If you have any FREE resources on the following topics, or know of groups that provide them or networks to tap into, then please add to this list! Emphasis is on models that are already being put into practice, and tools people can use to design their own systems. Book lists are great too!
PERMACULTURE
www.permaculture.info/ – Permaculture Information Web
FOOD
food production
attra.ncat.org/ – National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (with free PDFs on growing specific organic crops, soil management, water management, etc.)
aquaponics.com basic info
the new alchemy institute vsb.cape.com/~nature/greencenter/aquacu...
(list of all publications on aquaculture. institute researched aquaculture & sustainable systems from 1972-91 w/ order form for print copies)
Woods, Jonathan. The Urban Aquaculture Manual. webofcreation.org/BuildingGrounds/aqua/...
www.zinelibrary.info/green-mountain – On a Green Mountain with Masanobu Fukuoka
www.zinelibrary.info/nighttime-gardener... The Nighttime Gardener’s Guide
www.zinelibrary.info/ghetto-garden Ghetto Garden zine
www.planetida.com/ – Queer homestead that offers free permaculture/gardening internship.
Tempoculture—container gardeining. journeytoforever.org/garden_con.html
millcreekurbanfarm.org
moregardens.org – NYC urban gardening (with a guide on starting your own squatted community garden)
www.foodnotlawns.com/ – Food Not Lawns
www.sdfoodnotlawns.com/ – San Diego Food Not Lawns
greenhouse design
doorgarden.com/10/50-dollar-hoop-house-... – $50 greenhouse!
mushroom growing
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
McCoy, Jenn. A Guide to Outdoor Mushroom Log Cultivation: Highlighting Shiitake, Reishi, and Tree Oyster Mushrooms. Dorchester, NH: D Acres of New Hampshire, 2004. dacres.org/pdfs/MushroomCultivationGuid.... (mushroom logs)
wild foraging
www.zinelibrary.info/feral-forager – Feral Forager zine
www.alanmuskat.com – Website of Alan Muskat, an “epicure of the obscure” and “stand-up mycomedian.” Has an edition of his book on mushrooms available for free download, as well as links to a huge number of online mushroom keys and other resources for identifying edible mushrooms.
bioremediation
Ingham, Elaine. The Compost Tea Brewing Manual. Corvallis, OR: Soil Foodweb, Inc., 2003. www.soilfoodweb.com/02_resources/c_tea_....
US EPA. Citizens Guide to Bioremediation. Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, April 1996. www.bugsatwork.com/xyclonyx/epa_guides/...
worcesterroots.org – The Worcester Roots Project (grassroots bioremediation org.)
www.starhawk.org/permaculture/NOLA_bio_... – Bioremediation Basics. Starhawk writes from New Orleans.
humanure (yr food returning to the soil!)
The entire text of Joe Jenkin’s The Humanure Handbook can be downloaded for free at www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure_cont....
Also, how to build your own $25 (or less) Hinged-Top Humanure Toilet (www.jenkinspublishing.com/sawdustoilet.....
A wide selection of free videos is also available (www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html)
Tools to create decentralized composting systems in urban areas www.eawag.ch/organisation/abteilungen/s...
WATER
inthewake.org/b1water1.html – In the Wake has GREAT info on water sourcing and contamination and much more, from Tools for Gridcrash by Aric McBay: A Collective Manual-in-progress for Outliving Civilization.
we.riseup.net/ticticticticboom/handbook... – Handbook for Appropriate Water and Wastewater Technologies – a giant of a resource reviewing dozens of technologies.
finding a water source
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/how-to-... – How to find water with a divining rod
pumping water
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/how-to-... – How to construct a cheap wind machine for pumping water (savonius pump)
we.riseup.net/ticticticticboom/windpump... – Windpump Handbook, with all different kinds of windmills and pumps and lots of diagrams.
