Intentional Community

[ragani]

I really want to create/participate in an intentional community. It has been one of my dreams for years, and one that I still want to see as a reality. Especially when(if) I become a parent. This would be such a great environment to be raised as a child.

My mom sent me a link to Dragonvale, an intentional community being developed in Main. We could so do something like this here is we could find the land (and in the bay area, that is a big if).

This concept of an intentional community has a lot of appeal, although it is not the reason I want to be part of one, and I am not sure that it is the kind I would want to develop myself.

What do you think, guys, can you imagine our very own sustainable community with a Renaissance Faire built in? And if so, what should we call it?

Comments

[japlady.livejournal.com]

Well being Israeli, Kibbutzim are pretty much all dying at this point, from many standpoints the model didn't work. Mushaving are doing a bit better, but not much.

Kibbutz, commune basically -- the group owns everything, and everything is shared evenly.

Mushav, co-operative living... everyone owns their own stuff, including their homes, but there is a lot of ways where they utilize efficiencies of scale. My mother was a Mushavnic growing up.

Very tired right now and only responding briefly because you asked for my two cents. You start getting into issues of -- well to be blunt there are groups with which this could work but it has to be a group of people where folks thing about the group BEFORE they think of themselves and thats kind of rare in the US.

[ragani.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your input. I had not heard of a Mushav before, although was familiar with a Kibbutz. The Mushav model is much more like the co-housing model, which started in Denmark.

it has to be a group of people where folks thing about the group BEFORE they think of themselves and thats kind of rare in the US.

I actually agree, and this has somewhat to do with why I think we need more of these kinds of things: a nice place for kids to grow-up learning to think about the community and group welfare as well as their own from an early age.

Sometime when neither of us is all tired and stuff, we should chat more.