Acorn Community (Mineral, Virginia) -- "We are Acorn Community, a group of people living, working and playing together to build a joyful, connected life for ourselves and others in central Virginia. Started in April, 1993, our community is building a close-knit extended family, with all the joys and struggles that implies. Acorn is an independent group, but enjoys a close relationship with Twin Oaks Community, seven miles down the road." Alpha Farm (Oregon) -- "is an intentional community of people who have chosen to live and work together to share a more harmonious way of living. At our home in rural western Oregon, we live the largely self-reliant style of a close-knit expanded family; we average 15 to 20 people, including singles, couples and families, and have ranged in age from infants to elderly." The Anarchist Communitarian Network (ACN) -- "The purpose of the Anarchist Communitarian Network is to facilitate the integration of the anarchist ("libertarian socialist") and the intentional communities ("cooperative living") movements." Arcosanti: A Prototype Arcology (Mayer, Arizona) Austin Tappan Wright Resources -- "This page is dedicated to the author of Islandia, Austin Tappan Wright." Blueberry Hill: A Co-Housing Community (Northern Virginia) -- "Blueberry Hill CoHousing is a small intentional community that was started by the Newcomb family, which has lived on the land since the 60s, running an organic vegetable farm. A small corner of the still-operational farm has been sold to the community to build 19 homes." Bruderhof Communities -- "an international community movement of more than two thousand men, women, and children. The basis of our common life is Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount," in particular his teachings concerning nonviolence, love of neighbors and enemies, and sexual purity. At the same time, we acknowledge God's working in all people, no matter their background or creed, who strive for justice, peace and community. Here, you'll gain an insight into our eighty-year history, glimpse our communities in action, and hear personal stories." Canadian Cohousing Network Home Page Center for Experimental Cultural Design (ZEGG) (Belzig, Germany) Children for the Future Community (Champagne, Illinois) -- "Intentional community in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois near the University of Illinois working for peace and having and raising intelligent children. We have a small grade school and plan to start a preschool. We are open to single individuals or couples and to students." C.L.E.A.R. Institute: Communal Living Education & Research (Fremantle, Australia) - "The C.L.E.A.R. Institute is part of WLU College. WLU College is a wholistic living community college with several centres, schools and institutes. C.L.E.A.R. is developing a global network of affiliations, alliances and reciprocal arrangements for information networking, social exchange and co-operative projects." The Cohousing Network (TCN) - "Cohousing communities balance the traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared common facilities and ongoing connections with your neighbors. These cooperative neighborhoods are one of the most promising solutions to many of today's most challenging social and environmental concerns." Communal Studies Bibliography (Luther College Library) Communities Magazine: Journal of Cooperative Living -- "Since 1972, the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. The 80-page quarterly is focusing increasingly on cohousing communities and aspiring ecovillages, as those are two of the fastest-growing kinds of communities in North America today. Articles and columns cover practical "how-to" issues of community living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, sustainability, and much more." The Community Networking Movement -- "The purpose of this web site is to provide information that will help strengthen the community network movement worldwide." Context Institute's Sustainable Culture Information Service (Langley, Washington) -- "We are one of a handful of organizations that have focused on sustainability as a central theme for more than a decade, and we are now internationally recognized as an authority in this area. We are best known for our journal, IN CONTEXT: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture, in print from 1983 to 1995 and now continuing on this site. We are also involved in a variety of other publishing and collaboration & consulting programs." Cornerstone Village Cohousing (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- "a group of people who began meeting in the summer of 1993 to develop a cohousing community in the northwest inner suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. Our project in North Cambridge, MA, will be composed of private housing units plus common facilities. Cornerstone's members are committed to creating a community that promotes sensible sharing of personal, social, and natural resources, provides a safe, stimulating environment for the growth of children and adults, and fosters beneficial relationships with the surrounding community and the world at large." Cyburbia - The Urban Planning Portal -- "Cyburbia, established in 1994, contains a large selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the built environment. Cyburbia also contains information about architecture and planning related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts a bulletin board with job listings and discussions on many topics." Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (Missouri) -- "an ecovillage in progress in northeast Missouri. While in this pioneering stage, our lives are dynamic, often busy, and interesting." Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living in Britain Duwamish Cohousing (formerly Ciel Cohousing) (Seattle) Earthhaven Eco-village (Black Mountain, North Carolina) -- "a growing neo-tribal ecovillage, is dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating wholistic, sustainable culture. Culture's Edge, our non-profit education center, offers hands-on workshops and programs throughout the year which are integral to the overall vision of Earthaven as a living demonstration ecovillage." Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) -- ENA's Mission is "to engage the peoples of the Americas in common effort to join the global transformation towards an ecologically, economically, and culturally sustainable future. ENA serves as the Western Hemisphere representative of the Global Ecovillage Network. ENA works to unite cultures from North, Central and South Americas and the Caribbean to become a unified force in the ecovillage and sustainability movements." Edward Bellamy -- "a growing collection of resources, excerpts, and original essays dedicated to the author of the most celebrated utopian novel of the nineteenth century: Looking Backward." The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee) -- "Located on 3 square miles in south central Tennessee, The Farm is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance, The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community living. The community offers examples of right livelihood cottage industries, solar building design, permaculture, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, composting and gardening, and regenerative hardwood forest management." The Federation of Egalitarian Communities -- "The Federation of Egalitarian Communities is a network of communal groups spread across North America. We range in size and emphasis from small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities similar to the Israeli kibbutzim." The Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) -- "is at the heart of one of the best-known intentional communities in the world. It is a major international centre of adult education and personal and spiritual transformation, offering people many ways to visit, live and work here. We are located in northern Scotland." Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE) -- "a non-profit educational foundation, teaching the principles of community to individuals and organizations." Global Circle -- " This site promotes local self-sufficiency, community survival, practical skills, and simple, sustainable living." Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) -- "is a grassroots non-profit organization that links together a highly diverse worldwide movement of autonomous ecovillages and related projects." Heathcote Community (Freeland, Maryland) -- "an intentional community in northern Maryland where friends and families strive to care for one another and for the natural systems that nurture us. We are working to create a permaculture demonstration site at Heathcote where we can model living sustainably in balance with the Earth." Highlander Center -- "The Highlander Folk School (founded by Myles Horton in 1932) is now called the Highlander Research and Education Center. It's located on a 100-acre farm overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in New Market, Tennessee, about 20 miles east of Knoxville. Highlander is committed to working with grassroots leaders and community groups to help bring about social change through collective action. The center's social concerns include civil rights, community empowerment, cultural diversity, economic democracy, environmental justice, global education, labor rights, leadership training of youth and adults, sexual discrimination and women's rights." Historic New Harmony (Indiana) -- "New Harmony is the site of two of America's great utopian communities." The Homeport Collective (Bolton, Massachusetts) -- "A group of people. . .living intentionally - the examined life." Intentional Communities Web Ring -- "is intended to increase public awareness of existing and newly forming communities. These web sites contain information and referrals for those who are actively seeking, or simply curious about, alternate lifestyles for themselves and their families." Intentional Communities Web Site (FIC) -- Fellowship for Intentional Community's clearinghouse for all sorts of information on community living. The FIC publishes the annual Communities Directory, and a quarterly, Communities Magazine. Lost Valley Educational Center, Inc. (Dexter, Oregon) -- "an intentional community and nonprofit educational center in Western Oregon dedicated to learning, living, and teaching sustainable, ecologically-based culture." Meadowdance (Springfield, Vermont) -- "currently a large shared house of 16 members in Springfield, Vermont, near the New Hampshire border and about 45 minutes north of the Massachusetts line. Within the next two years we will be finding and purchasing land (150 acres+) to move onto as our permanent home; there we will have our community building and our individual houses." Mosaic Commons: A Co-Housing Village in Massachusetts -- "has been meeting actively since Jan, 00 and is in the planning stages of the cohousing process. We welcome new members to help us build our vision. Our group initially evolved from conversations among members of the Sudbury Valley School community in 1999, including families." Network For a New Culture (NFNC) -- "is a North American group that was originally inspired by the 9-year-old German community ZEGG (acronym for German words meaning "Center for Experimental Cultural Design"). NFNC seeks to build a sustainable, violence-free culture through exploring intimacy, personal growth, transparency, radical