wells
www.lifewater.ca/Section_Tutorial.htm – Lifewater Canada has a 100 page manual on wells available online, as well as other information on water.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/upgrade... – Upgraded Well Manual for Field Workers
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/builder... – Builders Manual for the Construction of Shallow Wells
Waterhole: How to Dig your Own Well, by Bob Mellin – covers drilling wells with a hand-auger.
gravity-fed water systems
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/gravity... – Gravity-Fed Rural Piped Water Schemes
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/handboo... – Handbook of Gravity Flow Water Systems – comprehensive designers’ manual
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/air-in-... Spring Fed Drinking Water Systems Manual
water catchment
rainwater-toolkit.net/ – Rainwater Harvesting eToolkit for self-instruction!!!
www.unep.or.jp/ietc/Publications/TechPu.../ – UNEP, Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in Small Island Developing States
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/roofwat... – Roofwater Harvesting: A Handbook for Practitioners. Check out the appendix detailing a variety of tank design options and where to get them free online.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/microca... – Microcatchment guide for dry area crop production.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/water-f... – Water from Small Dams handbook
water purification
inthewake.org/b1water3.html – info on a variety of techniques from In the Wake, including distillation with a solar still.
Sand Filtration
oasisdesign.net/water/treatment/slowsan...
www.refugeecamp.org/learnmore/water/slo...
www.ce.vt.edu/program_areas/environment...
www.esemag.com/0500/sand.html
Solar Water Disinfection
Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology
sodis.ch
Floating Islands
Ocean Arks International oceanarks.org/restorer
Greywater Treatment
www.greywaterguerrillas.com – DIY greywater resource
FUEL DIY get off the grid!
Heating and Cooking
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/capturi... – Capturing Heat: 5 Earth-Friendly Technologies and How to Build Them, from Aprovecho Research Center. Instructions on how to build a plywood solar cooker, a conical cooker, a winiarsky rocket stove, an insulated cooker, and a rocket bread oven. Woot!
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/capturi... – How to design and build fuel-efficient cooking stoves with chimneys, a pizza oven, and simple water heaters. Also from Aprovecho
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/winiars... – Design manual with diagrams from the folks at Aprovecho
Parabolic Dishes
humboldt.edu/~ccat/solarcooking/parabol...
Composting Hot Water Heater
ersson.sustainabilitylane.com/greenhse.htm
ersson.sustainabilitylane.com/composti.htm
Solar Heater
www.motherearthnews.com/Renewable-Energ...
Rocket Stoves
How to build a rocket stove video video.google.com/videoplay?docid=797446...
Woodstoves
www.zinelibrary.info/building-woodstoves – zine
Veggie Diesels
Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems
greasecar.com
Holand, Ray. Sliding Home: A Complete Guide to Driving Your Diesel on Straight Vegetable Oil. 7th ed. Cleveland: Ray Holan, 2006. PlantDrive plantdrive.com
Wind Power
Axial-flux windmills
otherpower.com
scoraigwind.com
Computer magnets
reuk.co.uk/Hard-Disk-Drive-Magnets-For-...
Davis, Michael. “How I Home-Built an Electricity Producing Wind Turbine.” 2006 wdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/index.htm (detailed plans for constructing turbine out of mostly recycled parts for under $150! blades from PVC pipe, alternator from recycled permanent magnet motor.)
Savonius turbines, photos of ingenious designs www.southcom.com.au/~windmill/
Biochar
css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/biochar...
terrapreta.bioenergylists.org
Biomas gasification
techsci.msun.edu/cots/biomass_gasificat...
radicalsustainability.org – Toolbox for Sustainable City Living by Scott Kellog & Stacy Pettigrew
post-petroleum transportation
SHELTER & SPACE
Earth-Based Building
earthbag building – http://www.okokok.org/
www.calearth.org/ – The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
Land Rights and Access
Home Sweet Home: A How-To Guide / Stories and Politics Behind Homebuying (Zine available from property.mushbanana@riseup.net)
rhizomecollective.org
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/land-ri... – Packet detailing examples from around the world of how people have obtained or kept land using nonviolent action.
