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The article offers information on activities related to community organizations. It includes a forum for people who are considering funding or have helped fund community projects. Another is offers details about Entropy Pawsed, a nature-linked low energy living demonstration site in rural West Virginia. It also includes the search made by Terrasante Desert Community for resourceful people who want to build a community in a vegetated land.

The article offers information on the journal's "Reach," a column for all classified needs. It denotes the column is intended to help match people looking of communities with communities looking for people. The article also presents announcements and calendar of activities of various communities published within the "Reach" column.

The article provides information about community organizations in the U.S. The Aquarian Concepts Community was founded by Gabriel of Sedona & Niann Emerson Chase in 1989 with 105 adults and children. Elder Family Community is looking for financially secure adults who had experienced with cooperative groups. The Enota Mountain Retreat is looking residents for service-based spiritual and educational retreat.

Presents a directory of intentional communities in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, and other countries. Aliantha; Allelous Cohousing; Anahata Community Village; Beacon Hills Friends House; Beannachar Camphill Community; Big Rock Farm; Boston Cohousing Network; Canon Frome Court; Carrowmore Community; Cincinnati Ecovillage; Cohousing for San Diego!; Cohousing Network of South Australia; Community Planet Foundation; Dearborn Commons Cohousing; Delaware Street Commons; Earthen Spirituality Project; Ekobyn Balarn.

The article discusses aspects of aging and community life among the elderly people. It refers to the emerging phenomenon that is seen in a movement themed as Aging in Community, a community-based people-powered institutions and models for cooperation that is fostered to give opportunities among the elderly to be taken cared into nursing homes. Moreover, cohousing was seen as an important practice that help shape the younger generation the values concerning the respect and care among elders.

The article discusses the advocacy of Rainbow Caravan of Peace in Latin America. Ecovillage Network of the Americas has totally accepted the caravan as an example of a mobile ecovillage. A complete delegacy from Ecovillage Network of the Americas and Global Ecovillage Network representatives joined and held annual meetings align with the caravan. The event turned a big school to learn how to handle sickness with options for healing practices and want of involvement in communal chores.

In this article, the author discusses the aspects of home schooling and public education system in communities. He mentions that the public education system should be strengthened in the community which involves both parents and teachers with kids providing free quality education. He states that the strategy of home schooling and communal education impacted the process of privatization in the community affecting the ideological and social life of the community.

The article focuses on a virtual peace bridge, as the one to celebrate 100 years of relationship between the U.S. and Canada, which celebrates partnership between the Fellowship for Intentional Community, the U.S.-based publishers of the journal and Tamarak Institute in Canada. It mentions that the partnership led to the sponsorship of the Summer 2013 issue on community wisdom for everyday life. It states that the communities' movement may lead to a quality life resulting in social change.

The article examines the influence of the community life on the author's vocation in the U.S. It states that the author's experiences in living with an intentional community pushed him to pursue his Doctorate of Educational Leadership. It also describes the author's way of living while honed as an educator in the traditional style of educational theory at Pacific Lutheran University.

The author discusses the significance of having consensus among the community service centers in the U.S. Accordingly, the author recognizes the necessity of having consensus among the community centers particularly in dealing with the political side of community service and cites the importance of voting among the workers within a certain community center.

Discusses how the first principle guiding the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC), Each of the Federation communities holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common, is realized in an FEC community in Seattle, Washington. Purchase of a condemned house at a bargain price; Birth of the Emma Goldman Finishing School; Experiment with a labor-sharing system.

Presents news concerning community groups in the United States as of September 2005. Participation by communitarians from the Americans in the 9th Continental Bioregional Congress; Formation of the Community Living of Southeast Wisconsin by six communities in southeast Wisconsin.

The article offers information about the organizations co-founded by the residents of Ecovillage at Ithaca (EVI) in Ithaca, New York. The Sustainability Education at Ithaca was formed through the partnership of EVI members and the educators of Ithaca College which aimed to incorporate sustainability themes in the undergraduate curriculum of the college. The networking organization Sustainable Tompkins brings together people from business and nonprofit sectors to achieve regional sustainability.

The article offers tips and advice for people who are planning to have a community adventure. Get to know the community members, do not be embarrassed to ask questions or ask for what you need and be confident that you can manage all the obstacles. Get into situation with an open mind and heart to see if you can learn and experience things you have never been through . Discover and built boundaries between your personal time and community time.

The article offers information about the periodical "Communities." The journal is an assembly for searching designed communities and corporate living. It provides thoughts regarding how an individual live cooperatively and work problems in a peaceful manner. It searches contributions which profiles community living and news about living and organizing communities. The journal introduces articles that light up past and present community experiences and cultural issues.