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Informationen zum Autor Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together and editor Communities magazine. She lives at Earthhaven Ecovillage in North Carolina. Klappentext How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. Zusammenfassung How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Ecovillages and Other Intentional Communities What This Book Can Do For You Who This Book is For What is an Intentional Community? SECTION 1: COMMUNITIES: AN OVERVIEW Chapter 1: Why Community? You'll Impact the Planet with a Smaller Ecological Footprint You'll Feel Safer You'll Most Likely be Healthier You'll Save Money You'll Grow as a Person You'll Experience Connection and Support with Like-minded Friends and Colleagues You'll Have More Fun Chapter 2: Ten Most Common Fears about Joining a Community 1. I Don't Want to Live out in the Boonies 2. I Don't Want to Live with a Bunch of Hippies 3. I Don't Want to Live a "Poverty Consciousness" Lifestyle with Limited Resources 4. I Don't Want to Live with countercultural types who are trying to avoid responsibility 5. I Don't Want to Have to Join a Religion or Take up some Spiritual Practice I Don't Believe in 6. I Don't Want to Live in a Hierarchical System or Follow a Charismatic Leader 7. I Don't Want to Have to Think like Everyone Else.What if it Turns out to be a Cult? 8. I'm Afraid I Won't have Enough Privacy or Autonomy 9. I Don't Want to Have to Share Incomes or Give all my Money to the Community 10.What if we all Can't Get Along? I Don't Want to Live with a Bunch of Bad-tempered,Dysfunctional People Other common questions about community living Chapter 3: Community Living-Day-to-Day (excerpt from Communities magazine) Chapter 4: Ecovillages: For Future Generations Ecovillages - Multiple and Various Human-Scale, Full-Featured Settlements Five Characteristics of Ecovillages But Is it Really an Ecovillage? "Lifeboat Communities," Future Generations Chapter 5: Cohousing Communities The Costs of Cohousing Joining a Cohousing Community Cohousing Communities and Non-Cohousing Communities Elder Cohousing Chapter 6: Urban Communities: Group Households and Housing Co-ops Urban Group Households Organized Neighborhoods Housing Co-ops Senior Housing Co-ops Student Housing Co-ops Chapter 7: Rural Homesteading Communities, Conference and Retreat Centers Homesteading Communities Conference and Retreat Centers Chapter 8: Spiritual Communities Spiritually Eclectic Communities Communities with a Common Spiritual Practice Camphill Communities Chapter 9: Christian Communities Service-Oriented Christian Communities Catholic Worker Communities L'Arche Communities Chapter 10: Income-Sharing Communes Radical Cooperation What's It Like Financially? Why Are Income-Sharing Communities so Well Known? Benefts of Income-Sharing Challenges of Income-Sharing Who Income-Sharing Works Well For Chapter 11: What Does It Cost? Factors in the Cost to Join "If I have no funds can I still join a community?" Cohousing,Housing Co-ops, Conference Centers, Spiritual Communities, Communes Do Communities Tell You What It Costs? Sample Costs:What it Costs to Join a Community Chapter 12: What Do...