www.schoolofliving.org/Publications_of_... – “Land for People, Not for Profit” by Alanna Hartzok. Article explaining why the commodified land tenure system is a problem, exploring historical antecedents to capitalist arrangements of land tenure and title, and arguing for a Community Land Trust leasehold system.
classifieds.ic.org/classifieds/ – The Federation of Intentional Communities classified section has land and houses for sale.
squatting
www.zinelibrary.info/squatters-handbook – the Squatter’s Handbook zine
mstbrazil.org – Brazilian movement of land squatters
collective ownership
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/land-ri... – Packet from a workshop by Will Travers on Vinoba Bhave’s land-gift movement in India in the 1950s. An interesting historical example of communal land ownership.
www.schoolofliving.org/landtrust.htm – Short explanation of community land trusts from the School of Living, an educational institution dedicated to establishing decentralized, ecologically-sound, self-governed and humane communities.
HEALTH
alternative health care working models
The Gesundheit! Institute (www.patchadams.org) is a model for a health care system that is based on friendship, humor and play and is completely free, eliminating the idea of debt in the medical interaction. Patch Adams and friends ran a clinic based on these ideas for 12 years out of someone’s house. They are now raising money to construct a free hospital in West Virginia. Read about Patch’s vision here: www.patchadams.org/en/hospital-paper
Re-Designing the US Health Care System by Susan Parenti, health care activist and a main organizer at the Gesundheit! Institute. A MUST READ! To fundamentally change the current “disease management” system, we must design a whole new system, not just change the funding structure of the existing system. www.patchadams.org/en/re-designing_US_h...
Re-Designing the Character of the Care Actor, also by Susan Parenti. Another must read! Parenti stresses solidarity between patient and caregiver, and making care bi-directional, so that the receiver of care is not structurally constituted as a burden. We must recognize both the giving and receiving of care as needs. www.patchadams.org/en/care-actor
The Rock Dove Collective (New York City) – a radical community health exchange that coordinates a network of health practitioners who provide accessible and anti-oppressive care (physical, mental, sexual, emotional, social and spiritual). Many of their practitioners accept mutual aid in exchange for their services. rockdovecollective.org
Pomegranate Health Collective (Chicago) – a group of DIY health care activists committed to making health care accessible to EVERYONE. They do outreach and education to encourage people to make informed, empowered decisions about their health. They are anti-racist, feminist, pro-choice, queer- and trans-positive, (safe) sex positive, and body positive, and they support informed consent. Read more at pomegranatecollective.org/index.php?abo...
The New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Project, a project of INCITE! New Orleans – a community-based volunteer collective of women feminists, health practitioners, organizers, and researchers that is multi-racial, women of color led and mostly compromised, offering care on a sliding scale. They work to equip women with the means to control and care for their own bodies, sexuality, and reproduction by providing quality, affordable, and safe health care services to low income and uninsured women of color in the area through a holistic, community-centered well woman approach to primary health care integrating sexual health and reproductive justice. WHJI integrates a consciousness of the impact that violence, poverty, gender inequalities, trauma, coercive sterilization policies, and the harmful effects of toxic environments have on women’s health and well-being. WOOT! pomegranatecollective.org/resources.php...
Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health (PEACH) is a federation-wide program of self-insurance of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities that covers catastrophic health care costs. thefec.org/projects/peach
Common Ground Health Clinic (New Orleans) – A free conventional and alternative health clinic provided to underserved communities in New Orleans. (The clinic is a separate entitity from the Common Ground Relief, which is the organization that does construction and bioremediation.) cghc.org , http://commongroundclinic.org/
Berkeley Free Clinic – A clinic in Berkeley, CA offering completely free general medical and dental care, with an emphasis on health education and prevention. It has a long history — it was founded in 1969 and has been running ever since — and operates as worker collective. www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/home.html
The Dicentra Collective, based out of Portland OR, is a group of folks working around issues of care and support. They are involved with everything from harm reduction, to chronic pain, to community response to sexual assault, to prisoner support. http://dicentracollective.org/
Mental Health
www.theicarusproject.net – A radical mental health project, with links to resources and working groups. Under ‘Resources,’ you can find free downloads of their book ‘Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness,’ their Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, and their Emotional Trauma First Aid handout, among many others. Also articles, extensive forums, etc.
