{"id":15963,"date":"2013-10-31T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:03:09","slug":"intentional-community-internet-business-nathan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/intentional-community-internet-business-nathan-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Get when You Cross Intentional Community with Internet Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nathan-brown-scythe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15964\" alt=\"nathan brown with a scythe\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nathan-brown-scythe.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nathan-brown-scythe.jpg 399w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nathan-brown-scythe-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several years, I&#8217;ve been able to answer that one with one name: Nathan Mackenzie Brown. A (relatively) long-time resident at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingrabbit.org\/\">Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage<\/a>, Nathan reached out to me a number of years ago about collaborating, and has served as an on-again\/off-again mentor for me on the internet business front.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m not the only person impressed with Nathan&#8217;s ability to both wield a scythe and optimize a web site for the search engines, so I wasn&#8217;t surprised to see that Everett Sizemore (who&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2010\/01\/urban-homestead-regulations\/\">contributed to us<\/a>) had published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingasimplelife.com\/nathan-mackenzie-brown-modern-homesteader-profiles\/\">a very thorough profile of Nathan<\/a> on his Living a Simple Life site. If you want to get a sense of how to <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2013\/07\/10\/the-easy-guide-to-sustainable-living-in-2013\/\">shape your own life around your values<\/a> &#8211; without starving or going broke &#8211; Nathan&#8217;s quite a model.<\/p>\n<p>Know of other people making the most out of voluntary simplicity? Share their stories with us&#8230; we&#8217;re always intrigued!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> Living a Simple Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, I&#8217;ve been able to answer that one with one name: Nathan Mackenzie Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":15965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,24],"tags":[4132,6618,6619,2386],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nathan Mackenzie Brown: Voluntary Simplicity Means Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think you could blend a lifestyle of ecovillage life with online business? 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