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Advance Praise for Creating a Life Together

Before aspiring community builders hold their first meeting, confront their first realtor,
or drive their first nail, they must buy this essential book: it will improve their chances for
success immensely, and will certainly save them money, time, and heartbreak. In her friendly
but firm (and occasionally funny) way, Diana Christian proffers an astonishing wealth
of practical information and sensible, field-tested advice.

ERNEST CALLENBACH, AUTHOR, ECOTOPIA AND ECOTOPIA EMERGING

Wow! The newest, most comprehensive bible for builders of intentional
communities. Covers every aspect with vital information and dozens of examples of
how successful communities faced the challenges and created their shared lives
out of their visions. The cautionary tales of sadder experiences and how communities
fail, will help in avoiding the pitfalls. Not since I wrote the Foreword to Ingrid Komars
Living the Dream (1983), which documented the Twin Oaks community,
have I seen a more useful and inspiring book on this topic.

HAZEL HENDERSON, AUTHOR CREATING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES AND POLITICS OF THE SOLAR AGE.

A really valuable resource for anyone thinking about intentional community.
I wish I had it years ago.

STARHAWK, AUTHOR OF WEBS OF POWER, THE SPIRAL DANCE, AND
THE FIFTH SACRED THING, AND LONG-TIME COMMUNITY MEMBER.

Every potential ecovillager should read it. This book will be an essential guide
and manual for the many Permaculture graduates who live in
communities or design for them.

BILL MOLLISON, COFOUNDER OF THE PERMACULTURE MOVEMENT, AND AUTHOR,
PERMACULTURE: A DESIGNERS MANUAL

Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the planet is our
number one need and this is the right book at the right time. Creating a Life Together
will help community founders avoid fatal mistakes. I cant wait to tell people about it.

HILDUR JACKSON, COFOUNDER, GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE NETWORK (GEN); CO-EDITOR,
ECOVILLAGE LIVING: RESTORING THE EARTH AND HER PEOPLE

Creating a Life Together is a comprehensive, engaging, practical, well-organized, and
thoroughly digestible labor of love. Hopefully scores of wannabe community founders
and seekers will discover it before they launch their quest for community, and avoid the
senseless and sometimes painful lessons that come from trying to reinvent the wheel. This
book is a gift to humanity helping to move forward the elusive quest for community,
fueling a quantum leap towards a fulfilling, just, and sustainable future.

GEOPH KOZENY, PRODUCER/EDITOR OF VIDEO DOCUMENTARY,
VISIONS OF UTOPIA: EXPERIMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE CULTURE

While anyone can build a village, a subdivision, or a housing development,
the challenge is filling it with people who can get along, who can reach agreements,
and who can achieve far more together than they ever could alone. If your
aspiring ecovillage or intentional community gets even this far and this
awesome book will show you how then maybe you have a realistic chance
of living sustainably and, by example, of changing the world. My appreciation
grows daily for this thorough, practical, and engaging guide.

ALBERT BATES, DIRECTOR, ECOVILLAGE TRAINING CENTER, AND INTERNATIONAL
SECRETARY, ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS.

Developing a successful community requires a special blend of vision and
practicality woven together with wisdom. Consider this book a marvelous mirror.
If the abundant, experience-based, practicality in this book delights you then you probably
have the wisdom to realize your vision.

ROBERT GILMAN, FOUNDING EDITOR OF IN CONTEXT, A QUARTERLY OF HUMANE
SUSTAINABLE CULTURE, AND AUTHOR OF ECOVILLAGES AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

So many well intended communities fail because they dont even know the questions
to ask, let alone where to find answers. This book offers a wealth of detailed information
that will help guide communities to finding what is right for their specific situation,
and greatly increase their odds of their success.

KATHRYN MCCAMANT, COHOUSING RESIDENT, ARCHITECT, AND PROJECT MANAGER,
AND AUTHOR OF COHOUSING

Dedication

For my friend Al Rasche for helping make this book possible,
and for my mother Rosetta Neff, for abiding loyalty, good humor,
and every kind of support.

Acknowledgments

AS SOMEONE WHO KNEW LITTLE of intentional communities in 1992, Im grateful to those devoted activists in the Fellowship for Intentional Community who patiently educated me Laird Schaub, Geoph Kozeny, Caroline Estes, Jenny Upton, Dan Questonberry, Tony Sirna, Harvey Baker, Elph Morgan, Jillian Downey, Tree Bressen, Betty Didcoct and Paul DeLapa.

I couldnt have written this book without being editor of Communities magazine for the last decade, and have learned much from its staff, columnists, contributors, and guest editors: Lance Scott, Billie Miracle, Ellie Sommer, Velma Kahn, Cecil Scheib, McCune Renwick-Porter, Jacob Stevens, Tristan Masat, Bill Metcalf, Albert Bates, Jan Bulman, Irwin Zucker, Douglas Stevenson, Carolyn Shaffer, Steve Niezgoda, Joyce Foote, Robert Foote, Deborah Altus, Tim Miller, Joe Peterson, Lois Arkin, Hank Obermeyer, Jeff Grossberg, Blair Voyvodic, Michael McIntyre, Daniel Greenberg, Jeff Clearwater, Rob Sandelin, Luc Reid, Larry Kaplowitz, Elana Kann, Bill Flemming, and Patricia Greene.

I am deeply grateful to the Fellowship for Intentional Community for generous permission to excerpt information from ten years of articles in Communities magazine, which helps illustrate community principles in every single chapter of this book. I appreciate the shared stories and insights of community veterans Judie Anders, Dave Jacke, John Charamella, Patch Adams, Brad Jarvis, Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson, Stephen Gaskin, Michael Traugot, Diamond Jamison, River Jamison, Susanna McDougal, Stephan Brown, Barbara Conroy, Don Lindemann, Katie McCamant, Chuck Durrett and especially Colorado compadres Buzz Burrell, Denise Cot, Zev Paiss, Panther Wilde, the late Mike Mariner, Allen Butcher, Ben Lipman, David Lynch, John Cruickshank, John and Betsey McKinney, Judith Yarrow, Rob Jones, Jan Laser, Nancy Wood, and Jim Wetzel.

I am grateful to the people who helped set me on the path towards learning, teaching, and writing about communities: Dan Drasin, Dorothy Ives, Gordon-Michael Scallion, Ernest Chick Callenbach, Jerome Ostentowki, Bill Becker, Don Markle, and Hildur Jackson.

Im especially obliged to the community founders who generously shared their stories Velma Kahn, Tony Sirna, Arjuna daSilva, Valerie Naiman, Chuck Marsh, Peter Bane, Dianne Brause, Kenneth Mahaffey, Hank Obermeyer, Luc Reid, Dave Henson, and Adam Wolpert heroes all.

Enormous thanks to the people who offered expert advice: Frances Forster, James Hamilton, Bob Watzke, Zev Paiss, Chris ScottHanson, Jim Leach, Dave Henson, Gregory Clark, Cindy Maddox, Carolyn Goldschmidt, Steve Goldstein, and Bill Goodman; and those who critiqued chapters: Tree Bressen, Geoph Kozeny, Velma Kahn, Patricia Allison, Harvey Baker, and Paul DeLapa.

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