www.freedom-center.org/ – Freedom Center is a support and activism community run by and for people labeled with severe ‘mental disorders.’ We call for compassion, human rights, self-determination, and holistic options. We create alternatives to the mental health system’s widespread despair, abuse, fraudulent science and dangerous treatments. We are based in pro-choic harm reduction philosophy regarding medical treatments, and include people taking or not talking medications. (They have a hearing voices group — part of the international hearing voices movement — offer free acupuncture, yoga, etc. Lots of links on the site.)
Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World, a Guide for Activists and Their Allies by pattrice jones – This book talks about activism and mental health, how to heal from trauma and how to take care of yourself and avoid burnout. The first chapter (which is well worth the read) can be found here:
www.lanternbooks.com/excerpt.html?sessi...
The Survivor’s Guide to Sex by Staci Haines – This book teaches you how to safely feel traumatic emotions in order to bring them up from suppression, process them, and then heal them. It also talks about things like how to have embodied consent in relationships. A new edition was released in 2007 under a different name: Healing Sex. Previews and long excerpts of this book available at http://books.google.com/
Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot with Connie Burk – ‘This book is written for anyone who is doing work with an intention to make the world more sustainable and hopeful—all in all, a better place—and who, through their work, is exposed to the hardship, pain, crisis, trauma, or suffering of other living beings or the planet. This book is for those who notice they are not the same people they once were, or are being told by their families, friends, colleagues, or pets that something is different about them.’
traumastewardship.com
theicarusproject.net/files/trauma_first... – Mentioned above in the link for the Icarus Project, but well worth an individual mention. This is a one-page handout made by the Icarus project about Emotional Trauma First Aid. Useful for people coming out of traumatic situations or those who are being triggered.
www.radicalmentalhealth.net/ – A radical mental health zine distro, based in the Bay Area of California.
acudetox.com/ – The site of the NADA protocol for ear acupuncture, which is effective for addiction, cravings, detoxification, insomnia, stress, depression, and trauma. Under ‘trainings,’ you can find info on a free 70-hour training in the Bronx.
zinelibrary.info/herbs-trauma – A zine on herbs for trauma, with a focus on sexual trauma.
zinelibrary.info/worst – A zine on grief and loss in radical communities, with stories, info on DIY grief support groups and self-care, and an extensive resource section.
Self-Care/D.I.Y.
www.zinelibrary.info/activist-guide-bas... – Activist’s guide to Basic First Aid zine
www.herbcraft.org/articleindex.html – Jim McDonald’s massive trove of herbal articles available for free on the internet, all hand-picked and by herbalists who honestly know what they’re talking about. A wide variety of perspectives represented, with articles arranged by topic on nearly every subject related to herbalism you could imagine.
lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/herb – List of free listservs about herbs and herbal medicine. Wide variety of topics, all reputable.
www.gardensablaze.com/HerbRemedies.htm – Quick reference chart of common ailments and herbs to help heal them.
www.botanicalmedicine.org/conferences/i... – Two extraordinary herb conferences – one in North Carolina and one in Arizona – which offer work-trade in exchange for a waiver of conference fees. Well, well worth checking out.
radherb.org/ – Network of radical herbalists in Northeast U.S. who focus on community herbalism. They also organize the annual, sliding-scale RadHerb conference on radical and community herbalism.
herbwifery.org – Excellent online forum about community-based herbalism, with tons of good information on all sorts of topics.
