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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The big media splash in cohousing these days is about Senior or Elder Cohousing, and some might say cohousing's core constituency is among the boomer generation. But recent posts on Trendcentral and Treehugger are noting that cohousing also has appeal for Gen X and Gen Y.
A lifestyle trend that first started back in 1960s Denmark, co-housing may be making a comeback among progressive Gen Xers and Ys....While co-housing used to be a fringe movement, it is now resonating with Xers and Ys who are starting families, searching for community and looking to pool resources.
While I don't understand how cohousing's continually fast and steady growth can be described as a "comeback", its not surprising that Gen Xand Gen Y want in on the action. It seems the appeal of cohousing cuts across generations and its only a matter of when people get into the home buying market that they will start taking a look at cohousing.
Treehugger article on Cohousing for Gen X and Gen Y.
Trendcentral article on Cohousing for Gen X and Gen Y.
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Tony Sirna
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
You've heard of Christian radio, how about Krishna radio? Well, New Vrindaban, an intentional community in West Vriginia, is seeking a license for a full power radio station so it can broadcast on such topics as yoga, vegetarianism and lessons from The Bhagavad Gita.
New Vrindaban was established 40 years ago by the funder of the Hare Krishnas and is now home to 20 devotees and has 80 or more people connected to the community in the surrounding area.
For many outsiders, the community's biggest draw is its Palace of Gold, an ornate, Indian-style temple that looks entirely unlike anything you'd expect to encounter in West Virginia. The site is visited by upwards of 40,000 pilgrims and tourists a year, many from India.
The community is still gathering signatures for its petition to the FCC and there is serious competition for the available frequencies in their area. We wish them luck.
Read the article.
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Tony Sirna
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Global Green USA profiled Chiacgo's Greenway Park Cohousing on the BuildingGreen blog last week.
The excerpt from their book, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, describes how Greenway Cohousing managed to merge green building with affordability.
Greenway Park is one of the first cohousing projects created exclusively for low-income residents (most such projects are for middle- to upper-middle-class residents, and a few are mixed income) and is structurally a rental project (most cohousing raise construction funds by preselling units). Also, the building is the first affordable housing project in Chicago to have no professional manager. Greenway Park is self-managed by its residents, and future tenants are selected by current tenants.
The developers did great work to get grants and state funding to support energy efficient design for heating, cooling, and electricity. They knew that affordability doesn't just mean low purchase price or rent, but also low cost for utilities.
Greenway Park's green efforts focused on an integrated approach that incorporated a package of energy-efficient building practices, the deliberate substitution of a variety of green building materials for their more conventional counterparts, and a 2.4 kW rooftop photovoltaic system.
Read the BuildingGreen Cohousing post.
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Tony Sirna
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
More and more people are talking about senior and elder cohousing as well as multi-generational cohousing as a way for seniors to live out their later years in a supportive community. This talk is not just from cohousing activists but from mainstream realtors and elder activists.
For many Seniors and Boomers, co-housing is more appealing than other living options, such as seniors-only buildings or nursing homes, because residents live in safe, nurturing environments, where neighbors care for one another.
Read the post.
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Tony Sirna
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
EcoSpace has an article about Tryon Farms and how they are working in Portland to help create more ecologically friendly zoning and building codes.
Compost toilets, grey water, cob, eco-villages– these terms are entering mainstream vocabulary more and more. Yet many old-fashioned codes and regulations are holding people back from adopting earth-friendly homes and lifestyles.
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Tony Sirna
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Well travelling bloggers do seem to stop in communities often and its nice to get their first hand descriptions of the place. And if you thought biodiesel or bikes were eco, check out these folks who are walking from Vancouver to San Diego.
They stopped at Rosewind Cohousing and Port Townsend EcoVillage in Washington.
Read the blog post.
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Tony Sirna
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Some bicyclers on a cross country trip are blogging about their travels which include stops at many communities.
This one covers their stop at Abundance Ecovillage, Sandhill Farm, and Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage.
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Tony Sirna
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years
Seems like everyone is talking abut Damanhur lately. Sounds like a pretty amazing place.
Honored by the United Nations in 2005 as a model for a new sustainable society, this extraordinary community in northern Italy was founded in 1975 as a center of art and spirituality; and an experimental model of environmental and socioeconomic sustainability.
Today over 1,000 people live and work in Damanhur's 40 villages, many in "group" homes where 12 or more people - related or not - divvy up chores and share meals at enormous tables. This sort of togetherness would make many Americans downright surly! But every one of the Damanhurians I met was disarmingly happy and quick to laugh.
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Tony Sirna
Monday, September 10th, 2007
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