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Intentional Communities Web Site
Intentional Communities(community, communes, cohousing, coops...) Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams... We provide important information and access to crucial resources for seekers of community, existing and forming communities, and other friends of community.

Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA)
For the last five years we have published Community Resources, a small, 6-12 page newsletter containing information for, about and by intentional communities in the Northwest. The newsletter provides a means for any community in our network to send information to all the communities in the area. We include information from the gatherings, resources such as books, websites, etc. and also list communities with openings and people looking for communities. Our goal is to connect people interested in intentional communities across the Pacific Northwest.

Serenbe Community - A 900 Acre Sustainable Living Community
Let's say you could create the perfect place to live. Blank slate. Anything you want. Maybe Serenbe Community is the place you want to call home. A 900 -acre sustainable living community found in Palmetto Georgia on the Chattahoochee Hill Country. Where the principles of sustainability touched everything from your home’s methods of construction to the organic produce on your table that was grown by one of your neighbors. The founders of Serenbe realize that their largely untouched 900 acres presented a short window of opportunity for creating a community in a new and better way. How? By protecting this land from the typical growth patterns of urban sprawl. By merging ecologically sound sustainability principles with the design philosophies of walking neighborhoods made up of both homes and shops. By building villages and hamlets for single people, families and empty nesters of a wide range of economic and cultural diversity. And by creating real community, where people are drawn together over gardening, over cooking, over books, over art, over ideas, and yes, even over back fences.

Shadowlake Village Cohousing
For Shadowlake Village as for many cohousing groups, a parallel goal is to help people live more simply and conserve the earth's resources as much as possible through environmentally sensitive design and construction.

Smart Growth Network
This nonprofit organization that helps created national and local coalitions to promote economic, social, and environmental development in communities. This site contains primers on alternatives to sprawl and a smart growth bibliography and policy database.

Sustainable Building Coalition
The Sustainable Building Coalition exists to facilitate the organization and education of the building and design community and the general public to foster: healthy and ecologically-sound, built environments, sustainable, cyclic use of resources, responsible and healthy businesses.

Urban Farmstead
The Earth Loving Urban Farmstead was the brain child and home of two eco-friendly housemates for 2.5 years. We joined together and bought a huge 114 y.o. house in massive disrepair located the middle of a major U.S. city. Together we fixed it up and created our eco-friendly home with an emphasis on what we dubbed "urban farming".

Wonderland Hill Development Company - Cohousing Intentional Community WHDC
Wonderland Hill Development Company specializes in the creation of cohousing communities and is the leading developer of cohousing neighborhoods in the United States. Having worked with over 17 communities, Wonderland supports this growing trend by bringing cohousing into the mainstream through a streamlined development model we have created.

Abundant Dawn Community
Abundant Dawn Community is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. We are creating a diverse eco-village, including small income-sharing groups, clusters of independent homes, and group houses.

Blueberry Hill Home
When some friends introduced them to the cohousing book in the early 1990’s, the Newcomb family, owners of farm property in both Fairfax and Loudoun County, began talking about this intriguing new concept with farm friends and neighbors. With the help of the Cohousing Company and some local cohousing experts, they formed a group in November 1994 and called themselves “Beulah Road Cohousing.” Twelve families attended the first meeting. Learn More! .....

The Cob Cottage Company Online
Conducts hands-on research on natural building methods and materials. Through practical training in natural construction, they help empower ordinary people to take charge of providing their own housing at moderate cost. By mail and phone, and through publications and tours, they supply information, support and inspiration for people to make healthy choices about buildings. Committed to de-consumerizing, to reducing the flow of cash, resources and waste, and to helping others to do the same. They work with a wide range of natural materials but specialize in unbaked hand-formed sculptural earthen building--cob construction. About 25 cob demonstration buildings all over Western North America are now open to visitors.

Crafts from U.S. Intentional Communities
An online store selling products made in United States intentional communities. Products of Abundant Dawn Community in Virginia, Acorn Community in Virginia, Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina, Tekiah Community in Virginia, Twin Oaks Community in Virginia, and We'Moon Land in Oregon.

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