www.mountaingardensherbs.com/ – Huge herbal garden in the mountains of North Carolina that offers a free yearlong herbal gardening internship (room and board are both taken care of).
www.herb-pharm.com/education/workstudy/... – A workstudy program at the Herb Pharm garden near Ashland, OR. The program itself is free, though you’re responsible for food and transportation. In addition to gardening, you also attend classes on the various aspects of herbalism.
www.pshm.org/ – Not exactly free, but well worth mentioning. The Pacific School of Herbal Medicine is an excellent herb school with all fees determined on a sliding-scale basis. They have an awesome radical analysis on health care, privilege, and so on. Based in the Bay Area of California.
www.ifconews.org/node/351 – Completely free medical school in Cuba offered to people from the U.S., and brokered by Pastors for Peace, for people who are poor and intend to serve in poor and underserved communities. For those who don’t speak Spanish, an intensive 12-week language course is included.
Self-Care for Female-bodied individuals
www.zinelibrary.info/herbal-abortion – zine on herbal abortion
www.zinelibrary.info/fertility-awarenes... – Fertility Awareness zine
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
anti-oppression
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/anti-op... – Anti-Oppression Packet from NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). This is a great resource to start with because it is inclusive of many types of oppression. It includes privilege checklists for ability, whiteness, class, normative gender, maleness and heterosexuality. There are sections on being an ally for differently-abled people, for transpeople, being a class ally, a male ally and a straight ally, as well as getting over ageism.
www.earthfirstjournal.org/subsection.ph...=18 – The Earth First! Journal’s anti-oppression resources page. Patriarchy/racism/transgender/abuse, etc.
fruitiondesign.com/dealwithit/02wispy.php – An article called Taking The First Step: Suggestions To People Called Out For Abusive Behavior, which provides an in-depth discussion of the ways to respond to being called out — even if you think it’s in error — that support the creation accountability.
www.prisonactivist.org/archive/cws/dr-c... – Article on White Supremacy Culture.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/white-p... – handout with exercises promoting awareness of white privilege and tools for white allies against racism
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/resourc... – another good packet for white allies
colours.mahost.org/article.html – Colours of Resistance webpage, lots of articles. Colours of Resistance (COR) is a grassroots network of people who consciously work to develop anti-racist, multiracial politics in the movement against global capitalism. We are committed to helping build an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism. We are committed to integrating an anti-oppression framework and analysis into all of our work.
www.phillyspissed.net – The Philly’s Pissed/Philly Stands Up homepage. Chock full of tons of free zines for download on everything from anti-sexism for men, to community response to sexual assault and domestic violence, to consent and support, to survivor truth-telling.
www.zinelibrary.info/learning-good-consent Learning Good Consent zine
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Reduction_of_patriarch... – Section on dismantling patriarchal structures in community from the Intentional Communities wiki.
nonviolent communication
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
www.cnvc.org/
www.nonviolentcommunication.com/
Free articles and so forth available on both the above sites. Also check out zinelibrary.info/communication-and-conf... for an introduction to nonviolent communication.
consensus/process
www.geocities.com/collectivebook/
www.zinelibrary.info/collective-process... – Collective Process zine
Resources from the Intentional Communities wiki:
www.ic.org/pnp/ocac/ – On Conflict and Consensus: A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decision-making
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/2000/21consensus.php – Consensus Basics by Tree Bressen
www.ic.org/process.php – List of process consultants
forming intentional communities, ecovillages, & other associations
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/housing... – Housing Co-op Organizers Handbook, from NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). This is a great resource for anyone seeking to form a community, with sections on visioning, fundraising, tax exemption, nonprofit incorporation, and finding and purchasing land.
The Federation of Intentional Communities Wiki (http://wiki.ic.org/wiki/Main_Page) has some great resources on starting and building community:
wiki.ic.org/wiki/7_steps_to_getting_sta... – 7 Steps to Getting Started
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Locating_and_purchasin... – Locating and Purchasing A Site
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Working_with_governmen... – Tips for working with government agencies, if yr group chooses to do so.
