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Bookmark this site. My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage — Communities Magazine. Ecovillagenewsletter.org. From Ecovillages By Diana Leafe Christian “Consensus . . . allows each person complete power over the group.”
—Caroline Estes, Communities Directory (FIC, 1991, 1995) Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ilya Repin, 1870-1873 (December, 2012) “You’d better watch out! The community member rose from her chair as she said this, obviously distraught. The member who blocked seemed stunned. This particular Green Meadow member had threatened to block numerous times over the years, which of course stopped potential proposals from being presented. Unhappy Nelly, Edgar Degas, 1885 The phrase “You’d better ''watch out!”
“Excuse me, are you making a threat?” “What should you watch . . . out . . . for?” Hey . . . wait a sec. Not only that — for years people had been afraid to even bring up proposals they feared this member would block. Never again did the group test a block to see if it was valid, regardless of the belief that they use Formal Consensus. Was Green Meadow an example of consensus working well?