Projects
I’m always up to something. What is it these days?
The Goodenough Community
This is the community I call home these days! After a stint as consultant to Goodenough, I became a member in 2023, and a resident of the community’s land base, the Sahale Learning Center, in 2024.
Based around the Puget Sound in Northwestern Washington state, The Goodenough Community is a mission-driven hybrid community of practice and land-based community. Most members don’t live at Sahale, but Sahale acts as a home base for everyone involved. There are a number of online and on-land programs and events the community hosts, for members and the public.
Our mission: To create opportunities for transformative learning within regenerative community
South Seattle Revolutionary People’s Hub
The Rev for short, this is a new community in Seattle I’m involved with. We are creating a leftist, land-based, community hub for post-capitalist learning, solidarity, incubating, and organizing with residential and nonresidential members, for the purpose of movement building and systems change. It’s seven contiguous parcels with three livable houses on a total of about half an acre. There are current 6 adults and 2 kids in residence, plus 2 more adults (myself included) involved in the overall organizing and governance of the project. We’re looking at how to develop a good rural/urban partnership between Sahale and The Rev, and how we can use both as a vehicle for regional organizing efforts for a variety of different lefist, cooperative organizations. The project is also aligned with the People’s Network for Land and Liberation.
Radical Communal Groups (RCG)
RCG is an umbrella organization aimed at catalyzing and supporting economically and politically radical communal living groups currently existent or forming in Western Washington.
The goal is for this to lead to a resilient, place-based network of land-based projects focused on mutual aid, solidarity economics, systems change, and movement building.
In June we held the first CIC for the Puget Sound region. The first two CICs were held at Twin Oaks Community in Virginia, with a nominally national focus. This year the effort turned to regional gatherings.
As distinct from past Communities Conferences, CIC is specifically designed to bring together representatives from established ICs to develop a mutual aid network. This is also distinct from the Northwest Intentional Communities Association, who co-sponsored the CIC with the Foundation for Intentional Community, but who focuses more on introducing people to the intentional communities movement and helping seekers find communities.
We brought together about a dozen different ICs in the region, including Songaia, Port Townsend Ecovillage, and Star Community, and emerged with several working groups and a core organizing team. Several follow-up social events have also taken place.