Doing Intentional Community

<p><strong>What exactly is "intentional community?" And how does one go about co-creating it? Are there typical hurdles to overcome?</strong></p><p> </p><p>In the Green/Sustainable Living Movement the term "community" often means folks coming together to create some form of shared home space: from co-housing co-ops in cities to permaculture or off-the-grid nature-based country retreats...from separatist women's or people of color lands to communities aimed at unplugging from the wider world's repressive "systems" as much as humanly possible. The illustrated creative non-fiction account <strong><em>DOING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: Expanded 2023 Edition </em></strong>follows building a certain type of artistic/spiritual co-home adventure on the Big Island of Hawaii from the ground up...and how this particular now-worldwide sense of community continues to transform today.</p><p> </p><p>Like a prismatic drop in the ocean beyond just being a collection of individuals global "intentional community" can also equate to entire villages cities and nations in the process of cultivating a common history and shared economic/political/spiritual goals.</p><p> </p><p><strong>What is "world peace" if not that?</strong></p>