Cohousing News

El 'senior cohousing' llega a España con un poco de retraso
Inmodiario
La de Torremocha, a 60 kilómetros al norte de Madrid, es una cooperativa de viviendas creada y autogestionada por un grupo de 90 personas mayores, en su mayoría provenientes del barrio madrileño de Vallecas, a los que lo del 'cohousing' les sonaba a ...

Lancaster Today
New business hub is not run of the mill
Lancaster Today
The building was handed over to Green Elephant, the cooperative borne out of the village's burgeoning eco-cohousing community, which will run the mill as a non-profit hub for environmentally and ethically oriented local enterprises, freelancers and ...

Island student is part of new Kids CBC program
Bowen Island Undercurrent
She is so well spoken that she was chosen to do a voice-over for a Belterra Cohousing promotional video. The Belterra video was not the first paying gig for the Bowen Island student, who has been acting since 2011. This week, Isobel's performance made ...

BBC News
Straw bale homes for LILAC co-housing residents
BBC News
The UK Cohousing Network, which offers advice and support to new and forming co-housing groups, says there are 15 built communities and more than 40 developing projects in the UK. Land off Spencer Place in Chapeltown A group in Chapeltown are ...

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Methow Valley News
News briefs
Methow Valley News
Cohousing meeting Thursday Anyone interested in exploring the opportunity to develop a multi-generational cohousing community of 25 to 35 homes on an eight-acre site in Winthrop is invited to a planning and information meeting on Thursday (May 23).

Methow Valley News
What's happening
Methow Valley News
Wednesday May 22. AWANA: Fun and games for ages preschool through 6th grade at Cascade Bible Church, Twisp. 997-8312. 7-8:30pm. Thursday May 23. COHOUSING: Info meeting about cohousing in Winthrop, at new barn at Shafer Museum. 996-3375.

Cohousing': una alternativa para una vejez vital
El País.com (España)
Couchsurfing, crowdfunding y ahora... el cohousing. ¡Otro palabro más! Estos vocablos importados del inglés representan alternativas eficaces a sistemas preestablecidos en distintos ámbitos de la vida. El couchsurfing nos permite viajar sin pagar ...

Republican Journal (subscription)
Energy Fair attracts record number of next-generation energy leaders
Republican Journal (subscription)
While some students went on a home tour at the Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage led by Geoffrey Gilchrist of Belfast Cohousing, others learned how to advise their parents on home efficiency from Paul Shepherd of Penobscot Home Performance.

The Guardian
'Sociable' housing helps older people remain in the community
The Guardian
Cohousing is a form of "intentional community" created and run by its residents. It consists of private houses or flats with shared facilities, such as communal cooking and washing areas, and the residents offer mutual support. Homeshare matches ...
Revolution needed to stop 'ghettoisation' of older people, says think tank24dash (press release)

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The Guardian
Society daily 21.05.13
The Guardian
Cohousing and Homeshare can be ideal for older people who want a wider social life than care homes can provide, says Jo Salter • Witnessing blatant police cruelty convinced award-winning lawyer Leslie Thomas to make deaths in custody his life's work ...

Revolution needed to stop 'ghettoisation' of older people, says think tank
24dash (press release)
The organisation is now urging ministers, councils and housing providers to encourage 'sociable housing' models that reduce isolation and loneliness, such as Homeshare and cohousing. In a paper published as part of the Hanover@50 Debate, the think ...

Money Power: Creative housing for seniors Money Power: Cohousing combines ...
Tulsa World
Takoma Village, a cohousing community in Washington, D.C., not far from my neighborhood, might be the solution. Among its features: condos clustered around a central courtyard, a common house where residents can socialize and share meals if they want ...

The Caledonian Mercury
Findhorn Ecovillage to host Global Sustainability Event
The Caledonian Mercury
The conference and associated events offer a rare opportunity, in a unique communal setting, to share academic research and lived experience of life in intentional communities such as ecovillages, cohousing projects, communes, kibbutzim, sectarian ...

Worldwide Release of WITHIN REACH, is Announced
Broadway World
Their journey and film answer the question so many are asking: Is it possible for Americans to live in a sustainable way? The film explores the inner workings of Cohousing neighborhoods designed to maximize positive social interaction, Ecovillages with ...

Editiepajot
DILBEEK - Cohousing Pajottenland zoekt naar kandidaat cohousers
Editiepajot
Cohousing Pajottenland is een vzw met het doel een samenhuisproject te realiseren in het Pajottenland. Hiertoe is de vzw op zoek naar zowel geïnteresseerde leden, als naar potentiële sites. Vandaag telt de vzw 16 leden en kandidaat-leden (goed voor 11 ...

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Public weighs in on river race project
Goshen News
The concept draws primarily from the idea of “cohousing”, a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. The concept keeps the proposed homes smaller and has a design that ...

Public weighs in on river race project
Goshen News
The concept draws primarily from the idea of “cohousing”, a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. The concept keeps the proposed homes smaller and has a design that ...

Cohousing Modena: “una sperimentazione interessante”
Modena 2000
L'approvazione della delibera che introduce a Modena una sperimentazione di cohousing nella zona di via Pergolesi, avvenuta nella seduta del Consiglio comunale di lunedì 13 maggio con il voto favorevole del Pd e l'astensione di Sel, Etica e legalità ...

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Cohousing Modena: “una sperimentazione interessante”
Sassuolo 2000
L'approvazione della delibera che introduce a Modena una sperimentazione di cohousing nella zona di via Pergolesi, avvenuta nella seduta del Consiglio comunale di lunedì 13 maggio con il voto favorevole del Pd e l'astensione di Sel, Etica e legalità ...

Co-housing becoming the new norm in today's economy
KAIT
... a space for the entire community to share. "Taking the stress off of parents in having to do everything for their kids and not sharing the load is really to me the heart of the American dream." said Rebecca Lane with the CoHousing Association of ...

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