WHY COMMUNITARIANISM MAKES SENSE
 

The Wikipedia entry on the subject. Quite well written and has a lot of good links at the end
 

The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. Affiliated with George Washington University in Washington, DC. Contains very well written and concise essays on the subject.
 

The Communitarian Network. Also affiliated with George Washington University. The network organizes conferences and publishes written material on the subject.
 

The Alliance for Community Media. Based in the United States, this organization promotes grass-roots access to electronic media. It has a very extensive links page.
 

This website from a cohousing community in Virginia provides a wide overview of the cohousing concept--something that has been shown to promote communitarian values through neighbourly interdependence.
 

The Character Development Group, from North Carolina, embraces and promotes communitarianism via the school environment.
 

A page of links pertaining to the works of Charles Taylor (the closest thing [sic] Canada has to Amitai Etzioni).
 

Many more links.
 

One more reason why Deliberative Democracy and Communitarianism are so important.
(taken from p. 138 of The Empty Tank)
 
"There is another category of attendee [at an energy conference that Jeremy Leggett attended in 2005], one that is much on my mind as I think about the coming great global energy crisis...If there is mileage in this business of the oil peak, [the neo-nazi] thinking must go, the markets will topple, recession will turn into depression, the unemployment queues will explode. There will be armies of seriously disaffected people. The fertile breeding ground of Nazism, last seen in the 1930's, will once again be with us: playgrounds for any sick thug with a working knowledge of the politics of power."