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Location: Ashland, Oregon
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Latest Activity: May 22
About Community
Community
In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.Traditionally in sociology, a "community" has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. The word is thus often used to mean an urban community. However, the definition has evolved and been enlarged to mean individuals who share characteristics, regardless of their location or type of interaction. In this sense, "community" can mean a community of interest or an ethnic group. Finally, the widest meaning of the word refers to the national community. What these various meanings have in common is that they refer to the strength of the ties between the members of the group, of whatever nature—cultural, ethnic, or moral—they may be.
The word community is derived from the Latin communitas (meaning the same), which is in turn derived from communis, which means "common, public, shared by all or many". Communis comes from a combination of the Latin prefix com- (which means "together") and the word munis (which has to do with the exchange of services), probably originally derived from the Etruscan word munis- (meaning "to endow", or "to have the charge of").
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Abundance Swap
Alternatives Magazine
Breitenbush Hot Springs & Community
Burning Man Festival and Facebook Group
Cascadia HOUR Exchange
Good Medicine Gathering
Harbin Hot Springs & Community and Facebook Group
Heart Circles Network
Honoring All Life Foundation & Book
KSKQ 94.9 FM Community Radio
Living Earth Circle and Labyrinth Event
Mystic Garden Party & Festival
NexChange, Web Booth & Classroom
Northwest Intentional Communities Network
Oregon Country Fair
Peace Village Festival
Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes
Shambala-Shasta Community
Trillium Hollow Co–Housing
WebSpirit Community
[SUGGEST LOCAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN DISCUSSION FORUM]
Photo: Summer Solstice Gathering - 2007
Alliance for a New Humanity
Anastesia's Garden & Living Oneness Foundation
Big Bang Tango
Collective Wisdom Initiative
Common Society
Commonway Institute
Community Buzz
Community Energy Bank
Communities Magazine & Directory
Community Tips
Context Institute
Co-op America
Cultural Creatives
Eden Creative Communities
Edible Communities
Fellowship for Intentional Communities & Visions of Utopia (DVD)
Foundation for Global Community & Beyond War
Global Coherence Initiative
Henry George & Understanding the Economics of Land
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
Open Knowledge Network
Reflecting Our Common Humanity
Social Media News
Solari Project
The Co-Intelligence Institute
The Culture of Holistic Centers by Margaret Critchlow Ph.D.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Film) and Community Solutions
UV Family: The Possible Relationship
World Cafe
World Community Grid
[SUGGEST COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN DISCUSSION FORUM]
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Amazing Women's Day
Architects of a New Dawn
Ashland Resource Center
Burnt Marshmallows
Cascadian Resource Center
Children of the Sun
EQ Connect
Family Resource Center
Friend Feed
Friendly Favors
Fresh Wave Productions
Frontline Club
Institute for Communications Resources - Global Resource Center
GBDS.US
Give it to Me Raw
I See Color
Law of Attraction
Local Food Networks
Loving a Convict
ManyOne
MySpace
Ning (platform)
PaganSpace
Plan-It-You
RTAngler
Sea Community Network
Social Media News
Spiritual Entrepreneur
Transition Towns USA
Transpartisan Alliance
WorldViewZ
Zanby (platform)
[SUGGEST SOCIAL NETWORKS IN DISCUSSION FORUM]
Photo: Transpartisan Alliance Social Network
Mission Statement:
Community teaches us how to respect each other, and live on the land, in our neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities as individuals with unalienable rights and property.There is indeed plenty for everyone. It takes a whole village to raise a whole child as a free man or woman (not a slave). It takes a community to raise society into a healthy system of human relationships.
Topical Index & Tags
- Children
- Cohousing
- Community Development
- Conflict Resolution
- Events and Gatherings
- Family
- Intentional Community
- Internet Community
- Interpersonal Communications
- Love and Relationships
- Media - Reviews
- Multi-Cultural
- Projects and Community Service
- Self-Reliance
- Spiritual Community
- Teens, Adolescence and Youth
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Kids Read - When Kids Read, Worlds Open
This network is for teachers, librarians, children's book authors, and children's literature lovers who believe that worlds open when kids read.Financing Cohousing - Webinar CD | The Cohousing Association of the United States
In her presentation on "Financing Cohousing," Katie McCamant discussed in detail: What it costs to develop a cohousing neighborhood; Financing the project development costs; Raising the money for your project; Affordability strategiesSunward Cohousing Community, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sunward Cohousing is an intentional community located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are a group of people dedicated to creating a place where resources are shared, lives are simplified, the Earth is respected, diversity is welcomed, children play and learn together in safety, and living in community with neighbors comes naturally.Facebook | Green Seniors
Green Seniors have always existed. They are the people who, regardless of age, fight for what they believe. They are the people who see the way that our natural environment is changing for the worse and want to do something about it. They are the people who are a pain in the neck of authority, in fact of anyone and anything that operates in a way that degrades the environment for no good reason.Alive Raw
Living foods, alternative healthMettanokit - Medicine Story
A non-profit learning center and service organization working for a more human society based on the old values of cooperation and equality and the closeness and caring found in our elder tribal societies. Programs and services respectfully incorporate the ancestral wisdom of Native Americans and others who honor harmonious living with Mother Earth and spiritual connections with Creation.MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don’t Reverse
We’ve all been closely watching the total user number for MySpace and Facebook and trying to predict the date that MySpace’s last stronghold will fall - no. 1 in U.S. social networking users.DailyStrength Groups - CDC eHealth
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on the front line of health protection to meet today's challenges, threats and realities. Our world class scientists, researchers, field staff and communicators work every day to ensure better health for people in the United States and across the globe. Through this group, you can learn about and interact with CDC as we work to promote health protection, disease prevention and emergency preparedness.Transition Town Ashland
