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  • About my Blog
    explaining this random collection of missives...

    Craig uses his blog to share ideas with others in the Cohousing Movement and Industry. They are shared using a typical, stream-of-consciousness manner - as they come to his mind rather than in the much more orderly fashion of the Cohousing Website.

  • 13 Reasons Why You Should Attend the Cohousing Conference
    May, 2008

    We came up with a bakers dozen of reasons why you need to be at the June Cohousing Conference in Boston.

  • Remembering Michael Black
    May, 2008

    Michael Allan Black, one of America's foremost authorities on co-housing, died of a heart attack April 9 in Santa Rosa, CA, He was 70. Two of the best known projects he designed were Two Acre Wood in Sebastopol and Yulupa Co-Housing in Santa Rosa, where he had been living since 2005 with his wife, Alexandra Hart. "His strong belief was that community is one of the things that bonds people," she said.

    Marty Maskall, the founder of Orangevale Cohousing, a forming group near Sacramento, says, "I feel honored that I got to know Michael Black. He was a gentle and calming presence." She met him while attending a workshop at Yulupa Cohousing in 2007, "At the time, I was feeling shell shocked because our project had just been rejected by the local Planning Council. Michael was very encouraging and he had several specific suggestions to help us. He made copies for me of letters of endorsement from mayors and other officials, and he taught me that getting letters like that could really help our project win approval." she remembers. "He was generous with his time, and a pleasure to talk with. I will miss Michael's gentle and encouraging spirit! He did much to advance the Cohousing movement."

    Michael was looking forward to participating in the Coho/US conference in June and was scheduled to make a presentation on "The Role of Eclectic Spirituality in Deepening Our Connections." He intended to discuss an "eclectic spiritual perspective that enables us to embrace ourselves and our community life as sacred, in the same way that we can hold life itself as sacred — something to cherish, protect and serve. Viewing our community life through this 'spiritual lens' builds awareness, compassion, trust and openness."

    He will be deeply missed.

  • The Financing Webinar CD is Available
    May, 2008

    The CD of Katie McCamant’s December webinar on financing cohousing has been produced and is ready to order.

    The presentation is just over an hour and a half long. It is a movie of the full webinar with the complete Powerpoint presentation and the full audio recording of the talk given by Katie on December 3, 2007.

  • May, 2008
    Where are we

    Living in Cohousing

    Twenty Years Later: The State of Cohousing in America

    Cohousing architect Brad Gunkel looks at where cohousing is today and what challenges lie ahead.

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    Association News

    Why Attend the Conference?

    We came up with a bakers dozen of reasons why you need to be at the June Cohousing Conference in Boston.

  • Twenty Years Later: The State of Cohousing in America
    by Brad Gunkel, Architect, McCamant & Durrett Architects
    May, 2008

    It is the eve of the 2008 Cohousing Conference. It has been 20 years since the concept of cohousing was introduced to an increasingly transient and anonymous American population. It therefore seems like a natural time to step back and survey the movement’s current state, as well as its trajectory – to measure our successes and to recognize the work that lies ahead.

  • Grace Kim Joins Coho/US Board
    May, 2008

    Architect Grace Kim has joined the Coho/US Board. Grace Kim is an architect and co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, a five-person architectural collaborative in Seattle.

  • April 2008
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    Group Process

    Tools for Tackling Issues

    When your group or community encounters a difficult issue, new tactics might be needed.

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    Association News

    Upcoming Conference
    Embraces Those
    Living In Community

    This year's cohousing conference in Boston isn't intended just for those creating cohousing communities. There will also be lots of useful information for those
    living in existing communities.

    Read more >

    Conference Overview Page >

    Workshops >

    Preconference Workshops >

    About the Area >

    Cooking for Community

    Sandy Thompson shares a great recipe for quiche and ceasar salad.

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    Good Group Decision Tips

    This month Craig Freshley suggests that assuming the best about others is a wise decision.

    Read more >
    Register now for the Northern California tour May 3rd or the Washington DC area tour May 17th.

    Categories and Recent Articles

    Creating Cohousing:  Making Cohousing Affordable: Strategies and Successes, Parts 1, 2 and 3

    Living in Cohousing:  "Forest" Cohousing of Japan, Part I and 2

    Group Process:  Handling Inappropriate Blocks in Consensus

    Marketing:  The Art of Membership

    Letters to the Editor:  Send a letter

  • 2008 National Cohousing Conference Embraces Those Living in Community
    April, 2008

    The National Cohousing Conference has traditionally drawn a large crowd of folks who are searching for answers, advice, connections and community. This year the conference will also address cohousing’s most valuable resource: those already living in community. The 2008 conference experience is geared toward helping those of you who’ve been living in community – whether for months or years or decades – to enrich your lives and the life of your group as well as to connect with each other.

