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The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) is a resource center for people wanting to join, start, and build intentional communities. Our Communities Directory features +1,200 intentional communities, including: ecovillages, cohousing, coliving, communes, shared homes, housing co-ops, and more. We host weekly networking and educational events, 5-week courses, classified advertisements, and an extensive bookstore and resource library on http://ic.org/

The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.

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Ana Inés Heras is a National Researcher at the Council for Research and Technology in Argentina (CONICET). She holds this appointment by bridging the work of two institutions, namely the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and the Instituto para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Humano. She is also a full professor at the University, teaching both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. With her partner David, she has raised five daughters and sons and is also a grandmother of four children. She coordinates the Co-ellaborative Research Program Aprendizaje de y en Autogestión. She is also a Board Member at the Community Economies Institute and participates in the Global Tapestry of Alternatives as well.

Tricia Truitt is a member of Earth & Sky Cooperative Exchange and a proponent of local trading systems. 

Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture.

Katja Durrani is  a web developer living in Bristol, in the UK.

We’re on a mission to turn the state of Minnesota into a place where every working person can also be an employee owner.

Ella Fassler is an independent journalist based in New York City. Their work on community autonomy, labor, technology and the carceral system has been featured in Teen Vogue, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Vice, The Appeal, Slate, OneZero, Shadowproof, Mic, In These Times, The Counter and elsewhere. Twitter: @EllaFassler.