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  • Registration is Open!

    Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods; Learning from the Cohousing Experience

    Registration is now available for the 2012 National Cohousing Conference
    Marriott Oakland CA City Center: Wednesday June 13 - Sunday June 17

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  • Websites: Minimal or Comprehensive?
    By Sharon Villines

    In forming communities, should a website be minimal if it wants to attract new members or let everything hang out?

    Minimal means there is nothing to scare anyone. Nothing to turn anyone off. This argument goes along with believing that personal contact is persuasive and written...

  • Empowered Individuals Create a Powerful Community
    By Sandy Thomson

    Every year around this time we have a community retreat. It is a time for all of us to reconnect. To get to know each other on a deeper level. Sometimes the retreat is facilitated with outside help and sometimes from members of the community.

    The first night, Friday night, we have a...

  • California recognizes Cohousing as a more Sustainable Living Environment
    By Bob Miller

    The theme of the 2012 National Conference is “Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods; Learning from the Cohousing Experience.” Governor Jerry Brown of California recently endorsed the concept of cohousing as a more sustainable living environment.

    The Governor’s Environmental and Economic...

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