Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (New Society Publishers, 2003), about forming successful communities and ecovillages, and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers, 2007) about researching, visiting, evaluating, and joining a community. For 14 years she was editor of Communities magazine, a quarterly publication about intentional communities in North America, and now publishes "Ecovillages," an online publication (EcovillageNewsletter.org/subscribe). Diana speaks at conferences and leads workshops on ecovillages and does consultations for communities internationally. For example, she gave keynote addresses at the Urban Ecovillage Conference in Chicago and the Japanese Ecovillage Conference in Tokyo, both in November, 2007. Her articles have appeared in publications ranging from Mother Earth News to The Encyclopedia of Community, and she's been interviewed about intentional community by Time Magazine, the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, AARP magazine, NPR, and the BBC. Diana lives in an off-grid homesite at Earthaven, an ecovillage in the mountains of North Carolina. www.DianaLeafeChristian.org [1]

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