If you’re seeking a “sense of community” in your life — a sense of connection and support in the good company of friends — or you just want to live more simply and sustainably, an intentional community may be for you. Finding Community and Creating an Life Together offer valuable insights and how-to advice about how to join a community that appeals to you, or start your own, whether ecovillage or cohousing neighborhood, urban shared household or rural conference center, spiritual community, housing co-op, or income-sharing commune.
           If you’re a “cultural creative”—caring about the environment, cooperation, and shared resources, read on. You may want to share meals with friends and neighbors, raise your children cooperatively with others, work at jobs you find fulfilling, create your own home-grown entertainment—and thrive. You may want to live off the grid, grow much of your own food, and live a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle, for example, especially in these times of Peak Oil. You can successfully live in an intentional community: thousands already do.

—Diana Leafe Christian

          How and where will the needed new attitudes and practices be pioneered, if not in small experimental communities? Moreover, if hard times lie ahead, what would make more sense than to band together with people of like mind so as to ride out the storm together, sharing resources and companionship along the way?
         In short, this may be the most propitious moment in history to join an intentional community.

 —Richard Heinberg, Peak Oil activist and author, The Party’s Over, Powerdown, and The Oil Depletion Protocol