Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian

female
intentional communities, ecovillages, Blue Ridge Mountains, communities, community, intentionalcommunity
Diana Leafe Christian is an author, editor of "Communities" magazine, and a national speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages and...
Albert Bates

Albert Bates

male, 62 years old
American, permaculture, indigenous peoples, Global Ecovillage Network, ecovillage, Ecovillage Training Center…intentionalcommunity
Albert Bates (born 1947-01-01) is an influential figure in the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, author and teacher, he has...
Stephen Gaskin

Stephen Gaskin

male, 74 years old
US Green Party politician, Counterculture of the 1960s, hippie, icon, counter-cultural, Worldwide Green parties…intentionalcommunity
Stephen Gaskin is a counterculture hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for...
Kat Kinkade

Kat Kinkade

female
activist, Acorn Community, Clearness committee, Egalitarian Communities, Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Twin Oaks…intentional communities, intentionalcommunity
Kat Kinkade is one of the 8 co-founders of Twin Oaks, an intentional community in Virginia originally inspired by the behaviorist utopia depicted...
Jim Jones

Jim Jones

male, deceased (1978)
cult leader, Self-declared messiahs, mass suicide, socialist, Self-declared messiah, cyanide…intentionalcommunity
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with...
Swami Kriyananda

Swami Kriyananda

male, 83 years old
From gurgaon, religious figure, Romanian language, convert to Hinduism, New religious movements, Yogis…intentional communities, intentionalcommunity
Swami Kriyananda, born J. Donald Walters, is a direct disciple of the yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and had many hours of personal contact with him...

Corinne McLaughlin

female
American University, sustainable development, intentionalcommunity, American University faculty and staff, Findhorn Foundation, intentional communities…Findhorn Community, Sirius Community
Corinne McLaughlin is an author and a leader in the intentional communities movement. She is the co-author of "Builders of the Dawn", a study of...
Love Israel

Love Israel

female
judaism, Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains, hippie, intentionalcommunity, Cult
Love Israel (birth name Paul Erdman) is the leader of the hippie commune commonly known as the Love Family, a spiritual intentional community that...
Clifford Harper

Clifford Harper

male, 60 years old
Cienfuegos Press, squat, west london, self-published, Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review, Radical Technology…intentionalcommunity
Clifford Harper (born July 13, 1949) is an artist who describes himself as a "committed anarchist" and cartoonist. He was born in Chiswick, West...
Laird Schaub

Laird Schaub

male
intentionalcommunity, Executive Secretary, communities, intentional, Communities Magazine, Sol Space Consulting
Laird Schaub has lived in the fire of intentional community for 33 years as a founding member of Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing, consensus-based...