GYMNOS - A neo-primitive tribe forming
Mission: Naturist Land-Based Tribe
From www.ic.org/directory/gymnos-naturist-commune-and-retreat/:
Hidden away on five private acres in sunny southwest Florida, GYMNOS is a land-based, naturist tribe in formation. A spacious house, studio, garage workshop, post and beam barn, open pasture, citrus grove, vegetable garden and nature trails all support a dream of healthy, land-based self-sufficiency. GYMNOS is on its way to becoming a small tribe that is on a return to life in harmony with nature, loving each other selflessly, sharing resources and ideas and living with freedom. We are also full-time naturists which means we live together without clothing at all times. We expect to outgrow our five acres soon and are looking at relocation to a much larger rural land base in the near future. For more detailed information check our website and blog posts. At this time we are only welcoming visitors who are seriously interested in joining us. An email dialog and subsequent phone conversation is essential.

Rainforest Lab
Mission: We are a hub on the West End that is co-creating an egalitarian, peacemaking, and sustainable nonviolent way of life. We seek to explore and practice this way of life through restorative justice, Nonviolent Communication, permaculture, trauma work, gift-economy, and the common holding of income, land, and resources. Besides engaging in community, we want to act for global systemic change. We seek to accomplish this by stewarding a larger culture of nonviolence around us to empower this possibility. We acknowledge this work will not be accomplished until every system on this planet is designed to fulfill and respond to the needs of All.
From www.ic.org/directory/milktopia/:
Vision Statement: We strive to create a culture which acknowledges our interdependence, and that empowers all to live their deepest truth and stand up for our collective well-being. We long to hold one another accountable in embracing the challenge of living with integrity and nonviolence in the world. Our hope is to deepen our courage to transform patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and imperialism. We recognize the immensity of this work and seek to sustain one another in nourishing community and empower a worldview which honors the sacredness of all life. Description: We are an intentional community with five permanent residents at the moment. As a hub for inner and outer transformation we are focused on community-oriented projects both on the land and off-site. Our community members have a range of focus and passions from music, gardening, Nonviolent Communication facilitation, community building, animal care, group leadership and teal organizational development, mushroom cultivation, and Restorative Justice. When you come out here you can expect to be treated with respect and compassion. This space is cultivated for self-expression, creativity, and play! We offer an opportunity to explore your fullest self with others on the land. For guests: Please answer via an initial e-mail to our community the below questions so there might be some clarity for us about what you are fired up about in life: -What draws you to be apart of this community space? -How do you embody your values in the world? -What is your focus in life? What do you hope to bring into your life by joining our community? Also, this is a link to a document called "Rainforest Lab for Cultural Transformation TLC Constitution": Please also read through the Purpose and Principles and the Membership and On-boarding System to reflect on our community before reaching out to us.

The Telaithrion Project by Free and Real
Mission: We want a world of peace and freedom, with technological development that operates as an extension of human potential, a world that will strategically and consciously will manage with balance the natural recourses, were a reality of a society of healthy living conditions and full of open minded people can be possible, free spirit and real incentives, away for any kind of isolations, artificial barriers, technology driven by planned obsolescence and pointless, without real and creating motives, labor.
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The «Telaithrion Project» hopes to put in actual perspective, that a self sufficient sustainable society that is based on true incentives and selfless giving, can exist, and that can be applied to practice in everyday life, and that even if the entire culture of humanity adopted it could flourish. We would like to share all the practical knowledge, the information, the technologies and at the end the solutions that we may discover, research and apply to this journey of ours. We will do all we can to animate, empower, educate and inspire all people we meet so they will be able to follow their own path towards a more possible, more balanced coexistence of races and species on the planet. All that has happen until now in our website and facebook page!

Confluence
Mission: Intentional Community - Social Justice - Spiritual Formation - Vocational Discernment
From www.ic.org/directory/confluence/:
ABOUT: Confluence is an Intentional Community in Columbus, Ohio that comes together annually to participate in a year long Episcopal Service Corps program for college graduates or young adults with comparable experience who commit to a year of spiritual formation, vocational discernment, social justice and intentional community. The Confluence Year runs from August - July. Spend a year in INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY learning to live simply and sustainably in a home with four others in the impoverished lower west side neighborhood of Franklinton in Columbus, OH. Go deep into VOCATIONAL DISCERNMENT working with a leading social service organization doing dynamic work on the margins. Participants work 35 hours per week with organizations like, the Ohio Assc. of Food Banks, Boys and Girls Club, Franklinton Development Assc, and more. Enact SOCIAL JUSTICE through volunteering with neighborhood non profits like the community gardens and bicycle co-op, both started by Jezreel, an Intentional Community in Franklinton Pursue SPIRITUAL FORMATION through contemplative practices with your housemates, and worship and service opportunities with St. John's Episcopal Church which serves the large homeless population of Franklinton. Confluence community members receive, health insurance, room & board incl. a full share CSA, monthly stipend, Bus pass and bicycle, and internet & utilities. Visit ConfluenceYear.Org or contact Jed at 614.327.4299 or jeddearing@gmail.com to learn more

Liberties
Mission: This place is a beautiful postcard where you can hear the rain fall...before it hits the ground, and the sound of the wind under the birds wings as they pass. Here it is a crystal palace in the Winter, a cool refuge in the Summer, where Nature provides your needs if you coax her. To keep that unchanged, while becoming a part of the balance....to love the land that loves us...that is the mission.
From www.ic.org/directory/taking-liberties-camp/:
This is a beautiful 20-acre piece of timberland in northern Washington, about 20 miles from the Canadian border, bordering the National Park. There is a cabin, a huge barn, septic hookup for two trailers, and a well. We are seeking members to form a communal-type, off-grid living arrangement. A visit is just a phone call away. Becoming a member requires loving breathtaking sunsets, wildlife, clean air, loving Nature, being willing to work to carve out your spot, paying a portion of the land payment, being open-minded and real. And loving chihuahuas. Any sharing other than work will be done by heart only.

Ashram West
Mission: Enlightenment and Service
From www.ic.org/directory/ashram-west/:
Ashram West was founded in 1997 and incorporated in California as a 501c3 non-profit organization in 2001 to inspire and guide gay-identified persons to enlightenment and to offer service to the community. There are both monks, i.e., dedicated member-practitioners, who may be residents or non-residents, and lay members. The teachings of Ashram West are based on Vedanta philosophy and traditional Hindu Tantra in the lineage of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, that encourages the integration of all aspects of life with spirituality, including sexuality. Vedanta teaches that our fundamental nature is pure, perfect, and divine, and one specialty of Tantra is a whole body of spiritual technologies for developing greater awareness of the our true divine Self. We offer meditation instruction, spiritual coaching, and counseling for individuals, couples, or groups free of charge with donations gratefully accepted. All persons are welcome to enjoy the benefits of our community services and activities. Although most ashram members are gay men, and residence is for men only, we also have non-gay women students who form part of our extended world-wide family, united by email and occasional personal visits. We invite men of any sexual-affectional orientation to apply for membership as monks. Celibacy is neither required nor preferred, but resident monks must conduct committed relationships, if any, in service of the community and its goals. Non-resident monks live according the Rule of the Order of Ashram West but are free to conduct relationships as they like. All resident monks contribute to the material support and physical maintenance of the community, and they may hold outside jobs as necessary to make this possible. Currently the ashram exists in a large one-bedroom apartment in Silver Lake with two permanent residents, including Brother William, the Founder and Spiritual Director. We are seeking a larger residence that will permit more monks and visitors to live in community and provide space for rituals, classes, and our kirtan group that meets weekly for joyous group singing and spiritual chats. If you already occupy or own a property suitable for us, or if you have the resources to help us purchase a property, we can consider accelerating the process of your becoming a monk.

Safe Haven Ranch
Mission: Green Eco Families with Kids that would like to work together to create the lives we can only dream of on our own.
From www.ic.org/directory/safe-haven-ranch/:
We are a small family (man, wife, & 7yo son) looking to get out of the rat race and live a more natural, green, healthy, peaceful, stress free, and sustainable life in a small community of similar likeminded families. We were hit very hard by the outsourcing of IT jobs overseas and then after rebuilding our lives and only 8 months after our only child was born we got hit hard again by the onslaught of the corruption induced recession we all know as the Great Recession. I rebuilt again, but this time the 18 hour days 7 days a week was at the expense of quality time with my child, my wife, my aging mother, my dying dad, and my friends, not to speak of the toll it took on my body and emotional wellbeing. And after missing much of my child’s young life and most impressionable years, and all the other sacrifices my hard earned successes were all taken away again when a major corporate client went over budget on a major project and couldn’t or didn’t want to pay their bills in a timely manner causing us to become homeless because we couldn’t pay our bills. So during this rollercoaster ride of life we realized that fighting the ways of the new and corrupt global economy to keep ourselves in the middleclass or even just surviving was a futile battle that was just keeping us enslaved in life that wasn’t healthy for us anyway. So through this we realized that a good quality life is about family, healthy kids, friends, non-poisonous food, good nutrition, love, and a stress-free existence. Additionally, having a young child on board we want to protect (not shelter) him from everything rotten in the world while preparing him for the worst and letting him decide for himself if he wants to fight for a happy successful future in the world we chose to leave. During our battles to survive we have become very enlightened to what is really going on in this country and the world, and we see very clearly what is/has happened to the middleclass, the poor, our futures and the futures of our children. We are not happy with the corporate and religious takeover of the United States of America, but there is so much more going on that most people don’t know about or realize, because if they did there would be massive rioting in the streets. Unfortunately, those that are willing to get their voices heard (even in a nonviolent manner) are scorned by those that are still hanging on and don’t realize the extent of the damage being done to us in this country. Our politicians have completely sold us out and down the river, and the mass media is all part of it, and has done a great job of shutting out the voices of those of us in need of assistance and change. Our Children have to live in this world, and they will have to suffer for a long time to come if we don’t do something about immediately. But for those of us who have already been beaten up and silenced the best thing that we can do is to create the best life possible for ourselves and our children, which is what this community is all about. We are tired of eating bland, poisonous, genetically altered food and we are tired of having to decide whether to pay rent or buy fresh healthy food for ourselves and our child, and we want to grow our own. Our dream and goal is to find some acreage in Southern California where our likeminded families can live in peace, health, and harmony and be self-sufficient, self-sustaining. We do have a strong sense of spirituality through a connection to Mother Nature and a strong belief in common decency, kindness with Karma being our guiding light, but we do not participate in any commercialized religion. We feel that the Native American’s had it right in their lifestyle and connection to the earth but see no proof of a creator and we believe in the science of evolution. I’m an X hired gun software developer/consultant to the Fortune 500, the US Government and many other businesses, and I used to make around 100k per year, but now my family and I live in an RV bouncing around Southern California trying to give our son the best life possible. If you feel that you and your family (couples or single mom’s with children) are compatible with ours please contact us via FIC. I look forward to hearing from. Sincerely, Jerry

Serenity House
Mission: Serenity House aspires to create a healing community that is based on compassion and service to humanity using Non-Violent Communication, ancient yogic teachings and local indigenous healing practises. We strive to be as self sufficient as possible and live in harmony with the earth and our neighbors, we grow our own food and share our healing wisdom with our local community so that they may thrive as well and distribute moringa as a way to sustain the health of all peoples and our own economic well being.
From www.ic.org/directory/in-la-kesh/:
Serenity House is located 12 km outside of Alto Paraiso, Goias, Brazil, near the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. The town (population: 7,000) is in the world’s most biologically rich savannah ecosystem, with scenery that simultaneously conjures the vast plains of Africa and the rippling mountains of Kauai. Scattered about are hundreds of waterfalls, many flowing into river pools that are warm enough to swim in and clean enough to drink from. The region’s geology also comes with the requisite mystical component: Just beneath the soil is the world’s largest crystal bed, allegedly so luminous that it’s visible from outer space. We have come together to manifest from the heart, creating abundance and ease by living together in connection and harmony with the earth, building sustainable adobe or bamboo homes and practicing permaculture and biodynamic gardening. We use natural ancient medicinal healing practises and eat pranic alive whole foods. We have an amazing abundance of GMO free and organic food in the area we live in. We come from different cultures and backgrounds and are sharing and growing in the healing arts and using the wisdom of indigenous & yogic cultures-see more information on our website www.yogaofbeauty.net We have a vision of acquiring the land we are currently residing on, with the intention of it being held in community trust that is set up legally to protect all share holders, yet the land will not be owned by any one person, acknowledging that the land belongs to us all as a gift. We have enough space to accommodate 4 families comfortably as well as host volunteers and there is room to expand the community if we desire. The land can be purchased for a collective buy in fee of $12,000 per family (please contact us directly for further details) we have very rich soil for growing food and trees and building structures with adobe or bamboo. All the water we drink and use is coming from a live spring in the mountain, we live steps away from two rivers that intersect that have very clean water. The community we live in is very small, friendly and safe, the weather is sub-tropical and the climate is pleasant all year long. By practicing Consensus and Non-Violent Communication we aspire to grow in the challenges that arise from coming together out of domination based societies and finding new ways to live in harmony with one another through this shared living experience. One of our collective projects is growing moringa, and we consistently are moving towards self sufficiency, barter, and other forms of exchange besides paper. We have a process of becoming a guest first, getting to know one another for a period of 4 months and then deciding if a longer stay or integration into community is of benefit for all through consensus, we know that all people have valuable gifts to offer and we welcome you to come and share in this beautiful vision. "When you look into the eyes of another person, you are looking into your own eyes" In Lak´ech-Ancient Mayan gree

❅ Golden Rule ✯ Rainbow - Community & Demo - Farm ❅
Mission: - Adopting Permaculture principles into our gardening system, with openness to add other aspects suitable to it. - Applying a holistic view and respect towards Mother Nature. - Doors are open as a "Demo-Farm" for open minded people for inspirations and learning. - Offer a practice field for students and people interested in specific subjects. - Finding and inviting new members with skills and interest in our subjects to join the community. - Selling organic vegetables, fruits and eggs if available or offers organic meals. - Distributing Tea Tree Oil products.
From www.ic.org/directory/gro-rainbow-community/:
Golden Rule-Rainbow-Community & Permaculture Demo-farm On a small Island south-west of Bohol in the Philippines we are establishing a Community based on spiritual aspects. At the same time we do self sustaining farming and follow permaculture principles on a lot of almost 1'700 sqm. The lot has around 7 different sections containing: 1. Entrance, Rest House with basement, workshop, open- and deep-well 2. Forest Garden with composting area, compost toilet, outdoor shower, Bird cage, water storage and grow beds 3. Shaded Labyrinth garden and sweat lodge 4. Japanese Pond Garden 5. Rocky pits with Meditation Hall base for Geodesic Dome 6. (Earth-House/future project) Ditch with recognizable cliff side 7. Rocky Coral hill with different plant varieties A small rest house of native style gives us shelter from moody weather. The climate is tropical, sometimes rainy but mostly warm. A Solar-Island-System provides us with electricity and a deep well pump ensures us plenty of water with the small disadvantage of salinity. The farm is located on mostly flat alvar terain, approx 10m above sea level and about 1km away from the sea cliffs. Our rest house can accommodate people in 3 small rooms. Currently there are 4 people, 1 cat, 4 dogs, 1 rabbit, fish and a few chickens living at the Rainbow Farm. We are still open for new members and volunteers; People with skills and sencitivity towards the surrounding as spiritual guides and practicioners are most welcome. Coming here is for most people, which are not used to Asia a bit of a culture shock. We are trying ourselves to find the balance between the local culture, other species of plants and the cultural background we come from. Sometimes it's necessary to look at things with less expectations to manage daily challenges in communication with locals. Anyhow, we just like you to know that we take our spiritual path very serious, practice unselfish love in meditation and in our daily action. We testing our limits for example with diets and fastenings. Sure there are slight adjustments for everybody’s health situation included, because one have to be ready for certain steps. Basically we walk the talk, and not just signpost the path and let the others walk it… (Aquarian Gospel 15:15) If you are interested to join us or share information please feel free to contact us: Golden Rule ✯ Rainbow-Community & Permaculture Demo-Farm gro-rainbow-community@hotmail.com +63(0)9183252880 Mobile

Co-Creators' Dream
Mission: Settlement of Love & Good
From www.ic.org/directory/co-creators-dream/:
Co-Creators' Dream Ke Aku’a Moe’uha’ne Kauha’le The vision of Ke Aku’a Moe’uha’ne Kauha’le / The Creator Dream Settlement is to co-create a settlement of people using the creation story as told by Anastasia in book 4 as well as The Billionaire story in book 8.1 of the Ringing Cedars of Russia Series in the Western World. In the Ancient Hawaiian its understanding that the key to the future is learning the past through the Legend known as “The Children of the Rainbow”. The time before time was Heaven on Earth and the children of the most high Akua lived as though immortal without concern of food, clothing, shelter or disease. The creator had a divine dream to create something greater than self. This dream started a conversation amongst all the diverse energies of the universe. They asked the creator, ‘What do you desire”? ‘Co-creation and joy for all from it’s contemplation’ was the answer. At the creator’s request, all the diverse energies contributed a part of their energy to the dream. The creator harmonized all of these energies within itself. The creator became pregnantly powerful. With a harmonized balance of all these energies, inspired by love, the creator made the physical world. When love inspires two people to create a family together, a similar co-creation takes place. The diverse energies of the family are balanced and harmonized and the dream is manifested. We have a dream to create something greater than ourselves. We dream of co-creating settlements balancing and harmonizing the diverse energies of the members of the settlement into a grand and beautifully loving physical creation. We envision supporting one another’s dream to co-create a space of love with our own love, physical contribution and those who have a desire to use their worldly resources to lift mankind into a place of enjoying “Heaven on Earth” in balance with themselves, the earth and all living things. The vision that follows is a co-creation of the members currently involved in Ke Aku’a Moe’uha’ne Kauha’le / The Creator Dream Settlement. As other members are inspired to co-create with us, their input and energy will be balanced and harmonized with the existing group. As a result, our vision is living and changeable according to the energies that are present in the group and on the land. We envision settlements nurtured and stewarded with love. There are spaces of love with trees, ponds, flowers, fruits and cozy shelters. Each of us is competent and self-sufficient in our ability to create. When a member asks for help with creating their space of love, we joyfully take part in the co-creation. We see our group creating our settlement in or near the ocean and mountains. There are grassy meadows, diverse tree species, and a creek running through the land year round with a waterfall. At night we see only the lights of the cosmos, we hear only joyful sounds of nature and kin. We generate our energy locally and sustainable. We are an integral part of creating our own shelters. We help each other when requested and are able. We are open to individuals getting outside help to create their shelters if they feel it is needed. We share resources such as vehicles and other large tools. There is a drivable road to the entrance of the property with a covered parking area. The use of vehicles throughout the settlement is minimized. We have a shared community space where common daily conveniences will be available such as communication systems, hand and electric tools, laundry, and guest quarters. We see nature as the primary teacher of our children. Children are precious and valued and are the inspiration for the live art we create with our spaces of love and to this end we aspire to Co-create life in a conscious and intentional manner as put forth so beautifully in Chapter 8 “I am giving birth to you, my angel! In book 8.1.

Growing Home
Mission: Growing Home is a vision of a beautiful and harmonious living situation where community members strive to live in tune with our Earth and each other.
From www.ic.org/directory/growing-home/:
"Growing Home" is a forming intentional community/co-op home in Portland OR or the surrounding area. There is no location as of yet, and many details are up in the air right now. If the following descriptions sings to you, please get in touch to help make this dream a reality. Growing Home is a vision of a living/working/playing space in accordance with its members ideals, including: sustainability, creativity, spirituality, gardening, DIY, giving, hospitality, freedom, self-sufficiency, consensus decision making, and paradigm-shifting. We cherish nature and seek to live in harmony with the Earth. Growing our own food will be a major part of this project. We envision a greenhouse (made of reclaimed materials) where we will grow all sorts of yummy, nurturing foods. Cooking and eating together is imperative. A big kitchen table topped with fresh, vegan meals will be a gathering space for us and our wider community. Ideally we will become as self-sufficient as possible and produce our own energy as well. We embrace non-denominational, non-dogmatic spirituality to foster a connection between each other and the planet, galaxy, Universe which is our home. Spiritual atheists are welcome as well. We may incorporate ritual as part of our daily lives. Another major project will be the offering of hospitality. Our home may have elements of a hostel, where weary travelers can stay and integrate with our community. Guests can contribute with their energy and/or in other ways. We also choose to embrace the intelligent use of technology (especially DIY and open-source technology!) for the benefit of all. We recognize technology as inherently neutral and choose to use it responsibly and with good intentions. Creativity will be encouraged and space and time will be designated for playing music, creating art, and expressing ourselves however we chose. We strive to improve ourselves, our lives, and our planet. Openness to new ideas is essential. We will never stagnate nor become burnt out, but rather transform in a constant process of evolution. In this way, we will become catalysts for the new world!

Common Treasury Farm
Mission: Organic farming collective working and living together to produce a majority of our own food, including meat, milk and produce.
From www.ic.org/directory/common-treasury-farm/:
Common Treasury Farm is certified organic (since 1993) and located 27 miles from the Pacific Ocean nestled in a small valley. Our farm lies along a year-round creek and is mostly surrounded by National Forest. The farm is 1 hour drive to any size-able town (Corvallis). We raise sheep, milking goats, pigs, chickens, a milking cow and several beef cows. The garden is an acre of assorted vegetable crops, an additional acre of blueberries, along with raspberries, strawberries and the wild blackberries. We have one larger (30' X 90') and one smaller greenhouse on the property for season extension. We maintain irrigation rights to our creek and irrigate both pastures and gardens. We grow our own fiber flax and process our sheep fleeces for spinning. We speak English and Spanish. We eat a wide assortment of food from vegetarian to dairy to farm raised meat. Accommodations include indoor private space, shared bathroom and kitchen, wood heat. Email for first contact and then we will schedule a follow up phone chat. No drop ins. We are not a large community and have very complicated schedules to juggle farm and off-farm income, so as much lead time as possible is best for planning a visit. We charge $40 per person/ per day for food and the time it takes for us to show you the land and spend several hours discussing the possibility of living together. We are a working farm. Please be mindful of that and leave dogs at home during your visit. Please understand that as we grow most of our own milk, meat and veggies, there are times of the year when we may not have time to play host or show you around. Also, please do next expect to come here and "hang out" or be on vacation. At present we are actively looking for a couple or several single individuals who already have experience in rural living, community life and agricultural endeavors. We currently have open housing spaces available for the right person(s). As this is a very rural area, and we are not income sharing, the situation lends itself to people with an established internet-based part time job or those who pursue seasonal work elsewhere. We are NOT interested in folks seeking to grow cannabis here!

Kristian David School
Mission: SCHOOL -Christian private school with licensed elementary school programme. -Elective specializations are available in music (piano, brass instruments, percussion, guitar, basic vocal training), in visual arts (drawing, painting, building) and in sports (gymnastics, team sports, skiing). -We teach children to take an initiative and be proactive. -Personal attention to every student due to small class size. HOME -The children enrolled in the school are in the care of the Christian community. -family atmosphere -own farm where to learn practical skills -students may stay over summer holidays -support for low-income families HOUSE OF PRAYER -Daily prayer and Christian lifestyle -Denominational cooperation (Ecumenism)
From www.ic.org/directory/kristian-david-school/:
We are an intentional community in Latvia and we run a state accredited primary boarding school since 1991. We have 35 children in school and about 15 community members/educators, most of whom live full time in community and receive no salary for their work. We have an organic farm and fields, which provide our school with almost all necessary foodstuffs. Children work side by side with teachers on the fields, with animals, also in the kitchen baking pastries, engaging in culinary experiments etc. Some of the pupils are orphans who have become foster children of our community members and are being cared for till their adulthood and beyond. We try to teach them christian values, open-mindedness, creativity, empathy and compassion. We get immense joy from growing in mind and in spirit together. Our classes are small, children get individual attention and help whenever it's needed. We play music with our brass band which takes part in music festivals. We sing and pray together every day. Our music teacher composes music for school theatre and our art teacher also runs an art studio in the town. We try to cultivate the culture of cooperation and mutual aid amongst ourselves. School's family-like environment gives children opportunity to acquire various practical skills. They can learn to take care of the animals, ride a horse or a pony, grow vegetables and fruit, do some light household DIY and acquire some technical skills in the garage. The result is confident, self-reliant, multifaceted human being whose both mental and physical capacities are developed. We have friends from other countries who help us financially, materially and through regular visitations create a paradoxically international environment in the middle of sparsely populated Latvian countryside. We are always happy to make new friends. Contact us at jekabss@gmail.com

Burdock House
Mission: We host events and make our space available for fellowship, food, music, fun, and sharing skills and resources.
From www.ic.org/directory/burdock-house/:
We have been converting our 3,000 square ft (formerly) commercial building into living space, now with 5 bedrooms. We also have three extra lots for growing food, play, and experiments in urban homesteading. Currently, we are more of a family home than ic and are primarily building community as a venue for local music, potlucks, and other events. We are taking an extended break from life as an intentional community, but are open to the possibility of new people moving here after a time of getting to know them. In other words, it would probably need to be someone local.

The Primal Village
Mission: sustainable community focused on Permaculture, Wild Edibles, Alternative energy production, Natural building techniques, etc.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-primal-village/:
This year we hope to be building several small Cob homes. If you are interested in helping and are OK with primitive camping with facilities on-site, do get in contact with us because we would love the help.
Bringing the intentional village and Primal skills together in one place for exceptional living and thriving in health, attitude, relationships and economy. The primal Village will be an Intentional Community comprised of individuals and families who's main goal in life is to live life without depending on the rest of the world for survival or existence, who are aware and accepting of Polyamory (you don't need or have to be Polyamorous). You will find that most of these people will be trying to live the four R's (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). The reasons will be varied, some may live this life style because it is cost effective, others for the Planet, etc. Members will most generally be interested in Alternative Energy production, Eliminating GMO foods from their diet, growing their own food (Wild Edibles, vegetables, meat, fruit), building their own Natural (locally obtainable natural resources) buildings/homes and many more similar ideas and lifestyles that result in not needing to buy anything. If you are or know someone that might be interested in helping out with the formation and implementation of this project (planning, strategy, building, etc.), contact me.
Links:
Primal Village
Facebook - Primal Village

Asanté Gardens
Mission: food forest, tribal synergy
From www.ic.org/directory/asante-gardens-2/:
We are open to accepting additional members, either single people, couples, or families with children. If you are interested in joining our community, please visit the Membership page of our website. Located in the Puna District, Asanté Gardens is a permaculture farm and close-knit community of like-minded people living a tribal lifestyle. Our intentional community focuses on simple and synchronized living, egalitarianism, permaculture, natural building, beekeeping, natural healing, yoga & meditation, and personal and planetary transformation. To contact us, please use the online forms on our website. Thank you!

New Oasis For Life ( Lifechanyuan China 2)
Mission: A. New Universal Values In our community, we have a harmonious relationship between people and nature. Everyone enjoy a simple and happy life here, the instances of crimes and fights are zero. Arguments, quarrels, and conflicts are very rare. This is because of the solid basis of the universal values we had built before the community was established. It was initiated and written by the founder Xuefeng, and since 2001, he has written more than 2500 articles with over 10 million words in Chinese. Before participating in setting up the community, all members are first resonating with the values, include the dream of creating a sustainable new life mode beyond the limits of countries, nationalities, religions, and races; and bringing people real happy, free, joyful, and blessed lives. So this values system and the common dream are the deep roots and energy source that motivates all members of the New Oasis for Life under all circumstances. The content of this Universal Values includes the origin of the universe, the origin of LIFE, the origin of human beings on earth, time, space, consciousness, the value, meaning and purpose of life and LIFE; the crises human beings are faced with, the nature of countries, political parties, religions, marriage and family; the non-material world, and the way of beautifying one’s soul garden etc. It absorbs the wonderful wisdoms of human history such as those of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, and all wisdom essences of sages and saints from different civilizations and cultures. B. New Life Mode We have created a new production and life mode. We share the income 100%, all resources are shared, everything belongs to the community, and there is no private property any more. Living, shelter, eating, clothes, transportation, aging, sickness, and death are all communal responsibilities, including nursing the elderly and educating the children. Everyone works efficiently for at least six hours one day, everyone is mostly responsible for one job, and tries to achieve it to a first-class level. People serve and treat each other equally. Paradise management is implemented here as we believe the best management is no management. There is no management teams or leaders, there is no constitution, laws, statutes, commandments, or dharma. Each branch has only one director, whose role is to arrange and coordinate the branch’s daily production and activities. C. New Social System - One global government + university of universal values education + ecovillages lifestyle We have a bold vision: the earth will enter into a new age where human beings will grow up to a higher level of consciousness and create a brand new social mode. Countries, political parties, religions, and traditional families will no longer exist; wars, conflicts, fights, and crimes will disappear, and all resources will be shared among people on earth. There is no private ownership any more. There will be a global government responsible for the whole management of administrative affairs on the earth, since there is no countries, political parties, traditional families any more, leaders of the global government will be chosen from the most excellent persons who are totally selfless and fair. Besides, under the universal values, the essence of different nations and cultures will be integrated into a new human beings culture, and the earth will become a harmonious planet with diversity blossoming everywhere.
From
Our community was established in April 2009 in Yunnan China by a group of people who held common universal values and the vision of creating a new life mode for human beings to sustain themselves on earth. Yunnan is a region that offers the best weather and rich natural resources in China. We set up three branches in two years and the community members rose from the original 20, up to 150. We did all the designing and construction, as well as raised all the funds by ourselves. After three years of construction, each branch became a very beautiful and harmonious environment with members living happily together, including 20 elder members and 14 children. We received visitors from more than 15 countries within two years.

Buklod (Unity/Bond)
Mission: Live and work together
From www.ic.org/directory/buklod-unitybond/:
Buklod is a Filipino word meaning a bond which brings people together. Unity. Looking for a small groups of individuals focus on the importance of living and sharing life together. People know each other better, work and/or play together, and in most cases share some values, goals, or beliefs. Looking for a core members who will help planning the commune.

Bruderhof
Mission: The Bruderhof is an international communal movement of families and singles who seek to put into action Christ’s command to love God and neighbor. Like the first Christians described in Acts 2 and 4, we have been called to a way of life in which all are of one heart and soul, no one possesses anything, and everything is shared in common. We also draw instruction and inspiration from the Reformation era Anabaptists who revived the early Christian example of discipleship in full community.
From www.ic.org/directory/bruderhof/:
The Bruderhof is an international communal movement of families and singles who seek to put into action Christ’s command to love God and neighbor. Like the first Christians described in Acts 2 and 4, we feel called to a way of life in which all are of one heart and soul, no one possesses anything, and everything is shared in common. We also draw inspiration from the Anabaptists of the Reformation era who revived the early Christian example of discipleship in full community. Jesus Christ and his spirit and teachings are the foundation of our community. We come from many cultures, countries, and walks of life. We have no private property but share everything in common, as the early Christians did. Each member gives his or her talents, time, and efforts wherever they are needed. Money and possessions are voluntarily pooled, and in turn each member is provided for and cared for. Meals are eaten together, and meetings for fellowship, singing, prayer, or decision making are held several evenings a week. Meetings are held in a large circle. Someone leads each meeting, but we don't have someone preaching and everyone else listening. We are conscious of our shortcomings, yet we are committed to trying to live out Jesus’ way, not only on Sundays, but every day. The family is the basic unit of our community, though many of our members are single adults. Marriage is upheld as a sacred vow between one man and one woman that assumes faithfulness until death. Our families and community are built on this faithfulness and commitment – to God and to each other. We value modesty and sexual purity, and expect the same of our children and guests. Founded in 1920, our community was one of many that sprang up in Germany after World War I among young people disillusioned with a society based on competition and greed and a church that had blessed the war. Eberhard Arnold, his wife Emmy, and a circle of fellow seekers left middle-class Berlin to start a rural settlement in the spirit of early Christianity and the Radical Reformation of the early 1500s, when thousands of Anabaptists left the institutional churches to live a life of sharing and service in Christian communities. During the 1930s, Nazi persecution forced the fledgling community to resettle in England. We believe every human life is sacred, and for this reason we are opposed to war, abortion, and capital punishment. We have a long history of pacifism and remain committed to working for peace, reconciliation, and social justice. In community we can put this into practice. We hope to show by example that it is possible for ordinary people to live a life that addresses the needs of the whole person and the root causes of injustice, war, and isolation. At the same time we remain involved in our neighbourhoods and wider society. We support disaster relief efforts, peace projects and assist with many local activities in schools, churches and hospitals. Children are part of the reason we live together as we do. Children need an environment in which they can remain children, unencumbered by the materialism and violence in our society. Parents have the primary responsibility for their care and education, but have the support of teachers in our school and the rest of the community. Teenagers attend local colleges before moving on to further education, voluntary service, or other work. Membership requires a voluntary lifetime commitment, so it is a choice that can only be made as an adult. Those who grow up in the community are encouraged to spend time elsewhere so they can make a mature, independent choice. Work is love made visible. From washing clothes in the communal laundry or teaching in the school, to weighing a baby in the community clinic or fixing a water main, our communal work is a practical expression of our love for one another. No one receives a wage or salary. We earn our living by manufacturing and selling Community Playthings (classroom furniture and play equipment). Disabled and elderly members enrich our community with their vitality and experience, and participate in the communal work as their strength allows. Because the community (which includes members who are doctors and nurses) is like an extended family, we are usually able to care for our sick and elderly at home and whenever possible, death takes place within the supportive atmosphere of the church community.

The Barley Jar - Urban Ecovillage and Spiritual Community
Mission: Ecological, spiritual and social sustainability and permaculture.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-barley-jar/:
The Barley Jar is an evolving Plum Village inspired permaculture training and practice centre and development site, learning and practicing to live harmoniously with each other and the natural world. We aim to do this to the utmost degree possible. The community is also a kind of research and development laboratory striving to achieve the deepest level of social, spiritual and environmental permaculture based on the Plum Village Tradition and the best available science. Our desire is to be the change we want to see in the world. The tradition of Plum Village and Thich Nhat Hanh is a non-denominational spiritual tradition open to individuals of any persuasion ranging from atheist to Catholic, Muslim, Jewish or similar. This tradition focuses on mindfulness in daily life. Though they arise from a Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic, it's practices are nonsectarian, and their nature is universal. We will give preference to individuals who are interested in training and deepening their practice at the Barley Jar and ultimately becoming longer term stable members of our community. We are also open to shorter term guests. Currently our community is typically comprised of 2-3 long term members and 3-4 shorter to medium term guests. Training and deepening practice is possible through a program of courses and activities being developed at the Barley Jar in which residents and broader community members can deepen their practice of permaculture and the Plum Village and Barley Jar traditions. These also include reading and study groups and participation in local retreats and practice opportunities. We share meals/cooking, groceries, cleaning/chores, music/art/ideas, joint parties, community dinners, collective space and household items, a mixture of privacy and community,...We have positive shared values / enthusiasm for sustainable transportation (bikes, no cars owned), local organic, vegetarian/vegan, natural materials (plastic free), fair trade ...inclusion and diversity are highly valued and desired e.g. no labels / all ages / all abilities / queer-positive / all backgrounds / all social (including marginalized) groups etc. Our house is medium to large, we really like having people around as well as having a balance of privacy, we like having guests.Our members positively contribute to our community and to the network of similar homes that we are a part of. Physically: We live in a century home at the north end of Brunswick Ave, the house has 6 bedrooms. There are lots of shared spaces - a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, sunroom, dining room, living room, patio-deck, garden. We generally have 6-8 housemates including couples and kids... Our members tend to be community activists, social change agents, artists and farmers. We host: - community wide sunday dinners once a month (last sunday of the month - potluck optional with a music jam) all are welcome - workshops (anything and everything - politics, art, sustainability, social justice) - music and art events (house concerts, readings and the like) - guests from all over Community Healing: - The Barley Jar is engaged in a new exploratory healing journey which is making available a room for anyone seeking habitation in Toronto who might want to live and practice with us. The space is reserved for those who have been without a home for long periods of time ....ask for more from any of our members...

Saba Cooperative at Seven Springs
Mission: Health and Wellness Cooperative focused on healthy mind, body, spirit, arts and permaculture.
From www.ic.org/directory/saba-cooperative/:
“Saba” is translated as “tomorrow” in the tongue of the native Abenaki people and this intentional community is planned according to the needs of tomorrow: Wholistically creating peaceful, voluntary, sustainable alternatives to meeting human needs on physical, mental, spiritual and social levels. Saba is a social enterprise dedicated to assisting communities with integrating cooperative housing with complementary and alternative healthcare services as well as community education on permaculture, arts, and sustainable living practices. Saba's mission is to assist communities with goals to becoming ecologically and economically sustainable. Saba’s projects include the utilization of local building materials and passive and active solar collection and storage systems for energy. Further, in this bioregion, a significant concern for structures is heat retention during the cold season. Saba's projects use the support of nature for this purpose using earth-sheltered structure designs for the community and living quarters, as well as in the design of greenhouses. Saba’s goal is to promote harvesting and storage of rainwater through the use of specific drainage designs and water catchment systems as well as gray water recycling. Saba's mission is to assist with the development of sustainable food systems that meet the community’s food needs while maintaining healthy ecosystems. Saba commits to the use of permaculture principles to promote regeneration of healthy ecological conditions not only for the current community, but for generations to come. Permaculture is based on working with, not against nature and promoting human dignity and health, animal welfare, social justice and environmental sustainability. The anticipated application of the permaculture design integrates local plants, edible forest gardening, pasture-paddock chicken raising, proper utilization of all potential waste products such as with composting, biologically diverse polyculture herb and vegetable gardens, and the utilization of natural patterns found in nature in the gardens, greenhouses, and structures.

HeartTribe Village & Chrysalis
Mission: eco-spiritual living, loving and healing through deep listening and heart-connection with all beings
From www.ic.org/directory/hearttribe-village/:
We are currently forming HeartTribe Village based on a 5th dimensional paradigm for community living. As we join Gaia in her ascension process during The Great Shift that is in progress now, we too must shift and change and let go of old ways that no longer serve the good of all. It is time to open our hearts, witness our emotions, heal our pain bodies, transcend our egos, and live authentically in harmony with all living beings based upon love. We are starting with a small group of Wise Women who are embodying the Divine Feminine, learning to matrix surf, and shifting our DNA through various shamanic practices and quantum technologies. We are learning to witness our egos and rise above them as we center in our Inner Wise Selves and live from the heart. Each Wise Woman is going within to do our inner journey work during the fall and winter of 2016-2017. By the fall equinox of 2017, we plan to each build or acquire a mobile tiny home with which we can eventually form a caravan and have our first gathering. This will enable us to be flexible and go with the Flow of Earth changes and Cosmic events as well as political and economic upheaval. HeartTribe will be a communal, residential non-profit community that is resource-based and built on a foundation of joyous co-creation with Gaia and all who live upon her. We are invoking the energies of the Divine Feminine & of the devic realms. We are taking full responsibility for our creations both individually and collectively. Most importantly, we are learning to live from our hearts and in unconditional love so that we may model a new paradigm for the planet based in a gifting economy philosophy known in Africa as "Ubuntu". Eventually we intend to build "hobbit-style" Earth Houses(partly underground) and become 100% off-grid. Everything we do is intended to be in harmony with the local nature spirits (as they have done at Findhorn, Sirius, and Perelandra) and a co-creative venture where deep listening is paramount. We also embrace the ancient Mayan idea that "time is art" and plan to practice and model a more natural way of flowing with time rather than the current artificial clock. Central to our vision is also the desire to create a spiritual retreat center in the central common house dome called "Chrysalis". This will be a place where people can come and "cocoon", witness a new way of life, and be supported in their own personal "metamorphosis". Those who live in HeartTribe will serve as the staff, teachers, and healers who facilitate Chrysalis retreats, events, art workshops and playshops. This Chrysalis will be like a an ashram where people find that their guru is within. We are envisioning using wind/solar/& geothermal power as well as creating innovative perma-culture projects, shamanic rituals, composting toilets, a home-school cooperative, a labyrinth, an eco-spiritual education program, local barter exchanges, and possibly a"living machine" to process gray waters. We envision starting out with a village of 7 tiny homes and building others as the demand arises. All members will be trained in spiritual empowerment & cooperative decision-making skills. We hope to begin building by 2018 once the appropriate location is determined somewhere in upstate NY. It is time as the Tribe of Many Colors to create the future we all dream of because We are the Ones we have been waiting for:)

New Oasis For Life ( Lifechanyuan China 1)
Mission: A. New Universal Values In our community, we have a harmonious relationship between people and nature. Everyone enjoy a simple and happy life here, the instances of crimes and fights are zero. Arguments, quarrels, and conflicts are very rare. This is because of the solid basis of the universal values we had built before the community was established. It was initiated and written by the founder Xuefeng, and since 2001, he has written more than 2500 articles with over 10 million words in Chinese. Before participating in setting up the community, all members are first resonating with the values, include the dream of creating a sustainable new life mode beyond the limits of countries, nationalities, religions, and races; and bringing people real happy, free, joyful, and blessed lives. So this values system and the common dream are the deep roots and energy source that motivates all members of the New Oasis for Life under all circumstances. The content of this Universal Values includes the origin of the universe, the origin of LIFE, the origin of human beings on earth, time, space, consciousness, the value, meaning and purpose of life and LIFE; the crises human beings are faced with, the nature of countries, political parties, religions, marriage and family; the non-material world, and the way of beautifying one’s soul garden etc. It absorbs the wonderful wisdoms of human history such as those of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, and all wisdom essences of sages and saints from different civilizations and cultures. B. New Life Mode We have created a new production and life mode. We share the income 100%, all resources are shared, everything belongs to the community, and there is no private property any more. Living, shelter, eating, clothes, transportation, aging, sickness, and death are all communal responsibilities, including nursing the elderly and educating the children. Everyone works efficiently for at least six hours one day, everyone is mostly responsible for one job, and tries to achieve it to a first-class level. People serve and treat each other equally. Paradise management is implemented here as we believe the best management is no management. There is no management teams or leaders, there is no constitution, laws, statutes, commandments, or dharma. Each branch has only one director, whose role is to arrange and coordinate the branch’s daily production and activities. C. New Social System - One global government + university of universal values education + ecovillages lifestyle We have a bold vision: the earth will enter into a new age where human beings will grow up to a higher level of consciousness and create a brand new social mode. Countries, political parties, religions, and traditional families will no longer exist; wars, conflicts, fights, and crimes will disappear, and all resources will be shared among people on earth. There is no private ownership any more. There will be a global government responsible for the whole management of administrative affairs on the earth, since there is no countries, political parties, traditional families any more, leaders of the global government will be chosen from the most excellent persons who are totally selfless and fair. Besides, under the universal values, the essence of different nations and cultures will be integrated into a new human beings culture, and the earth will become a harmonious planet with diversity blossoming everywhere.
From
Our community was established in April 2009 in Yunnan China by a group of people who held common universal values and the vision of creating a new life mode for human beings to sustain themselves on earth. Yunnan is a region that offers the best weather and rich natural resources in China. We set up three branches in two years and the community members rose from the original 20, up to 150. We did all the designing and construction, as well as raised all the funds by ourselves. After three years of construction, each branch became a very beautiful and harmonious environment with members living happily together, including 20 elder members and 14 children. We received visitors from more than 15 countries within two years.

metasofa artists community
Mission: Artists community, experiential school, off-grid eco-village, appropriate technology development, alternative media production, resource network support
From www.ic.org/directory/metasofa-artists-community/:
Design and proposal for support of transcendent creativity... Cultural diversity with spiritual consciousness is essential - welcoming each other with respect, kindness, learning and understanding. This also includes people of all ages and abilities, and of any economic status. Living and working together in community is a spiritual practice, where co-operation means with each other... and with guidance from each person's inspiration (co-operation with spirit, as any artist knows), and then also verified by consensus among members of the community. Depending on viewpoint, there are no leaders, or everyone is a co-leader. Each person's time is equally valuable, by definition. Maximum 'free' time for healing & creative work. Minimal overhead of all types, including community meetings & chores. Ecological appropriate technology, and off-grid independence from conventional 'resources'. Proposed resident population of 10 to 50, including students, with additional capacity for hundreds of visitors during public events. Non-resident membership is limited by the size of the universe. Proposed community resources, projects, businesses - theatre & art gallery, restaurant & bakery, greenhouse, gardens & housing around the community. Proposed experiential 'non-school' open educational environment - including music/dance/theatre, media-art production, ecological & appropriate technology, holistic health... More about the community design - metasofa.org/community We're facilitating Tucson's community timebank - timebank.metasofa.org:81 and the (international) Timebank Knowledge Commons Library - tbkc.metasofa.org:81 For current projects and latest news, please see – metasofa.org/news

The Hedge
Mission: pagan community cohousing
From www.ic.org/directory/the-hedge/:
Blessed Be, We have a website www.thehedgecommunity.com The Hedge is a Pagan community between around Hutchinosn, ks. We are on 30 acres half wooded and half pasture. There are some outbuildings now and a creek. We are tied to the grid, until we have a well and enough solar power installed. We welcome all ages, & beliefs. We have one room in tha main house available. And we also have the loft in the barn large with electric and we will be putting in wood heaters soon. Individual cabins will be built and exisiting buildings will be renovated for housing. We share meals, celebrate holidays, and plan outings together. We grow organic all natural gardens and will be supported in a few years by our tree farm. Right now we work as a community cleaning forclosed homes in the local area. Each community member works two days a week doing this. The rest of the time we work at the community. We use this money to buy items for the community, and food, land payment etc. We also plan on homeschooling as a community, including monthly trips to museums and such. Doing things as a community is very important to us. We are tired of working for $ to buy plastic or electronic gadgets that simulate life. We want to LIVE life, love, laugh, eat, dance, sing and all the rest. We have seen others comments about handing over there assets when joining a community. We do not want your money, or assets. What you have when you join us is yours. But you will not have much use for it here lol. We will be buying hygiene products that we do not make ourselves as a group. There will be co housing as well as individual cabins are possible. We require natural building, using natural materials or reclaimed materials as often as possible. We have many animals and will soon have more. Cats, dogs, goats, ducks, chickens and more. You must be respectful of them and there right to be at the community. Many of us are vegetarians. You do not have to be one to live here. But there will be no killing of animals here. The meat eaters buy meat in bulk from organic sources. We make decisions as a group, with founding members making decisions in disputes. We want this to be like and extended family. Two of us are poly, this does not mean we sleep with everyone. Or anyone outside of our committed relationship. Gay or bi people are accepted as is everyone regardless of sexuality. Most of us are Pagan and celebrate nature as well as Yule, Samhain etc. Call 316-371-5732

Ekobius Ecovillage (Ecology Crossroads)
Mission: Through cooperation, peace and the natural world we can realize our genuine purpose as the caretakers of the planet. Our community is dedicated to the using appropriate ecological technology, natural materials, harnessing the energy of nature, and benefiting from its gifts. Our focus as a group is on ecosystem services, their protection, development and sharing for ourselves and future generations to come.
From www.ic.org/directory/ekobius-ecology-crossroads/:
Come live in the Upper Amazon and Orinoco Mountains, on the Guiana Shield where it all began! It took us several years to find the right property and have overcome the invisible socio political factions that mysteriously exist trying to prevent our Indie-pendent Ideals. "Now our property is finally paid off and we can begin moving in" David Wright, Project Coordinator. In May 2013 we entered into a contract to purchase property at the frontier edge where the Amazon Rainforest meets the Guiana Highlands, locally they call it Guayana, we call it the Amazon Highlands. We started using Ekobius (Ecology-By-Us) to describe the special niche ecosystem and area where we live and are building a prototype model ecological village based on open-source ideals. This is deep ecology and nature at its best! As of October 2018 we are beginning a reformation ecovillage, installing our own idealist eco-permaculture and sustainable intentional community! For the first time since we began planning and purchase in 2013, the property can now be occupied and has finally been prepared well-enough to accommodate visitors and begin the development of our modern example eco-community. Located in Venezuela's Northern Amazon; literally, at the 'End of the Road.' our property is the absolute last property that can be inhabited permanently by other than traditional indigenous peoples before entering a protected land area of 650,000 square kilometers full of indigenous reservations, natural monuments, national parks and biosphere reserves. Cross the river behind our property and the next contact with civilization you will find is a 100 day hike due south to the Amazon River or due east to Mt. Roraima and the Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil border. We are 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital of the state of Amazonas, Puerto Ayacucho, which is in the Atures municipal district. Our ecovillage is located on an asphalt connector road with the capital, we are located between the local community of La Culebra and the indigenous community called Gavilan at Kilometer 24 on Via Gavilan. Public bus transit is available within 10 kilometers of our property. The front of our property has 800 m of road frontage and nearly 2 km of frontage on the Catañiapo River. Our project is owned and operated by the Ekobius International (an International Cooperative) who are the member residents of our eco-village (ecovillage) development. The property, its infrastructure, and its buildings are wholly owned and controlled by the cooperative under express indefinite permission with the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Anyone can become a member of Ekobius by investing in the socio-productive cooperative, anyone can further become a resident of our intentional community (ecovillage) and work in the cooperative by joining the cooperative and visiting us with a backpack or a suitcase. We are seeking open minded people that consider themselves free and liberated of capitalism and the mainstream society. We are unifying ourselves differently than most communities because our common bond is not religious or political, spiritualist or governmental; our ideals are based on indigenous knowledge, enhancing nature and fostering the earth's ecology, instead of exploiting it. We are developing as a small ecological community dedicated to sustainable development and the enhancement of our natural environments. Taking care of the planet that takes care of us. Resident members can work in agroforestry, permaculture, teaching ecology, growing medicinal plants, making artisan products, developing handicrafts and through the social production of ecosystem services and non-wood forest resources through specialized educational development projects sponsored by international patrons in the Guiana Highlands and Northern Amazon regions. We embrace barter and the Pachamama (Mother Earth or Gaia) if that is considered a religious faith. Resident cooperators are paid for their individual work production and cooperatively through the net production of the coop as well. The cooperative ownership assures fair trade practices. Our project is beginning with a property that has a common kitchen building, a four room lodge, a 5 stall bath house, several concrete foundations and 2 chicken coups.

Finca Paradise
Mission: Knowing God and preparing for spending eternity in heaven while enjoying natural life together
From www.ic.org/directory/finca-paradise/:
Hi :-) we are adam and eva. We are Jesus hippie naturists and live for Jesus Christ and we want to share our life with other like-minded brothers and sisters.

Indian Social Service Institute
Mission: empowerment of weaker sections
From www.ic.org/directory/indian-social-service-institute/:
The Indian Social Service Institute is a registered, secular, non-profit ,communiy based voluntary organization that was founded in 1986 by a team of socially committed professionals and volunteers in response to drought in the district of Pudukottai in Tamilnadu state, South India. Mission The Indian Social Service Institute's purpose is to promote Social, Economic and Cultural advancement of the rural and urban weaker sections through Education, Research and Field action programs. Objectives - To conduct non-formal and formal educational programs for removal of illiteracy and ignorance - To empower the women with various skills and motivate them to participate in the developmental activities for achieving their liberation and development - To organize, campaign and network rehabilitation services for promotion of Children’s Rights and Elimination of Child Labour - To promote environmental awareness, tree plantation and sustainable agriculture for improving the food security and production of environment in the villages Focus areas Education for children Income generation for women Water & sanitation facilities in villages and small towns Community based rehabilitation for disabled and old-aged people Eco-farming and tree plantation programs for the community Target group and area Women and children of rural poor families of Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu. Our main focus is on child laborers, widows, young girls, and disabled and old-aged people. Current projects Crèche centers for children Child labour awareness Vocational training for girls/women Safe motherhood educational program Rural housing and sanitation Plant-based eating education (Meat Out) Environmental education for school children Evening schools for rural children Tsunami Aid and Rehabilitation Contact person : Mr. Rengaraj Ramaswamy, Managing Trustee Address : Indian Social Service Institute Kepparai, Kaikuruchi village Thiruvarangulam via Pudukottai (Dt.) Tamil Nadu 622303 India Email: indianssi@yahoo.com Phone: 91 4322 325845 Mobile: 91 9843238637

Anarres Two Cooperative Community
Mission: To demonstrate the viability of democratic, voluntary, cooperative socialism. But the details of exactly how the community will function will be worked out by the participants.
From www.ic.org/directory/anarres-two-cooperative-community/:
I’m interesting in a forming a cooperative community based on a voluntary, egalitarian and democratic form of socialism (like a kibbutz) but which allows the members as much personal freedom as possible (people have choices, and they don’t have to agree on every little detail). For now, the community is just a primitive camping cooperative (with one member who is rarely there). The easiest way to set up group ownership would be as a company with shareholders, but it would actually be a member owned cooperative. Zoning restricts us to one building or mobile home, which would probably serve as a community building, but since the land is zoned for agriculture/mining/recreation, a dormitory for farm workers (us) would also be possible, apparently. Currently the land is completely undeveloped, with no access to any utilities. The next major improvement would be a well (our neighbor to the west recently had one successfully installed). At some point, we could try to develop cooperative, worker-owned businesses. I'd like to see it organized so that people could work the number of hours they choose (with some minimum), and then the profits would be shared according to hours worked. You could also work outside the community and share part of your income. Ursula K. LeGuin wrote about a highly evolved form of such a community in her science fiction novel “The Dispossessed”. Anarres Two would not be an attempt to exactly recreate the society depicted on the planet Anarres in her book, but it’s an interesting vision of a non-hierarchical, cooperative society that can act as an inspiration (and as a warning about things that can go wrong). Cooperative communities like the Zionist kibbutzes and the Anabaptist Hutterite communities have been successful, but they are fairly rigid in their structure and ideology, while Marxist-Leninist states are clearly undemocratic and oppressive. At the other extreme, counter-cultural communes tend to lack a clear focus or long-term vision. I'd like to try to strike a balance.

Kommunität Beuggen
Mission: Kommunität Beuggen
From www.ic.org/directory/kommunitat-beuggen/:
We are a oecomenical christian community. We are 8 adults and 10 children. (and 3 adults und 2 children waiting to become a membership. We life in our communityhouse in "Schloss Beugge" germany. We work outside in our professions. We pray daily two times (am 8h (not at moument) + pm 8h) , we have lunchtime together, and have christian, social and political aktivities. We have three guestrooms. We invite you to vistit us! Kommunität Beuggen Schloss Beuggen 5 79618 Rheinfelden info@kommunitaet.beuggen.de ++49/(0)7623/748746
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Schoss Beuggen: Information to Schloss-Beuggen

Project TriStar
Mission: MISSION: To create off-the-grid, eco-friendly, sustainable, and conscious communities that provide a safe and harmonious lifestyle for those who choose to live their lives based on natural and universal laws. To create a community model that is both revolutionary and evolutionary in the world of long-term sustainability.
From www.ic.org/directory/project-tristar/:
Project TriStar is an off-the-grid, eco-friendly, sustainable, and spiritual community that provides a safe and harmonious lifestyle for those who choose to live their lives based on natural and universal laws. The intent of the Project TriStar initiative is to create a lifestyle and an environment that supports the community goals of self sufficiency, healthy living, mutual respect, individual responsibility, and personal growth. There are those who may say that Project TriStar is an attempt at creating a utopian, idealistic, and totally unachievable community model. The truth is that the ability to manifest or achieve any goal in life is based on experiential knowledge (education), understanding (perception), and beliefs. Imagine the world we live in today. On one extreme, we have communities that are violent, destructive, and at constant war with one another. On the other extreme, we have communities that are supportive, harmonious, and at constant peace with one another. Every other social structure, community, town, city, state, country is somewhere in between these two extremes. In other words, to say the Project TriStar initiative is unattainable is simply a perception of what we believe is or is not possible based on our experiential knowledge. Project TriStar is not an Ashram or monastery, but it is unique from what most people would perceive as “community” based on present day socioeconomic standards. The Project TriStar initiative is to bridge the gap between the physical world and the spiritual world in a way that harmonizes with the growing internal desire and seeking for a better way of living on planet Earth. In essence, Project TriStar provides a realistic and attainable alternative to living in the social and economic structures that are commonly practiced throughout the world today. The Project TriStar community embraces spiritual principles that include: decisions that are prioritized with their impact on nature, natural resources, and universal laws. Every member of the community acknowledges the goals of living from their heart, in harmony with these principles and each other, and with a passion towards service to others.
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Vibe Village
Mission: Positive vibes reggae influenced village with the goal to be 100% off grid sustainable
From www.ic.org/directory/vibe-village/:
We are looking for open-minded people (who enjoy a bit of a hippie/reggae vibe) to help form an off-grid, self sustainable village. We are family people with children and dogs, but we seek to provide a nurturing growth experience where a relationship with the earth and a love for cultural diversity and real world learning experiences are the main intentions. Like most others here, we are striving for self-sustainability - hopes to maintain our own structures, grow our own food, use of alternate energy, etc. This is still just in the dream phase as we do not yet own land...perhaps pooling resources would be the quickest way to get this going. Certainly open to suggestions!

Douceur et Harmonie: Domain Maman Terre
Mission: Vegan Intentional Garden
Welcome to the domain of Mother Earth “Douceur et Harmonie”: a vegan, intentional and eco community. We are looking for long-term and permanent residents and investors. We are vegan community (Vivien, Bluette, Sylvain, volunteers, guests and visitors) living on 21 hectares of protected green forest and organic gardens. Situated in the eastern Pyrenees in the south of France. The house and gardens are on a ridge where you can see both the sun rise in the east and set in the west, the Mediterranean in the distance and have a great view of the sacred Canigou mountain of Catalonia. This area is famous for incredible fresh stream water, river swimming, natural hot baths, abundant local and Spanish produce, camping, hiking and great lighting. Generally everyone speaks french but Bluette is fluent in English. There is a plenty of wild edible herbs, vegetable and herb gardens, fruit trees and berry bushes. Food is usually organic fruits, veggies, herbs, nuts, fresh (non wheat) bread, brown rice, spices, oils, and fresh carrot juice. The water comes from a spring on the property and is delicious. A peaceful, calm, tranquil, inspiring and quiet environment where the focus has been “gentleness and harmony” since 1964 when Vivien first arrived. There is always something to do in the gardens and orchards or around the large house (9+ rooms). The Douceur et Harmonie property is owned by an association and is strictly vegan (no smoking, no alcohol, no meat or animal products) and keen on the ethical and loving treatment of animals. Hence, D et H has been the home of many vegetarian animals such a birds, geese, ducks, rabbits, roosters and chickens; however, carnivorous animals such as dogs and cats are not welcome due to their tendency to attack the above animals (this has happened in the past). If you have a very gentle vegan/vegetarian dog, that is a different story. Solar heated water, solar ovens, and spring water swimming pool. Water source is the spring on the land. The traditional stone(huge)farm house is over 250 years old. We are interested in hosting Permaculture Design Courses and integrating more permaculture principles and techniques - including natural building design. A great place for writers, mucisians, aritists, or the average person who desires to get their creatvie juices flowing.

Cinderland Eco Village
Mission: Our vision is a world where everyone lives in ecological harmony. We believe in sustainable, responsible agriculture, like making sure to replenish the soil, saying no to crossbred GMOs, and living in harmony with our animal brethren as well. Jezus’s mission is to build an eco friendly, self sustaining community starting from barren land and minimal funding. Starting with land, a dream, and many compassionate helping hands, we’ve learned as we progressed and are proud to be an example of how anyone can build a eco-friendly village or homestead like ours. The main goal is to be completely off the grid, growing all our own food, with complete independence from the modern worlds support. We want to start from nothing and reach complete sustainability with only 20 years of perseverance to do it; and by golly we’re almost there!
From www.ic.org/directory/cinderland-ecovillage/:
Cinderland is an ecovillage located in a beautiful, jungle-like landscape on the Big Island of Hawai'i. About 20 miles southeast of Hilo, and about 2 miles from the easternmost tip of the island, just a mile and a half from the coastline it lies. We are a community building a life founded on self-sustainability, organic gardening and permaculture. We share the dream of a simple, healthy, natural way of life. We are minutes away from the black sands beach, tide pools, volcano steam vents, warm ponds, Green Lake, "ecstatic dance", health food store and many farmer's markets, and neighbors ready to trade produce just around the corner on Papaya Farms Road. Residents and neighbors gather in our kitchen for shared meals on our infamous Taco Tuesday potluck, and various other shindigs and drum jams. Our community kitchen also features an in ground fire pit, piano, and bunk beds. All of our residents are at home in an all-you-can-eat buffet, you can eat whatever you like that grows on the land, we will teach you how to harvest sustainably and trade with the neighbors to keep the cycle going too. The gardens, greenhouse, solar oven, and solar dehydrator are also free for use to anyone who wants to learn. We welcome people of all backgrounds and nationalities, particularly those that are open, love the earth and are committed to its preservation. Come see what we're about, we would love to have you here, Mahalo!

