Graham Meltzer has spent much of his adult life living in intentional communities around the world - kibbutz in Israel (3 years), a hippie commune in Australia (8 years) and, for the last 15 years, in the famous Findhorn spiritual community and ecovillage. Along the way he conducted extensive research into cohousing in Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan. Graham was a long-standing board member of the International Communal Studies Association. In a past life he practiced and taught architecture.