'Diggers & Dreamers – The Guide to Communal Living' is a primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to rural communes and Low Impact developments.

Contents 1 History 2 Publisher 3 Themes 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

Since 1989 Diggers & Dreamers has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities and communal living in the UK. The project was an off-shoot of the Communes Network a loose organisation that grew out of the 1970s communes movement.

The bi-annual journal (and from 1999 accompanying website) focuses on all aspects of communal living. With articles covering practical "how-to-do-it" issues of community living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, and sustainability. Through the years there have been contributions from academics and writers studying communal living. Alongside the journal there has been a directory of communal groups.

The book now in its 10th edition has been variously described as "the communards bible" I-to-I Magazine 1995, "...a fascinating insight into the world of communal living in Britain." Peace News 1999 and an "exiciting combination of journal and service publication."Solidarity Journal 1993

[edit] Publisher

Diggers & Dreamers available both in print and online, is published by Diggers & Dreamers Publications, which also publishes Utopia Britannica and Thinking About Cohousing. Editorial decisions are made by a small collective made up of around 4 or 5 members drawn from different communities around the UK who describe themselves as a "self-appointed-headless-elite-anarchist-editorial-collective with no office, elastic editorial policies, concertina finances and a can-do/why-not attitude problem."^[1]

[edit] Themes

Over the years the publication has covered a wide variety of topics connected with communal living and feature articles by both those living communally and those studying it.The themes covered by articles include:

• Decision Making
• Work
• Childcare
• A day in the Life
• Income Pooling
• Developmental Communalism
• Sustainable Communal Living Around the Globe
• Developing Cohousing in the UK
• Why Feminism needs Utopianism
• The Value of Art in Commuity
• R&D for Utopia

[edit] See also

• Fellowship for Intentional Community
• Communities Directory

[edit] External links

• Diggers & Dreamers
• Communities magazine
• Communities Directory
• Intentional Communities Wiki
• Intentional Communities Wiki page on Geoph Kozeny

[edit] References

1. ^ Diggers and Dreamers. The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009. ISBN 978-0-9545757-2-4