Cohousing-L Mailing List: Call for Articles: Communities #191: Ecological Culture

[Chris Roth - Communities Editor (editor]

Hello cohousers,

Once again I'm sharing the next Communities theme announcement. 
Hopefully this time I have cracked to code to keep it from being 
burdened with lengthy, extraneous links.

The magazine welcomes more article proposals and submissions from 
cohousers. Thanks for considering!

Chris

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DearCommunitiescontributors and friends,

Communitiesmagazine is now seeking articles for issue #191, “Ecological 
Community.” The issue will be out in June 2021.

Please send your article ideas to editor [at] gen-us.net in advance of your 
article submission if possible.

We ask that your final article reach us byFriday, February 26, 2020.

1. Theme articles:Ecological Community

Please share your experiences, stories, and perspectives in response to 
any (or any combination) of the following questions:

 * What technologies, design approaches, methods, and practices does
   your community explore or employ to attempt to lessen destructive
   ecological impacts and increase ecological health, integration,
   resilience?
 * How do you meet your basic physical needs with the “earth in mind”?
 * How do future generations and other current inhabitants of the
   planet and of your specific place on it, human and nonhuman, figure
   into your choices?
 * How do you create a culture around your ecologically-oriented
   choices? Do you have shared rituals, stories, music, theater,
   poetry, other forms of artistic/creative expression and craft,
   and/or foundational philosophies that reinforce an ecological
   approach to living? If so, how are these maintained and passed on
   over time?
 * What examples from the past do you draw inspiration and lessons from?
 * Does the term “regenerative culture” (defined as “committing to
   realizing the evolutionary potential of all life”) resonate with you
   and/or your group, or does any other specific interpretation of
   ecological culture speak to you?
 * How do you ally yourselves with other groups and larger networks
   active today in the movement toward ecological culture?
 * How do you see yourselves evolving in the future in response to
   these same concerns?
 * What might other groups learn from you in this area? And what would
   you like to learn from other groups about the successful creation or
   maintenance of culture that affirms and reinforces ecological lifeways?
 * What challenges have you encountered in attempting to follow
   ecological values? What conflicting values and needs have posed
   apparent obstacles? Have you found ways to integrate all needs that
   are present?
 * What is your personal journey in relation to this topic, and how
   does it intersect with your involvement (whatever it may be) in
   community?

Please remember that we are looking for stories, personal experiences, 
and concrete examples in your responses—these are what will make ideas 
and observations most “real” and relevant to readers.

[Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on this 
theme forCommunities.]

2. We are also seeking articles about:

 * Creating community in your neighborhood;
 * Starting a new community;
 * Process and communication issues in community;
 * Ecological sustainability in community;
 * Social justice issues in community;
 * Networking to build the communities/ecovillages movement;
 * Historical communities, especially as viewed through the lens of an
   issue’s specific theme; and
 * Seeking community to join.

Suggested submission length is from 300 to 2500 words (although we 
sometimes stretch these limits). We invite submissions ranging from 
short vignettes to extensively-developed articles, and also invite 
suggestions of recommended resources and article leads. We’re seeking 
articles written in a reader-friendly, popular-magazine style, rather 
than in an academic style. We ask contributors to share stories and 
experiences, not just ideas; write about challenges, not just successes; 
and describe specific situations that will help your story come alive 
for the reader. Before you start writing, please 
checkgen-us.net/communities <https://gen-us.net/communities/>or contact 
us for our full Writers’ Guidelines–and let us know your article idea so 
that we can give feedback on how it may fit intoCommunities. Contact 
Chris Roth at editor [at] gen-us.net.

If you don’t want to write an article but want to submit photos, please 
checkgen-us.net/communities <https://gen-us.net/communities/>or contact 
Yulia Zarubina at layout [at] gen-us.net for our Photo Guidelines.

I. What “Submitting an Article”Means.We will promise to read your 
article, but we may respectfully decline it and not publish it, or save 
it and publish it in a future issue. We also reserve the right to edit, 
shorten, or revise your article. We always attempt to contact authors 
about this ahead of time and get their comments, corrections, etc.

II. Getting Permission Ahead of Time.Please send the article only when 
you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow 
community members. We endeavor to present a diversity of views on 
community, including controversial or critical views, in a respectful 
and cooperative manner. If your article may generate controversy or 
strong reactions, or if the group(s) would want the chance to review it, 
please share your draft with group members to get their input before 
sending it to us. (Please see our Writers’ Guidelines for additional 
details.)

III. Publication Rights.Once your article appears inCommunities, we own 
first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears 
inCommunitiesthe first time it appears in North America. In addition to 
appearing inCommunities, your article may also appear on our website or 
in future compilations. You retain all other rights to it. If you’d like 
to use it elsewhere, you can, and we would appreciate your using an 
attribution line saying, “This article first appeared inCommunities: 
Life in Cooperative Culture, (date); for further information 
onCommunities:gen-us.net/communities <https://gen-us.net/communities/>.”

IV. Photos.If we publish your article, we want to accompany it with 
compelling images that illustrate your subject. You know your subject 
best, so we are appealing to you for images. If others in your community 
or group like taking pictures, they might already have great images to 
go with your article. If you would like to submit an article but cannot 
supply photos, that’s fine; however, please give us plenty of advance 
notice so that if we use your article we can get an illustrator. Please 
checkgen-us.net/communities <https://gen-us.net/communities/>or email us 
for our full Photo Guidelines. You may also choose to send us an author 
photo to accompany your short (several-line) author bio.

Thanks for your contributions!

Chris Roth
Editor,Communities

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Chris Roth
Editor, Communities
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