Story: Communes and communities

More links and websites

• Alternative communities

  Information about New Zealand’s alternative communities, on the Christchurch City Libraries website.

• Bodhinyanarama Buddhist monastery

  The website of Bodhinyanarama Buddhist monastery in Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.

• Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood

  The website for the Earthsong development in Waitākere, Auckland.

• Riverside

  The website of Riverside community, in the Moutere area, near Nelson.

• Gloriavale

  A short documentary about the Gloriavale settlement, directed by Cody Packer.

• The eco-village challenge

  An article about eco-villages, by scientist and sustainable-living advocate Robert Gilman.

More suggestions and sources

• Baxter, James K. Jerusalem daybook. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1971.

• Greenaway, Ruth, Leith McMurray, and David Colyer, eds. Utopianz: a guide to intentional communities & communal living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Christchurch: STRAW Umbrella Trust, 2004.

• Jones, Tim. A hard-won freedom: alternative communities in New Zealand. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975.

• Newton, John. The double rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem commune. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.

• O’Regan, Pauline. A changing order. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1986.

• Sargisson, Lucy, and Lyman Tower Sargent. Living in utopia: New Zealand’s intentional communities. Aldershot; Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.