Zentrum der Einheit Schweibenalp
Mission: Wahrheit, Einfachheit, Liebe - Truth, Simplicity, Love
From www.ic.org/directory/zentrum-der-einheit-schweibenalp/:
To Volunteer in the Swiss Mountains Schweibenalp, The Center of Unity, is situated In the midst of the Bernese Oberland Alps, on a plateau 1100m (about 3300 feet) above sea level, at the border of the Giessbach Canyon. Archeological findings indicate that in the celtic times, Schweibenalp used to be a place for rituals. We contribute with our work to the development of a holistic culture that enables a conscious living together among all living beings. As a living and working community we manage the seminar business and the permaculture gardens of Schweibenalp. In the Center of the Vision stands the Unity of different cultures and religions. The Temple of Unity and the „Dhuni“ have been active places of meditation, prayer and rituals since 1982 and are available for any type of spiritual practice or celebration. Volunteering on Schweibenalp brings you in contact with different aspects of yourself. You have the oportunity to meet many people different ages and culture, and In working with them you practice openness and flexibility. You will be working either in kitchen ,Household or Outdoorwork; 6h a day, 5 days a week; free Food and shared accommodation; possibility to take part in community activities; minimal time 4 weeks.

1st Amazon Ecovillage | Guayana Peace Trail Project
Mission: Establish an indigenous modern way of life that is in accordance with nature using appropriate technology and all that we exemplify as humans in our natural state on earth as good people.
We learned see the world differently by living in the Amazon's Highlands, now you can too! Want to become an ecologically sustainable person? Can you live in harmony with our natural world? Can you live like an indigenous Amerindian? Perhaps a bit better if you apply some technology, practical application and utilize your theoretical ideals. We began our journey down the road to life (our new way) in 2007 to establish a better way (a new natural ecoculture), because we discovered that the life course we had been taking was not the right path to lead us where we need to be in order to establish a harmonious existence as co-inhabitants of the planet. Everyone should want to consider themselves good, peaceful, compassionate and knowledgeable human beings. We realized our purpose as co-inhabitants of the planet is a socially responsible one. We are finally as of August 2013 we began to realize that dream with two base properties here in South America. The two properties are approximately 700 kilometers (435 miles) apart that's if you were a bird. If you walk (hike or backpack) the two locations are nearly 1000 km apart (600 miles) the hike can take from 50 days to 3 months, if you take time to appreciate the beauty it could also take 6 months or even a year if you make friends along the way or decide to take time to study, do conservation work, contemplate your world, or just stop along the way to live for a while. Our initial project was developed to become independent of property ownership however we discovered that people (government, authorities, indigenous neighbors) would not permit our peaceful coexistence as nomads or settlers in their territories without being one of them or allied with in their consciousness and world view. So now we have two base locations and the entire Guiana Shield and Amazon as our backyard. Imagine an indigenous native American (Amerindian) village hybridized with a modern campground facility built using selected appropriate technologies incorporating alternative energy sources to produce abundant organic foods, enjoy modern showers, a clear cold water swimming pond, individual and group cabins, that all comes together at a grand central complex where residents and visitors can gather in a central garden lodge, eat meals in a communal kitchen and involve themselves in community group projects while taking advantage of a modern research station and ecological study center with WiFi Internet access beside a public school facility for residents which doubles as a movie theater, workshop and meeting forum for residents and visitors in the evenings. Our dream project is just beginning and is constantly changing, its likely we will be in construction stages. They started on March 03, 2014 at Ekobius and will be working on the development in practice now before the cooperative charter on December 31, 2016. People with ideas that can support and tolerate (enjoy) this lifestyle should come and share them and implement them here with us!

O'Quinn Mountain Village World Community
Mission: simple living, community
March 2016 We are ready to buy land (or invest in an interview sta lusher intentional community), and have decided to do it in the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA area. We are currently "camping" until we find our spot. The O'Quinn family has sold and given away all of their possessions to move their farming activities from California to the Portland/Vancouver area. We have spent the past 10 years helping farms and teaching by example about food, community service, and varying degrees of sustainable lifestyle practices. We are ready now to buy some land and continue our legacy as urban farmers. We are now successfully living in our camper truck while establishing employment in preparation for a real estate loan (which could take 6 months or longer!) We like to move our camp every week as to keep the energy fresh and our hosts happy. We are expert at leaving a small footprint and allowing our hosts their privacy. We are also open to socializing with our hosts and sharing more of our story ;-) Plus! We have skills to share if that suits our hosts (handyman, chef, crafter, healer, dance instructor, house/pet/livestock care-takers, permaculture, master gardener). Our rig is fully self contained (but we do appreciate electricity, water, and wifi whenever it is offered). Our camp consists of the camper truck and two cars. Papaw Cornelius Mamaw Ann Mommy Blu Baby Jude AKA... Mountain Village World Community ---------------------------- Jul 14, 2010 Description of Mountain Village Community WHO ARE WE? We are O'Quinn Mountain Village Homestead & World Community Gardens. Our core group consists of, Ann O'Quinn (age 42 - Earth Mamma), Cornelius O'Quinn (age 52 - Celtic Druid Building Contractor Mountain Man), Blu O'Quinn (age 18 - Sparkly Swing Dancin River Guide Chic), Derek Suhar (age 20 - Groovy Grounded Community Dude). See our pics and blogs on website. We are a semi-nomadic sustainable community with permaculture tendancies who like to cross-pollinate. WHAT DO WE DO? We offer ourselves to land-owners for a contracted period of time to do good work with Mother Earth and within the surrounding community. Our community ranges from 4-10 interns. We have a core group of 4 members, and we cycle other traveling interns in and out of the mix for special projects throughout the year. Sometimes we have chickens, cats, and dogs. We garden, clear/burn brush, care for animals, compost, barter, build, make music, reach out to youth, and participate in community events and farmer's markets (we are known for our raw, organic nut/seed butters, carrot juice, and kombucha teas). While permaculture is mostly known for its application in gardens or land development, its broader definition is the study of living systems. While Mountain Village is quite involved with organic gardening, we are known and appreciated for the space that we create for the organic unfoldment within group dynamics, personal relationships, and the greater community.

2BD Termined
Mission: Faithist, vegetarian, pacifist
From www.ic.org/directory/2bd-termined/:
The purpose of this community will be to provide a way for people to live wholesome, productive, sustainable lives. A cooperative lifestyle can do this - I've seen it - living in a way that reduces the illusion of separateness - from the spirit, from the earth and from each other. To this end, I would like to establish a community of people with faith in The One Great Spirit, who are vegan/vegetarian and who are pacifists (interdependent, no?) I've been saving for this for many years and have purchased 5.5 acres of bottom land with a beautiful creek about 5 miles from Columbia, a semi-progressive college town in central Missouri. I've invested just about my entire retirement savings in this and would expect a similar investment from anyone who wishes to join. If you meet the three criteria and are ready to begin the adventure, contact me. I'll serve as a message center until/if we need an email list or web site. Contact information on my web site (www.centralmissourigrainsforfood.com). Update: Building a barn, trying to establish gardens and native tree orchards. Update: I found a great book on communities: Diana Leafe Christian's "Creating a Life Together". This book covers well all of the issues encountered in forming a community.

Circle of Children
Mission: Our Mission is to create enriched environments that empower youth through nature connection, self discovery, community building, and collaborative service-learning projects that promote a healthy and thriving planet.
From www.ic.org/directory/circle-of-children-village-school-2/:
Circle of Children is in a intensive planning phase of our eco-village settlement 'to come'. We are currently maintaining most of our focus on expanding our education programs. Our intentional community is naturally forming around our Education and Transformation Center. Circle of Children is currently planning and preparing for our spring/summer programs. We are offering many unique hands-on educational opportunities for all ages! If you are interested in learning sustainable living skills and community building, we would like to invite you to inquire about a visit to our center in Oregon and explore the possibilities of collaboration. Circle of Children is a growing free alternative school dedicated to honoring the spirit of the child. We are located on a fully-developed conference center on 60 acres of pristine land in the foothills of Oregon’s Coastal Mountain Range. This land was donated to Circle of Children in January 2012 to build a children-centered eco-village and community school. We provide an enriched environment for individuals to connect with nature, explore their natural curiosities, and discover their own unique gifts, talents, and skills. Our curriculum gives children the inspiration, wisdom, tools, and resources to create a brighter future for our planet. Our educational model offers a hands-on project and service-based curriculum primarily led by youth. These projects empower youth, grow and sustain our school, unite and assist local and global organizations, inspire and activate world change, while creating a blueprint for harmonious living. Primary subjects include:* • Sustainable Living Skills • Earth Stewardship • Creative Arts • Holistic Health • Dynamic Leadership Skills *While integrating core academics. We look forward in hearing from you. Have a blessed journey :) circleofchildren@gmail.com or 541.632.3140 ---Circle of Children

Mercy & Grace Community
Mission: Living together by Caring and sharing
From www.ic.org/directory/mercy-grace-community/:
Greetings from a small group of friends and families lving in the community.We have a registered charity under th rules and regulations of our Indian government to help the weeker sections in the villages and slums to show our friendship and fellowship both in words and in deeds. We are using our small resources for the benefit of the rural community with the cooperation and coordination of our local government officials and other Non-Governmental Organasiations A friend is one of God's greatest blessings. But friends do not just happen. Please note this following; I WENT OUT TO FIND A FRIEND, BUT COULD NOT FIND ONE THERE.I WENT OUT TO BE FRIEND AND FRIENDS WERE EVERYWHERE! In times of trouble friends can give encouragement and understanding. In times of temporal need they can give assistance. In times of weakness they can give much strength. In times of joy they can rejoice with us. In times of sorrow they can give sympathy and comfort. And also they are one of the greatest motivating influences in helping us grow strong in the Lord. With a friend we can share the hidden thoughts of the heart. We can share joys and sorrows, happiness and despair, laugh and shed tears with out being ashamed. Solomon said, " A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." (Proverbs17;17) A friend is a friend even when we are in adverse circumstances or in trouble or in sickness. Friend ship does not depend upon our material situation, possessions or circumstances. Friendship knows no barriers of race, religion or social position. When our friends have need of us- our time, our possessions-we will be thankful for the opportunity to serve, to share, to be a part of the solution, to be a concerned listener, no matter what the need may be, nor how untimely it may be for us. We are inviting individuals and families from all over the world to join with us to love one another, and shre the recources for caring others who in need. We request gifts and donations both in cahs and in kind for the bemnefit of the community and share to feed and educate the poor and needy. Friendly Yours, Madhava, Founder & Trustee.

La Poudrière
Mission: To prove that a new and better life is possible when people, even poor or without high education, decide to live together and put their forces in common.
From www.ic.org/directory/la-poudriere/:
La Poudrière is a French-speaking, income-sharing community of about 55 people living in three locations in Belgium: Brussels, Péruwelz and Rummen, and is a member of the Emmaus International network. We were founded in 1958. The five aims we gradually came to defining for ourselves are: 1. presence among people not sharing our lifestyle (we refuse to cut ourselves off from society), 2. friendship, 3. justice and equity among us and in the world, 4. utopia: hope to help building a new world, and 5. ascesis and personal growth. To realize these aims, we rely on four tools: 1. work; 2. sharing, especially incomes; 3. a simple lifestyle; 4. fidelity to the people and aims of the community. Members work every working day from 8 am to 5.15 pm in the community business (collecting and reselling old furniture, clothes, etc.), in the various tasks involved by community life (maintenance of our equipments and buildings, office work...), or running our farm in Rummen. A few members have a job outside the community and give their salary to the community; as are given, as a rule, all regular incomes. Every member receives € 30,00 a week, but basic needs are provided by the community, including transportation inside the country. Vehicles are shared (to use them, one must be accepted as a community driver by our Monthly Meeting, see below) and fuel is payed by the community. Assistance to meals on working days, to meetings, and to organized feasts is required. A core group holds a meeting once a month (the Monthly Meeting) to discuss more delicate matters and takes decisions by consensus only. These decisions are submitted to the approval of the whole community at our Spaghetti Meeting, also hold once a month. Some important decisions may be taken directly by the head of the community, Vanni Mocutti, who has been in charge since the death of the foundator, Father Léon Van Hoorde, in 1996.

Finca Nuevo Mundo
Mission: Green New World is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing autonomous and regenerative residential models such as Project HOPE that empowers people to live an ecological and carbon free lifestyle. Green New World is committed to research, design and education of novel regenerative methods and technology that provide solutions to energy, water, waste, shelter and food production. Our designs utilize an integrative whole system approach to integrate technologies from various fields such as biomimicry, permaculture design, holistic sciences, vernacular architecture, biophilia and biotechture. Green New World's first carbon negative residential prototype, HOPEone is anticipated to be completed by 2019.
From www.ic.org/directory/124679/:
Green New World’s educational research center, Finca Nuevo Mundo is being developed in the valley of Tzununa close to the shores of Lake Atitlan in the Highlands of Guatemala to experiment and showcase regenerative and sustainable living models while restoring harmony with nature. Our models integrate principles and designs from numerous fields such as permaculture, biophilic design, holistic sciences, biomimicry, vernacular biotechture and appropriate technology with focus on shelter, water, energy, food and zero waste systems. The project site has 10 acres with an avocado forest, shaded coffee, bananas, papayas, citrus trees, 6 mountain springs, three streams, waterfalls nearby and great views of the lake and surrounding volcanoes. As part of the experience at Finca Nuevo Mundo we like to share our lifestyle as a community by living ecologically and being mindful stewards in our daily choices while we share the space as a community by sharing meals, exploring the beautiful area, playing music or have meaning full conversations. While not engaged with the project there are plenty of activities in the area such as visiting nearby waterfalls, going for a swim in the lake, exploring the beautiful area, kayaking, visiting the neighboring villages, taking a Spanish class, playing music, taking yoga classes, taking a sauna, or simply having good conversations with the amazing people that our project attracts. We are currently building a Net Zero Carbon Negative model home known as the House Of PeacE aka HOPE which is an experimental prototype to develop autonomous regenerative residential buildings. The structure consists of a cluster of four interwoven domes out of Superadobe also known as Earthbags that form a peace symbol. HOPE integrates a holistic water system with a rain catchment, a water recycling system where every drop of water is used 4 times, natural grey-water filters, a hybrid renewable energy system and a sewage recycling system to make biogas while capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and converting it to organic fertilizer and soil amendments. For more information please visit www.greennewworld.org/HouseOfPeace.html.

Shakty Global
Mission: Music, art, domes,Positive creative communication , mountain visits, hot springs, beaches
From www.ic.org/directory/shakty-global/:
We are a community of positive creative artists, musicians, and sacred geometry constructers! Dedicated to poistive global communication and action!
Shaktydome: Global Communication , music, domes , vegetarianism
Shaktydome: vegetarianism-domes-music

CRIChouse
Mission: Cultural Rehabilitation
From www.ic.org/directory/crichouse/:
Egalitarian Anarchist Homesteaders from former intellectual backgrounds. -hopefully in all the good ways and none of the elitist ones. living sustainably as we best know how. continuing to learn what "the best way" might be. learnin' and growin'. homesteading. permaculture. appropriate lifestyles. appropriate technology for our appropriate little ("Third-World") lifestyles. reducing (and knowing) our ecological footprint (by questioning our uses, needs, actions and practices). forest restoration, soil building. Anarchism (theory and practice not dress code) -i.e. agreements not rules. and best of all Cultural Rehabilitation. now go look at our website for a list of our fun fun projects! CRIChouse.blogspot.com
Autonomouse Acres: about how laws (building codes, zoning) restrict and disallow sustainability.
Adbusters: has changed and we've no affiliation but it's what brought us together. Now we prefer Orion.
CRIChouse pictures on Picasa
CRIChouse's CouchSerfing profile: Serf with us!

Earth Rising Sanctuary
Mission: Healing Gatherings and Seminars, Lightwork, Community living and gardening.
From www.ic.org/directory/earth-rising-sanctuary/:
Earth Rising Sanctuary gatherings are for people who desire to share/learn techniques in the self healing arts for the individual and the earth, including traditional healing techniques, metaphysical, and green ways of living on the earth. ERS gatherings are for people who desire to share/learn techniques in the self healing arts for the individual and the earth, including traditional healing techniques, metaphysical, and green ways of living on the earth. They are also for family to come together in prayer, heart-song, Spirit music, dance and play. The sanctuary is also a place for up to 16 people (including children) to live and grow in their spiritual path, sharing healing, music, other artistic expressions, gardening, and other green ways of living. We are looking for people who desire to walk with a light footprint on this planet using as little fossil fuels as possible and utilizing the power of the sun and other alternative energy. The sanctuary is looking for light-workers to live at the sanctuary to manifest an abundance of love and light into this planet. We are looking for people who understand community, and working and playing together, for a combined enrichment of our lives in our own rhythm and time. One of our projects is growing organic non-gmo foods. The sanctuary encourages a vegan, vegetarian, or mostly vegetarian with occasional ethically raised or wild fish, foul, or meat lifestyle. The sanctuary encourages a respect, reverence, and communication with all life. All spiritual views and cultures are welcome on our land, as long as you respect others ways, and don't push your beliefs onto others. Spiritual speakers, artists, musicians, dancers, gardeners, handymen (especially if into alternative energy), and children are welcome. Especially welcome are happy vibes helping to bring light down into the planet. Earth Rising Sanctuary holds three Healing Gathering's per year; Midwinter circle and celebration, March Vision Council and Seed Exchange; Summer Music Jam Party; Thanks Giving Prayer Circle; Winter Solstice Prayer/Vision Circle; New Years Eve Party; and weekly Music Jams. For all gatherings- community kitchen open to potluck offering and sharing. Contact for any details for upcoming gatherings, and if you would like to arrange your own group or private retreat/seminar/gathering. ERS formed in 2007, the first healing gathering-seminars were in 2008. In 2012 ERS became a non-profit in the State of Washington, and in December 2013 the land was signed over to ERS.

Open Circle
Mission: Our community life is based on personal affinity, which means that persons and relationships come first and everything else follows from that. We want to live creatively, and in ways that are fulfilling for all our members.
From www.ic.org/directory/open-circle/:
Our community is based on personal affinity, which means that persons and relationships come first and everything else follows from that. We are experimental and we embrace change. We have been working at this (under various names) for more than 40 years. We find that the community spirit is powerful and alive and needs to be nurtured every day with caring attention to each other, our feelings, and our needs. We meet several times a week for this purpose and to coordinate our action. We have seven members, and most of us have years of prior community experience. Located in central VA, we are within an hour & a half of Twin Oaks, Acorn, Living Energy Farm, Cambia, Mimosa, and Compersia. We have close connections with members of Twin Oaks, Ganas, and Compersia communities and we exchange energies for mutual benefit. We are lucky to live in a true beauty spot at the base of Old Rag Mountain near Etlan VA. Our 97 acres of mostly forested land borders on Shenandoah National Park. We have created (and continue to create) a great physical environment for community living, including a farmhouse, three cabins, and two gardens. We also have a three-story mixed-use building in the nearby town of Culpeper, Virginia, and two of our members live there. We are a close-knit group and pay a lot of attention to our relationships and our personal growth. We circle together for meals most days, do gardening and projects together, and hold meetings several times a week; this serves us well in staying connected and coordinating our efforts. We wish to grow our community in ways that are sustainable emotionally, financially, and environmentally. We want to live creatively, and in ways that are fulfilling for all our members. We feel that sharing is essential to group living. We make group decisions and go up or down together accordingly. We expect every member to make appropriate contributions of time and money so that we all stay in balance. Over the next several months, we want to take the time to fully integrate our new and returning members. We need to reorganize and do some thinking together about new directions. And we want to settle in to who we are now as a community. For this reason, we want to postpone visitor periods and other steps on the track to membership for new people until the end of 2017 or early 2018.

Nickel City Housing Co-op
Mission: Nickel City Housing Cooperative was founded in 2001 with the mission of fixing up vacant properties in Buffalo to provide affordable and cooperative housing. We focus on building a more sustainable and just world, and strive to create safer spaces in our cooperative homes.
From www.ic.org/directory/plankton-house/:
Nickel City Housing Cooperative is part of the NASCO Community of Cooperatives. NCHC has two houses: Ol'Wondermoth, founded in 2001, and Plankton House, founded in 2006. Our food is local, CSA bought, or grown ourselves. The houses are full of artists, cyclists, world travelers, couch surfers, animals, and generally pretty cool people. We govern as a house, as a housing co-op, and as a cooperative of cooperatives (NASCO). Both houses strive to be strong members of Buffalo's communities, and host everything from music shows to community meetings, with potlucks happening every week at each house. Both houses are often looking for new members to drive our vision forward to new cooperative and community endeavors. Come do your thing in Buffalo! It's a low-income town with style and snow to spare! We've got beautiful summers full of water activities, festivals, farmers markets and free concerts! DIY-friendly! Bike-friendly! Vegan-friendly! Pet-friendly! Lots of room to dream! Dreaming of a world where the things we love about each other makes us better people and helps create something bigger. WELCOME HOME!

Dragons Place
Mission: Be the change you wish to see
From www.ic.org/directory/dragons-place/:
A place for all the ones who will learn about the new Celtic view and put in practice the harmonious integration of landscape and people--providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. After the fire storm of October 2017 lot is changed and we need still help and support. More by mail. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Gandi

New Natives
Mission: Build a sustainable egalitarian culture based on sincerity, respect and love.
From www.ic.org/directory/new-natives/:
We are two polyamorous adults with two children, seeking for more life partners in order to form a commune or tribe and build together a new culture, able to fulfill in a sustainable way not just our basic needs but also our legitimate aspirations for emotional and physical closeness, a healthy sexuality, connection with Nature, knowledge and research, cultural and artistic expression, etc. We foster warm and egalitarian relationships, sincere and empathetic communication, tolerance and humbleness. We consider this essential in order to live together in a fair and enriching way, making a very close cooperation of more people possible, thus allowing a higher level of economical and ecological sustainability, and ideally both an expansion of our new culture and a positive influence on the society at large. We seek a balance between traditional knowledge and experimentation, intuition and reason, recreational and practical activities, as aspects of a holistic life. We envision the whole tribe rather than just parents as responsible for the care and education of children, respecting their development process, diversity, freedom and creativity. For us, a holistic conception of health includes freedom from drug abuse (both illegal and legal), and caring for our physical and mental well-being preferably by natural non-aggressive means, acknowledging disturbing symptoms as conveying a message rather than just trying to suppress them. We also avoid radiations such as those from microwave ovens and wireless devices, some of us are sensitive to them. We strive to reduce our ecological footprint by having a simpler lifestyle. We grow part of our food and seek to become more self-sufficient and use a higher proportion of renewable energy sources. Being more people would make this easier. We are conscious about the effects of our diet choices on our health, the environment and animal welfare. We follow a vegetarian diet, but we might be open to include a small proportion of meat in case we develop an efficient permacultural design that produces it. We aim to move closer to a 100% organic diet. We share our income, and we are trying to figure out ways of deriving it from ethical and meaningful activities, avoiding if possible to resort to external jobs. We run a small organic food importing business, but it's not really profitable yet. One of us owns the house we live in and the land we cultivate, we acknowledge that this is not optimal from an egalitarian point of view and we are open to discuss ways of overcoming this problem. We live in Skattungbyn, a beautiful village that has a large proportion of alternative-minded people. While our main objective is to grow as a close-knit group, we are open to join or help build a larger, looser intentional community or ecovillage, either here or elsewhere, although it's not so easy for us to move, at least for the next few years.

Eloin
Mission: We are a model of possibility, working toward sustainable living, spiritual growth, and living in harmony with nature.
From www.ic.org/directory/eloin/:
We are vegan,off grid,spiritual commune and wilderness preserve. We seek to live simply, ecologically, self-sufficiently and in harmony with all life. We are a mystical order called the Order of the Trees. We have men and women, single and married and sometimes children. We are a spiritual commune with roots in several spiritual teachings including the Oahspe. We honor the truths that run through all religions. The Creator is our common ground. Our main activities are caring for the preserve and gardening, working with horses, and maintaining the facilities—homes, dining hall, bathhouse, stable, barn, and greenhouse. We are working toward self-sufficiency. We are off grid, producing our own heat, hot water, and electricity. Our public outreach is to provide a model of possibility, stand as guardians to one of the last old growth forests in Southern Oregon, produce publications and information on sustainability, wilderness preservation, health, vegetarianism, and spiritual development. We have just published a book about our spiritual perspectives. www.eoihsvoice.org Our lifestyle does NOT include TV, radio, newspapers, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine. We are married or celibate. We eat organic food, drink fresh spring water, breath clean air, enjoy kind people, board games, great hiking, hard work, living in a park, music and an occasional movie. Our land is verdant and lush, with forest and meadows and springs and a river. Our climate is mild. We are happy, fun-loving, and positive people who want to share our community with like-minded people who love to work and grow with others. We welcome those interested in living a simple spiritual oriented vegan life in the forest. For additional information go to our website at www.eloinforest.org Namaste. Anne

The Beyond Community
Mission: The key objectives at present are to build ever more sustainable and joyful lifestyles, by increasing our self-sufficiency and sharing mutual goals that empower us individually and collectively.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-beyond-community/:
The ‘Beyond’ Community The ‘Beyond’ Community gracefully appreciates how privileged we are to have a piece of paradise and share a desire to live in peace and harmony with Mother Earth and Father Sky. Our small community is located on a beautiful 200 acre property in the hills above Cairns and the Coral Sea, in tropical North Queensland (North-Eastern Australia). We are surrounded on three sides by rainforest wilderness with hundreds of waterfalls which we access, and magnificent views of the picturesque Atherton Tableland and Queensland’s highest mountains. Our community is forming and looking for people with energy, ideas and resources that would like to help build and share the benefits of living in an intentional community in one of the most beautiful and abundant places in our planet. The key objectives at present are to build ever more sustainable and joyful lifestyles, by increasing our self-sufficiency and sharing mutual goals that empower us individually and collectively. We have experimented with community over the past decade and are keen to keep evolving the processes we have found to be most beneficial in coordinating and harmonising our activities and aspirations. The ‘Beyond’ Community seeks to build strength and resilience through diversity, with an emphasis on mutual respect, collaboration, and self-realisation. We have established large organic gardens, orchards and native forests. It is possible to visit us as a ‘helper’ or ‘guest’ should you wish to see your haven for yourself. People seeking to join or know more about the ‘Beyond’ Community can email bood@tpg.com.au

Raw-Wisdom Vegan Community
Mission: Healing the Earth & Ourselves
From www.ic.org/directory/raw-wisdom/:
We are a vegan community with four spirited members plus one on the way. The Raw-Wisdom community started out by simply offering vegan, plant-based diet pot lucks for local residences, and our emphasis remains on natural, healthy, spiritual and environmentally sustainable lifestyles. We offer instructions on organic indoor and outdoor gardening, optimal plant-based nutrition, detoxification and mind/body work. We also manage the educational websites www.raw-wisdom.com and www.healingtalks.com. Initial Leadership: The community's reformation has been led by Nathan Batalion, PhD CTN (Certified Traditional Naturopath). Nathan is an author/blogger on health and environmental topics, as well as a nationally ranked triathlete who has 5 years of previous intentional communal living experience (The Barn, Warwick, NY). For more bio and philosophy details: http://www.healingtalks.com/about/. Assets: The physical assets available include 16 properties. However, 14 of these properties are currently managed as rentals (though if the community expands these rented properties could be converted to community use). Oneonta is a lovely rural town with two colleges - which offers the best kind of setting if one wants to live in a cozy, slow-paced small town surrounding by large expanses of rural areas, while still having the cultural stimulation of a college center (similar to Ithaca NY, home of Cornell University). We also offer a community organic garden at one of the houses plus a composted organic garden at the main house. Expanding Activities: We periodically visit with and explore working with other local communities and/or healing professionals to share resources and inspirations. One way we continue to extend our network is through pot lucks or holiday meetings, educational forums, and activism on environmental and health issues. We look forward to sharing both our inner and outer wealth with like-minded, industrious, well-balanced, spiritually healthy individuals who are dedicated to transforming themselves and our culture. We can help such individuals to further transition themselves by means of following more healthy, eco and spiritually aware intentional community lifestyles. More on Location: Scenic Oneonta, also known as "City of the Hills," is nestled within the Catskill Mountains region and along the Susquehanna River. We have plenty of fresh air, water and picturesque rural lands. Oneonta is only three hours from New York City, four hours from Philadelphia, and six hours each from Boston and Washington, DC. If you are planning to come to the general Northeast area, please don't miss visiting us.

Vaia (Vilda apostlar i action)
Mission: Socially and health minded loving spirits in some kind of co-housing. To create a kind of RBE hybrid, transition place, as an example for other people to learn from.
From www.ic.org/directory/vaia-vilda-apostlar-i-action/:
A Swedish kind of zeitgeist-minded-community. We have created a non profit organization, where people have a very high understanding and interest in happy and healthy lifestyle, may it include healthy food, gardening, soil, ecology, air, water, polyamory, relationship, sex, fitness, technology, energy, cooperation etc. The general view is SHARING, CARING and LOVING. It's for you who are interested in living closely with other like-minded people and use our skills together. What might be found or created in this group is: • different kinds of workshops • shows • homeschooling... • food supplied by ourselves • organic food • a music studio • a pool • a sauna • a library • a car pool • etc... But all this depends on what kind of interest people will have once all members have joined. There are many advantages of creating this as a non profit org, it makes a lot of paper work easier for us. It's good if you are interested in vegan/vegetarian or raw food as a lifestyle, or at least an understanding of a lifestyle based on high nutritional food and want to move in that direction yourself. We prefer a no-drug lifestyle as much as possible. The place for this co-op housing will be in the middle of Skåne (in the south of Sweden), close to nature, a very nice place. We have now found a piece of land that is wonderful and we are preparing to buy it asap! We are forming the new group now and really only miss a few more females to get going (for the gender balance). We have created the association and are gathering more info and key persons. All in all maybe 8-10 adult people can live there. We are 5 now. We have found an architect, a skilled brick layer and other skilled people and we continue to gather more contacts and resources. We are looking for you who want to join us and live healthily, sustainably, and cheaply in an organic way. Our different inspiration (vary from person to person in the group) is ecology, polyamory, the zeitgeistmovement, sustainabilty, free energy, permaculture etc. Does this sound interesting? Then drop me a line as soon as possible. PS. The co-op consist mostly of Swedish people, but is open to anyone who joins from other countries too. Women are high priority for the sake of balance, as are kids. And you do have to have some kind of economy to support yourself from the start. We are looking for you who are eager to live a life with a lot of challenges and personal growth together and share life in as many ways as possible and to have fun! Don't hesitate, get in contact now!

Citizens of Planet Earth Academy
Mission: Humane Citizens of Earth
From www.ic.org/directory/citizens-of-planet-earth-academy/:
The Original Citizens of Planet Earth Academy was formed in Athens Greece by world travelers who realized the Earth is our Nation, and we are Citizens first to the planet.Now as a community we are in two places, our home base of Charlotte NC and now our small acreage near Blowing Rock NC where things will really take shape in the coming year. Earth Oriented (Pagan) and all inclusive, we are looking for a few individuals who want to be close to things but have a National Forest as your backyard, which we now have accomplished (Pisgah National Forest). Our goal was for more land, and when this land is paid in full within the next two years the idea is to purchase more land that backs up to our property. Friends have helped to build a small structure I call the Jed Clampett Cabin in the Woods. It has enough space now for 1 person and the dogs- i.e. Me. So building extra tiny is the key right now. Would like to build common kitchen and meeting structures, which I envision small, tiny structures. Would like to build a number of 12X12 size buildings to do what needs to be done, (sleep, eat, and go to bathroom) and spend as much time as possible outside. Permaculture techniques will be learned and used. Organic gardening and composting a must. Self Reliant living OFF GRID and intentional living. This will require work and is not a free ride arrangement to bang your drums, even though we do that once in a while ourselves, meaning all carry the weight of work, not just some. Welcome thoughts and for more details contact us.

Sovereign Christian Patriot Mission
Mission: To Love one another Freely
From www.ic.org/directory/sovereign-christian-patriot-mission/:
The basis for our Missions is in no means new, however, they have died out almost completely. These Missions were very popular in the southwestern US in the 1800s. Today we are seeking refuge for our friends and families from the onslaught of foolishness in mainstream society. We are a peaceful common laws people. We apply healthy living for mental, physical, and spiritual growth. We are seeking donations in land trusts or other free held property in and around South America. Land must be a minimum 200 hectares with water access. We are also seeking private donations. Our intention is to live off and respect the land, and teach and learn what our Creator has offered us all. Love to all our relatives. Sovereign, Christian, patriotic, debt-free, mature, honest, free thinking, animal-loving missionaries are welcome. We share big-ticket items: (cars, motor pool, boats, trailers, heavy equipment, farm implements, plows, shop tools, common areas property). You will receive a home, a horse, a rifle, a shovel, a fishing pole, a blanket, a Bible, twenty dollars of silver, and a hug upon arrival. God bless you.

Braziers Park (School of Social and Integrative Research)
Mission: evolution ecology education
From www.ic.org/directory/braziers-park/:
Braziers Park is a community, a residential college, and an architectural treasure hidden deep in the south Oxfordshire countryside. It was founded in 1950 as an educational trust, and is a continuing experiment in the advantages and problems of living in a group. Community members share responsibility for running the college and the estate. "To make conscious the shape of the process of which we are a part, so that we may facilitate its development more efficiently." We keep pigs and oxen; we plant trees and vegetables; we live in the midst of beauty, and we eat well; we argue joyfully on good days; we argue pointlessly, and/or ignore each other on bad days. Lots of dreams and fantasies are stimulated here. There is always work to do...

Dandelion
Mission: family of friends living simply and close to nature
From www.ic.org/directory/dandelion/:
For 2018 Dandelion is accepting only female applicants and moms of female child(ren) We make decisions based on consensus and we share living space, meals, income, expenses, and labor. We value feminism, permaculture, cooperation, open communication, simplicity, honesty, nonviolence, and the willingness to resolve conflict. We are located on approximately nine acres of land in rural northeast Missouri positioned within a network of other intentional communities. We have an annual garden, a high-tunnel hoop house, and a young orchard of fruit, nut, and timber trees, all which we garden organically. We have many systems in place, and we aim to keep our lifestyle simple, yet fulfilling. It means a lot to us to have control over our own time. Dandelion is a sub-community of Red Earth Farms. (see redearthfarms.org) Our goal is to become a family-style group of 5-8 adults, and we are open to children as well. More living space will need to be constructed as our population increases. Currently it is myself and my daughter half-time living here. We are looking for self-motivated individuals to join and help grow this egalitarian, family-style sub-community. People who value simple living, personal growth, living in alignment with the universe, living closely with the earth, not spending a whole lot of money, regenerative/sustainable living, non-violent and direct, honest and open communication. Must be kid friendly. Prior community experience extremely helpful. Enjoy growing, preparing and eating healthy, delicious food a plus. Need to be self-motivated. This is a somewhat rustic setting (no running water/hot water on demand/indoor shower, no refrigerator, no washer/dryer). We have telephone and internet, and a small off-grid electical system. We use hand tools and do all our cooking and heating with the sun and with wood gathered mainly from our property. We want others to bring their skills and creative energy to come help Dandelion blossom into an active, thriving sub-community.
article about Dandelion written in 2011: https://www.ic.org/work-less-simplify-more/: This speaks a little about Dandelion's values related to simple living.
Some other articles can be found here: https://www.ic.org/author/kim-scheidt/

The Garden of Eden Project
Mission: organic vegan landscaped
From www.ic.org/directory/the-garden-of-eden-project/:
My website shows designs for biologically sustainable, landscaped, vegan communities. I am looking for benefactors who would be interested in providing funding for and living in such an environment where we grow and eat primarily our own organic food. I envision many of us requiring only part-time jobs for income and being part-time gardeners on our own land. There should be more quality time for more human activities than the average person currently experiences in the usual nine to five city lifestyle. There are graphical, in-depth designs for a five-acre, 10-acre, and 20-acre and 40-acre community for 10 people, 20 people, 40 people and 80 people respectively on my website. If you think you might be interested in providing funding for and living this way, please email me.

Camphill Communities California
Mission: Our mission is to create a community that supports all individual abilities and recognizes the potential of every person. Camphill California is part of the International Camphill Movement, a worldwide initiative for social change with over a hundred affiliates worldwide, founded by Karl König and inspired by the anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-communities-california/:
Camphill Communities California is a life-sharing community for adults with developmental disabilities located near Santa Cruz, California. Our vision of community living involves relationships of mutual respect, ongoing education, meaningful work, and natural circles of support. Residents of Camphill California are dedicated organic, biodynamic gardeners. During our long growing season, we produce more than one third of the fruits and vegetables that we consume from over seven acres of carefully tended land, including a small vineyard donated by Bonny Doon. In addition to gardening, residents work in our weaving studio, crafting a variety of hand-woven items. Our culinary workshop is also a favorite workplace and produces products including soothing herb tea and delicious culinary mixes. Some Camphill residents even participate in supported employment programs.

Beaver Creek Homestead
Mission: sustainability and learning are essential for a fulfilling life.
From www.ic.org/directory/beaver-creek-homestead/:
The Beaver Creek Homestead is no less than an attempt, likely futile, in starting society from scratch. The goals are to develop: 1: Cyclical systems of food-waste-fertilizer-food 2: Methods of power generation and use such that no additional power is required from either the existing grid or internal combustion engine (ICE) generators. 3: Building techniques that use available resources as much as possible and passive heating and cooling. 4: Self-directed methods of education modeled on places like the Summerhill School that recognize the importance of individual choice. 5: An alternative to the current existing Capitalist economic system that is more effective at distributing resources based on effort and need rather than property ownership. 6: Alternative social structures and institutions that maximize individual liberty while maintaining social cohesion. The community must be capable of having a place for everyone, from the cradle to the grave. (Needs work!) It is a daunting goal and not for the feint of heart. There are numerous challenges to overcome. Some of the larger of them are: 1: Climate: This area has winter temps that range into the -30c range and can have anywhere from 3 to 6 months of snow coverage. Summers can get to nearly 40C with humidity of 90%+. 2: Social: Canada has a pretty conservative culture in general and does not welcome change or alternative viewpoints. This area is no exception. Additionally there is bound to be some upheaval and resistance when changing anything that has inertia behind it. 3: Economic: This region is probably one of the poorest areas in North America economically. There are very few opportunities locally and none that are very rewarding. This makes the fact that even a limited dependence on the existing infrastructure becomes problematic. What we require from potential members: 1: You not only think outside the box, but were born to live outside it. 2: You have expertise that will enable us to achieve one or more of the above goals. 3: Passion, Dedication and Self-Direction. You have no trouble picking a task and seeing it through to completion. 4: A commitment to the scientific method. You do not trust divine revelation or convention but rather practical, careful, testing. You have a deep mistrust of superstition and embrace modern knowledge, without necessarily embracing all modern applications of that knowledge. You like BIG challenges. ***No habitual drug or alco

Kerala Commune
Mission: community environment action
From www.ic.org/directory/kerala-commune/:
The Kerala Commune is in Kerala, India. The commune is located in the valley below Malleswara Peak of the Neela Giri (blue mountain) range, on the bank of a beautiful freshwater river, the Bhavani. The mystic peak and unpolluted waters and air make the commune a pleasant, healthful place to live. The commune was established by the end of 2004. Since the location is in the mountains, the weather is relatively cool even in the summer, without the scorching heat of the typical Kerala weather. Winter nights can be chilly. Monsoon rain starts in June and lasts till the end of October. The monsoon can be a windy, somewhat harsh downpour at times; however, those who love rain enjoy it. The local people are friendly; aggressive behaviour, theft, voyeurism, etc., from the local population have not so far been reported. About 400 people visit the commune every year. Most of them are from Kerala or from other parts of India. We do get visitors from abroad, from the USA, Germany, and Iceland. Objectives of the commune: The practice of gender equality; organic farming; preservation and conservation of environment; development of alternative energy resources; treatment of illnesses with fruits, vegetables and sprouts; language teaching; yoga; recycling and reuse; education of the local population in the fields of organic farming and natural pest controls; promotion of natural products; upholding of secular values; respect for the right to worship; rejection of corporate funding; rejection of racism. The commune land underwent an organic nutritional enhancement process for three years, and now we are planning on farming. Besides coconuts, we have seasonal mangoes, chakkas, and papayas. A part of the commune treatment for illnesses is free of cost. The commune treats those from the lower strata of society and teaches them how to avoid dependence on drugs, the corporate drug industry, and the corporate hospital establishment. The commune has succeeded in treating and curing almost all kinds of illnesses, as well as infertility, without medicine. We conduct weekly meetings in which local people attend and discuss diverse subjects. We eat a healthful diet: fresh coconut, banana, whole wheat or rice, fresh and cooked vegetables, and no coffee or tea (you can have them from the nearby restaurant if you need them). However, we are not fanatic about diet. For festivals like New Year’s, etc., we do eat fish and meat.

Kibbutz Mishol
Mission: Co-operative community, Jewish and Socialist, based on intimate groups - which aspires to self-improvement and to repair social relationships through shared learning , conversation , culture , behavior and economics . As part of a movement , members mobilize in an effort to repair human society and the world, through a vision of an ever expanding socialist society.
From www.ic.org/directory/kvutsat-yovel/:
Kibbutz Mishol is an Urban Kibbutz situated in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth Illit. There are 75 adult members, building our own new community in a model which is perhaps best described as an urban kibbutz of groups. The age range amongst our members here is from 30 to 45. There are 75 children. We currently reside all under one roof - an 8 storeyed former absorption center.

GaiaYoga Gardens (of Earthly Delights)
Mission: To create a sustainable-and-holistic culture that supports and manifests True Human Freedom!
From www.ic.org/directory/gaiayoga-gardens/:
GaiaYoga Gardens (of Earthly Delights) is holistic cultural experiment, permaculture homestead, and intentional community on Hawaii’s Big Island. The vision we are manifesting is expressed in the book True Human Freedom: The Inspiration and Argument for GaiaYoga Culture, by Ano Tarletz Hanamana. We’re dedicated to living in harmony with the Earth, connecting with Spirit, engaging personal growth and healing, fostering cooperative community, and developing holistic and sustainable life patterns. We practice and teach Permaculture and other sustainable food systems, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), natural raw diet (Instinctive Eating and The Primal Diet), Light on Shadow (Shadow Work) connection parenting, cooperative living, and holistic and shamanic spirituality. Our lifestyle includes: 1) Living simply, sustainably, and close to nature - rurally and off-grid in low-impact eco-dwellings; growing food; operating eco-businesses; and trading for goods and services. 2) Cultivating a healthy self through eating a raw & organic diet; having an active work/service life; engaging personal growth work; balancing autonomy and interdependence; having a life-affirming orientation toward sexuality (this includes, but does not require, polyamory/polyfidelity); and being clothing-optional. 3) Establishing a land-sharing community that's intimate, caring, and feels like family. This includes practicing cooperative decision making, nonviolent communication; cooperating relative to resources and land development; having community businesses; sharing childrearing; and having fun together! 4) Integrating spirituality into our communal life through morning circles, prayer, hatha yoga, rituals, shamanic journeying, rites of passage, and spiritual study, all according to individual preferences. Our dream is for GaiaYoga Gardens to be a beacon of light and love and a living example of the kind of world we want.
Band Camp - Nagdeo: 2010 Recording from GaiaYoga Gardens' band
http://www.gaiayoga.org: GaiaYoga Gardens' main website
MySpace - Cocos4Pele: 5 of Ano's songs recorded in 2001
GaiaYoga Gardens on facebook: If you're having trouble, search for "GaiaYoga Gardens" after signing in to facebook

Seekers and Settlers
Mission: Help each one live a good life
From www.ic.org/directory/seekers-and-settlers/:
I am in the process of getting back to the community by September of 2016, after being away for a few years. If you want to participate in the sweat equity of cleaning up the land & buildings, please contact me. I hope to have livable shelter soon, but in the meantime, there is tent space galore! On my recent (Dec 2010) visit, I received a great deal of spiritual nourishment from just spending time in the Spiral Garden again. I will be visiting the west coast about every 3 or 4 months for the next phase. Thanks for your interest in and support of intentional communities.

Heartsong
Mission: Developing human potentials through caring relationships, meaningful communication, genuine experiential self-understanding, and creative insight
From www.ic.org/directory/heartsong/:
We intend to develop a truly close and deeply caring sense of community, togetherness, or empathic communion of hearts and minds, involving a substantial sense of emotional bonding, belonging, and inner connection of life energies, as a synergistic relational "we,” an "us." Our process of developing an optimal sense of harmonious, cohesive, community is grounded in a new understanding of optimal human relationship, interpersonal communication, and psychological growth, in which hearts, minds, and spirits are deeply connected to each other, in a state of nondualistic empathic communion, harmonious loving attunement, and co-creative synergy. We understand the process of developing open, empathic, deeply meaningful, honest, sincere, constructive, and generously giving, interpersonal communication. Through this process, as well as various other means, we help our members awaken to, and spontaneously express, their unique "heartsong"—i.e., their inherent, uniquely individual, archetypal life theme; basic natural life function; or most fulfilling life dream, vision, mission, or destiny, which provides them with an optimal sense of joyful, regenerative, life-energy flow. This relational process of psychological and spiritual growth produces holistic healings, of all kinds, as well as the enhanced actualization of one's natural real-life potentials. Relatedly, we have developed innovative programs in transformative education, arts and creative expression, mentoring, holistic healing, as well as global transformation of the collective heart of humanity. We are seeking new members who are predominantly relationship-oriented, and tend to be open to continued learning and growth, willing to question their own presumptions, as well as honest, warmhearted, mostly unselfish, generously giving of themselves, sincerely caring, and cooperative, rather than being habitually conflictual, willful, competitive, defensive, prideful, and selfish, in their relationship with others. Our community will serve as a model of constructive global transformation, grounded in psychological maturity, caring human relationships, as well as actualization of individual and relationship potentials, bringing optimal levels of productive functioning and well-being. Members are required to be financially self-supporting, and to live a wholesome, productive, lifestyle. No addictive substances or sexual promiscuity are permitted in this community.
For non-members as well as members of our community, we offer spiritual/transformational life coaching and relationship counseling services. We can teach you how to be intuitively guided by your own soul, and to connect to what is genuine in yourself, other individuals, and the spiritual reality of life and love. For a sample of our insights, see our published books and articles at: https://independent.academia.edu/BarryHammer If interested, contact us at email: mhbj58@gmail.com

Abbey of the Genesee
Mission: Catholic Monks Contemplative
From www.ic.org/directory/abbey-of-the-genesee/:
We are a Roman Catholic community of monks wholly ordered to contemplation, belonging to the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, more commonly known as Trappists. The monks are dedicated to the worship of God in a hidden life within the monastery following the Rule of St. Benedict. They lead a life of solitude and silence, prayer and penance, in a joyful spirit of faith. The monastic community supports itself by the common work of baking Monks' Bread. In addition, the brothers help out on the farm and with cooking, laundry, cleaning, hospitality, formation of new members, and care of the sick and elderly of the community. The community is cloistered and has no outside ministry. Guests are received for quiet, private retreats at the retreat house. The monastic day begins with vigils at 3:30 a.m. and ends with compline at 7:30 p.m. Throughout the day there is a good balance between prayer, reading, and work, all lived in fraternal love and support. Silence is practiced seriously. The brothers speak only when necessary and then as briefly as possible. Some of the brothers are priests; most are not. At the end of their formation program candidates take the monastic vows and remain with the community for the rest of their lives.

Sunwise Co-op
Mission: We are owned by a non-profit called the Solar Community Housing Association, and its mission statement is as follows: "The Solar Community Housing Association (SCHA) is committed to providing low-income cooperative housing that works to confront and critique systems of oppression through ecological awareness, inclusive self-governance and alternative economic models."
From www.ic.org/directory/sunwise-co-op/:
Sunwise co-op is an eight-bedroom, passive solar house in suburban Davis, California. It belongs to the larger organization of the Solar Community Housing Association. Our house is located on a greenbelt with a large garden, bees, and chickens. The members of our house are both students and professionals (all low income) who share the roles of maintaining the house, working together towards many goals including social justice, environmentally conscious living, and education. We also share meals, chores, stories, toothpaste, and our time. We make consensus-based decisions during house meetings in order to ensure that all members of the household are heard and appreciated. The house welcomes applicants who are open to a diverse household working together to live consciously.
solar community housing association: informational
Solar Community Housing Association: Our non-profit organization website

Bread and Roses - Base community (Brot & Rosen)
Mission: Community household with homeless refugees and migrants. Lifestyle of solidarity.
From www.ic.org/directory/bread-and-roses-base-community/:
Bread and Roses is a Christian-based community living in a rented 18-room building and two adjacent appartments in Hamburg, Germany. We live together, share our house with homeless refugees and migrants, and share income and a lot of other resources. We are inspired by the Catholic Worker movement, other houses of hospitality, and Christian communities in the United States, Latin America and Europe. We have daily morning prayer and an occasional public worship and try to spread our social vision by inviting people to our house and by social actions for marginalized people. We are pacifists and try to live simply to protect the environment. Although presently we live in the city, a sister community in the countryside would be wonderful.

Vallersund Gård
Mission: It is a village out of the ordinary that offers care to and living together with people with special needs.
From www.ic.org/directory/vallersund-gard/:
Vallersund Farm is a small Camphill village located on the coast of Trøndelag. It is a village out of the ordinary that offers care to people with special needs. The ‘Fram-school’ is also located here, which is an educational service for young adults with learning disabilities. We have organic farming and gardening, sheltered workshops and teaching. The intentional community of Vallersund is also an Eco-village with an interest in alternative energy. We have a windmill that covers our energy needs. A heat pump extracts energy from the sea which heats our houses. A biological purifying plant treats the waste-water before it is returned to the sea. Vallersund Gård was once a bustling trading post that today is part of the national protection-plan for old buildings. ***Description added by FIC using Google Translate from the community's website***

Paradise Gardens
Mission: Life in Paradise Restored! Raw fruitarian diet is a goal, getting off of the 'grid' in every way (financially, power-wise, idea-wise) is all part of the plan.
From www.ic.org/directory/paradise-gardens/:
------------------------- Hey! We're still here ('Earth Day' 'April 22, 2018')! Feel free to email us but do NOT send form mail! All form mails will get no response. NOTE!!! : People have been contacting us for YEARS after NOT having read our website. Read !! : 1. WE HAVE NO LAND (YET!) OR PLACE FOR YOU TO STAY. A primary motivating purpose of this Project is to GATHER TOGETHER those who CANNOT AFFORD to buy land title, etc. and POOL our resources in order to buy that land title etc.! 2. We want self-starting people who see that it is ALL OF US who MUST make this Project happen rather than relying on someone else to build it. "Once upon a time there were four people: Their names were Everybody, Somebody, Nobody, and Anybody. Whenever there was an important job to do Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. When Nobody did it, Everybody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Somebody would do it, but Nobody realized that Nobody would do it. So consequently Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place." If you are still interested after reading the above, continue on to our Basic Description below! : ------------------------- The purpose of the Paradise Restoration Project is to create Paradise Gardens sanctuaries worldwide. 'Paradise' means 'garden sanctuary' (from the Persian word 'pairidaeza', pairi meaning 'park' or garden, 'daeza' meaning 'enclosed' or 'sanctuary'). Raw fruitarian (killing and injury-free) diet as the ideal, sharing 'ownership' (shared land title) regardless of finances, independence from the need for 'money' (meaning being truly 'off the grid' in EVERY way), co-helping the poor, disabled, discouraged, misunderstood, misfit, outcast, creative peaceful and loving people to pool financial and all other resources in order to obtain land title and other necessities of living in paradisial gardens. Decision making by 100% consensus council, 'extended family' values, love and co-operation, co-creative endeavours, freedom from addictions and true dedication to the greater good of the whole are central precepts. Religious / spiritual values include all those that are conducive to the simple living basics of life in paradise or Paradisianism. Paradisian/Ebionite/Essene/Nazorean/Os
The Lost Religion of Jesus, by Keith Akers: Web page from CompassionateSpirit.Com about Keith's book which contains little-known and groundbreaking research into Jesus' true message of simple living, non-violence, vegetarian diet and intentional community.
Gentle World: Gentle World - Authors of the first Vegan Recipe Book in 1969.
Paradise Gardens / Paradise Restoration Project page at the Intentional Communities Database: Very much more detailed description of the ideals and goals of the Paradise Restoration Project. ICDB.ORG covers ground, items I'd forgotten to mention but are very important to many people. Read this listing first!
Organic Volunteers: Sort of like an independent WWOOF site.

Camphill Botswana
Mission: We offer quality education, training and work experience and facilitate self-directed community inclusion and employment for people with complex needs.
From www.ic.org/directory/motse-wa-badiri-camphill/:
Camphill Community Trust was established in Botswana in 1974 to provide services to people with special needs. It includes the following three divisions, all located at the village of Otse in the South East District. Rankoromane School offers residential care and primary school education for children with special needs from the ages of 5 to 14 years. Enrolment is currently 61 of which 50 are residential and 11 come to school daily from the local community. Legodimo Youth Training offers pre-vocational training and support to people leaving the school and other young people with special needs. The training includes vocational skills such as horticulture, catering and crafts, functional skills such as literacy, numeracy and IT as well as personal / social skills. Enrolment is currently 30 students. It has a two year programme that prepares learners for further training at Motse wa Badiri Training. Motse Wa Badiri Training offers further Foundation training in the same three areas of vocational, functional and personal / social skills in a two year programme including preparation and support for the transition back into the community and employment or other sustainable life choices. Motse wa Badiri Training also offers supported living and sheltered employment for a number of people who feel the need to stay longer. Motse Wa Badiri, which means "the village where people work" in Setswana, is a Camphill Community located in Otse, a rural village 45km south of Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. We are a charitable NGO that offers vocational training, employment and where necessary, accommodation and social support, to people with disabilities. We are able to offer these services through the operation of four income generating workshops.

Tamera - Healing Biotope I
Mission: The Healing Biotope I Tamera is a peace research project with the goal to create the model for a future society that is free from hatred, lies, violence and fear. Tamera should become an acupuncture point of peace, a greenhouse of trust, a prototype for an existence free of fear on this planet, a post-capitalist societal model and a place where the human and meta realm of life come together.
From www.ic.org/directory/tamera-healing-biotope-i/:
Tamera is a Peace University, a model for a peace civilization and a research Station for a realistic utopia. The project was founded in Germany in 1978 by Dieter Duhm, Sabine Lichtenfels and Charly Rainer Ehrenpreis. In 1995 it moved to Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres. The founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human being, animal and nature. Soon it became clear that the healing of love and of human community had to be placed at the center of this work. Sexuality, love and partnership need to be freed from lying and fear, for there can be no peace on Earth as long as there is war in love. The ecological and technological research of Tamera includes the implementation of a retention landscape for the healing of water and nature, as well as a model for regional autonomy in energy and food. Through the Global Campus and the Terra Nova School we are working within a global network on the social, ecological and ethical foundations for a new Earth – Terra Nova.

Newton Dee Camphill Community
Mission: Newton Dee is a Camphill community in Aberdeen, Scotland. We offer a home, meaningful work and opportunities for personal development to adults with learning disabilities and other special needs. In all some 200 people live and work within the Newton Dee community. Around half have special needs. The others are mainly co-workers and their families. The ethos of Newton Dee is that everyone brings different abilities, which we use for the benefit of the people around us. Newton Dee's home life is based around large and small households ranging from four to 16 people. In addition we have some shared houses, apartments and bed-sitters. There are 36 houses in Newton Dee's wooded grounds, which extend to a total of 180 acres, of which 120 acres is dedicated to our biodynamic farm. Aberdeen is the home of the Camphill Movement.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-village-newton-dee/:
Newton Dee Village is one of 90 Camphill communities around the world. We are a semi-rural community of around 200 people, 86 of whom are adults with learning disabilities. We are an Anthroposophical based community. We work out of Christianity and celebrate the festivals of the year. We live and work together in 36 households on a 180-acre estate (120 acres are dedicated to our bio-dynamic farm and gardens). The products of our village workshops include toys, metalwork, textiles and bakery and confectionery goods. In addition, we have a cafe, gift shop, and grocery store, and also have two farms and two market gardens that are run using bio-dynamic methods. We receive no salaries, and our needs are met by the community. Our workforce is based on volunteers, with young people (minimum age 18) from the UK and abroad joining us for a minimum of one year. We are open to new members as space is available. Please inquire by email or phone to the HR Group at recruitment@newtondee.org.uk

Cornerstone Housing Co-operative
Mission: Direct action & Mutual aid, ecological thinking, co-operative living, extending common ownership.
From www.ic.org/directory/cornerstone-housing-cooperative/:
Cornerstone has two large Victorian houses in Chapeltown, an ethnically diverse part of Leeds. Both houses need a lot of ongoing maintenance, and have large gardens front and back, which we variously hang out in, tend, or leave wild—attracting wildlife and producing some food (herbs, fruit and vegetables). Between us there is space for up to 16 members to live, though there are often visitors. One house has an office & computer facilities, both houses have wifi. Each house has a food kitty, members eat together each night and communal food is vegan, although the houses are vegetarian. There is an emphasis on members being socially active, and members are often involved in local and national campaigns on a diverse range of issues, from asylum seeking to radical ecological action to queer politics. Footprint Workers Cooperative and the Cornerstone Resource Centre (providing resources for campaigns) are based in the cellar of one house. Cornerstone is a member of Radical Routes (www.radicalroutes.org.uk), the UK network for radical co-ops promoting cooperation and working for social change. We encourage investors to take out shares in Rootstock (ww.rootstock.org.uk), investors' co-op, to support this work and fund new co-operatives.

Clanabogan Camphill Community
Mission: In this therapeutic life sharing community, adults who have learning disabilities live and work together with co-workers and their children. Co-workers join Clanabogan as volunteers and do not receive wages, their material needs being met from a common fund. In all aspects of life and work, mutual agreement is the basis of a committed and responsible involvement. Camphill Communities are based on Christian principles and are non-denominational, many festivals are celebrated socially and artistically throughout the year. The Community meets for religious and cultural gatherings and people are free to attend a church of their choice or to follow their own conscience.
From www.ic.org/directory/clanabogan-camphill-community/:
We have 70 acres in the beautiful rolling countryside of county Tyrone, Ireland, four miles from the town of Omagh. The community began in 1984, and now about 70 people live here in six households, some large, some small. In this therapeutic community, adults who have difficulties arising from mental and emotional disability live and work together with coworkers and children. Agriculture and horticulture are very important activities in the community and provide healthy and meaningful work as well as enhancing people's awareness of the environment, the seasons, and the land on which they live. Food production is done using biodynamic principles. Coworkers join Clanabogan as volunteers and do not receive wages, their material needs being met from a common fund. In all aspects of life and work, mutual agreement is the basis of a committed and responsible involvement. This is an attempt to live in a new kind of community life, to include people of many nationalities and people with different problems, strengths, and weaknesses. Most people, whether disadvantaged or not, find that as well as encountering struggles and challenges, they meet interesting and rewarding experiences, learn new skills, grow, and develop.

Ecovilla Gaia
Mission: Education & Permaculture
From www.ic.org/directory/ecovilla-asociacion-gaia/:
Gaia Argentina is a pioneer ecovillage project with permaculture basis, in development since 1996, in a rural area 120km from Buenos Aires. Gaia functions as a living and learning center, and has been sharing information and inspiration for permaculture projects and ecovillage development in the southern region and farther. We offer courses on permaculture, natural building, ecovillage design, circle dances, aromatherapy, and more. Gaia hosted in March 2000 the first Latin-American Permaculture Convergence with great success. We created the Permaculture Popular University (UPP) as a space for experimenting, implementing, and teaching permaculture systems. UPP focuses on research and practice of appropriate technologies adapted for the local needs, to transfer them to impoverished people in our country. New members are participating in the project in many different ways.

