- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
- Building Sustainable Communities
Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
- Central American Women Speak for Themselves
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Communities Directory
A Guide to Cooperative Living
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
This work lists 540 North American communities and 70 abroad, including contact information and a full self-description.
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- Community Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to community issues in the Sources directory for the media.
- Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered
Resource Type: Book
- Egalitarian community
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Group of people who have chosen to live together, with egalitarianism as one of their core values.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- The Future of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Interactions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
Remarks made at a meeting of New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
- Kommune Niederkaufungen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Pragmatics Of Community Organization - First Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- Saving the Countryside
Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The strains that take their toll on community groups.
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