People everywhere are deeply concerned about Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the instability that results from depending on fragile centralized systems. One of the most hopeful responses to these problems has arisen in the Transition Towns movement. This Website will bring you information on the challenges that face us and on promising solutions, including projects here in our community.Creating A Sense Of .Com(munity) | MailTribune.com
Another local portal, the 535 member Ashland Resource Center, is free and navigates interactively like Facebook, letting participants post profiles, pictures and videos, while offering itself as a bulletin board for classes, services and ideas. Mail-Tribune article on the virtual Rogue Valley including Web Spirit Community and Rogue Current.You Tube, We Tube | MailTribune.com
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then what value can be placed on a streaming video seen by thousands of YouTube visitors from across the globe? That level of exposure, according to Anne Jenkins, who sells Medford to businesses and conventioneers, is priceless. "It's so nice to put up a video so people can really see what's going on here," says Jenkins, senior vice president of the Medford Visitors and Convention Bureau.Southern Oregon Land Conservancy
A nonprofit organization that actively works to conserve land, often using a tool called a conservation easement. In 30 years, we have conserved over 8,200 acres of this region's working farms and ranches, river corridors, forests, and scenic lands - forever.Ashland Resource Center Profile » LocalsGuide - Community Portal
The Ashland Resource Center is an online forum and portal for people to communicate and exchange ideas and build projects locally.Sacred Lifeboats
Something is coming . . . and it's coming fast now. We can feel it. It feels a little crazy and scary, yet strangely compelling., I cannot, in good conscience, fail to make the information I have learned in my research available to the people I care about. Therefore I invite you to consider a journey. I have found that as we embrace the fear, we find options and take action to get on with what has to be done.THRIVE
To catalyze, strengthen and connect businesses and community members in the greater Rogue Valley who share a commitment to creating an economy that preserves community character and vitality, promotes social justice, and protects ecological health and diversity.Connect Ashland
New social network by Mike Green of Ashland Daily Tidings. Has a glitch in the sign-up process.Comment Wall
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Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd | Plume Paperback
What follows is the new preface...
As we observe the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, evolution has become firmly established as the central organizing principle of the biological sciences. Natural explanations for the growth of complexity through time ground all the other sciences, as well, from cosmology and chemistry to neuroscience and psychology. That everything within this universe has emerged through natural processes operating over vast spans of time is now well beyond dispute among scientists and the educated public. Yet even today, families and public school systems remain divided and the evolutionary worldview is still shunned by millions, perhaps billions, of religious believers around the world. Why?
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greenLIFE | KVTL Channel 10
Local television station covering green and sustainability issues. Sponsor of the Oregon Green Expo.Oregon's plate is full of sustainable food | EcoTrust
Leaders say it's one bright spot in an otherwise dim economic forecast. Demand for sustainable food is strong, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.Slow Money: Investment Strategies Appropriate to the Realities of the 21st Century
Think about it: a hundred thousand Americans providing millions of dollars a year for investment in local food systems. Is it typical philanthropy? No. Is it investing as we've come to know it? No. Is it achievable? Yes.inERGYhomes.com
Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes - inERGYhomes.com - Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes. Building Science Technologies and Green Building are improving the way we’re building homes. inERGY Homes is at the forefront of viewing the whole house as a system in building techniques for High Performance Homes.National Sustainable Building Advisor Program
The National Sustainable Building Advisor Program (NaSBAP) offers a 9-month certificate training course and exam specifically designed for working professionals eager to apply sustainable concepts to the buildings they design, develop, and construct.Green job opportunities appear to be growing | DailyTidings.com
Sporting locally made t-shirts with their personal carbon footprint number on the back, students in Steve Schein's Sustainability Leadership class presented the results of their search for green jobs across the Pacific Northwest.Global Footprint Network - Ecological Footprint - Ecological Sustainability
Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what. By making ecological limits central to decision-making, we are working to end Overshoot and create a society where all people can live well, within the means of one planet.IMO Index
The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is your specialist in quality assurance of eco-friendly products, organic agriculture and management systems.RESOURCES - Food, Air & Water
Dave's Dragon Dust - Habanero Pepper Blend with Bhut Jolokia (Naga Jolokia)
Habanero Pepper Blend with Bhut Jolokia (Naga Jolokia).RETURN TO TRADITION
A closer look at the exceptional growers, producers and artisans who safeguard our food traditions.Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
"Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks."[1] They called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling.Raw Spirit Festival
Festivals 2009, World's Leading Healthy-Living Raw Vegan-Eco-Peace Celebrations! Please come join us at one, two or all THREE festivals. All feature onsite camping and parking at beautiful locations which delight and inspire!Alive Raw
Living foods, alternative healthTrillium Natural Foods
Lincoln City's main source for organically grown whole foods.LifeSource Natural Foods
Our retail grocery store provides an abundant selection of high quality organic and natural food items and nutritional supplements.Why Buy Local? - Rogue Flavor
Locally grown fruits and vegetables are usually sold within 24 hours of being harvested. Produce picked and eaten at the height of ripeness has exceptional flavor and, when handled properly, is packed with nutrients. Also, local farm products are chosen for the best flavor, not for their ability to withstand industrial harvesting equipment and extended travel.Rogue Flavor
The Rogue River Valley is home to some of the best agricultural and artisan foods in the world. The Rogue Flavor campaign makes it easy for you to find the unique businesses that create the local flavor of our community. Savor Rogue Flavor!Standing Stone Brewing Company
Microbrewery Ashland.ARC News and Weather
GBDS.US Network Developers
GBDS.US applies best-of-breed communications and networking technology to facilitate sustainable business development.
New Consciousness Review
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