Le dessin du dimanche de La Dépêche du Midi sur les futurs radars communaux #dimanche #radars #communes #photo #circulation #routes #DessinDePresse #dessin
Creating Communes That Last

by Raven Here’s a couple of interesting questions: If everyone wants to build communes, why aren’t there more of them?  And why do so many fall apart? Some of us throw around the made up, but …

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Ten Good Reasons for Creating Communes

by Raven I recently saw a request by a reader to explain why anyone should want to create a commune.  It’s a good question, especially when I talk about how hard it is.  I’m going to copy the old D…

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Why do we discourage people from starting communities when we need more communities? It's complicated...

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#paradox

https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/the-communal-creation-paradox/

The Communal Creation Paradox

by Raven The Communal Creation Paradox can be stated simply: We need more communities and we try to discourage folks from starting them. It seems crazy–but I do it. I do it because I don&#821…

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You can’t build a commune by yourself

by Raven This is, I suppose, a variation on a theme here, but I am not sure that it can be said too much. Our posts on creating communes are the most popular things on this site. It seems like ever…

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Commune Life started off as a WordPress blog, before moving on to Facebook and Instagram and eventually Mastodon, but a really interesting place it went was when we had our own YouTube channel.

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https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/the-original-commune-life-video/

The Original Commune Life Video

One of the most interesting things that happened to Commune Life over its ten year history, is when we started a YouTube video channel. Here’s the first video from that channel.

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Five Tools for Community Building

by Raven I have been thinking about these particular tools as key for community building for years now.  I think that these are some of the most useful tools I know for decision making, relati…

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@lucie_inthesky pas mal sont sur mastodon.social simplement. Mais j'en ai vu ailleurs et évidemment je ne les retrouve pas là.

#ServicePublic #ViePublique ? #Communes #AccessibilitéNumérique (???) #Administrations #administration (mh je sèche je crois)

Photoessays are a bit of a Wednesday tradition on Commune Life. Here's the first, again.

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https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/back-to-communal-communication/

Back to Communal Communication

by Raven For much of Commune Life’s history we’ve published a “photoessay” or video on Wednesday. Today I’m going to reprint the very first photoessay that we did, ten…

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