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Legal – Legal issues: forms of association, forms of ownership, advice
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Category:Sample_legal_... – Sample legal documents from various established communities
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Setting_community_goal... – Community goals, values, and visioning
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Category:Historical_Co... – Historical examples of communities
www.thefec.org/start – resources on starting community from the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. Includes sections on organizing a core group, getting legal, funding, putting down roots, creating yr culture and further resources.
www.zinelibrary.info/organizing-communi... – Organizing Communities zine
www.zinelibrary.info/getting-free-0 Getting Free: Forming an Association of Democratic Neighborhoods by James Herod
www.zinelibrary.info/build-those-collec... – zine on building collectives
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/filing-... – How to file for tax exemption
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/meaning... – another handout on tax exemption
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/startin... – Starting a 501D Community handout. Bucket from Twin Oaks helps us navigate the cryptic world of the IRS.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/nonprof... – Handout on Nonprofit Incorporation. It’s a lot of red tape, but there are also a lot of benefits.
reach.ic.org/postings/ – The Federation of Intentional Communities’ REACHbook is a public forum for people looking for community, communities forming, and communities looking for people, as well as a place to post about resources directly relevant to intentional community. Posting is free. Also check out their classified ads: classifieds.ic.org/classifieds
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/communi... – How sustainable is your community? Assessment created by the Global Ecovillage Network.
Recommended reading – Creating A Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, by Diana Christian, editor of Communities Magazine. Also check out the other titles on building community from the federation of intentional communities: store.ic.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=34_45
conflict resolution and transformative justice
zinelibrary.info/communication-and-conf... – Booklet from a training on conflict resolution, with info on nonviolent communication, basic strategies for conflict resolution, etc.
zinelibrary.info/conflict-resolution-ci... – A guide from the Rock Dove Collective on using a circle process for conflict mediation, along with a sample dialogue outline for facilitators.
www.restorativejustice.org/ – A clearinghouse of information on restorative justice including in-depth introductory articles on the models and methods; bibliographies; training; tutorials and so on. (Check out Introduction and Resources sections.) Available in multiple languages.
www.crinfo.org/ – Tons of free articles on conflict resolution and related topics – skills, approaches, checklists, and more.
beyondintractability.org/ – A similar site to the above (the two are partner sites), with additional articles. Both are essentially online encyclopedias of conflict resolution. This one focuses on what it terms ‘intractable conflicts.’
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/desire-... – Harm Intervention in a Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical Resistance
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/2000/26conflict.php – Once More With Feeling: Conflict as an Opportunity for Harnessing Emotional Energy by Laird Sandhill
wiki.ic.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relation... – Section on interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution from the Intentional Communities wiki.
we.riseup.net/blooming-in-space/conflic... – conflict management resource guide from the dispute settlement center of orange county.
EDUCATION & CHILDCARE
alternative education working models
nonstopinstitute.org – radical community experimentation in critical pedagogy; accreditation-free, anti-hierarchical higher educational model. Free if you can’t pay.
www.albanyfreeschool.com/ – The Albany Free School in Albany, NY.
Teaching the Restless: One School’s Remarkable no-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed by Chris Mercogliano – about the Albany Free School
Making It Up as We Go Along: The Story of the Albany Free School by Chris Mercogliano
ithacafreeschool.blogspot.com/ – Ithaca Free School in Ithaca, NY.
www.madres.org/univupmpm/univumpm.asp – The cheap/sliding scale/free popular education university of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In spanish.
inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com.../ – A series of interviews with people involved in the ‘radical learning’ movement.
