"What exactly is ""intentional community?"" And how does one go about co-creating it? Are there typical hurdles to overcome?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 DOING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: Expanded 2023 Edition 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.
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.
