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Click on the photo: For a blow-up of the photo and a detailed description.
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Click on the community name: To link to the community's home page. |
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Communities described in green text are featured in Vol
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Spiritual
Communities
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Ananda Village ('68, Nevada City CA) • Vol #1
A large spiritual meditation/yoga community in
the Sierra foothills, with several sister communities worldwide.
Disciples of Yogananda.
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Camphill Special Schools ('61, Glenmoore, PA) • Vol #1
Residential village providing rehabilitation
and community for disabled children, who live
with the staff families. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner.
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Catholic Worker House ('85, San Antonio TX)
Urban ministry to the poor, including a soup kitchen
and temporary shelter, support, and referrals for families in need.
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The Farm ('70, Summertown TN)
Originally a '60s hippie spiritual commune, now reorganized
with a hybrid economy with over 30 nonprofits & businesses. |
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Rural Egalitarian Communities
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Back to the Land ('78, Hundred miles from nowhere, CA)
A pioneer village of five families on 40 acres in the
middle of nowhere. Simple living, permaculture, outdoor survival
skills.
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Sandhill ('74, Rutledge MO)
Secular, egalitarian, family-style community with organic
farm, shared income and labor and resources, consensus process.
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Twin Oaks ('67, Louisa VA) • Vol #1
Egalitarian community creating an alternative
village culture, with a labor credit system and a planner/manager
system of governance. |
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Urban Communities
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Ganas ('80, Staten Island NY)
Urban, income-sharing core group, with five community-owned
businesses. primary focus on group "feedback" process.
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Goodenough ('81, Seattle WA)
Non-residential community: personal & social transformation; shared spirituality;
offering extensive workshops; community businesses.
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Hearthaven ('87, Kansas City MO)
Close-knit cooperatively owned household of close friends;
faith based, with Christian/pagan influences; environmental organizers/activists.
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Purple Rose Collective ('78, San Francisco CA) • Vol #1
An urban collectively owned household with shared
meals, chores, expenses, and weekly house meetings. |
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Cooperative Communities
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Breitenbush ('77, Detroit OR) • Vol #1
New age retreat & conference center, run by a worker-owned collective,
with hot springs, hydro power, and geothermal heat.
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Community Alternatives ('77, Vancouver BC)
Cooperatively owned urban apartment house with 9 residential "pods." Each
unit decides its own internal structure and systems.
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Fraser Common Farm ('77, Aldergrove BC)
Cooperatively owned organic farm with worker-owned
gourmet salad business. Sister community to Community Alternatives
(1 hr. away).
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Miccosukee Land Cooperative ('73, Tallahassee FL)
Land Co-op with private houses and community-owned
roads and common land. Many voluntary programs among the members. |
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Cohousing Communities & Ecovillages
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Earthaven ('92, Black Mountain NC) • Vol #1
Rural ecovillage under construction, teaching
permaculture and natural building technologies, operating by consensus.
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N Street ('86, Davis CA)
Retrofit cohousing in a 1950s urban neighborhood. 13
households tore down back yard fences for common gardens & play
areas.
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Nyland Cohousing ('93, Boulder CO) • Vol #1
Suburban, large (42 units),very diverse cohousing
community built from the ground up. Consensus based pedestrian village. |
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