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  1. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  2. 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.
  3. The Communist Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
  4. 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.
  5. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  6. Deutschsprachiges Kommunitariernetz
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    German-language communitarian site.
  7. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  8. Follow the Dirt Road
    An Introduction to Intential Communities in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Portrays the successes and struggles of communal life in the United States in the 1990s.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Intentional Communities Upcoming Events
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Events for those involved in creating intentional communities.
  12. Interactions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Remarks made at a meeting of New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
  13. Investing in a Sustainable Future
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The Cerro Gordo community.
  14. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  15. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  16. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
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