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Communities Magazine 2021 SPECIAL DIGITAL SUPPLEMENT • FREE TO DOWNLOAD Life in Cooperative Culture Summer 2021 • gen-us.net/191.1 ECOLOGICAL CULTURE: THE LONG HAUL Marxist Ecology A Place to Call Home The Farm: The First 50 Years Native Wildlife vs. Cats and Dogs Restoring Ecosystems and Communities Poetry by stephen wing COMMUNITIES Communities Editorial Policy Life in Cooperative Culture Communities is a forum for exploring intentional communities, cooperative living, and ways our readers can bring a sense of community into their daily lives. Toward Nightfall EDITOR Contributors include people who live or have lived Chris Roth (Lost Valley/Meadowsong) in community, and anyone with insights relevant to cooperative living or shared projects. The mosquitos Through fact, fiction, and opinion, we offer fresh must have known I was coming, ART DIRECTOR ideas about how to live and work cooperatively, how their greetings Yulia Zarubina-Brill to solve problems peacefully, and how individual lives can be enhanced by living purposefully with others. impossible to ignore! ADVERTISING MANAGER We contributions that profile community living and Joyce Bressler (Community of Living Traditions) why people choose it, descriptions of what’s difficult and what works well, news about existing and forming The okra stalks communities, or articles that illuminate community reaching high over my head ACCOUNTANT experiences—past and present—offering insights into into the sky Kim Scheidt (Red Earth Farms) mainstream cultural issues. We also seek articles about cooperative ventures of all sorts—in workplaces, in WEBSITE/TECH SUPPORT neighborhoods, among people sharing common inter- Through the fence, Orlando Balbas ests—and about “creating community where you are.” fragrance of cut grass; We do not intend to promote one kind of group over another, and take no official position on a com- on this side BACK ISSUE FULFILLMENT munity’s economic structure, political agenda, spiri- (Lost Valley/Meadowsong) aroma of compost. Elliot Billingsley tual beliefs, environmental issues, or decision-making style. As long as submitted articles are related themati- PUBLISHER LIAISON cally to community living and/or cooperation, we will The collard leaves Linda Joseph (EarthArt Village) consider them for publication. However, we do not catching the low breezes publish articles that 1) advocate violent practices, or 2) close to the ground EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD advocate that a community interfere with its members’ (Charlotte Cohousing) right to leave. Crystal Farmer Our aim is to be as balanced in our reporting as Valerie Renwick (Twin Oaks) possible, and whenever we print an article critical of Chickens cackling back Diana Leafe Christian (Earthaven) a particular community, we invite that community to at the wild birds Linda Joseph (EarthArt Village) respond with its own perspective. in the trees, passing cars Lois Arkin (Los Angeles Eco-Village) answering the creek. Giovanni Ciarlo (Huehuecoyotl) Submissions Policy Daniel Greenberg (Auroville) To submit an article, please first request Writers’ Guide- lines; email [email protected]. To obtain Photo Guide- The strawberry vines lines, email [email protected]. Both are also available Communities (ISSN 0199-9346) is published quarterly by online at gen-us.net/communities. spilling over the Global Ecovillage Network−United States (GEN-US) at their frame of weathered planks 64001 County Road DD, Moffat CO 81143. Postmaster: Advertising Policy Send address changes to Communities, 81868 Lost Valley Please check gen-us.net/communities or email Ln, Dexter OR 97431. Indexed in the Alternative Press Index. [email protected] for advertising information. Rumble and clatter SUBSCRIPTIONS: $30 US, $40 outside US for four We accept paid advertising in Communities because of a lawnmower, issues via periodical/surface mail. Single copies are $10 our mission is to provide our readers with helpful postpaid US, $13 postpaid Canada, $18 postpaid other and inspiring information—and because advertising burning long-extinct fossils international. All payments in US dollars. Available from revenues help pay the bills. to tame the grass next door. Communities, 81868 Lost Valley Ln, Dexter OR 97431; We handpick our advertisers, selecting only those [email protected]; 541-937-5221 for more info. (please whose products and services we believe will be help- leave message); 719-588-7828 for payments (please ful to our readers. That said, we are not in a position to The chard leave message); gen-us.net/subscribe. verify the accuracy or fairness of statements made in curling inward like huge, BACK ISSUES: Communities, 81868 Lost Valley advertisements nor in REACH listings, and publication half-closed hands Ln, Dexter OR 97431; [email protected]; 541-937- of ads should not be considered a GEN-US endorsement. 