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Twin Oaks Community, Virginia, the Glossary

Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage and intentional community of about one hundred people living on in Louisa County, Virginia.^[1]

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1967 establishments in Virginia
Ecovillages
Egalitarian communities
Federation of Egalitarian Communities

Acorn is a farm-based, anarchist, egalitarian, intentional community located in rural Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Twin Oaks Community, Virginia and Acorn Community Farm are egalitarian communities, Federation of Egalitarian Communities, intentional communities in the United States and utopian communities in the United States.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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B. F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cooperation

Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English and, with a varied usage along time, coöperation) takes place when a group of organisms works or acts together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit.

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East Wind Community is an intentional community located in the Missouri Ozarks. Twin Oaks Community, Virginia and East Wind Community are egalitarian communities, Federation of Egalitarian Communities and intentional communities in the United States.

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Ecovillage

An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable. Twin Oaks Community, Virginia and ecovillage are ecovillages.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.

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Federation of Egalitarian Communities

The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) is a group of egalitarian communities which have joined together with the common purpose of creating a lifestyle based on equality, cooperation, and harmony with the Earth. Twin Oaks Community, Virginia and Federation of Egalitarian Communities are egalitarian communities and intentional communities in the United States.

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The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC), formerly the Fellowship of Intentional Communities then the Fellowship for Intentional Community, provides publications, referrals, support services, and "sharing opportunities" for a wide range of intentional communities including: cohousing groups, community land trusts, communal societies, class-harmony communities, housing cooperatives, cofamilies, and ecovillages, along with community networks, support organizations, and people seeking a home in community.

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Handfasting

Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the term's usage, may define an unofficiated wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant, usually with the intent of later undergoing a second wedding with an officiant), a betrothal (an engagement in which a couple has formally promised to wed, and which can be broken only through divorce), or a temporary wedding (in which a couple makes an intentionally temporary marriage commitment).

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Kat Kinkade

Kathleen "Kat" Kinkade (December 6, 1930 – July 3, 2008) was one of the eight co-founders of Twin Oaks, an intentional community in Virginia inspired by the behaviorist utopia depicted in B.F. Skinner's book Walden Two.

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Living Energy Farm

Living Energy Farm, or "LEF", is a zero fossil fuel intentional community of seven adult members plus two children (as of 2022) on 127 acres in rural Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Twin Oaks Community, Virginia and Living Energy Farm are rural community development.

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Louisa County, Virginia

Louisa County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Louisa, Virginia

Louisa (originally named Louisa Court House) is a town in Louisa County, Virginia, United States.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition.

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Paganism

Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.

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Polyamory

Polyamory is the practice of, or desire for, romantic relationships with more than one partner at the same time.

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Secularity

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.

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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE) is a cooperatively-owned seed company based out of Mineral, Virginia.

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Stipend

A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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