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Dan Antonioli

Builder/owner:two evolving intentional communities

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5213088 ↗
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Dan Antonioli (born 1960) is a builder and owner of two evolving intentional communities.

Biography

He was born in 1960 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and M.A. from California State University, Sonoma, in psychology. He created 611 in Ghosttown, Oakland, California and The Mendocino project, in Laytonville, California. He is a licensed general contractor, a registered green builder with the National Association of Remodeling Industry Professionals (NARI) and a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the American Solar Energy Association, the Northern California Solar Energy Association, and the Eastern Oregon Renewable Energy Association.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dan Antonioli” is builder/owner:two evolving intentional communities. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Antonioli, Builder and owner, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-01-01. For this dossier, Antonioli, Builder and owner is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dan Antonioli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.