Tag: Ecology

New Marketing Messages

Submitted by Karen Gimnig on January 17, 2019

There’s a funny thing about cohousing. When you look at typical cohousing marketing, you see messages about what it is like to live in community: private homes, shared common space, know your neighbors. But when you ask people why they live in cohousing, the conversation goes someplace else: Cohousing supports democracy, it makes me a... Read More

Generating Necessity

Submitted by Karen Gimnig on January 3, 2019

This morning a friend brought my son home from a birthday party. Her sons had also attended the party and our house was on their way home, so bringing them all home together significantly reduced the carbon emissions. In other words, it was a good move for sustainability which we all value. But that isn’t... Read

Yarrow Ecovillage: Cohousing as a Building Block to the Ecovillage

Submitted by Charles Durrett, Katie McCamant on June 23, 2016

Published in Communities Magazine #171: Ecovillages Around the World Following the first cohousing community in the United States, Muir Commons in Davis, California, cohousing has not only continued to expand throughout the US and Canada, it has also become a model for other housing types (seniors housing, nonprofit affordable housing), and a building block for... Read More