Book: Creating Life together by Diana Leafe Christianson
Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step, practical “how-to” information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines “the successful 10 percent” and why 90 percent fail; the role of community founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision and vision documents; decision-making and governance; agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing land; structuring a community economy; selecting new members; and communication, process, and dealing well with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.
Communities Wiki
The Communities Wiki is a collection of shared knowledge and resources for Intentional Communities, and those interested in them or in creating more community in their lives.
Wikis are user-created knowledge communities, written and edited by an online ”community.” As you use the Communities Wiki if you notice places where it is incomplete, you can join our community to improve it!
(we could have someone join this and help improve it)
https://www.ic.org/communities-wiki/
Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service (PEERS) is deeply committed to cultivating community and transformation through inspiration and education.This is a fantastic resource! https://www.peerservice.org
List of Vegan Communities
https://www.ic.org/directory/vegan-hills/
https://www.ic.org/directory/veganville-ecovillage/
https://www.ic.org/directory/vegans-gathering-for-intentional-community/
https://www.ic.org/directory/raw-wisdom/
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This article explores some commonalities between religious communities (both contemporary and classical) and non-religious intentional communities.I thought this was interesting, Some vegan intentional communities will be spiritual, some will not.
“There’s a lot of interest in replicable, scalable models and best practices. People seem to be feeling more of an imperative to have an impact on the world.” How can we grow the vegan intentional communities fast–and perhaps even inspire non-vegan intentional communities to be vegan? https://www.ic.org/intentional-communities-how-do-we-grow-this-movement-fast/
Directory of Animal Rights Organizations: this could be a place where Vegan Intentional Communities can list their community
http://worldanimal.net/directory
5 Tools to Help Groups Thrive
Liberating Structures
When you feel included and engaged, do you do a better job? Do you think teams in which people work well together produce much better results? Have you noticed the best ideas often come from unexpected sources? Do you want to work at the top of your intelligence and give the same opportunity to others?
If YES, we have found this is the kind of organization and community that people want to be part of. AND, Liberating Structures help make it happen.
http://www.liberatingstructures.com
Overview of Resources for Building Communities
This is an introduction, overview and directory of links to a wide variety of ideas and projects that help create stronger, healthier community. We start by looking at a number of alternative and experimental forms of community, including ecovillages, cohousing, intentional community, cooperatives, related topics and links. We then look at a variety of creative ways that you can find or create stronger community where you live today (without moving or joining an alternative community). We include resources on how to go about this, and the interpersonal issues and group process that can be involved. We also look at the “Healthy Community” approach, and how it can lead to a better lifestyle and a more sustainable world. This page includes definitions & examples; related events; organizations; publications; listings; links; how to find or create a community, more.
http://www.planetfriendly.net/community.html
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 to urban group houses.This website has a lot of resources which can really help a start up community–even if you don’t want to have an egalitarian community
