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For a Resilient Future, Put Community First\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Imagine a respite from the relentless torrent of bad news! Both The\u00a0Transition Towns (Transition)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0<\/u>Intentional Communities<\/a>\u00a0movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.\u00a0 Now the two movements have joined together to share lessons learned about egalitarian community building.<\/p>\n

The Transition and Intentional Communities movements offer pathways to recovery from an abusive, extractive growth-economy. Their proponents seek wholeness through cooperation. The movements embrace anyone with the gumption to\u00a0self<\/i>-liberate from the corrosive mainstream matrix and commit to resilient social practices that foster the unity of people and the planet.<\/p>\n

\"\"Intentional residential communities are groups of people dedicated to figuring out how to live together cooperatively.\u00a0Transition Towns,<\/a>\u00a0villages, and city neighborhoods are local nodes of people, connected through a global network, who are determined to wean their localities from fossil fuel dependency and move toward resilience.<\/p>\n

\"\"Neither model is a magic bullet. But both movements can learn volumes from the other. To that end, the\u00a0Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH)<\/a>,\u00a0The Fellowship for Intentional Communities (FIC)<\/a>, and the\u00a0Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC)<\/a>\u2014networks that support Transition initiatives and intentional communities respectively\u2014are purposefully pursuing cross pollination.<\/p>\n

Interchange between the two movements is happening in the zone where their missions overlap. That is, in the space where people\u00a0wake up<\/b>\u00a0and summon the grit to live consciously, seek wholeness, and unplug from the dysfunction of the homogenized American norm.The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) has joined the\u00a0Spokescouncil of Egalitarian Resilience Networks<\/a>, an \u201caffinity circle\u201d within the MATH Constellation, to help spark the joint work of the two movements. The Spokescouncil is working to hold both movements accountable to the basic tenets of egalitarian process.<\/p>\n

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For a Resilient Future, Put Community First\u00a0 Imagine a respite from the relentless torrent of bad news! Both The\u00a0Transition Towns (Transition)\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0Intentional Communities\u00a0movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.\u00a0 Now the two movements have joined together to share lessons learned about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2557,8169,11062,6665,4266,11063,8523],"class_list":["post-15332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-community","tag-cooperation","tag-intentional-communities","tag-resilience-org","tag-resiliency","tag-social-practices","tag-transition-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15333,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/revisions\/15333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}