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: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption, is a book that advocates for citizen-led, community-based action first and foremost: why wait for the government when you can take action today, with your neighbors? From small solutions to the full re-invention of the systems we find ourselves in, this book mixes anecdote with data-based research to bring you a wide range of options that all embody compassion, creativity, and cooperation. Together Resilient looks at intentional community as a model for a low carbon future. While looking realistically at the state of the world and the realities of climate disruption, it finds hope in examples of communities that already live high quality lives that the planet can sustain. It also looks at community as an essential element for surviving the coming (and already present) changes with more resilience and grace, and offers concrete examples of building community as a tool for reducing carbon emissions, outside the context of residential intentional communities.

Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption (Communities Directory)

Kindig, Christopher

Ludwig, Ma’ikwe

Parenting & Relationships

Fellowship for Intentional Community

Volume 2 of the Wisdom of Communities series is called Finding a Community: Resources and Stories about Seeking and Joining Intentional Community. It is a response to the reality that many searches for intentional community fizzle out due to lack of adequate information, guidance, or exposure to fellow travelers’ stories. Authors share experiences, tools, advice, and perspectives that should help anyone searching for an intentional community—whether to visit or to live in—increase the likelihood of finding what they’re seeking.

Wisdom of Communities 2: Finding a Community: Resources and Stories about Seeking and Joining Intentional Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Magazine, Communities

Klaif, Marty

Politics & Government

Volume 3 of Wisdom of Communities is about Communication in Community: Resources and Stories about the Human Dimension of Cooperative Culture. It includes articles about decision-making, governance, power, gender, class, race, relationships, intimacy, politics, and neighbor relations in cooperative group culture. These areas are key for communities to address if they are to retain members and develop strong and healthy group connection.

Wisdom of Communities 3: Communication in Community: Resources and Stories about the Human Dimension of Cooperative Culture

Self-Help

Communication & Social Skills

In Volume 4 of Wisdom of Communities, we focus on Sustainability in Community: Resources and Stories about Creating Eco-Resilience in Intentional Community. This book focuses on food, water, shelter, energy, land, permaculture, ecovillage design, eco-education, and resilience in cooperative culture. These areas will prove more and more essential in allowing communities to navigate changing circumstances on our planet, while growing into new, regenerative ways of living and thriving together.

Wisdom of Communities 4: Sustainability in Community: Resources and Stories about Creating Eco-Resilience in Intentional Community

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Sustainable Living

Here’s a Radical Idea: People can work together to take care of each other! Okay, maybe it’s not that radical, but how do we do that in a world so geared towards the opposite? This is a central question intentional communities are trying to answer. Since 1972, Communities magazine, published by the Fellowship for Intentional Community, has been collecting and disseminating the lessons learned, and now we’re distilling them into a new 4 volume book series, Wisdom of Communities: - Starting a Community - Finding a Community - Communication in Community - Sustainability in Community Each book is over 300 pages and features over 100 of our best articles. This first Volume includes 106 articles and 356 pages. This series is intended to aid community founders, seekers, current communitarians, students, and researchers alike in their explorations. Volume 1 – Starting a Community: Resources and Stories about Creating and Exploring Intentional Community includes both general articles and on-the-ground stories from intentional community founders and other catalysts of cooperative efforts. This book aims to increase the survival rate of attempts to start intentional communities.

Wisdom of Communities 1: Starting a Community: Resources and Stories About Creating and Exploring Intentional Community