honesty, equality, compassion, sexual freedom, and the power of community." New View Cohousing (Acton, Massachusetts) -- "We started in 1989 and moved in beginning in 1995. Our members are diverse in backgrounds and interests. We share a love of community on many levels and belief in our interconnectedness." New-Harmony.com The Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA) (Snohomish, Washington) -- "For the last five years we have published Community Resources, a small, 6-12 page newsletter containing information for, about and by intentional communities in the Northwest. The newsletter provides a means for any community in our network to send information to all the communities in the area." Political Futurists and Radical and Utopian SF Authors Queer in Community (QIC) - "The intentional communities network for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendereds, queers, faeries, dykes, and the people who love us." Rainbow Family of Living Light Unofficial Home Page -- "Some say we're the largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it's safe to say we're into intentional community building, non-violence, and alternative lifestyles. We also believe that Peace and Love are a great thing, and there isn't enough of that in this world. Many of our traditions are based on Native American traditions, and we have a strong orientation to take care of the the Earth. We gather in the National Forests yearly to pray for peace on this planet." RFD Magazine: A Country Journal for Queer Folk -- "the only nationally distributed magazine with a focus on rural gay men and related areas of human growth and consciousness." Robert Owen (1771-1858) Sandhill Farm (Missouri) -- "A small, closely-knit, supportive family of friends who work and play together, Sandhill Farm was started in 1974. We highly value growing most of our own food through organic and biodynamic methods, and have developed a spiritual connection with the land and each other." School of Living (Cochranville, Pennsylvania) -- Inspired by Ralph Barsodi, the School of Living "is an educational organization dedicated to learning and teaching the philosophy, practices and principles of living that are self-empowering for individuals within the general aim of establishing decentralized, ecologically-sound, self-governed and humane communities. All its resources, but most specifically the land it holds in trust, are held in responsible stewardship for present and future generations." The Society for Utopian Studies -- "Founded in 1975, The Society for Utopian Studies is an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias. . . . Although many Society members are involved in social activism or communitarianism, the purpose of the Society itself is to study utopianism rather than to pursue utopian projects. The Society publishes the journal Utopian Studies and a newsletter, Utopus Discovered, which contains information about upcoming conferences and workshops, and details on publications in the field." Sonora Cohousing (Tucson, Arizona) -- "a group of people who believe that we can build a better neighborhood than developers typically do. Together we are seeking to create a community, based in part on cohousing principles. . ." Sustainable Communities Network (SCN) Tenant Net Home Page -- "focuses on New York City and New York State. Information from other areas is also available." Trillium Hollow Cohousing (Portland, Oregon) -- "a wonderful cohousing neghborhood in Portland, Oregon. We are actively seeking new residents." Twin Oaks Community (Louisa, Virginia) -- "an intentional community of around 85 adults and 15 children living on 465 acres of farm and forest land in rural Virginia, USA. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values of cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology. . . . We do not have a group religion; our beliefs are diverse. We do not have a central leader; we govern ourselves by a form of democracy with responsibility shared among various managers, planners, and committees. We are self-supporting economically, and partly self-sufficient." UK Communities Online -- "aims to address issues of sustainability, social inclusion and healthier economies by focussing on the use of new communications technologies in localities." UpTop (West Virginia) -- "an extended community." Utopia on the Internet: Philosophy for a Better World -- "This web page consists of a listing of web sites with content on the subject of Utopia." Utopia Pathway Association (UPA) -- "an informal Internet association devoted to exploring means and methods to make Utopia a reality." Utopian Socialist Societies in 19th Century America -- Project at the University of Louisville. Utopian Studies Society (UK) -- "an interdisciplinary society that aims to co-ordinate and encourage the diverse work currently taking place on the subject of utopianism." Utopos Discovered: A Newsletter of the Society for Utopian Studies The Washington State University Sustainable Development Sourcebook Whole Village (Caledon, Ontario) -- "We are a group of people from a variety of backgrounds, singles and families who have come together to build an ecovillage, based on a cohousing model in conjunction with a biodynamic farm. Currently we are in the stage of planning our community. We have purchased a 190 acre farm located in the Town of Caledon, northwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The community will include 30 homes, a community house and the farm." William Morris: From Design to Socialism The William Morris Internet Archive (Marxist Internet Archive) WWW Resources on Utopias and Alternative Communities - "These are general resources on utopian, intentional or alternative communities, and related information."