Website of the project itself here: http://dothisallday.org/
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire – One of the canonical texts in liberatory education.
www.freeskoolprescott.blogspot.com/ – Free Skool in Prescott, AZ
portland.freeskool.org/ – Free Skool in Portland, OR
childcare
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/2000/30children.php – Children in Community: Fairyland or Fairy Tale? by Daniel Greenberg
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/1995/17christian.php – Raising and Educating Children in Community by Diana Christian
random
www.zinelibrary.info/death-rituals-and-... – death rituals & DIY burials zine!
alternative care for the elderly and others with special needs
camphill.org – Camphill Communities, dedicated to social renewal through community building with children, youth, and adults who have developmental disabilities.
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/2000/13larche.php – L’Arche International Federation: Communities for the Mentally Handicapped by Marty O’Malley and Lisa Cigliana
www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/1995/19roberts.php – Innisfree: Lifesharing with Adults with Mental Disabilities by Marianne Roberts
RESOURCE-SHARING
list of self-identified, 100% income-sharing communities
directory.ic.org/records/communes.php
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities: features a “Systems and Structures” section, which is a compilation of policies from various income-sharing communities. They are freely available for people to peruse and use as they see fit, either modifying them to suit your group, or using them as a springboard for forming your own. Systems and Structures can be accessed from the FEC homepage thefec.org or directly at thefec.org/sns.
alternative economics working models
www.participatorybudgeting.org/ – Info about more local and democratic budgeting models, there are lots of cities already implementing this!
funding
The School of Living’s Community Growth Fund (formerly Building Without Banks) provides support and financial backing to building projects on community land, small business start-ups, and other types of community projects. www.schoolofliving.org/bwob.htm
PREPAREDNESS
peak oil & collapse
inthewake.org/b1int1.html – Tools for Gridcrash by Aric McBay: A Collective Manual-in-progress for Outliving Civilization. available free and has sections on Water, Latrines and Greywater, Heat, Cool Food Storage, Cooking, Quick Lighting and Heat, and Waste Disposal. Other how-tos include some DIY recycling such as how to make plastic grocery bags durable plastic sheets!
disaster relief
www.americanrainbowrapidresponse.org – rainbow gathering folks currently operating in Louisiana and Texas
www.burnerswithoutborders.org – burning man disaster relief network
aftershockaction.org/ – site dedicated to organizing radical disaster relief
www.commongroundrelief.org/ – website for Common Ground Relief, a radical volunteer-run organization that formed to respond to the situation in post-Katrina New Orleans.
blueprints for the future
www.ithacahours.com/losangeles.html – Los Angeles: A History of the Future by Paul Glover
NETWORKS
www.collectiveautonomy.net/ – Collective Autonomy Network (CAN) facilitates people participating in the movement to collectively take care of each other’s basic needs for a fulfilling life including Food, Shelter, Health, Resources, Information, and Community.
ena.ecovillage.org/ – Ecovillage Network of the Americas, the Western Hemisphere representative of the Global Ecovillage Network.
directory.ic.org/ – Federation of Intentional Communities extensive, searchable database of intentional communities.
www.thefec.org/ – The Federation of Egalitarian Communities, a union of egalitarian communities which have joined together in our common struggle to create a lifestyle based on equality, cooperation, and harmony with the earth.
www.catholicworker.org/communities/comm... – Directory of Catholic Worker Communities. Catholic Workers live a simple lifestyle in community, serve the poor (often by living alongside them), and resist war and social injustice. Lots of volunteer opportunities.
vegnet.net/ – Directory of vegetarian and vegan communities.
ayp.subvert.info/ – The Anarchist Yellow Pages, an international directory of anti-authoritarian groups, publications and self-managed spaces.
list of intentional communities
Blue Heron Farm in central NC
bhfarm.org/
Earth Haven Ecovillage in the mountains of western NC
www.earthaven.org/
Twin Oaks Intentional Community in Virginia
www.twinoaks.org/
Wildroots radical homestead in mountains of western NC — primitive skills and rewilding
www.wildroots.org/
MULTIPLE TOPIC RESOURCE GUIDES
www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustain... – PDFs on sustainable building, renewable energy, and other things.
…and anything else you would like to add!