5221 for more info. (please leave message); 719- If you experience a problem with an advertisement 588-7828 for payments (please leave message); or listing, we invite you to call this to our attention and A little swath of silence gen-us.net/back-issues. we’ll look into it. Our first priority in such instances is to make a good-faith attempt to resolve any differ- where water ripples over stones, EDITORIAL OFFICE: Chris Roth, Editor, Communities, 81868 ences by working directly with the advertiser/lister and Lost Valley Ln, Dexter OR 97431; [email protected]; 541- birds chirp, spreading branches 937-5221 (please leave message). complainant. If, as someone raising a concern, you are hide the sky. not willing to attempt this, we cannot promise that any © 2021 by Global Ecovillage Network−United States action will be taken. (GEN-US) and individual authors. All rights reserved. The chili peppers Printed in the USA. Opinions expressed by authors and What is an “Intentional Community”? correspondents are their own and do not necessarily An “intentional community” is a group of people dangling from spiral vines reflect those of the publisher. who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a through their wire cage GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE NETWORK−UNITED STATES: GEN- common ideal or vision. Most, though not all, share land US, c/o Linda Joseph, 64001 County Road DD, Moffat CO or housing. Intentional communities come in all shapes 81143; [email protected]; 719-588-7828 (please leave and sizes, and display amazing diversity in their com- The lawnmower abruptly quits. message); gen-us.net. mon values, which may be social, economic, spiritual, The silence flows on political, and/or ecological. Some are rural; some urban. REPRINT PERMISSION: Community groups may reprint with Some live all in a single residence; some in separate toward nightfall. permission. Please contact Communities, 81868 Lost Valley Ln, households. Some raise children; some don’t. Some Dexter OR 97431; [email protected]; 541-937-5221 (please leave message). are secular, some are spiritually based; others are both. The honeybees For all their variety, though, the communities featured ADVERTISING: Joyce Bressler, Communities Advertising in our magazine hold a common commitment to living drifting to and fro, Manager, [email protected]; 845-558-4492. cooperatively, to solving problems nonviolently, and to stitching it all sharing their experiences with others. WEBSITE: gen-us.net/communities. together n This magazine printed by Sundance Press, Tucson AZ. COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN JENNINGS Introducing this Issue by chris roth Speaking of Ecological Culture magine a language in which the verb “to be” does not ex- If English is in some ways a prison because of the assumptions ist—because “being” is the underlying assumption, the pre- embedded in it by conventional usage in the nonindigenous soci- existing “given” throughout the language. Instead, foun- eties which have created and employed it, it also contains within Idational verbs exist for “doing/making,” “coming/becoming,” itself an abundance of tools with which to subvert it, to shake it “going,” “seeing,” “giving,” and other actions, often combined and us out of that prison. The power of poetry often derives from with additional words to create other meanings. this shaking-of-assumptions, a transcendence of prosaic reality In this world, “thinking” and “feeling” are indistinguishable, made possible by the language’s cornucopia of words (coming represented by a single word. No separation exists between those from many other languages) and the nearly endless ways in which two functions. Nor is there a difference between “to want” and to use them. In fact, my second-term Chinuk Wawa final proj- “to need.” ect was translating 25 songs which used English precisely in this The same verb is used for “living,” “inhabiting” (a place), and way—questioning prosaic cultural reality—into Chinuk Wawa. having human kin; our relationships to place and to relatives are I found the translation surprisingly natural. indistinguishable from our relationships to life and time. This magazine is full of words, almost all of them English. “Masculine” and “feminine” are not differentiated either in Yet I hope they, too, shake readers out of conventional assump- third-person pronouns or in most nouns. Instead, “person- tions, cause a questioning and rethinking of worldview and hood” vs. “nonpersonhood” is the main available distinction, practice. Many readers are already well along this path—the with personhood and volition granted to not only people but suggestions and stories in these articles will not be strange or also other animals, plants, places, natural phenomena, anything shocking. Yet I hope each story contains at least something that with which one has an intimate connection. is new, inspiring, educational, insight-provoking, challenging, In this world, past, present, and future are less important to and/or affirming for every reader. distinguish—no verb tenses exist to limit the speaker or writer “Ecological Culture” has not been our dominant language. to one of those three choices, though other words are available Yet many are learning to speak it, and hopefully live it once to specify time when that is important.
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