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Visions of Utopia


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[Visions of Utopia: Intentional Communities]
Featured Community: Community Alternatives Society
Putting kitchen waste in the prototype "Beaulah" composter in the basement.
Community Alternatives Society

('77, BC) 37 Members

A 9-unit cooperatively owned apartment complex located in the university district in the city of Vancouver. They are interested in, and working on/towards: alternate family groupings, community-scale economics, meaningful employment, appropriate technology, consensus decision-making, and collective social action. Projects initiated by some of their members include a gourmet garnish and salad company, a nonprofit that promotes organic agriculture and makes connections between city folks and farmers, and another communal housing cooperative in the neighborhood (which shares a similar vision of community). The units are called "pods," and each pod determines the degree to which it will be independent or communal; some are very tight-knit and into family-style meals and resource sharing, while others are very independent and informal. Fraser Common Farm, their sister community [also featured in the video], is a tenth pod situated on an organic farm one hour from town.

Contact Info:
Community Alternatives Co-op
1937 West 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J-1J2 CANADA

(604)733-2667 Fax

www: none available

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Spiritual Communities
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Ananda Village (CA)
Camphill Special Schools (PA)
Catholic Worker House (TX))
The Farm (TN)
Urban Communities
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Ganas (NY)
Goodenough (WA)
Hearthaven (MO)
Purple Rose Collective (CA)
Rural Egalitarian
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Back-to-the-land Community (CA)
Sandhill (MO)
Twin Oaks (VA)
Cooperative Communities
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Breitenbush (OR)
Community Alternatives (BC)
Fraser Common Farm (BC)
Miccosukee Land Cooperative (FL)
Cohousing & Ecovillages
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Earthaven (NC)
N Street (CA)
Nyland Cohousing (CO)
Video Project Pages
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Intro & Ordering Info
Letter from the Producer/Director

We happily link to the following organizations, all of whom share our strong commitment to promoting community and a more cooperative world:
Cohousing The Federation of Egalitarian Communities - Communes Coop Community Cooperative Sustainable Intentional North American Students of Cooperation Global Ecovillage Network
Special thanks to the sponsors of our Art of Community Events.
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