hundred miles from nowhere, CA) • Part Two
A pioneer village of five families on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere. Simple living, permaculture, outdoor survival skills.
Sandhill ('74, Rutledge MO) • Part Two
Secular, egalitarian, family-style community with organic farm, shared income and labor and resources, consensus process.
Twin Oaks ('67, Louisa VA) • Part One
Egalitarian community creating an alternative village culture, with a labor credit system and a planner/manager system of governance.

Urban Communities

Ganas ('80, Staten Island NY) • Part Two
Urban, income-sharing core group, with five community-owned businesses. Primary focus on group "feedback" process.
Goodenough ('81, Seattle WA) • Part Two
Non-residential community: personal & social transformation; shared spirituality; offering extensive workshops; community businesses.
Hearthaven ('87, Kansas City MO)
Close-knit cooperatively owned household of close friends; faith based, with Christian/pagan influences; environmental organizers/activists.
Purple Rose Collective ('78, San Francisco CA) • Part One
An urban collectively owned household with shared meals, chores, expenses, and weekly house meetings.

Cooperative Communities

Breitenbush ('77, Detroit OR) • Part One
New age retreat & conference center, run by a worker-owned collective, with hot springs, hydro power, and geothermal heat.
Community Alternatives ('77, Vancouver BC) • Part Two
Cooperatively owned urban apartment house with 9 residential "pods." Each unit decides its own internal structure and systems.
Fraser Common Farm ('77, Aldergrove BC) • Part Two
Cooperatively owned organic farm with worker-owned gourmet salad business. Sister community to Community Alternatives (1 hr. away).
Miccosukee Land Cooperative ('73, Tallahassee FL) • Part Two
Land Co-op with private houses and community-owned roads and common land. Many voluntary programs among the members.

Cohousing Communities & Ecovillages

Earthaven ('92, Black Mountain NC) • Part One
Rural ecovillage under construction, teaching permaculture and natural building technologies, operating by consensus.
N Street ('86, Davis CA) • Part Two
Retrofit cohousing in a 1950s urban neighborhood. 13 households tore down back yard fences for common gardens & play areas.
Nyland Cohousing ('93, Boulder CO) • Part One
Suburban, large (42 units),very diverse cohousing community built from the ground up. Consensus based pedestrian village.
Visions of Utopia Video - Part 1
Visions of Utopia Video - Part 2
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