  • Tools for Tackling Issues
    March, 2008

    These tools of use to groups tackling issues come from Seeds for Change, a British nonprofit that seeks to equip those working for change with better skills.

  • Wolf Creek Village Cohousing Breaks Ground
    March, 2008

    The heavy rain, hail and snow held off until the after the Wolf Creek Village Cohousing Ground Breaking held on Saturday, March 15th at 12 noon. Seventy-five future residents of Wolf Creek Commons, Wolf Creek Lodge, Mayor Mark Johnson, City Council members Chauncey Poston and Janet Arbuckle, City staff, CoHousing Partners, McCamant & Durrett Architects were all present to celebrate this environmentally conscious new neighborhood. Kathryn McCamant, President of CoHousing Partners, the developer of the project welcomed guests. McCamant, also an architect and author spoke about how special this cohousing project is for her, “I know that in creating a neighborhood where people will walk to shopping, bike to the farmers market and into downtown, that we are moving toward a more sustainable lifestyle where we will use less of the earth’s precious resources.”

  • March 2008
    Keyaki Tree

    Living in cohousing

    “Forest” Cohousing of Japan, Part II

    Diana Leafe Christian continues our
    our tour of “collaborative housing” in Japan.

  • “Forest” Collective Housing in Japan, Part II
    by Diana Leafe Christian
    March, 2008

    After the November 2007 Japanese Ecovillage Conference in Tokyo, I visited three “collective housing” projects in Tokyo with conference host Akemi Miyauchi. At that conference I first heard of what the Japanese call “collective housing” – high-density housing projects with various kinds of common space – but it sure sounded much like cohousing to me.

  • Coho/US welcomes new board members
    March, 2008

    Your board is delighted to welcome three new members: David Entin, Diane Margolis, and Terri Furman!

  • Nevada City Cohousing Earns National Award
    February, 2008

    The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) has announced that McCamant & Durrett Architects are the recipients of the Silver 2008 Energy Value Housing Award for their Nevada City Cohousing project. The NAHB searches for the best in the country for the top honors in energy-efficiency, design and innovation.

    On receiving the award, firm principal Chuck Durrett responded by stating, “We are honored to have been selected from a field of 500 other projects." Katie McCamant, M&D's other principal, said, "What is key for me is to create walkable communities where people use less of the earth’s resources while living a better quality of life."

  • “Forest” Cohousing in Japan, Part I
    by Diana Leafe Christian, Earthaven Ecovillage
    February, 2008

    As cohousing increasingly becomes a global phenomenon, I've become curious to learn how different countries mold the concept to reflect their cultural, financial and regulatory realities. I learned that firsthand after I had a chance to see three cohousing projects in Japan recently.

    After attending the Japanese Ecovillage Conference in Tokyo in late November 2007, I visited the 28-unit Kankanmori no Kaze Cohousing project in Tokyo with two friends, Giovanni Ciarlo from Huehuecoyotl Ecovillage in Mexico and Akemi Miyauchi, one of our wonderful conference hosts. Giovanni and I had given presentations about intentional communities at the conference, and we were eager to see similar projects in Japan. There appear to be relatively few intentional communities there, and so far perhaps only a total of four cohousing communities – depending on how one defines the term.

  • February, 2008
    japan 1

    Living in cohousing

    “Forest” cohousing of Japan, Part I

    Cohousing is very new to Japan yet
    in a recent visit to communities there,
    Diana Leafe Christian sees how different
    cultures mold the concept to their own needs.

  • Early-bird registration for the 2008 Cohousing Conference is about to begin
    February, 2008

    Reserve your spot soon and get the best deal on limited on-site housing. Early-bird registration is $195 per person for the main conference program, with lodging an unbelievable $30 per person per night on campus. Sign up beginning next week!

  • About our new website
    February, 2008

    The cohousing.org website has a new look and feel. Learn a little about how it works as well as a little about our plans for the site and how much we'd like to hear what you'd like on the site.

  • Where's the webinar CD?
    February, 2008

    What's happened to the CD of Katie McCamant's webinar on financing cohousing?

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