Communes Britannica. A blog site organised by Chris Coates with links to publications, some interesting historical articles on communes, intentional communities and even hippies! Now re-named Diggers and Dreamers on its Facebook Group page.
Links to various articles from the British Library archives. Opens with Dreamers and Dissenters.
Crypto-Zoology: is described, negatively, by Google as a ‘pseudoscience’. ‘The study of hidden animals’. Cryptozoology originates from the works of colleagues, Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian-French zoologist, and from Scotland, Ivan T. Sanderson.
It is many things – the search for, and codification of, mythical and extinct beings – humans, animals, birds – just about anything really. So-called monsters such as Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster share the billing with the Minotaur, the Dodo and Robin Hood. Dazed and Confused?
Here are a couple of links to find out more:
Located in Australia’s Queensland this is a 650 acre bushland eco-village. As well as the core group, there are many other ‘members’ of the community around the local area north of the Woodford Festival site.
Rather wonderful book and five part TV series, featuring Dr David Bramwell and his time trips to potential world-wide Utopias.
Includes Damanhur and Christiania…
Extraordinary and good fun too!
Deep Ecology. The Foundation based on the ideas that Arnae Naess developed up to his death in 2009. In essence, all about ‘wild nature’. The say:
“We begin with the premise that life on Earth has entered its most precarious phase in history. We speak of threats not only to human life, but to the lives of all species of plants and animals, of the entire ecosphere in all its beauty and complexity including the natural processes that create and shape life's diversity. It is the grave and growing threats to the health of the ecosphere that motivates our activities.”
The San Franciso Diggers were one of the legendary groups in Haight-Ashbury. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. The Diggers Archives website includes a vast array of historic material.
Diggers and Dreamers website. Published the resource guide to communal living. Useful links to communities, WWOOFers and more.
The Communes Britannica Facebook Group has been renamed Diggers and Dreamers. They were always closely connected, being many of the same people involved in communal living and publications. Chris Coates co-ordinates.
US intellectual magazine that often features articles of the environment, such as the two here, presenting differing views about the German attempt to move towards renewable energy sources in the ‘Energiewende’ programme.