Avoiding computers can mean losing out on connecting with others when one is desperate for connection, yet a rich, computer-free, community-based social life is also possible.… More…
Category Archives: Community Where You Are
Kindista: Technology for Living More Freely
Born of collaboration, an innovative technology helps build community by encouraging trust, appreciation, and giving from the heart.… More…
Technology on the Path to Reality: Snapshots from the Pre-Post-Digital Age
Misadventures with a cell phone help the author dial into more enduring, meaningful adventures and relationships not dependent on an electronic-communications hamster wheel.… More…
Back to Life: Returning from the Virtual to the Real
To shake our addiction to modern technology, we must understand its true costs. Stillwaters Sanctuary works to create a culture of greater connection, where it is easier to live without industrial society.… More…
Technology: Our External Thumb
Instead of asking whether technology is a “friend or foe,” perhaps we should be asking how to better help friends and reduce foes through the use of technology.… More…
“Appropriate” Technology and Community on the Path to Resiliency
At Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, efforts to foster a renaissance in land-based living go hand in hand with judicious use of modern design and communication technologies.… More…
Technology, Nature, and Community
How does modern technology affect our ecological and social literacy? Are computers and their kin suppressing or enhancing the awareness, skills, and qualities essential to our nature as humans?… More…
Kawsmos: The Unintentional Community
After 11 years of gathering, a group of Kaw Valley’s cosmic explorers realizes that community has happened to them.… More…
Deepening Community: The joy of togetherness
Community grows when we make time to share our stories, enjoy one another, take care of one another, and work on building a better world together.… More…
Community Conversations Campaign: Final Thoughts and Next Steps
In an age when prioritizing community is itself radical, self-awareness, self-care, and storytelling are essential to deepening our connections.… More…
Dancing Rabbit’s Exchange Local Money System: The Promise of Local Currencies and Interest-Free Financing
Place-specific currencies can provide critical financing to the small businesses that keep local communities connected and thriving.… More…
Business. Busy-ness. Coincidence?
Improving our relationships to work, money, and entrepreneurship can dramatically enhance our sense of community and quality of life.… More…
Digging into Community: A reflection from Tamarack’s 1000 Conversations Initiative
Tamarack Institute’s Conversations campaign reveals shifting expectations of community among youth and seniors, varying perspectives on group identity and boundaries, and diverse attitudes toward technology.… More…
Opportunity Village Eugene: Pioneering New Solutions for the (Formerly) Homeless
An innovative self-governing village lifts spirits while modeling new ways to address homelessness.… More…
Margaret and Me: The Iron Lady Becomes an Unexpected Ally
A squatters’ housing cooperative activist describes how Margaret Thatcher broke with her image to support an early “occupy” movement.… More…
Strangely Warmed
Home-scale geothermal in appropriate conditions promotes both community and energy savings.… More…
The Peace Bridge
Tamarack Institute and FIC invite all of us to share our conversations about community.… More…
The Veterans Writing Group and the Military Community
A group of veterans discovers empowerment, connection, and healing by forming a writing group.… More…
The Values of Shared Ownership
Shared ownership—including of real estate—has many practical benefits.… More…
Sharing Community Wisdom
Sharing, living close to the earth, honoring the cycles of life, and developing leadership and communication skills are essential parts of a healthy community experience.… More…
Expressing Gratitude in Community
Communities and their members can change and drift apart, but the lessons and tools gained in community endure.… More…
Seeking Community
The Tamarack Institute helps people talk and learn together about the possibilities of community.… More…
Being Human
A veteran of Washington, DC’s Sojourners Community reflects on wisdom her group gleaned from Central Americans and from one another.… More…
Wisdom from Within, Wisdom from Without
Life in and out of community offers valuable lessons about governance, membership, vision, struggles, and deepening connections.… More…
Lessons from a Childhood in Maine
In rural Maine in the ’70s, community was everyday reality, and everyone needed help sometimes.… More…
Cycling toward Sustainable Community
After 6,500 miles of pedaling and 100 community visits, a couple documents the promise of intentional community and cooperative living.… More…
Greening Your ’Hood
Kibbutzes, ecovillages, cohousing communities, and pocket neighborhoods offer us opportunities to make a new start.… More…
Community for a Minute
Children in outdoor programs face—and often overcome—three major obstacles to learning and growth.… More…
The Sharing Gardens
An innovative approach to collective community gardens nurtures a culture of giving while allowing participants to feed both themselves and those in need.… More…
The Lenox Place News
A fifth-grader takes initial steps toward right livelihood by creating a neighborhood newspaper that embodies and helps bring together her local community.… More…
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