Communities Magazine #173 – Social Permaculture –

Our Winter issue explores both Social Permaculture and the interface of Public and Private in intentional community. Starhawk and her colleagues share wisdom from the cutting edge of social permaculture practice, while diverse communitarians discuss how they find balance between the collective and the individual, openness and self-protection, outer-world activism and internal focus. We also learn about Sociocracy missteps, legal structures that help groups put their best feet forward (or not), and more.Articles in Social Permaculture* A Note to Our Readers--This issue's contents were assembled and laid out before election day in the US, November 8, 2016. As we ready materials for the printer on this "morning after," that day's developments are nowhere reflected in this issue, but weigh very much on our minds and hearts. More to come next issue...* Publisher's Note--Interconnectivity, Privilege, and Social Sustainability by Sky Blue* Notes from the Editor--Not Rocket Science, but Just as Important by Chris Roth* Social Permaculture--What Is It? by Starhawk* Surfing the New Edge of Permaculture by Looby Macnamara, Robin Clayfield, Rosemary Morrow, and Robina McCurdy Delvin Solkinson, Annaliese Hordern, Dana Wilson, and Kym Chi* Social Applying the Principles by brush* Seeking Out the A Permaculture Perspective by Alyssa Martin* Self-Care as Part of People Social Permaculture for the Self by Hannah Apricot Eckberg* Facilitating Diverse Groups by Starhawk* Five Tools to Help Groups Thrive by Melanie Rios* Embracing a Force of Nature by Lindsay Hagamen* Public vs. Group Dilemma Laid Bare! by By M. Broiling and T. Shirtless* The Private is Political There cannot be peace on earth as long as there is war in love by Leila Dregger* Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Cohousing Communities by Linda B. Glaser* Finding Balance of Public and Private in Community by Helen Iles* Lessons in Participatory Democracy by Sylvan Bonin* Public Demolition and Private Distress by Nils McGinn* Saying "No" to Prospective Members by Laird Schaub* Legal Structures for Intentional Communities in the US by Diana Leafe Christian, Dave Henson, Allen Butcher, and Albert Bates* Nine Traditions that Draw Us How a Small Town Nurtures Community by Murphy Robinson* Avoiding "Sociocracy Wars": How Communities Learn Sociocracy and Use It Effectively...Or Not by Diana Leafe Christian* Remembering Joani Blank by aird Schaub* Review--The Empowerment Manual by Kim Kanney* Review--We Are As Gods by Tom Fels* Creating Cooperative Culture--GPS Directions for Community by Valerie Renwick