@i-communities.bsky.social
Intentional Communities, Communes, Cooperatives, Utopias, Communal living, anarchism, communalism, Low impact development, Ecovillages. Starting all over having finally given up on X
Invitation to a book launch event for a new book edited by Jenny Pickerill
New Book:
Eco-communities - Surviving Well Together
@jennypickerill.bsky.social at Bowden Pillars, Devon.
Friday 18 July 6:00pm - 8:00pm
What can we learn as Bowden Pillars creates a new eco-village right here in Totnes?
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social
Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood joins other community experts where she discusses Intentional Community www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
11.05.2025 20:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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Strawhouse kit from @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social / @ecococon.bsky.social 29k €. Remember that this is the best climate option material-wise for a new home.
I think that's a steal?
www.linkedin.com/posts/george...
Diggers and Dreamers recorded their most recent podcast with Bridport Cohousing: diggersanddreamers.org.uk/podcasts
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Trying it again: we still have apartments in Brussels new best #CoHousing in Ixelles. Anyone looking for a different style of living? We call it a village in the big city. No info-session anymore - we do individual interviews and site visits. Hurry up: we'll sign the legal acts in May!
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Let's face it, cohousing, Baugruppen, bofællesskaber is the way forward. Most of the other models are getting increasingly questionable wether from a social, economic or ecological point of view.
bofaellesskab.dk/ledige-bolig...
A three story purple house
The members of Golem Housing Cooperative sitting at a table enjoying a meal
Golem Housing Cooperative, Swansea, Wales, UK. started in 2010 a small group of like-minded people came together.
Initially buying one house, they now own two and house 14 members.
golemcoop.blogspot.com/p/about-us.h...
A photograph of the Redfield Community main building. A large square redbrick building with multiple windows over three floors. set in a large grassy garden area
Members friends and family of Redfield community dancing outside on the grass with a live band playing.
Redfield is an Intentional Community situated in North Buckinghamshire, England. The house is a large old mansion with 17 acres of gardens, woodland and pasture surrounded by farmland.
redfieldcommunity.org.uk/newsite2021/
A screenshot compilation of Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood and Matt Holland against the backdrop if an image of Lower Shaw Farm.
The latest Diggers and Dreamers Podcast is now available:
Matt Holland describes being born into a Bruderhof Community in the UK then moving South America! His story then takes us to Lower Shaw Farm and the community that formed there.
sites.libsyn.com/525283/matt-...
Image of a stone house nestled into the coast with the sea in the distance.
Othona Community, Dorset, UK.
Othona began as an experiment in Christian community in 1946. Now run by a small residential team who provide an experience of living in community for visitors staying in their 14-room community house set in 6 acres on the West Dorset coast
www.othonawestdorset.org.uk
A post from Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood encouraging everyone to participate in Buy Nothing day. It says: Buy nothing* day tomorrow Do something lovely, take a walk, have a home made cuppa with a friend, marvel at the beauty of nature. Visit your local thrift store, join a free cycle group - so much joy to be had 💕 #buyNothing and has an image of people escaping through bars made up from a bar code.
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Crabapple Community was founded in 1975 and share a rambling Georgian rectory just outside of Shrewsbury, UK.
They are a fully mutual housing co-op aiming to live as sustainably as possible
www.facebook.com/crabapplecom...
My first monthly column for @coopnews has just been published: The Invisible Co-op
Why are co-operatives invisible in public affairs - especially in the UK?
thenews.coop
The shared living room of 151 Housing Cooperative. A medium size room, painted a warm yellow with mismatched sofas and colourful throws. There is two large windows and a wood burner in a traditional fireplace.
151 Housing Cooperative (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
An evolving group of six people that have rented the same premise for 30 years of communal living. Currently working towards buying a property of their own.
www.facebook.com/151HousingCo...
A photograph of the peninsular that the craft village is located on. It it a long green finger of land surrounded by sea with a cluster of buildings making up the craft village.
Balnakeil Craft Village (Scotland) is home to a range of local artists & businesses including a chocolatier, hairdresser, art galleries, paintings & prints, ceramics, woodwork, glass work & more unique crafts.
balnakeilcraftvillage.weebly.com
Intentional Communities in the UK.
It is estimated that there are over 600 existing and forming intentional communities in the UK.
They are often creations of their time, communes in the 1960+70s, Cohousing in the 2000s.
(a slow thread)
Thank you - done!
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Why is UK infrastructure so attractive to investors like Ka-shing and Warren Buffett, a man famous for his “moat”-based investment strategy?
Is it because we are open to business, or because we are up for sale?
These profits are paid by us.
What role can citizens juries and assemblies play in scaling-up community action on climate change? 👨👩👧👦🌍
I'll be sharing some examples from our work at @sharedfuture.bsky.social at this event hosted by the Centre for Alternative Technology!
📅 6th March 2025
🕜 9:30 - 5:00
cat.org.uk/events/zero-...
Credit where credit is due
In a time of totalitarianism speaking the truth is an act of courage and resistance
Hooray - Communities Conference 2025!
www.communitiesconference.co.uk
Swansea Co-Housing in collaboration with
the Down to Earth Project are excited to
host the CEO of the Community Land Trust
Network, Tom Chance, to explore
opportunities and challenges for
Community Land Trusts in Wales and how
to play a part in maximizing their potential.
Cant believe Tinkers Bubble has been going for 31 years.
Lovely article by @landworkersuk.bsky.social
landworkersalliance.org.uk/celebrating-....
This is a beautiful book. and here is a recorded interview with not just the author/photographer, but also members of the Bruderhof and communitarian Matt Holland
youtu.be/nPwVs3EK5qE?...
"Decarbonise, Decolonise, Democratize"
Stencil seen in Edinburgh, Scotland
From 1919 to 1934, Vienna's socialist municipal government implemented a comprehensive program to construct affordable housing for the masses (🧵).
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