Nahziryah Monastic Community
Mission: service toward consciousness expansion & further spiritual development throughout all existence
From www.ic.org/directory/nahziryah-monastic-community/:
Nahziryah Monastic Community Path of Mystic Enlightenment The Nazir Order of the Purple Veil. Blessings and Thanks to our Spiritual Teacher, Founder and Director of Nahziryah Monastic Community, Retreat for Meditation and Wholistic Living, Monastic EcoVillage, The Community of The Purple Lodge, The Nazir Order Of The Purple Veil, In The Degree Of The Ascension – The Reverend Nazirmoreh(ABRD). Rev. Nazirmoreh(All Blessings and Respect Due), is our spiritual teacher and guide. Rev. Nazirmoreh(ABRD) teaches that there are many paths--one goal, many names-one Divine Creator. The Nazir community is monastic, abiding by rules, order, and disciplines. The monastery includes men, women, and children. Resident members live a simple, monastic, communal life- we work hard, meditate, study, and strive daily to overcome the lower ego. At the monastery,the monastic village; Nahziryah Monastic Community, Retreat for Meditation and Wholistic Living, the resident members do organic gardening to help sustain the community's dietary needs (vegan). To support the community and the effort toward consciousness expansion and further spiritual development, we make and sell art crafts, as well as metaphysical/esoteric/spiritual literature of all faiths, recordings, essential and essence oils, incense, and meditation supplies. Nahziryah Monastic Community sustains itself through its own laborious efforts, except for the occasional donations given by the few who are sympathetic with the Nazir way of life and are willing and able to help, financially and otherwise, to support the service. The NMC Retreat for Meditation & Wholistic Living is dedicated to providing living space in a natural environment for students of the Baba who choose the monastic life. The Nazir path is for those who hear the call and come to give their All in All in the service of consciousness expansion & further spiritual development of all. Behold the One in All. Please Note: All inquiries should be address as follows: All correspondences should be addressed directly to the Reverend - questions, answers, inquiries, requests. All correspondences in truth, in light, in love. Nahziryah Monastic Community Om, peace be with all The Order, In order, of order, As directed in the direction of the ascension. OM.
News From Nahziryah: Retreat For Meditation & Wholistic Living, The Baba's travels in India, The Offerings, and more
The Purple People Place: Who are the Purple People, words of the Reverend Baba Nazirmoreh (ABRD), suggested readings, and more

Utopiaggia
Mission: Egalitarian, self-organized, intentional community
From www.ic.org/directory/utopiaggia/:
We are an egalitarian, humanitarian commune living as ecologically as possible with the land. The community started in Lower Bavaria in 1975 and moved to Central Italy in 1982. Many of the founding members came out of the Movement of the 1960s. There are 20 adults and five children living in three houses on 92 hectares of hilly land. A large flock of sheep provides the basis for commercial cheese production. We keep horses and poultry, and some of the activities we are engaged in are horticulture, colouring of textiles with natural colours, pottery, and other handicrafts. Our monetary income we obtain predominantly working as artisans and in the service sector outside of the community. We have stopped to receive visitors with a general interest in communal living.

Camphill Soltane
Mission: Camphill Soltane provides opportunities for young adults and adults with special needs to discover their talents and grow their capacities so they can take their place in the world as valued contributors. Our varied residential settings offer supportive, relationship-rich environments that emphasize interdependence and shared responsibility, while our educational and vocational programs develop individuals’ practical and professional skills.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-soltane/:
Camphill Soltane was founded in Chester County in 1988. Two other Camphill communities in Chester County – Camphill Special School and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills – were already in existence at that time, providing K-12 education, and land and craft-based work for older adults with special needs, respectively. The founders of Camphill Soltane recognized the gap in educational opportunities and choice of work for young adults with special needs. They envisioned a Camphill community that would provide a college-like experience for these young people to facilitate their transition into adulthood. All Camphill communities are based on a spiritual understanding of the human being. Anthroposophy (literally “wisdom of the human being”) was conceived by Dr. Rudolf Steiner of Austria in the early 20th century. Insights from Anthroposophy have given rise to Camphill communities, Waldorf education, bio-dynamic agriculture, and new forms of medicine, therapies, and the arts. All share a common dream of social, cultural, and economic renewal. Our programs are supported by an organizational infrastructure that includes full-time volunteers, called coworkers, as well as employed staff who lead classes, support work work areas, live in or provide support in houses, perform administrative duties, maintain the physical plant, and more. A separate supporting organization, the Camphill Soltane Foundation, provides fundraising and outreach support for Camphill Soltane.

Global Community Communications Alliance
Mission: Spiritual Unity/Global Change
Global Community Communications Alliance—a multifaceted nonprofit organization, ecovillage, and The University of Ascension Science and The Physics of Rebellion (uaspr.org)—were founded by spiritual leaders Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase in 1989. We are a cosmic family, with members and friends from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds worldwide. Service to others, soul growth, and living in divine pattern are emphasized. Healing incorporates spiritual and scientific techniques of tron therapy (an advanced form of energy transference) and morontia counseling, practiced at our Soulistic Healing Center in Tubac, Arizona. Additionally at Soulistic Healing Center, a medical doctor, clinical psychologist, massage therapists, and other healing practitioners address the needs of both body and soul. Soulistic Hospice caregivers are interfaith ministers. Members and children of the religious order are students in The University of Ascension Science & The Physics of Rebellion. Classes on The URANTIA Book and The Cosmic Family volumes are offered on campus as well as the Online University. Seminars in Divine Administration are also offered. Hundreds of supporters worldwide are affiliated in many ways. We offer experiential training in organic gardening, animal husbandry, construction, and various trades at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage, as well as the annual Earth Harmony Festival in October. Vocational training and apprenticeships are offered year-round. Our Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults offers individualized programs written by a team of qualified professionals. The Sea of Glass—Center For The Arts Venue (with national & international acts & activist speakers) is located in Tucson, and Sacred Treasures (fair trade boutique) is located in Tucson and Tubac. Global Family Legal Services assists in immigration and other legal matters. Spirit Steps Tours of Tubac, Tucson, and Sedona offers retreats, sacred vision quests, cosmic medicine wheels, and sweat lodges. Tubac’s Secret Garden Inn offers an elegant setting for lodging, weddings, and events. Global Community Communications Publishing offers many spiritually oriented books: The Divine New Order and the Dawn of the First Stage of Light and Life, The Cosmic Family volumes, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf – A Handbook on How To Defeat The 1% By Starting Subcultures, The Sharp End of the Needle (on diabetes, dialysis & kidney transplant), Teachings on Healing, and the Alternative Voice, a quarterly periodical teaching Spiritualution, fusing spirituality with activism. Make a pilgrimage to the next Spiritualution Concert — May 5, 2018.
Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage (avalongardens.org):
220-acre EcoVillage in southern Arizona, using spiritually-based principles and permaculture practices, incorporating The University of Ascension Science & The Physics of Rebellion campus. Internships available.
Earth Harmony Festival (earthharmonyfestival.org):
The annual Earth Harmony Festival is a celebration of EcoLiving as well as an invitation to collaborate on creating a new paradigm of practical sustainable living for ourselves and for future generations. The festival seeks to educate and provide people with vital information and resources in order to take the next step in their path toward sustainable living, both as individuals and as a part of a worldwide community. The festival includes an extensive tour of our working EcoVillage, one of the largest and most successful in North America.
Spiritualution Concert — May 5, 2018

New Creation Christian Community
Mission: Evangelical Christian
From www.ic.org/directory/new-creation-christian-community/:
The New Creation Christian Community is part of the Jesus Fellowship Church, which is also known as the Jesus Army. The fellowship is an evangelical Christian church with a contemporary charismatic emphasis. It is orthodox in doctrine, upholding the universally accepted Christian creeds. The church numbers around 1,800, about 450 of whom live in Christian Community in 60 or so large and small houses around the United Kingdom. Each community house consists of anything between 6 and 25 people, who live as a large "family." The businesses, community houses, and other community assets are owned by the members and held in a legally constituted noncharitable Trust Fund. Within the community, each house has a "common-purse" arrangement, with members pooling their income to meet all personal and household expenses.

INACTIVE!! White Buffalo Farm, a Farm-Based Ecovillage
Mission: Restoring our food, our earth, ourselves.
From www.ic.org/directory/white-buffalo-farm-ecovillage/:
White Buffalo Farm is one of Colorado's oldest organic farms and a virtual paradise of fruit trees nestled in the foothills of the West Elk Wilderness, yet is an easy bike ride to Paonia. The farm is traversed by the North Fork of the Gunnison River and two irrigation ditches. The farm is USDA certified organic and its founders pioneers in the organics movement. Established in 1974, the farm's founder has years of experience growing food and community. White Buffalo Farm is evolving with the times. We are ready to engage wonderful new trends in organics, slow food, sustainability, slow money and relocalization. If you are would like to explore living on the farm, please consider coming to the farm as an intern, apprentice or in a “staff” position. For 2014, we seek a kitchen manager, an artisan cook, a vegetable farmer and a CSA coordinator. We also need a part time administrative assistant/bookkeeper. The farm is home to thousands of fruit trees, several acres of vegetables and three high tunnel greenhouses. We grow cherries, European and Asian plum, peaches, d'Anjou and Asian pears, and apples. We grow tomatoes, squash, greens and a wide variety of other herbs and vegetables for our CSA. We also raise laying hens, guinea hens, turkeys and peacocks. WBF sells wholesale to the Front Range, direct at Farmers Markets and thru our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Our core values are strengthening organic family farms, growing food for others, eating holistically and locally, placing goodness before money, faith in Spirit/God/Universe, being kind to the earth and ourselves, living in gratitude, being service-oriented, honoring creativity and art, honoring equity, demonstrating tolerance. Growing food is healing, rewarding and feels great! It's a great time to become part of White Buffalo Farm!

Camphill Village Minnesota
Mission: The mission of Camphill Village Minnesota is to create and sustain a community where people with and without disabilities live, work and care for each other to foster social, spiritual, cultural and agricultural renewal.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-village-minnesota-inc/:
Camphill is located on a 500-acre biodynamic farm ten miles north of Sauk Centre in Central Minnesota. People live together family-style in seven different homes. Everyone shares in the responsibilities of life in the community. The Village has a strong agricultural component made up of organic farming and gardening. Craft work includes weaving, wood working, ceramics, and card-making, as well as a bakery that provides for the needs of the Village and sells in the surrounding area. Life in the Village revolves around the cycles of nature, with festivals marking the changing seasons. Plays, concerts, lectures and continuing education add depth and color to the fabric of the community. Camphill Village Minnesota is part of a worldwide movement that was begun in Scotland by Dr. Karl König just before World War II. The work of Camphill is based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian scientist, philosopher and educator who also inspired Waldorf education. Community members join us from all over the world every year. We welcome individuals, couples and families in whatever form they may come. Some stay for a year or two for a unique experience and some make CVM their permanent home.

Atlantis Ecological Community
Mission: organic self-sufficient ecology.
From www.ic.org/directory/atlantis-ecological-community/:
Atlantis formed in London in 1970 as a self-help therapy centre, moved to an Irish island in 1974 then to the Colombian Andes in 1987, our emphasis shifting to ecology and food self-sufficiency. We ran a “green theatre” in Colombia for many years with the commune children as the main performers. Now grown up, some of the girls of our group are accomplished musicians, composers, artists and dancers. None of the children had any formal schooling whatsoever. They were taught to work on practical farm tasks from an early age, and allowed complete physical (and sexual) freedom, as long as the adults' space was not intruded upon. The commune may now be entering an "autumnal" phase as the many generations of English, Irish and Colombian youngsters we have brought up have gone their ways. The present age range is 3 to 67 years with a steady but small central nucleus of a handful of people; but many visitors passing through. We're vegetarian, and revolutionary politically. Our food is organically grown. We don't use drugs or smoke and stick to alternative medicine wherever possible; our lifestyle on the farm is 100 percent ecological. We reject practically all twentieth-century values. We have at present 35 hectares of forest, meadows, gardens, rivers and streams at around 5,000 ft with a mild climate. We accept hard physical work as part of natural living, but make sure there is time for rest, playing music and other cultural activities. Visitors are welcome any time but we do need help with expenses, have to warn the work is hard and of course a sense of humour, an open mind and a willingness to engage in straight talking helps. A firm rootedness in the physical world is essential. We are not "politically correct" in any way and don't appreciate modern rules about what one may or may not say, and don't obey any of them. There are 10 books about the commune on www.theguildofwriters.com Atlantis section. We still have a "diaspora" in Ireland in Baltimore, Co. Cork and you can visit us there to find out more and meet some of the commune members.

Triform Camphill Community
Mission: The mission of Triform is to build a vital community life together with adults with special needs to work towards social, economic, and agricultural renewal. Triform is a supportive environment that offers each individual the possibility for personal growth and self-development. As a Camphill community, Triform bases its work on the recognition of the spiritual integrity of each individual and aims to provide all community members with dignified, meaningful work, a healthy social atmosphere, and a vibrant cultural, artistic and spiritual life.
From www.ic.org/directory/triform-camphill-community/:
Triform Camphill Community, in Hudson, New York, is a residential community for young adults with developmental disabilities. It includes a dynamic mix of over 110 people spanning many generations, cultures and ranges of ability. Forty young adults with social, mental, physical and emotional disabilities, live and work side-by-side with full time volunteer resident staff and the staff’s families on a 500+ acre biodynamic/organic farm in beautiful Columbia County, NY. Triform is a model of care where young men and women with Autism, Down syndrome, and other developmental and neurological disabilities participate in dignified, purposeful work, share in warm, supportive relationships and make meaningful contributions to the well-being of everyone in the Triform community. Triform is changing the way we understand and appreciate the capabilities of people with special needs. Triform is a forerunner and model in the disabilities field, where the ideals of inclusion and the development of individual potential are in the forefront. Triform’s programs promote confidence, self-worth, independence and achievement on many levels. The Triform special needs community offers an enriching social, intellectual and cultural life for its students, and year-round vocational opportunities in organic and biodynamic farm and gardening. Triform is among a select group of farms in the US certified by Demeter, which is regarded as the highest level of organic farming certification in the world.

Sandhill Farm
Mission: agrarian lifestyle, simplicity, self-sufficiency and interdependency, and care for those most impacted by capitalist exploitation.
From www.ic.org/directory/sandhill-farm/:
We are seven adults and a seven-year-old living together on 150 acres in rural northeast Missouri. We grow our own organic food and share income, meals, vehicles, and other resources. The land includes gardens, orchards, woods, cropland, bee yards, and pasture. Our income is derived from foods we produce (sorghum, honey, garlic, mustard, eggs, garden produce and value added condiments), timber sales, and from organic farm inspection, a harness-sewing business, and occasional work for neighbors. We like to keep our lifestyle simple and healthy. We currently have a primarily vegetarian diet, supplemented by meat from small-scale animal husbandry and our local deer. We tend to work hard and get satisfaction from providing for ourselves as much as we can while maintaining close ties with neighbors, friends, and other communities. We enjoy regular celebrations and social occasions, including weekly dinners with Dancing Rabbit, a 15-year-old ecovillage, and Red Earth Farms, a five-year-old land trust community, both just three miles away. We also friends with the folks at Possibility Alliance and their local community of sustainable farmers in the LaPlata area, about 35 miles away. Sandhill is active in the communities, organics and political resistance movements. Core values include cooperation, tolerance, nonviolence, understanding and combatting systems of oppression - personally and systemically, honesty, good communication and sustainable land stewardship. We hold meetings weekly during the growing season and as-needed during the off season. We make major decisions by consensus and keep in touch informally around meals and daily activities. We strive to balance pulling together with supporting individual choices and idiosyncrasies. We are somewhat open to new members. Because we are a small group, any addition has a big impact. Our process is slow, as we want to make sure of a good fit before we make any commitment. A visit for one week can be arranged during the growing season (we like to take a break from visitors during the winter). Please write a detailed introduction of yourself and see our website for more information.

Kommune Niederkaufungen
Mission: changing society / alternative
From www.ic.org/directory/kommune-niederkaufungen/:
"From each according to ability, to each according to need." Started over 25 years ago, Kommune Niederkaufungen, Germany's largest secular income-sharing commune, is an undogmatic, left-wing project; non-religious and non-spiritual. It is a member of the "Kommuja" network of political communes. The core principles are a fully socialized economy with collective ownership, consensus decision-making, collective work, reduction of patriarchal structures, and an ecological approach to work and lifestyle. We try to satisfy as many of our own basic needs as possible, and also to offer ecological products and social services to the local population. Where possible, we often consume organic, regional, and seasonal products and fair trade goods and we have small farm shop distributing them. We use renewable fuel resources for a major part of our heating (wood). We produce electricity from photovoltaic solar panels. The structural renovations to our central building are now complete, and decorating there is nearly finished. Our exhibition hall is home to a range of examples of electric and/or pedal-powered vehicles. We run 12 commune-owned collectives: • a building firm: interior and exterior construction, insulation • a carpentry and joinery shop • a metal-workshop • a kitchen/catering firm • a Bioland-certified organic CSA market-garden • an EU-certified organic dairy farm, including cheese-making • a fruit growing, orchard care, and juice-making team • an administration/consulting group • a seminar center, with courses on commune themes and non-violent communication • a kindergarten • a daycare center for old people • a project group promoting alternative mobility A few people work externally. Some members of commune collectives are members of other local communes and there is a time exchange system between the groups. We live in 14 living groups, including a men's group and a women's/lesbian group. We share all our meals and have weekly general meetings. We are looking for new (German speaking) members. Newcomers go through a three- to six-month trial period. We regularly offer orientation weekends and weeks for interested people. Our homepage includes an English-language text about 20 years of commune life here and other info in English. There is also now a big photo gallery on the site.
Kommuja: The german comune network
http://www.kommune-niederkaufungen.de/englisch/englisch.php: Our commune in English
http://www.tagungshaus-niederkaufungen.de: Seminar center homepage, with course information.

Magic
Mission: Valuescience for common good
From www.ic.org/directory/magic/:
Magic is a residential service-learning community. Some residents operate an educational, charitable organization by the same name. We establish the Magic community and the service organization upon a yet-to-be widely recognized connection between science and value: Ideas about value entail prediction; science is the sole demonstrated means for making predictions better than can be made by chance. We perceive that valuescience is key to accurately discerning and realizing value. Magic residents and friends who sustain the service organization are aiming to improve our own and others' lives by honing valuescience practice and contributing to others' doing so. Readers wary of "science" may be reassured to learn that we are also deeply "religious" in a literal sense (re- = again and lig- = connect). We see ecological science as the basis for unifying religion, with which people from diverse backgrounds can reconnect to other humans, other life, Earth, and cosmos. Core themes in Magic community life and public services are: (1) valuescience; (2) health/awareness; (3) cooperation; and (4) stewardship. We view the Magic community as both laboratory and demonstration. We're aiming to ever more fully "walk our talk." Magic services to the general public include lectures and seminars about valuescience; life-planning workshops; swimming, running, bicycling, and hatha yoga instruction; youth mentoring; mediation; community organizing; planting and caring for trees and other vegetation; water- and land-management planning and advocacy; neighborhood design; and publishing. Though few in numbers, we address diverse issues at many levels and in an integrated way. We do groundbreaking research, results of which we've published in top-tier scientific journals. We also perform hands-on demonstration projects. For example, we've established thousands of native oaks and tens of thousands of perennial understory plants on public-access open space nearby, and we've reconfigured streets in several neighborhoods to reduce short-cutting and vehicle speeds. Our research and demonstration projects have received national and international recognition for excellence in fields ranging from environmental law to dispute resolution. We aim to strike a balance between utilizing the extraordinary resources of our Stanford University/Silicon Valley surroundings and maintaining contemplative, modest lives. We welcome opportunities to meet new people and to explore how we may interact to mutual benefit.

Lama Foundation
Mission: The purpose of the Lama Foundation is to be a sustainable spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness, spiritual practice with respect for all traditions, service and stewardship of the land.
From www.ic.org/directory/lama-foundation/:
Lama Foundation aims to serve as a sustainable spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness, service, spiritual practice with respect for all traditions, and stewardship of the land. Community life is viewed as a school of practical spirituality whose focus is individual and collective spiritual growth through service to others, simplicity of lifestyle, self-awareness, and commitment to daily spiritual practice in some form. Members have an opportunity to learn mindfulness and responsible stewardship as well as skills such as natural building and permaculture, gardening, cooking, carpentry, and silk-screen printing. Community-building skills are a continuing focus. The community works together as a circle in caring for the foundation and strives for consensus in decision making. Summers are an out breath, with many visitors and a public program of workshops, retreats, and hermitages. We also operate a cottage industry for producing prayer flags and other items. Winters are an in breath, where members continue to serve and strive to take more time for intensive contemplative interspiritual practice and study. The fire of 1996 offered an opportunity to explore a more sustainable lifestyle utilizing green building and permaculture techniques. Life is rustic, but very beautiful at an elevation of 8600 feet. Come and visit!

East Wind
Mission: Cooperation and Sharing
From www.ic.org/directory/east-wind-community/:
We are a 70-member collective located on 1,045 acres of rural Ozark Hills in southern Missouri. We are a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and as such, we put great value in cooperation, nonviolence, and sharing. We support ourselves through two industries: East Wind Nut Butters and Utopian Rope Sandals. Our membership is very diverse, we have no central leadership, and we practice democracy. Our work lives are busy and varied, but we always find time to relax and enjoy community meals, music jams, and Ozark sunsets. Our land is one of a kind, very rural, and filled with all sorts of wildlife. We encourage individuality and diversity in our members. We are looking for skilled, hardworking, responsible and self motivated individuals that share in our values. Prospective members are encouraged to contact membership; currently we are most in need of plumbing skills, electrical skills, and carpentry. Drop ins are not accepted, you must contact membership to visit.

Blackberry
Mission: We are activists & homesteaders, striving for self-sufficiency & a working to facilitate a more just world.
From www.ic.org/directory/blackberry/:
For the last 28 years, Blackberry has been a close-knit intentional family committed to living, working, learning, and growing together in the Sierra foothills north of Nevada City, California. We place much value on raising our children and ourselves in a nonviolent, healthy emotional and physical environment. There were only 2 of us living here full-time for a number of years (the children are grown and thriving), but as of December 2015, we have been joined by 2 additional adult members, & have a couple with a baby looking into the prospects of moving here sometime next year. As an intentional-family style community, we have a collective economic system. Each adult pays a share of food & utility expenses, as well as an additional monthly amount into a maintenance & repair fund. We prepare and eat most dinners together & meet regularly to discuss short & long-term plans & to share the joys of everyday life in our forest home. Please email us for more details, as there will be changes as our new group grows & matures.

Wind Spirit Community
Mission: Organic growing, sustainable living, harmony and awareness.
From www.ic.org/directory/windspirit-community/:
Wind Spirit is in its 20th year. It has been a journey through every emotion along with many years of hard but satisfying physical work. Living here at Wind Spirit, as with most communities, can be challenging, but it offers experiences showing the many facets of human nature while working together and living close to nature itself. We have learned that the community thrives best with people who understand what it means and are able to commit to the community and to their fellow members. Being realistic about the finances it takes to run a community, openly and authentically communicating with each other, and being willing to work together for everyone’s benefit will carry Wind Spirit and its members forward, as we take care of each other, our community, and ultimately our planet. There's some exciting momentum happening at Wind Spirit these days. With some energy spent on organizing, there are projects under way to renovate old or build new structures using several different alternative building techniques. Other projects (solar well, aquaponics) support our goal to increase our ability to feed ourselves. These projects are being, in part, funded by retreats focusing on areas that are in harmony with Wind Spirit's core mission. And, speaking of harmony, we are also building a stronger core group of residents by coming together in formal meetings to envision the future at Wind Spirit and shape the present so we can make it happen. We are located less than two hours from Tucson or Phoenix in a beautiful valley amidst mountain ranges on land that was once part of the Christmas Star Community. On our 16 acres we are blessed with an amazing landscape, with over 60 varieties of mature organic fruit and nut trees, along with all the native species of the area. The elevation here is 2,700 ft, providing us with a year-round growing season for vegetable gardens as well. One of the few large rivers in Arizona, the Gila, is less than five miles away and is fun for kayaking and other water activities. Friends sometime say we do not live in the desert; we do, but under a canopy of trees, in a forest, an oasis. There are more sunny days here than in most areas in the country, so we use many solar devices. We use permaculture principles, rainwater collection, and greywater systems, and we continually explore ways to live with as little impact as we can without being extreme. The important thing is that we are constantly moving in a direction of harmony with nature.

Camphill Village USA, Inc.
Mission: Camphill Village USA is a community of people, some with special needs, who live and work together caring for each other and the Earth.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-village-usa-inc/:
Camphill Village USA is a unique and vibrant life-sharing community of 250 individuals, including 95 adults with developmental disabilities. Founded in Copake, New York in 1961, Camphill Village USA is the oldest and largest Camphill community in North America and sits on 615 acres of verdant hills, pastures, and beautiful gardens in southern Columbia County. Camphill Village is part of the international Camphill Movement, which is based on the insights of anthroposophy, the philosophy, world view, and spiritual path of Rudolf Steiner Ph.D. Life at Camphill Village is based on the active affirmation of the dignity, spiritual integrity, and valued contribution of each individual.

The Camphill School
Mission: Our mission is to create wholeness for children and youth with developmental disabilities through education, extended family living, and therapy so that they may be better understood, they may more fully unfold their potential, and they may meaningfully participate in life.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-special-school/:
The Camphill School is a Waldorf school accredited by AWSNA and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Our school also is licensed by the Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare and we are a Pennsylvania Approved Private School for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are part of the worldwide Camphill movement and the only Camphill community in North America for children. When founded in 1963, The Camphill School was based upon the idea that the new community not only would become a village for children, but a place that nurtured childhood itself. This was powerfully affirmed in 1967 when a foundation stone was laid at Rock Crystal, the village’s first purposely built house where volunteers, interns, and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities could share their lives.

Birdsfoot Farm
Mission: Learn/Grow, good food and friends
From www.ic.org/directory/birdsfoot-farm/:
Birdsfoot Farm is a consensus-based agricultural community founded in 1972. Our farm is located where the St. Lawrence River valley meets the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Though the area is quite rural, the presence of four colleges nearby brings cultural diversity we appreciate. Our 73-acre farm has fertile loam soil, woods, a stream, a large community house, three comfortable homes, a schoolhouse, two barns, and a small cabin. In order to grow we need to build new dwellings. The land and buildings are owned by the community. Members share monthly living expenses, purchase equity in the property, and participate in community work projects. We care a lot about each other and find time for many kinds of sharing--such as communal meals, rituals, parties, etc. Each person follows his or her own spiritual path. Individuals are active in social and environmental issues. The new-member process includes a one-year trial period. We welcome new members, including children and elders. Our vegetable business grows two acres of certified organic vegetables for the community, wholesale, CSA, and farmers market using low-input techniques, intensive spacing and cover cropping. Little River Community School was started in 1998. The school now serves 39 students in grades K-12 with four full-time teachers. The school is founded on the belief that children are inherently motivated to learn about their world and should be allowed to proceed at their own rate. See the school on the web at http://www.littleriverschool.org. The farm and school provide income to some of the community members and others work off the farm. Each year the veggie business and school seek interns. For more information about our community, or internship programs, please send a letter.

Alpha Farm
Mission: We do not currently have a mission statement.
From www.ic.org/directory/alpha-farm/:
Alpha Farm is an extended-family-style community on 280 acres in the Coast Range of Oregon. Consensus, our decision-making process, is also a metaphor for the ideal world we seek to create here--and so help create in the larger world. We seek to honor and respect the spirit in all people and in nature; to nurture harmony within ourselves, among people, and with the Earth; and to integrate all of life into a balanced whole. We value service and work as love made visible. Group process is a strong point; we meet regularly for business. Founded in 1972, we average five to fifteen adults and one to three children. New people participate in an internship of three or six months followed by a year as residents (trial members) before becoming eligible for membership. Please contact us first about available spaces before coming down for a visit. Members and residents work primarily on the farm or at various outreach activities around the greater Deadwood Community (contract mail delivery, contract forestry projects, etc.) or occasionally in paid work off the farm. All income and resources are held in common. We are experimenting with different housing patterns, particularly for families; individuals have private rooms, while other living space is common; weekday evening meals are communal. We are open to new residents; visitors are welcome for a three-day initial visit. Please schedule a visit well in advance as space and resources are limited. Please check out website for more information on visiting and membership.
Alpha Institute: Committed to practicing and teaching consensus decision making and meeting facilitation.

Permaculture-inspired Farming Community
Mission: Live by the Golden Rule
From www.ic.org/directory/future-egalitarian-community/:
Do you want to live in an intergenerational, farm-based Community? Seeking people to form an agricultural, resource sharing, crowd-funded intentional community in New England What’s your 5 year plan? What’s your 20 year plan? Whats your “retirement” plan? What are you going to do when your parents or the elders in your life can no longer take care of themselves? Do you want to enjoy the honest and healthy work of farm life while not having to stress about the financial burden of owning your own farm? Do you want to be able to spend quality time with your friends and family but have doubts about doing so in the dominant socio-economic paradigm? Do you want to collaborate with other farmers, permaculture practitioners, eco-entrepreneurs, justice seekers, land healers … and share a community with them too? If these questions excite you, then keep on reading! We can’t keep waiting for the community of our dreams to just appear. WE need to build it ourselves. There is no template for how this will work. There is no cookie cutter community startup process. This is something new. Lets think big. We have epic farm-topian dreams of living together, taking care of our young and old, growing the best food possible, and creating sustainable, economically viable, mutually beneficial micro-businesses that have positive impacts outside the community as well as inside. So, what’s different about this proposed community startup? Here’s three major factors that make it unique: 1) Transparency, 2) Crowdfunding, 3) Income Generation 4) Long-Term Vision Transparency: We will go to great lengths to hash out any/all important details of the future community. We will make it as transparent as humanly possible. It begins with a core group of people who truly trust each other and are committed to cooperation and open communication (this could be from 5-15 people… we’ll know when it feels right). Through due diligence, we will create bullet-proof, transparent founding documents/by-laws based on our shared mission. These by-laws will of course be flexible and fluid, but they will also form the processes for how we will make decisions moving forward. In this phase we aim to address such topics as: location (where? zoning laws can greatly influence this consideration), acreage, choice of property (wooded forest, degraded farmland, existing infrastructure?) housing, common/shared land, shared facilities, decision making processes (consensus? majority rule? 90% majority?, councils? subgroups? mandatory or non-mandatory meetings?), conflict resolution processes, membership processes, finances (partial income sharing? a hybrid of income sharing and financial autonomy?), suggested and/or mandatory labor contribution to community (20 hrs a week? 30 hrs a week?), how do we deal with oppressive behavior?, How do we incorporate our elders into the community? (especially when they might have different values than us young, idealistic, radical folks), visitor processes, how do we allocate money for community infrastructure? (common agriculture space, grazing land, commercial kitchen, dining hall, hospice infrastructure for when elders need extra care, educational programs, etc), whats our policy on tiny/mobile homes? (this would largely have to do with zoning), population capacity (would depend on size of property we acquire), what type of labor counts towards community labor-hours (cleaning your room vs. working the field), what about when people are too old or sick to work? These questions and many more will be addressed in the initial phases with the core group to the best of our ability so that we will have a clear process for addressing future issues as they arise in real life. We may also choose to form a non-profit in this phase as well. Having non-profit status is a great advantage for a community. Crowdfunding. Many people are now familiar with Crowfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, Go Fund Me, Indiegogo, We The Trees (a cool new permaculture-based platform), Barnraiser, etc… What not many people know is that through these different Crowdfunding platforms, in the year 2014 alone, an estimated $65 BILLION dollars was raised for various projects around the world. Yes, you heard that right: $65 BILLION dollars. Folks, this is a significant game changer. Let’s dream big. Lets dream bigger than big. Lets envision the world we know is possible, and lets not stop till we get there. The key with successful crowdfunding campaigns is: a good idea that solves a problem, a clear and powerful mission, a solid team of enthusiastic and trust-worthy solicitors, well-produced media and videos, and ample lead-up time before the launch date so that the project can be sufficiently hyped and go viral. This is really where the transparency piece comes in huge. Also, this is our chance to show the world why this is needed; what problems it solves, how it benefits the world outside of the community itself, and how this could be a replicable model for other groups to employ. If we really work hard on all the fine details (some of them mentioned in the transparency phase, above), and create a bullet-proof, nay-sayer-proof, crowdfunding campaign, there is absolutely no doubt that this is not only possible, but it HAS TO HAPPEN! Income Generation. If we be economically viable as a community, we aren’t going to last very long. As briefly mentioned above, filing the community as a non-profit will be important. This can help for tax reasons, accepting donations, limiting our liability, and adding to the resiliency of our transparent structure. In other words, it will help prevent power-grab dynamics. The idea that the executive director could be fired by the board of directors keeps things in check and keeps hierarchies of power at a minimum. But just because its called a non-profit doesn’t mean that we aren’t going to make money! Its just that all the profits go back into the community. It is very exciting to think of all the possible income generating opportunities we will have when we pool our resources and work together. For instance, we could really scale-up our farming operations so that they are not only profitable, but feed more mouths than just the ones in our community. Farming is hard work. But as anybody who’s worked in the fields will tell you, it can make all the difference to work alongside other like-minded individuals. This turns chore work into fun work! Nowadays we can look to many great examples from books and farmers demonstrating that farming can actually be profitable… and ecologically beneficial! We don’t have to re-invent the wheel here. Here are just some examples of income generating agricultural enterprises that we can employ: Pick your own, Farmstand, Farm Store, CSA (or a twist on the CSA model that doesn't restrict lower-income people), value added products! (since we will have a commercial kitchen, we won’t have to fear the board of health!… jams, jellies, skincare products, herbal products, tinctures, fermented foods, ready to cook semi-prepared foods, snacks, cider, beer, wine, the list goes on and on), Edible Landscaping services, Farm Camp (educational farm stays for all ages), other forms of Agritoursim like Air B&B, Educational programs (permaculture design courses, farming workshops, etc.), Nursery business, online store (selling books, seeds, tools, etc), this list could go on and on as well. One other thing worth mentioning in the area of income generation is that we want people to feel encouraged to be entrepreneurial. As long as people meet their quota of community-labor-hours (whatever the community decides that is), what you do with the rest of your time is up to you. So if you want to have an outside job, thats fine. Or if you want to start your own business here at the community, all the power to you, so long as you aren’t hindering or getting in the way of the community. One great example to look to in terms of labor is the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC). Each community in the FEC has their own policies regarding labor, income, etc. But in general, at each community, each member is expected to do X amount of labor hours for the community each week. And all hours of labor are valued equally (an hour cooking is the same as an hour doing carpentry, etc) Once you meet your quota, then whatever you do with the rest of your time is up to you. So if you have an outside job, thats fine. Lets say our community decides that each member will do 30 hours a week of community labor. Lets say theres a person who wants to work 20 hours a week in the community and then 30 hours a week at a cushy outside job where they make $30/hr. They could then pay the community the difference in amount of hours times the minimum wage. So in this case, they would only owe the community 10 labor hours of minimum wage (roughly $80-$90), and then they'd be able to keep the rest of what they made at their outside job. This way, people’s autonomy is not compromised and they are also free to be entrepreneurial if they so desire, as long as they meet the minimum community-labor hours. Long Term Vision. This seems like a no-brainer. But when we really think about it, many communities haven’t figured this part out yet. What carries a community through the long term? We would say that its the ability to be intergenerational. This means having entire families involved: kids, parents, grandparents, etc. This is extremely important. We need to have the infrastructure and the capability of taking our elders in when their time comes. Otherwise, what else will happen? Either they will go to a nursing home (the average cost of a nursing home is $80,000 a year), or you will be forced to leave the community to take care of them, thus compromising the community and your own sanity. We know there is another way. Twin Oaks Community (in Virginia, also a member of the FEC, mentioned above), has done a fantastic job at addressing this issue. As their average age is increasing, so is the need for a handicap-accessible hospice facility. So, they have built just that: an entire wing off a building that’s looks and acts like a nursing home. Its so important to not overlook this aspect. We all will get old some day. What’s your retirement plan? Do you want to be old and alone while your kids are too busy to care for you? Or do you want to live out your last days with family, friends and a sense of purpose? Long Term Vision also includes how we lay out our community. No need to re-invent the wheel here either. Its been demonstrated that through permaculture/key line/regenerative design principles, we can design our farms and communities to be productive, long lasting and aesthetically beautiful. Lets plant thousands and thousands of trees! If not for us then for the generations to come! This is what the long term vision is about.

Freeriver Community
Mission: Living in peace and harmony
From www.ic.org/directory/freeriver-community/:
Hi There! We are a group of people who are looking to set up a community of people who wish to live together in a free, peaceful, loving environment that is creative, and real. Our intention is to offer a space for people to live in peace and find what is right and true for them. A place for people to reflect on life and feel their way. It will be a place where people can really be themselves, to live creatively, freely, openly and honestly. A place that welcomes and invites true expression and 'realness'. A place where people can choose to live simply, with nature, cultivating their garden and watching the clouds drift by. There will be the possibility for people to stay for short periods, or for long periods of time and for people to make Freeriver their home. Life will become very simple and natural, like a tribe people will begin to become a family and develop close meaningful relationships. We've added lots of new things to our website and have some new members on board, please see for more details- freeriver.org Freeriver is a charitable venture and looks to offer all that it can for free. With help from donations, and contributions of skills, together we can create something truly beautiful. If this sounds like something you wish to support please email freerivercommunity@hotmail.com for more details. Peace and love.

Fiopa Community/Fiopa Consensus Collective
Mission: Coming soon. Gist: consensus, communication, non-violence, feminism
We are Fiopa Consensus Collective, aka C.T. Lawrence Butler and Wren Tuatha. in the long term, we are seeking to add members to our residential collective who will learn Value-Based Consensus and join us in our work as consultants to the Intentional Communities movement. In the short term, we are looking for an individual or couple to live on site and assist with our small goat rescue. Our ultimate goal is to establish a consensus institute that will be an Intentional Community for both educators and students of Values-Based Consensus and consensus (cooperative) culture generally. We're currently located in a log cabin on some land near Chico, California. Our collective is income-sharing and vegetarian. We're currently 2 adults, 3 dogs, a cat and sevenl brush goats.

Grace Sustainable Community
Mission: G.R.A.C.E. is a student organization taking responsibility to promote Greater Resource Awareness through Communication & Education. G.R.A.C.E. is currently 188 youth members; (85) YHS alumni, 2014-15 and (103) students currently enrolled in Environmental Science at Yap High School and expected to graduate 2015-16. Students are all introduced to Permaculture Principles of design through a variety of rigorous integrated projects including site mapping, socio economic survey and complex statistical analysis. G.R.A.C.E. students understand their dynamic role on the ecosystem and confirm this by pledging to make improvements on their home sites to decrease their negative environmental impact, as formulated in class. As part of their G.R.A.C.E. efforts student members are soliciting contracts from local agencies and community members for site repair projects, biodiversity surveys and rejuvenation projects such as sea wall, stone path and taro patch regeneration. These students are also making strides to get involved in the state and national policies that effect sensitive environmental issues facing us today. November 5, 2015 10 students witnessed at a public hearing on Fruit Bat Conservation in an attempt to make all of Yap a sanctuary. In response to this experience, G.R.A.C.E. will make strides to promote the goals under the Micronesia Challenge of protecting 20% of terrestrial resources by spreading awareness in our communities. Recognizing that bats play a keystone role as pollinators and seed dispersers in local forest ecosystems, GSC has dedicated more than 250 acres of combined lands to be used as a Sanctuary for Biodiversity rehabilitation, Conservation and Preservation of the Native Terrestrial Forest, which will be surveyed, logged and replanted by G.R.A.C.E. students as community service obligation. These students are representative of the whole island since Yap High School is the only state public high school, every municipality and most villages, including outer and neighboring islanders are represented by G.R.A.C.E. For this reason we have a greater ability to get environmental awareness and local issues to be heard in the community from the voice of the youth.
From www.ic.org/directory/grace-sustainable-community/:
Grace Sustainable Community will be a nonprofit organization designed to help revitalize a Yapese village in Micronesia. The originator, Molly McAFee-Bandag, a former Peace Corps volunteer on the island, and her Yapese husband, Joseph Bandag, will live on site during development. The project combines traditional Micronesian knowledge, with an understanding of the environmental impacts of land use, sustainable permaculture development, and renewable energy technologies. Focusing on long term sustainability and GREEN living, the farm will provide a model for easily implemented local projects in these areas: •Organic Chicken Farming •Renewable energy •Waterway management •Hydroponic and Aquaculture projects •Experiential education programs

Le Manoir
Mission: Le Manoir is an quebec income sharing intentional community. It supplies shelter (one shared house) and healthy and responsible food (mainly grown on site) to its members. It offers its members a different social environment to experiment new ways to live together and to develop their full potential, while having an impact on their extended community. The vision we have for le Manoir community is a balance of the following 5 principles: - Human relationship - Social Justice - Nature - Autonomy - Openness
From www.ic.org/directory/le-manoir/:
Le Manoir is an income sharing intentional community project. It aims food and energy sovereignty and plans to be fossil fuel free in a horizon of 20 years. It is based on egalitarian, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, feminist and activist values. As so, it is meant to be an active member of its larger community. In concret terms, le Manoir consists in one residence, large enough to host a minimum of 12 permanent members. This collective living space allows for sharing and practicing a healthy and enriching way of life that sustains each member's well-being and thriving and thus life in general. Inspired by principles of permaculture, radical simplicity, non-violent communication and anarchist practices and theories, this space is one of experimentation. Le Manoir community plans to settle on a piece of land in rural Quebec by 2016. We have a land, soon in common. We also have an organic farm on the land. We are eager to share any information we might have, or answer any question you might have. Please visit our website for more information. It is french only, but you can read our vision statement in english at this adress: manoir.community/vision/en ******************************* Le Manoir est un projet de communauté intentionnelle québécoise à revenu partagé. Elle vise l'autosuffisance alimentaire, énergétique ainsi que l'indépendance au pétrole, dans un horizon d'environ 20 ans. Elle se veut égalitaire, anti-capitaliste, anti-autoritaire, féministe, activiste, membre à part entière de la communauté élargie. Plus concrètement, cette communauté consiste en une seule résidence pouvant accueillir minimalement une douzaine de personnes, en milieu rural. Ce lieu de vie permet le partage et la mise en pratique d'un mode de vie sain et enrichissant, visant le bien-être et l'épanouissement de chacun-e de ses membres et de la vie en général. Inspiré des principes de la permaculture, de la simplicité volontaire, de la communication non-violente et des théories et pratiques anarchistes, c'est un espace d'expérimentation. Nous sommes bientôt collectivement propriétaires de notre terre. Ça fait depuis 2016 que nous y habitons. Nous avons aussi une ferme bio sur la terre où certain-es d'entres nous travaillons. Nous vous invitons à visiter notre site internet (manoir.community), sur lequel nous ajoutons régulièrement des articles qui couvrent l'avancée de nos démarches (visites, conférences, formations), des études de cas (communautés existantes mises en relation par rapport aux valeurs importantes pour nous), et des réflexions. Inscrivez-vous à nos infolettres pour rester informé-e-s!

One New Man - Kingdom Of God
Mission: Shalom! - Hello and Welcome. Do you want to help start a, USA based “One New Man – Kingdom Of God” Christian Kibbutz and Tiny House Eco-Village? If Yes, you have come to the right place. Please read all the information that follows, then if you agree with our our unique end times vision and beliefs, come join us in this united effort today! Imagine a group of Believers in Yeshua/Jesus that includes both Saved/Born Again Hebrews and Gentiles [Christians], who choose to be trained in and live out Bible based “One New Man – Kingdom Of God” Principles together [Ephesians 2:12-20, Acts 2:38-47] in preparation for His soon Second Coming and our 1000 year reign as Kings and Priests. This group has three major goals; First to build a US based Kibbutz/Eco-village and Tiny House/Co-housing style spiritual community/family. Second, to start a local Church Fellowship. And third, to establish a School that teaches Kingdom principles. Together, these goals will allow us to live, learn, work, play, worship, minister and serve together as one under Jehovah/God. If you too feel called to this "One New Man - Kingdom Of God" lifestyle, then we welcome you to join us in this effort. It is only by working together, in the name of Yeshua, that we can build something wonderful. We look forward to your participation and if you have any Prayer needs, Praise reports or are ready to Fellowship in person, please let us know. For lots more info see our Community Description on this page, then visit our Main Web Page by clicking the link provided on this page or copy and paste into your search bar the following URL: http://somacommunity.wix.com/kingdomofgod (Note: check your “Spam Folder” for our initial E-mail and mark as “Not Spam”) Thank You and God Bless! Elder - Kevin Pray for the Peace of Israel and America. ~ the One New Man – Kingdom Of God community ~ " Where Hebrew and Gentile are One"
From www.ic.org/directory/kingdom-of-god/:
Founding Members Wanted - We are actively seeking other believers in Yeshua/Jesus from around the world who are interested in establishing the Kingdom of God/Jehovah, on earth in the here and now [Matthew 6:33] by living/working together [Acts 2:38-47] in an Intentional Community. Whether you are a Christian or Jew, Hebrew or Gentile, Messianic or Independent believer and/or go by some other Biblical name, as long as you follow the One True God/Jehovah and believe that the Bible Covenants, old and new, are the one inspired/written Word of God, that Yeshua/Jesus Christ, is the fulfillment of the promised Messiah/Savior and that we are living in the last of the last days – then you are the Chosen Bride – the “One New Man” [Ephesians 2:12-20] prophesied for the end times and are welcome to join us. This community will consist of a US based Kibbutz/Eco-village and Tiny House/Co-housing style spiritual community/family. It will have individual Tiny/Small Houses/Trailers, and Tents/Yurts plus a shared Dorm House all with moderate membership and living fees, required weekly work hours, sensible rules and regulations, and a regular membership process. In addition there will be several Business Enterprises, a Community Center, a Kingdom School and Temple/House of Worship. Other facilities will include: a kitchen, dinning hall, bathrooms, work sheds, bathing house, recreation facilities plus gardens, a small farm, animal husbandry, barn, groves, vineyards, classrooms, multi purpose hall and prayer/meditation gardens, gazebos and more. We will also offer opportunities for visitors to come for: special events/feasts, weekend market shopping, attending classes, volunteer work days, retreats, open houses, church services and conferences. Initially, we are looking for believers with special community skills like; green building, gardening, fitness training, nutrition, teaching – all aspects of the spiritual life and community living, medical, conflict resolution, security, cooking, landscaping, construction - all trades, animal husbandry, farming, mechanics, group consensus and __?__, you fill in the blank. If all this Resonates and you are a true Believer who has God inspired ideas, spiritual gifts, practical talents, special perma-culture skills and/or you have land, equipment or facilities that you would like to offer/donate (currently we have no land or facilities) or you have a home in which we can begin meeting and planning, then please get in touch. The Last Days are upon us and our Messiah is coming soon… it is time for all of us to become the Kings and Priests we are meant to be… so join the “One New Man – Kingdom of God“ community today! For lots more info on our Church Fellowship and/or Bible and Eco-Village School, please visit our Main Web Page by clicking the link provided on this page or copy and paste into your search bar the following URL: http://somacommunity.wix.com/kingdomofgod (Note: our initial E-mail might appear in your “Spam Folder”, please check and mark as “Not Spam”) Thank You and God Bless! Elder - Kevin Pray for the Peace of Israel and America. ~ the One New Man – Kingdom Of God community ~ Where Hebrew and Gentile are One To see our "Intro Video" copy and paste into your search bar the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3BvoeApBzU To be Saved/Born Again copy and paste into your search bar the following URL: http://youtu.be/-wrnUcrD05c

Heartbeet Lifesharing
Mission: Heartbeet is a vibrant lifesharing Camphill community and licensed therapeutic residence that includes adults with developmental disabilities and interweaves the social and agricultural realms for the healing and renewing of our society and the earth. Community members live and work together, in beautiful extended family households, forming a mutually supportive environment that enables each individual to discover and develop his or her unique abilities and potential.
From www.ic.org/directory/heartbeet-lifesharing/:
Located in Hardwick, Vermont, on a 150 acre farm, Heartbeet is a licensed Therapeutic Community Residence recognized by the State of Vermont and has recently been incorporated into the Camphill Association of communities,where everyone, regardless of ability, can find meaning, dignity, and delight in life. Long-term volunteers, adults with special needs, and volunteers who come for a year of service work, learn and play together, celebrating the myriad joys and challenges of life. In Vermont the land is full of rolling mountains and hidden valleys; towns are small and people have to make an effort to reach out to each other. People care about their neighbors and are willing to stand up for what they think is right (we still haveTown Meetings). From its inception Heartbeet has fit right in and is committed to building relationships and cultivating all that is best in the small-town community way of life. Driving up our steep hill, the road opens onto a beautiful view of fields and forest, swim pond and red barn, and three lovely homes. You get the feeling that you have arrived in a place alive with the wonder and joy of the earth and human relationships. The work we do at Heartbeet is based on a spiritual understanding of the human being, the earth, and the universe. Anthroposophy (literally "the wisdom of the human being") was conceived by Dr. Rudolf Steiner of Austria in the early decades of the 20th century. Anthroposophy has inspired innovations in many areas of life, and has given rise not only to Camphill communities, but to Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and new forms of medicine, therapies and the arts. All share a common dream of social, cultural and economic renewal. Our foundation in anthroposophy manifests itself in the recognition that each human being comprises a body, soul, and spirit, and we believe each of these aspects has the capacity to grow, develop and learn. We recognize that each person is on an inner journey, and we can actively support each other by the ways we live, learn, and work together.

Fairy Forest
Mission: We CHANGED our NAME! We are no longer "Creative Sanctuary and Freedom Farm" This idea of building a sustainable village in the forest began when I was a 10 years old. Since then I have been many places and done many things, and now I am finally ready to fullfill my childhood and lifelong dream. I never even knew why I had this dream, really, just did. Then six months ago I met someone I could clearly tell was a clairvoyant, and she told me that I am a fairy. She told me as if I should know this already. She was actually shocked when I told her I didn't know! So, I went home and learned as much as I could about REAL fairies. I read online articles, then I read Doreen Virtue's book about incarnated fairies and now everything about me makes sense! NOW I am SO READY to connect with my encarnated elemental brothers and sisters to demonstrate what living in harmony with nature looks like, and help to inspire the world with our other creative passions! This is why we are here. Come, and stay as long as you like.
From www.ic.org/directory/creative-sanctuary-and-freedom-farm/:
Step by step, this is to become a retreat from monetary economies and a sacred space to awaken and experience spiritual discovery in environment full of life, love, and inspiration built to inspire a new way of thinking, living, and creating. Its humanity's time to thrive on Earth. We are currently looking for creative individuals that are truly optimistic and ambitious about making a positive change in humanity as well as spiritual healers and aspiring healers to come and build a strong community of unconditional love for all. We want to share plant knowledge and earthen-house building as a form of meditation. We are attempting to free ourselves from a monetary economy, so others who are on the same path are welcome to come and share ideas on instigating a resource-based economy. We are very peaceful and open-minded people, and we believe that we must be the change that we see in the world. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Peace, love and naked squirrels!

Konohana Family
Mission: Spirituality, Oneness
From www.ic.org/directory/konohana-family/:
Konohana Family is an agriculture-based community at the foot of Mt. Fuji where 80 non blood-related members live as one big family (as of 2013 Dec). In 1994, 20 members found Konohana Farm, which then was renamed to Konohana Family. They aimed to establish a community where people can live together by supporting each other in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan. The name “Konohana” comes from the goddess of Mt. Fuji, “Konohana Sakuyahime no Mikoto”. Since its establishment, the family has built a certain life style based on harmony. All members make full use of their talents in daily life, playing specific roles, and helping each other. Konohana Family practices organic agriculture, and does not use any chemical fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, or genetically modified technology. We choose a sustainable method that provides a good balance between self-sufficiency and productivity, and paying attention to the natural resource circuits. Our total farm land covers 18 hectares; 9 hectares are for vegetables and grains, and the other 9 for rice. Most of the land is borrowed for free from our local neighbors. We produce most of our food – 260 types of vegetables, grains, 11 types of rice, free-range eggs, pure honey, and miso (fermented soy paste), soy-sauce, and other processed food, produced with traditional methods. We only purchase sugar, salt, and some spices. We also use “Konohana-kin” (Konohana-microorganisms), an original cultured microorganism solution based on the Effective Microorganisms (EM), for livestock’s feed and water, which significantly reduces odor and creates a healthy environment overall. “Konohana-kin” is used for fermentation process of natural fertilizers, spraying for crops, and for humans to drink as a lactobacillus beverage for our health. Konohana Family has taken unique steps for the last 19 years without any specific ideology or model. Recently, it received high recognition as an ecovillage in various aspects for its initiatives such as: the environmentally friendly life-style that achieved high self-sufficiency of food based on organic agriculture; harmonious community building based on high-level of spirituality; a mutually-supported system based on common economy, and spirituality that is deeply rooted in the daily life without belonging to a specific religion or denomination. These aspects have attracted attention domestically and internationally.

Spirit of Nature Global-Natives at Mt. SoNNoS
Mission: Healing via Huna, Higher self connection . meditation, prayer Organic Community, Spirit of Nature
Global-Natives at Mt. SoNNoS is part of an interconnected network of communities, most in the early formative stages. The core of these communities' philosophy is the BIOversity - a place of alternative teaching and learning that promotes alternative, we consider more fruitful and fulfilling, ways of living with a deeper, more respectful and spiritual connection with Mother Earth. We are very few permanent residents, but many more transient visiting Global-Native tribal members from across the globe. People often stay from just days to weeks to months, but hopefully we can establish a larger core of more permanent years-long members. We aspire to become more self-reliant but not isolating or insulating ourselves from broader, more conventional society. We maintain completely open doors and, at this point especially, strive to plant seeds of inspiration in the hearts and minds of all visitors, whether from the local, national, or global community. By Western standards, our lifestyle appears very simple, with minimal electricity, appliances, hi-tech gadgetry, or amenities. But our lifestyle is rich and, in many ways, deeply complex as we rediscover our cultural heritage of intimate, community-based living, more connected to our so-called natural environment, striving to daily better understand the daily rhythms of the human and non-human worlds and the beautifully complex plant and animal worlds.

The Tribe of Kelta
Mission: We seek to build understanding between ancient and contemporary life ways by blending modern technologies and proven traditional skills with a natural tribal social structure. We are for any who wish to support or be a part of an autonomous association of like-minded, free-thinking individuals and families bonded by oath to each other and united voluntarily in body & spirit as the Tribe of Kelta. For the purpose of not only mutual support and protection but to belong to something greater than one's self and become family as sons and daughters of the Keltan tribe for the generations to come.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-tribe-of-kelta/:
The founding of a modern tribe. If you are a prepper, survivalist, disgruntled vet/patriot or one of the disillusioned, disenfranchised, angry and oppressed masses who no longer claim loyalty to self serving governments and their corporate slave system. You are not alone. I've been working on an idea for a group for a few years. The group would consist of individuals, couples and families who take a personal oath of mutual protection, mutual support, loyalty to each other and to the tribe. Socially it would have a tribal structure and it's members would function as an extended family. A group (tribe) of this nature would easily absorb the best ideas and methods of other successful groups into it's own culture making it stronger and more efficient. In any situation whether it be a economic collapse, earth changes, political unrest, societal breakdown or just the daily problems and stress of life, the tribe will be there to give help and support. Through our work and play, good times and bad, our oaths to each other and the tribe as a whole will be an unbreakable bond. This will establish an environment to provide the group support necessary for every member to attain his or her highest potential for happiness, security and personal growth. In addition to forming the tribe and building our unique culture, our goal is to acquire land by purchase or donation to establish a tribal community for our members who wish. Over time we hope to build a regional, national and eventually a global network of connected, self-sufficient communities. In these communities we will practice permaculture to live in harmony our environment and have as little unnecessary permanent impact on the land as possible. Our communities will take advantage of all useful technologies and products available such as solar, wind and water power systems, Aquaponics, Internet, communications, etc. to optimize our efficiency, comfort, and effectiveness. Through our daily interactions, social interdependence and devotion to tribe and self, we will foster a viable lasting culture for our children and generations to come. I'm currently in the beginning phases of this endeavor, and seeking interested open minded individuals, couples, and families to join and participate in its forming or just help by brainstorming this vision with us. Tell us about yourself, skills, past experience, and any other things you can offer to the tribe during its forming and infancy. When replying please note any helpful knowledge or experience in the following areas. 1. Social Media ( Facebook, YouTube etc. ). 2. Non-Profit Organizations ( Establishing, Operation, Fund Raising, etc. ). 3. Finance/Marketing. 4. Business Management. 5. Real Estate/Property Law. 6. Any work with Intentional Communities. 7. Civil/Criminal Law. 8. Security/Military. 9. Bushcraft/Survival. I have set up a forum ( http://tribalistic.proboards.com/ ) for those who are interested in neo-tribalism and to aid in the communication and networking between people interested in being a part of this or who are just curious and want to add to one of the topics.

The Draw Permaculture Sanctuary
Mission: co-creating a fecund Gaia
From www.ic.org/directory/the-draw-permaculture-sanctuary/:
We choose to manifest a life in which we embody the truth of our interconnectedness with all that is, and we commit all that we are to creating health at all levels of being. We believe that the Earth is sacred and we have chosen a lifeway in which we are healers of her. For us, nothing that does harm to her is worth the price that must be paid by the future of all life. We believe we must expand our concept of "self" to include our family, community, and land. We choose to become indigenous: saturating the land with meaning and story, animating her, blessing her, realizing we are a part of her. From our indigenous, animistic, permaculture story we attempt to bring forth a diverse and fecund ecosystem that will nourish our 'whole body'. We create food forests, marshes, savannah, and perennially-mulched no-till annual polycultures to re-envision food production. Using highly efficient heaters, super-insulated naturally built buildings, and appropriate site design we decrease our negative impact. Our life is our love made evident.

Foundational Living Colony of New Eden
Mission: TO HELP THE PUBLIC GAIN THE CLEAREST UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO COMMUNE WITH FELLOW MAN, WOMAN, AND GOD AS ONE KINGDOM UNDER HEAVEN The Foundational Living Colony stands for the "Foundational Truths" found in the Word of God, specifically the book of Genesis Chapter One, where it speaks about CREATION, the SIX DAYS OF CREATION and the DAY OF REST to recover. The Theme of CREATION will flow through the Community as each Day of Creation is emphasised; the "Living" we are promised as Children of God, as Yeshuah the Lord said, "I have come to give them life, and life in abundance!" with the attitude that we are "colonists" on this Earth, who have no permanent "Home", but seek a greater Homeland; the freedom of creativity, enjoyment, education, teaching, encouraging, entertainment, discipline, and especially SERVICE to God and one another through SHARING with one another what we have, and especially our excess with any in need; we stand for all the ancient practical vocations in life that make it self-sufficient and self-generating which will ALWAYS be in demand for the human body; Because we grow our own food, medicine, collect our own water, and produce our own children, teach our own children, we are thus able to be completely self-sufficient without the need to buy or sell anymore anything from the store with money, or associate with any dangerous influences or trouble or terror anymore. It is self generating and foundational from the ground up, and includes every establishment necessary for fullness of life, and the self-sustaining life for all of us in the pastoral environment.
The Foundational Living Colony stands for Creation, fullness of life, enjoying life to it's fullest extent, the way it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Foundation stands for the foundational things that make life life, where we are "living" creatures, having many gifts, talents and abilities, working together as a "team" for the building of a habitation of Rest for all people, a self-sustaining, self-generating community, and "colony" is a gathering of people who are "pilgrims" on earth, and like an ant colony works together to build their ant hill, the Colony works together as a team, nobody greater or lesser than the other, but for the sake of equality we work, and are servants to each other. The greatest here will be the servant of all. Service and a life of service is what the Colony is all about. The Living Colony is to have eleven establishments encompassing the full nature of life in enjoyment that will be built. It is a University Campus in form with educational opportunities for all, with a classroom environment and "hands-on activities for each hour of the day, an hour each day set aside for each subject: music, gardening, livestock, carpentry, art, Physician Healing Arts, Bird and Fish environments, military training and discipline, teamwork practice, and Theater and Entertainment: 1. The Resting Deer Lodge- The Lodge is the central hub in the community, where all gather for rest, for a cup of tea, mate, or coffee, to relax and listen to calming music, where people can speak, read poetry, lecture, and be heard. It is a place of meditation, rest and healing for all. 2. The Morning Star Music Hall- The music hall is where all gather for hearing the choir, the musical instruments, and where all dance. 3. The Garden and Greenhouse- The Garden will consist of all 12 vegetable families, the Orchard with Apples and the Vineyard of Grapes; while the Greenhouse will grow the Meditteranean Trees like the Olive tree, Pomegranite, Date Palm, Coconut Palm, Fig tree and more; a medicinal garden of herbs also with Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Lavender, Valerian, and more 4. The Physician's Healing Center and Apothecary- This center is to have access to all the trees, herbs, and medicines, Gemstones, with Frankinsence and Myrrh, to have all necessary medicines to heal all diseases, give massages, footbaths to release toxins, and more. Vegetarian nutrition is encouraged, the most universal health care for all people. 5. The Architectural Construction Center_ The Construction Center is to have the necessary saw-mills, tools, and instruments for the construction of the Livestock Stables, chicken coops, dog houses, posts, beams, rafters, chairs, furniture, and other items. Universal construction method is the Joint and Tennon method, the most secure and stable method. 6. The Military Training Facility- The Training Facility will train people for military discipline, respect, fitness, teamwork, and good morale among all. There will be excercises, salutes, marching, and battle strategy and battle re-enactments, team sports like basketball, capture-the-flag, and flag football. 7. The Astrological Space Center- The Space Center will teach people the stars, constellations, signs, seasons, calendars, and the beauty of the Heavens. The twelve constellations of the zodiac will be taught and studied, and the other 88 constellations of the universe. 8. Livestock area and sheepfold- The livestock area will include all necessary livestock: sheep, goats, cattle, and all pets, horse stable with horses. There will be no slaughter of animals, but only the milk, wool, and horse-power will be used. No death of animals will take place but they will be used for what they are. 9. Fish Marina and Bird Sanctuary- The fish will be stocked in a central pond and a swale or trough dug around the campus, where fish will be. There is to be a continual flow of water sourced by fountain pumps and water wheels to collect water. The central water source is to have a fountain and enclosed by the Resting Deer Lodge in the center. Birds shall have relative confinement but the freedom to fly as the please. Tame birds like parakeets and parrots are encouraged, yardbirds like cardinals and finches also encouraged and fed daily. 10. Entertainment, play and skit Amphitheater- The entertainment center will be for the entertainment of the people; where plays are enacted, skits, martial arts demonstrations, stories read and characters given lines and parts then enacted in plays. It will bring refreshment to all and lighten the mood for everyone involved. 11. Resurrection Burial Chambers- Preparation for our dead is necessary and vital. Proper care of any who die is a standard. Bodies are "embalmed" (preserved) with the preservational medicines of Aloe Vera and Myrrh Gum by dipping strips of cloth into an Aloe/Myrrh mixture and wrapping the bodies with that. This is done once every week. We are to care for the body even after death. Burial Chambers are to be built similar to a root cellar, yet with more eloquence. Chambers can be built with concrete slab foundation, cinder block walls, cedar or pine or acacia wood for the roof, and six feet of earth piled on top by a buldozer or a team of shovelers. The Chambers are to have a double-door entrance where those who embalm the dead can go freely in and out at will. This is the standard for all who die and proper care of the body after death. These are the eleven establishments for the Foundational Living Colony. All are welcome, young, middle aged, and elderly, all gifts, talents and abilities also encouraged. No one should be left out, but all welcome to engage in this great learning, building, and fellowship practice here. This is for the good of all people, all races, all ages, all men and women both; there is no partiality here. Come one and all and enjoy this process with me. Let us enjoy life again to it's fullest extent and be not hindered by anything. You are free to serve, you are not slaves. Welcome, and come soon!

