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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: undisclosed-recipients@happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu: <keith@permacultureactivist.net>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Creating A Life Together
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:25:50 -0500

  Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, by Diana Leafe Christian, editor of Communities Magazine (and resident of Earthaven Ecovillage), foreword by Patch Adams. 2003 New Society Publishers, 272 pp. $23 (available from Permaculture Activist, May 2003). "Creating a Life Together is an overview of the process of forming new ecovillages and intentional communities, gleaned from founders of dozens of successful communities in North America formed since the early '90s. This is what they did, and what you can do, to create your community dream. It attempts to distill their hard experience into solid advice on getting started as a group, creating vision documents, decision-making and governance, agreements and policies, buying and financing land, communication and process, and selecting people to join you. It's what works, what doesn't work, and how not to reinvent the wheel. This information is not only for people forming new communities - whether or not you already own your land. It can also be valuable for those of you thinking about joining community one day - since you, too, will need to know what works. And it's also for those of you already living in community, since you can only benefit from knowing what others have done in similar circumstances. "

"A great deal of research and trial-and-error has been assembled here, and every potential ecovillager should read it. This book will be an essential guide and manual for the many Permaculture graduates who live in communities or design for them." --Bill Mollison

"Wow! The newest, most comprehensive bible for builders of intentional communities. Covers every aspect with vital information and hundreds of examples of how successful communities faced the challenges and created their shared lives out of their visions. The cautionary tales of sadder experiences and how communities fail, will help in avoiding the pitfalls. Not since I wrote the Foreword to Ingrid Komar's Living the Dream (1983), which documented the Twin Oaks community, have I seen a more useful and inspiring book." --Hazel Henderson, author, Creating Alternative Futures, and Politics of the Solar Age.

"A really valuable resource for anyone thinking about intentional community. I wish I had it years ago." -- Starhawk, author of Webs of Power, The Spiral Dance, and The Fifth Sacred Thing -- and committed communitarian.

"Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the planet is our number one need--and this is the right book at the right time. Creating a Life Together will be instrumental in the ecovillage courses I teach. I can't wait to tell people about it." --Hildur Jackson, cofounder, Global Ecovillage Network (GEN); co-editor, Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People.





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