Tag: Relationships


Social Permaculture: Applying the Principles

Submitted by Brush, Cedar Moon (Portland, Oregon) on
Social Permaculture, Public vs Private is the theme of the winter issue of Communities Magazine, exploring among other issues how “relationships with one another are just as sustainable, regenerative, and resilient as the ecological elements in a land-based permaculture system.” Click here for this article profiling how permaculture’s principles apply to human groups. And come...
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Defining Cooperative Culture

Submitted by Laird Schaub on
Back in 1974, when a group of four of us started Sandhill Farm, I started down a path that ultimately added up to my dedicating my life to building community. While that commitment has never wavered (the need for community today as more urgent than ever), I’ve frequently adjusted the lens through which I see... Read More

Unpacking Impacted Tensions

Submitted by Laird Schaub on
As a professional consultant in group dynamics I rarely get asked to work with a group when everything is going fine. Usually they’re leaking oil, have a busted leaf spring, or can’t seem to shift into third gear—and are hoping for inexpensive repairs from me, the itinerant shade tree mechanic. Overcoming Inertia First of all,... Read More

Is it Cohousing? Dorms for Grownups

Submitted by R. Philip Dowds, Cornerstone Cohousing (Cambridget MA) on
R. Philip Dowds is commenting on the Atlantic Magazine article: Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials? In a new model of living, residents will have their own “microunits” built around a shared living space for cooking, eating and hanging out. The single family home, and the condominium within a professionally managed building, remain... Read More

Neighborliness

Submitted by Jenny of CoHousing Solutions on
“The disappearance of these once-central relationships—between people who are familiar but not close, or friendly but not intimate—lies at the root of America’s economic woes and political gridlock.” – The Vanishing Neighbor, Marc Dunkelman CITYLAB (from The Atlantic) released a fascinating article Aug 19th: Why Won’t You Be My Neighbor? based on recent neighborhood-level data...
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The Best Morning Coffee in the World: Bellingham Cohousing

Submitted by Bella DePaulo on
[Bella DePaulo’s introduction: For How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century, I visited so many cohousing communities and had so much to say about them that the book just couldn’t hold it all. Descriptions of some of the experiences I cherished were cut from the book. This is one of... Read More