Basic Elements Commune
Mission: Freedom of self!
From www.ic.org/directory/basic-elements-commune/:
A natural alternative to the hectic way of living today, shedding the complications and worry of normal society. By no means a workless environment, but one where what you work for means something to all involved! A true community in every sense! More to come in the coming days as we are forming. Ok, update time! For those of you following our journey, you'll be aware that we've hit a wall or two. The biggest of which is financial of course. We really would appreciate members WILLING to put as much into our new home as we are. Its never a requirement, but without help, we fear we may never realize this vision. The more that are willing, the easier it will be on all, like every other activity that takes place here. Please consider what you would be willing to put in, and contact us when you feel ready! Namaste!

Cherith Brook Catholic Worker
Mission: Hospitality to the Poor
From www.ic.org/directory/cherith-brook-catholic-worker/:
Cherith Brook is a residential Christian community committed to sharing table fellowship with strangers and all our resources with one another. We have found our inspiration from the early church and the Catholic Worker. We are a community that practices hospitality, peacemaking, and sustainability. We offer temporary housing, showers, clothes, and a warm meal to our friends from the streets. We all grow lots of food, care for chickens and bees, and are always looking for more ways to get closer to the land. Read below for more info: Our daily lives are structured around practicing the works of mercy as found in Jesus' teachings. We are committed to regularly feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming the stranger, visiting the prisoner and the sick in the name of Jesus. As followers of Jesus we understand our lives to be centered in God's Shalom. Cherith Brook strives to be a "school" for peacemaking in all its dimensions: political, communal, and personal, working constantly to undo poverty, racism and militarism. All of these can be summed up as the struggle to connect with the God of life. We pray that Cherith Brook be a space where all of us - the broken - can come to learn and relearn the ways of Jesus; a place to struggle together for God's call of love, mercy, peace and justice.

VEGANICCOHOUSING
Mission: VEGAN / VEGGY COMMUNITY
From www.ic.org/directory/veganiccohousing/:
VEGAN / VEGETARIAN COHOUSING COMMUNITY GROUP STATUS : Forming OPEN TO NEW PEOPLE : Sussex residents only please We are in the process of forming a small vegan/vegetarian cohousing community in Brighton in Sussex in the UK and are now inviting more people to join us to make it happen. We're looking for people who live in Brighton and are already fully committed vegans or vegetarians, passionate about animal rights and who share our core eco values and left wing world view. We need people with different kinds of skills such as gardening, permaculture, building, legal, people skills, herbal medicine, computer etc and who can give time and energy to all aspects of this project and form a close and sharing community. Ecological concerns are very important to this community and these would be the driving force behind the installation of high quality solar thermal or photovoltaic panels and or a domestic wind turbine with a feed in tariff, incorporating rainwater harvesting, underfloor heating, a wood burning stove and a communal fruit and veg growing area using permaculture. Where renovation and development are necessary, recycled and or locally sourced building materials will be used together with maximum energy efficiency measures. There will be composting and there could be a compost toilet. Rescued chickens and domestic animals as pets will be welcome. If you are interested in joining veganiccohousing you must be vegan or completely vegetarian which means no meat or fish at all and you must live in Brighton . . . For more info, including a schedule, property and buying options please visit our new website : veganiccohousing.com

Gladheart Farm
Mission: Togetherness, Unity, Love, Truth, Trust, Hope
From www.ic.org/directory/gladheart-farm/:
We are an Organic Farm that has a few animals(goats, chickens and bees) But we are more than that we are a spiritual Community that gathers twice a day at our Cabin to sing, share our hearts, and pray. We share a common life together based on the teachings of Yahshua, the son of God, actually doing the things that He commanded His disciples to do when He walked on the earth 2000 years ago. And, in a nutshell, what He commanded us to do is to love one another as He loved us. Not only is that a command, but it is deep in our hearts to do this. Our life is a life of self-sacrifice, where we are continually meeting the needs of those around us. Each of us that live here are fully devoting ALL of our time, energy, and possessions - everything - to seeing the reality of what is in our Creator's heart come about on the earth.
http://www.3eternaldestinies.org/

EdenHope
Mission: Edenhope is a space for living in harmony with the rhythms of nature. Our way of life is simple. This is a place to come home to the stillness of being. A sense of integrity and inner responsiveness to the needs of others is key in such a space, and essential to maintaining a sense of peace and harmony.
From www.ic.org/directory/edenhope-nature-preserve/:
Nestled in the upper reaches of the Palapa River on the pristine West Coast of Espiritu Santo, is the magical location of the spiritual commune EdenHope. In 800 Hectares of lush green valley and mountain ranges, lives a vibrant community of visionaries, artists and contemplatives, gardeners and plant healers, fruitarians, mystics and indigenous peoples.

Los Portales
Mission: human & spiritual development
From www.ic.org/directory/los-portales/:
Los Portales, a place to create consciousness; to learn, grow and care for the human spirit and the planet. Los Portales is an intentional community that practices innovative ways of life in different areas including organic agriculture, holistic education, deep psychology, empowering and power sharing systems of governance, conflict resolution, natural medicines, art, clean energies, an economy based on sharing, and above all, the empowerment of each individual, continually advancing towards greater sustainability and self-sufficiency. Founded in Andalucía in 1984 (although born in 1978 in Brussels), the inspiration of the founders was nurtured by Jungian psychology and dreamwork as a way to know and transform our fears and pains into power, and to access our hidden talents. We have a firm commitment to personal and global development and harmony through respect for oneself, each other and our environment. We conceive the community not as an end in itself, but as a means of creation and a path of transformation. Our mission is constantly evolving to respond to the global need for change at this very special time in the history of humanity. After 33 years of existence, Los Portales is a well-established, stable and broad project that has developed in many directions and integrated the main dimensions of sustainability. Ecological Our ecological consciousness developed gradually, from the inside out, through dreamwork, by listening to our deepest needs and longings and through our connection to our natural environment. Today we are 75% self-sufficient in food. We organically produce vegetables, seasonal fruit, grains, goat cheese, olive oil, medicinal herbs, spices, herbal teas and remedies, preserves and natural cosmetics. We also use local edible plants in our kitchen. We have taken measures not only to prevent erosion and desertification but also to regenerate the land and landscape (ongoing reforestation, water retention landscape and holistic management projects). We are totally off-grid, and water and power sovereign (we use solar panels, home-made wind turbines and a hydraulic turbine). Social The community is a dynamic, diverse and multi-generational group and is organised in a sociocratic structure, which is used for decision-making. We use dreamwork as well as Process Work, Forum tools, family and systemic constellations, among others, to practice deep democracy, transform relational difficulties and global conflicts. Each member is responsible for their own inner work and makes a commitment to the community to work on their own conflicts. Cultural We have developed our own culture and rituals as ways to celebrate our achievements and nourish our connection with the essence and meaning of our project. We value beauty, art, music, singing, dance, gastronomy, group meditation, as ways to give cohesion to the group. We believe that the spiritual dimension of the human being does not develop on the basis of adherence to a school, church or belief system, but spirituality comes when our hearts are open, light and available, and when our interpersonal relationships become creative, based in trust, respect and collaboration. Economic Our community was founded on a gift economy system; the principle that each contributes according to their possibilities and obtains from the group according to their needs, within a collectively agreed framework. This has developed over time into mixed economy incorporating community enterprises and individual income sources. We have achieved economic sustainability through producing a large portion of our own food, and creating income streams through our artisanal bread business, hosting workshops, visitors and giving courses. Holistic We find inspiration from the foundations of ecology and permaculture and apply them in the social and psychological dimensions of our lives. For example, we value diversity as a way of enriching our human and natural “ecosystem”, and we observe and honour the group as a living system, where each person’s role is valued. We explore the correspondence between the inside and the outside; we try to minimize the waste produced by our activities, starting with our “emotional waste”, which is often the most difficult to recycle, and we learn to support the self-regulating aspects of the group and its collective intelligence. Building Community In the Wider Environment We are active in our local environment through our links to the local authorities, schools and universities and a variety of local and regional networks. We also make our knowledge, experiences and practices accessible to the wider community through free regular guided visits, workshops, trainings, visits and retreats, participation in WWOOFING, conferences, and our temporary membership scheme. There is an urban extension of Los Portales in Madrid, Crealliance whose aim is to promote the creation of alliances between different areas of expertise and to build bridges between people from different backgrounds through sharing information, training and networking.

Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary
Mission: Animal rescue and rehabilitation. Intersection of animal rights, human rights and the environment.
From www.ic.org/directory/black-sheep-animal-sanctuary/:
The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary is a recently established animal sanctuary working with neglected/abused native and introduced animals. Our main focus is on rescued farm animals. We have 26 acres in the Otaki Forks area, just over an hour from Wellington. The sanctuary is strictly a human-vegan space. Queer/lesbian/gay/trans/bi/intersex friendly essential. We have a main house and are working towards sleepouts and other housing options. Currently 4 adults and one teenager permanent residents. We run 3 fundraising opshops/charity stores that help pay for the mortgage and animal care. Residents pay their own (communal) food costs. Currently over 160 animals residing at the sanctuary - pigs, goats, cows, sheep, cats, dogs, geese, chooks, ducks, a horse and more!

2nd Chance - New Beginnings
Mission: Endtimes and Aftertimes survival in 2016 and beyond...
From www.ic.org/directory/2nd-chance-new-beginnings/:
Like-minded people coming together and preparing for the coming times of financial collapse and cataclysmic events that would change our world as we know it today. A cohesive group that by unity survive in the best way possible - sharing knowledge, skills, resources and labor to ensure their future and well-being.

Walden Ecovillage
Mission: Rational. Sustainable. Live. Love. Learn.
From www.ic.org/directory/walden-ecovillage/:
Greetings Future Communards! We are a group of Libertarian Socialists, on a mission to create an Educational, Intentional Community Enterprise that's grounded in Naturalism, Egalitarianism and Environmentalism. By embracing Anarchist Communism, Sociocracy, Secular Humanist ethics, interpersonal and ecological intimacy, education, art, science and technology, we will create an high-tech environment that delivers optimal individual freedom and happiness, a strong and cohesive community, comprehensive sustainable self-sufficiency and regional ecological sustainability. And, we will do all of this, while living out our lives in an evolving therapeutic environment of our own creation. Our Therapeutic Ecovillage will consist of at least 4 parts. Each component will serve three basic functions: 1) provide for the direct needs of the community 2) deliver revenue from outside sources 3) serve marginalized populations. 1)Walden Ecoversity: an education, research and training center that develops academic, technological and vocational programming , products and services that relate to rational, sustainable living. 2) Walden Farm: All community lands and natural resources constitute the farm. a) It will provide year-round organic sustenance for residents & guests. b) Functions as the hands-on training facility for the Wellness Resort's Right Living curriculum. c) It is the laboratory for the agricultural college. 3) Walden Wellness Resort featuring: ABA, REBT, Secular Humanism, Permaculture & various non-mystical Eastern practices. a)Hotel b)Restaurant c)Spa (yoga, meditation, massage, exercise, Dietitian, personal services) d)Recreational facilities. 4)Ancillary businesses will be developed from mission-related factors, community need and the skills that members bring to the enterprise. Our Therapeutic Ecovillage Community Enterprise will: 1) provide 'Quality of All Life' research, training, support and social entrepreneurial functions. 2) demonstrate the exceptional lifestyle & individual happiness that's derived from living rationality, communally & ethically. 3) grow, disseminate and replicate. This overview is VERY superficial; please check out our website: http://www.waldenecovillage.info/ for a comprehensive description of our project.

Eighteenth Ave Peace House
Mission: Income-sharing Community
From www.ic.org/directory/eighteenth-ave-peace-house/:
We are 13 persons--couples and singles-- who share a common life and ministry in a large house in the Irvington neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Sharing includes income, possessions, time, affection and a Christian faith that is ecumenical, open and inclusive. Ministries include (a) community building, (b)peacemaking through personal witness and non-violent action, (c)hospitality, including a free weekly meal for low income, homeless people and (at times) free on site hospice care for persons who are dying, and (d)support for persons who are grieving because of personal loss and/or the disintegration of the social order. Every morning we gather for community prayer and Bible study, and every evening we share a common meal. Visitors are encouraged to join us for these activities, although in the case of supper we ask people to call us ahead of time. In 2011 we celebrated our 25th anniversary. Four of the original founding members of the household are still here after these many years.

One Community
Mission: Our Purpose, Vision, and Mission Page: https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/purpose-mission-values/
From www.ic.org/directory/one-community/:
One Community is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization practicing a philosophy for The Highest Good of All as the foundation for all our decisions. Our purpose is global transformation and our approach is designing and open source free-sharing comprehensive sustainability components so people have access to these resources anywhere in the world. Please visit our website for complete details on what we are creating, who we are seeking, and how to get involved.

Terre Rouge creek farm
Mission: live,work, enjoy country life,we need SELF STARTERS, looking toward the future
From www.ic.org/directory/terre-rouge-creek-farm/:
we are a currently operating farm, 100 acres, and a thriving fish farm business. We are looking to expand production, in organic produce, with the help of self motivated individuals interested in sustainable farming. Equipment available for hydroponics or aquaponics.Plenty of room for campers, trailers, RV's, or there is an available 1 room cabin with electric, wifi, and phone. We live, work, and play together, we are very open minded, and love what we do. This is a room and board position, for starters, a stipened, will be considered depending on performance, and as a bonus, all basic necessities will be provided, we will not furnish your habits, please serious people only.

CampOma Rural & Pumpkin Spice Urban EcoVillage
Mission: enviro-spiritual, healing camp. My vision for the land: A place where families and individuals contribute to a community of acceptance, love, joy, and a place for meaningful work. A place where individual's visions can become reality – so long as it melds with the the existing group and their parameters of being environmentally sound. A healing, smoke and drug free environment. Self sustaining, off the grid, able to grow most of our own food using a permaculture model. A strong commitment from members to deal with one's emotional stuff and a willingness to learn how to communicate compassionately and be respectful to everyone. This is a healing center for the community, our guests, and the land. We aim to have a retreat in the woods with tree houses, cob, cord wood, strawbale and all sorts of fun eco-structures (ie. boat beds in the air, hammock camping, hobbit holes etc! - your imagination is the limit). A campground for individuals of all ages and families to learn about the natural environment and gain skills they can use elsewhere. An outdoor school program. Eco-businesses such as furniture making from the 100 acres of maple trees, natural building workshops, Llama packing, wilderness survival, mushroom growing for entrepreneurial souls are but a few ideas to generate our own economic security. Everyone will contribute what they can in time, talent, and treasure (perhaps 50% income sharing?). Work as little as possible for the money economy on the outside world and incorporate a fair trade system, including exchange for our services like food, helping build each other's housing, retreats, and workshops. Generate enough capital from business off the land to sustain ourselves and be debt and mortgage free. Yeah! We will serve as good stewards of the land to rejuvenate the previously clear cut forest and rehabilitate the creek. We intend to have a permaculture garden and food forest, and recruit interns to teach gardening and natural building to. We want to extend ourselves beyond our boundaries to share our skills and tools with neighbors and visitors. We aim to establish eco-village zoning to be able to grow beyond 20 members to approximately 120 -130 members eventually. We will serve as a world-wide model of a new operating system which meets our social, economic and basic human needs without oppressing others, with cooperation rather than competition, which is life affirming as the fullest expression of what it is to be a self actualized human able to joyously care for each other, our neighbors and our environment!
From www.ic.org/directory/campoma/:
We have a city & rural community within the Portland area. Eagle Creek, just 25 miles outside of beautiful Portland, Oregon, is situated in the foothills of Mt. Hood on 120 acres, and is the home of a rustic, newly forming enviro-spiritual, healing, permaculture community and are hoping to start an Outdoor School program. In Portland we have a 4 bedroom house on 1/4 of an acre with 2 chickens currently and we are installing a geothermal greenhouse. Ideally, we are looking for 10 -15 pioneering individuals or couples to put energy into creating this community. We hope to be able to serve those who need a city connection at times and those who want to be more off-grid. The land is paid for already, so that is not a hurdle; however, everything else: road in, the buildings, water, energy sources, monetary resources etc. still needs to be created. I plan to build a home and put in some infrastructure in 2019. If you like to start with a completely open slate and create from scratch, then this community is for you! Open to all sorts of ideas provided they fit within the realm of being environmentally sound and are suitable to forestland. Consider furniture making, building treehouses and natural buildings, setting up a camp for kids and adults to learn about nature and survival skills, hosting healing retreats, doing llama packing, spinning your own wool etc. Really the possibilities are as large as your imagination. You must be emotionally mature and ready to learn, expand and stretch beyond your comfort zone to make a healthy community and create a true space of love. We plan to start small with 10 - 15 members and who knows if eco-village zoning becomes a legal zone to grow from there. THIS IS A DRUG AND SMOKE FREE COMMUNITY (including marijuana and limited to preferably no alcohol). That's the main liberation! Please submit your ideas and the gifts you bring for consideration as a founding member of this community to FionaRhea. If you're local to Portland, come join us up on the land most of the summer as we work on various projects. I recommend reading Creating a Life Together and the Ringing Cedar series for insights into building community. Come see what we're up to and see if you'd like to put some roots down and start a project of your own!
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http://www.meetup.com/Intentional-Community-Ecovillage/: Here we post our meetings and events as well as meeting minutes, vision under Discussions tab. This is a great way to keep in touch with what we're up to.

Collectif Creatif du Castellas
Mission: Community in village, France
From www.ic.org/directory/collectif-creatif-du-castellas/:
Our community is five years old with 3 adults. It was founded March 2012. There are openings for 10 to 15 members. We have purchased a huge building in Besseges, France (Gard), have begun the first phase of renovation and have started our veggie garden. We have bees and 10 chickens. We have also started an artist residency and our cantine is open for organic, vegetarian noon meals for the public. We have weekly work days and organizational meetings every weeks based on consensus. Our community offers living and work space for permanent members or only work space for members living in the area. We have a sewing workshop, metal/wood workshop and a forge is being developed. We are searching for ideas to have cottage industries. Private quarters will remain small and the community spaces will include a kitchen, a laundry room, bathrooms, library, two multi purpose spaces for exhibits,workshops meetings, theatre, concerts, office space for the association... The founding members have created an association which owns the building. Permanent members loan money to the association while living and working within the community. If they decide to leave they will be reimbursed without interest after leaving. Supporting members also loan money which enables us to auto finance the renovation. But we will also be looking for various subsidies. We have been able to purchase the building with membership loans so far. We do not intend to use bank loans. Permanent and active members pay a monthly contribution to the association to cover expenses : food, water, electricity, insurance, taxes ... And of course we renovate ecologically : wood burning furnace, solar, natural insulation... For more information please consult our site (in French). If you are interested in our project please e-mail contact@collectifcreatifcastellas.org

Desert Light Circle
Mission: self-sustaining community-retreat...meditation/contemplation holistic atmosphere.........
From www.ic.org/directory/desert-light-circle/:
Cosmic-spiritual brother of Light & Love welcomes inquiries, networking & connecting with fellow lightworkers/ Planetary Healers...of like mind... have secluded home on land/developing retreat in the hi-desert of So. Ca. -- just down the road from Giant Rock, in Landers CA -- with developing vegi/grain- and, bee/seed garden...that attracts Nature Spirits... medicinal/combo.. plants, herbs, flowers, fruit trees, woodshop, toward self-sustaining and more...into spirituality, meditation/yoga, holistic arts, massage-energy healing, campfires/ stargazing... seeking fellow lightworkers, spiritual seekers, planetary healers & cosmic travelers that we might, together, anchor increasing Light within our Selves and throughout mankind... fulfilling our choosen mission on Mother Earth! The importance of community in this day and age is clearly obvious... whether small scale or large. These communities/retreats are like points of Light... where the Light of Spirit is magnetized, amplyfied and radiated in increasing degrees from within us individully and collectively...and out to the world of need...esp. as it is multipled with numbers and extra powerful. And Lightworkers -- i.e., those who are daily practicing lightwork for personal and planetary upliftment -- might be drawn to locations and certain souls to increase our intuitive-spiritual insights together Presently, the "Desert Light Circle" is a small developing retreat. Short-term visits -- perhaps even a day or weekend away from the "big city", but also possibly longer-term visitors esp. Lightworkers who resonate and work well together... Welcome students/seekers (and enlightened friends) seeking spiritual enlightenment! And increasing knowingness of our individual and collective purpose with Mother Earth and all fellow cosmic Beings welcome communication with fellow brothers and sisters of Light anytime -- email me -- even if you might not visit here...have awareness to share................ Nameste! God/Goddess Bless us All! Most humbly, yogidave P.S. let us all be ready for big changes in 2016.....and unite ps.....not open to visits presently.....................

Kalikalos
Mission: Summer community in Greece
From www.ic.org/directory/kalikalos/:
Kalikalos is a seasonal summer community located in the Pelion region of Greece, established by the Holly Foundation (a 501(C)3 not-for-profit educational trust) to demonstrate the value of authentic community as a vehicle for a new culture of peace, partnership and sustainability. Our mission is to show that by sharing, working, learning, and playing together, each of us—by living our own unique truths—can heal ourselves and our planet. * We are an educational project, in effect a living-learning community-based summer school, running each year for five months from mid-May through mid-October in Greece. The core community consists of two or three full-time members and up to half a dozen transient volunteers who stay for periods of one to five months, receiving food and accommodation in exchange for their work in the community. Our income is derived from workshops, retreats, work-camps, and conferences in the areas of healing (self and planet), personal creativity, interpersonal communication, and Self-enquiry. * Our aim is to provide a temporary but authentic community environment for our guests and participants to practice living the values and insights gained through the holistic courses offered here. * The international community group that holds the Centre is inspired by the Findhorn ecovillage in northern Scotland, employing many of the processes developed there, including particularly attunement with nature, focalisation of work, and Way of Council. Our decisions are mostly made through consensus. We have a large organic vegetable garden that incorporates permaculture principles. We are located in the Pelion forest, a lush green ecosystem about seven kilometers from spectacular Aegean beaches. * We are always open to new temporary community members, who usually come to us first on a two-week trial basis during which we ask for a small financial contribution (currently $200). * During the winter months community members disperse, but many of them continue to work for the community doing fund raising, PR, web design, brochure layout, and other administrative jobs in preparation for the following summer in Greece.

The Roost
Mission: NA
From www.ic.org/directory/the-roost/:
**We are currently at capacity and not accepting new members.**

HEAL
Mission: Environmental Energy Healing of Earth and Life
From www.ic.org/directory/heal/:
H.E.A.L. (Heal Earth And Life)Think of H.E.A.L. as a very cool, well organized tool shed for humanity. It is our hope to give an environmental example in our community of how man can live as one with nature, using all of our renewable energy sources, feed ourselves good healthy organic food, experiment with best eco friendly building practices while teaching others to do the same. Do you have some ideas for making our project better? There´s plenty of room, and we welcome you to be a part of this working/teaching environmental classroom. H.E.A.L. has a simple belief. This planet is our home! There is a definite connection between its health and ours. We as a generation are moving to new heights with our ability to rejuvenate, renovate, and resupply our bodies and minds with so much that is good for us. Let’s do the same for the place we live, our home, this planet. There is power in the masses and their movement. These days that movement is towards hope. Look around you and you will see it everywhere. We at H.E.A.L. would like to identify the problems, present the solutions and put them in the hands of the people who can make a difference, YOU! We need your help to find the sharpest tools on the planet: those people who know the answers, who know how to fix what's damaged or broken—the experts at global and human restoration. We want to support them and pay them to do what they do best, provide solutions! If you are interested in this adventure please contact us and hey, thanks for being HERE! Ziggy, C.E.O.(Concerned Environmental Officer) H.E.A.L. (Heal Earth And Life)

Oran Mor Community
Mission: We live harmoniously with the land, loving and respecting all its inhabitants.
From www.ic.org/directory/oran-mor/:
Currently Seeking: Interns and Apprentices with knowledge of Natural Building and Permaculture or a willingness to learn! We are a small egalitarian community and organic farm established in June of 2003 and situated on 113 acres in the hills of Ozark County, MO. The terrain is rocky with several creeks and we enjoy four distinctly, beautiful seasons. We raise dairy goats, rabbits, egg chickens & ducks, geese, guineas, dogs n cats, and lots of vegetables using local organic inputs and no-till design. We grow extensive herb gardens and fruit trees. We work to put the principles of Permaculture into daily practice, using clean energy resources and recycling our waste as best we can. We are striving to minimize our reliance on fossil fuels and electricity as much as possible. Our commitment to living simply translates to many lifestyle choices here. Our main communal building runs on solar power and has few ammenities. We have a trailer connected to the grid that powers the rest of the farm. We do all of our cooking on woodfires year round, which means cooking in our outdoor kitchen in the warmer months. Our laundry is done by hand and dried on clothes lines. Our dishes are done by hand using rain water heated on our woodfire. Our shower water is also heated on the woodstove. These are some central differences to what most folks are used to. It is a commitment of time and effort, and we feel it is rewarding and pays off. We love life and we have fun with our commitments. We offer a wide range of skilled and unskilled work experiences in gardening, cooking, canning, fermentation, sustainable construction, milking, cheesemaking, forestry, salvage, maintenance, and more. We have an ongoing need for alternative, ecologically aware construction, organic permaculture style gardening, home and land improvement, and hard workers with thoughtful conversations. Length of stay is entirely negotiable. We are accepting new members. Meals are communal. WWOOFers will be expected to attend daily priority meetings and to take an active part in chores and projects. Opportunities are available year 'round. Very limited transportation is available. Children and pets are welcome with prior approval. Alcohol is enjoyed occasionally. Some of us smoke. Please read our website for more info - www.oranmorcommunity.org

Freedom-Universe
Mission: Egalitarian Cooperation
From www.ic.org/directory/freedom-universe/:
Freedom-Universe is an Egalitarian Intentional Community on 40 rural acres in north central Arizona with a small residential house in the town of Prescott, AZ. This community is being built on a foundation of interpersonal relationships based on shared values such as conviviality, social tolerance, equality, honesty, and nonviolence. Members can only join as sovereign individuals. There is no membership category available for traditional monogamous couples (married or not). Whatever consenting adult members agree to do (share) with each other is considered ethical and fair. Egalitarian Polyfidelity inside of Sacred Sexuality is the family structure for the Freedom-Universe Tribe and intentional family. The religious idea of "original sin" is not embraced here. The nude human body is not viewed as obscene, and in support of that view, this is a clothing optional tribe/family. Environmental and economic sustainability will be pursued using renewable energy, sustainable building materials and techniques, permaculture, and organic/bio-dynamic gardening. Greed and deception are reinforced in any system of economic hierarchy--whether it is capitalism, nazism, fascism, communism/totalitarianism, monarchy, or outright dictatorship--due to the erroneous cultural conditioning that competition is the only process that creates technological advances and improves economic prosperity. In an economic hierarchy, deception is observable in almost every marketing pitch made, where the goal is increasing consumerism, thereby redistributing the bulk of the wealth of the planet to an increasingly smaller percentage of its inhabitants. Correspondingly, this is to the economic detriment of the increasingly larger segment of the population now living below Maslow's basic hierarchy of needs, i.e., in poverty. Freedom-Universe will represent a model of egalitarian cooperation and sharing embodying the value of "love thy neighbor as thyself," instead of competition, greed and deception. #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyDC #OccupyDemocracy #OccupyAmerica #OccupyTogether In Harmony, Equality, Love, Peace, and Solidarity, kya twitter: @freedomuniverse
3) Freedom-Universe: THE LAW OF MUTUAL CONSENT: http://www.freedom-universe.org/consent.htm
2) Freedom-Universe: THE 13 BASIC ETHICAL FAMILY VALUES: http://www.freedom-universe.org/values.htm
1) Kerista: Polyfidelity: http://www.kerista.com/poly.html

Dancing Bones
Mission: Simply Living, Interdependently.
From www.ic.org/directory/dancing-bones/:
Dancing Bones is located in the Baker River Valley and the entrance to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Connecticut River is a 20 minute drive and the Appalachian Trail is 1.4 miles from the end of our driveway. There are many other ponds, streams, lakes, hiking trails, rock climbing and camping opportunities close at hand, to say nothing of the wintertime activities. The nearest gas station is ten minutes away and the nearest major shopping destinations are 30+ minutes away. The community is situated hillside, amongst 40 acres of deciduous forest. A 16x32 cabin functions as our community building with shared kitchen, shower and laundry. For overnight visitors, we have indoor, four season accommodations available. Peppered throughout are a handful of residential cabins. Each cabin is given a name that reflects the character of the person/people who originally built it or the function it serves. All residences and public privies use a humanure composting toilet system. The land is held in a community trust. The trust is made of nine members, three from Dancing Bones and six from the greater community. The trust leases the land to Dancing Bones residents. All residential decisions are made using consensus. We are ever striving to increase the interdependence of community relationships. Participants are emotionally, economically, ecologically and/or morally reliant on and responsible to each other. While the residents of Dancing Bones are diverse, there are common values and interests we share. These values include deliberate decision making and action, personal responsibility and social inclusion and involvement. As a result, our interests tend towards unschooling, attachment parenting, alternative technologies and construction, non-mainstream diet and hygiene, temperament theory, voluntary simplicity and an appreciation for the undomesticated aspects of life. Once a week, we have a shared meal following our business meeting, both open to all visitors. We are *always* seeking new community members. We're looking for adaptable, committed, hearty folks who respect the consensus process and seek interdependence.

Mourne Grange Camphill Village Community
Mission: Lying in the foothills of the Mourne mountains in peaceful rural surroundings, Mourne Grange is a working village in which everyone participates and is interested and concerned with community life. Life in the various households is like that of a family, since co-workers and their children, young and old alike, live together without the restriction of shifts and rotas, or payment for work or time given.
Community Mourne Grange was established in 1971, as the first adult community in Northern Ireland. It is now the home for more than 140 people, including adults with special needs who live and work together with co-workers and their families.

Elim (Evangelische Leefgemeenschap Immanuël)
Mission: Christian community-life
The community Elim provides for their own livelihood through full-time and part-time jobs, and consists right now of ten adults. Most of the income comes from the running of a technical illustration and design bureau, Bible Study Centre, and various jobs. Community members live with a common purse, from which all costs are paid: rent, cars, holidays, pocket money, etc. From the circle of friends of the community, the evangelical church Elim came into being in 1985. This church has three meetings each week. One tries, both in the community and in the church, to put into practice living with God in everyday life. In addition, there are ongoing contacts with Christians in Third World countries—mainly India—both with western missionaries, and with native believers. More than sixteen years ago, Elim initiated a community-movement of at present 35 Dutch communities. With our lives we hope people do discover that it is possible to live in peace and happiness through the life-giving and transforming power of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Vegetarian Sanctuary - A Prepper Haven
Mission: Living Food & Energy Self-Reliant Lifestyles at this Prepper Haven, Vegetarianism, Cooperation, Education to the public
From www.ic.org/directory/vegetarian-sanctuary-a-prepper-haven/:
We're Daniel and Patti EarthStewards, a vegetarian couple who have been long time Homesteaders, Preppers and Communitarians. We've lived a back-to-the-land food and energy self-reliant lifestyle since 1990, with a previous study of these lifestyles and preparations since the late 70's. We seek Co-Founders for a collectively run vegetarian Eco village and a Prepper Haven we'd like to call a Vegetarian Sanctuary. At Vegetarian Sanctuary our wish is to co-create with a unified voice and make enduring alliances. Our goals are to restore sustainable lifestyles, to live close to the land, and to teach the right use of our planets limited resources. We realized years ago the importance of preparing for social, political, economic and environmental changes which are unfolding. Recently we felt it was time to organize a Prepper Haven on our farm located north of Spokane, WA. The Hopi advice we tap into as a guide for this Haven can be read at: http://www.communityworks.info/hopi.htm Especially significant to us are the questions the Hopi asked... "What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where are you living? Where is your water?" Also..."Know your garden". We at Vegetarian Sanctuary have been asking ourselves the same type of questions since the late 1970's. We're as prepared as any intentional community could be to positively respond to these questions. Our intention with Vegetarian Sanctuary is to establish an embankment to grab hold of, where vegetarian Preppers of good will may gather together when the rivers of change are sweeping us all downstream. And like the Hopi advised, we're reaching out to see who would like to be there with us. We're serious about THRIVING in this time of uncertainty and have planned for the dollar collapse, earth changes and civil unrest. If you, like us, are feeling that weird vibe and sense something is coming, but you cannot put your finger on it, then you have met the right people to talk to about this at Vegetarian Sanctuary. We are doers, not talkers, and we want to be joined by those of like mind.

Acorn Community Farm
Mission: Secular, Egalitarian, Anarchist, Autonomous, Sustainable, Cooperative, Non-Violent, Feminist, Intentional Community
From www.ic.org/directory/acorn-community-farm/:
Acorn is an intentional community of around 30 folks which was founded in 1993. We are an egalitarian, income-sharing, secular, anarchist, feminist, consensus-based commune. We are committed to non-coercive, voluntary associations within our community and the larger community in which we find ourselves as well as living sustainably, supporting queer & alternative lifestyles, and creating a vibrant, eclectic culture. We live on a working farm which means there is always plenty to do. Everyone is expected to contribute 42 hours of labor a week. There are many types of work available, mostly for our farm and business. We grow herbs and food for our kitchen & seeds for our business, care for lots of livestock(chickens, cows, goats, & pigs!), cook two community meals daily, educate our children, maintain our land & buildings, and do office jobs like accounting, seed packing and order picking/shipping. We also do outreach work in our local community and in the communities movement, like growing food for our local food bank, and helping other communities and organizations like the FIC, the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Organic Seed Alliance, & the Grassroots Seed Network. Members may also work outside jobs to fulfill their labor quota. All of this work is valued equally. Because creditable labor is so diverse, we have more free time than the average working person. The community supports the education, personal growth, & personal projects of our members. We have no bosses, owners, investors, managers, or supervisors. We set our own schedules and trust members to work quota. We get things done by having a culture which stresses personal responsibility and good communication. We care about Acorn so we work hard to ensure it stays around. Our thriving seed business, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, is part of a growing network of farmers, gardeners and seed savers dedicated to organic and heritage agriculture. We sell heirloom, open-pollinated, non-GMO and organic seeds and do seed saving education and outreach. We earn our income by providing a means of production to gardeners and farmers. We have 2 group meetings per week. One is a consensus-based decision making meeting while the other is a general discussion forum where we explore ideas & work through issues. We intentionally keep policies to a minimum. We encourage personal responsibility rather than supervision, as well as taking issues on a case-by-case basis, keeping in mind that needs of individuals vary. Any decision we make can be brought back to a meeting at any point - our lifestyle thrives on open communication & respect for fellow communards. Once every 2 years, members are required to take part in an interpersonal communication process called a "clearness", where a single member talks individually to every other member about how they have been feeling, their relationship with the community, and what they envision their future to be. Membership visitors & long-term interns/guests are also required to have a clearness. Remember, this stuff is hard! We share the daily challenges of living and working together, remembering to have fun while running a growing business, making decisions together, and sharing income. We are interested in meeting people experienced in community-building, communication and facilitation, who are interested in building a healthy, dynamic, supportive social culture. If you are interested in visiting us, interning in our seed business and garden, or considering applying for membership, please visit our website, www.acorncommunity.org, and click on "How to Visit Acorn Community Farm." We look forward to hearing from you!

Jesus Christians
Mission: Love God and our neighbour, with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. To see that of God in everyone.
From www.ic.org/directory/jesus-christians/:
We have been operating as a community for more than 25 years. Our community grew out of an experiment with literal obedience to the teachings of Jesus. Although we don't fit into any neat category, we have often been referred to as Christian anarchists, and we practice what is considered to part of the gift economy. We keenly support much that Leo Tolstoy wrote about the "kingdom of heaven", and there is a strong resonance with early Quaker principles. Because we believe that attitudes toward money are fundamental in all human relationships, "living in community" for us includes "common ownership". No member of our community works for money, and we generally live a very frugal lifestyle. We believe in the philosophy of doing all that we do for love and without a profit motive. Many of our members are freegans, living largely off things that the rest of society throws away. We are a mobile community, regularly on the move to preach the Word and nourish the Kingdom of God wherever, and in whomever, we find it.

Twin Oaks Intentional Community
Mission: egalitarianism, income-sharing
From www.ic.org/directory/twin-oaks-community/:
Twin Oaks is an income-sharing community of 100 people living on 485 acres of farm and forestland in Virginia. We were founded in 1967, and our lifestyle reflects our values of egalitarianism, ecology, and nonviolence. We welcome scheduled visitors throughout the year. We are economically self-sufficient. Members work in our community businesses--making hammocks and chairs, indexing books, and making tofu. These businesses provide about one-third of our work; the rest goes into the tasks needed to support a rural village of 100 people--organic gardening, milking cows, equipment and building maintenance, office work, and more. Our work schedules of 44 hours each week are very flexible. In return for member's labor, the community provides all basic needs, including housing, food, clothing, etc. Twin Oaks has an intricate community culture. Our everyday lives include many recreational activities--social and support groups, performances, music, games, dance, and art. Our culture values tolerance of diversity and sustainable living. We share our vehicles, we build our own buildings, and we share houses of 10-20 people. Some of us work actively for peace and justice, ecology, and feminism. Each summer we host a Women's Gathering and a Communities Conference; see our website for details. We offer a three-hour tour on many Saturday afternoons; please call during business hours or email to reserve a place. Our three-week visitor program is a prerequisite for membership and must be arranged by letter or email well in advance of the proposed stay. Information about visiting is available on our website or by mail.
Communities Conference: Twin Oaks Community's annual conference, FIC co-sponsored
Twin Oaks Intentional Community: Twin Oaks community information site.
Twin Oaks Tofu: Twin Oaks Community Soyfoods
Twin Oaks Hammocks: Hammocks, chairs and accessories made by Twin Oaks Community.

Springtree Community
Mission: Sharing and cooperation, support and understanding. Lots of good food we've grown, enjoyed together.
From www.ic.org/directory/springtree-community/:
We are two married mid-age couples. Our commune (established in 1971) is on 120 rural acres. We share income, eat meals together, and organize work by preference. We are eclectic, independent, and frugal. While we are aging, this is not a retirement community. Our group goals are often expressed through work--gardening, orcharding, and tree planting; keeping chickens; firewood; and maintaining our two houses. We support ourselves with income from outside jobs, and engage in many area activities. We intend to remain a small, close group and are not actively seeking members. We strive to keep the community flexible in meeting our changing needs for stability and adventure, individual activity, and group cohesiveness. We value commitment and compatibility. Visitors are welcome by prior arrangement. In season, we can have apprentices for one to six months learning and practicing ecological gardening, community, and country-living skills. For more information, write and tell us about yourself.

Order of Saint Benedict
Mission: Religious, monastic, Christian communities seeking God according to the Rule of Saint Benedict.
From www.ic.org/directory/order-of-saint-benedict/:
The international Benedictine monastic order of sisters and brothers looks to Saint Benedict of Nursia, Italy, (480-547), the Patriarch of Western Monasticism, as its founder and inspiration. In the sixth century A.D., he wrote what we know as the Rule of Benedict or Regula Benedicti that continues to inspire and direct authentic Benedictine communities. Visit the OSB website (www.osb.org), which features: the Rule of Benedict (original text in Latin and modern translations in several languages); a geographic Atlas of houses worldwide; an advanced search; "What's New," election results, academic and international institutions, general information, texts and articles, habit, saints, etc.
Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (women): All communities of Benedictine women recognised by the Abbot Primate as such.
The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB): Information about Benedictine men and women worldwide, the Rule of Saint Benedict, contacts, history and tradition.
Benedictine Atlas: Monasteries of men or women grouped by geographic location.
Saint John's Abbey (1856): Catholic monks in Minnesota hosting the www.OSB.org website

The Transition Headquarters
Mission: "We unite people who are willing to take action towards enhancing and protecting all life and our environment for future generations. Our purpose is to construct real solutions by providing the support, space, and resources to do so via our collective knowledge and common heritage of the Earth's resources."
From www.ic.org/directory/the-transition-headquarters/:
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― Richard Buckminster Fuller We believe in living life well and making better choices. That means avoiding choices that lead to negative impacts that are harmful to ourselves and our environment. Instead we seek out sustainable methods for living and integrate them in our model for social change. Society is transforming and maturing, moving towards an era of more collaboration, connection and contribution. Together our aim is to perpetuate and expand a society based on on these values. The Transition is not a revolution, it is an evolution. It brings some of the techniques and principles of Communalism into action while using the existing monetary system rules and influences it cannot readily escape. We are not fighting against the current system. We are adapting the current system so that it can transform into something better that would enable all of us to achieve a much higher standard of living within a relatively short period of time; a standard of living that would be continuously improved as we develop our technologies and the ways in which these discoveries are implemented. Rather than isolating ourselves completely from the mainstream, we promote The Transition as a viable alternative. The Transition is a communal organization striving for an egalitarian global society built on ephemeralization principles. Our intention is to bring together those who follow a compass set with the same values so we can reach our mutual goals faster. If you have land or are a community looking for dedicated people with a lot of passion we would love to talk with you!

perma Nomadbase north lower Austria (osterreich
Mission: looking for you, to live together. with 2-4 people or more people. For the New-Eco-spot near Hardegg, habinger house. small- Nomad base-forming-from spring next may/june 2016 Ghandi said, why get you food (and the rest of your stuff you need from far, while we can make it our self ! SWADESHI dana (economy) society - Dharma, and NAMASTE The 2Gether team, Learning by doing (exploring sharing is giving live without (less) money, more 2gether (self) sustainable/sufficient off the grid
From www.ic.org/directory/a-new-habinger/:
What do we just have just almost all in common, our desire to live in Austria. And share perhaps the wish to live in north europe summers and winters south. In order to set up -and live, life, work in- an ecological village together. there are convergences we organise in holland and (austria in the future) We are looking to start with 1-2 extra persons, next summer in austria. for the south europe part (winters) We are still in the initial phase and think that at this point it is essential that the group expands. 3-6 are enough first to set up an ecological community (and later perhaps it could be in a network a ecovillage. working together with surrounding projects. For this we are making a tour in february 2016 around 5-10 (nomad) bases in north and central portugal Join us, the greater the chance will be that our dreams will come true! we are a group of all ages ! all with the wish, to live together, in the nature more. ! Communication is very importanted ! Do you know somebody, who have these ideas, or dreams as well ? Ecological (permaculture / ((bushcraft living off the land) We dont want to live disconnected from the rest of the world Try to be so sustainable as possible, 7-10 hours working together in a week.

Umphakatsi Peace Eco-Village South Africa
Mission: Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage is looking for volunteers to participate on projects around community sustainable development on job creation, permaculture, indigenous knowledge systems, renewable energy, training on conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution. Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage promotes gender diversity, equity and equality for all. If you are interested in participating in our projects contact Didier Estressangle on 072 1725085 or email didierentressangle@vodamail.co.za
Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage is looking for volunteers to participate on projects around community sustainable development on job creation, permaculture, indigenous knowledge systems, renewable energy, training on conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution. Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage promotes gender diversity, equity and equality for all. If you are interested in participating in our projects contact Didier Estressangle on 072 1725085 or email didierentressangle@vodamail.co.za

Freedom Farm
Mission: Our main focus is harmony, unity and self-reliance. A place of Peace and Tranquility. We are Spiritual but Not religious. Please indicate how you are willing to contribute to ZION.
From www.ic.org/directory/thefuturenow/:
I have decided to change the dynamic of the community. I have 40 acres in Helena, Montana I am seeking 5-10 people who can contribute $25K-$50K to the development of the property. This would be for creating dome housing, planting fruit tree orchards and a greenhouse and more. The funding received will get you a spot on the land, fresh clean water, fruit in season and all the other amenities. The land is mostly raw so this would get you in on ground level and you would be a part of the initial creative process. Please feel free to call me 406-949-0231 Jeremiah

The Community in Pulaski
Mission: We aspire to become just like the man Yahshua (Jesus Christ of the Scriptures) and demonstrate a visible, tangible, observable love that heralds in a new age when all of the earth will live at peace.
From www.ic.org/directory/community-pulaski/:
We are a community of about sixty living in town and on a small farm. We run a Yellow Deli in town and have a small cottage industry and do some construction in the area.

The Mothership
Mission: Queer-friendly child-centric community house with a focus on social justice.
From www.ic.org/directory/another-castle/:
The Mothership is an urban intentional community living in two houses in Portland, Oregon. There are currently 11 people living here, and we are in the process of acquiring a third house which will increase our population capacity to 17, and then to build 4 additional bedrooms beyond that. We have a fully collectivized food system with the understanding that anyone can come eat here, we share most household expenses, and a subset of us operate as a fully income sharing group. We support each other as parents, believe children should be treated like humans, and humans should be treated well. Many of us co-parent each other's kids and we generally believe children to be the responsibility of the group. We love welcoming guests. Many people think of The Mothership as home base and stop in to refuel, gather supplies, and plan new expeditions. We are committed to clear, direct, and open communication, which we maintain with regularly scheduled (twice a year with each member of the house) one on one conversations and more one on one, small group, and whole community discussions on an as-needed basis. We encourage communication early and often, and we endeavor to avoid having unresolved interpersonal struggles that lead to a toxic living environment. If you've upset someone at The Mothership, you either already know about it or are about to. We acknowledge having been raised in a culture that teaches racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, gender essentialism, ableism, body shaming, slut shaming, and the enforcement of gender roles and stereotypes. When these things inevitably fall out of our mouths, we are committed to talking about why they were problematic and how we can do better in the future. We aspire to be a safe space for the marginalized. We have cultivated a culture that feels safe and comfortable for many queer, non-binary, and transgender people, as evidenced by our current demographics: we are over 70% LGBTQIA. Two of our eleven current members are people of color, one of whom brought forward a vision of using the large number of living spaces opening up to create a culture where people of color feel similarly safe and at ease in their homes. We are collectively working toward that dream.

Free Spirits Community
Mission: To live a free uninhibited, unrestrained life where all all are equal & free. To lead a rich, superior & more fulfilling life.
From www.ic.org/directory/free-spirits-community/:
To live a free uninhibited, unrestrained life where all all are equal & free. To lead a rich, superior & more fulfilling life. More details on phone: 9711171681 or email.

Tel Keshet
Mission: Growing spiritually in harmony with nature.
From www.ic.org/directory/tel-keshet/:
Tel Keshet is a project of the Association de recherche en technologie appropriée de l’Outaouais (ARTAO). We wish to establish a self-reliant community of like-minded people, growing together spiritually, while protecting our environment. We have 50 acres of land in a woody rural area, which we are currently preparing for settlement. We are establishing ourselves slowly on the land. Everything takes longer than expected. We hope to start building the first house in 2019. We are off-grid, and the house will eventually rely on solar power and rain water. This house will be the start of a larger effort to establish a permanent community living our values.

The Mountain Of The Lords House
Mission: THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOUSE ISAIAH 2:2; MICAH 4:1 We are a Way of Life & Truth We are NOT a Church or Cult! We believe in and support Advanced Technologies, Contingent upon 3 Major Principles: 1. They Help Humanity! 2. They help the Earth! 3. They Promote Freedom, Peace and Harmony! We are Not a Training camp for War! Therefore we do not house or allow manmade weapons on the property. Instead we Trust in the Laws of the Almighty Spirit of Creation and Nature and the Universe To keep us Safe and Protect us! Our Main Focus is Healing. With Music, Organic foods and one simple Rule: Be Kind!!! If you feel a desire to belong to our community please contact me at: Jeremiahoffgrid@gmail.com or call me at: 406-949-0231
From www.ic.org/directory/the-mountain-of-the-lords-house/:
We are a way of life and Truth

NATURALMENTE - Retreat Center (Nucleum for the Reconnection with the Essence within the Being)
Mission: Purpose - expansion of CONSCIOUSNESS , raising our Vibration, expanding our awareness, Reconnecting with the Essence within the Being, and becoming aware of our interconnection / / Oneness with All-That-Is, Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu ( may all Beings, from All the Worlds, Be Happy
NATURALMENTE - Retreat Center Naturalmente is a Holistic Retreat Center, focused on a Natural way of Living where we invite Everyone that feels the Call for a deep conection with Nature and Evolution, expansion of CONSCIOUSNESS and elevation of our Vibration Reconnecting with the ESSENCE within the BEING , and Awakening our Full Potential evolving and becoming Aware of our interconection / Union with All-That-Is evolving in Harmony with All the Universe e Consciently contributing for the Co-Creation of a World of Love .... So, if you're interested in visiting us, and if you feel in tune with our principles ( the 12 Core Petals ) , see the conditions on our site (page - Volunteers and Visitors ) www.NATURALMENTE-Retreat-Center.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- RETREATS - LIVING in a NATURAL WAY, Awakening our Essence (in Harmony with Nature) - YOGA, MEDITATION, and Detox /Revitalization WELCOME, Naturalmente Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu (may All the Beings in All the Worlds Be Happy) Namasté ( the Divine Essence within Myself, Salutes the Divine Essence within Yourself) NATURALMENTE - Retreat Center - Nucleum for the Reconnection with the Essence within the Being www.NATURALMENTE-Retreat-Center.blogspot.com

Walden Somogy
Mission: No selfishness, no possession, focus on self-sustaining with complete human spirit (reading, music, sport, art, game, etc.)
From www.ic.org/directory/walden-somogy/:
To base no possession, happy community with the smallest possible ecological footprint.

Amberwood Falls
Mission: DISBANDED Purpose Amberwood Falls is dedicated to helping people restart their lives, while offering a peaceful, loving, healthy environment. We believe in holistic nutrition to heal most of today’s modern ailments. We try and maintain as close to an organic diet as we can to help the mind, body, and spirit reach it’s full potential. Mission Our mission is to help individuals redirect their focus to achieve a more healthy and fulfilling life. We are always searching for renewable energy sources and promote self sustainability while trying to develop a society to inspire goodwill towards humanity and help deepen the understanding of today’s diverse culture and social dynamics.
From www.ic.org/directory/amberwood-falls/:
DISBANDED AMBERWOOD FALLS “A Place of New Beginnings” Amberwood Falls Community (AFC) is an Intentional Community with an emphasis on developing a society based on shared resources, compassion, honesty, and generosity. A place where community is there for one another and your word means more than empty promises. As a collective we can use the strengths of each other to accomplish great things in this world. We welcome those who are kindhearted and leave negative judgment of others at the door. If you want to experience a new way of life then take a bold step and apply to join Amberwood Falls today.

Pinecone Farms
Mission: We believe in integrated farming that produces high quality food and products. Efficient land management practices and the use of livestock are key to our farming practices. Our integrated farm includes: the use of self pollinating crops specifically chosen for our environment that have not been genetically altered, purebred Galloway and South Devon cattle selected for hardiness and grazing efficiency, mixed oak and hickory woodlots in which we run and finish a select herd of Poland China pigs. Border Leicesters and Southdown sheep are rotationally grazed with their fleeces being processed on the farm. Poultry includes Chantecler large fowl, Muscovy ducks, and Roman geese used for weed and insect management. Draft horses are used extensively.
From www.ic.org/directory/pinecone-farms/:
Queer commune based on 1920s integrated farming

Catalyst Ecovillage - MORE MEMBERS NEEDED NOW!
Mission: Catalyst Community is a forming ecovillage and green business-incubator education center in Warwick, NY. Our energy-positive residential and agricultural buildings will be visually-inspiring and as ecologically-friendly as possible. We aspire to share our lives so as to make the load lighter for everyone around food, finances, child and elder care, employment, and personal support. Various on-site land-based businesses will support the members and community non-profit to fulfill its mission to exemplify green living and help educate others who wish to build and live sustainably.
From www.ic.org/directory/catalyst-ecovillage-2/:
NOTE: We are closing on the purchase of 75 acres by March 15th and need a few more people to contribute to the downpayment and help us with loan repayments to the local Farm Credit Bureau! Come join us now! We are doing this! Email: teaganblackburn@gmail.com immediately with any questions! Vision Statement Catalyst is a forming intentional community and eco village in upstate New York. We aspire to live and demonstrate a lifestyle of deep ecology and social cohesion. A zero carbon, fossil fuel free, energy positive community that enriches its surroundings. A community where neighbors are family and family is tribe. Each supporting the others to make a lighter and more loving load for all. A community that serves and nurtures its members so that they in turn may work hard to better serve the world. THE PLACE Our community will have clusters of individual eco homes, a large workshop for creation and maintenance, and the group house for low income housing and the large community center building will be the focal points of the social community. They will be artistic and bold. The property we are currently considering is about an 1 hour and 15 minutes northwest of the city. Its 75 acres, including 5-10 acres for building and landscaping, 40 cleared acres for farming and livestock and 30 acres of forest. The property has living space for 3 founding families, plus a 10 horse stable, workshop, and large gathering space. Biking distance to two towns. Our buildings will be aesthetically beautiful and designed to excite and inspire the soul. They will be made of natural and clean materials that are common to the area. They will feature passive and active solar, geothermal, living roofs, radiant floors, composting toilets, water catchments, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, recycled materials, and year around indoor plant growing. Our shared Community Center will be a shared common space for community dinners; meetings; parties and movie nights; workshops; retreats/yoga/meditation; childcare; office space for entrepreneurial incubation; a date night room,; and other common interests of the community. It will have an outdoor hot-tub. Our Group House will have multiple bedrooms and apartments that will be available for permanent low-income co-housing and space for visitors and guests of our retreat center. Our clustered smaller-footprint Eco Housing Units will be available for purchase by members wishing to join the community. The will be organized into pedestrian-centric villages and feature private kitchens and living rooms. THE PEOPLE We are CURRENTLY SEEKING 1-4 other founding families/couples or individuals that are interested in joining us in purchasing the property. These would be people who have the resources and credit to take a home loan or own a home that they would be willing to sell. We are also seeking designers, engineers, permaculturists, natural builders and architects that can help us design our utopia. We are also seeking lawyers with property tax experience, and bankers/lenders/investors with vision and people with Community Land Trust knowledge. Our community will be open and welcoming to conventional and non-conventional families of all configurations and individuals of all races, genders, economic backgrounds and sexual preferences. Our community is based on non-violence and non-violent communication. We seek kind, compassionate, intelligent, creative, smart, and rational people that share its vision and can participate in consensus decision making. THE LAND Our community will have several greenhouses and will grow organic food and algae year around. The algae will be used to make fuel for the community vehicles. Our community will use community and conservation land trusts to permanently preserve both farmland and wild nature on our site, and take advantage of those tax exemptions as well. Our community will host a biodynamic community supported agriculture project to grow our own organic food and herbs. We will grow our own and/or lease space to local farmers. Our community will keep livestock or create partnerships with local farmers in order to have local milk and eggs. Our community will have an permaculture orchard for fruit and nuts. Biodynamic principles and permaculture design will be joyously implemented. Our community will have a large and well-equipped wood and metal shop that will be used to build, and maintain the property and also to create art and beauty throughout. Artist studios too. SELF RELIANCE Our community will create jobs and income through: farming; gardening; keeping horses and renting stables; hosting workshops and retreats; arts and music events; and an eco bed and breakfast. Our community will have a vibrant mixed-ages homeschooling group (4-11) with a dedicated classroom and a certified teacher hired by a pool of parents, inside and outside of the community. It will be play-based, experiential, Waldorf-inspired, largely outdoor education and have intrinsic opportunities for cross-pollination with the elders, farm chores, and for local community service projects, while integrating the NYS homeschooling academic benchmarks. Our community will found an assisted care elder-care program for members as they age and for members’ aging parents and relatives, creating onsite paying jobs for our members who are nurses, healers, and health care practitioners. Our community will seek to document all that it does in hopes of replicating and helping to create a better model for sub-urban and rural development, especially in the surrounding area. Some members will travel as part of a consulting business to start new ecovillages all over this country and in others. Our community will have a have a blast making a difference!

HUB Hamt-Drbrn
Mission: We seek to flesh out what it means to cause the kingdom flourishing of our neighbors and neighborhood through active, LIFE ON LIFE intentional relationships. Some of us have businesses that only hire locals, especially women and immigrants. Others of us teach, some have started their own school for women/girls, others are health care workers, or work with recycling. We have weekly times together focused on community, encouragement, scripture and prayer. Set monthly or twice monthly meal times also occur plus spontaneous meals together and with our neighbors.
From www.ic.org/directory/hub-hamt-drbrn/:
We are a group of 16 adults (aged 22-70) and also 11 kids who desire to interdependently share, support and cause the flourishing of our 30+ language 2 square mile neighborhood by being good, intentional neighbors to our mostly immigrant and Muslim neighbors and friends. We do initiate helping one another and our neighbors in many tangible, practical ways. Some of us live together in shared housing, others live as single family units.

La'akea Permaculture Community
Mission: We are a committed group of people working together closely as a means to health, relationship vitality, economic stability, personal and spiritual growth. We integrate the social aspects of sustainability into daily life: how to live together with honesty, love and peace, and share power and leadership.
From www.ic.org/directory/laakea-permaculture-community-2/:
We are a small, family style, egalitarian, intentional permaculture community on the big island of Hawai’i. Staying with us is a vibrant immersion in our community lifestyle which many visitors find to be transformative and life changing. We make important, long term decisions by consensus of community members. Our community currently includes: 10 adult members, 2 children, 3 trial members, 3 long-term guests (and their 2 children). We hold an intention of expanding to 12 to 20 full-time members. We own the land in common, each paying an equal share to buy-in, to ensure authentic power balance. We are actively looking for new members at this time. Our organic farm practices tropical permaculture in our lush rainforest climate. We bought our land in 2005 and currently grow a large portion of our food. We are growing many kinds of fruits, nuts, and have extensive gardens and greenhouses, taro beds and orchards. We keep bees, chickens, rabbits and sheep who are our natural lawn mowers in addition to providing us with food and fertilizer. Our electricity comes from solar photovoltaic panels, and our water is from a rainwater catchment system. We value alternative and sustainable building techniques. We host conferences and events relating to permaculture and new culture as well as run ongoing farm support opportunities and intensive month long internship programs. We live in one of nature’s most amazing places, surrounded by mountains, oceans, dense jungle and warm pools. We are a short drive from the active volcano and the fresh lava fields. Our visitors enjoy exploring the many unique features of this land, and the cultural activities nearby. If you are on the Big Island, give us a call and come visit for a few hours, or days, and take a tour of our land and gardens. We hope to meet you someday – as a visitor, guest, farm supporter, intern, or possible new member!

