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A recent NY Times article profiles several urban households that are currently forming small collectives. FIC's Laird Schaub shares details about the recent surge in community.

JOHANNA BRONK wants to make communal vegetarian meals and keep chickens. Mariel Berger hopes for social, artistic and political collaborations. Harmony Hazard is into hula hooping, book groups and anarchism....The impetus for the group home or collective they hope to form is less about finances - though it is true that pooling resources yields better real estate - and more about community building.

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Written by: molly

The Arizona Daily Star has an article on water conservation that highlights water conservation expert Brad Lancaster of Milagro Cohousing. The article doesn't have much about cohousing, but describes the water conservation techniques that Lancaster demonstrates at Millagro Cohousing.

In the foothills of the Tucson Mountains west of town, the residents of Milagro Co-housing have mastered the water-capture business. All the water that falls on Milagro, and all the water used in the 28 homes there, is kept on site by careful design.

Six years after the community was built, the mature landscaping of its common areas has created a climate considerably cooler than the desert that surrounds Milagro and the asphalt-crazy city down the hill.

"In summer, when I wear shorts, I can feel the cold air drainage, like water, flowing on my legs," said Bob Gilby, one of the original residents. "Once you build something like this, the treats come fast, furious and cheap."

Brad Lancaster, who co-designed the water capture systems at Milagro with David Confer, calls that feeling "the bun dance of abundance" in his many presentations to local groups.

Read the article about water conservation at Milagro Cohousing.

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Written by: erika

Manzanita Village Cohousing Community received a grant from the Arizona State Land Department to help expand its permaculture urban forest on its site in Prescott Arizona.

The community will be holding a workshop in April to install water catchment systems for their common house which will irrigate the urban forest.

The community's 12.5 acre site has Alligator Juniper, Utah Juniper, Pinion Pine and Scrub Live Oak on its steep slopes and the water catchment system will benefit these and and other species to be interplanted.

Read the Cohousing Urban Forest Article in Read it Here.

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