Commune/intentional community in Monterey Bay, USA.
‘There’s nothing like home’ video with Nikki Silva, one half of the Kitchen Sisters. A nice video plus a link to Sally Bookman’s description of La Selva Beach Community.
“Halfway between Dogpatch and Shangri-la”.
Canadian off-grid, tight-knit community with over 400 permanent residents. Described in a recent article as a ‘secret island’ near Vancouver. ‘Statistics Canada’ says it is the most highly educated community in British Columbia. The residents say that they are ‘not’ an intentional community. They do offer places for WWOOFERs.
A link to the residents’ site, and to an article that includes an interesting (if rather glamorous) video.
Their site states: “La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and nature.”
In the UK, its linked organisation is called the Land Workers’ Alliance.
Lebensgarten, which means the ‘Garden of Life’ - is a spiritual intentional community located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the site of a former Nazi arms factory. Lebensgarten also has a large permaculture park, in which the organisers say that our “agriculture and human settlements are modelled after nature”.
There’s a second link to a video about the community and park.
A German initiative in Schermbeck. It appears to include workshops and a creative café.
They say: “The Life Lernort Old brick factory consists
of two parts, the interconnected and are mutually strengthening:
1. The living area is an incorporated,
non-profit organization, which can issue donation receipts-and receives received subsidies-members.
2. The social enterprise Life Lernort Old brick has three areas which include:
2.1. Space - Rentals
2.2. LehmOase - earth construction / consulting
2.3. Life Workshop”
Ley lines
This Facebook community says:
"Our beautiful Planet Earth is a conscious and vibrant living entity. As our body have 7 major Chakras, so does the Earth. Energy flows through each of Earth's main Chakra and makes up the spiritual body that is our world. The Chakras of the Earth are connected by energy circuits called Ley lines...”
Enter in to their link and another one about the history of Ley lines.
Founded by Vít Jedlička. Liberland motto is: “To live and let live”.
On the borderlands of Croatia and Serbia, this self-proclaimed micro-nation of Liberland has no residents and is in effect disputed territory. But it has excited much interest from around the world. A ‘playful’ free state – perhaps!
Links to the official site with links to lots of articles from media around the world. And a short video from Vit.
Living in the Future. The personal website of Helen Iles, with lots of links to intentional communities, eco-villages and participatory film-making (she used to work with ‘Undercurrents’, and more.
Based in LA, in the USA, they are no longer a brewery. They say that they are:
"...are one of the oldest and largest artist colonies in the world.
Covering 23 acres in 14 buildings of live-work spaces, 500-700 artists and businesses call The Brewery their home.
Twice a year, the LAB opens its doors and invites the public to enjoy our open studios at The Brewery Art Walk."
Check them out.
Lovearth claims to be: The most important site for "important news and direct actions.” See what you think. US-focused. Lots on conspiracy theories and ‘shadowy’ groups such as Bilderberg.