Ubuntu Ecovillage
Mission: Vision: -A world in which all people, human and non-human, and plants live in a balanced, equal, and completely sustainable relationship. -A world in which all people contribute to each others spiritual, emotional, and mental development by supporting each person's authentic expression and playful exploration. Mission: -To create a sustainable ecovillage which functions as a base for people to live in balance and compassion while fully expressing their authentic selves. -To create a space for people to visit and learn about sustainability and spiritual development. -To live neo-tribally as a mindful and compassionate community which supports each member with each step on whichever life path they choose.
From www.ic.org/directory/ubuntu-ecovillage/:
Ubuntu is a Zulu word which translates roughly to mean "human kindness," but the first time we ever heard the term it was explained to mean "I am because we are." Either way, it is the philosophy around which our community is based. Ubuntu Ecovillage is a forming ecovillage (a community based around sustainability) that is committed to community based living and mutual spiritual and philosophical growth. We share common spiritual practices based on New Age, Earth-based religions, Eastern religions, and New Thought. Our common living practices are inspired by Daniel Quinn's New Tribalism, and are focused on a responsible, equal, and natural human relationship with the Earth and non-human people (animals). As such, our diet is ovo-vegetarian, and all members are committed to a practice of compassion toward all living things.

Starseed Gardens
Mission: See website, starseedgardens.com
From www.ic.org/directory/starseed-gardens/:
See website, starseedgardens.com

Many Tribes - New Tribalists Australia
Mission: To form a "nation" of cooperative tribes creating sustainable lifestyles and abandoning commercialism, capitalism and hierarcical government concepts.
From www.ic.org/directory/many-tribes-new-tribalists-australia/:
OUR VALUES * We value the lives and rights of all creatures equally, not just humans. We believe an animal should only be killed, either to eat or because it was attacking you or someone you are charged to protect. * We value the natural world and believe it is healthier for our bodies to follow natural cycles. As such, we tend to celebrate seasonal cycles like spring time or the full moon. * We value survival skills and believe that the skills needed to build shelter, find food and water and protect yourself and you family from whatever threat, are skills that all creatures need, even humans. We recognise the possibility of a major war or natural disaster and we want to be as prepared as we possibly can be for it. * We value emotional bonds and community above material pursuits. We believe that doing daily tasks (cooking and gathering food, planting etc.) with people who have a vested interest in each other strengthens the spirit and builds trust. We think that people need to rediscover their own personal value to society. Everyone needs emotional security, why not give it to them? * We value consent and believe that everyone should be offered the chance to say "no" to anything that impacts their own body and have their wishes respected. The kind of consent often talked about is sexual, but there are many other things that are done to us in the external world, non-consensually. Schooling and education, pollution, fashion and nudity, medical treatment, communication (the right to peaceful protest) and a multitude of trivial or social rules made by external entities to control every tiny thing, all come into this.

Ten Thousand Hands
Mission: To establish an egalitarian community centered in meditation, simple and sustainable living, service and social action. A place where we honor each other as treasures, beholding each other and relating to each other with mutual appreciation and gratitude. A place where community is a practice and invitation to be companions of the way, friends who encourage, inspire and lovingly support each other in embodying a true and meaningful life, a free and liberated life, grounded in peace, kindness, compassion and great joy. The community will also be headquarters for Ten Thousand Hands a 501(c)3 nonprofit motivated by an appreciation for the preciousness of all life, our relations with others and the world; our interconnectedness with all and boundless compassion. TTH is dedicated to the meditative life, to hearing the cries of all in need and responding with compassionate aid and together action for people, animals and the planet.
From www.ic.org/directory/ten-thousand-hands/:
Interested in Living in A Dharma House, Intentional Community-A Sangha, and a Non-Profit all in one/An Egalitarian Dharma Community That Is Family and Pet Friendly Ten Thousand Hands is an unaffiliated and nonsectarian meditation organization. We are looking to establish an intentional community, urban and/or larger rural eco-village with an aim of living a simple meditative life, developing friendships with like-minded people, and supporting and encouraging each other in practicing and embodying the dharma. We will nurture our practice with sharing silence/group meditation, some shared meals and chores, monthly community meetings and organizational roles. In addition to meditative work our work encompasses areas of food; shelter, hospitality and housing; clothing; outreach and care for incarcerated and formally incarcerated; the sick, elderly and dying; care for the dead; animal rescue, rehabilitation and sanctuary; sustainability (farm/food, housing, transportation), conservation and reclamation. Advocacy and activism for peace (opposing war and violence), justice, human and animal rights, sustainability and environmental care. Group meditation which shall be open to the public, includes silent sittings interspersed with short walking periods followed by tea and occasionally a talk. One may meditate in whatever style they wish within the silent sitting and walking format. Private meetings with a teacher shall be made available throughout. All activities are optional though we ask that residence have a commitment to meditation and respect silence during designated silent times. There is no requirement to adopt any philosophy or beliefs to participate nor are there any rituals or ceremonies. The living environment shall be both vegetarian/vegan friendly and ecologically friendly including preservation of nature and wildlife, as well as organic conservation farming. Food shall be mostly organic consisting of local produce. Meals offerings shall be vegan/vegetarian and sattvic/ayurvedic. Some shared meals shall be taken in silence and some in open fellowship (with talking). Our structure is egalitarian with all major decisions made by the community as a whole in the manner of Friends (Quaker consensus). Some of us may work outside jobs, others may work more around the house and on community projects, including outreach, community cottage industries/not for profit businesses and raising funds via donations. Although all are welcome to apply, preference in available residential opportunities is given to those who consider their practice the center of their life and wish to deepen in it by contributing to a meditation community. We are also interested in those who hold knowledge/expertise in the areas of administration, public relations or development, fund raising, social media, and any area in which services are being offered. All activities and services shall be offered as a gift, by free will donation basis. We will purchase property to make it a permanent community, but for now we may rent one residence large enough for everyone. VALUES AND CUSTOMS WE CHERISH AND SHARE Repentance/penitence, atonement, kindness, compassion, honesty, humility, love of work and the arts, down to earthness, meditation, humor, simplicity/frugality, peace/non harming/nonviolence, freedom, self-reliance, selfless service, unpaid service to others, hospitality, holding goods in common, homelessness, charity, social justice, nonviolent resistance/direct action, wisdom and liberation. However, wisdom, compassion and liberation are given the highest emphasis, being the ground upon which all other customs arise. Inspired by Ittoen (Japans oldest nonmonastic community), Zen and Forest Tradition Monasteries and Communities, Yoga Ashrams, Catholic Worker Houses, Intentional Egalitarian Communities/Ecovillages, The Society of Friends

Kipahulu
Mission: We are a community cultivating self-reliance and sovereignty through sustainable, simple living utilizing the practices of bio-intensive, organic food growing and permaculture to serve our Divine Mother Earth. We work together to create a living space abundant in food, beauty, harmony and higher self- expression that sustains our needs for survival and thrival.
From www.ic.org/directory/one-song-eco-spirit-village/:
Aloha, We are looking for apprentices and/or potential permanent residents with experience and passion for working and learning with the Aina and growing food. We are an established community and a mature permaculture farm. Our farm began in 2000 with a few old buildings, and now has seven acres of mature permaculture landscaping, buildings and infrastructure. It's located in a very isolated part of Maui – a 2 ½ hour drive from the main city, much of it on a winding one-lane road. It's off-grid, but has a large photovoltaic system, solar hot water, a wood-fired sauna, a laundry facility, and two community kitchens. There are two large structures and fifteen smaller hales, providing living space for the fifteen residents and paying guests, in addition to a teepee and open air dome structure for community gatherings. We offer a weekly public Cafe and open mike, with food prepared primarily from our half-acre garden and on-site food forest. We have our own beautiful smooth black stone beach down steep cliff steps, with its continual sound of the waves. There are several weekly community meetings and circles which everyone is expected to attend. We live according to the "four agreements", if you're familiar with that book. We share a common spirituality that recognizes our unity with one another and with our Mother Earth. Some meetings are for logistics and some are for personal, community and spiritual growth. The learning available for apprentices includes diverse aspects of permaculture, gardening, Natural Korean Farming, poultry management (chickens and ducks) integrated into our ponds and gardens similar to the Vietnamese VAC ponds/gardens/livestock classic permaculture system, living in community, food preparation, sharing music, being mentored and engaging in personal spiritual growth. There is a core group who live here permanently, with the rest of the community made up of younger temporary residents who may stay three months or longer. Everyone has work expectations – minimally four hours a day on average. Some days are free, when someone else is cooking and there aren't any community work projects or events. On Cafe day we all chip in and do what's necessary to provide a delicious meal for as many as 50-75 outsiders who come to eat, listen, and participate in the open mike event. Work here includes gardening, fruit tree planting, harvest and maintenance, harvesting and cooking vegetables for community meals, cleaning the guest cabins and the main house, coconut harvest and coconut products preparation, building projects, preparing for the Cafe and more. If this description interests you and you would like to submit your application for further consideration, then please contact us to fill out our application questionnaire.

East of Eden [Nature Preserve]
Mission: We have come to realize that the absolute essence of Community …is CommUnion. Thus do we share the grail so many seek It is in such knowing …that the true Nature of our own Purpose is also revealed ..now it will be expressed in our connection to the rest of Nature. To this Sacred Space – in the East of Eden – we have come, finally, to nurture what the Creator Consecrated to us in the ‘first place’ …as it was given to us! Yes we failed… we allowed everything precious to be exposed to insanity …we lost sight of the perfect Love that was imbued in us all and in every thing… Yet now we come home …to the East of Eden – to heal this profound breach. We are free of culture, prejudice and violence. We are the Warriors of Yesterday’s Children …gathering at last. Aho!
From www.ic.org/directory/east-of-eden/:
"the time of the lone wolf is over....." We are returning to our Sacred Nature... and there to affirm 'our CommUnity' ...we are at last at East of Eden. In this special space ...we are celebrating a dream we had always realized in our hearts ...only now we come to manifest it in a higher vibration and in a new reality. This is our divine destiny ...at one with the trees, animals, birds, sky, water, earth, stars ...and each other. We are family ....and our place is at the center of the dream. We have begun to be what we were meant to be. There is no mystery; it is, after all, just so simple… Our life is focused on the fresh soil of a new world …i8t is necessary to let go of the paradigm in order to come home… Such is the sweet dream we turned to… Much harm has been done to Mother Earth and her Children …the whole of the Universe is aggrieved. Now we come forth ...reflecting in ourselves and each other …the profound Love preserved in us ....and thus express with our most humble gratitude... "we are free at last... !" “…The time of the lone wolf is over – gather yourselves” ...so compelling, was this simple advice from Hopi Chief Martin - the whole world could have heard it if they cared. But his words were heeded by only a few: ...we were inspired; so we are here. In the final hour ...we turn to Great Spirit. And in an act of mercy ...leave the 'life' we came to know ...to its destiny. = East of Eden is, then, a portal to transcend the known world …to the Dream we never forgot ...we honor the sacred path, incline to purity, and live fully, conclusively, in Love. It is all that was ever free… Of course, being aware of the emergent crisis around us - unfathomable though it may be even with all our previous experience …and even as the hapless world around us succumbs to its final delusion ...we remember to honor its teachings with the words "...never again!" Children of the Earth ...gather in this sacred circle.... hasten the Dream ... weave the cloth ...a new dawn awaits you. We are at the very edge of the earth - that's where Espiritu Santo is - we have learned well - we know that to protect our progeny - is to protect our destiny - we have to separate from the paradigm; it has failed... Even so we acknowledge our singular and collective responsibility – there is only one standard of accountability... Karma is absolute and inevitable! So we come now to the land - all ten or twelve thousand acres of it. It is entrusted to us, by family. Now we will take it up in pieces of twelve or more acres …and in whole. Since we are at the end ….it is as it was in the beginning ...ours to care for! We recognize who is ready - they are true to their Nature – it is they who shall vest in the East of Eden destiny ...by the care they will have taken. It may take time; it may be immediate – but everyone is responsible for their own journey …the leaves are falling… I, papa bear, have brought forth this land from its ancient past … to be given unto your care forever… as it was given to me [for several generations] by my Kastom brothers and our extended family [in Vanuatu, only families – tribes and clans – ‘own’ land]. It is an understanding that the land will be leased ...to the East of Eden Foundation for the purposes disclosed in its charter ....for respect. Some issues attendant upon the land bequeathed to [me] us still persist ...but they are being settled in Kastom and will be soon ratified in Constitutional Law as well. Nonetheless our right to enjoy the land was given to me in ceremonies that made it so and was witnessed by many of the chiefs and elders of the surrounding communities. This is the serious business of Kastom [culture]. Now the land is to be consecrated finally ...from its foundation in yesterday's Dream ...to its destiny in our children’s hands - for this Sacred undertaking ...and from Love we will separate from all that was previously manifest, That's all there is to it. Life is free - and so are we...! = East of Eden expresses no orthodoxy, no doctrine; no system of belief ...it has only the Love of Great Spirit to guide it ...we already live beyond the horizon... I, papa bear, am no guide …it is the Great Master we serve. We have no other ‘Leader’. We will continue to live, build and grow a shared life in all that abounds …as ‘eco-village’ …in ‘permaculture’… but most important, in Communion with each other and the Creation around us. Memories of the still-present paradigm around us will teach us how little of it it is ‘needed’. Thus we will carry on ...until our perimeter is sealed - thereupon access will be made impassible …to learn the ways of new world. This is our Living Dream. Our family will have learned how to live in Communion with Nature… All we ever wanted or needed was here – the bush feeds, houses and nurtures us [as needed] – we will want for nothing… It is all free. Beloved Rainbow Family ...Children of the Earth ...take your place ...now is the time you have waited for... But consider well ...that you are ready “When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as Warriors of the Rainbow”

Lovare Homestead
Mission: Lovare Homestead is being created to bring community back into the big picture by focusing on producing organically grown food and educational experiences for the locals in our area. It’s a group based farm and living acreage for homes in De Graff, Ohio (about 50 minutes from both Columbus and Dayton). Lovare will be open to hosting a stable group of 6 tiny houses year round. Each of the houses will be on the Lovare board. After showing their commitment to Lovare, we’d like them to live on the land like it’s their own and possibly even owning a share in the homestead. After many meetings with the local government, we have been legally approved for both tiny houses built on wheels and on foundation. We want this to be home to a group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared core values. Our core values are sustainability, ecology, self-sufficiency, recycling, composting, permaculture, organic gardening, grey water systems, reducing our carbon footprint and incorporating community into daily lives. We’d like to have a community barn, organic garden and orchard, six tiny home sites, chickens and goats. If one of our board members has a passion, we’d love to come together to make it happen for them at Lovare homestead. In addition to all of this, Lovare Homestead aims to have a big outreach to local and like-minded communities around the country. We hope to have open farm days for our seasoned farming friends, families, and ever-expanding circles of enthusiastic newbies in our surrounding area to come out to the homestead. We'd like to actively engage with the community by sharing labor, meals, knowledge, and belly laughs. At Lovare Homestead, we think it’s very important to teach others the how-tos instead of doing things for them.
From www.ic.org/directory/tiny-house-community/:
We are a Tiny House community. The master plan is to have 6 tiny houses at Lovare. We have a few spots remaining and are accepting applications.

God's last church
Mission: We want to be free from depending of the state in water and electricity. Grow our own food and feed animals to sell and for our meat. I eat only chicken and fish and want to lower the eating of dark meat as much as it can be done. Grow our own fruit-trees. Create work for people that come back to us in finacial help when people see what we are doing. We also work against animal cruelty by educate people. Our community goal is to be a rowmodel how to do things with solarsystem and satellite system.
From www.ic.org/directory/gods-last-church/:
I work close to God Almighty and He is the true leader for this Community. I try to not do anything without God tell me what to do. I was visiting Kenya in 2013 and they liked me so much so I got a property where I want to built a Temple for pray and healing. Together with GOD did I healed people and they gave me 3 houses in the area close to Uganda. When I was in Kenya did God tell me that this church, the last church should be built by poor people.... poor both in money and in the spirit but will wealthy later on in the spirit when see and hear how God step closer. I have a school for refuses and orphans kids and need to build a reak school and dorm for them to sleep in and be a big family. Teaching our kids about what we are doing so they can help people in Kenya to understand how to be independed.

Youtopia!
Mission: Our intention is to empower each other through living a community focused healthy lifestyle.
From www.ic.org/directory/youtopia/:
Our shared goal is to empower each other through living a community focused, mindful, and present lifestyle. We live together in a large 4 story brownstone with shared communal areas on the 1st and 4th floors as well as a large communal backyard and a full workshop in the basement. Each floor has its own bathroom and kitchen as well. We regularly eat and meditate together and periodically host events. We have community dinner every Thursday evening. We are health oriented, most of us are members of the Park Slope Food Coop and we grow our own herbs and some vegetables. We choose new community members based on a consensus process by the group. The best way to meet the group is during community dinners on Thursday. If you are interested, please send a message telling us about yourself and why you might like to live here.

Wheelock Mountain Farm
Mission: To support local, regional, and global non-violent activism and to sustainably steward the land on which we live.
From www.ic.org/directory/wheelock-mountain-farm/:
Wheelock Mountain Farm is a non-profit education center and intentional community situated on 650 acres in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. All but 22 of the acres are held in Trust to protect them in perpetuity from development. The land was donated to the non-profit in 1996 with the intention that it become a popular education resource center to empower people to take non-violent action in pursuit of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. To this end, Wheelock Mountain Farm has been collaborating with activist groups from around the region and from around the world—regularly organizing and hosting convergences, retreats, meetings, skillshares, naturalist programs and camps for the last 20 years. We steward the land responsibly--preserving it as a refuge for people and wildlife, and cultivating it to help sustain our programs and residents. Wheelock Mountain Farm is a 501(c)3 that utilizes a consensus decision-making process. The Board is comprised of both resident and non-resident activists and educators. Most day-to-day work and decision-making is done at the household level, and residents hold weekly dinner meetings to make plans, delegate tasks, and coordinate logistical follow through while the Board deals primarily with the programmatic aspects of the farm. It is a balance built on long held mutual trust and respect. Members of Wheelock Mountain Farm are active in a variety of organizations in the area including The Buffalo Mountain Food Coop, The Swap Sisters, Rising Tide Vermont, Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, and Migrant Justice. Residents meet their monetary needs, including paying rent to Wheelock Mountain Farm, in a variety of ways--teaching, farming, developing programming at the local library, administrating an alternative healing practitioners' office, and co-directing an international non-profit focused on children. Wheelock Mountain Farm's land includes a 300+ tap sugarbush, a 100+ acre pond with nearly undeveloped shoreline, large parcels of mixed hard and softwood forest, 12 acres of pasture, and one of the finest Northern White Cedar swamps in the state. We have 2 four season homes with one more currently under construction, a three season cabin for long term guests/interns, a beautiful stone house/dormitory to accommodate shorter term summer guests, a greenhouse, and a small barn. We are currently in the process of expanding our programs and number of residents in order to better fulfill our mission.

OIKOS INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
Mission: The Oikos Intentional Community has at the core of its mission service to the poorest of the poor and homeless. Discipleship and following Christ in the most authentic way is the intention. We do not seek to convert, but rather to love and serve other, denying ourselves daily and picking up our cross and following Christ. The Oikos Intentional Community embraces Christian Naturism and hold nude meditation and nude baptismal services. A WORD ON NUDE BAPTISM FROM OUR DASA Nude baptism is as old as the time of the Christ. Like nude meditation, nude baptism brings us into oneness with the Elohim and allows us to do as Jesus commanded when He told us not to conform to the world. I want to outline how this practice is instituted at our Oikos Intentional Community. Just prior to entering the water the oikourgous (Oikos members, literally meaning keeper of the house.) remove their clothes, for the baptism is received nude. In the baptism of a oikourgous, the Dasa anoints the forehead, pronounces the formula, and dips the head, then anoints the body with oil and washes the feet of the newly baptized. In the case of women being baptized, a female elder anoints the body and receives the woman as she came out of the water. The Dasa washes her feet. The nudity expresses the idea of new birth- hence in art the baptizand is shown not only nude but smaller than the baptizer. This manner of representation is not an indication of infant or child baptism but follows artistic convention. The newly baptized person put on a white garment, symbolizing purity Early Christians were baptized nude and it is highly likely Jesus Himself was baptized nude. One aspect of the symbolism of nakedness was the comparison of Christ, designated as “the second Adam” (see Romans 5:14, 1 Corinthians 15:22,45), with the first Adam prior to The Fall: St. Chrysostom, speaking of baptism, says, “Men were naked as Adam in paradise; but with this difference; Adam was naked because he had sinned, but in baptism, a man was naked that he might be freed from sin; the one was divested of his glory which he once had, but the other put off the old man, which he did as easily as his clothes.” St. Ambrose says, “Men came as naked to the font, as they came into the world; and thence he draws an argument by way of illusion, to rich men, telling them, how absurd it was, that a man was born naked of his mother, and received naked by the church, should think of going rich into heaven.” Cyril of Jerusalem takes notice of the circumstance, together with the reasons of it, when he thus addresses himself to persons newly baptized: “As soon as ye came into the inner part of the baptistry, ye put off your clothes, which is an emblem of putting off the old man with his deeds; and being thus di vested, ye stood naked, imitating Christ, that was naked upon the cross, who by his nakedness spoiled principalities and powers, publicly triumphing over them in the cross. O wonderful thing! ye were naked, imitating the first Adam, that was naked in paradise, and was not ashamed.” So also Amphilochius in the Life of St. Basil, speaking of his baptism, says, “He arose with fear and put off his clothes, and with them the old man… “(Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 758, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 1973). BY THE REVEREND DASA WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF THE OIKOS COMMUNITY OPEN AND AFFIRMING Oikos Intentional Community does not hold the mainstream views about sexuality that the traditional church holds. We are an open and affirming community, welcoming LGBT members. We have a positive view of both sexuality and nudity, and believe the culture and society in which we live has polluted these two wonderful gifts from God. While our society promotes violence, pornography, war as acceptable parts of our culture, that same society views sexuality and nudity as negative elements. This is where society has it wrong. We teach our members how to empower themselves spiritual and lead them into their Oneness with God, their creator, who created us in His image. Our Dasa, Rev. William Griffith believes in studying the mysteries of God as they were intended and believes our lifestyle should reflect simplicy in a wealth driven culture, while promoting the natural beauty that God has bestowed upon humanity. The community is also engaged in social justice, meeting the needs of the homeless and poorest of the poor on the streets, as well as challenging the contemporary pharisees in our churches today. OUR RULE AND RHYTHM OF LIFE “Ordered Members” of the Oikos Intentional Community share the common Rhythm of Life by ordering their lives according to the Oikos Community Rule of Life. http://www.oikos.community/#!oikos-rule-of-life/c1x7n
From www.ic.org/directory/oikos-intentional-community/:
Oikos Intentional Community is a new monastic community focused on discipleship, common living and serving in the abandoned places of our cities among the homeless and poorest of the poor. Oikos adheres to the 12 Marks of New Monasticism, in addition to others vows of poverty chastity, obedience and humility. Vows depend upon the individual's calling and not mandatory. Observing the 12 Marks is essential. Oikos life resembles that of the early Christians. The leader of the community, our 'Dasa' (meaning servant, slave of...) has taken extreme vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and has chosen to wear a simple dhoti, sandals and a shawl. Community members are to dress simply and as casually as possible. ABOUT SUNFLOWER VILLAGE The Sunflower Village project will be the first residential new monastic community of Oikos to be founded by Reverend Dasa William Griffith. Sunflower Village is where Dasa has had a vision of building a new monastic Community of Love: creating a healthy, nourishing environment where people can learn the art of living in harmony with one another and with the Earth. Sunflower Village is intended to be a small, rustic farmstead, and will house a new monastic monastery, It is a continuation and housing facility of the Oikos Intentional Community. At SunflowerVillage we weave mindfulness into all our daily activities, training ourselves to be mindful throughout the day: while eating, walking, working, or enjoying a cup of coffee or tea together. The practice of Christian Naturism is a fixture of the Village, and will be a beautiful, nourishing, simple environment in which to cultivate the mind of awakening. As we do at Oikos, we enjoy periods of silence, sitting meditation, rest, relaxation, mindful work and play. All practitioners who come to Sunflower Village will be invited to join in the communal activities,, whether it is preparing meals, cleaning or washing dishes, as a way of learning to cultivate joy and mindfulness whatever we are doing. Every year, Sunflower Village will welcome thousands of meditation practitioners from all around the world who come to experience the art of mindful communal living, regardless of religious affiliation or their individual faith systems. The Village will also host an annual Summer Retreat which offers special programs for all who attend. A committee has been established by Dasa for the location of the land in California to make Sunflower Village our home. ABOUT THE SUNFLOWER ROSARY The 1st Dasa of the Oikos Intentional Community commissioned the oikourgous (ordered members at Oikos) to begin making Sunflower Rosaries for those belonging to the community and also for the outside world. The Dasa believes prayer beads are a positive meditative tool for focus and contemplation, and developed the Sunflower Rosary for his new monastics. WHY THE SUNFLOWER? The Dasa chose the Sunflower for the name of the rosary because the Sunflower means “adoration, loyalty and longevity”. We desire to communicate with God and to draw closer to God because of our adoration of God. We vow loyalty to God and desire to serve our Master for our length of years. Gifts of radiant warmth, sunflowers are the happiest of flowers, representing our joy as new monastics. They are unique in their ability to provide energy in the form of nourishment and vibrance, an attribute which mirrors the sun and the energy provided by its heat and light. Our Dasa teaches the importance of spiritual energy, derived from our disciplines in harnessing our emotional and sexual energy for nourishment of the Spirit. No flower can lift spirits quite like sunflowers can. Bright and cheery, bold yet comfortable, the sunflower is a warm and caring gift. With brilliant yellow petals that surround the flower’s center, sunflowers have an unmistakable sun-like appearance that has made them a passionate flower choice for many. Sunflowers come in a number of varieties, ranging from small to large and from daylight yellows to sunset reds. Sunflowers originated in the Americas in 1000B.C., where for centuries they were cultivated as a valuable food source. The use of sunflower images as religious symbols has also been documented in some native societies. With the European exploration of the New World, the sunflower was brought to new areas, and the flower’s popularity eventually spread as the rest of the world began to appreciate its beauty and sustenance. Artists throughout history have appreciated the sunflower’s unique splendor, and those of the Impressionist era were especially fixated on the flower. Today, sunflowers continue to provide a resource for commonly used seeds and oil, but they have also become recognized as a floral symbol of great significance. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the sun itself. Wild sunflowers are often photographed with their tall stalks and bright petals stretched towards the sun. This unique behavior, known as phototropism, is a motif that has appeared in many ancient myths and is viewed as a symbol of loyalty and constancy. Their physical resemblance to the sun has also influenced their meanings. The sunflower’s petals have been likened to bright yellow rays of sunshine, which evoke feelings of warmth and happiness. In addition, the sunflower is often associated with adoration and longevity. For a flower which reflects so many of the sun’s positive characteristics, it is little surprise that people enjoy basking in the sunflower’s warming glow. With the sense of brightness and warmth that sunflowers naturally impart, they have become an ideal choice for sending sentiments of cheerfulness and sunny get well thoughts. The sunflower is really a collection of 1,000 to 2,000 tiny flowers arranged in an intricate pattern that creates a reproductive opportunity for the plant. This fact represents “community as a whole”. Ray florets are flowers with long, straplike petals along the outside of the sunflower. Each petal on the outside of a sunflower is a flower. Disc florets are the flowers tightly clustered together inside the ray florets. The ray florets are unable to reproduce by themselves because they are missing one or more sex organs. The disc florets possess both male and female reproductive organs. This represents God as both male and female, and how we were created in the image of God with both male and female in each of us. Perfect and Imperfect Perfect flowers have male and female reproductive organs, which are the stamen and pistil, respectively. Imperfect flowers are missing one of those organs and, therefore, cannot pollinate themselves. Self-pollination is not necessary for a sunflower plant to reproduce, but it makes it simpler for the plant to accomplish fertilization by wind or insect. A sunflower relies on bees and other insects to help move pollen around its head to each flower. Butterflies and other insects often perch on an upturned sunflower head because its large, flat surface is inviting to insects searching for nectar. Complete and Incomplete Complete flowers have all four floral organs. The floral organs consist of sepals, which are small, green, leaflike structures at the base of petals; petals, which are the colorful part of the flower; female sex organs, including the ovary and ovule, which together are called the pistil; and the male sex organs, including the pollen-producing anthers, which together are called the stamen. If a flower is missing any of those parts, it is incomplete but still could be considered perfect. If, for example, a flower is missing sepals but has male and female reproductive organs, it would be a perfect flower; because not all four floral organs are present, however, the flower is also incomplete. Sunflower ray florets are missing both stamen and pistil, making them sterile. Sunflower disc florets are perfect flowers and create fruit when fertilized. That fruit is sunflower seed. Sunflowers are used for their seeds, meal, oil and foliage as well as for the beneficial properties they provide when grown alongside other crops. The Oikos Intentional Community also grows sunflowers for their seeds and oil. Health benefits of sunflower seeds Delicious, nutty, and crunchy sunflower seeds are widely considered as healthful foods. They are high in energy; 100 g seeds hold about 584 calories. Nonetheless, they are one of the incredible sources of health benefiting nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and vitamins. Much of their calories come from fatty acids. The seeds are especially rich in poly-unsaturated fatty acid linoleic acid, which constitute more 50% fatty acids in them. They are also good in mono-unsaturated oleic acid that helps lower LDL or “bad cholesterol” and increases HDL or “good-cholesterol” in the blood. Research studies suggest that Mediterranean diet which is rich in monounsaturated fats help to prevent coronary artery disease, and stroke by favoring healthy blood lipid profile. Like other nuts, they are also a very good source of proteins with fine quality amino acids such as tryptophan that are essential for growth, especially in children. Just 100 g of seeds provide about 21 g of protein (37% of daily-recommended values). In addition, sunflower seeds contain health benefiting poly-phenol compounds such as chlorogenic acid, quinic acid, and caffeic acids. These compounds are natural anti-oxidants, which help remove harmful oxidant molecules from the body. Further, chlorogenic acid helps reduce blood sugar levels by limiting glycogen breakdown in the liver. Further, the seeds are indeed a very rich source of vitamin E; contain about 35.17 g per100 g (about 234% of RDA). Vitamin E is a powerful lipid soluble antioxidant, required for maintaining the integrity of cell membrane of mucus membranes and skin by protecting it from harmful oxygen-free radicals. Sunflower kernels are one of the finest sources of B-complex group of vitamins. They are very good sources of B-complex vitamins such as niacin, folic acid, thiamin (vitamin B1), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), pantothenic acid, and riboflavin. Sunflowers are incredible sources of folic acid. 100 g of kernels contains 227 µg of folic acid,which is about 37% of recommended daily intake. Folic acid is essential for DNA synthesis. When given in anticipant mothers during the peri-conceptional period, it may prevent neural tube defects in the baby. Niacin and pyridoxine are other B-complex vitamins found abundantly in the sunflower seeds. About 8.35 mg or 52% of daily-required levels of niacin is provided by just 100 g of seeds. Niacin helps reduce LDL-cholesterol levels in the blood. In addition, it enhances GABA activity inside the brain, which in turn helps reduce anxiety and neurosis. The seeds are incredibly rich sources of many essential minerals. Calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, magnesium, selenium, and copper are especially concentrated in sunflower seeds. Many of these minerals play a vital role in bone mineralization, red blood cell production, enzyme secretion, hormone production, as well as in the regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle activities. Just a hand full of sunflower kernels a day provides much of the recommended level of phenolic anti-oxidants, minerals, vitamins, and protein. HOW TO SAY THE SUNFLOWER ROSARY The Sunflower Rosary is a contemplative prayer form. It is a modern prayer forumula developed by the Dasa, combining the Roman Catholic Rosary with the Orthodox Jesus Prayer Rope. It is comprised of 33 beads (the traditional number of years of Jesus’ life). There is one “INVITATORY” bead followed by four sets of seven beads each (called “stamen”) with a single bead (called the “pistil” bead) in between each Parakaleo. In the Judeo-Christian tradition the number seven is that of spiritual perfection and completion. The circle of beads is prayed, unhurriedly, three times to signify the Holy Trinity. This makes for ninety-nine prayers, and in Middle Eastern traditions, 99 is the complete number of the Divine Names. Rather than a crucifix or a cross, a Sunflower charm or tassel hangs from the beads. If you include the FLOWER at the beginning or the end, this brings the total number of prayers said to 100, which is the total of the Orthodox Rosary and represents the fullness of creation. Typically the saying of the Rosary is followed by a period of silence for reflection. There are no set prayers for the Sunflower Rosary. It is your choice! You may also use the Dasa’s Prayers from the Salos or develop your own prayers for the stamen section of the rosary. Listed below is the method of using the beads and some of the more commonly used prayers. Remember, it is the practice that is important, the time spent in communion with God; the rosary is simply the vehicle for getting there. It is a tool for meditation, contemplation and spiritual focus. HOW TO USE YOUR BEADS 1) Loosely hold the beads in your hand, grasping the cross in your other hand. If desired, say your opening prayer. 2) With your thumb and forefinger, grasp the pistil bead and say your chosen pistil prayer. 3) Move your fingers up the chain to the first of the 4 beads and say your chosen prayer. 4) Move your fingers up the chain to the first set of stamen to the right (you will be saying the rosary in a counterclockwise direction). Grasp the first bead and say your chosen prayer for the weeks. Repeat this prayer on the next six beads. 5) Move your fingers to the next pistil bead and say your chosen pistil prayer. 6) Continue in this manner until you have completed the circle of the rosary. Some Prayer Suggestions… The Flower In the Name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Or Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. Or Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen. Or Blessed be the one, holy and living God. Glory to God forever and ever. Amen. The Invitatory Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Or Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. Or O God make speed to save us, O Lord make haste to help us. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, I snow and will be forever. Amen. THE PISTIL Oh Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Oh Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Oh Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace. Or Guide us waking O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace. Or Behold now, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord. You that stand in the house of the Lord, lift up your hands in the holy place and bless the Lord. Or Holy God, Holy and Mighty Master, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy upon us, your slaves. THE STAMEN Almighty and merciful Lord, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bless us and keep us. Amen. Or Naked Christ, lamb of God, have mercy on us. Naked Christ, bearer of our sins, have mercy on us. Naked Christ, redeemer of the world, give us your peace. Or I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come? My help comes from the Lord, the make of heaven and earth. Or Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy on me, a sinner. Or you may use selected meditations from the Dasa in his Prayers from the Salos: SELECTED PRAYERS FROM THE SALOS FOR THE SUNFLOWER ROSARY SALOS 10 Humble me my Master, My Lord, keep me chaste and speak to me, command me, discipline me, and let me follow. Strengthen me in my weakness, in my poverty provide my bread, In You alone I place my trust, in You alone I place my life, my flesh, my spirit. I am Your own. or SALOS 12 My God, You are my eyes in the blindness of this world, You comfort me in suffering, You enable me to embrace the pain, You give me hope in hopelessness, and strength in weakness, You have spoken and I have heard, You have commanded and I have followed, There is only You my God, my reason for being. Take me into Your arms, and let me always listen, let my silence be worship, let my chastity be an offering, let my poverty be my wealth, let my obedience be Your pleasure, You are my God, I see You in all there is, I see you in the suffering, Your presence evident, Your peace prepared. Let Your mouth hush the noise, of the world that does not know You, and let us introduce You, to all who suffer, not with trumpet, pomp or carpet, but in love, let this be the way. or SALOS 7 We were commanded by Christ Jesus, Our Master, Our Lord, to pick up our cross and follow Him. We were commanded by the Christ, to conform NOT to this world but to turn it upside down. We are called to be His disciples, O Lord God, take us. We are Your slaves, Your fools, rejecting the world and following Him who brings us peace. Or SALOS 2 I come to You my Lord, on my knees, naked, broken, poor. I come to You my Lord, stripped bare, rejecting all things, but You. I submit my flesh to you, an offering for Your sacrifice. I submit my soul to you, returning to You what belongs to You. I submit my possessions to You, giving them to those who ask, as You demand. I submit my mind to You, surrendering every thought to Your thoughts. I submit myself to You my Lord, giving myself to as Your slave, the lowest of the low, to do with me as You will. I beg You my God, I beg You, to accept this offering of ash and dust, in all of my borkeness, all of my poverty, all of my weakness. or, SALOS 1 The stench of poverty fills the city, invading the air and the nostrils, Save us Majestic Lord, God of the Universe, Save us from the wolves foaming at the mouth, rabid, waiting to devour the darkness, waiting to devour the night, Save us Majestic God, with the naked Christ, Your Son, humiliated, beaten, wounded, stripped, blood soaking the soil of Calvary, blood soaking the wood, staining and cleansing the cross, Let Your heart for the poor make us poor, make us obedient, humble and washed, Save us. Wash us. Save us again and again and again. ******************** HOW TO ORDER THE SUNFLOWER ROSARY The new monastics of Oikos handmake Sunflower Rosaries for those in the secular world who wish to join in this meditative practice. The Sunflower Rosary is a wonderful gift item and a primary souvenier of the Oikos Intentional Community. All proceeds from the Sunflower Rosary go directly back into sustaining the life of the community. Each handmade Sunflower Rosary comes with a prayer booklet, a card blessing from the Dasa and a pack of Oikos Sunflower Seeds from Sunflower Village. VISIT THE OIKOS WEBSITE ONLINE OIKOS.COMMUNITY THE JOURNEY OF THE DASA There is a period of time between the choosing of the dasa at the Oikos Intentional Community and his actual investiture. When Reverend William Griffith became the 1st Dasa of Oikos, he took his vows, donned nothing but a simple dhoti and began preparing for his investiture through meditation, prayer and service. Chosen March 31, 2015, he shaved his entire body, signed a contract of submission with his prioress and was invested by anointing as the 1st Dasa in an official ceremony April 18, 2015. In the Oikos Intentional Community, the spiritual leader is known as the DASA (" meaning slave/servant in Sanskrit"). The dasa is solely dedicated to achieving perpetual spiritual enlightenment ), through meditation and contemplation. . The dasa wears a simple dhoti as a sign of his poverty. He/she renounces all material goods. Being dasa is open to women; since God is both male and female. The dasa is meant to be an extreme example of servitude and enslavement to the Elohim. BECOMING DASA The processes of becoming the dasa were establshed in the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oikos Intentional Community. The rituals following his/her selection include meditation one month prior to the investiture. Before the investiture, the dasa shaves his/her head and body, including his eyebrows, to accent the androgynous character of the Elohim (the masculine/feminine name of God). The dasa must continue this practice as a sign of submission and obedience. It makes the dasa sexless and androgynous. They must also be naturists. The investiture is done with the dasa naked. He/she is anointed with oil and is given the title "The Reverend Dasa". Extreme vows are taken for life by the Dasa: POVERTY CHASTITY (Celibacy) OBEDIENCE SILENCE (For a designated time) A person who becomesa dasa must seek a pioress or prior before the investiture. There, he or she must sign a contract with the prior/prioress (who serves as physical and spiritual master of the dasa). The prioress/prior is in charge of excercising disciplines to build the extreme vows of the dasa. The dasa is in total submission to the prioress/prior for life and to God. The prioress/prior has earthly authority over the dasa and is charged with keeping him/her in a state of perpetual submission and obedience. This build the character of the dasa's vows. Living as the dasa is meant to be a difficult lifestyle. Dasas are considered to be dead unto themselves, and legally dead to the world. While the life of renunciation is described by the Christ in the gospels, the dasa must live witrh little, including minor portions of food. The dasa must be blessed with knowledge of the esoteric mysteries and use all energy, physical, emotional, mental and sexual energy for spiritual empowerment. The dasa must perform dity and mundane tasks for the community, like douing dishes, scrubbing floors, cleaning the community toilets. These activities, and there are many, are acts of meditation, worship and prayer for the dasa. The Dasa is to never to be seen as divine, and nothing more than a slave-teacher. What knowledge and insight he/she has is from God. The dasa must routinely wash the feet of the oikourgous (Oikos new monastics) and serve them as slave. The prioress/prior assigns tasks to all of the oikourgous in the community, including the dasa. The ruggedness of the dasa life deters those who are not enlightened. The practices are rigorous, such as the renouncing of all material goods and a detachment from common luxuries.

Neopolitan
Mission: Living with the community's welfare as first priority, while fostering and nurturing individual talents and interests.
From www.ic.org/directory/neopolitan/:
Looking for those interested in investing in and building an intentional community start to finish in Naples/Bonita Springs/Estero area. The only requirement is highly conscious people--TBD by those who form the village.

The WingSeed IC Project
Mission: We're on a multi phase path to an ultimate goal Finally picking up momentum and VERY excited about it! 1) We're currently establishing a group residence in Eagle Rock. We've currently consolidated our group to two houses in the same neighborhood. 2) Our next step will be to stabilize a group fund which will go towards purchasing property. This is being done through a combination of personal endeavors, group projects, and fund raising events. 3) Once our financial goal is reached we will reevaluate and determine whether we will first buy a house in Los Angeles or buy rural property elsewhere(the ultimate goal is to buy the rural property regardless of whether we buy an urban/suburban house or not). 4) We will purchase a piece of land that will be shared among all members of the community. There we will establish our final residence where we can farm our own food, build our own society, and finally feel comfortable having and raising children.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-lab/:
We are a family. Perhaps one can better refer to us as a tribe. We usually all spend our Friday evenings together either working on projects, discussing philosophy, sharing meals, spending quality time together. We host regular meetings that anyone is welcome to attend; Tuesday night open lab(where we build solar panels, mesh networks, etc), Thursday night discussion meetings(where we usually discuss philosophy), Sunday morning art classes(figure drawing/painting, etc), and many other events in between(Including a monthly dinner outing to get to know one another). We're working towards establishing our community one step at a time through a series of community building events and fund raisers. Come see what we're about: http://www.meetup.com/wingseed/ https://www.facebook.com/thewingseedcollective/

Rock Garden Springs
Mission: Multi-generational home based upon sustainability and equality.
From www.ic.org/directory/rock-garden-springs/:
We are a community with four currently committed adults, our children, and a network of non-resident members and friends. We are creating a multi-generational home space together in rural northern California. Here, we are intentionally building a culture expressing our consensed-upon values, which include: sustainability, love, sharing, clear communication, an empowered work ethic, sex-positivity, and fun. We are choosing to continually experiment with new solutions to provide sustainably for human material and emotional needs. We govern ourselves through weekly meetings, in which all are welcome to speak, and major decisions are finally made by consensus of the partner members. These Councils ensure regular coordination of our projects, and all visitors are expected to attend and invited to participate. We also have a heartsong circle, usually monthly, which fosters deep, honest communication. All four of the current adults are polyamorous, and we welcome everyone. The land is owned by our mutual benefit nonprofit corporation. Each resident chooses projects to manage, for example, we currently have managers for the water (mountain spring-fed), the power (hydroelectric & solar), the goats, the kitchen, and equipment maintenance. There are few structures on the land, which is mostly undeveloped, so it is best for visitors to be prepared to camp. The land is mostly steep and rocky, relatively impassable for individuals with serious mobility issues. We use little power, and phone lines don't reach us, but we do have limited Internet access. Together, we have built a well-stocked community kitchen, but visitors, like residents, are expected to provide a portion of their own food. Economic opportunities are limited in this town, so bring your own initial income stream. We mostly shop in Redding, which is a 90-minute drive away on a clear day. There is only one small general store in our town which has two or three hundred residents. Also, this river-side town has natural hot springs, a permaculture-based community land trust, a community club, and an excellent elementary/middle school. We acknowledge a healthy community's dependence on the mingling of many generations. We're welcoming individuals and families of every variety who are excited about the puzzle of crafting a permaculture oasis out of raw land. We want people to commit to our diverse projects, including administration, construction, unschooling the children, operation and maintenance of heavy equipment, agricultural husbandry such as chickens, bees, mushrooms, and multi-layered gardening, et cetera. If these are not areas you are experienced in, we want you, too! If you consider yourself creative, considerate, reliable, and flexible, and willing to communicate openly, then come visit us and see if our home could become your home, too.

Family Focused Sustainable Homestead Community
Mission: Seeking families to join together in an effort to create an off grid, self sufficient, sustainable community.
After chasing the American Dream and living a normal suburban life my wife and I now believe that modern society and economics are both unhealthy and unsustainable. We have decided to "opt-out" and create a safer, healthier, and happier life for our children. To that end we are seeking like-minded families to join together in an effort to create an off grid, self sufficient, sustainable community. This is a ground floor opportunity for those interested in being part of forming a new community. We are currently located in Kentucky but are very open minded for the final location as long as it makes sense (climate, growing season, etc.). The final decision on the location will be a group effort. Our vision is to purchase a plot of land as a land trust with each family having their own home site and the balance of the land being used to growing crops, raising animals, and preservation.

Family
Mission: Looking to create a loving, trusting, stable, life long family. A family to laugh with and cry with along the journey. People to share in life.
From www.ic.org/directory/family/:
Specifically I am searching to find: A female or two who love children and want more than anything to be at home caring for our precious young. A male or two who also want to maintain and support the home for the sake of the cause.I am currently buying a home in a quite neighborhood in small town Indiana. The house has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and two kitchens. The basement could easily be upgraded to facilitate more rooms. The house is in need of a handyman but is cute and had potential. It sits on 3/4ths acer and is in a generally wooded area. If you have children and haven't quite established the solid home and family you were wanting, this might be just right for you. This would be a family who shares a close living space with choirs, meals, and activities.

Finca Morpho
Mission: Our Mission is to spread the seed of permaculture using love, compassion and understanding for everyone and everything. And to tend the seedling as the idea of permaculture flowers into a beautiful new world by openly sharing all knowledge and skills.
From www.ic.org/directory/finca-morpho/:
Finca Morpho is a small tight knit regenerative educational experimental permaculture community on 4.2 hectares, close to the OSA peninsula's point of Cabo Matapalo, 14km south of Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica on the road to Matapalo, the only purple gate. We are morphing ourselves and others to be more sustainable, creative, free, happy, at peace, and open-minded to all ideas and ways of lives. Being surrounded by an indescribable primal energy from the rainforest and the ocean has inspired us to "Be the change we wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi. By using biodynamic regenerative agriculture we are creating a system that will continue to make top soil for years to come on it's own and able to sequester carbon. We have integrated a zero waste policy and we are using all forms of human disposal and waste to enrich the environment around us. Plant and animal care for us is treating all plants and animals the way most people treat their house pets, with lots of love, attention, activities, and healthy food. We are striving towards a sustainable and self-sufficient model for others to learn from and to show others visiting the area how they can add some of these practices into their lives with little to no work involved.

Pepperpot Farms (Bohemian Yurt Community)
Mission: To create a co-op community for free thinkers, artists etc with interests in self sustainability through gardening and farm and arts markets.
I am looking for individuals who are interested in erecting their yurts or walls tents on a 16 acre plot of rolling, undeveloped woodland that I have. The general idea is to create an off grid village with these structures and a social community set in a modern Bohemian culture. Artists, musicians, writers, free thinkers, performers and other eccentrics like myself. Essentially, creative people- starving artists on a low budget who are willing to pool resources to meet needs, and live more simply in order to really focus on your projects, passions and creativity, instead of slaving away for some company in order to pay high rent and utilities, and still have little time or money left to pursue what you’d rather be doing! (This is what a lot of us are doing right now!!) Is this place right for you: Are you a creative soul? Don’t mind being in a remote, off grid, woodland location? Would like to surround yourself with other likeminded people? Would like to build your own yurt or wall tent for a home? Willing to help others with gardening, landscaping, micro farming? Can provide for your own personal expenses- water/power/food and about $30 a month for your share in land costs (taxes and upkeep). Moving toward a self sustaining community With the focus of the community being farm and arts, it makes sense to pursue the idea of a farm and arts market on site to possibly create an income from personal gardening efforts and creative endeavors. The opportunities are there, just looking for community members- one person, and one step at a time. Contact me if you would like more details!

Gemeinschaft Tortuga
Mission: We want to be happy, healthy, loving, we just want the good life! That is why we’re founding this community, because in capitalism we just don’t fit in, we hate it here, we can’t stand that horrible society and we want such a different life. We want to go live on the land, put our hands to work, love, learn, do all the important things. We want to determine our own lives, together and not be determined. We want to share property, money, work, … for the benefit of everyone involved. We believe that the way we want to live is only possible in an intentional community on the countryside, neither in the city, nor alone.
From www.ic.org/directory/gemeinschaft-tortuga/:
We’re founding an intentional community located in northern Spain. At the moment we still live in Leipzig, Germany. Our main principles are: * anticapitalism * anti-esoteric / anti-spiritual / anti-religious * antisexism * communal economy * consensus * ecology * freedom of domination / non-hierarchical structures / anarchy * freedom in love (love who and how ever you want to) * self-determined education * self-sufficiency * transparency

The Fellowship of Humanity and Life
Mission: Complete self sufficiency, Defense and use of all tactical opportunities in the event of disorder etc. Use of atmospheric technologies to generate independent water sources. Small animal management.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-fellowship-of-humanity-and-life/:
House with lots, looking to build 4 cottages that are family oriented. Seeking to build solar, water generation, and a self sufficient way of growing food. Need help physically and mentally towards living through the coming times of uncertainty. We seek independent thinkers. This Project is located in Mexico on the border. Not in the USA

Fertile Intentional Community
Mission: Our mission is to help our greater community by creating a safe place where the homeless can have a warm meal and a cozy bed. A hot shower and clean clothes. A refuge for those who are down on their luck and are in need of a helping hand to get back on their feet.
From www.ic.org/directory/fertile-intentional-community/:
Fertile Intentional Community Freedom Equality Respect Trust Intellect Love Exuberance Our Vision is a peaceful and harmonious community dedicated to helping not only each other but the greater community around us. We support food sovereignty and are focused on self sustainability. Utilizing clean energy, ecologically based farming, forestry, homesteading and habitat restoration in an effort to reduce our carbon foot print. A few terms that could be used to describe our extended-family-style community would be secular, egalitarian, autonomous, sustainable and cooperative. We appreciate the beauty and serenity of the land. Living in harmony with others working towards a common goal, personal growth, community involvement and peaceful conflict resolution. We welcome exceptionally positive and passionate people who wish to build a wonderful life stewarding the earth for not only ourselves but for future generations. We honor and respect nature. As well as nurture the harmony within ourselves and others. Working together to create a place where love and unity is essential. Living a simple lifestyle while utilizing technology such as running water, electricity, power tools, computers, etc. to benefit the community in the most efficient manner possible. Living each day to better ourselves, our community and the environment in which we will all live.

COSEC (Central Ohio Sustainable Equitable Community)
Mission: To develop a living renaissance in the heart of Ohio.
The goal of COSEC is to create an intentional community within reasonable commute distance of Columbus, Ohio. COSEC will be financed by a proportional ownership model that will allow individuals to tailor their investment level to their interest and ability level while still leaving room for low-income members who can join the community for a low-cost share and either pay traditional lot rent or contribute for their stay through sweat equity. COSEC will be a community that encourages microhousing and sustainable architecture but will also accommodate cabins, rvs, trailers and more traditional housing structures.

Wild Abode Living
Mission: Natural Farming primitive living skills
We are two people who have been on a journey into a truly healthy lifestyle for many years, but just recently made the leap of purchasing 20 acres an hour north of portland. We believe that by living close to nature, gardening or gathering all of our own foods, growing a spiritual practice and living with like-minded folk, we can be the best possible versions of ourselves. Right now we are….. -Designing and building a 150 square foot burmed in hobbit house out of natural materials on the land and excited about having people come out, help and learn! -Planting tons of fruit and nut trees -Growing about an acre of food spread out on different areas throughout the property. -Planting every seed by hand with love, but do have a tractor on site for cutting trails and the really hard projects. -Using a mix of Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming, permaculture and our own intuition to design, grow and build. -Living in a camper with a wood stove and propane burner while building our hobbit house -Using a solar panel to power minimal electronics but are moving in the direction of living without any electricity. -Living without refrigeration, so our food only stays as cool as the ground temperature. -Spending much of our time in the forest, gathering berries and wild foods, listening to the plants and bathing and lounging in the creek. -Drying herbs and making medicines. -Buying less and making more with our own hands. -Dumpster diving at organic groceries to supplement what we cant grow and save food from the landfill. -Growing a more direct connection with the land upon which we live. We believe that this space has many things to share with us, so we are practicing listening instead of imposing our will. Our intention is to learn how to live more and more direct with the earth every day, and lessen our use of all things industry-made. We have decided on the pacific north-west for now and are looking to connect with anyone else in the area or any travelers passing through who have similar intentions for their life practice. Even if you don’t have intentions of living here, we enjoy guests and conversations with like-minded souls, and have a tipi set up just for visitors to camp in and enjoy the simple life. We enjoy sitting around the fire and cooking dinner in the tipi with visitors. We are hoping to attract those who are either familiar with or very interested in: hunting and harvesting wild edibles, building a tiny natural home on the land (cob, straw bale, yurt, tipi etc),hiking in and hauling materials by hand instead of driveways and drive-up service, living without electricity, primitive skill development, listening to his/her intuition, thriving completely off the land, practicing group meditation/breathwork/dancing, being truly honest with himself/herself and others, able to express how he/she is feeling, attempting to live in a compassionate state of non-judgement, working very hard when feeling called but also able to completely relax and take time to himself/herself. These of course are our ideals and we are still practicing them daily, please come and practice with us. There are many things to figure out and your input is welcome and needed.

Names are superficial.
Mission: Mobile Hunter/ gatherers Seasonal work and travels Organic Reused materials Learning Teaching Helping others
From www.ic.org/directory/names-are-superficial/:
Mobile Hunter/ gatherers Seasonal work and travels Organic Reused materials

Karass Community
Mission: Hospitality, community, sustainability, resource sharing, egalitarianism, and growing the communities movement.
From www.ic.org/directory/karass-community/:
Forming community in small town Vermont seeks 3-4 members. Karass is located in Chester, Vermont based in a 10 bedroom, 9 bathroom house with 6 guest rooms (the inn) and 4 member rooms (the community). We believe in hospitality, community, sustainability, resource sharing, and egalitarianism. All members contribute labor to the community, but there is no financial buy-in or other fees. The community is not currently accepting pets, or those under 18. More details on member responsibilities and benefits, as well as application information, is available at http://bit.ly/1gqnfiW, or email Angie Tupelo at TheKarassInn@gmail.com

cambia
Mission: We aspire for a small and stable community with a high level of sharing and connection. We are inspired by the nature around us as we attempt to create human habitat that emulates the beauty and complexity of living systems. We seek to intertwine reason and intuition, aesthetics and efficiency. We are interested in increasing our skills and education through experience, mentorship, sharing and study, and growing as individuals. Within a thriving cluster of neighboring income sharing communities, we are creating a viable, regenerative alternative to the mainstream. We intend to strengthen the relationships between existing communities.
From www.ic.org/directory/cambia/:
We are forming an egalitarian and income sharing community. We are co-creating a culture of social sustainability and harmony that nourishes us as well as the earth. We focus on re-humanizing the scale of our lives. We do that with slower pace, balance in our lives, deep social connection, natural building, education, creativity, and intuitive structure to our time and space. While we are focused on interpersonal and cultural aspects of our community, we are interested in building small, beautiful, natural housing, doing our best to be ecologically conscious, using new and old technologies, and upholding values of minimalism. We want to continually learn about what works in community and do our best to integrate our lessons into our lifestyle. We are planning educational programs in subjects including experiential natural building workshops, off grid technologies, crafts, and nature awareness. We are working on understanding what makes communities thrive through sociological research.

Tina Yoxtheimer, Home/Land Owner
Mission: Hello, I'm Tina, a 57 year old Disabled woman who has been working my 2.52 acres of land for 15 years. This property is absolutely beautiful! It is located inland 45 minutes from St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Florida. I have a working orchard, vegetable and herb gardens. The orchard consists of pomegranate, fig, peach, Japanese plum, pecan. I have matured strawberry that is continually expanding in size. All plantings are heirloom organic, non-GMO and cultivated using organic growing regulations. I am not certified organic but could become so. A note on my disability: I am a Disabled Benzene worker. Which means I have severe multiple chemical sensitivity and living/working with others who use fragrance in or on anything is impossible. So I am looking for others who do not want to tolerate chemical fragrances. I need someone who has an income; be it SSD or SS or other, to be a Co-Applicant for loan approval to purchase a new mobile home on my land. This co-applicant will be co-owner as well. I also have business opportunity visions in and out of the garden! So please call me and we can talk about all the details and any questions you have. Thank you! (386)328-0398
From www.ic.org/directory/tina-yoxtheimer-homeland-owner/:
2.52 BEAUTIFUL organic acres with 15 year old orchard, herb and vegetable garden. Included is a 3 bedroom 2 bath double-wide mobile home that needs to be replaced. Looking for co-applicant to purchase new mobile home together, live in, and share everything.

The House of Commons
Mission: We as a house are committed to: - Relationship: with one another and others - Prayer: together & individually - Service: to one another & to those in need - Being a Resource: to those around us - Participating in the Kingdom of God: through loving one another, inviting in the stranger, upholding the value & dignity of those around us, reducing our environmental impact, sharing our collective resources, planting gardens, creating music & working against systems which oppress people (and much more!)
From www.ic.org/directory/the-house-of-commons/:
We enjoy meeting people from every walk of life and sharing in hot beverages, theological discussions, church (universal), house concerts in our livingroom, bike rides, creating art, gardening, raising chickens, self-expression, snowball fights, being nice. We are a collection of individuals who believe that each person is valuable and deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and care. We invite all into our home for meals, gardening, prayer, among other things, and over the years we have build quite the little family around us. We do our best to walk alongside our neighbours in solidarity, we uphold those around us who are faced with daily injustices, we plant gardens to participate in healing of creation, we invite anyone to our table to eat amongst us, we take in the sick and care for them, and we respond to the needs of one another and others as best as we can.

Shanti-shanti village
Mission: Our entire philosophy is just our choice. We do not impose any rules or regulations for residents and visitors. We share our vision of life, but we don’t strive to teach people how to live. We do not adhere to any religion; our ideology is peace and love. We think that in order to create a happy world, you need to make yourself and a few other people happy. If everyone does so, this world will turn into a beautiful garden. We started with ourselves and invite you to join us!
From www.ic.org/directory/shanti-shanti-village/:
Shanti-Shanti village (Shanti – world, peace, harmony) Our little village is a large, free and beautiful world where people live in harmony with nature, outer and inner world, themselves and all others. We will try to create an atmosphere of freedom, creativity, simplicity and peace in this place. for more information http://www.shanti-shanti.fr/en-1/

Harmony Commune
Mission: A Collective Forum of We The People's Commonwealth^, Communal Commonwealth brings Collectivist Harmony. Harmony Commune believes Sharing brings Inner and Social Harmony thru our communal creations as Sharing Communalist. Sharing a network of Communalism, blending the Mission of Harmony.
From www.ic.org/directory/harmony-commune/:
Our Commons is auspices of the future acres of your allowance near Eagle Cap, for our Occupation and Communal Livelihood. If you have land for us above one thousand feet, please let us know. Our Commune is of the general Populace. In the pictures below, Click on the photo then click the appearing for more readable enlargement. We need people who can help provide the Equipment, Stock, Labor, & build our Communal Commons. E-mail us at collectivist4@aol.com ;also collectivist4@live.com . Harmony Commune is forming for Purposes and Means that include; Incorporation as Harmony Commune Corporation, a Nonprofit Mutual Benefit, IRC 501(d) Apostolic, Corporate Communal Community of Agriculture, and Industry. [ Apostles adapting Jedi, Jesus, Thoth, G.W.F.Hegel's and Other's perspectives as Communal Solutions for the Evolution of Property Disharmony; Also, Our Apostles offering Solutions for the Synthesis of Inner and Social Harmony. ] Our Solutions for these Purposes include; Sharing a Common Treasury for Our Livelihood of Mutual Benefit, Via Ways that include; Agriculture, Logistics, Manufacturing, Marketing, Etc. Also; For furthering the Purpose of Our Perpetual Mutual Maintenance of the Corporate Entity, Entities, Person, and Persons; For Provision of Our Democratically Empowered Communal Livelihood; - Our Further Ways and Means Include: (A) Mutual Corporate Entity Maintenance; Beneficiary/Volunteers as Members of Our Communal Mutual Aid Program shall Share a Non-Monetary Corporate Maintenance from our full Collective Industry, and Creations; thus developing Equitable Democratic Livelihoods, With the inclusion of Referendum;- Communalism. (B) Collective Regulation; Developing Simultaneously thru Delegates/Officials, Subject to the Corp. By-Laws, and Referendum; - For Provision of Our Mutual Collective Livelihood. Provision includes Logistics for our industry and Creations for Distribution,- and External Marketing, that includes Bartering. (C) Harmony Commune's, Commonwealth Academy of Jedi Chi provides ongoing Apostolic Education, and Training at every age Without Prejudice. Sharing brings Harmony. Solve Problems for Harmony. BY-LAWS: Forming Harmony Commune as a IRC 501(d) Apostolic Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporate Communal Community. (A) Accounting as Harmony Commune Corporation: Maintenance Expense; The Corporate Person of Beneficiary/Volunteers is Mutual Maintenance of the Corp. Entity-Person. Bud, Jan.1,2016 Incorporating Harmony Commune as a IRC501(d) Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation.

