Six Ingredients for Forming Communities

[Monica Sjursen]

Great information to avoid the pitfalls of forming a community considering only 10% makes it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMDckgqU30&feature=player_embe...

And the following article:

http://www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/2000/20diana.php

[Tris Shirley]

I've not read much else on the subject, but this does seem like an excellent article.  I also recommend it.

[Chris Wolf]

Here is another resource for intentional communities.  It talks about a community called JavaRanch, which uses a combination of concensus, democratic (vote) and dictator (one decision maker) to make their decisions.

http://www.richsoil.com/consensus-dictator.jsp

[David MacLeod]

Diana Leaf Christian has a full length book on this as well, which is well worth getting: "Creating A Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities."

http://www.dianaleafechristian.org/creating.html