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Cohousing Creates Permaculture Urban Forest

Posted on March 27, 2008 by

Manzanita Village Cohousing Community received a grant from the Arizona State Land Department to help expand its permaculture urban forest on its site in Prescott Arizona. The community will be… Read More


Ecovillage Bed and Breakfast

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

The Wild Goose Bed and Breakfast got some publicity for ecovillages on the Ithaca, NY local news. The bed and breakfast is located in the Ecovillage at Ithaca community just… Read More

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Ecology, Economy, and Cohousing in the Boston Globe

Posted on March 25, 2008 by
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The Boston Globe has a great article on how ecology and economy are driving Cohousing to grow as a movement. Interest in these types of neighborhoods is growing as more… Read More


Cross between a Commune and a Golf Community?

Posted on March 24, 2008 by

ABC News in DC did a short video spot on Catoctin Creek Village out in Loudon County, VA and compared the rural cohousing community to both a 60s commune and… Read More

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Cohousing: Building Seattle Green

Posted on March 24, 2008 by

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interview with Coho/US Executive Directory Craig Ragland of Songaia Cohousing. Ragland gives the basics of cohousing touching on its appeal to the mainstream and its… Read More


Cohousing – Community Means Healthier Living

Posted on March 11, 2008 by

Your Health Connection has created a series of three videos on cohousing and how it can help enhance people’s health. The site generaly focuses on health care and and medical… Read More

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What’s Masculine, What’s Feminine, and What Am I?

Posted on March 7, 2008 by

Mollie Curry hoists a chainsaw and finds herself entangled in a perplexing webs of sticky questions. Here she attempts to untangle the threads, both within herself and within her community.


Building a Business in Community

Posted on March 7, 2008 by

There wasn’t much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile–creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.


The Power Balance

Posted on March 7, 2008 by

What can you do if some people in your group seem to have more power than others? Our consensus trainers and group process experts respond.


Sunset Magazine Profiles Portland Co-housing Couple

Posted on March 3, 2008 by

In an article titled “Green in Portland,” Sunset profiles three couples, one of them living in a co-housing development. Portland is famous for its natural beauty, it’s commitment to environmental… Read More


LA Ecovillage Threatened

Posted on February 23, 2008 by

Last week The New Statesman, a British current affairs magazine, carried a story about the LA Ecovillage in its online edition. The blogger, Johnathon Dawson, usually writes about life at… Read More


Community at the Office: Coworking in the New York Times

Posted on February 20, 2008 by

Coworking has hit the mainstream with an article in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. From the Chronicle: In co-working, a group of freelancers or other solo… Read More


Energy Conservation Techniques Make Green Home Building Affordable at Abundance Ecovillage

Posted on February 19, 2008 by

Abundance Ecovillage in Fairfield, IA made the local news with a wonderful piece on their growing ecologically focused community. The piece focused primarily on the ecological aspects: solar and wind… Read More


Cohousing Not Just for Boomers

Posted on February 18, 2008 by

The big media splash in cohousing these days is about Senior or Elder Cohousing, and some might say cohousing’s core constituency is among the boomer generation. But recent posts on… Read More

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UK Government to Build Carbon Neutral Ecotowns

Posted on February 14, 2008 by

With grass-roots ecovillages pioneering sustainable living, the mainstream wants in on the action. The Guardian reports that the government in the United Kingdom has plans to build 10 carbon neutral… Read More


An Intentional Community Radio Station?

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

You’ve heard of Christian radio, how about Krishna radio? Well, New Vrindaban, an intentional community in West Vriginia, is seeking a license for a full power radio station so it… Read More


Ecovillage Training Center Video

Posted on February 9, 2008 by

We’ve been wanting to have more video pieces on Community Buzz but video on community is just not as easy to find. We hope to start posting at least one… Read More

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Renewable Energy and Cohousing Podcast

Posted on February 7, 2008 by

[Note, as of February 2017, most of the links below are no longer active.] RenewableEnergyAccess.com has a podcast on cohousing and green building featuring Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, a cohousing… Read More


Cohousing – Both Green and Affordable

Posted on February 7, 2008 by

Global Green USA profiled Chiacgo’s Greenway Park Cohousing on the BuildingGreen blog last week. The excerpt from their book, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, describes how Greenway Cohousing managed to… Read More

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Cohousing Faces Resistance in Sacramento

Posted on February 7, 2008 by
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The Sacramento NewsReview reports that Sycamore Village Cohousing is facing some resistance from neighbors as it tries to get its plan approved by the local authorities. Despite its impeccable transit-oriented,… Read More


Coworking Brings Community to the Workplace

Posted on February 3, 2008 by

With more and more people working from home it isn’t surprising that some of them would start missing the camaraderie one can feel in a vibrant office spaces. If they… Read More


Area Communities featured in Seattle Times

Posted on January 29, 2008 by

There is a great article in the real estate section of the Seattle Times on intentional communities in the Seattle area. The article focuses mostly on the 15 cohousing communities… Read More


Ecovillage Helps Ithaca Rank as 2nd Greenest City

Posted on January 24, 2008 by

The city of Ithaca was second on the list of Greenest Cities in part due to the work of the Ecovillage at Ithaca an intentional community with two 30-home cohousing… Read More


Artists evicted from Brooklyn ‘Commune’

Posted on January 23, 2008 by

While not a commune in the traditional sense, the residents of 475 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, NY describe their home as a kibbutz or commune. Unfortunately they were all evicted… Read More


Cohousing Communities in Small Towns Nationwide

Posted on January 21, 2008 by

With over 100 completed cohousing communities in the US, and the idea getting more and more interest and attention, its not surprising that we would see it cropping up in… Read More


Renewable Energy and Cohousing Reduce Home Energy Costs

Posted on January 19, 2008 by
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A recent article on RenewableEnergyAccess.com does a great profile on Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, a cohousing community in New Hampshire. The article focuses on the communities Green Buildings (which will… Read More


Cohousing in the Los Angeles Times

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

The LA Times ran a great article on cohousing just before christmas. It profiles Wolf Creek Lodge and focuses on senior cohousing as an up and coming trend.


Churches being recast as intentional communities

Posted on January 17, 2008 by
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An article in The Walton Sun from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida describes how a local church is thriving after recasting itself as an intentional community: “We haven’t set any growth… Read More


Communes and Cohousing on Huffington Post and Good Magazine

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

An article posted on the Huffington Post, a progressive news and blog aggregator, suggests communes and cohousing as an option for the current generation’s economic and social woes. Looking closer… Read More


Co-op America Highlights Eating Co-ops

Posted on January 14, 2008 by

Co-op America published an article on eating co-ops in its Real Money newsletter. The article profiles a variety of groups around the country who have gotten together to share cooking… Read More