Aldeas de Paz
Mission: ADP is independent from political, religious or business interests and maintains independence by completely funding and operating its programs with the practical and monetary contributions of volunteers. The community promotes the “Culture of Peace” through enriching cross-cultural exchange for people of all races and nationalities and practices voluntary community service where it provides additional opportunities in educational, recreational and environmental fields and assists its beneficiaries to develop their potential and improve their own lives. ADP Community shares the values of peace, justice and tolerance, fundamentally focusing on the preservation of indigenous cultures and the empowerment of young people while valuing local knowledge and working with cultural sensitivity. ADP Volunteer opportunities are truly the microcosm of a world where people join together giving priority to improving life for humanity and promoting a “Culture of Peace” as a practical way to both prevent and resolve conflict. Volunteers and interns are the driving force of our charity, both through their volunteering and through their financial contributions.
From www.ic.org/directory/aldeas-de-paz/:
Aldeas de Paz (ADP) is a sustainable and transparent community and grassroots NGO based in Santa Barbara de Samana, the Dominican Republic. A typical member, volunteer or intern needs to be enthusiastic, willing to learn, ready for a challenge, has a desire to take initiative and dedicates a lot of caring and passion to the position. Friendliness, care, commitment and patience are among important qualities. We welcome individual volunteers, families and groups regardless of age, experience or background. Volunteering with ADP is a great opportunity to work side by side with locals, learn new skills, study Spanish, and immerse oneself in the Latin and indigenous culture. You are interacting with the community, building relationships and making a positive impact. These days the Community is welcoming new permanent members and especially idealistic people are encouraged to join.

The Transcendent Zeitgeist Movement (TTZM)
Mission: Simple: a chance for true happiness. Peace, Love, Respect, Trust, Togetherness The following is a link to some FAQ regarding (TZM) http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq
TTZM is currently forming, we are now a small group of people who have been handed some lucky cards. We have a large source of Income to start a Self Sustaining community we are currently in the process of securing a large portion of land around 100+ acres. We currently own 36 acres and are looking to start a town or city depending on how much additional land we can buy in the surrounding area. At this link there are 2 DVD's that are free and are suggested to gain a complete idea of what we are doing (http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/tool-kit) The movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems that plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, absolute scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality. Rather, the movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, pollution, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate reform steps and temporal community support are of interest to the movement, the defining goal is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible resource management, allocation and design through what would be considered the scientific method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions. This “Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy" (NLRBE) is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a monetary or even political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods known, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profit, business and other structural and motivational issues. The movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. The view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in science and technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications that could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population, increasing public health. There is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crime and many other monetarily-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time. The range of the movement's activism and awareness campaigns extend from short- to long-term, with methods based explicitly on non-violent methods of communication. The Zeitgeist Movement has no allegiance to any country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on Earth, not a select group. It is recommended to do some research on Peter Joseph and his Ideals. Because we have the same vision currently we are seeking families as well as educated individuals as follows: Engineers, Mechanics, Carpenters, Botanists, Doctors, Teachers, Electricians, Plumbers and many more. The deal is we will provide everything you need. We will build you a house and a school for your kids. But we need ground breakers as well as people willing to help work. We are accepting applications now. Please contact Aaron with any questions. Thank you and We Love you:) Note: will update this page as progress is made. (http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement)

Kids Gardening in Eden/ Itopia
Mission: Educate The Youth, Build A Better Future, Help The Planet, Live Lightly With The Land, Love Everyone 100%
From www.ic.org/directory/kids-gardening-eden/:
We are conscious young families striving to make a difference in the world, by educating our children about a 'new' way of life, living in harmony with the land, giving a hand up to our friends and neighbors, and respecting our beautiful Mother Earth! We are looking at purchasing 160 acres near Williams, Oregon, to build a sustainable, off-the-grid community and start a Healing and Educational Center for our own children and other youth! We are committed to teaching the world's children, about sustainable living, organic gardening and agriculture, living lightly with the land, natural building, compassionate care of wildlife, conservation of natural resources, edible wild plants, natural medicine, yoga and personal wellness, nutrition, spirituality, interpersonal relationships, effective communication, and so much more- concerning real-world skills to prepare them for their futures. Our Dream is to make the changes necessary for a positive difference in the future of our World! Our initial plans include a handful of natural dwellings, we are looking at Yurts, Cobb and Straw-Bale houses to start with, with the possibility of a larger communal space that includes a library, dining hall, temple/yoga space, and kitchen, where we would prepare nutritious meals that are 100% organic and grown on-site! Some of the other goals we have for the beginning of this project are rainwater collection, recycling gray water via a filtering garden system, solar heating and cooling, composting toilets, solar bathing facilities, and utilizing wind and/or water generated energies. We are beginning this year to grow a large enough organic, GMO-Free garden to generate most if not all of the food for the families on-site, as well as traveling to local farmer's markets and the possibility of our own CSA. This is a dream we have all been compiling for years, to exist outside the confines of traditional society and 'get back' to a more harmonious way of life. Help us prove the possibility of an existence without mindless consumerism, and of a symbiotic relationship with our wonderful planet. Because, right now, our Earth needs it! Thank you so much for reading about us! For more information, contact us at tulsi.flower859@gmail.com; we look forward to hearing from you!

Breathing Rock
Mission: Our long term goal is cradle to grave security for every member of the tribe, and to make sure everyone is at the enough point. Meaning that no one should be allowed to do without. We aim to live a better life through cooperation and collaboration.
From www.ic.org/directory/breathing-rock/:
Breathing Rock is a tribal community. Our long-term goal is cradle-to-grave security for every member of the tribe. Some of us are long term friends who have known each other for years. Some of us have only known each other for less than 2 yrs. This began with a dream and a push.

The Settlement
Mission: Eco vegan clean-living, renewable technology. Finding the correct balance between spiritual and material knowledge that encompasses a holistic, simple, yet comfortable lifestyle.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-settlement/:
Outside of Mullumbimby, NSW, near Byron Bay Our community is a 5 acre share existing within a larger community. We are two vegans living a lifestyle that is cruelty free for animals, good for the planet and for ourselves. We are: Paul: Interested in new age/mystical and spiritual philosophy, music, engineering, building, and organic food production. Vyvyan: Interested in political science, Christianity, history and common law. We have two cottages that we built ourselves and 2 caravans. Our property is off the grid. Paul has many organic vegetable plots and lives mainly off food he grows. His home is completely solar powered - the north facing roof is actually made of solar panels. He has plans to build a large geodesic dome, and people are welcome to get involved. It will be used for meditation and dance, as a performance space and music studio, as well as for meetings and workshops. WWOOFers and couch surfers can stay there too. Vyvyan’s cottage is au naturale. He prefers not to use electricity and mobile phones. We have good views, rainforest, subtropical weather, organic fruit and veg, a pond with singing birds and frogs, as well as lots of peace and quiet. There is opportunity to learn about building shelters and growing food. We are open to holding workshops that cover topics like self sufficiency and survivalism, minimum eco-impact living, spirituality, music and renewable energy. Best if you bring a tent. There is space to camp and maybe space in a caravan. Paul offers the use of electricity, his induction cooker, and solar hot water for baths under the stars.

Quercus
Mission: Quercus is an egalitarian commune forming in Richmond, Virginia. We're eco-conscious and dedicated to social justice, personal growth, and fun.
From www.ic.org/directory/quercus/:
Quercus is an urban, income-sharing commune forming in Richmond, VA. We are dedicated to ecological conservation, social justice, personal growth, and leading lives of beauty, agency, and fun. We hold our land, labor, income and other resources in common, and distribute them according to the needs of our members. We promote a strong culture of proactive interpersonal communication and strive for our members to develop strong relationships, both with one another and our surrounding community. We govern ourselves via consensus decision making, and we’re dedicated to dismantling systems of arbitrary hierarchy, wherever they may be found. Ultimately, we wish for our project, and those of similar principles, to be endeavors of growth and reach, so that egalitarianism might spread further into the world. Not-so- ideological interests and hobbies of current Quercus members include, but are not limited to: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Acro-Yoga, Yarn Bombing, and Bicycle Flash Mobs. We currently have four core members and are searching for a couple more, along with as many allies as we can find. We moved in October 1, 2015. Let us know in what ways you're interested.

Home for art
Mission: ART
From www.ic.org/directory/home-for-art/:
The concept of this commune is to try to set up a place where many live in a building where they can do art. The building is set up to be able to do arts that are not easy to set up in an individual house or apartment: pottery, glass work, printmaking, jewelry, wood work, sculpture, metalsmithing. It is set up so that we can live and work here even if we had to have some job on the outside to survive we could still live for our art. I was looking at commercial property in Waterloo, Iowa, and there was a Nursing home for sale. Everybody gets a room and there is room for studio space. The entryway/dayroom is the gallery. Who could ask for anything more?

Pura Fruta
Mission: To re-create our natural habitat, including not only abundance of our natural raw-vegan foods, but also our natural tribe of well detoxified and reconstructed family members living an exemplary nonviolent life through our language, spirituality and food choices, while educating and healing others to help all living beings becoming free and fulfilled.
From www.ic.org/directory/pura-fruta/:
- To engage in setting up a permacultural fruit forest, aiming self-sufficiency in the shortest time possible. - To co-create with Nature a safe environment where we can live in harmony and simplicity. - To help each other and grow together in profound respect to ourselves, each other and Mother Earth. - To become an example of how to live in a sustainable way in all aspects. - We don't support any animal suffering or killing, consumption of drugs, chemicals or harmful products for our bodies or the environment.

Mother tribe in NYC
Mission: "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." Looking for a group of like-minded mothers interested in sustainable living, alternative lifestyles, shared parenting, spirituality and living in harmony with life.
From www.ic.org/directory/mother-tribe-in-nyc/:
I want to create a community of women in NYC — a space for living, sharing and raising children together. Next spring I will be moving to NYC with my 12-year-old daughter – we have spent the last 5 years in the Indian Himalaya’s working with women and communities and now the universe calls us to something new. Without a plan, we are leaping into the unknown, trusting in the divine and following our hearts. My greatest wish is to connect with other like-minded women — sharing journeys, stories and the tapestry of life as it unfolds together. I would love to hear from other courageous women who would be interested in co-creating and sharing this journey with us in NYC.

New York Kibbutz
Mission: We live out our Jewish values through education, spiritual practice, respect for the earth, tikkun olam and artistic expression.
From www.ic.org/directory/jewish-community/:
See www.facebook.com/newyorkkibbutz for the most up-to-date information. Right now we have facilities for Shabbatons and other gatherings, where like-minded souls meet regularly. A property is being sought after by myself and others for a Intentional Jewish Community. Our current resources enable us to have gatherings year-round. Many people have an ideal notion of Community without ever having hands-on experience to determine if they enjoy the lifestyle. Another obstacle to living Intentionally is the difficulty in forming relations with those who not only share the same values but are committed to living in an Intentional Community. An opportunity thus is provided for individuals and families who are considering Intentional Community, to live in and experience community for a week, a month, a season. Bonds will be formed and a network will be created. Living together on a part-time basis will help to determine where, with whom, and how we want to live together before making a dramatic, life-altering decision to join an IC. In this fashion we will slowly but surely reach a critical mass of people and resources. This network will then begin the process of forming a permanent community in the place of our choosing.

las Indias
Mission: Our mission is to build a node of an alternative world beyond the borders of command pyramids and the law of the jungle, and also beyond the omnipresence of commodification and the alienation of labor, a world where “everyone shares everything” through communal ownership and savings, and “everyone receives according to their need”. Read more in «The Communard Manifesto»: https://lasindias.blog/the-communard-manifesto
From www.ic.org/directory/las-indias/:
«las Indias» is a transnational egalitarian and productive community. We live according to the «hacker ethics» of work: we enjoy learning, we love discussion and we don't limit ourselves to any specialization. We make our living creating free and open technologies, distributed networks and knowledge based products of all kind: consuming goods, innovation consultancy, information analysis, education, books...

Chateau Ubuntu
Mission: We aim to create a space that inspires and enables each of its members to realize his or her grandest potential. We seek to cultivate a culture of gratitude and acceptance within and beyond our walls. We hope to nourish ourselves, nourish our city, and nourish our world. Come share the love!
From www.ic.org/directory/chateau-ubuntu/:
We're a budding community in the heart of San Francisco. Our members hail from various walks of life: teachers, developers, writers, artists, wanderers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. This home resonates with our five PACTS (Participation, Authenticity, Collaboration, Transformative Experiences, and Sustainability) and a shared value of gratitude. We host regular culinary and musical events; we organize for social good in the Lower Haight and beyond; and we are working together to grow this community into something even more wonderfully effusive.

Tortuga Bay
Mission: Building a counter-weight to centralization, mindless consumption, global decline, without losing sight of modern achievements such as the internet.
From www.ic.org/directory/tortuga-bay/:
We decided it was time to stop watching the global decline and to start acting. So we are emigrating to found an ecovillage community. Our goals are: 1) counter-acting global centralization, 2) preserving nature and local resources 3) become as autonomous and resilient as possible 4) build a haven where people are free to diversify and create, without having to fear for their livelihood. To do this, we need people of like mind. We anticipate the transition-town is going to combine EarthBag structures, diverse agriculture ranging from traditional forestry to modern aquaponics, community-owned energy, heating and water infrastructure and (of course) internet access. The plan is to keep the community below ~120 people to not exceed Dunbar's Number and thus maximize the ease of self-governance. When it comes to rules, we prefer a hands-off approach. Cultivation of nature and tolerance towards each other are usually enough, no cultural or societal norms need be set. We are also considering joining an existing community or village to have an easier start, if we can find one that matches our ideals. (Communities that try to enforce a certain way of life are usually not a good fit.) If you think you know a place, we look forward to hearing it. And if any of this sounds interesting to you, we're looking forward to talking to you.

Binary Model
Mission: The purpose of this community is to alternate capitalism with a self-sufficient economy, based on the theory that man needs both in order to fulfill his intrinsically ambivalent nature, i.e. respectively the "progressive" and "static" ones (please refer to my blog if you have the patience to read it ) . I plan to expand its presence worldwide .
From www.ic.org/directory/binary-model/:
The "static area" (as I call it) is represented by an overgrown gently sloping hazelnut grove and woodland which ends in a strip of plain , bordered by a delightful creek which (usually) runs all year long, providing for the irrigation of vegetables and corn fields. The land is set in a national park, so all manner of wild animals including wild boar roam freely and hunting is allowed. The adjacent lands are all abandoned and can therefore be purchased at very moderate prices, thus allowing the potential expansion of the community up to about a 4 hectare area in total. There is also a spontaneous spring which runs all year except in summer and a well can be easily dug (probably even by hand) as water is a few meters below the surface. The climate is very temperate due to the low altitude and surrounding woodland. Construction would be allowed if one of the adjacent lands were to be purchased, as it is sufficiently far away from the stream. It's also possible to connect to the grid, but solar energy is more in line with my purpose. As everywhere in Italy, civilization is always very near. Yet, this place is, by its orography, very private. Although there are farms and people all around , the sensation of being fully immersed in a solitary wilderness is overwhelming. I build everything with what I have at hand. I have recently constructed a gross but extremely functional chicken coop which neither foxes or weasels have succeeded in penetrating in spite of their obvious endeavors. The laying hens I raised in it , which are free to roam the land by day, appear to have developed an unusual wisdom and balance which make them very friendly and disciplined. They are so confident that they like to hitch rides on my shoulders or follow me around while they hunt for insects and grubs. I get my internet connectivity only via a mobile 3G signal on a tablet which I charge via solar . The idea is to move into this environment permanently, albeit gradually. For the time being, I still have a convenient umbilical chord tying me to the "civilized" world by dint of a comfortable villa located about 8 miles from said wilderness, which I can reach even by bicycle. This large house is composed by three independent areas all equipped with relevant kitchens and bathrooms. This is an urban dwelling (albeit situated in the country, 15 miles from Rome) and offers perfect connectivity to internet, mobile and landline, apart from breathtaking views, a lovely garden with fruit trees and a swimming pool. From there, I occasionally jet off to wherever I can find I.T. contract work in Europe. My intention is to turn part of this house into a language school ( I'm fluent in five ) and cooking workshop with B&B or hostel facility . I would ideally prefer to join forces with people who would like to participate in this venture. They wouldn't have to contribute financially , although that would be my preference , but would need to help me take care of the villa and the land, especially when I'm away for work. I would ideally like to purchase a flat land that would allow for taking off and landing with an ultralight aircraft and keeping a couple of horses, but although I don't lack the funds, this would have to be found at some distance from my present farmland, as the landscape would not allow for it. I am also poised to purchase a small sailboat to moor in British waters, with which to escape on long sailing trips. Self-sufficiency, in my mind, also includes transportation ... And this project is very much about play and adventure as well, so the above would not be incoherent with it. I have some funds available for all of this. It's more a matter of energy, enthusiasm and sharing.

Baltimore Free Farm
Mission: Baltimore Free Farm is committed to creating ecologically sound alternatives by combining the best technologies of modern and age-old practices. Baltimore Free Farm strives to promote urban agriculture, sustainability, and permaculture through the creation of green spaces and community sanctuaries which utilize reclaimed materials whenever possible. By providing entertainment, educational opportunities, and ethically produced food to local residents, we hope to instill a sense of pride in one's community and its ability to sustain itself.
From www.ic.org/directory/baltimore-free-farm/:
Baltimore Free Farm is an egalitarian collective of gardeners and activists who aim to provide access to healthy food for all. Horizontal Housing Co. is a non-stock corporation formed by members of Baltimore Free Farm in 2013. Because Baltimore Free Farm is a project under the umbrella of the 501-c3 organization Fusion Partnerships, it cannot collectively purchase property. The sole purpose of Horizontal Housing Co. is to purchase property for utilization by Baltimore Free Farm members as either gardening space or housing. In 2012, our good friend and Baltimore Free Farm member Paul Pojman passed away, leaving behind a house which BFF collective members lived in but did not own. Working in conjunction with Paul’s family members and NASCO, an organization which helps co-ops and housing collectives purchase property, Horizontal Housing was able to purchase this property and continue housing several BFF members on campus. In addition, Horizontal Housing was able to purchase two lots from the city that are a part of Baltimore Free Farm’s gardening space. Like much of Hampden, these lots were under threat of housing development before Horizontal Housing was awarded the rights to purchase the land and it will now remain part of our garden for many years to come.

Living Miracles Worldwide
Mission: The Miracle of Forgiveness: Enlightenment is experience of What Is, the falling away of the concept of a separate self.
From www.ic.org/directory/living-miracles-worldwide/:
The Living Miracles Community began in 2009 in rural Utah, in the Strawberry River Canyon area. Today the community exists in Kamas and the Strawberry River Canyon, Utah, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chapala, Mexico. This group of devoted brothers and sisters live simple devotional lives, hosting retreats, events, and devotional stays and traveling where invited to share gatherings that inspire and bless all who seek peace of mind and enlightenment. They are often referred to as "Messengers of Peace." Acknowledging that truth is in the Mind, they offer an invitation to engage in the uncovering of the beliefs that seem to obstruct the awareness of love’s presence. They meet with those who desire to discern between the ego’s thought system and the Holy Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness. The purpose of the gatherings remains unchanged: learning the Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness and awakening to Peace, Happiness, and Freedom. They serve as mighty companions for each other and recognize that awakening is not a casual endeavor, but one that demands a deliberate and uncompromising commitment. The depth of devotion and faith reflect their willingness to question all assumptions. Total transformation of the mind is approached with passion and devotion and a burning desire from within. This is their unified goal and purpose.

White Rose Catholic Worker Farm
Mission: Following God's path. Care for the poor, sustainability, justice, nonviolence.
From www.ic.org/directory/white-rose-catholic-worker-farm/:
WRCW is committed to faith, hospitality to the homeless, education for social justice, peacemaking/nonviolence, sustainability, and gift economy. Started in 2009 in the Chicagoland area, the WRCW moved to Northeast Missouri in spring of 2014. We are part of a larger 160 acre community with our immediate neighbors the Possibility Alliance community and Peace & Permaculture Center. All three communities are dedicated to integral nonviolence (meaning to self, others, earth, institutions, etc.) including striving towards electricity & petroleum-free living, gift economy, communal living, simplicity, etc. We live a simple life on the farm (which we very much enjoy!). We have three buildings on the land: a medium-sized workshop that has 4 season housing on one side and storage on the other, a small 4 season one-room cabin, and a small 3 season cabin. Planning to build more natural buildings to expand our housing options. Life on the farm includes home-cooked meals, composting toilets, hosting those in need, growing vegetables, planting trees, continuing permaculture design, candle-making, chopping wood, hosting college groups, and much more! Off the farm, we are involved in a variety of social justice causes. There are plenty of additional opportunities on the 160 acres like classes on permaculture, wild edibles, primitive skills, nonviolent communication, canning/preserving vegetables, natural building, etc. Plenty of self entertainment is available on the 160 acres ... community plays, puppet shows, music jams, birthday parties, sports playing, weekly craft nights, etc. The 160 acres hosts over 1000 visitors a year ... so there are plenty of opportunities to meet people from all over the country and the world doing fascinating things. The nearest town is La Plata, which is 6 miles away and has a public library and an Amtrak station! So it is easy to get to by mass transportation. We have extra bikes available for use. Kirksville is 14 miles away and is a small college town. There is a good article about the WRCW if you search on the internet for “White Rose Catholic Worker Marquette Magazine”. The Catholic Worker movement is composed of over 200 communities worldwide of many different faiths (not just Catholic) that are committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken, and protest of injustice and violence of all forms. To learn more about the movement, the best book is probably “Loaves & Fishes” by Dorothy Day (co-founder). Other skills – One of our partners, the Possibility Alliance, is often working on a variety of interesting projects like straw bale house building, goat & cow milking, hand tool repair, bike maintenance, canning, spoon carving, fermenting foods, horse care, etc. There could be opportunities to volunteer with some of these projects on occasion.

The One Second, One Year After community
Mission: To learn about the past and prepare for the future
This is about building a community with the books ONE SECOND AFTER & ONE YEAR AFTER by William R. Forstchen. If you have not read the books, this group is not for you. If you have and want to create a group to thrive in the event that what transpires in the book does happen, this group is for you.

Solidarity Collective
Mission: We are an anti-capitalist and anti-oppression commune, with a strong dedication to personal growth and ecologically sound systems.
From www.ic.org/directory/laramie-ecovillage-project/:
We are a recently landed community still transitioning into the fullness of our systems. We occupy 3 acres of formerly indigenous land, apartments that are converted 1930's motel rooms moved from Laramie, and an 1878 mansion that was also moved from downtown Laramie and has a storied history in the local memory. Our immediate neighbors are cows and antelope. It is dry, windy and gorgeous here. We operate using consensus, practice strong and matter-of-fact conflict resolution, and are moving toward income-sharing. We require that everyone in the group have a personal growth or spiritual practice that is effective at helping them grow and navigate group dynamics. While we are *not* a UU community, we took early inspiration from the Unitarian Universalist principles (adapted slightly here): We affirm and promote: ~ The Inherent worth and dignity of every person; ~ Justice, equity and compassion in human relations; ~ Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth; ~ A free and responsible search for truth and meaning; ~ The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our community and in society at large; ~ The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; ~ Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. ~ The 8th principle (under consideration): speaks to our responsibility to practice anti-oppression and particularly anti-racism. We have chickens, will be breaking ground on gardens in the spring of 2019, and hope to have a greenhouse by then as well (because, ya know, it's hard to grow food around here without that). It is our intention to be as sustainable as possible, and we are dialoguing about the level of self-sufficiency we will pursue. We share meals, rides, a library, meeting and project spaces and game times. As an income sharing group we expect to share cars, facilities and other resources extensively. Our target population is between 20 and 35 adults. About half of our core group have lived in community previously, and we range in age from mid-twenties to 50. Laramie is a college town of 31,000 at 7,200 feet of elevation. It is a liberal hub within a very red state. We are, in turn, an unapologetically lefty bubble in the midst of liberalness, with members who identify as socialists, anarchists and a variety of other politics.

The House - Commune Thailand
Mission: Our purpose. Each of us has potential. The world around us has hidden that potential in a sea of concrete and broken dreams. Through our new family, though encouragement, through mutual discipline we seek to break those bonds that bind us, to sharpen the mind, body and senses, to stand on top of that concrete jungle and look down at our past.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-house-commune-thailand/:
A Choice now lies before you. A. Close this listing and think this is some strange stuff and return to your normal life. B. To follow the white rabbit down the hole on a journey of realization you will not be able to return from. Your dreams are outside of your reach. Happiness and Peace has eluded you. Like sheep herded by fate. Embrace your destiny, Releasing the caged animal inside. Community, Study, Honor, Fitness Break free from the world which binds you. We are a New Age group of Americans, Thais, and Filipinos. We have 2 separate buildings including a 3-floor townhouse in the middle of Urban Bangkok. We welcome all people to our home. We have a boxing gym downstairs and a Kung Fu/MMA instructor. We believe in unlocking the potential of each member and enabling them to live the life they have always wanted to live. Big Meals. Big Family. We believe in controlled indulgence. Big meals full of flavor are one of the pillars of our home. Big family, brotherhood, working together is vital a part of who we are. Training & Discipline We keep ourselves fit through meal and calorie planning, exercise and training. We control our finances through disciplined planning.

La Bergerie
Mission: Combining Eden and Acts for His glory
From www.ic.org/directory/la-bergerie/:
Looking to focus on spiritual growth through Jesus. Sharing our experiences of the Creator with each other. Finding and using our spiritual gifts in ways not often taught. Putting that all to use in a community focused on off-grid self-sustaining life in the mountains growing highly nutritious food and sharing the good news and the excess with are neighbours all around. French and English fluent.

Organic Tribe Foundation
Mission: (01) Sober = Accountable, Responsible, Transparent, (02) Organic = Honoring BioLogy, EcoLogy, (03) BaLancing = Basically Practicing EgaLitarian Principles, (04) Equity = ALL Innocent Living Beings Have EquaL Worth, EquaL Opportunities, (05) ReLationships = Main Emphasis is on QuaLity Of HeaLthy Happy ReLationships, not on quantity,,, Requiring WiLLing Participants To Investigate, VaLidate What Is True and what is not,,, what is Honoring Others and what is not, , ,
From www.ic.org/directory/organic-tribe-foundation-2/:
Sober, Organic, BaLancing, EquitabLe, ResponsibLe,

High Desert Coho
Mission: Together less is more!
From www.ic.org/directory/high-desert-coho/:
There is no group yet! But my husband and I are serious about wanting to live in community on the outskirts of Bend, Oregon. We have a young daughter and are primarily looking for a few other small families to join us in living simply, sharing a lot of space, life and labor. Beyond that we would also love to have a variety of ages involved. Our ideal setup is small personal spaces and a large common house for most of our needs beyond privacy- cooking, playing, creating...this allows for comfortably working together on life chores and allows more time and resources for extracurriculars. Also, there can be frequent human connection and assistance without the scheduling and driving that modern life entails. Join us! Let's build a community!

Takes a Village
Mission: A community of neighbors committed to sustainably sharing life toward the common good, to improve the life of our children to learn to live together.
From www.ic.org/directory/takes-a-village/:
Starting a new community to plan a cohousing site/ farm. To start meeting on a regular basis to develop a plan for choosing site/farm, which may include a combination of new construction and retrofitting. The idea is to start something around Redlands or San Bernardino mountains.

Alkebulan Community
Mission: Separating for a society and system that is oppressive and built on pitting us against each other. Black vs white, Gay vs Straight, Muslim vs Christian, etc. We are a community coming together as humans to unite and build a better tomorrow.
From www.ic.org/directory/alkebulan-community/:
Welcome! Alkebulan Community is a group of African-centered families living and working in Middle Georgia. We are focused on black empowerment, ownership, and restoring our people to our rightful place in the world. We exist to show our people throughout this country and abroad, that we can create a thriving space for us and by us. We live on land that is owned by black people, we grow our own food, create our own enterprises, and live in harmony with each other. We are what the future of our people looks like, and we exist to be a model for communities all around the globe. We also welcome people of all racial backgrounds who are tired of living in a system that was designed to put one race above the other. Our mission is to live in harmony and to fight a common enemy together. We will not turn away someone because of the color of their skin. If we did that we would be no better than the people and system we want to separate from. It doesn't matter what your racial background is, if you feel the same way as us then you are welcome. We our an African-centered community and most of our events and education will be centered on teaching and reconnecting our people who have lost their identity due to centuries of slavery and oppression in this country.

Honey Acres Farm
Mission: I worked 5 years in the oilfield to realize my dream of owning and operating an organic farm. Our farm is mostly organic, and we plan to sell at market and institutions this season. We practice yoga, meditation, homeschool, canoeing and swimming with the big fish.
From www.ic.org/directory/honey-acres-farm/:
7 acre organic market farm with poultry two miles from the lake

East Brook Community Farm
Mission: We aspire to build an egalitarian and democratic community here, and especially seek those with similar cooperative aspirations!
From www.ic.org/directory/east-brook-community-farm/:
Community forming on 90 acres in Walton, NY. A small group of us have recently purchased the land with the intention of building a peaceful, active, socially engaged and resilient community based in permaculture, regenerative farming, cooperation, and ecological living. We are farmers ourselves and are starting a whole-farm CSA this year created as a worker’s coop and seek others will join us in that who are also interested in right livelihood and in all aspects of growing things: veggies, animals, tree and plant nursery, mushrooms, herbs, bees, etc. The land and community can support folks with other skillsets and entrepreneurial passions too, and could be a base for small crafts, blacksmithing, child and adult education, permaculture design and installation, wildcrafting, and much more, even for those who work online, or have a passion for hospitality like organizing farm stays and retreats. We share the values of and aspire to FEC membership (thefec.org) in the future, but are also open to exploring possibilities with potential community members who may not be seeking a shared income, but who seek a homestead of their own and may be interested in a Community Land Trust-type equity-sharing arrangement. We are just starting up and don't have a lot of income yet, but we think we are situated to do well and are willing to share what we have. We currently have shared housing available in a large farmhouse for worker coop members, and opportunities on the land for independent homesteads (and tent sites) as well. The land has good soil, multiple springs, a large stream, and is in the beautiful western Catskills about 2 miles from Walton, NY, and 150 miles from New York City. We are open and welcoming to folks of all races, gender identification, sexual orientations, faiths, etc. and are kid and family friendly. Our website is a work in progress http://www.eastbrookfarm.com/ (we could use some web experts here), and w're on FB and you can call us at: 607 865 5529 or email us at eastbrookcommunityfarm(at)gmail.com.

The Play Lands
Mission: The Play Lands is the funnest place to live.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-play-lands/:
The Playland is an ecosystem of joy, founded in the principles of conscious play. The core group runs a company called the play nexus that offers opportunities to use play and joy to individuals and organizations all around The world. We really banded together when we decided to try nomadic communal living and exploring following our highest yes in the Travel by Yes 2-year mission.

Glenora Farm
Mission: It is our endeavour to create an environment in which those who are in need of special care, and those who provide it, can relate to each other as companions, rather than as professionals and clients. Thus we make room for creativity and personal fulfilment in the context of each individual’s privacy and spiritual freedom. In the way we live together, in the way we care for the land and in the things we make, we intend to uphold the ideals of Camphill, in which each contributes what he or she is able to, and receives in turn what he or she needs.
From www.ic.org/directory/glenora-farm/:
Glenora Farm is owned and operated by the Ita Wegman Association of British Columbia for Curative Education and Social Therapy, a non-profit organization and a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency. We are one of two Camphill communities in Western Canada and a member of the Camphill Association of North America.

The Cascadia Society for Social Working
Mission: The vision of the Cascadia Society is to develop a sustainable community together with people with developmental disabilities and to bring about the possibility for each person in the community to develop their innate potential. We live, play and work within the urban setting of North Vancouver to accomplish this. The community celebrates the striving of the human spirit in many ways. We honour the contribution each person makes to the community. Our vision requires both a healthy residential community and a vibrant centre for artisan crafts, training and therapy. Currently this encompasses a community of five homes and a Centre dedicated to the development of the potential of each individual.
Cascadia is a life-sharing community. Its home is the urban setting of Vancouver’s North Shore, with several residences and a day centre. Cascadia is more than just a job or a safe place to spend a few hours each day. It is a way of life where each participant can make a meaningful contribution to the community, and where challenges are provided for everyone to grow in dignity and freedom to the fullest potential. Cultural, artistic and therapeutic experiences are provided through residential home care and day activities within the urban setting of Vancouver’s North Shore. By emphasizing the practical elements of life, skills are developed and matured. Beauty and order help to create a healthy soul atmosphere. The coworkers responsible to the Cascadia Society have a background, ongoing education, or experience in curative education, youth guidance, or social therapy. They follow the principles of Anthroposophy developed by Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D., and the principles of the Camphill Movement, founded by Karl König, M.D. Their work is carried out as a freely given effort to care for the well-being of that inviolable human spirit within all of us, regardless of ability level. Through meaningful activities, a healing environment, and truly human companionship, the Cascadia Society encourages each person to master their own life. This mastery occurs in the context of family, community and society. By emphasizing both independence and interdependence, Cascadia promotes individuals to become dignified and effective citizens in the community. The Cascadia Society is a Camphill community and a member of the Camphill Association of North America.

Camphill Communities Ontario
Mission: Camphill’s mission is to enrich society by creating meaningful opportunities to live, learn, and work together.
From www.ic.org/directory/camphill-communities-ontario/:
We are a not-for-profit organization that provides support services to adults and seniors in Simcoe County who have an intellectual disability. We support people in directing their own lives and in promoting partnerships, opportunities, well-being, freedom and contributions in their community.

Plowshare Farm
Mission: Plowshare Farm is an attempt to be responsive to the social, human, spiritual and ecological challenges of our times by working toward creating an environment where every person and every aspect of the natural world can be learned from and valued.
From www.ic.org/directory/plowshare-farm/:
Plowshare Farm is a community whose primary task is to serve those in need of special care. Harmonious to this task come a wide variety of activities which support Plowshare Farm’s striving to be a vessel for the balanced and healthy unfolding of the human being. How this manifests and the exact nature of our daily tasks are more challenging to describe. Like a well-functioning farm (one of the things we strive to be) at Plowshare Farm there are many complexities of relationships and inter-weavings. We are a group of people – coworkers and their families, residents, apprentices, and volunteers who live together in what we call lifesharing homes. We are a biodynamic farm. We are bakery, woodwork and candle-making workshops. We are a vocational training center for people with special needs who join us during the day time. We are a ‘safe port’ for those who, within their lives’ journeys, need some time in a haven for repair. We are fertile ground for other initiatives to meet, germinate and grow. We are a place where the line between caregiver and care receiver is blurred through the understanding that we each have something to learn from the other and that caring for someone or something else is often a very fine path for self-development. At the heart of these layers is a conscious reaching toward the unfolding of what is truly human in us. Questions such as: "What am I, in my deepest Self, striving toward?” or "What is my nobler Self and how might I become it?" are questions which all of us, coworkers, residents, apprentices and volunteers, have an opportunity to explore within the structure of our daily lives. As a community we carry the questions: How can we reach toward a relationship with our natural resources that is sustainable? How can we participate in bringing about social renewal? How can we stand as a beacon for conscious, interdependent living?

The Grateful Belly Collective
Mission: Our mission here at the farm is to get off grid and be self-sustainable. We are looking for driven individuals who wish to improve their quality of life by joining with others who share the common desire for community and autonomy. We believe that this can be achieved by working together as a community rather than individuals. Many hands make light work. We want our children and ourselves to live free and experience life as it should be lived...without constraints. We have a 7-acre property with very fertile soil where we can grow our own food and stay out of the grocery store. We know that whoever controls the food, controls the people. Let's take that control back and live free! Let's work hard and celebrate with potlucks and a bonfire. Let's breathe and not be stressed out by poverty and isolation! If this sounds like you, please contact us.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-grateful-belly-collective/:
We are a family-friendly farm located on 7 acres in Western TN. Our mission is to become self-sustainable by growing our own food, relying on alternative energy sources, and working together as a community to ensure the well being and prosperity of all of our members. We are planning on selling our produce at farmer's markets and at our store at our farm. Our goal is to have our farm-based business supporting the farm so that we can stay here and work on what matters. We currently have 10 adults and 10 children here. We currently do not have a community cabin built and therefore, you must have something to live/sleep in while visiting. There is a rather large open barn that you could pitch a tent in as to not get rained on. We do not have extra tents. We require anyone who wants to visit contact either Jen or Chris so that we can plan for your arrival. We have a strict no-violence policy here. It is not tolerated and you will be told to leave. We look forward to meeting you!

Feralculture
Mission: To create and expand a global network of community land as a living laboratory for the ethnogenesis of a renewed hunter-gatherer culture and the regeneration of landscapes necessary to support it.
From www.ic.org/directory/feralculture/:
Goals (derived from mission statement) To liberate land from the agricultural-industrial State system by “purchasing” properties to protect with land conservation trusts. To shift anthropocentric lanscapes to regenerative wild ecosystems with permaculture nudges. To replace reliance on things and technology with earth skills. To remove ourselves from the commodified and industrial food systems. To remove ourselves from the economy based on abstract measures of value. To replace complex technologies with DIY tools individuals can make themselves. To shift human social existence from agricultural (control) norms to hunter-gatherer (play) norms.

SLVOrganics Thrive Community
Mission: Independent humans living sustainably and thriving.
From www.ic.org/directory/slvorganics-thrive-community/:
Agricultural Community on 13.1 acres in Colorado's San Luis Valley. We will be building Yurt-style homes and Wallipini-style greenhoises. We will be farming heirloom produce from Rare Seed Catalog. For the moment we are organizing in Colorado seeking 7-10 individuals, couples, etc., to join us No Violence No Hard Drugs 420 friendly

Serene Light Gardens
Mission: Create an eco-learning center where 1 to 4 families can live and offer a space where alternative lifestyles can be shared and learned. We aim to have permaculture gardens, bioconstructions buildings. clean energies, yoga, meditation time.... have a look at our video on our crowdfunding page for more information: www.gofundme.com/serenelight
From www.ic.org/directory/serene-light-gardens/:
We are just a couple (yasmich.jimdo.com) that is engaged right now with this specific land although we have a whole network of interested persons who might join at some point. We still actively looking for co-creators, co-owners or focused and responsible volunteers.

Moonshine Tribe
Mission: A non-hierarchic no-profit horizontal group that aims to eat and act in a self-sustaining, clean Karma environment. A Pizza Ashram that offers shelter, food and restoration to pilgrims, mystics, witches, wanderers and wizards. A community school to learn and teach together with our children ... as well as a kindergarden (on a long term, also for kids outside of the community) for the more little ones, to share our responsibily and let the children grow up together. A Retreat Possibility where you will gain support to live a heremitic life in the Merlin's Caves. An Arcane University where you can exchange and learn: magic paths, mystical knowledge, spiritual experiences and practical skills. A healing center to give and receive cure.
From www.ic.org/directory/moonshine-tribe/:
Be welcome at the Moonshine house! A place to grow vegetables and awareness, through the practice of LOVE, WISDOM and CREATIVITY.

Tanglemoss Homesteading Community
Mission: Build a community in the woods together. Become increasingly independent.
From www.ic.org/directory/tanglemoss-homesteading-community/:
Nestled in the woods outside of Olympia, Washington, a group of friends are creating a space to become increasingly self-sufficient as an independent community. We are Tanglemoss Collective and we're hoping to get more people involved in our super rad project. Objectives (elaboration below) 1. Collectively buy land 2. Live communally 3. Become increasingly self-sufficient 4. Share skills Here are some ways you can support us and our project: - Share this info and share our crowdfunding page via social media. Print this out as an info sheet or zine and post it at your local library/info shop/food co-op. - Come live with us! We are five adult humans and a handful of non-human animals. We want to share this dream with a whole community of folks. If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you. - Contribute financially. If you’re not interested or able to join us right now, but want to support the cause, contributions to our Indiegogo or PayPal are greatly appreciated. - Advice! Know anything about real estate, soil, promoting, recruiting, off-grid living, legal stuff for collectivizing, potentially becoming a non-profit or any other advice you think would be helpful? Contact us, we'd love to talk. - Buy eggs! If you\\'re local, you can help support us by buying organic, free- range eggs from us. More on our objectives... 1st Objective: Collectively buy land. This property must meet the needs of the current participants, have long-term sustainability (water, farming acres, etc.) for our goals of becoming increasingly self-sufficient, allow plenty of living space for future community members to build dwellings, and potentially allow space for visitors, educational work trade, skill-share camp-outs, and who knows what. We currently have secured financing and are looking at properties. As most properties are not set up to accommodate pet goats or more than a “single family,” we anticipate initial financial burdens that greatly exceed the monthly mortgage. We are trying to make a space for a larger community using the means of just a handful of current members, so to help alleviate some of the financial burden on the founding members, we are also pursuing crowdfunding. 2nd Objective: Live communally. Living communally reduces our need for manufacturing, transportation of goods and dependence on capitalism, and replaces that with the mutual aid provided by friends who trust and support each other. The community we are creating will be non-hierarchical. All decisions will be made by consensus. 3rd Objective: Become increasingly self-sufficient. Over time we want to make the property able to sustain its inhabitants without the need of outside resources. We will have electricity, plumbing, and all those luxuries, but we want to work towards not needing them, or being able to go without them indefinitely if we wanted or needed to. The climate in our area is projected to have heavier rain in the winter and drier summers, so we will build rain catching systems to help reduce the draw from our water well in the summer. We will, of course, grow our own produce, forest farm in our wooded areas, then over time start taking on more projects and mastering new skills. Some examples include growing our own wheat for flour, herbs for medicine, making oils and vinegars, building a stove out of bricks made from our soil, and spinning fibers. 4th Objective: Share skills. Humans are basically something of a terrible plague on the earth. Humans who lived here before us lived (and in some places continue to live) harmoniously with nature. We're hoping, with some expected trial and error, that it is still possible for us to live sustainably, without the need to import goods and resources. That's where we're hoping to get at some point. With this property, we aim to foster each others' efforts to decivilize and relearn skills for living which do not contribute to the destruction of the earth. Thanks for reading! We hope that you'll get involved or help us get the word out to folks who might want to get involved by donating and sharing!

Landsby Initiativ
Mission: We are two guys aged 23 and 24 who are looking to build a community with like-minded individuals who share an interest in creating something socially and environmentally sustainable (locally & globally). We are inspired by the works of people and organisations like R. Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco (The Venus Project), The Zeitgeist Movement and many others who all share a holistic/synergistic and emergent "systems approach" to life. At this moment, this is a only a dream, but if you are interested, don't hesitate to contact us :)
From www.ic.org/directory/landsby-initiativ/:
We are two guys aged 23 and 24 who have been very good friends for about 7 years now, looking to build a village-like community structure. About Peter: I'm 23, always been sort of "on the run", never feeling like I belonged with anyone or anywhere. I'm a deeply concerned citizen of this planet. As far as my hobbies goes: I like to make things, I play guitar and piano, compose music, do traditional and digital art and many other things.

Badulina
Mission: Our Badulina welcome song: You and me, we're gonna live freestyle, At least for a while, till the day that we die, I know we shall find a place under the sky Where Love is the law and the truth cannot lie, Who you've been where you going Have you coming from far? It don't matter for us, in the present we trust. We know the worst criminal is a diamond covered in dust So welcome back to your long-lost home, You traveled from far but now you know you are not alone We are millions, billions Praying for change One day we shall unite, gather under this name Badulina Open up your gates Open up your mind Open up your heart [Badulina that's also title of the CD, book and beautiful song made by mystical music group. When new people arrive I introduce them with this song text.]
From www.ic.org/directory/badulina/:
Welcome to Badulina, a young intentional community in South Spain. We enjoy living together with heart, mind and hands. We are from all ages and hold this land for our children and their children to grow up in abundance and harmony. We like to be healthy and open-minded and we aim for self sustainability while also enjoying the advantages of modern technology. Badulina is organized as an association. Joining members become co-owners of the project. Where we invite you to choose an area to build a home and realize your part of the Badulina dream. We are living on easy slope of blooming terraces with fields of flowers on the fertile ground, taking a deep breath, cracking almonds, picking oranges, peaches, figs, apples and grapes already growing on the property, tasting the wealth of Mother Nature. Creating comfortable living spaces in the cooling shadow of the olive grove in a colorful mixture of creative buildings, people living and working together and hearing the laughter of our children. In average we are in-between 10 and 15 adults + children. We are currently 2 families with children, elders, visitors and volunteers. In the years the final goal is to reach about 25 members that have their own homes and private areas on the land. Our group is an international mixture of Dutch, Belgium, German, English and Polish people. Our common language is English. Badulina is organized as an association that governs the whole land. Joining members need to contribute financially to become co-owners of the project. Where we invite you to choose an area to build a home and realize your part of the Badulina dream. The place is about 9 hectares big, a whole hill with two river beds as natural barriers. We have about 2 hectares with 270 olive trees, 500 almond trees that need to be maintained and harvested and have 200 grape vines. Further a lot of herb land and over 100 fruit trees like: fig-, orange-, mandarin-, lemon-, apple-, pear-, walnut-trees, etc. We have chickens, bee hives and 3 cats. On the land there is currently nice house in good state with electricity, water, internet, solar water heater and other basic luxuries. It is our temporary communal kitchen, community office and tool shed. Outside we have an extra kitchen, big dining table, sofas, etc. We have also a 6m communal yurt as our communal space. We also have some nice private yurts and domes spread around. Still we are like settlers on this new land. Right now there are the communal facilities, some caravans, olive tree terraces and a nice atmosphere in nature but we need to improvise till we create facilities for the private places. We will not have fixed buildings for everyone yet. You need to build or arrange your own home on the land in time. We are planning a big communal building, dance floor, swimming pool, water reservoir and solar system to become as community self sufficient. On the chosen private areas members can build their homes (first temporary ones that do not require building permissions), get water, electricity and internet to it and make their spaces beautiful. We are at 500m above sea level and you can walk to the near town Orgiva. The climate is mild, it does not snow in winter, but there can be some frost in some mornings. There is almost no rain in summer and can be over 40 degrees in the midday hours.

YouTokia ILC
Mission: Like-minded individuals trying to create our own Youtokia. (:
From www.ic.org/directory/youtokia-ilc/:
We are an intentional living community 3 miles off highway 101. At the moment, working completely off the grid and making the best of what we do have. We want to move into the future with as few carbon footprints as possible. Being in a tight community most things are shared to diminish waste.

Purani Valley
Mission: Our mission is for each community member to become an individual with abilities and characteristics diverse from others, yet to express himself/herself in unity and partnership with others. We believe this to be our soul's mission on earth.
From www.ic.org/directory/purani-valley/:
Purani Valley is a community that began forming in the beautiful Matutu Valley in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It began to take root by a shared vision of creating a community where people can develop their own gifts from a base of love, creative expression, art, music, poetry, and self-development. With much attention to detail, the construction began over 15 years ago to create structures with recycled materials, beautiful gardens, and an overall atmosphere of serene practicality. The environment is such that one can cultivate his/her gifts and receive healing through yoga, massage, gestalt, ayurvedic, culinary arts, baking, candlemaking, papermaking, beekeeping, farming, herbalism, and aromatherapy. Multidisciplinary healing programs are created to revive the body, engage the mind and uplift the spirit. The environment is designed to accommodate groups for workshops and to promote authentic and true connection to each individual through music, dance, poetry, yoga, philosophy and education.

The Nest
Mission: Some of us are here to deepen our relationship with the earth. Some are looking to foster community rooted in love and interdependence. And some of us are just happy to have some good people to live and share a home with. Some things that members would consider a big part of their lives: rewilding, foraging, permaculture, music, anarchy, love, sharing, community, activism, herbal medicine, education, human ecology, alternative economics, celebration, food, and compost. Some of us identify as queer and we're all queer friendly.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-nest/:
We're a house of friends and beyond. It's a house that was falling apart and a few of us bought together to take some solid steps towards living our dreams. We've fixed most of it up and now we're a house of 6. There's a tiny jungle of a yard, full of beautiful flowers and wildness. Our incredibly cool neighbors have some land that they've offered us to grow food on in exchange for some of the bounty, so some of us do that. Our dreams as individuals are big and intertwine all over. While we share this somewhat typical house nestled within the grip of civilization, most of us plan on a future of living with the land in the near or distant horizon. We're not sure what this house means to the bigger picture but we're pretty sure it's important. And so our community is "Established" in the sense that here we are, sharing this space together, but still "Forming" in that we don't totally know what the future holds for us.

Kibbutz "Shoshana" (Rose)
Mission: We act to create a more just Israeli society, and to minimize social-economical gaps, acts of racism, violence and sexism, and live by values of equality and cooperation. We are an Educator's Kibbutz, meaning that our main focus and mission is achieving social change through education. Most members study education and work with youth and children in different educational frameworks.
From www.ic.org/directory/kibbutz-shoshana-rose/:
We are an "Urban Kibbutz", i.e. a Socialist intentional community that lives in urban center and have a shared economy, mutual goals and missions, community life and events, etc. Our Kibbutz numbers 40+ members from ages 25-27, and is located at the central city Rishon Le Ziyon in Israel. We live in the same neighborhood in roughly 10 different apartments that we rent. We have a fully shared economy (all income goes to the same bank account) and we manage our expenses together through conversations and consensus. We are part of a larger movement called "Kvutzot Habhira" ("The Choosing Groups"), which is a movement of alumni of the socialist youth movement "Hamahanot Haolim".

Odiyan Retreat Center
Mission: The mission of the Odiyan Retreat Center is twofold: 1) To assist in the protection, preservation and flourishing of all Buddhist cultures in Asia; and 2) To model as a living experiment the integration of Buddhist principles and Western thought through a live/work lifestyle dedicated to the benefit of our planet and all humanity. The focus is on using work as an effective spiritual exercise, a practice in mindfulness and the means of perfecting six spiritual qualities, from generosity to discipline and patience, foundation of vigor, concentration, and wisdom. This basic training is called Skillful Means and is based on a book of the same name written by Odiyan founder Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. Rinpoche introduced Skillful Means as a way to help readers find greater satisfaction in work and life. Classes and study opportunities available for all residents in Tibetan yoga, Skilfull Means, classical Tibetan language and other aspects of spiritual community life. Resident volunteers who stay on beyond six months also have optional opportunities for engaging in community activities such as daily early morning meditation and other practices of the Buddhist tradition. Skillful Means points out how the discipline of work develops awareness, strengthens concentration, and stimulates energy.
From www.ic.org/directory/odiyan-retreat-center/:
Odiyan is an all-volunteer non-profit Retreat Center dedicated to meaningful work, wholesome living and the inner development of mind and spirit. The Odiyan way of life integrates creative and challenging work with a path of self-exploration that opens up your inner potential. Odiyan’s dual mission is preserving the Buddhist cultures of Asia and modeling a living experiment integrating Buddhist principles and Western thought for the benefit of our planet and all of humanity. Odiyan was founded in 1975 by Tibetan Buddhist Lama Tarthang Tulku. For over 40 years, volunteers from all over the world have been coming to Odiyan for six months or more to develop their own potential and contribute to the unique and holistic vision of enlightened knowledge for the benefit of all. Odiyan Retreat Center sits on 1,000 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean in northern California about 100 miles north of San Francisco. About 150 acres are managed landscape including seven orchards, four vegetable gardens, ornamental gardens surrounding the Temples, ponds, forests and open land. As a resident at Odiyan, you will learn new skills, engage your mind and replenish your spirit in a wholesome, beautiful environment where accomplishment and learning about yourself go hand-in-hand. Living and working at Odiyan includes classes about Buddhism, a wide variety of work and sacred arts, vegetarian meals and a living allowance ($150 per month). The minimum commitment to volunteer is six months.

El Santuario Altavista
Mission: 100% sustainable community of cob homes with 100% off-grid living to support a small, diverse, eclectic community in the jungle.
From www.ic.org/directory/el-santuario-altavista/:
Tropical lowland jungle of Central Mexico just off Pacific Coast. Property where village is forming is an active camp site for us. We have an established coffee orchard to provide a limited joint income. We are actively building cob homes. We want to have about 16 people, that may vary if we incorporate breeding or adoptive human folk. Diversity is more than welcome: race, gender, oreintation, gender identity absolutely NOT an issue...it may work in your favor! We are attempting to practice several principles: permaculture, primitivism, sustainability and true communal principals, including polyamory if that suits your mindset. Right now, it is best if you have savings or a portable income. It does not cost much to live here. $200 per month is more than enough to stay fed, clothed, and nurtured. We have a home in a small town nearby that we can retreat too when the jungle work becomes overwhelming. The home is BASIC. 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, a semi-shower....no hot water. But shelter and respite from jungle if needed. It is one block from the store that sells all the basic things you need. Very few people speak English...speaking Spanish is a definite advantage. It's not France, locals don't look down on you for not speaking their language, but it's hard to negotiate simple things i you don't speak the language. Currently we do not have a vehicle. The hike to the property is only 1.5 miles. The next town over, Las Varas, is about 20 minutes by car. Ocean is just about 10 miles.

The Hive Mind
Mission: To live our lives free from the physical, mental, and spiritual limitations set within mainstream ideals. To become part of something greater than ourselves, and enjoy all the benefits that come with these new freedoms.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-hive-mind/:
The Hive Mind will be community based on my unconventional belief system. We will see ourselves as a singular entity separate from, yet encapsulated within society unfairly. We will live functionally using the organizational structure of our member-designed rituals and laws. We are not Capitalists, not Communists, not Socialists ... we are an independent form of Separatism. I coined the term "Pagan Separatism," because the word Pagan really just means unconventional religion. As founder I am a Guru of the this undertaking. Our home will be the Hive and "we" are the Mind. I ask for a strong commitment to the teachings and the lifestyle.

seeking elderly + seniors - Yahshua - Jesus followers for Martinsburg WV
Mission: To live a life in surrender to the only one who saves amen Jesus the Christ = Yahshua
From www.ic.org/directory/jesus-followers-martinsburg-wv/:
I am a 62-yr-old follower of Jesus who lives in a small town along interstate 81 in martinsburg, wv, I grow many of my own vegetables and have a small greenhouse 14X19 and donate to others in need with my extra. I do have WIFI to connect with other Jesus followers around the world. I have a 3-bedroom 2-bath home i am buying and it is on a 1/4 acre and i seek other Followers of Jesus who are preferably over 55 yrs old. They should only be seeking a relationship with Jesus and not any marriage or sinning relationships. I am a celibate eunuch and do not allow people living in active sin in my home. If this is something you are interested in then here i am. I am open to both genders but definitely no relationships or .. i am a physical eunuch Matthew 19:12

Radish Collective
Mission: Bananarchy
From www.ic.org/directory/radish-collective/:
Not totally, completely rad, yet. We're rad-ish. We'll post information here about good times to be had in the community. We maintain a safe space for queers, trans folks, POC, youth, women, elders and weirdos. We work together, dumpster together, and eat together...to create a community space for knowledge, skills, and fun sharing. If you are looking for a space to have a community talk, meeting, gathering, potluck, show, etc., let us know; the door is always open.

Serenity
Mission: Idea is to develop and implement decentralized, scale-able format of community cooperation. Main project, "The World Community," is a federation of communities that cooperate by using science-based model Parecon (Participatory Economics).
From www.ic.org/directory/serenity/:
We are group of very different people who would like find practical way of sustainable living without any form of unfairness and domination. Such as: private ownership, finances, status. We all have different background but believe that there is another way of people interaction, other then violence and manipulation. We call it Participation. We are group of very different people who would like to find [practical way][practical processes] of sustainable living without any form of unfairness or domination, such as may occur with private ownership, finances or status. We all have different backgrounds but believe that there is some way to interact without violence or manipulation. We call it Participation.

Creating Intentional Community
Mission: We provide networking, resources and education for those interested in community formation as well as those involved in existing or forming communities.
From www.ic.org/directory/creating-intentional-community/:
Creating Intentional Community is a networking and resource organization for the greater Asheville, NC, region. We assist those interested in community formation as well as those involved in existing or forming communities. We are using Meetup and Facebook as our primary networking tools at this time. Our purpose is to help communities find their people and people to find their communities. It is our hope to bring inspiration, education, and resources for nurturing a conscious and collaborative culture in our living and working environments.

