What intentional or sustainable communities can you suggest as good examples of transitionary community values?
RK: “I think many intentional communities are good examples of transitionary community values. Mariposa Grove in Oakland is a small urban intentional community where people share and conserve resources, help raise one another’s children, befriend one another, activate social projects together, etc. All of these are transitionary community values. Co-housing in general reflects transitionary community values, in so far as co-housing communities cut down on resource use in building, sharing of food, chores and tasks of living, growing gardens together, etc… There are other intentional communities of which I am aware that also have transitionary community values–Kayumari (well, now defunct, but still…) was a spiritual community in the Stanislaus forest. Residents were committed to a spiritual path that reflected at the deepest level transitionary values–a renewed earth, and peace with creation. There are undoubtedly many more, both here in the Bay Area, and around the world. The bes
