Although it is heartening to note the growing worldwide interest in building sustainable communities for the future, it is at the same time disconcerting that so many of these community visions provide no place for the potential role of business within their working structure. What shapes and forms might business take if it were to be integrated into the community vision, with its implicit goal of creating a more sustainable, co-operative, meaning-filled future society? Partial answers to these questions can be found among stories of experiments in community business which already exist. Let’s look at two such stories, although there are many more to tell. The first is an experiment taking place in Mondragon, a small town in the mountainous region of north-eastern Spain. The other experiment is that of the emerging community business culture at the well-known Findhorn Community is northern Scotland. These two examples serve to illustrate that success stories in alternative ways of doing business do exist. The details of exactly how they are different is explored.