Self-reliant, intentional communities use small businesses to thrive in hard times

Published: Sunday, March 18 2012 10:52 p.m. MDT

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Communities living apart from society are often entrepreneurial out of necessity. The United States has a rich history of intentional communities — from Catholic monasteries to secular communes — and the businesses used to sustain and put into practice those community's values.

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Bart Tippetts

Salt Lake City, Utah

I find this article fascinating . Intentional communities follows the tradtions of LDS history when the saints set up cooperatives and united orders. People of faith and non faith may want to consider this concept again and start their own More..

6:01 a.m. March 19, 2012
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Pete1215

Lafayette, IN

I wonder who paid for the knee operation. We The People?

8:49 a.m. March 19, 2012
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Ultra Bob

Cottonwood Heights, UT

Question: Do the business operations of the Intentional Communities abide by the civil laws that other private businesses must follow?

As American citizens people have the right to be, do, believe, and create a special government for More..

10:22 a.m. March 19, 2012
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