Intentional community as a model for a low carbon future

We know that we need to reduce our personal carbon footprint, but for all our awareness, real change is a rare commodity. Real hope comes from looking unflinchingly at our current circumstances and then committing wholeheartedly to creative action. Never has that been more urgently needed than right now, with the climate crisis looming larger every day.

Together Resilient explores intentional community as a viable model for a low carbon future. While looking realistically at...

VII. Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being The key challenge of community is developing and maintaining healthy relationships-ones that are based on compassion, emotional depth, and authenticity. In community the emphasis is on quality of connection, not the ability to fit relationships and identities neatly into the traditional categories of nuclear family, kids raised solely by their biological parents (joined in wedlock), or crisp lines around gender identity. In community there are both traditional relationships and considerable experimentation. The Relationships, Intimacy,...

XV. The Peripatetic Communitarian - The Best of Geoph Kozeny Geoph wrote a back-page essay for Communities for nearly 15 years.After living in community (in a variety of settings) for most of his 20s and 30s, Geoph went on the road to visit communities and promote them January 1, 1988. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2007, less than three months shy of being the peripatetic communitarian for two full decades. It was an amazing achievement and dedication, which benefited us all. The Peripatetic Communitarian - The Best of Geoph Kozeny bundle features 53 of his best efforts peering behind the...