Cover; Advance Praise; Title Page; Rights Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: Planting the Seeds of Healthy Community; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part Two: Sprouting New Community; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Part Three: Thriving in Community; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Resources; Index; About the Author
Summary
An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations. The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded
