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Join us for a weekend of sharing and celebration!
Friday August 19 through
Sunday August 21, 2011
$85 (sliding scale) includes camping space and most meals.
Twin Oaks Communities Conference
138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, VA 23093
540-894-5126
Communities
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FEC Communities
Acorn Community

Founded: 1993
Location: rural Virginia
Population: 24 adults
A consensus based community of work and play, distributing rare heirloom seed varieties.
East Wind

Founded: 1973
Location: rural Missouri
Population: 60 adults, 4 children
Doing things ourselves, individual freedom, stewarding our beautiful land.
Emma Goldman Finishing School

Founded: 1996
Location: urban Seattle
Population: 10 adults
A social justice commune in the heart of Seattle.
Sandhill Farm
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Founded: 1974
Location: rural Missouri
Pop: 7 adults, 2 children
Organic homestead & child-friendly family of friends. Local and regional outreach projects.
Skyhouse

Founded: 1997
Location: rural Missouri
Population: 4 adults, 1 child
An income-sharing group within a larger ecovillage, dedicated to sustainability.
Twin Oaks

Founded: 1967
Location: rural Virginia
Population: 90 adults, 13 children
A long-term, stable community based on rich culture and diverse economy.
Communities in Dialogue
Community Autonomy
Approved: 10/23/2010
Founded: 2008
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Population: 4 adults, one child
A growing urban community focused on sustainability, cooperation, and justice.
Living Energy Farm

Approved: 01/08/2011
Founded: 2010
Location: rural Virginia
Population: 4 adults
A growing fossil fuel free Community, Farm, and Education Center.
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Community Tag
- Acorn Community
- Community Autonomy
- East Wind Community
- Emma Goldman Finishing School
- Living Energy Farm
- Sandhill Farm
- Skyhouse Community
- Twin Oaks Community
- Tofu train wreck LA freeway style
- a validating kiss
- Almost sledding
- Backstage with They Might Be Giants
- The pebble from the masters hand
- The Dark Side of Burning Man
- Radical Hospitality
- Bandits, Robbers and Thieves – Willow is 10
- i just wrote 50 love letters
- If we were a real business …
- Decoding Anonymous
- Thread mining
- Central versus Primary
- My baby’s babies
- Love Letter to Bruce Cockburn [re-post]
- Why Burning Man is significant funologically
- Hard Break
- Soft Break
- Rosa’s b-day
- A deal with the devil
- Now or not happening
- Bad Advice
- Shooting Stars
- Top Search terms for this blog: Jellyfish and beyond
- Lethal Illusions
- $190 worth of justice
- “Well, that’s rude.”
- My last tofu trays shift
- Halloween 2011 Photo Essay
- The lies from Japan and success in Netherlands
- Scuba Steve’s new digs
- i would not wear it if anyone else had made it
- What existing communities teach us about new ones
- Anonymous strikes back – whitehouse.gov and DoJ.gov shut down
- Keystone and Spin
- Why you cant read this page
- unghosting
- Cosmic, Magic and Dominion
- 10 Ways Occupy Changes Everything
- Building a new culture thru kids
- One ring to bind them
- unBirthday Hunting
- best.poly.voice.mail.ever
- Russia Today Visit
- Commune Fashion Show
- What happens when you let go of the rules
- New Years Party Grade: B+
- My favorite Xmas present
- Letter to a friend – you’re fucking up
- Funological Long Levers
- The Flying Lounge
- Unusual Proposals and Arranged Marriage
- Mall Madness and alternatives to capitalism
- New Years Party Invitation
- Arranged Marriage
- So this is Christmas
- Street Art Hits
- Anarchist Matchbook
- Pomegranates and Pillow Fights: Contemporary Pagan Solstice
- So wrong – Paxus’ Guests and other not thieves
- “There is an 75% chance you are catching the next train to Berlin”
- Bye Vaclav, Hello Absurdistan
- Persistent Myths
- “You are the new China”
- 96 White sheets
- Fag Tag and Occupy will rise again
- Non-Euclidean Honeymoons
- Three wild images
- re-post Island
- Battling Billionaires
- Celebrity Ball
- Making the hammocks goals and hive minds
- December is Begging for Rooms
- re-post unsurprising surprises
- Fight Club Thoughts
- re-post of jail to home culture shock
- Simulated Suburban Parent
- Saints disguised as organizers
- Dad would be proud
- A night in the Cville Jail w/ Occupy
- Apeckalypse
- Janel and the Chickens
- Willow @ Goodwill
- No Provisionsal Members – unobserved paradise?
- Menu w/o prices
- The world sours on nuclear power
- Digital rescue
- Sanskrit, hacking and Kung Fu
- Super Meme Construction Kit
- Horses and Heists
- Could France Flip ?
- November is Falling Expectations – descriptive month names
- Person(s) of the Year – the 99% and Anonymous
- Hammocks Push
- Unelectable Candidates
- Celebrating Failure
- A big foot print in the wrong direction
- Messy Algorithms
- Occupy Atlanta – Chaotic and Open
- China will surpass the US in install solar power this year
- Pop Gang
- Naming Parties
- Mexico ditches future nuclear construction
- Letter to a Benefactor
- Occupy your Imagination
- K Shift Cacophony
- Lemony Snicket on Occupy – repost
- Burn the Flag
- Belgium joins the exit club
- Occupy Death City
- We are all Scott Olsen – and the movement broadens in Eugene
- The real reason Occupy Tietjerksteradeel is dangerous
- Busy
- Metablogging – where is this train going ?
- Not all equal – gender and funology
- Czech Born? And Prophetic Month Success
- Walmart and Old Glory
- The not famous brother
- Occupy Cville
- Unusual Agreement
- Canada versus the world
- Future so bright, i gotta wear shades
- First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
- Family Vacation
- Missing Words
- “And ‘no’ is a fine answer”
- Bye, Steve
- Wolfing versus Foxxing
- Renewables > Nuclear in the US
- The other adventure at Luray Caverns
- October is “no restart” – prophetic month names
- Scrabble Night
- Sacred Cows disguised as 4 walls
- Good News
- Richmond Action Prep
- Anatomy of a Demand
- Robins Rants
- 20 questions – What type of light bulb?
- We are the epicenter – how to eat rotting watermelons
- Action in Richmond at Dominion HQ Tuesday 9/27 @ noon
- Santa’s and Siemens
- Hug > Haircut
- Inflatable Futures
- Nice Hat
- Trade Show Blues and Green
- A plant based, whole food diet
- Anarchists versus Communards
- Chicago again
- Oh and we lied about the fault lines …
- The Post Office at Alchemy – Experiments in Guerrilla Transparency
- No disaster porn here
- The best parts of America
- Biddy’s Buttons
- Twin Oaks Earthquake, announcements on quake day
- Kids on treadmills
- September is Tripoli Fall
- “You can’t leer at me”
- Twin Oaks Community Earthquake, damage to MT
- Twin Oaks Community Earthquake, dinner line after quake
- VID00847
- You’re now in charge of writing the messages in fortune cookies. Tell us our fortunes.
- Making a Killing on Disaster
- More Quakes and Hive Mind
- Earthquake Update – everyone is okay, buildings are a mess.
- Dice Game – “Sorry you cant come home”
- The last day of summer: Prison and the pond
- Less than a week away!
- Early for Work
- The two paths: Dark Green vs Net Zero
- Reve Reviews
- Racist Comments from Sam Freedom
- Chicks in the computer room
- Occupation: Mystic
- “It is okay, because no one died”
- If you could get away with committing one crime, what would you do?
- August is a harvest of errors
- When they tell you the lights will go out without nuclear …
- Hacked
- That fat old white guy with the pin up shirt
- Negotiations: Bed Time and Egypt
- “you are crazy”
- Temple versus The Man
- Why cash free matters
- Funological Heavy Artillery
- Download and print a flyer!
- The best excuse
- How long do you have to wait to join?
- Heroic Inquiries
- This is what a revolution looks like – Bastille Day on the farm
- i heart iPad
- The 2011 conference has a hot new look...
- Need a fee reduction? Need a ride? Need lunch?
- Nefarious Homeschooling
- she hitches
- Dont Call it Nowhere
- The Power of Parody
- July is Jellyfish
- “Cross your fingers”
- Please Dont Climb on the Statues
- Beating Burnout
- Girl Pants
- Snarking on Forbes
- Modesty is Dangerous
- lessons learned = “It cant happen here”
- Burn ‘em – Not the Akashic Record part 2
- Epic Party
- “We shall have to say good-bye to nuclear” – Berlusconi
- Fukushima at 3 months
- Air Conditioning and not missing what you dont have
- imagine you are dating yourself
- Confirmed Workshops!
- This camel has no name
- Best Mulberry Tree
- $5K show + spiritual intimates
- Pet Obsessions
- Killing the hammocks business
- European Birthday
- Alluring Myths
- June is Red
- The real reason to blog
- Germany’s Real Challenge to Nuclear Power
- Ghosting
- Communities are the Answer
- Why Switzerland matters
- 311 is not 911
- Psst, we are at war again
- Kids with Cameras
- Twin Oaks Labor System
- Intolerant of Intolerance
- Post Rapture Looting
- What the big boys dont know about rape
- Daily rituals
- Strawberry Flash Mob
- Spoof Activism – CoalCares.org
- 1100 square kilometers lost
- Another dwarf meme – 10% cut in military
- The Delete Option
- Non-believers and anti-science
- War is over
- Threads and Transparency
- Osama’s motives
- A year in 17 pieces
- Stange Tango Intro
- Ziggurats
- Why nuclear is unreformable
- Lost
- without a trace
- Collective Rituals
- the best job in the world
- Death City
- Red eye blues
- Scope and Schedule
- Nuclear Good News
- The lies we tell ourselves
- not far from the tree
- Return to Diablo Canyon
- Our Monster
- Fast Talk
- Diversity in Community
- airport news
- Bus stop Blues
- Inner Demons
- Radioactive Mist
- Gridlock Follies
- Radical Translucency
- Tokyo Calling – April 10th Action
- Unacceptable Obsessions
- Fukushima Heroes and Fools
- Age Limit Policy, Consolidated and Revised - Twin Oaks - 2006
- Child/Adult Ratio Policy - Twin Oaks - 1994
- Personal Affairs Leave - Twin Oaks - 2009
- Guest Policy - Twin Oaks - 2004
- Dual Member Policy - Twin Oaks - 2003
- Residents and Student Interns - Twin Oaks
- Becoming a Full Member - Twin Oaks - 2009
- Becoming A Provisional Member - Twin Oaks - 2009
- Membership Policy - Twin Oaks - 2009
- Missouri Loves Company
- Statment of Religious Beliefs - Twin Oaks
- Rabble Rousing
- Why NYC is important
- School for Bank Robbers
- Naked Mole Rats and Submarines
- Road Trip
- Commune Fashion Show
- Fukushima rumors and news
- The Necessary Complexity Theory
- Will the banks save us ?
- We dont need to know
- Meet the Organizers
- Twin Oaks' Annual Communities Conference 2011!
- Curious Culture
- Prepare to be lied to
- Turbulence
- Japan by the numbers
- Good night Japan
- Snippets
- in a different life
- Commie Clothes
- first of spring
- Bullshit
- Six creatures game
- Brittle agreements
- next generation
- Exporting Revolution
- Qaddafi Falls – More prophetic month names
- “It’s my birthday”
- Funological principles
- The Wizard Queen
- Comments as Love
- Room Crunch
- Sabrina’s Challenge
- Digital Vacation
- Kamikaze Theatre
- Mama’s boy
- Wither the Nuclear Renaissance?
- Living Legacies
- ReCrafting Holidays
- All Volunteer
- Is Egypt like Poland in 1989?
- Birthday as Appreciation
- Mubarak Falls – prophetic month names
- Explicable Coincidences
- Jersey Diner
- 6 clipboards
- Shoot First
- not the work
- Advocacy
- Digital Daughters
- Not the Akashic Record
- a most subversive act
- Self Destructive Tendencies
- Grounded
- Behaviorism dies last
- Ditch Facebook & a new key blog
- Globalized Holidays
- Do you believe in Magic?
- Barefoot in January
- Blind Love
- Welcome to our new site!
- Healthy – what a better world is like
- Islands and Highlands
- universal love letter
- My Bra
- An appreciation a day
- Roast – March 5th
- Cribs
- being a “Yes.”
- Crushing Defeat
- Narnia Lives !
- Bigger than Fuzzy tunnels ?
- Looking up
- liberal transparency
- True Love
- wikileakswiki.org
- Quarantine
- Who is Julian Assange and why he does not matter
- New Words: mislike
- Local Heroes
- Sustainable dead languages?
- PolYouth workshop
- Twin Oaks Community Nashoba Addn
- Kana’s last sentence
- Willow’s first sentence
- bye bye Europe
- Green Fest Notes
- Compersion and Fame
- Quinks and Tobias
- More Mysteries
- Casa Life
- Fame and thinking big
- Useful Stereotypes
- Unconventional education
- Chicago Trade Show
- Is BDSM violence?
- A Defriend a day
- “Dude, you have no Koran”
- Radical Reading
- The Neighbors
- Thank you!
- Capitol Distraction
- Just a week away!
- additional rules
- The Leaves of Twin Oaks Issue 108
- The Leaves of Twin Oaks Issue 108
- The Fat Labor Credits
- Systematic errors
- Lucky Myth
- Conference Soon!
- Propagandist Wet Dream
- Twin Oaks on CNN
- Paxus Blog
- my therapist
- elevated position
- Another Update!
- Twin Oaks Community New Large PV Array & Gardening
- Twin Oaks Community Rowan & Luuk birthday party
- Twin Oaks Community Huge Solar PV Array
- Sara’s b-day
- Willow and Booze
- Almost famous – journeys in Babylon
- Not what other people are doing
- Moving Along
- Twin Oaks Community Ag Well Pump Replacement
- Twin Oaks Community organic garden transplanting
- Twin Oaks Community new large PV array
- Runaway
- Shal of the Trees
- downplaying CNN
- musings on mafias
- Twin Oaks Community stage musical 'Greasel'
- 2010 Communities Conference is Coming Up!
- The Leaves of Twin Oaks
- Twin Oaks Community Variety Show - Salsa
- Twin Oaks Community Variety Show
- Twin Oaks Community Halloween 2009
- Twin Oaks Community Rebuilt Varnishing Bldg Oz
- Twin Oaks Community Replaced Ag Well Facilities
- Twin Oaks Community tofu business
- Twin Oaks Community potato harvest
- Twin Oaks Community Red Barn birthday party
- Twin Oaks Events Newsletter
- What a wonderful conference!
- Almost Ready! Any more rides from New York?
- 2009 Workshop List
- The Leaves of Twin Oaks
- Almost Time!
- Twin Oaks Community potato planting spring 2009
- Twin Oaks Community plumbing repairs
- Twin Oaks Community splitting & stacking firewood.
- Twin Oaks Community birthday & games
- Twin Oaks Community FEC Sharp singing group
- Twin Oaks Community FEC Sharp Validation Day
- Member Handbook - Twin Oaks - 1998
- Membership Agreement - Twin Oaks
- Bylaws - Twin Oaks
- Articles of Incorporation - Twin Oaks - 1986
- McCunes YouTube blog
- Communities Conference Blog

