Reads

Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid: "Our aim in this essay is to channel our struggles against oppression and domination into a strategic approach toward building real utopias— [...] our proposal is to organize practical community institutions of participatory democracy and mutual aid that can take root, grow, and gradually supplant the institutions that now rule ordinary people’s lives."
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist; Kate Raworth
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje
Another Now: Dispatches form an Alternative Present by world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis.
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Jeremy Rifkin
Autonomous Earth Federation
Stepping up from activism to organizing

Blogs

Thought utopias don't work and are only something for dreamers? Than get engaged in this list of working communes around the world:

[Documentary about Utopias around Europe]: major lesson, there is no final plan on how a community should look like, it's always a process of trail and error, of testing out new things and getting rid of old ones.
- feautured in this docu is Calafou a project in Spain you should look into.
Tamera - Taste of a New Culture - Documentary about Tamera Peace Research Center in Portugal
Ithaca EcoVillage a full tour by Flock
Another intentional community: 7 friends built restoration ecovillage. Outcome 50 years on
Project Kamp is a utopie in Portugal around One Army. They have a whole YouTube channel with a lot of videos, favourites:
- #35 How we build a pizza oven from clay (no cement)

Having a stable food source is the basis of all human life, but how would you do that with all the tara of sustainability and ecologicaly? Here:

Here are some very inspiring individual stories to dream about:

Interested in another lifestyle? Here is a woman from Iceland who creates beautiful clothing from sheep fur which would otherwise be wasted. Watch it on Arte's YouTube channel
A bit too rough for most but Aaron Fletcher has a beautiful life philosophy: watch how he lives with some sheeps and his practical small trailer
Another documentry about a man and a piece of degraded land visited 30 years after
When even a family decides to live in such a world: link

Bunch of content creators to have an even deeper look into that world:

Ever heard of Beau Miles? He has an appealing life philosophy and is besides being a prof, a filmmaker; watch some of his world-view changing and gorgeous story-telling:
- A Tree a Minute: planting 1440 trees in a day
- Junk Office: Saving $10k by building it myself
Isabel Paige is lving the change and gifted content creator you definitly have to know.
Another great content creator around this topic is Kirsten Dirksen, visit her channel for more.

Political videos, that explain than show but nevertheless are very enjoyable to watch:

only for German speaker

Intentional community: Tamera Ithaca EcoVillage