Our community vision
Mission: Harmony with nature, healthy interdependence and equality, gentle cooperative childcare, and food self-sufficiency are the underlying principles we are seeking in community.
****PLEASE READ: We are not currently planning to form a community, nor do we have an established community. Right now we are traveling across the US, looking at some communities we are interested in joining. Below is our vision for the ideal community. We still welcome email inquiries from folks who resonate with our vision!**** Our goal is to build or join an intentional community of families working towards ecological and social sustainability. The clear place to start is through finding like-minded, like-hearted individuals with whom we can embark on this journey. I hope that in sharing my vision, our family will either find an established community of families interested in our joining as potential members, or that we’ll find a group of families interested in embarking on the journey of creating an intentional community together. ABOUT US: We are a family of five humans. Joey is in his mid-thirties and I am in my mid-twenties. We have three children together – Peacy is 5, born in March 2011. Micah is 3, born in December 2012, and Ahmik is 6 months old, born last January. We currently live in northern New Mexico on a small and anything-but-sustainable homestead. We tend goats, chickens, rabbits, honeybees and a garden. We have a dog who lives with us, and three cats who live in our outbuildings, keeping the mice at bay. We have lived in a number of other places over the past few years as well – New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut … and some other temporary spots along the way. I am a natural childbirth (freebirth) advocate, a gardener, herbalist, baker… I love to work with my hands – to create beautiful things. I built a cob oven last summer, and it has taken a huge place in my heart – stoking the fire, kneading the bread, forming the loaves and letting them rise … and baking, and then finally eating them and feeling all that love made tangible. I have a newfound love for sourdough. I have a strong desire to become a master grower of brambles … to learn how to cultivate the BEST black raspberries ever … because what could be better than raspberries?? I am also incredibly in love with waterfalls, thunderstorms … stones, mountains, willows … moss, ferns, motherwort, yarrow, mint, roses … . I am learning how to be the best mother I can be – to be mindful and deliberate in my relationship with my children. This is my greatest challenge, but the process is so rewarding when I commit myself to it fully, and looking back, I can see in the last five years how I have made enormous progress in my ability to be a gentle, compassionate parent. Peacy is in love with flowers. She has big questions for a five-year-old, like “where does water come from?” “How are rocks made?” “Do crabs breathe air or water?” Sometimes I know how to answer her questions but usually we just contemplate them together… . She gets me thinking and I really love getting deep into things with her. She is very guarded around people she does not know, too. Micah is a very gentle soul … very internal, but really fun to be with. He likes to watch little creatures, like beetles and ants and bees, and to talk about them. He loves to share his joy. He also has a mischievous streak, and he loves the moon. Ahmik is so sweet, so open and bright and excited to be with others. She has an amazing smile, and a beautiful laugh. I can’t wait to see what she will be like when she is older. LAND: I know that the land I choose to inhabit will ultimately shape my life to a greater extent than any other factor. So in that respect, there are a few aspects which I consider essential in determining where to live. Firstly, nearby access to clean freshwater is essential. That could take the form of lakes, ponds, rivers, or year-round streams. (Ideally, they would be strong and consistent enough to support human use for washing, drinking and watering gardens in dry times. I would rather not rely solely on well-water for these purposes, although living with the right people is more important to me, so I would compromise on my desire to use surface water for our needs in exchange for the right community. I would also love to implement good, simple rainwater catchment systems for these purposes.) Secondly, the land would need to be fertile enough to easily support permaculture gardens, fruit trees, chickens and annual crops such as potatoes, carrots, beets, garlic, onions and greens. This would be taking into account composting of human manure to re-fertilize growing spaces. Thirdly, the land would need to be part of or somewhat near to wild, undeveloped places, with ecosystems strong and abundant enough to support sustainable, ethical hunting and/or fishing for meat and foraging for wild foods. There are other aspects of the land which aren’t by any means essential but which would provide an advantage that I’d consider either important or just simply ‘nice.’ Obviously they are not all compatible with each other, and obviously a community/tribe could thrive without any of these, so this is why I don’t list them as essential. These include lush pasture for rotational grazing of domesticated farm animals, salmon streams, a long growing season, abundant sugar maples, and ocean or a large body of water within walking distance. COMMUNITY VISION: My ideal for a community is one in which the members make a commitment to live and work together, with a common vision and with common values. A commitment to being together is essential. One of the main reasons for my dislike of the nuclear family model is that each family is working towards a separate goal of sustenance, making time spent together outside of the nuclear family rare. When we all have separate houses with separate meals to make, separate dishes to do, separate children to raise, separate gardens to tend, separate money to be made … where does that leave time to be together? If meals are usually shared, that means meal preparation and cleanup can be communal – and it means cooking and dishes can be more fun. If we raise our children together, we can share the responsibilities in ways that make sense for us and our children. If we work and build and grow food together, that can be more fun and more productive, too. Many hands make light work. The vision of living together does not necessarily mean many families sharing one home, although it could easily take that form and work beautifully. It could mean many small, simple dwellings centered around a larger common space, where food is usually prepared and eaten communally in the common space … this seems to be the model in many traditional tribal cultures. Making food central to community seems very important – food is central to our well-being, and with a shared vision of growing, raising and gathering our food communally – working together to nourish each other – it seems inevitable that we will see that we are all crucial to each other’s well-being. Because of this, in order to fully share meals, some overlap in dietary preferences seems necessary. It also seems like diet should be based on what the land can provide. It would be difficult to support a group of vegans in the arctic, for example. Emotional maturity and making communication a priority, even in times of conflict and difficulty, seems essential in community. Meeting many different needs simultaneously can be difficult, and conflict is inevitable – it should be planned for. If we can listen to each other with respect and speak honestly and directly when we need to express something, conflict resolution can be graceful. Without a commitment to everyday openness and vulnerability, the natural flow of emotions will be blocked and tension will inevitably build. So it seems crucial that all involved in a community are ready to articulate their needs, feelings, worries, etc., and at the same time be willing to really make the time and space to listen to others when they need to speak. It also seems necessary to give each other emotional space, with forgiveness and understanding that we are all on our own path of self-discovery, and mistakes in how we communicate are possible, not cause for creating more distance between each other, but simply cause for further, deeper communication. Nonviolent communication could be a very helpful tool. My philosophy on being with children also holds a big space in my vision for community. They need respect and cooperation on the part of adults in the same way that we need respect and cooperation from them. If they are to grow into healthy community members, they need to be treated respectfully as human beings, and not as property. I want a children’s culture – a place where children are free to discover the world around themselves together through their play and exploration, or to join in with the tasks and projects of adults if they are interested. Respect for our children’s choices and their organic learning process is so important to me. Forcing children to comply with school, or even forced compliance with simple things like cleaning up, does not resonate with me. Naomi Aldort is an inspiration for me in this regard. Radical unschooling is an inspiration as well – not that school is inherently bad, but that the choice to attend school should be the child’s. All that being said, boundaries seem very necessary, as adults have needs too. It also seems necessary to have some parameters around children’s relationships with each other, specifically in terms of their conflict resolution – it seems only fair to guide their conflict resolution in a nonviolent way if a child is resorting to violence. Otherwise, it seems best to be aware but out of the way unless asked for. Respect for children starts in infancy – honoring their requests for closeness, comfort, and care through co-sleeping, breastfeeding on demand, etc., and through to their transition to adulthood by honoring their choices, as long as their choices do not interfere with the sovereignty/well-being of other humans. Through a balance of respect for our children’s choices and a commitment to vocalizing our own parental needs and requests, my hope is that a healthy parent-child dynamic will ensue, leading to greater respect and freedom for all. Shared or communal childcare is also something that’s important to me, and something I am looking for in community. Love for the earth and a commitment to working towards true sustainability is also so important. If we took the time to look at every facet of life to see if there is a simpler more gentle approach, we could greatly reduce dependence on industrially-produced tools and appliances. Minimal use of modern technology would be my ideal, obviously including electricity and gas, but with an open mind and a willingness to take an even deeper look at more simple technology to see if it actually improves quality of life or not, and if it does, what is the environmental impact of that technology and is it worth the trade-off? This would include prioritizing simplicity through natural building, simple tools for gardening, simple tools for cooking/food storage/food preservation, etc. Another aspect of a tribe which I crave, but which would not necessarily be essential for me, is the regular sharing of celebrations. I am drawn towards pagan traditions in this regard, and would love to communally celebrate full moons, solstices and equinoxes, seasons, birthdays, weddings, coming-of-age, funerals… all of it. I feel like intentional celebration has the potential to greatly improve the health of a community! The issue of meat is also one that I feel would play a role in community. Our family is omnivorous. We would strive to eventually raise or harvest all of our own meat, whether through ethical hunting and trapping, fishing, or pasture-raising farm animals, which would mean that a good deal of time each season would be dedicated to projects related to meat – slaughtering, butchering, preserving, hide tanning… etc. Animals do have many more similarities to humans than carrots or potatoes, which makes it easier for us to empathize with them. But carrots and potatoes are living beings too, with an incredible intelligence of their own. In order for life to be sustained, it needs to feed on life, and although taking the life of an animal can be devastatingly sad, our truth is that it is part of the natural cycle. So, we are not vegetarians, but we would not object to living with vegetarians. How we deal with illness and healing might play a role in community life, and although I would be glad to live with humans with different philosophies on healthcare, I’d like to share my thoughts and personal philosophies in case they would cause conflict. I would prefer to, whenever necessary, have trust in my body’s immune system and ability to heal on its own. Susun Weed’s “six steps of healing” is an inspiration, as she starts out this way too – most of the time illness is caused by a physical or emotional imbalance that can be corrected through simple lifestyle changes or through emotional acceptance and release. If necessary, herbs can be a great ally. I would prefer to eventually grow and wild-gather herbs and tincture them, dry them, etc. to make an herbal pharmacy, with an emphasis of plants native to the region that I choose to call home, so as to be health-care self-sufficient. I have little or no interest in modern medicine, but I do have some interest in traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and various healing modalities of native tribal people around the world. List of Interests/Inspiration/Community projects: -Humanure composting -Simple hand-powered types of construction & home building – cob, straw-bale, earth bag, cord-wood, etc. -Cob/Earth oven building -Sustainable cooking – high-efficiency fire cooking such as rocket ovens, rocket stoves -Sustainable home-heating – rocket mass heaters -‘Primitive’ skills including hide tanning, fire-making, home-building, hunting & trapping -Permaculture -Medicinal herbs – growing and gathering -Milk and everything it entails – cows or goats, butter, cheese, yogurt, cream… -Sheep, wool, spinning & weaving -Raining chickens for eggs and meat -Raising rabbits for meat and hides -Gardening with heirloom varieties -Herb and edible flower gardens -Beekeeping & honey -Maple-sugaring -Rainwater collection -Greywater gardens -No-till gardening -Root cellars, drying, canning and other simple food storage systems

The Garden of Autism
Mission: The Garden of Autism will be a non-profit organization and a home to 50 autistic adults living in an intentional community. See the video on our webpage and find out how you can help us and join us in our mission! Visit http://www.thegardenofautism.com.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-garden-of-autism/:
The Garden of Autism will be primarily a farming community where 50 autistic adults will live and work alongside support staff. There will be many other features as well and an emphasis placed on self-sustaining practices. Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are being considered. It will be determined by the state that provides the most support in terms of Medicare and Social Security subsidies.

OE Fenghuang Collective
Mission: Our next step in community building will take place in the Fujian Province where we will be opening up MASTER TREE KINDERGARTEN. In, through & around the Kindergarten we plan to foster/engage a community, age-spanning from young children to aged-adults, interested in changing paradigms towards regenerative lifestyles, spiritually, culturally and ecologically, all the while developing voices strong in roots and eloquent in delivery. Language is a vital part of our model and community. We welcome polyglots especially with inclinations toward native and indigenous tongues & dialects Our set date for opening is Sep 15th, 2017. As a starting point, we hope to have a multi-purpose space that can adequately host: 1. Culturally rich events such as: a) Story-Night Gatherings. b) Theatrical Presentations c) Musical Performances 2. Reading/Writing groups 3. Craft Workshops 4. Dream Nights Additionally, we hope the studio space is fit to practice: 4. Community Gardening 5. Livestock Farming 6. Shared art projects and exhibitions We are very much looking forward to others joining this collective, be it for an event, a weekend for a longer-term stay. Drop us a line if you are in or coming through the area. Carl, Glow, Summer, Alex, Wendy, Zoeey and Jazz. ORIGINATEVE SOUTH CHINA
From www.ic.org/directory/oe-fenghuang-collective/:
Originateve is a non-profit organization, based out of Denver, Colorado, USA, with a vision of initiating and supporting Regenerative Practices and Holistic Design. Worldwide, we are a web of lifetime learners interested in demonstrating quality apprenticeship, artistic living, and a mindful vision, all within a polyglot environment.

Second Home
Mission: We have a bold vision: The earth will enter into a new age where human beings will grow up to a higher level of consciousness and create a brand-new social system. Based on universal values, the earth will become a harmonious planet with diverse cultures blossoming everywhere. A. New Social System: Create an International Big Family B. Ecovillage life: Possess nothing but own everything The Ecovllage People will travel freely without border limitations and prefer living the ecovillage life as opposed to traditional lifestyles. There is only one global government, which is managed by saints and sages who no longer think of private profits and possessions. Meanwhile, people's consciousnesses will grow up, the best qualities of mankind, like sincerity, beauty, kindness, love, faith, diligence, and honesty will be stimulated through collective life, and the weeds in people’s soul gardens, such as selfishness, greed, jealousy, complaining, and laziness will fade away. Everyone will have and enjoy a harmonious, civilized, happy, and free life.
From www.ic.org/directory/second-home/:
Second Home was established in 2009 in Yunnan, China, by a group of people who held common universal values and the vision of creating a new life mode for human beings to sustain themselves on earth. Yunnan is a region that offers the best weather and rich natural resources in China. We set up three branches and the community members rose from the original 20, up to 180, including 20 older members and 14 children. Second Home founder, Xue Feng, initiated this project in April 2009. Xue Feng is the spiritual guide of the Second Home, who wrote Chanyuan corpus and Xuefeng corpus since 2001, and have established a theory system on universe, life, LIFE, time and space, human beings, mind, consciousness and energy with over 8,000,000 words. This system combines the essence wisdom and teachings of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Muhammed, and those of saints and sages from different cultures all over the world. It is a universal-values system beyond races, nationality, culture and religions. New Universal Values (It took 15 years to build the theoretical system, still in the process of updating and upgrading) In our community, we have a harmonious relationship between people and nature. Everyone enjoys a simple and happy life here, the instances of crimes and fights are zero. Arguments, quarrels, and conflicts are very rare. This is because of the solid basis of the universal values we had built before the community was established. It was initiated and written by the founder, Xuefeng, and since 2001, he has written more than 2500 articles with over 10 million words in Chinese. Before participating in setting up the community, all members are first resonating with the values, including the dream of creating a sustainable new life mode beyond the limits of countries, nationalities, religions, and races; and bringing people real happy, free, joyful, and blessed lives. So this values system and the common dream are the deep roots and energy source that motivates all members of the Second Home under all circumstances. The content includes the origin of the universe, the origin of LIFE and human beings, the crises human beings are faced with, the meaning and purpose of life, the nature of countries, political parties, religions, and marriage and family; the consciousness, spirit, thinking, structure, and energy of the non-material world, and the way of perfecting human nature, etc. It absorbs the wonderful wisdoms of human history such as those of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, and all wisdom essences of sages and saints from different civilizations and cultures.

The Birdseye Creek Community
Mission: Our community is one that is based on togetherness and love. We are a family. We allow the Spirit to guide what we do, not in any dogmatic way, but in a real, open-ended sense. We are setting an example for creating reality patterns that are based on pure forms of consciousness, shared understanding, and spontaneous wisdom.
From www.ic.org/directory/the-birdseye-creek-community/:
Hi everyone, this is Will MacBride, founder of the Birdseye Creek Community. We are based on some great woodland property I own (just recently bought) in Gold Hill, Oregon. I checked the box "forming" there because we are a faily new community. However we're definitely up and running and getting more established each day. This is definitely a great "ground floor" opportunity as far as intentional communities go. This community is based on love, togetherness, leaving behind old neurotic patterns, and gradually awakening to the wonderful and fun possibilities that are all around us. This is a place where people can unfold in community with others and begin to explore new potentials in themselves and in reality. It's a place to be creative on many levels. We value spontaneity and allowing "The Spirit" to guide what we do and essentially to solve problems. The quality of the consciousness here is such that the emphasis of forward looking creative energy gathers momentum and "problems" are worked out spontaneously and naturally as part of the entire progression. As far as activities are concerned: We're into gardening, raising animals responsibly and humanely, natural building, music and art, and the formation of focused groups of various sorts. 6 people, 1 dog, and 1 cat live in and around an old ramshackle mobile home on the property. We will soon be building other structures, and are offering people the opportunity to camp for very affordable rent ($200 per month basic rate, somewhat negotiable based on someone's financial situation). There is an attached shop space that is excellent for various types of work. This is a great place for artists and musicians, people into gardening and permaculture, people into natural building, and people that consider themselves "off grid" in a creative and active sense.

Hometree
Mission: Living simply, but well, alongside nature.
From www.ic.org/directory/hometree/:
We are a stable married couple that has been together for over a decade. We have and want more companion animals, farm animals, and working animals. We are working towards both self-sufficiency and survival, but are not survivalists or hard-core preppers. We are non-judgmental and accepting of people of any gender, sexuality, ethnicity, spiritual belief, etc. We are eco-friendly and trying to be good stewards to the land. We employ permaculture and organic gardening practices. We are left-leaning. What we hope you are: Not an extremist in anything including survivalism and religion. Wanting to build a life for the long-term. Any ages, genders, with or without kids. Bringing something to the table. Ready to work hard alongside us to create a self-sufficient home for all of us. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, get in touch; we'd love to hear from you. We don't have room for anyone to move in or stay with us just yet; we're working on it. We'll probably find the rest of our community before we can get the structures we need in place; we're in the very beginning stages of this.

Donald's View
Mission: Our Core Values: • Diversity • Bridging • Consciousness • Communication. Consciousness is the base of Diversity and Bridging. Bridging is built by consciousness and makes diversity sustainable. Communication sustains all three. We intend our community and our selves to be bridges. We bridge: • within ourselves as consciously as possible accepting all our inner diversity and the greater self-unity and inner peace and joy this gives us, and the more joyful and peaceful energy that results in our relating to others. • to each other as members of the Donald’s View intentional community by using the bottom-up, 100% democratic problem-solving methods of the Assemblies pioneered by Donald Anderson with the National Association of the Southern Poor. • as a community, with o our neighbors and society at large to move forward to a livable future. o towns, counties and communities surrounding us geographically o other intentional communities region-, nation-, and worldwide • from the old, “taker” paradigm in which corporations have the same rights as individuals without the accountability to a new, planetary community of harmony paradigm which future inhabitants will view as an aesthetic and practical enhanced, including considerations for geological orientation, geological sustainability, and golden mean in construction • from a calculated cost-benefit paradigm to an artisan paradigm where all acts are of beauty in spiritual alignment with a mutually respectful future • from work that harms others as it sustains us to work that sustains others as it sustains us. • from a problematic present to a peaceful future, to our better tomorrow as a multi-cultural community living to thrive with no ecological footprint with all our neighbors: humans, animals and plants.
From www.ic.org/directory/donalds-view/:
Donald's View is a forming intentional community in rural southern Virginia. We are actively seeking passionate founding members who 1. read this description carefully; 2. read, and feel resonance with our Core Values: 3. are ready to invest in every way (including financially), in our development; 4. communicate with us to discuss next steps. We feel no one should be turned away for financial reasons _and_ everyone in the community, plus allies and other donors, contributes financially. Origins of the Community The Original Founding Member is Michael Brickler. The land has been connected with Michael's family since his ancestors were enslaved on the land. This intentional community is multicultural to honor the African and Native American heritage of the land. It is also a bridge for the larger surrounding community to cross to a future where our region can live in a more conscious, democratic, sustainable and fulfilling way. Our name comes from Michael's uncle Donald, who through his organizing work with the National Association of the Southern Poor was one of the main people who helped Michael develop this view of life and who was responsible for our family keeping this land which was a part of the plantation where my great-great-grandfather was born. Donald started a celebration of friends, family and neighbors that we have kept going for over 48 years called "Usufruct." He explained Usufruct as "honoring the fruit of the land without owning the land." We want this idea of Usufruct to be part of our daily life at Donald's View.

Psytrance Bisexual community :)
Mission: Hi! Do you love psytrance? Are you bisexual? if you said yes to both questions, then here is a piece of pie for you <3 Why psytrance, you might ask, and why bisexual only, you might also ask, you sillypie with oh so many questions. I feel psychedelic trance provides the glue that will hold the community together. Psy trance has its own energy code we all know about and love. We can organize parties and why not our very own festival :D We know if we all love psy-trance, then we probably have much in common, apart from our sexuality. Then why bisexual only? Because... because! Yep, thorough answer to your questions. Let's grow together! and shine like buttercups <3 spirituality/shamanism allowed and encouraged. :)
From www.ic.org/directory/psytrance-bisexual-community/:
Ok I will use this to talk about logistics. I chose Dutch forests, because: They are in the midsts of beautiful nature, but also close to Amsterdam city. Not sure if we will live in the actual forest, but at least nearby so we can have awesome walks there and pretend we are hobbits and elves. We are a short flight away to most European cities like London, Berlin, etc, where the trance scenes are awesome. We are in Europe = Psytrance festival season in the summer wohoooooooooo :E Now, this community is "Open Source" so, anyone can suggest other alternatives, like, renting instead of buying, living nearer Amsterdam instead of in Veluwe, living in a big house versus living in small private houses, etc. what else? yes, bring a pillow for pillow fights

Salama Heritage Ecovillage (SHE) Tanzania
Mission: As a solution-based community (SHE), Tanzania makes visible models of best practices and develops sustainability educational tools to inspire rural societal transition to resilience.
Salama Heritage Ecovillage (SHE) Tanzania is a human-scale settlement based in Chaga Community-Kiromo Ward, Bagamoyo District Council, Pwani Region of Tanzania north of Tanzania's Economic Capital Dar es Salaam. The community has been designed through participatory processes to secure a long -term sustainability as a model for sustainable livelihoods and development in Rural Tanzania. We apply the four (4) dimensions (Economic, Ecological, Social and Cultural), mutually reinforcing each other, and attention to each is essential for holistic rural community development in Tanzania.

Eashira Village
Mission: We are an intentional community built around multi-generational households committed to sustainable living and shared resources.
From www.ic.org/directory/eashira-village/:
There was a time when multiple generations of families lived together in the same household or the same community for both ease and economy. Over the past few generations this concept has been lost in American culture, and many feel we are worse off for it. Each generation is pushed out of the home they were raised in, to build their life from scratch, shouldering tremendous financial burdens just to replace the family home they left. Children are disconnected from their grandparents and other relations. Parents are often left to carry the load of caring for and raising their family, on their own. We understand the need for privacy and independence as generations mature, and our village can provide this without being so disconnected from other generations. Our homes and land are designed and arranged for both private spaces and shared spaces within a household. We even extend the multigenerational concept so that a household contains multiple generations of multiple families. This further enriches the lives of everyone in the community and it allows us to share resources, skills, and experiences. Our buildings are designed with “aging in place” features to accommodate families in all stages of life. This includes features such as wide doors, ground floor accommodations for mobility impaired family members, grab rails, easy to operate handles, minimal obstructions, and non-slip surfaces. Households have a variety of spaces for everyone from single adults, couples, or larger families, to accommodate everyone as their needs change. Having multiple generations of multiple families living in the same community, or even the same household has many advantages: • Family members experience the high level of emotional bonding and closeness across generations. • Older generations provide important role models in the socialization of children. Younger generations learn how to care for their elders. • Spending time with children can bring purpose and meaning to the lives of older generations. For example, the physical demands of keeping up with kids and helping with homework make them feel younger, more useful, and active. • Grandparents help grandchildren survive changes in their parent’s domestic structure by giving grandchildren undivided attention and helping when single parents are overwhelmed. • Multigenerational families have financial benefits for everyone involved. If grandparents are in good health and willing, they can help care for young children. Adult children living in the multifamily household can save money while going to school, finding a job or saving money to buy their own shares in the village company. • Family members provide constant companionship, as well as help reduce financial strain and stress. • Village members look after, help and support each other. • Bringing village members together can be a joyful time to treasure and share. • While you have the ability for solitary time to yourself, you are never so isolated as to feel lonely or on your own.

Compersia
Mission: We are an egalitarian, income-sharing, intentional community located in the District of Columbia.
From www.ic.org/directory/compersia/:
Compersia is an intentional community located in the heart of Washington, DC. More than just a group house(s), we are founded on a deep commitment to sharing our labor, resources, and lives - together we can achieve more than any of us could individually. This manifests in many different ways; as a community we are fully income-sharing, with a single joint bank account. We reject the rigid market system and value all community-oriented labor equally, whether it's working a salaried job, doing housework, freelancing, or community organizing. We are dedicated to the principles of inclusion, feminism, anti-racism, and anti-discrimination. We strive to be egalitarian in all respects, and make decisions transparently and by consensus. We place high value on open, respectful, genuine communication, and desire a healthy, productive, and sustainable world for all people regardless of circumstance or nationality. If you resonate with these ideas then we'd love to hear from you. Our world is your world ... let's join forces!

A Watership Down
Mission: A water-based, sustainable effort, with a view to a better quality of life. (tentative statement)
From www.ic.org/directory/a-watership-down/:
It was something to think about after occupy... We needed something, anything, so we consensed...then we travelled...then we worked...then we suffered...then we died...because it wasn't actually sustainable...it wasn't even livable...and ultimately it wasn't survivable. This option removes the encumbrance of land ownership, which arguably is impossible--or at the least incredibly injust--in these united states... You can be a nomad anywhere. You can help others anywhere. Primarily sailboats. Secondarily water-based living. Tertiary nomadic lifestyle. (tentative description)

Fertile Ground Intentional Village
Mission: Working together for the highest good of all.
From www.ic.org/directory/fertile-ground-intentional-village/:
We are building an abundant Intentional Village in the heart of Atlanta. At the center is collaborative shared space, dorm/hostel style. We are quickly acquiring new spaces in order to offer infinite indoor and outdoor living spaces. We are building collaborative relationships in our surrounding community that offer infinite fulfillment for all. We are experiencing ways of being in the world that work for everyone. We are focused on healing, spiritual practice, and being intentional in all aspects of life. We have intentions of offering healing retreats as well as regular collective healing practices for all in the community. We are a block away from an urban farm and market, across the street from a beautiful park, two blocks away from an amazing artistic intentional community, a block away from Atlanta’s beltline (a paved multi-purpose trail that traverses the city and has infinite community building properties), and walkable to an eco-friendly library. The connective and healing potential of our village is infinite. People are contributing in infinite ways, contributing the joy and the gifts that they are. For those contributing financially, it is currently infinitely affordable at 300.00/month. All things are possible. Reach out to us as you feel warmly drawn and explore the beautiful possibilities for collaboration! Thank you!

Nasalam
Mission: We strive to live simply and in harmony with the Earth while pursuing our spiritual goals.
From www.ic.org/directory/nasalam/:
We are an eclectic tantric/spiritual community. We study Eastern Philosophy, Shamanism, and the Western Esoteric Tradition. We live fairly close to nature and garden to grow as much of our food as possible. We are open to new members for the first time in several years. We suggest men write for our .pdf file to learn more about us. Namaste'

Petawawa Tribal - Shared Housing
Mission: To provide a shared household where members can rely on one another, form bonds and with the saved time and resources of sharing, have more free time to enjoy the important things in life. We prioritize social connection, feasts of real food together and playing together. Hiking, sports, movie nights, board game nights and art nights are held in the household. Healthy and balanced living is important to us. Mindfulness practices are part of the routine of several members already, and we use circadian lighting throughout the entire house to support everyone's hormonal balance.
From www.ic.org/directory/petawawa-tribal-shared-housing/:
We have been interested in living in an intentional community and eco villages but modern circumstances of career mean we live in Petawawa, Ontario. So we decided to move in to a shared housing unit. We made friends over the last year and now the members of that shared household have gotten together to share a complete house together. While we aren't right out in nature, its a 5-minute walk to the rapids and there's plenty of wilderness about. In this house we love cooking, eating and playing together. There is a big table where we share feasts and meals of real food and love playing board games. Let's call Petawawa Tribal an unintentional group that decided to form an intentional community. It's a bilingual household, so if you need practice then we'll be happy to oblige. Members come from diverse backgrounds but are respectful, helpful and friendly.

Cecil County Permaculture
Mission: Permaculture Homesteading Helping each other linking with other communities/ farms/ organizations
From www.ic.org/directory/anatopia-2/:
There are rooms available to rent, camping, mini houses, space for tents and yurt Greenhouses, small farm animals, rabbits, chickens, cats and doggie, gardens Permaculture/ Organic/ eco-conscious Airbnb/ Couchsurfing

Living Room Yoga Commune
Mission: Service and Resilient Living Our outlook and values are pragmatic and centered on making life easier for our housemates by sharing the work of the home together with a focus on permaculture, sustainability and yogic principles. We do form strong bonds among members that are reminiscent of an idealized family. The central purpose of our community is derived from shared values of generosity toward co-living members, the earth and the wider community, a sense of service both to the home we inhabit and the members we live with, and a strong central work ethic both in our own lives and in service of the home, earth and community with which we live in partnership.
From www.ic.org/directory/living-room-yoga-commune/:
Residents unite around a common interest to collaboratively manage a space, share resources, and coordinate activities which contribute creatively and intellectually to the world around them. We offer short-term accommodation and host outward facing events, increasing connections with the broader community and world. The community at Living Room Yoga Commune is focused on the principles of permaculture, yoga, and resilient living. Many housemates are a member of hOur Exchange Ypsilanti Time bank, which is connected to other timebanks in the county, state region and the world through the use of hOur World software.

The Village - Rural + Comunidad Electricity - Urban
Mission: Business/Permaculture communities that treasure the least of these and unification of those who are one in the kingdom
We have a rural Christian intentional community in the mountains of Puebla. We are starting an urban Christian intentional community in Mexico City. We build industrious communities that care for the poor.

GreenRise Intentional Commmunity
Mission: We are in the process of reworking our Mission Statement.
From www.ic.org/directory/greenrise-intentional-community/:
GreenRise Intentional Community is about sustainability in an urban environment. Our roots stem from the Ecumenical Institute/Institute of Cultural Affairs, in whose building we are housed, but we've been through many iterations. Although we lease space (individually) from ICA and some or many of us are either employed by or volunteer for ICA programs, we are not officially affiliated with ICA. About 33 of us live on two floors of the ICA GreenRise Learning Laboratory. We range from 15 to 88 years old and are racially/ethnically diverse.

Companions of Christ Monastery
Mission: Our ministry will be one of hospitality, service, and being a loving presence to the pilgrims who journey to visit the Monastery.
From www.ic.org/directory/companions-of-christ-monastery/:
The Companions of Christ Monastery is an Old Catholic monastic community of celibate brothers, celibate sisters, couples, and single persons called together as a monastic spiritual family into deep relationships with and in Jesus Christ. Although we we are liturgically and theologically an Old Catholic Monastery we are intentional in our commitment to be ecumenical and welcome all Christians within the community. Our monastery is unique in that it will be integrated in many ways. We will integrate both male and female, celibate and non-celibate, family and single. We will also integrate the various monastic traditions like Franciscan, Benedictine, Trappist, and many others. We will balance contemplative and charismatic, stable (i.e., living in one place) and itinerant (i.e., traveling); solitary and communal; and eremitical and active ministry. The monastic members will work by farming/gardening, office work, cooking, cleaning, and maintenance of the grounds and buildings. Part of our life will deal with the manual tasks of making the Monastery as self-sufficient as possible to decrease our costs.

Dragonfly Community
Mission: Together, We Prepare, Survive and Thrive.
From www.ic.org/directory/dragonfly-community/:
We are a cohesive group of like-minded singles, couples, elders, teens and children that by unity have come together to prepare for the coming times of financial hardship and cataclysmic events that could challenge our way of living as we know it today – sharing knowledge, skills, resources and labor to ensure our future and well-being. We are looking for sound, responsible, service-minded individuals to join our community who are willing to share positive skills. Our current members have a variety of skills including maintenance, farm work (livestock and agriculture), teachers, doctors, permaculture, mechanics, electricians, paramedics, dentists, and security, all professions and skills are accepted. All faiths, cultures and individuals who are passionate about preserving life and taking care of day-to-day operations are encouraged to join. We accept well socialized dogs, cats and birds.

Active Community
Mission: No boss but no chaos. We enjoy the life being active, sharing, leaning and teaching together and to each other.
From www.ic.org/directory/active-community/:
We are a community in Berlin that is proposing to host people. The average price is between 200 and 400 including food and accommodation. It is not a school, it is a community. Everyone can be a student, everyone can be a teacher and we act together to help the outside. We practice music, languages, sport, yoga, taï chi, martial arts, weight lifting, climbing, running, meditation… No one is obliged to do anything at all, but to respect the basic rules that are no physical or emotional violence; no meat, no smoking, no drugs, no alcohol inside the place. The price (always including food and accommodation) varies between 500 to pay, or free of charge, and even 150 euros of pocket money to receive, regarding your commitment in the community (what you want to do/offer/contribute to in the practice and what you want to learn/take part in. The more you give, the more you commit yourself to practice and learn, the less you pay. The average price for someone who has a normal commitment to learn and to teach is between 200 and 350 all inclusive. The more you behave like a “classical client”, the more you can expect 500 euros, which is a normal price for a community with food and accommodation. Meet us, show us who you are and we will propose you a contract and a price to pay regarding your commitment in the studies and the practice that we have in our community.

New Northwest School
Mission: To connect with a higher power, each other, nature, and ourselves.
From www.ic.org/directory/new-northwest-school/:
Starting an open-minded community of kind and loving people. Whether it will be a commune or more independent is something we should all decide together, as well as other rules. It will be a spiritual community, but all faiths (or absence of) are welcome. We will try to live sustainably and off grid. Health will be of importance here. That being said the following habits are permitted: alcohol, tobacco, cannabis. It will be a community where there are more guidelines than rules. We will participate in activism. We also plan to be a hub for music, art, and poetry where people can learn and teach others also.

Emberi
Mission: Changing the system within which humans live, to improve their condition and protect our world.
From www.ic.org/directory/emberi/:
We seek to CHANGE THE SYSTEM. We believe that the single biggest problem in existence today is GREED. Emberi ("EM-bur-ee") is a Hungarian word meaning "the condition of being human". Right now, the Human Community of Emberi exists only online, but at some point it will have to become established physically. We seek people who are dissatisfied with the way the system works - people who have a deep and well-thought-out desire to change the system, and the world. The Emberish system will inevitably become the way of the world sometime whether we make it happen or not - the only question is, will the transition be smooth or will it cause the eradication of most of the human race? We seek to make it a smooth transition. The current system is responsible for all of the negativity experienced by humans of all types, and it is untenable. Someday the non-renewable resources we currently call "wealth" will run out, and the system as we know it will cease to operate. If this transition occurs abruptly, which will happen if change is not started now, most of the human race will die - either from starvation or from the widespread pandemonium that will erupt as soon as people become aware that they won't be able to obtain food easily. We operate by the Four Emberish Principles: PRINCIPLE 1 (The Preservation of Humanity Principle): Do nothing to any other person, directly or indirectly, which causes that person undesired harm or negativity. (This Principle is ABSOLUTELY never to be violated unless your very survival depends upon violating it in an emergency situation, even if preserving it means you violate other Principles. They are all subordinate to Principle 1.) PRINCIPLE 2 (The Golden Rule Principle): Treat other people in the same way in which you would want to be treated if you were in their exact same situation. PRINCIPLE 3 (The Communal Living Principle): Contribute to Emberi according to your ability, and take from Emberi only as much as you need. PRINCIPLE 4 (The Goodness of Humanity Principle): All humans are to be considered GOOD by nature and treated as such. (When they do "bad", which nearly all people do today, it's because of having been programmed badly by the current system, which Emberi seeks to change and will eventually change.) The only acceptable violations of any of these Principles will be due to complete accident or unintentional oversight. We seek people who are passionate about changing the system, to join us and help us cement the system that will be best for all humans going forward. Find our Facebook group and join up there, to be part of the discussion about the best way to improve the condition of humanity going forward.

Persona Nueva
Mission: A Sustainable existence with our Planet thru the gift of environmental diversity. A focus locally but to think globally.
From www.ic.org/directory/persona-nueva/:
We are a group of individuals focused on building a sustainable way of living in Harmony with all life forms and developing a way of life that heals, nourishes and teaches.

Peaceful Village
Mission: Building a world based on love, sharing, and compassion for all expressions of life. We do not kill any living creature and teach others the act of non-violence (ahimsa). We strive to minimize or cause no harm.
Peaceful Village is an intentional vegan community and blueprint for creating a peaceful world. Concept started in 2014. We had a temporary land in Belize in 2017 and will reassemble in the near future. Our aim is to create a peaceful vegan community and world and create blueprint for people to create their own communities. If you would like to help with this project in any way please get in touch with us at peacefulvillage@protonmail.com Mission At the Peaceful Village, our aim is to create an eco-sustainable community, another way of living, a just and peaceful world through vegan education. Michael Lanfield Certified World Peace Diet Facilitator, vegan advocate, and author of five books, including two Amazon best-sellers; The Interconnectedness of Life and The Journey, Michael has garnished 15,000 YouTube subscribers, and 5 million video views and millions more through Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and others. He has written the forward to Mango Wodzak’s newest book The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook. The basic values for this community include: 1. No being is viewed as property, to be used or harmed in any way, whenever possible. We at the Peaceful Village at Finca Del Soul cherish all life, therefore everyone is vegan while living on or visiting the land. We follow the principle of “ahimsa” or harmlessness where we refrain from injuring any living creature and cause the least harm whenever possible. This includes refraining from the consumption of animal foods and products that contain animal ingredients, as well as, animals used in entertainment, for testing, clothing, or other uses, as much as possible and practicable. We value all animal’s freedom; therefore, we do not participate in the keeping of companion animals “pets” at the Peaceful Village, but rather live harmoniously with naturally free roaming animals in nature. 2. We value every human animal equally and reject all forms of discrimination. We treat everyone as we want to be treated, with kindness, love, and respect. 3. Not to take what is not given, but to respect the property of others. At the Peaceful Village, we refrain from taking the property, life, time, or life-energy or others if not given freely directly to us. 4. Not to engage in sexual misconduct. This refers to any action of body, speech or mind that sees another as an object for our own self-gratification or against another's free will. 5. Not to lie but to speak the truth. We avoid telling falsehoods or exaggerations, internally or externally, through any deceitful action, word or thought, with the intent to harm others. 6. Not to consume alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, and cigars. We at the Peaceful Village believe in order to be at peace and harmony, we need not consume any substances that negatively affect the heart or mind. 7. We respect nature and avoid using harmful chemicals, minimizing our ecological footprint as much as possible. Therefore, we implement veganic permaculture practices in harmony with the Earth.

Join us Irmgard Gouda
Mission: Evolve by working together in many ways.
From www.ic.org/directory/no-name-yet/:
Hi there, We are a couple in our thirties. Raising our first beautiful baby boy. We are making progress buying land in the south of Chile. To start a community of like minded and very open minded people that have a strong desire to become free from the matrix and all the strength an individual must have to make that happen. We are looking for people that are comfortable sharing on a spiritual basis consistently and can easily open up their deeper levels, just as much as they are enthusiastic about working together on the land. We look for people who understand the value of living mimalistically and can help to set up a permaculture area and focus on self-sustainability. We have enough savings, good will and understanding to bring an area and a garden to life, but also to remove the inner blocks on anyones personal consciousness (and thus practice perma-culture of the human mind as well). To live in the light is the same and more important than to achieve the physical ´live off the grid feelings´. Thought we would very much like to work together with you to achieve both goals. It is important that our efforts do not attract a false copy of this consciousness form so you as an individual will be seen and screened and expected to behave honorably (and/or as far as our understandings of it takes us). We have strong abilities to also emplify your existing gifts to higher levels of understanding as we are both very often considered high energy people that are appreciated for sharing insights and feelings. We would consider teaching you and your friends if that is the way the best energies flow forwards. We would gladly take on the younger generations in a non-committed capacity, meaning: Staying with us on a free basis to share interests and bring focus to our shared experience and other things these current times brings us as humans. Be different and try us out. Greetings and Love, Esmee & Greg PS: Looking for friends, members and visitors :) https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/diflori http://www.helpx.net/host.asp?hostid=82808 Email us at florafaunauniverse@protonmail.com

Bohemian Utopia
Mission: We are committed to the ideas of shared labor and resources, inclusion, open mindedness, acceptance, non judgment, mutual aid and support, egalitarianism, open and respectful communication, consensus decision making, non-violence, and harmonious and simple living. We are accepting and inviting of a wide range of alternative lifestyles and peoples (atheists, pagans, agnostics, wiccans, pansexuals, LGBTQ, polyamorous, sex positive) and expect all members to be equally accepting. You do not need to be or share in any of these, but you do need to be respectful of other’s choices. To that end we are seeking members whose own beliefs, opinions, and ideologies are not so strong that they prevent you from getting along with others who may not share your views. We prefer members who are open minded, non judgmental, liberal minded, progressive, and accepting of other’s views/beliefs/lifestyle choices.
From www.ic.org/directory/bohemian-utopia/:
***Please read the entire community description We aim to achieve a better life for each member through cooperation, collaboration, and communal effort- together we can achieve more than any of us could individually. We believe that by working together in a shared vision each of us are better able to have a life that is less stressful, more enjoyable, happier, healthier, and of deeper intrinsic value. While we do not as a rule exclude anyone for their beliefs/ideologies please understand that we are not a religious/spiritual, ecovillage, or back to the land movement based community. We’re looking for bohemians, intellectuals, poets, hippies, burners, beatniks, philosophers, free thinkers, free spirits, nature lovers, and wild souls. We’re especially interested in members who want to live in a supportive community of like minded individuals where the exchange of ideas, intellectual discourse, collaboration, and meaningful interaction contribute to personal growth and community. If you think you’d be a good fit and are interested in our community contact us and let us know a bit about yourself and what about our community that interests you.

Theodopolis
Mission: From consumption to Contribution From transaction to Trust From isolation to Community From scarcity to Abundance
From www.ic.org/directory/theodopolis/:
This is a new community on rough land. This community is focused of giftivism. If you would like to join this community, you must be self-sufficient.

Perth Ubuntu Community
Mission: If it's not good for everyone, it's not good at all.
From www.ic.org/directory/perth-ubuntu-community/:
We are at present a community of roughly ten individuals from various parts of Perth, Western Australia. We have meetings every week, but as yet have no location in which to start building a physical community. We are part of the worldwide Ubuntu movement, which you can Google, or watch numerous videos about on Youtube. Our goal is to create a world free of money. Money has enslaved the human race for 6,000 years, and we will never be truly free, until we are free of money. If we can get just one Ubuntu community up and running, this will show the world that we can not only live without money, but that we can live BETTER, without money. Once others see what is possible, it will start a domino effect, and other Ubuntu communities will form. In the startup phase of building the physical community where the first 1,000 of us will live, each member would contribute 3 hours a week to community projects, such as creating the gardens, energy and water systems that would form the basis of a community where we could live off the grid, in an ecologically sustainable manner. Putting in just 3 hours a week to start, would allow you to continue your job (if you have one) and other normal activities, until housing has been created at the community. In return for your 3 hours a week, you would receive food from the community garden. In Ubuntu, no one is paid in money: they are paid in food, water, electricity, accommodation, healthcare, and education... all of which would be made available as needed on a permanent basis, to those living in the community (once appropriate dwellings have been constructed). Those living in the community would be expected to work 3 hours a day on community projects, plus 3 hours a day on their Labour of Love. Your Labour of Love (LOL) is whatever you WANT to do, as long as it something that contributes to the community. It is called Ubuntu Contributionism, because everyone must CONTRIBUTE something - it could be anything, from gardening, to painting, to meditation classes, whatever you're passionate about - in order to receive the benefits. So, all in all, you're only working 6 hours a day, and it will be on whatever community projects (there will be a wide variety available) and LOL you CHOOSE to. The remaining 18 hours each day, you will be FREE to do whatever you wish, and you will be surrounded by people who love and support you, because the people you work alongside will be your friends and neighbours. Even your 'government' (the Tribal Elders) will be your friends and neighbours, who you can speak to at any time, to ensure that your interests will be taken care of. If all this sounds good, I strongly recommend you watch the video: 'Ubuntu: A World Without Money' on Youtube. At only 15 minutes long, it's the perfect 'crash course' introduction to Ubuntu... and once you've watched that, you'll have a long play list of other Ubuntu videos to browse through, if you wish. I'm keen to hear from anyone who has an interest in Ubuntu, even if all you can contribute is your presence and enthusiasm at the weekly community meetings... but I'm really hoping a wealthy investor or land owner will stumble across this. Although the ultimate goal is to create a community (and eventually, an entire world) without money, the sad, ironic reality, is that it will cost a great deal of money to build the thing in the first place. Money AND land - if you have either, we're desperate to hear from you. Maybe you don't have much money, but you're a farmer with a decent-sized property, who'd like to be free of economic and government systems and their nonsensical, tyrannical rules. In which case, you could give us some of your land (as much or as little as you like) to build our community - or a community garden - on. If we had an actual community on your land, you'd get free water, electricity and food (possibly also healthcare and education, if you needed them). If we had only a garden, obviously, you'd get a share of the crops to sell, in exchange for letting us use your land. You could be a full member of the community, or your arrangement with us could be similar to WWOOFING, but on a permanent basis. Contact me if interested, and we'll work something out.

Work That Reconnects Ecovillage
Mission: To decolonize our minds, hearts and behaviors of hyper-individualism, separation and competition, realizing that we really do belong to one another, that we're all part of the web of life and that humans need to re-inhabit the earth in ways that are not destructive.
From www.ic.org/directory/work-that-reconnects-ecovillage/:
The Work That Reconnects Ecovillage is a forming urban community located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California. Our 'mother ship' is Canticle Farm, which is comprised of six adjacent houses with fences removed between 36th and Harrington Avenues. Inspired by the life of Francis of Assisi and the Work That Reconnects as taught by Joanna Macy, Canticle Farm provides a platform for the Great Turning – the planetary shift from an industrial-growth society to a life-sustaining society – one heart, one home, and one block at a time. The Farm manifests a commitment to living and working towards more sustainable alternatives through spiritual practice, integral nonviolence, gift economy, restorative practices, urban permaculture, education and other work necessary for regenerating community in the 21st Century. The neighborhood is largely Latino. Amor Art Farm and Manantial de Luz (formerly Casa de Paz) are just up the street. Our intention is that as we grow in number, we will house folks through renting/buying houses in the neighborhood.

KindaVillage
Mission: The concept is simple… Find a core team of intentional community members who have a PASSION for social or environmental purpose and the ability to maintain the facilities and activities of KindaVillage. Work with these people to create the intentional community hub as a platform from which to develop the community and social business activities of KindaVillage. Find individuals or groups of people with a good idea for a social or environmental business or project and the ability, PASSION and commitment to build it into something real. Provide them with the right facilities, support and funding to turn their social and/or environmental dreams into a reality Celebrate their achievements when they successfully make the world a better place! Share their knowledge with others to create and support more KindaVillages for our network Watch the movement grow!!
From www.ic.org/directory/kindavillage/:
10 years ago it was a vision. 7 years ago the seeds were sown at the Missing Sock UK Charity. 2 years ago experimentation commenced! Today, the vision is clear…! As part of our global aspiration, the time is NOW to set up the first KindaVillage; an intentional community ecovillage project for those with a passion to serve social development. We have just bought 80 land (STC) in Ceredigion, Wales, for our community and hope to settle in the autumn 2017.

Order of Tiamat
Mission: 1. Enable the individual to follow their true will in harmony in an alternative commune that provide them with social and financial support to help them reach this. True Will is defined as the essential identity, passions, and motivations of an individual once they are stripped of cultural and social conditioning, mind-control, and the modern mindset and necessity to focus on materiality and survival at the cost of everything else. In exchange for contribution to the development of the Order, individuals will be granted access to some of our resources to use to achieve their higher goals. ​ ​2. Function as a sanctuary away from the unsavory aspects of the modern world, while maintaining connection with the more positive aspects so that the fruits of technological and scientific development can be harvested and that we continue to progress forward in all forms of evolution, rather than retreat into previous ways of being. ​ Among other pragmatic aspects of life, we aim at settling all of our willing members together in the same location so they may actualize themselves through social interaction, art,  intellectual work and other collective endeavors. ​​ 3. Work to protect and preserve the natural conditions of existence of all living creatures on earth, and to ensure the preservation of the ecosystem for future generations. Contribute to the development of alternative technologies to improve our quality of life, and our knowledge of nature as part of the greater whole. ​4. Evolve as a center for the sacred where the transcendental center of every individual is activated so that all individuals experience the "life that cuts through life". ​ Many understand the basic modalities of interacting with the world and oneself as feminine and masculine. In other words, they consist of love and will: receptivity to higher realities, and knowledge and skill to mold them.  Magic practice and the perception of the "sacred" consist of the means, structures, and traditions of apprehending and interacting with a broader range of realities than are generally glimpsed by the uninitiated public. Through it, we can envision Source (the Divine) in its plane of existence, interact with higher dimensional beings in the ethereal plane, and produce thought-forms on the astral plane that will chisel the world around us to reflect our True Will. ​​​ 5. Advocate for the rights of the seer, mystic, psychic. Educate the public about the esoteric and its proper place in social life. ​​ 6. Create an interdisciplinary center of research for culture. An intellectual salon where important and heretical thinkers are studied with the purpose of achieving greater understanding and capacity for affecting change. A place for the consumption and creation of arts and philosophy that transcend time. In light of the fragmentation of disciplines in modern academia, we represent an alternative to dissociated hyper-specialization in research. The subjective world, the world of spirit, has been neglected in pursuit of science and technology. The purpose of this center is to merge science, in all its advanced forms, and spirituality, by rigorous research to unravel disciplines that have barely been explored, including Integral Theory, psychoanalysis, and esoteric studies. We want to investigate myths and miracles to see what truly is possible, and to stretch the human to its full potential. ​ The methodology and goal of this center are to merge science and spirituality. ​​​ 7. Enact meta-political and trans-historical social change to bring metaphysical revolution based around philosophical principles and a higher form of spiritual action. ​ ​8. Restore spiritual sovereignty and ancient knowledge. Study and practice a variety of esoteric, shamanic and occult disciplines in great depth, with a combination of individual and group workings. We combine witchcraft, shamanism, ceremonial magic, theurgy, neoplatonism, kaballism, Tantra, and other sometimes lost traditions with the goal of helping humanity transcend its limited condition and awareness, and broadening its connection to higher densities.  ​ ​​9. Bring people together who've attained transpersonal levels of awareness. Help as many individuals achieve enlightenment/awakening as are ready. ​ The first truly transpersonal stage of awareness is stage 7 in Ken Wilber's terms, where limiting postmodern values such as pluralism, egalitarianism and hyper-individualism are replaced by a structure that favors a more nuanced understanding of self and development of hierarchy. To our knowledge, all existing public spiritual communities in the US are centered around the sixth stage of development or below.​
From www.ic.org/directory/order-of-tiamat/:
The Order of Tiamat defines itself as a multidisciplinary spiritual community. We are a growing group of eclectic individuals passionate about spirituality, real politics and exopolitics, holistic science and ancient knowledge, actively involved in both substantial and non-conventional change. We are in the process of creating a residential community which will serve as an alternative to the modern Western world: a crucible disconnected from the burdensome perspective that present-day civilization is heading for collapse and desperately trying to feed us with its own illusions and decadence --individual, social, economic, moral and environmental. Countless alternative social projects like the Order of Tiamat are being spontaneously created and independent communities are emerging right now in many countries. However, our core values and ideals often deeply differ from the mainstream ones one can witness mostly everywhere nowadays. Some of us are artists and thinkers, some seers, some scientists, visionaries or revolutionary activists, some world travelers. We are looking for genuine, resolute, engaged souls who are willing to commit to a long-term collective project that demands mainly responsibility, insight, strength, relational skills and a fine taste in avant-garde production. ​ We are convinced that individual and isolated acts cannot change the upcoming global crisis the false elite of mankind is working for, and that the main responsibility of those who seek, like us, to embody and preserve what can be saved of earthly humanity's freedom, dignity, knowledge, tradition, and wisdom is to collectively prepare our transition from this age to the next. ​ Today, whenever you examine the different spiritual forces and beings trying to bring their contribution to the enlightenment of mankind, a constant and almost stunning reality appears: nearly all of them are profoundly isolated. If, for instance, you investigate the presence of shamans online and around you, most who are truly knowledgeable and devoted to the spiritual path for its own sake are separated from others pursuing the same goals. Although our enemies are partially responsible for this situation, it is also our own complacency, weakness and lack of faith that distance us from our responsibilities and power in this world. This split results in every single person committed toward enlightenment having to exert an incredible amount of energy for minimal gain; if more unity were achieved, tremendous results could be accomplished almost effortlessly. Society as a whole works collectively with many roles delegated to execute a single purpose; yet those who wish to change the status quo tend to break off from others and to disregard the importance of collective action. humans have many different personality types, talents, and aptitudes, which serves to remind us that even if individuation is a mandatory yet often neglected aspect of spiritual growth, our final cause involves creatively merging with others to be more fulfilled, and successful. This perspective in mind, one of the central objectives of the Order of Tiamat is to move human cognition to a higher level of non-ego based self-realization fed, stimulated and encouraged in and by the pursuit of wisdom, justice, compassion, truth and constant enlightenment. On a collective scale, we aim to accomplish this end through subversive inspired art, authentic activism, revolutionary spirituality, and transpersonal expressions of awareness. Our influences, interests, sensibilities and sources of inspiration include both modern culture and ancient civilizations, Traditional forms of spirituality (neoplatonism, shamanism, traditional witchcraft), esoteric thinkers (such as Nietzsche, Evola, Lao Tzu, Plato, Steiner) and the ideals of the Ubermensch, Guardian and Warrior. At this stage, it is still too early to precisely determine where we will establish ourselves, and all viable options - including outside the US - are being carefully considered. This being said, we are currently thinking of spanning a major city and its nearby rural location in either Washington State, Idaho or Montana.

Housebus Helios and Lolin Farm Cohabitation
Mission: We look toward building a better life for ourselves and the world by going back to simple living. We want to produce our own food or buy it locally, and we want to produce our own power as much as possible. We also look forward to helping found a sustainable community that positively impacts neighboring communities.
From www.ic.org/directory/housebus-helios/:
Hi there, I'm Alys. I'm one of two members of Housebus Helios. We're parked with a budding intentional community (pop. 6 besides us) on a large organic ranch in Arlington, WA. Currently we're helping the owner of Lolin Farm and their community members build cabins with a central kitchen/shower/bath building. We're also clearing out a few spots for short-term camping areas and rebuilding walking forest trails. We rent a spot in the woods on the far side of forty acres, away from the central hub. While the two of us can do what we like on Helios and our small plot of land, the landower has the ultimate say with the rest of the community. Helios is a 2001 New Flier transit bus. We're renovating the inside and plan on having solar panels and a battery bank (right now we run a genny.) We've built a composting toilet in an outhouse and installed a woodburning stove for the nights when insulation isn't quite enough. We have plans for a drill well for fresh water so we won't have to haul it; luckily we're parked on a small creek and won't have to dig deep. The inside of the bus will be furnished with recycled wood, flooring, and other materials-- we spend a lot of time finding second-hand furniture and tools. Our family also includes two dogs, Mac and Trigger. They've adapted well to living on the bus; both have always loved riding in cars so there wasn't much adjustment to go through. They get as much time as possible running around the woods with us, hiking, and swimming. The landowner has several working dogs, including a rottweiler that herds her beefalo cattle. There's also a flock of chickens for eggs and meat. The land itself has glacial creeks running through it, an apple orchard, tons of wild mint, a plot of raspberries and natural blackberries and salmon berries. Whatever food we don't get from the land is available locally and often just down the street. We spent the summer living on various campgrounds but none of them had offered what we'd been looking for-- a diverse community that we can be a part of long-term and that has the same goal that we do towards a living sustainable lifestyle within nature. By lucky chance Lolin Farm found us and it is more awesome than we imagined. It's not huge, but forty acres of paradise is enough.

Union of Intentional Gay Men Community (Union Uranus)
Mission: Our mission is to remain a unified, financially successful and harmonious family organizational business.
We have formed as a Family of attractive gay men who will live, love, and even have our own businesses. The intention is many Commune Houses (CH) in many cities and countries while separated by distance, will be connected by the Commune Spirit (CS) and social media.

Meow Haus
Mission: We desire a house where we can communicate honestly, spend time with each other, participate in house chores (as much as each individual is able to), have weekly house meetings, share food, and respect people's identities and needs. We are looking for people who have a desire and are working to deconstruct the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial, ableist, heteronormative society that is destroying the earth and ourselves. This includes being ecologically aware (recycling, composting, acknowledging the global impacts of personal consumptive patterns, et.) and the willingness to be chemical/artificial scent and/or fragrance free (we make our own laundry detergent and buy house unscented castile soap).
From www.ic.org/directory/casa-compost/:
We are a mature, chill mid to late 20s household in the Sunnyland neighborhood of Bellingham, Wa.

Soon Coming
Mission: Permaculture, ecovillage/sustainability focused.
From www.ic.org/directory/soon-coming/:
Soon Coming- Rural Maine Permaculture community founded by a group of hardworking hippies. Land not yet acquired, but soon coming. Hoping for opening no later than June 2018.

Universal Intentional Organization (U.I.O.)
Mission: grassroots movement of revitalization in community through cooperation & volunteer beautification work to restore & utilize abandoned, neglected spaces for intentional living along with the facilitation of cultural events and happenings, workshops & education for teaching independence to one another through environmental sustainability, permacultural knowledge & eco-friendly co-creation of our radical arts collective. In the spirit of love and the will to serve does empower & enrich our behavior together & relationships as one human family & our social responsability here on Earth to our future.
A registered non-profit community space and venue for our co-creative grassroots movement near Fireweed Universe City.

Utopia Project
Mission: Self - sufficient, awakened, natural living peace community.
From www.ic.org/directory/utopia-project/:
Utopia Project seeks to unite all those wishing to step out of the matrix and into an authentic, awakened and blissful existence. We are looking for founder members that can contribute financial investment and practical skills to help to find and purchase land/property (shortlist of locations is private - please email) on which to start Utopia Project, the inhabitants of which will be a new tribe of people. Families with children are most welcome to join us in this plan, as we aim to make Utopia a safe and nurturing place for children to learn and to grow. We will strive for self - sufficiency and employ sustainable, organic methods in the cultivation of nourishing, plentiful plant - based sustenance. We are also thinking of setting up a wellness retreat here to support the local economy and provide some income. Be a part of making this vision a reality. Please see details before contacting us. Love & Light x

The Old Home Place Apiary
Mission: Working together to produce clean, local food. Sharing our skills and experiences, learning from one another, respecting and appreciating our differences, finding our gifts and talents and using them to help the community. (In a nutshell)
From www.ic.org/directory/the-old-home-place-apiary/:
I've been wanting to do something like this for years..not that I don't enjoy healthy solitude and silent time..on the contrary. And I have amazing friends from all walks of life and fortunate to have family, close. However, living in the country and trying to homestead a little here and there and seeing so many amazing projects in prepping, survival, bushcraft, beekeeping, gardening, etc. I've come to the conclusion I need a villiage. Most are settled in their homes and lives and have no need to travel or seek housing. They are already living their dream or seriously pursuing it. But if you're like me, you're still figuring it out. Last year, my best friend and I started this journey. He was just going to build me a little chicken coop which turned into a chicken house, then two. Together, we acquired guineas, a rooster, chickens, and bees. He loved being the maintenance man, every repair he could make, he did. We worked side by side steadily from March 2016 until October 2016 when he fell ill. March 2017 he was diagnosed with cancer. Though his heart is still in it, he simply cannot continue working, though he probably won't stop. He has this great airliner camper. He's going to hang out here and boss me around lol. I have focused on the bees. It's the best hobby I could have. It's good for the soul, along with gardening and any outside work. I spend a lot of my time reading and learning what I can about bee biology and the art of beekeeping. This is my 2nd year and I have been so fortunate. I hope to expand my bee yard even more, next spring. I've made several splits, sold some, gifted some, kept some. It looks like I will be going into the winter with 7 hives. I harvested more honey than I expected and even rendered my first beeswax from all the wax cappings. We accomplished so much and had plans for so much more, here on the hill. It's nice and quiet here. Except for the guineas and a rooster. There's a creek that runs through the property, a lot of wooded areas, valleys, hills. I've got one of the best views of the sunrise and sunset. Seven miles from town, however, you're within an hour drive from Tulsa, Fayetteville, Bentonville, and Eureka Springs. Many artist and musicians live in the area. I love my hometown and this is my grandfather's land. He was an ole timer who loved the simple country life. It takes years to accomplish all that he did. But together, we had a modest garden, fresh eggs, and what I thought would be the start of a little homestead. There are a lot of wooded areas here on the hill and I love the art of bushcrafting. Not that I'm good at it, but I want to learn many survival skills, along with that. I would love to see someone or group skilled in bushcrafting come and build primitive camping spots, teaching the art. I'm also looking for individuals who love music and art, love to garden, skilled in herbal medicine, experienced in animal husbandry, butchering,carpentry, homemaking, organizing/starting up small communities, retired beekeepers, active beekeepers, creative and kind people who would enjoy working with others to achieve common goals; safe, clean, peaceful and recreational place to live, clean local food to eat, like-minded people to share in the work and the fruits of our labor. I think there are a lot of people like me that have come to the realization, "It takes a village." I am willing to open my home and share my land with those who are willing to share my vision. If this sounds like something you're interested in, this may be the "village" you're looking for. Perhaps you're not experienced or super skilled in these particular areas but you are an amazing person and have something to offer and want to be a part of this kind of community, your gift will make room for you. One of my closest friends and her 2 are coming at the end of September. She is going to school for parks and recreation management (or something like that) and this girl can do amazing things with wood. She's super motivated, organized, and hard-working. I don't know what this "community" will look like in 6 mos - a year but I'm optimistic about the possibilities.

Cardinal Ridge
Mission: Our mission is to build a family based sex-positive intentional community that are in concert with the FEC principles of egalitarianism, income-sharing, connection, harmony, sustainability through service, and ecological stewardship.
From www.ic.org/directory/cardinal-ridge/:
Our vision is to commit ourselves to the co-creation of a small intentional community/family of between 5-8 people based on sex-positive close knit connections and sharing of our lives and livelihood where harmony and non-violent communication are soundly integrated into all facets of our lives. We seek to build a sustainable income sharing model based on providing logistical support to the wildland fire and incident response communities. We also desire to reduce our dependence on the mainstream culture through growing & raising a substantial portion of our own food, implementing rotational grazing, water conservation and reducing our carbon footprint. We will strive to become better ecological stewards. Through labor sharing efforts, we intend to strengthen our bonds with other local intentional communities. We are focused on the big picture of working nationally to sustain our forests, watersheds, clean air and our environment for current and future generations through providing much needed logistical support services to the wildland fire and incident response communities. What better way to truly make an impact on the environment than to serve the men and woman who everyday risk their lives to protect and care for our natural resources.

