In Earth Community Susan Campbell provides us with an overview of the rationale, methods, successes and challenges of over 30 land-based intentional communities along the West Coast of America. The result is an engaging and thought-provoking look at the key issues every group or community must face:

• Vision and purpose
• Leadership and decision making
• Work and economics
• Education and children
• Relationships
• Spiritual development
• Health

Earth Community explores the ways in which the various groups have dealt with these key areas, their commonalities, their differences, and above all, the emerging planetary perspective which they all share. It is an invaluable resource for all of us as we seek to live in harmony with each other and the Earth.

“There is a need of a new vision of a viable global society. In a time when so many are feeling anxiety and despair as they contemplate the future, it is inspiring to learn of these Earth Community groups who not only share a partial vision of that future society, but who also provide living examples of what is possible.”

Willis Harman
—from the Foreword