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Community Building
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  1. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  2. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
  3. Cohousing Characteristics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The main characteristics of cohousing.
  4. Cohousing FAQs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
  5. The Communitarian Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A coalition of individuals and organizations who have come together to shore up the moral, social, and political environment.
  6. Deutschsprachiges Kommunitariernetz
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    German-language communitarian site.
  7. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
  8. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.

Experts on Community Building in the Sources Directory

  1. Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
  2. Judee Regan, Author, Speaker and Life Vocation Ambassador
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