On Cohousing-L, a member of a forming group asked a smart question: "What SHOULD we be worried about?"
Philip Dowds, an architect living in Cornerstone Cohousing in Cambridge Cohousing replied:
Plan on delay. Plan on surprising cost increases. Plan on flogging your way past disappointments...
Design
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By Sharon Villines Views since 5/2014: 4,825 |
Presented by Bryan Bowan, 2008 National Cohousing Conference renewable energy technologies
Use of natural resources such as sunlight, wind, water, ocean tides, hydrogen, biomass, or geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished, as sources for heat and power for use in buildings and communities.
At the small scale of 1- 40 homes, we’re generally... Views since 5/2014: 1,845 |
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By Mark Daugherty Collaborative Energy Ventures, Presented at the Cohousing Conference 2010 Outline:
- Sustainability
- View, Practice and Action
- Conflict, Taking Whole, Forming
- Social Drama Views since 5/2014: 1,888 |
Presentation by Grace H. Kim, for the 2008 National Cohousing Conference Daybreak – a sustainable Case Study
The reality of building green
Presentation by Grace H. Kim, AIA provided courtesy of
Schemata Workshop for the
2008 National Cohousing Conference Views since 5/2014: 2,175 |
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Presented by Bryan Bowan, 2008 National Cohousing Conference design goal:
to luxuriate in life (cold beer, warm shower), to live lightly on the land :
design a compact building with a tight, well insulated envelope that responds to your climate, take advantage of everything you can, recognize your opportunities , control ventilation, design a right-sized... Views since 5/2014: 2,080 |
By Neena Jud, AIA LEED AP I happen to be writing an article this month about my experience with designing a composting toilet facility for a nature preserve in southern Kentucky. So let me take a few minutes to summarize (sorry - it is long): Toilet systems that use water to carry the waste product away have recently come... Views since 5/2014: 2,663 |
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By Chuck Durrett The best size and number of households seems to be one of the big challenges facing cohousing in America. Cohousing communities in Europe have shown over and again that the optimum size is not too big and not too small.
Create a community that is too big and an institutional feel and sensibility... Views since 5/2014: 3,115 |
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