Richard Dyer-Bennet Folk Song Book
Read free. Mostly European minstrel songs.
Author: Gem
How to Build Healthy Community Economies
Read free. This guide explores strategies to create resilient, self-directed local economies. Greco challenges the centralized, debt-based monetary system and promotes community-controlled alternatives such as mutual credit systems and local currencies.
Instead of Education
Read free. “This is a book about people doing things, and doing them better; about the conditions under which we may be able to do things better; about some of the ways in which, given those conditions, other people may be able to help us (or we them) to do things better; and about the reasons why these conditions do not exist and cannot be made to exist within compulsory, coercive, competitive schools.”
1,001 Activities for Children
Read free. “It is my hope that your child will find these ‘wonders’ simple, uncomplicated, and ‘ordinary.’ I refer to such things as playing with pots and pans, sorting knives, forks, and spoons, or just picking up a knife and looking at it.”
Where There Is No Dentist
Read free. “Where There Is No Dentist is a book about what people can do for themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth. Just as with the rest of health care, there is a strong need to ‘deprofessionalize’ dentistry—to provide ordinary people and community workers with more skills to prevent and cure problems in the mouth.”
The Secret of Light
Read free. The Secret of Light is Walter Russell’s seminal work in which he lays out a unified theory of the universe, based on the concept that light—not matter or energy—is the fundamental substance of reality. He presents a vision of the cosmos as a spiritual, rhythmic, and electrical phenomenon, governed by divine intelligence rather than mechanistic forces. Russell asserts that light is the source and substance of all things. Everything we perceive as matter, energy, motion, and form is a manifestation of light, which is divided into pairs of opposites (such as light/dark, male/female, heat/cold) through rhythmic processes.
Community Building
Read free. “Conditions for Establishing Interpersonal Relationship that Builds Up Community: To build up a community one must be (1) sensitive, (2) open, (3) sharing (receiving and giving), (4) one must call others into existence, and (5) love, (6) in an atmosphere of freedom, confidence and understanding.”
A New Science of Life
Read free. “According to this hypothesis, systems are organized in the way they are because similar systems were organized that way in the past. For example, the molecules of a complex organic chemical crystallize in a characteristic pattern because the same substance crystallized that way before; a plant takes up the form characteristic of its species because past members of the species took up that form; and an animal acts instinctively in a particular manner because similar animals behaved like that previously.”
ic.org
The Foundation for Intentional Community offers a free online directory of over 1000 intentional communities. Also courses and info about joining, starting, and growing an intentional community.
Community building : renewing spirit & learning in business
Read free. “This compilation of essays represents a wide variety of perspectives of what it will take to renew one of our most depleted resources—a sense of community with each other. In our modern quest for the ‘perfect part’ we have lost touch with the ‘interconnectedness of the whole’—a byproduct of our fixation with the Industrial Age and its requisite mechanistic thinking.”
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Read free. “In this book, we present one possible pattern language, of the kind called for in The Timeless Way. This language is extremely practical. It is a language that we have distilled from our own building and planning efforts over the last eight years. You can use it to work with your neighbors, to improve your town and neighborhood. You can use it to design a house for yourself, with your family; or to work with other people to design an office or a workshop or a public building like a school. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.”
Environmental Design Science Primer
Read free. Environmental Design Science Primer, by Howard Brown, Robert Cook, and Medard Gabel, undated. From the Foreword: “In order to have a significant effect on vital environmental and social issues, people need to acquire the skills that will allow them to act as planners and participants, rather than as spectators in the defining and solving of problems….”
Quotes from Stephen Gaskin
Stephen Gaskin was a spiritual teacher and author, and founder of The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee. The website stephensgospel.com shares quotes from his early books, Monday Night Class and Caravan. As the leader of a community built from scratch, his sayings can have a lot of relevance to people working together on challenging projects.
Quotes to Browse
These are the quotes in the scrolling slidehow in this website’s home page header: An eclectic collection of worthwhile sayings, food for thought, wisdom, humor.
Designing Earth Anew Together
Read free. Designing Earth Anew Together is a proposal for creating large-scale social and ecological change through collaborative global planning. Jan Hearthstone argues that humanity must move beyond isolated efforts and develop tools for co-designing solutions to today’s crises — including climate change, war, inequality, and environmental degradation.
Farmers of Forty Centuries
Read free. Farmers of Forty Centuries; or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan is an early 20th-century work by American agronomist F.H. King. It documents his 1909 journey through East Asia, where he studied how densely populated nations managed to sustain agricultural fertility for over 4,000 years.
Ancient Astronauts
Read for free online. God Is An Astronaut: Biblical Descriptions of God, Angels, and Divine Chariots. By Gayla Groom.
Hall of Shame
Things that piss us off. Lying mostly.
Where Did the Towers Go?
Where Did the Towers Go? Dr. Judy Wood.