New Earth Village - forming need founders.
Mission: A New Earth Village.
From www.ic.org/directory/new-earth-village/:
Our New Earth Village Imagine several hundred people coming together to co-create a New Earth Community. A new model for cooperative community living. Together we invest. All real estate and businesses are owned in common.. We own and manage all property, together. We govern as one heart. Everyone is family. Everyone is needed. We have real purpose. We care, share, we contribute. Always. We exchange our professions, tools, skills, talents, products and services. Freely. All daily work, our contributions, hold the same value as any other. Money is rarely exchanged and only when necessary. Together we establish our abundant New Earth FREE Economy. Now Imagine living in the heart of the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains.. Close to nature and magical outdoor adventures. Our New Earth Village offers unique buildings, inspiring home spaces, local housing and low EMF environments. Pure food, fresh water, art, music, real friendships, purposeful living and a thriving New Earth Village economy. Our Community of 500-700 people is flourishing. Inspiring and strong!. We hold a social contact and we hold it dear: We are Visionaries, We are Spiritual Pioneers. We govern from One Heart. We are a fresh, curious, healthy, industrious, respectful, loving, diverse community. Everyone offers their very best. We show up, daily, fully, in community, together. Our New Earth Village employs new cutting edge sustainable tools and technologies. We are great stewards of mother earth. Our abundant village is also a New Earth Education Center. Join us. Together We Co-Create Heaven on Earth.

ScrapHouse of Life
Mission: Reuse Renew Sustain Wanting to eliminate the perception of waste and reclaim ourselves through repurposing
From www.ic.org/directory/scraphouse-of-life/:
Wanting to share space with sharing people willing to put energy into the endeavor to create and maintain peace of mind and sustainability

Goloka Sanctuary Community
Mission: Self-sufficient and sustainable spiritual based communities at over 3,000 locations throughout the world.
From www.ic.org/directory/goloka-sanctuary-community/:
Each Goloka Sanctuary Community will be the home for about 300 individuals. There are a variety of residential units, school and university buildings and buildings for hydropondic gardens and dairy, all constructed of fire and earthquake resistant concrete. The buildings are all of the monolithic dome design, which is both energy efficient and the strongest structure known. Each residential unit is constructed of concrete with embedded fine mesh metal screen wire to form a Faraday Cage. Inside there is a Satyug Sanctuary Pyramid for each person or couple, and a Goloka Projector for perfect Vastu. There are units to accommodate from one person to entire families. Each Goloka Sanctuary Community is fully sustainable and self-sufficient - everything for a comfortable lifestyle is included in the community, including organic hydropondic gardens and an ahimsa dairy. Each community has a MahaVideha University Campus and a MahaVideha School, plus a Sri Vyuha Ashram. Every adult has some light duties to perform for the management, maintenance, and security of the community. The children enjoy the finest education in the MahaVideha School. Every adult is encouraged to attend courses at the MahaVideha University Campus and earn their Doctor of Divinity degree during their stay. Then enjoy life in the Bliss of Krishna Consciousness in the Sri Vyuha Ashram. Everyone in the community is enrolled in the Satyug Kaya Kalpa Program to create their Satyug Physiology for the coming Krishna Golden Age. Everyone has a Maha Yajña Vitara so the individual and the entire community is Invincible. These Goloka Sanctuary Communities are our way of surviving the effects of the pralaya so we can thrive in the new Krishna Golden Age. Please read our book that describes this in detail: www.returningtogoloka.com. For more detail, please visit our website: www.golokaproject.org

Merkaba Community
Mission: We don't enforce many 'rules' here, but we do assume a certain level of consciousness and we live by a few core principles which allow us to thrive as a community. Whether visiting, living or working within the community, you agree to adhere to these practises whilst here... > Concept of Abundance – if every person in the community gave more than they took, we would all have an abundance of everything we ever need... > Mindfulness – we are mindful in all activities throughout our day, whether this be practising yoga, eating, interacting with another person or carrying out our daily chores... this includes awareness of and accountability for our own thoughts, words and actions... > Respect for Mother Nature – we keep various animals on the land (3 dogs, 4 cats, 12 chickens, 1 cockerel, 6 ducks & geese) and display unconditional love, compassion and respect for all sentient beings... > Oneness – we operate as one big family, always endeavouring to help and support each other, finding ways to compromise, engaging in open, conscious communication and resolving any disagreements peacefully... > Spiritual Practise – we believe that the foundation of a community is built on individual and group spiritual practise and we endeavour to raise our vibration each day, in whatever way, shape or form that may take... > Waste Management – we are mindful of all forms of waste in our endeavour to be fully sustainable. We either recycle or find ways to upcycle in other areas of the community. With this in mind, please try to bring as little plastic to the community as possible. This also applies to food (cooking and eating) where we try to operate a zero waste policy. General Information We eat a predominantly vegan diet, with the exception of the eggs from our chickens which are fed an organic, non-GMO diet. We grow some fruit and vegetables, but whilst we are developing our land to increase farming capacity, we also buy fresh, seasonal produce from a local organic farmer. We also purchase nuts, seeds, grains and superfood supplements from an organic wholesaler. We are fully solar-powered, collect rain water and pump water from a borehole in the ground. Therefore we have to limit our power and water usage accordingly. We do have a washing machine but this is for bedding and towels only so please do not use for personal laundry. There is a high risk of fire in this and surrounding areas due to the hot, dry environment. We do permit smoking but please respect allocated smoking areas and make note of fire safety procedures.
From www.ic.org/directory/merkaba-community/:
We are an off-grid eco-community nestled in the Portuguese Gardunhia mountain range near Fundão, set in beautiful, wild nature. Our community is a haven for spiritual seekers, health enthusiasts, artists, adventurers, and anyone who wants to explore the healthy way of living needed for a new paradigm. Every day is different at Merkaba. We are always growing, always having fun, and our focus is always on sustainability, great health and spiritual development. We live on fresh, nutritious food, either grown ourselves or sourced locally, along with fresh well water as we continue to expand this space. Our community consists of two Geodesic domes, a double decker bus converted into a fully functional house, an outdoor gym, an infinity yoga deck and during 2018 we plan to add a pool, sauna and our very first eco home built almost entirely out of waste. For those seeking to go within there are lots of spaces around the site to chill out and meditate and for those seeking an external adventure we have a plethora of local activities to suit everyone. We’re doing all we can to live in harmony with Mother Nature and each other, and paving the path for a sustainable future. At Merkaba we aim to provide an open, supportive space for authentic self-expression and expansion and have a positive social & ecological impact on the world through empowering people to live in a more sustainable way.

Les Échelles
Mission: We are a collective living space in the heart of Montreal's Plateau celebrating community and voluntary simplicity!
From www.ic.org/directory/les-echelles/:
Les Échelles is a group of 6 living in a re-purposed loft, thriving on dumpster diving, and providing a space for events and the larger community. As a group, we’re mainly interested in sustainability, environmentalism, inclusivity, intentional-communal living.

Malamaki Farm School
Mission: We find it best to allow new members to define how the community can serve their specific intentions.
From www.ic.org/directory/malamaki/:
We are looking for management trainees and committed apprentices to join our regenerative farm school. This is a non-traditional opportunity so we have a non-traditional recruitment process.We are not looking for people to fill defined roles at Malamaki. We are looking for people who are answering their own calling (life purpose) and need a context in which to do so. If that is you, please respond to the following questions. Take great care with your response. If we take you on, your response to these questions will be the cornerstone of your contract with us. If you tell us what you think we want to hear, you are setting yourself up for certain failure. Also, you haven’t a clue as to what we “want to hear”. 1. What do you intend to do with the rest of your life? 2. WHY? (That’s the key question) 3. Please describe the (functional) steps you perceive as fundamental to achieving your intentions. Simply tell the truth and tell the truth simply. We are not looking for eloquence, just clarity of purpose. If we are in a position to facilitate your objectives, we will respond. If you are not yet absolutely clear what you are up to, please save us all a lot of time and heartache. This opportunity would not work out for you. P.S. We would also love to peruse your resume.

La Smala
Mission: The purpose of la Smala is to facilitate the development of projects aimed at reducing the ecological footprint. For this purpose, it undertakes initiatives offering alternatives to overconsumption and overproduction. In particular, it organizes the management of "vacant" houses, on a provisional basis, within the framework of contracts known as "loans for use", and periodic meetings of reflection on the topic of degrowth.
From www.ic.org/directory/la-smala/:
Since 1993, Smala institute develops experience/expertise in socio-environmental entrepreneurship and eco-community building, a kind of living lab. It provides training, coaching and hosting for over 1’800 beneficiaries from 1993 to 2017, out of which ¼ are social entrepreneurs, and 3/4 are artists, families, students, seniors and unemployed. Smala has managed over 40 co-housing spaces with intergenerational and creative “hives”. We started in the industrial district of Lausanne “le Flon”, contributing in revitalizing it as a new source of creativity, a little Soho. Thanks to the socio-economic success encountered with this first initiative, Smala received from the public and private partners new opportunities to develop similar “living laboratories” in other locations. Ever since 1995, Smala team has tackled the challenge of incubating 40 short and mid-term hives, eco-life learning centres, with 5 to 30 cohabitants and co-workers in each location, in the Lausanne area. These temporary hives had a duration of 1 to 10 years, and have been developed in partnership and/or supported by local and federal administrations for housing, social services, culture, academic research, adult training, NGOs and sociocultural centres. These activities have made Smala institute resilient to societal changes and demonstrated its ability to manage complex governance situations. Since 2013, Smala moved to a new step in starting the development of long-term communities, on rural lands with cooperative ownership. While searching for international references to compare Smala’s innovative methods with other initiatives, Smala experts have identified the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) as one of the most efficient knowledge alliances for social entrepreneurship learning; Smala is now a member of GEN-Europe. Smala experts have included a special focus and expertise on transversal/soft skills building and fair trade culture within community building, both aspects being considered as key complements to vocational skills for active citizenship and right livelihood. Smala’s leading team is composed of pioneers of change who contributed significantly in the transition of this industrial district and/or other socially innovative places and enterprises. By moving so many times our headquarters and healing various new places, Our team has developed a replicable art of co-living and co-working, using informal “learning while doing” methods. It became a fair set of rules of functioning (governance) that we updated at each new community project, becoming the Ecopol label after 20 years of experience. 2014-2018: Smala builds ecovillages! After incubating the Bâtir Groupé cooperative from 2006 to 2013, we bought a land in Cheiry and then in Grandvaux. We built both houses and human relationships. Smala officially becomes a member of GEN-Europe, the ecovillage network (2013). Then, the successes followed. We inaugurated Cheiry on the 21st of August 2016, and then the ecovillage « Berber » in Grandvaux the 25th of Novembre 2017. Smala is a small federation of communities which born in Romandie. We favour social ecology on the basis of the Ecopol social contract, beyond the pre-requisites already well established in the Swiss culture, such as energy-efficiency, affordable rents in co-operative and infrastructure sharing (laundry, vegetable gardens, party room, carpool, etc.). We organized more than 150 conferences and sharing evenings on the art of living together between 2013 and 2018. Our Ecopol service is now consulted by dozens of eco-project holders, each with their own sensibilities, and we have studied dozens of projects to help others develop their vision of eco-housing. We are celebrating our 25th anniversary on September 8, 2018, in our new Transition Training Center, Berber House, in the heart of the magnificent Lavaux UNESCO Heritage.

Enlightened Rainbows Intentional Community
Mission: We are creating a collaborative living situation that feeds us individually and collectively, for our body-minds & spirits, through shared community responsibilities and resources, to maintain our cooperative home in love and light.
We are a group of awakened beings who are searching for individuals who would like to take part in our new Intentional & Sustainable Community Development in the Ventura or LA County areas. We are seeking other awakened beings of light, who possess a trade-able skill or two (Such as Massage, Reiki, Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Meditation, Mindfulness, Aikido, Permaculture Design, Herbalism, or any other like-minded practice), LGBTQ friendly (allies welcome), and 420 friendly humans and their fur babies, who are looking for their place in the world to sustain a livelihood and home in one place. We believe by connecting like-minded collaborative humans to create this Intentional Community, we can keep the costs down to $700 per person (or less). We are looking to create a collaborative living situation that feeds us individually and collectively, for our body-minds & spirits, through shared community responsibilities to maintain our group home in love and light. Many of us have been called to create something like this. If this community speaks to your heart, and you are ready to try something new, please contact us today. If you have lived in an Intentional Community previously, we are interested in interviewing you to help us with this new Intentional Community Development. Please send me a message or post here and we'll reach out to you. If you own a large piece of property in the Ojai, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Westlake Village or Thousand Oaks area, and you have been called by spirit to share it in some way with your community, you will know when you meet us if this is the right choice. Please contact us with more info about your space. Namaste <3

ALT TERRA COMMONS
Mission: Alt Terra Commons is an Awakened, Spiritual, Communal and Sustainable Intentional Community. A unique community of free, enlightened and loving people, soul groups, who intentionally live an Alternative Awakened Lifestyle. We have escaped the false, evil and self destructive social, economic, religious, political and materialistic based structures / ideologies that are offered up by Evil Global Elite. Other differences include: 1. Spiritual – we believe in the One True Creator God, the source of all that is, 2. Awakened – we have opened our eyes to the truth hidden behind the false public narrative, 3. Communal – we Live, Work, Play, Eat, Make Decision, and Share all things together, Plus 4. Sustainable – we responsibly manage the Earths resources for both the needs of today and into the future. And finally, we make Loving, Joyful, Compassionate and Peaceful living with one another our daily mantra. If you are ready for a Paradigm Change, are tired of the Rat Race, and want to live an Awakened, Spiritual, Communal and Sustainable life, then we welcome you here! Visit our Website for full details - https://altterracommons.wixsite.com/altterracommons
From www.ic.org/directory/alt-terra-commons/:
Alt Terra Commons is a Forming Community that wants You to come Join Us in fulfilling our Vision! If you have always wanted to Live At and/or Help Develop a new Intentional Community, now is your chance. We are seeking the following: 1. Benefactors with: A) Existing Property - Urban Home with gardens and/or Rural Land with Housing, who are willing to place said property into a Land Trust for our community, and/or B) Financial Support - so we can purchase a property, and/or C) Existing Intentional Community - that is willing to Incorporate our Vision into a land share format. 2. Members who are: Loving, Joyful, Peaceful and Compassionate, and that are into: Spirituality, Awakening, Communal Living and Sustainability. Other key attributes include those who love - people, family, healthy foods, staying fit, nature, gardening, farm animals, prepping, meditation, God, working hard, sharing, learning new things, minimalism and personal growth. 3. Volunteers to: help Preplan and Design all aspects of our Community. They say it takes a village, in our case we are building one. Therefore, if you have any suitable Community Experience or Life Skills, from engineering to market gardening, from the arts to conflict resolution and from administration to construction, we need your Free help. Visit our Website for full details - https://altterracommons.wixsite.com/altterracommons

kehillah b'nai yhwh
Mission: more info later
From www.ic.org/directory/kehillah-bnai-yhwh/:
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Arc doomsdays heaven
Mission: Arc Doomsdays Heaven is the best way to survive physically and spiritualy the doomsdays ahead and it is the best way to live now. The last thing you want is to be surrounded by peoples who loose their good values in bad time. To prepare a safe heaven for doomsday together and be happy in the process and live a good life with all the ingredients for happiness. Our technological society have been at the crossroads for a while but at any moment, a global disaster or war to maintain/restore the global order could happen and the supply routes of food might be shut and the chaos in the city will be monstrous. Hopefully the world will cross that cross road peacefully but we are not yet in a safe zone as many dangers are growing and looming. Our goal is to be as far as possible so we can remain unaffected and grow our food or directly harvest it from nature.
From www.ic.org/directory/aeon-doomsdays-heaven/:
Arc Heaven Doomsdays is a good and fun way to survive in confort the doomsdays maybe ahead while staying positive and confident in our future. Screening ensure that only humble and respectful peoples with some basic good morals qualities can join. You can use this e9ma9il also to contact directly but you have to remove the numbers: d9o9o9m9s9d9a9y9s9@9t9u9t9a9n9o9t9a9.9c9o9m However you better sign up for an e9m9a9i9l first at as your e9m9a9il is maybe crappy. t9u9t9a9n9o9t9a.9c9o9m Arc Heaven Doomsdays is not only a safe refuge but a very happy place composed of peoples who have some awareness of how wicked and fragile our civilization is and the catastrophic risks that lies ahead. A good character with good morals is a minimum to join Arc Doomsdays Heaven and this means that you are not required to believe anything to join Arc Doomsdays Heaven but you are required to follow the leadership which main goal is to make decisions in the best interests of community and the best interests is what makes peoples more happy and how our community can be more prosperous. Arc Heaven Doomsdays It is also a good place for those who have a spiritual aspiration to become better a little bit in the way that Christians believe that they have to be good to go to heaven or the eastern faith about avoiding bad karma but our faith is more a loose collection of beliefs based on a variety of traditions (New Age , Yoga , Buddhism , etc.) and scientific discoveries. In anyways you will have plenty of time for silence, prayers and meditation if this is something you enjoy. Arc Heaven Doomsdays is about preparing to survive a disaster but at the same time peoples are encourage to enjoy their daily lives and have the peace of mind to know that together we are prepared for most eventualities. At Arc Heaven Doomsdays We are like a family and we take care of all the needs of the peoples in the community. Volontary work within our organization is encouraged (but not not mandatory) and we try to make it fun and rewarding with the various business we own. Some work require contact with the rest of the civilization and therefore we have city bases too for those of us who want to work in the city but around here we are never far of the mountain and the ocean so there is no problem to spend time in the cities. We do a lot of activities together such as camping , parties , hiking , electric bicycling, quad-ding , boating etc. Of course one fun activity is to prepare together for Doomsday. Like a regular ecovillage we strive to be off grid and use solar power and other devices to bring all the comforts of modern life but we like also our equipment and gears to be portable and lightweight and to have appropriate doomsdays vehicles to move in the case that we need to move. Part of the money we make is used to buy more equipment for our community. We have an almost endless free supply of recreational substance such as alcohol (wine and beer making) and (weed cheap and legal) but use of it is not encouraged but it can be available in small and occasional occasions. There is also ways for an individual to make alot of easy money but you should not join if your main motivation is to make money because money in the hands of the members might be found to be a source of corruption and money might be eliminated at the discretion of the administration who will then keep all the money and use it to share the resources among the members however making money is still possible now. We stated that we grow 25% of our food however this number could be 100% very easily harvested but it is convenient to buy bulk food for now and we try to have 100% organic food. We strive to be happy , eat organic food , being close to nature , far from pollution , independent , off grid. We currently have access to many private lands and we do regular trips to the city for work and or leisure. At the moment we have a few habitations ready . There is no fee to join but more comfort could be purchased. We have a policy about accepting and equal amount of single man and single women to create a balance and so you could be put on a waiting list until we can accept more peoples but if you have savings that you would like to share or invest then you will be able to bypass the waiting list of course but remember that there is no fee to join. Unfortunately the description here is only a pale description of how great Arc doomsdays heaven is but you can trust Arc doomsdays heaven to be greater but some of information must stay occulted for now like our ufo projects :) . After sufficient peoples have joined, we can then make public more plans. At the moment , we are still in the most exciting early stages and ready to take off as soon as a few peoples have joined.

Makkal Mandram (People's Forum)
Mission: Resources should be held in common and fairly shared by all people.Caring for the earth and caring for people is the core to continued human existence on this planet. Common people should have access to all resources, get enough opportunities and be part of decision making processes impacting their lives. People around the world need to be supported in their struggle for liberation from oppression and exploitation. The rich, vibrant diversity of nature and culture needs to be preserved.
From www.ic.org/directory/makkal-mandram-peoples-forum/:
Our Commune comprises core members of our people's organization called Makkal Mandram (meaning People's Forum) which works among the most marginalized Tribal (indigenous) and Dalit (caste oppressed) communities in the northern part of Tamil Nadu. Our main work is socio-political in nature. The core principles of our commune life includes social justice, equity, shared living (sharing household chores, raising children, social and political work), trust and cooperation. We don't own private property. Our children go to government schools. We go to government hospitals for our healthcare needs. We believe that manual labour and brain work should be treated equally. We do physical labour in our farms and construction activities whenever need arises.

Morganton Fellowship
Mission: Jeremiah 6:16 - "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."
From www.ic.org/directory/morganton-fellowship/:
Our names are Ryan and Siobhan Gagliardo. We are a Christian husband and wife with five young children in search of spiritual fellowship in Morganton, NC. If we had to define ourselves in denominational terms (which we are not fond of doing!) it would have to be Mennocostal Quaker, which breaks down to: “Menno” for Mennonite (Menno Simons and the Anabaptists), “Costal” for Pentecostal (Book of Acts), and Quaker (John Woolman). My wife and girls wear Mennonite dresses and my wife wears a headcovering. We both became Christians in our teenage years while attending an Assemblies of God church. We searched the Bible over the years and prayed to God for answers to life's greatest questions. It has been very hard for us to fit into most churches and to accept the many unbiblical and unnatural lifestyles and traditions that often prevail. We share family Bible readings, prayer, and singing together most evenings and Sunday mornings. We strive to raise our children to be quieter and well behaved, which has been an excruciating challenge, but well worth it thanks to God’s help. In application of our faith, we are growing more and more interested in how to live in greater harmony with the natural world that God has given us. In the past we have raised chickens, ducks, and turkeys for meat and eggs. We just recently got back into keeping twenty chickens under a tractor coop that we move around the property. We have experience with keeping a few dairy goats and have learned a lot about the value of rotational pasture grazing for meat and milk. I (Ryan) have nearly finished a complete reading of Dr. Westin A. Price’s, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. It has been a truly epic and life changing read for me that has resonated so deeply with the many reflections I have had about modern life over the years. My wife and I purchased a half acre of land in February 2017 with a small mobile home on it. It is mostly cleared land with plenty of space for gardening. Last year I took classes in the Asheville area about wild foods and medicine, which has touched upon many aspects of permaculture and sustainable living. We are heading toward foraging more for our food, which often includes fresh road killed deer and a variety of wild nuts and greens. There is also a lot of potential for fishing in local streams and lakes. With help, we could grow a lot more food on our property as well as on a field just walking distance down the road which we have permission to use. There is also a five acre bottomland plot just behind and adjoining our property which may soon become available to purchase. There is a house for sale with several acres just catty corner to our place with a large separate workshop/garage and partly finished upstairs living space. There should also be a one acre homestead for sale just two houses down from us with a three bedroom house, fruit trees, and an already cleared field where there had been a garden in the past. We don’t currently have much additional room in our two bedroom house other than a futon in the school room. Otherwise, we could park a small camper just next to the house and run a 120V power cord out to it. We could offer backyard tent/yurt/or other? space surrounded by woods. It is a quiet neighborhood on a side road which does not get much traffic. We have neighbors, but enough woods in between that we can hardly see any of them from the backyard. We are currently off-grid for water and heat. We draw water by hand from a shallow well just behind the house. We haven’t perfected doing laundry by hand, but just recently found a hand wringer that we are about to use. We are on the verge of transitioning into composting our human waste. We also have a woodstove that we use for heat and a good amount of cooking. Our goal is to also do more outdoor wood cooking in dutch ovens as well as a Green Egg grill/smoker. We are located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains just 15 min. north of South Mountain State Park in Morganton, NC. The famous city of Asheville is under an hour away, which we visit often enough. We love the outdoors and enjoy hiking, canoeing, camping, fishing, and foraging for wild foods. My wild food class introduced me to several new friends in and around Asheville. We crave genuine loving fellowship with other believers or seekers of truth that are open to dialogue about life and faith. A mutual commitment to life growth will be essential and openness to receive the input of others into the deepest and often most personal and touchy areas of our lives. We try to be as Spirit-led and sensitive as possible, but real communal life will show us our truest selves very quickly. Our commitment is to utilize that experience to grow and allow God to refine and mature us in every way necessary. I have dropped my normal factory (glassblowing) work hours to allow me to take care of home projects and eventually discover a more earth and family-oriented source of income. I have a few ideas that I am prayerfully exploring. Je parle aussi assez bien francais et donc les francophones sont les bienvenus! J'ai voyage dans plusiers regions de la France et aussi un peu en Cote d'Ivoire. Ce sont des pays et une langue qui me manque beaucoup. Hablo tambien bastante espanol. Yo vivi algunos meses en Costa Rica y viaje a Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, y Puerto Rico. May the Lord richly bless and lead you as you consider sharing fellowship with us!

Community forming in Middle Tennessee
Mission: Provide a haven for individuals or families centered on personal transformation, communication, sustainability, sharing, and connection.
From www.ic.org/directory/community-forming-in-middle-tennessee/:
Our focus is to provide a judgment-free haven for individuals or families centered on personal transformation, communication, sustainability, sharing, and connection. We are committed to the ideas of shared labor and resources, inclusion, open-mindedness, non-judgment, acceptance, personal freedom, support, and simple living. We aspire for a small homestead inspired community built on principles of sustainability. We will attempt to create a home that lives in harmony with the environment, protects native plants and animals, and does not use resources faster than we can replenish them. Our community will be integrated with the land, and we will source our materials for building mainly on-site. We will have our own water supply (fresh water spring) and work towards being completely self-sufficient (growing food, raising animals, water collection, solar power, and composting toilets). We believe in non-violent communication, compassion and radical honesty. Our goal is to contribute to a positive transformation of the world through open and honest communication. We believe in Anarchy, however, each Member will be held to their own Personal Responsibility. This means: committing to shared labor, attending community meetings, accepting the consequences of your actions, and resolving and amending whatever harm your actions might cause. We will participate in circle processes, regular meetings, and practice positive conflict resolution methods. We are accepting of a wide range of alternative lifestyles, and are seeking Members who are open-minded, non-judgmental and accepting of other’s beliefs and choices and are looking for others who would like to join together to form an Intentional Community Currently, we are 29/F, 31/M, 22/F NOTE: We are still in the process of purchasing the land. We intend to launch in June 2018. We are working on building a website with an application for Residency.

Unique Community Name Number 5
Mission: Sharing and Caring. Each one, Teach One. Not relying on systems of oppression. Being self reliant. Having FUN!, .....no for real though, life should be fun. Hard work can be FUN!
From www.ic.org/directory/unique-community-name-number-5/:
I purchased 40 acres in a rural valley, 4 miles from the shores of Lake Superior. I helped restart a coop house in Madison, WI. That inspired me to want to eventually live in an intentional community in the country side. No masters, no leaders, but sharing and caring. Creating different systems to slowly detach from the "dominat" culture systems most are raised to rely on. For now, Spring 2018, it is a mostly "raw" piece of land. Although it has been a farm off and on for 100 years. Amenities include, a 40ft by 60ft cinder block garage, some animal pens, a driveway, grid electricity, a working well, and 15+ acres of open land, with a slight slope. Several "old timers" in the area say it is a sweet parcel, and I agree. There is also a small creek that runs year round through the southern part of the land. The southern and western boundaries are public land. What the owned acres may lack in old big trees, are in the vast, surrounding public forest. Those trees, County owned, connect to State land, that in turn connect to National forest. Trees for days! Some currants, hazelnuts, and chestnuts were planted last year, 2017. There is also a thriving grape vine, a few black berry patches, and several apple trees sprinkled around. For now, I am making the payments, getting the garden area going, and growing. I would like to share it with like minded people. DIY and DIF. I love traditional, primitive skills. You know, one people did with their hands and minds before the computer space phone came about. Doing things with friends and loved ones I find to be better then hiring someone to do it for you. Push your comfort, and you can gain comfort. Permaculture possibilities are abound, due to the slight and sever slopes the land has. Potential potential potential. Organic standards are a pretty good idea. Following the Iroquois standard of 7 generations seems like a good idea too.

Oasis Monastic Community
Mission: Operating from a strong spiritual, financial and social position, we'll work to influence our area for the Kingdom of Heaven. Missional & Franciscan, Protestant with strong Orthodox leanings, loving all who come within reach.
From www.ic.org/directory/oasis-monastic-community/:
Multi family building, owned by us, as green and clean as we can muster. Inside break-out space for all to access, including a hermitage: outdoor break-out space to come, to include gazebo's, detached prayer shed/hermitage. Garden dug and composting, going in spring of 18. Oasis: place of refuge, temporary place to land: discerning who that population is. Monastic: quiet, contemplative, simple, fellowship in labor, everyone's skills count, no one's out to pasture Community: working together as and for the good of the Community, outward into the neighborhood,

Cotyledon
Mission: We are dedicated to environmental and food justice, radical sharing, personal growth and accountability, clear communication, and simple, cooperative living.
From www.ic.org/directory/cotyledon/:
Cotyledon is a new egalitarian, income-sharing residential community in Astoria, Queens, New York. We are currently looking for one new member. We do not have a community business yet, so members will need to earn income to live here. Please contact us at cotyledonqueens@gmail.com

Gemeinschaft Rosenkohl
Mission: wir wollen zusammen leben, zusammen arbeiten, und zusammen lieb haben.
From www.ic.org/directory/gemeinschaft-rosenkohl/:
wir sind eine kleine gemeinschaft in karlsruhe. momentan bestehend aus zwei erwachsenen. wir suchen weitere menschen zum zusammen leben, zusammen arbeiten, und zusammen lieb haben. wir wollen alltag teilen. gemeinsam frühstücken. gemeinsam aufräumen. gemeinsam spielen. gemeinsam faulenzen. wir wollen echt sein. gefühle aussprechen. wünsche aussprechen. ja sagen wenn es ein ja ist. nein sagen wenn es nein ist. wir wollen liebevollheit. zärtlichkeit. geistig wie körperlich. in die augen schauen. in den arm nehmen. zuhören. anerkennen. wir wollen uns unterstützen. beim wünsche erfüllen. beim im kontakt bleiben. beim spiegeln. beim wachsen. wir wollen verbunden sein. füreinander da sein bei not. gemeinsam feiern bei erfolge. wir wollen frei sein. nur das tun was wir für gut und richtig halten. wir wollen jetzt gleich damit anfangen.

Feun Foo Permaculture & Rewilding Krabi
Mission: Our mission is to become fully autonomous and develop a regenerative way of living. We do that mainly through practicing permaculture, but include elements of rewilding and primitivist philosophy and spirituality.
From www.ic.org/directory/feun-foo-permaculture-rewilding-krabi/:
‘Feun Foo’ (ฟื้นฟู; pronounced fern foo) is Thai and means ‘restore’, ‘rehabilitate‘ or ‘revive’, and that’s how we see ourselves: We restore Nature to original beauty by converting a palm oil plantation into a food jungle. We revive an ancient, long forgotten way of life, so that it may lead us into a better, not only sustainable, but regenerative future. We provide one of many paths to live a happy and healthy life in harmony with Nature.

Bright Moments Community
Mission: Primary to our community focus is a proactive approach to mental health and personal growth and the establishment of high functioning relationships based upon what we call dynamic connection. Generally, we're looking to join with others to create a safe, connected, healthy, multi-generational, and sustainable community.
From www.ic.org/directory/bright-moments-community/:
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles In A Nutshell… We are looking for others interested in discussing the creation of an intentional cooperative community. What follows is intended to give those who may be interested in joining us a little background on our perspectives, interests, and values. A Sad State of Affairs… Unfortunately, it is our opinion that we live in a society that is very sick. Politically, we are divided and seemingly incapable of sane governance by and for the people; Economically, the wealthiest 1% of Americans own more than 40% of the nation’s wealth, while the vast majority— around 80%, only own 7% of the wealth; Socially, we are increasingly intolerant of other cultural traditions, racial diversity, as well as gender and sexuality identifications, while hate speech, hate crimes, and mass killings are at an all-time high. Society is diseased and dysfunctional… and society is us. Meanwhile, recent studies have revealed that approximately half of Americans are lonely or isolated, with many feeling that their relationships lack meaning. It’s interesting to consider that throughout human history we have lived in groups—clans, tribes, and extended families—and there are many cultures in the world that still live this way today. But, somehow, over time and generations, we got caught up in the American dream, with our nuclear families in homogenous neighborhoods and, generally, isolated lifestyles with all the consumer trappings we could ever imagine. Now, it seems that many of us experience life as casualties of the so-called American dream: more socially isolated; devoting most of our lives to toil and drudgery in unfulfilling jobs; politically frustrated and disconnected; finding that all the technology, electronics, and things we work so hard to afford don’t really make us happy; and feeling stuck. American dream? Or nightmare! We are also faced with extremely serious environmental challenges at this time, especially with many of our so-called leaders’ willingness to foolishly trash our natural heritage and trade in our ultimate survival for the short-sighted gains of industry and more short-term wealth for the top one percent! With everything from global warming to pollution and threats to our food supply, clean water, and clean air, how can we turn a blind eye and not be examples of the change that is needed? Whether it’s the foods we eat, the products we use, the cars we drive, or the practices we support, we can make choices that support healthy ecosystems, environmental balance, and sustainability. The Earth is our home. We need to take care of it for our children and future generations. It is beyond irresponsible, like completely crazy, to do otherwise. Why Intentional Community? If any of this is ever going to get better, we will need to make some changes! Can we overcome our addictions to uncontrolled consumerism and learn to work together with mutual respect, love, and kindness for each other’s well-being and the greater good? Yes we can! By joining together and sharing skills and resources, we can be part of the change that this world needs in order to survive. We can dramatically lessen our environmental footprint by sharing, everything from vehicles to washing machines! We can also collaborate and work together to create innovative new sources of income, allowing participants to pursue work that is creative and meaningful. More About Us… We are two people (female and male) looking for individuals, couples, or small family groups to join us. We would eventually like to be a group of at least ten to twelve members. Our preferred age-range for co-founders is 30’s to 60’s. We would like to connect with those who are generally positive, focused, energetic, fun-loving, and who share similar values and interests to ours. Things We Value… • Proactive, open, inclusive communication • Building meaningful relationships based upon transparency and dynamic connection • Physically active and healthy lifestyle • Mental/emotional health advocacy • Natural, non-GMO, organic, sustainable food production • Sustainable/ecological decision-making • Freedom to pursue creative and educational interests • Equality, tolerance, diversity, respect, kindness • Positive attitudes towards personal expression and sexuality • Enjoying music, dancing, food, companionship, seizing the day, and celebrating life • Living with creative intention, mindfulness, and self-responsibility • Seeing life as a journey and an ongoing opportunity for exploration, experience, and understanding Things that interest us… • Establishing an intentional community with shared and separate living spaces, as well as shared facilities, common areas, gardens, etc. • Establishing collective business ventures that add value to the lives of those involved, the community, and the community-at-large • Creating a safe, connected, healthy, multi-generational, and sustainable community • The ability for (eventual) elderly members to age-in-place and remain full and active participants in the community as much as possible • Extended/alternative family structures Regarding Mental/Emotional Health Advocacy… It is estimated that 1 in 4 of us have immediate mental health conditions requiring treatment of some kind. But what about the other 75% of us? Just because we are able to function in our daily lives doesn’t mean we don’t have issues! We all need help at times dealing with relationships and communication issues, habits, behaviors, attitudes, making healthy choices, resolving conflicts, as well as things like self-esteem, confidence, and self-empowerment. Mental and emotional health counseling and therapy, as well as other self-help and empowerment practices, is what healthy people do! We are not only a part of this crazy human drama, we have steeped in it for many years, unconsciously absorbing whatever attitudes, beliefs, perspectives, assumptions, and behaviors were around us or were psychologically convenient. What’s wrong with acknowledging the craziness and dysfunction and accepting that we all have issues and we can all do better? Attending counseling or therapy sessions still has negative connotations for many people. We may see ourselves doing as well or even better than people we know, and overall, we are functioning fairly well in our day-to-day lives, so why do we need help? There is usually an assumption that something has to be very wrong to require seeing a mental health professional. Unfortunately, this type of attitude prevents many of us from engaging in a process that can lead to increased self-awareness, better communication, higher functioning relationships, and happier, more expansive lives. We are all, potentially, extraordinary people, capable of extraordinary things. Why not be proactive in dealing with our psycho/social/emotional functions when it will only benefit us (and those around us)? Why not take a closer look at our behaviors and attitudes and understand in a deeper way how they directly influence our own lives and affect others? Why not learn how to improve the ways we communicate? Why not learn how to be better listeners and be more emotionally supportive of the people we love? Why not learn how to be better partners in our primary relationships? We believe that transparency is important in relationships, in general. We think that transparency is especially important when it comes to building a trusting high-functioning group of multiple adults, from many different cultures and backgrounds, with no previous connections to each other. How can we be transparent with each other if we’re not able to be transparent with ourselves? We think that building a successful intentional community requires interpersonal skills far beyond what is considered “normal.” We need to become very good at listening, questioning, taking turns, understanding each other, supporting each other, resolving conflicts, solving problems, focusing and following through on tasks, saying what we mean and meaning what we say, being accountable and self-responsible, and being able to work towards something beyond our own wants and needs. Some Basic Assumptions? • We can accomplish much more by working together, than we can alone • We can experience a higher quality of life by sharing resources and engaging in activities that contribute to the greater good • We can all make a difference • We are much happier when we experience connection and develop relationships that have depth and meaning, based on transparency and trust • We are more fulfilled when we connect in meaningful ways • Time is an illusion; time is of the essence; there’s no time like the present • This life is a tremendous and brief opportunity for us to seize • We each have tremendous creative potential • This life is ours to explore, understand, creatively define, and celebrate • Once we learn to be connected to ourselves, we can be more effective • Many of us need help to understand and heal our fragmented psyches and behaviors • There is no shame in needing a little help “Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin and then the work will be completed.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Recommended Reading… We have found this article (link below) very helpful in understanding the “pathology of normalcy,” which illustrates and details the societal pathology (sickness/disease briefly mentioned earlier) and its origins that is pervasive and normal in our society today. We think it is extremely important to share this understanding and perspective with anyone who may be interested in developing healthier alternatives to the current societal model. Changing the way things are at the macro level will, likely, take a very long time and many generations of us. But, we have the opportunity to start now and get the ball rolling to create something better! A new paradigm is needed and there are people like us all over the world working to make it happen. Some may find this article a little challenging, as it is longish (equivalent of about 22 typed pages of about 500 words each) and written by an academic. However, once you get started it reads very well and though one might want to look one or two things up, it really isn’t too bad! We encourage you to set a little time aside and check it out… http://www.sonic.net/~cr2/Normal%20Pathology.pdf Some Quotes… “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” (Jane Goodall) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” (Lao Tzu) “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” (Lewis Carrol) “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” (Sydney J. Harris)

Grimm Acres Community
Mission: ​Since you can't have an intentional community without intention, ours is to simply "thrive together". Everyone who lives or visits Grimm Acres brings a lifetime of experience to share with others. Even the children have unique experiences, perspectives and skills to offer and teach.
From www.ic.org/directory/grimm-acres-community/:
Grimm Acres Community Living, is a beautiful place to put down some roots, enjoy nature, explore the simple life, a time for quiet reflection, and be a part of a community that works together to achieve community goals. Grimm Acres is a wonderful place to be at one with nature, animals, birds, and the trees that surround us. While at the same time each member of the community can engage in meaningful work. Creating tiny living shelters, discovering nature trails, creating healthy gardens to grow community food, animal husbandry, and discovering the meaning of community as we all work side by side together. Grimm Acres is the best place to rediscover who you are, who you want to be, and where you want to be in life. Here you can learn new things, become a part of a community that is sustainable and self-sufficient, be able to help others, and journey with peace. Living simply is the Grimm Acres way, and understanding that our place here on earth is to learn and help others learn in the process. We embrace learning new things, learning from others, and understand that many great minds can achieve much more than just one great mind. Teaching our local community on gardening, identifying plants, trees, canning, building simple shelters, and how working as a community can enhance the lives around you. Orion and Josie Grimm settled in Waynesburg, KY. Both with the vision of creating a place full of family, love, and a sense of community. Understanding that in today's tough economic times, how cool it would be to open up their homestead to others to create an intentional community that relishes in the simple things of life. Creating a place where others could enjoy the beauty that surrounds them, garden together, raise animals together, build together, and eventually become a self-sustained intentional community. After all, it takes a village. Troy and Dawn have lived in communities, such as Alpha Farm in Oregon and were invited to Grimm Acres ​as part of the core group with their children, Heather and Ivy.

Boogaloo
Mission: This will come with collaboration!
From www.ic.org/directory/electric-boogaloo/:
In the researching/organizing part of an ambitious endeavor of starting a housing coop! Hoping to reach some awesome folks who'd be interested in collaborating with me because all projects are done better together! Number of folks that could be intrinsically involved will depend on the property, but right now, I'm putting out feelers for a founding group of 3-4 folks that have some money they'd like to invest in a dreamy space! I am deeply in love with community and I want to make a little community with you! Some ideas I have for the space: Non-profit driven Music venue Community space Workshop/meet-up space Cafe/bar Garden Flowers Local market

Lumicon Farm
Mission: ... in general and in many forms and ways -energy recovering, healing and frequency rising...
From www.ic.org/directory/lumicon-farm/:
Simple living in a deep sence. Reconection with the earth and with us....land, watter and jungle....various simple options and forms to live and learn, programs and activities for like minded people from around the world....rustic private cabins in glamping open style, a different way of tropical permaculture, many options and ways for ll the like minded people.Of the grid living on the river beach.....

Lifechanyuan International Family Society
Mission: Our vision: This earth becomes one big family, where traditional families and countries no longer exist. There will be only one global government and all resources are shared worldwide. Everyone on earth will be able to move freely around the world and there will be no famine, wars or social unrest. The weather are always favorable; no one will pocket anything on the road and no one will need to lock their door at night. Everyone enjoys free, happy, joyous and blessed lives. Our Mission: To call on all individuals and groups with insight to transcend traditional family limitations and the consciousness infused by countries, so that they can become global citizens, form an international family, and eventually realize the one world collective ideal.
The Lifechanyuan International Family Society was registered successfully in British Columbia, Canada as an incorporated NPO (non-profit organization) on November 20th, 2017. It is located on ten-acres of farmland in Lac La Hache. The property has one wooden house with an established Bed and Breakfast which includes six guest room suites, five bedrooms, four shared toilets, a large dining room, a full kitchen, and a meeting room. The house is facing Lac La Hache lake and Highway 97 passes by it . Water, electricity, gas, and internet are all readily available. This society will absorb people from different cultures, nations, races, countries and beliefs to form an international family. This international family will adopt the same life mode of the Second Home that Lifechanyuan had successfully created in China. The purpose of this international family is to create a new life model and sustainable future for the humanity. The crises that people face are becoming increasingly more serious.The main crisis is that the climate change is growing more and more seriously, which causes more and more climate refugees. If this issue cannot be solved effectively, seven billion people will start fighting with each other for survival. This will also make climate change and environment destruction and social instability becoming increasingly severe and eventually lead to humanity’s enormous sufferings. Our objective of founding Lifechanyuan international family is to find a best way to lead humanity into a track of peaceful development before the catastrophic disasters happen. We will do this by assisting the United Nations, governments of all countries, relevant groups and global organizations. We plan to build the Lifechanyuan international family to a reasonable size of between thirty (30) and three hundred (300) people and will buy more land and build more homes as their need arises.If you are interested in joining us to help create this new life mode and are willing to abide by the third edition of 800 Values for New Era Human Being, you are welcome to contribute financial support or your wisdom to this international family. Let us work toward realizing our most beautiful ideal together. Welcome people with lofty ideals from all over the world to visit, interview and communicate with us. If you need accommodation and food, please call us in advance to appoint the date.

Lotus Community
Mission: We are a community of individuals embodying our divine sovereign nature, honoring the sacredness& the creative intelligence within all living being. We care for our body, our planet ,all species that are alive and we do our part to be the example of walking in peace and creating a better healthier world. We stand with awareness and walk together as equals. We invite all who are called to remember, know, feel, be, create, share and thrive in our highest expression of joy and abundance. We ask that we all bring forth our uniqueness with our gifts, wisdom, experience to create this master peace reality. We provide space for healing and creative expression and we encourage experiences that support loving relationships, regenerative living, gift economics, health and well being.
From www.ic.org/directory/lotus-community/:
We are still in the process of creating the community. If you could do anything and monetary system was not involved What would you do? to take care of needs, wants? What excites you ?What turns you on ? What are you passionate about ? What motivates, inspires and empowers you ? What gifts, wisdom ,experience, skills would you love to share with the world? I am we are envisioning a world where we all thrive in abundance. I have spent the last 14 years connecting with others and started many groups all starting with conscious conversation on topics similar to these. I am now one of the new co-operating co-owner-member of Lotus Mountain Retreat located in Bolton Valley, Vermont . This project is one of a kind. Our intention and Vision here @ Lotus is to be a model for Ubuntu living . What does this mean ? For our vision to be shared many videos have been made to inform, empower and inspire others to remember, know, feel, be, create, share, thrive ! Here is a video @ https://youtu.be/kM6XjO-pD_Q We are co-creating a blueprint for a new social structure, a new system, a new reality, without the need for any violence, opposition, resistance, or conflict or the monetary system. All the socio-economic structures of our individual countries have failed us dramatically. It is time to collaborate together to create a better model so that all living beings live in harmony with all living beings. Every day we witness a continued assault on our people and the world around us, orchestrated by the global elite who have taken control, of every aspect of our existence. Every single one of us, rich or poor, is born into life-long slavery and bondage from which there is no escape under the current system. Most of us know that the system we are born into does not serve humanity, but very few of us know what to do to change it. We can no longer sit idly, watching the destruction of our people, our communities, our countries, and our human potential, by greedy corporations supported by governments with no remorse for their actions, or accountability to the people they are supposed to serve. We can no longer sit silently, hoping that someone will do something to stop this assault on our liberties and future prosperity. It has fallen on the shoulders of the common people, to unite and create a new way...a new system...a future filled with abundance and prosperity for ourselves and our children. We are creating a totally new system free from economic slavery... where we turn competition into collaboration... a new social structure where we all benefit from our collective efforts and individual talents... a new world where people are put before profits, and the resources & materials are used to enrich all our lives. We Would you like to meet with others who are interested in taking our life , our experience, our consensus reality to another level ? We look Forward to connecting with you ! Namaste, In lakech, ala kin.

God is true love
Mission: Serve God continuously
From www.ic.org/directory/god-is-true-love/:
Hello to everyone interested in true love and wisdom that comes only from God. We are a spiritual community that follows the true translation of the bible. We don't have any religion, we just follow the right path that God wants for His creatures. We believe in predestination and universal salvation. We wait for the coming of God and His right judgment. Until that time we live a simple life in nature, doing what God intends for us to do, farming and eating what we are producing. We don't have insurance of any kind, because we believe that only God is our insurance in everything. We don't need any insurance from people. Our future is in the hands of God, like bible says. It's a sin and a big blasphemy to God to say that we believe in Him but we go to men and ask from them insurance for the future. In consequence we don't work for men because the insurance is obligatory. We work our land given to us by God. He is merciful with us and gives us rain and we have what to eat. In this country the insurance for house is not obligatory, and the taxes for land and house are still low. This area where we live is peaceful because God protects us. It is written that if we serve Him we will have everything we need in order to survive here and be happy. I suppose many have such a dream and we can say it is possible, but only with God. We expect to hear from brothers and sisters interested in this way of living. You are welcome.

Elphinstone Rainbow Warriors
Mission: The Elphinstone Rainbow Warriors aim to protect natural forests surrounding Mt. Elphinstone by practicing non-violent civil disobedience, living naturally in a more sustainable, non earth-harming way, and offer a place for others to do the same. Our goal is to change the perspectives in our current society to a new, more balanced ideology where all life is respected.
From www.ic.org/directory/elphinstone-rainbow-warriors/:
This camp was formed as a project to protect the old growth forests on the Sunshine Coast that surround Mt. Elphinstone. We are looking for members to join and assist in building the capacity of our camp this summer. Various projects we'd like to implement this summer are: planting a permaculture food forest, building non-permanent structures like tiny homes or platforms for camping, beautifying the camp as well as general maintenance tasks. Join our cause and bring forward any skills you have to offer. The group need help with various activities around the camp this summer (see below) but most importantly we are looking for individuals to volunteer their time to help us stop the next cutting block proposed for early September 2018. Help needed this summer: - Teaching permaculture and food forest growing techniques, as well as helping with design - Planting/sewing seed to provide the group with food - Cooking meals for the group - Teaching or sharing experiences with laws/regulations surrounding protesting, blockades and activism - Cleaning and general camp maintenance tasks - Building temporary structures and/or tiny homes - Creating banners and signage that are aesthetically pleasing Accommodation at the moment is mostly camping. We have tarps to create dry areas to camp. There are a couple simple structures built for individuals to sleep in. We are hoping to have volunteers help us build more structures for the area. Food is provided. At a time where our earth is being polluted and our natural resources destroyed, the group are gathering individuals of all backgrounds to join forces and protect what is left of Mother nature. There are some guidelines to be aware of before joining our group: Be kind Be respectful Clean up after yourself Don't bring anything for the camp without asking first No violence or abusive behavior The culture of the forest protection group revolves around working together as a community and not being afraid to rejoin nature and live on the land. When volunteering at the camp you will learn how to live a simple lifestyle in the forest, growing your own food, the importance of going back to the wild and connecting with nature directly as well as our approach to activism in terms of stopping proposed logging cut blocks.

La Querencia San Diego
Mission: We are working together as a pseudo-family to evolve our own interpersonal skills and co-create more healthier, ecologically-rooted ways of living.
From www.ic.org/directory/la-querencia-san-diego/:
La Querencia Collective and Co-Housing Community was formed in 2013 near downtown San Diego, California. We are working together as a pseudo-family to evolve our own interpersonal skills and co-create more healthier, ecologically-rooted ways of living. We value honesty, accountability, mutualism, connection to the earth, non-consumerism, creativity, fun, alternative economics, and simplicity. Other goals include being a space that is empowering, a source for our own personal development and a reprieve from larger structural oppression, a resource for mutual aid, a life close to the land, a place lush with plants and food with supportive, generous residents to share burdens and multiply joys. Our community is on a third acre of land with 4 units, set up as private rooms and shared-use common areas outside the houses and in the kitchen, baths and living rooms within the houses. There is also a garden space, bicycle space, tools and multi-purpose workshop, a deck, fire pit, entertaining space, outdoor kitchen, float tank, outdoor shower (coming soon) plus other leisure and sustainability features. We, like many worldwide, are trying to figure out how to have different relationships with each other and the world. We sense the urgency and couldn’t wait any longer to start working towards living the dream! Some other values current members hold and want to embody and see in other members and are community are: Courtesy and respect of others Flexibility Honesty Accountability and responsibility Mutual Aid/Collectivism Ecologically-conscious, connected and healthy living Simplicity/Non-consumerism/DIY or creation/crafting Creativity Fun and Pleasure (anti-burnout support) Alternative economics and living Commitment to community organization and being good neighbors

Śiva Ashram
Mission: - Provide a quiet space away from busy modern life to allow for spiritual unfoldment. - To develop a strong spiritual center for Saivism in eastern canada where it is possible tolive the most traditional monastic/ashram lifestyle possible. - To make the teachings of Saiva Siddhantha available to those it might benefit.
From www.ic.org/directory/siva-ashram/:
Śiva Ashram is made up of a group of yoga enthusiasts living in the woods sharing daily spiritual practices and karma yoga / work in the accommodation business that sustains our community. Our site include a house with 3 rooms, two tiny houses fitting two people each and a trailer home. We share common areas of the house (kitchen, dining, living room and meditation room) outdoor jacuzzi. We focus on living a contemplative lifestyle with simple tasks and clearly defined time blocks to allow time for contemplation and meditation throughout the day. Our group's spiritual unfoldment is stimulated and guided by hindu philosophy, meditation, devotional practices, hatha yoga, scripture study, vedic chanting and mantra singing. Religious/philosophical lineage : Śiva stands for Shiva, which refers to the God most would otherwise call "the universe", which to us is omnipresent love and transcendent reality. We follow and study Saiva Siddhantha which is a traditional mystical branch of hinduism from south india and northern Sri Lanka that sees Śiva as the ultimate God. We believe all souls are divine, and we strive to see God in all and everything as well as within ourselves. We also believe that one of life's most important goal is the realization of the self God within us, self-realisation, the experience of parasiva and Saiva Siddhantha provides us with many tools, practices and lessons on this inner journey. We also believe in reincarnation, karma and dharma and study these topics in depth. Hinduism being very inclusive, we are open to people coming from any path as long as they are curious enough to experiment this philosophy with us for a while to see if it might fit them or not. We finance our lifestyle through the maintenance and development of an accommodation business we developped on our 34 acre wooden land. So far, we have installed 4 different cabins that we rent (tipi, 2 bubble to sleep under the stars and tree house). We are presently building a hobbit house and will soon build s site for a second bubble for clients to sleep under the stars in the fall.

Tribe of the Phoenix
Mission: The idea is to return to our home and rightful place among the living world and community of Mother Nature. Leaving behind every thing that hinders this aim. We are much more than this bag of muscles and bones. Get in touch to learn more.
From www.ic.org/directory/tribe-of-the-multi-colored-phoenix/:
This community is a place for people to be real. A place to rediscover what the essence of being human is. We hold all life to be sacred and non-violence does not mean we just treat other humans well, but ALL other mammals, reptiles, fowl, and fish. We are vegetarian and/or vegan and do not KILL ANY other animal for food. It is time we acknowledge the capacity to love and communicate that resides in other living creatures. It is also time we begin to reassume our lost, forgotten place in the circle of life as the species to bring understanding, harmony, peace, and love to all of Creation. As such, our guidance comes from the Spirit of Love and Truth and Mother Nature. We do not discriminate against, race, age, gender, sexual preferences, etc. As a part of this community, members leave their religious, cultural predispositions, and traditions where they belong.... in the old, decaying fiction humanity as been tricked into living for millenia.

Whatevers Clever
Mission: To enjoy all that remote Alaska has to offer while still being just connected enough to the grid that we can participate in urban life when necessary.
From www.ic.org/directory/whatevers-clever/:
I would like to organize an intentional sustainable community. I've been doing research for years in sustainable communities and I know so many people that just don't want to have to work 40 hours a week to move ahead. The technology required for completely self sufficient low cost living has moved leaps and bounds in the last few years with things like inexpensive and reliable solar panels and battery banks and integrated bio-system aquaponics etc etc. It won't be difficult or expensive to build a complex of tiny home cabins on a large tract of land just far enough outside of a city so that a group of people could live together with a very low work input and very low cost. They could share a small condo in town with bunk beds for the 3 days or so a week they would each need to work in order to support their lives. Some could exist entirely though remote internet work or retirement income. I can design and build the entire infrastructure of the community and help maintain it. It's only a matter of finding the right 10 or 20 people. This is the initial stage of finding and organizing these people. Farming will be done on the property in the summer and shared hunting and fishing trips. A large greenhouse will be constructed that is productive even in the dead of winter. Anyone who wants to live off grid but doesn't have the entire spectrum of skills alone. It could be artists, woodsman, retired folks, people on disability that can still do simple chores around the greenhouse, pretty much anyone that wants to have a small inclusive community well outside of the over regulated cities. No one says that this will be incredibly easy. It will be a combination of the skills and abilities of the people who choose to participate and the financial and other resources that they bring to the project. With the right people and skills and financing yes it could actually be easy. I'm looking for more of a remote community that isn't ritzy but has all of the creature comforts. There are methods to incorporate among a group of people that prevent every legal issue that you might be concerned about and have been used successfully over and over. You would get a legally enforceable fair share and no one can take your personal portion of the project. You could sell out at any time and the other members would have first right of refusal. Condominium and town home complexes are organized this way. One of the central needs is to find an area or areas where the typical permitting issues simply don't exist. In the unincorporated boroughs of Alaska, you don't need permits for almost anything... Nearly anything goes and there are plenty of other places like this in the United States... There are already several of these communities in Alaska and others are popping up. Ideally I would like 2 locations. One in Alaska and one on the Big Island in Hawaii. People could stay in either location as their health and the weather dictates.

Eco Village StL
Mission: We aim to provide a safe place for community members' to sleep or live, whether it be travelers, those in crisis, activists needing housing to continue working in the movement, or a street musician needing a couch to crash on for a few weeks. We have an open door and open arms. We love everyone. Welcome Home
From www.ic.org/directory/eco-village-stl/:
Since 2009, our group has been building a self-sustained village in the city. Starting out at as artist co-op, we have now grown into a village of 3 houses and 2 gardens. Services offered:<3 housing, showers,kitchen access, wifi, hammocks, and community <3 *Every Friday we have food share at 2:30pm - Free to all and nothing needed- Food is Free! *Clothing Closet by appt. Filled with men, women and children clothes and shoes. some household items and other donated goods *Community Garden and Healing Herb Garden filled with fruit, veggies and medicinal plants. Coming Soon - Community Bike Shed

Florida Homestead Botanical Gardens
Mission: Our efforts consist of practicing simple living, developing a close, harmonious relationship with the Earth and the cultivation and preservation of rare, threatened and endangered edible and medicinal plants, vegetables and seeds.
From www.ic.org/directory/florida-homestead-botanical-gardens/:
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. We've got to get ourselves back to the garden." ~Joni Mitchell "In the past 70 years, 94% of the plants, vegetables and seeds we eat for food have become extinct. We have lost, and are now loosing, more plants, fish, birds and animals than in all other extinction events combined. We have entered the Anthropocene." ___________________________________________ Florida Homestead and Botanical Gardens is a private, off-grid, self-sustaining, 6 acre forest homestead community located in central Florida. We are looking for established and enthusiastic Earth workers, who have a background in "back to lander" agriculture and have the "soul" desire to live simply and dedicate their lives to the preservation of rare and endangered plant species, practice ecological Earth based stewardship and live a non-consumer, carbon negative, communal lifestyle. We are not a production farm, a CSA or a co-op. We are a private homestead that maintains gardens of rare and endangered plant species that need to be continually cultivated in order to survive. They are not sold, but simply maintained and protected. We do not accept visitors and are not open to the public. We are a closed loop, self-sufficient, ecotopian, homestead community where virtually every aspect of modern life is holistically reexamined. Interns will be engaged in maintaining the gardens, chickens, tilapia aquaculture systems, bee keeping, clearing new gardens, chopping wood, turning compost, mulching, weeding, green house maintenance, planting, grafting, gardening by moon phase, propagating and seed saving and to see first hand how it all functions in a self-sustaining, closed loop system. We grow our own food, generate our own power, reuse waste water, make our own compost, potting soil and make, fix or repair most everything we need. There is no pay or stipend, but there is also no need for money here. All lodging, meals, toiletries, utilities, laundry and wifi are provided. Periodically, long term interns will participate in plant shows or farmers markets and sell plants, soap, vegetables or art work if they need to generate additional income. While here, interns will build and maintain: off-grid solar systems, mirco power grids, passive solar hot water heaters, 12 volt water systems, wind generator turbines, cisterns, wells, rainwater catchment systems, aquaculture systems, grey water systems, water filtration systems, irrigation systems and on site weather stations. A background or understanding of these systems is A+. On the domestic side, interns are required to help with dishes, laundry, making meals, canning, fermenting, bread making, long term food preservation and general housekeeping. This is Florida. The summers are hot and humid, we sweat and work the Earth. Maintaining clean and tidy living quarters and daily personal hygiene is required and mandatory. We put high emphasis on re-skilling. We have a blacksmith shop, a home based foundry, a wood working shop, a welding and metal shop, an art studio, a fiber arts studio and a full service automotive and small engine repair shop complete with tools, a pit and lift. Interns will learn blacksmithing, wood working, fiber arts, welding, plumbing, construction, tile and drywall, electrical and engine diagnosis and repair. Being "mechanically inclined", having a understanding of construction and basic hand and power tools is A+. We also make our own medicinal soaps, salves, tinctures and practice holistic medicine. Having knowledge of medicinal plants is A+. We also have a number of looms, spinning wheels and treadle sewing machines. Interns are encouraged to build their own tri-looms, weave shawls, do art and make their own clothes from recycled materials. Being artistic and having a background in fiber arts and knowing how to use a sewing machine is A+. Computers, video games, televisions, radios and ear buds are prohibited. Cell phone use is limited to personal communication and research only. It is important to understand the environmental, health and societal impact of these kinds of devices. We do have wifi and decent cell service here. We also have a video CD player and have weekly "popcorn and movie nights" consisting of documentaries on Earth climate issues, pollution, organic farming and simple living. We have two "clean" shelters for interns. A primitive guest cabin for short timers and an intern apartment that has a full bathroom, shower, wood stove, fireplace and kitchen. We also have two RV sites with hookups and a full outdoor kitchen with fire pit. This is a "farmily" setting and a private residence. We only accept happy, peaceful, loving, harmonious people that want to live and learn in a quiet, forest based, communal setting. If you are indeed longing to reintegrate with the Web of Life. If you understand the importance of a non-consumer, self-reliant, zero waste lifestyle. If you have a longing to unplug from the material matrix, move to a forest, grow your own food, cultivate rare and endangered plants, be artistic and live a quiet, peaceful, harmonious, ecotopian, communal forest lifestyle with like-minded people, then, and with mettā, Ewha has heard you... Welcome home!

Intelligence Group
Mission: Healthier and longer lives for its members.
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Sustainable community in development. Healthier and longer life for its members. Bio-foods. Renewable energy. Advanced Technologies.