Education is one of the topics that community founders think about most seriously, and sometimes most contentiously. How and where children learn shapes their development profoundly, and parents in intentional communities often have strong views about the kind of...
One of the most practical challenges facing any community land project is money. Land is expensive. Infrastructure costs are substantial. Professional services, legal advice, engineering, planning, all add up quickly. The conventional answer, a bank mortgage, is...
There is a reason that almost every intentional community, across cultures and centuries, has placed shared eating at the centre of community life. Food is one of the most fundamental human needs, and the act of preparing and sharing it together is one of the most...
It is a question that does not get asked enough in the early, optimistic stages of community formation: what happens when someone wants to leave? Life circumstances change. People’s needs evolve. Relationships break down. A community that has only planned for...
Animals are often an afterthought in discussions of sustainable community design, or they are treated as a controversial topic, with debates about veganism and ethics dominating conversations that might otherwise focus on practical ecology. But in a well-designed...
