[Sdpg] Creating A Life Together Practical Tools to Grow an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, by Diana Leafe Christian

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

   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." --<http://www.hazelhenderson.com/>Hazel 
<http://www.hazelhenderson.com/>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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