News Articles
Emma Goldman Finishing School in Yes! Magazine
Posted on January 14, 2008 byYes! magazine has an article on the intentional community, Emma Goldman Finishing School. EGFS is an income-sharing household in Seattle and the article describes how EGFS members make do working… Read More
Washington Village Cohousing back to the drawing board
Posted on December 22, 2007 byBoulder citizens have gotten the Wonderland Hill Development Corporation to rethink its plans for the Washington Village site. After a successful petition drive, WHDC says they will go back to… Read More
Cohousing as a way to care for aging boomers
Posted on December 19, 2007 byWMBB discusses the tough question of how our society can care for our aging population as the baby boomers hit retirement. One option for aging boomers is cohousing: “We think… Read More
San Francisco to turn Treasure Island into an ecovillage
Posted on December 14, 2007 byWell they aren’t using the term ecovillage yet but San Francisco is debating what to do with Treasure Island, a human made island in the SF Bay with a now-defunct… Read More
Worldwatch article on ecovillages and cohousing
Posted on December 12, 2007 byIn August Worldwatch published a nice article about ecovillages and cohousing and how they can help reduce one’s ecological footprint. This article is still getting picked up by other media,… Read More
Ecovillages in the real estate section
Posted on December 11, 2007 byI always love seeing communities in the real estate section. Not when they are for sale, but when it seems they can’t figure out where else to put them. This… Read More
Crozet Cohousing Podcast and News
Posted on December 9, 2007 byBlue Ridge Cohousing is getting good press in the Charlottesville area. They got a very nice radio spot that you can listen to here: Podcast on Cohousing Read the article… Read More
Burlington Cohousing in dispute with neighbors
Posted on December 9, 2007 byResidents at Burlington Cohousing East Village are moving into their new units but are dogged by an unresolved issue with their neighbors about the sale of a buffer zone between… Read More
Is it Cohousing? Richdale Place completed
Posted on December 9, 2007 byA Boston real estate paper reported on the completion of a new cohousing development, Richdale Place Cohousing. This is a developer driven cohousing community and is built as single building… Read More
Cassadaga Spiritualists in USAToday
Posted on December 7, 2007 byThe USAToday has picked up the AP story about Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp that we mentioned last week. Read the Article.
Saskatoon Ecovillage on City Council Agenda
Posted on December 3, 2007 byA project called the Ecovillage at River Landing is on the Saskatoon city council agenda for tonight. The ecovillage is a $21 million project of the Prairie Ecovillage Development Corporation.… Read More
Galveston paper profiles forming ecovillage
Posted on December 2, 2007 byThe Galveston Daily News ran a small article about a project just getting underway called Global Ecovillage. Read the article.
Commune woman loses child custody case
Posted on December 1, 2007 byA woman from The Family community near San Diego, CA lost custody of her 5 year old son after she was accused of being part of a “notorious sex cult”.… Read More
Canadian Press Profiles Cassadaga Spiritualist
Posted on November 30, 2007 byThe Canadian Press (not sure what it is) has an article on the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp and how they communicate with the dead. Read the article.
Cohousing in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Posted on November 29, 2007 byThe Charlotessville Daily Progress has an article on the first cohousing community in central Virginia, Blue Ridge Cohousing. “It’s like a regular development except people have chosen to live closer… Read More
At Cohousing, the world doesn’t revolve around cars
Posted on November 29, 2007 byThis article laments the trend in housing where the front door has become a vestigial adornment and the garage doors are the main entrance to the home. Then the author… Read More
Troy Gardens Cohousing wins AARP Liviable Communities award
Posted on November 29, 2007 byTroy Gardens Cohousing in Madison, Wisconsin, a project of the Madison Area Community Land Trust has won a 2007 Livable Communities Awards. This new award is granted by the AARP… Read More
Solar Panels at Nyland Cohousing
Posted on November 28, 2007 byNyland Cohousing is getting some new solar panels and someone seems to be sending out some press releases, probably Sharp the solar panel manufacturer. See: Gizmag: Cohousing community shines with… Read More
Ecovillage Conference in Treehugger.com
Posted on November 28, 2007 byEcovillage Conference Tokyo 2007: Rise Of The Ecovillage Movement This past weekend’s second Japan Ecovillage Conference and this month’s earlier Chicago Urban Ecovillage gathering demonstrates, the word “ecovillage” has quietly… Read More
Referendum on Boulder Cohousing
Posted on November 25, 2007 byBoulder residents have gathered signatures to put the zoning change for Wonderland Hill‘s Washington Village Cohousing development to a referendum. Neighbors are unhappy with the plan to develop the old… Read More
Auburn, CA city council proposes cohousing
Posted on November 21, 2007 byAccording to an article in the Auburn Journa;, the city council of Auburn, CA is proposing to set aside some property for cohousing. This is likely the work of Auburn… Read More
Neighbors sue over cohousing in Boulder
Posted on November 20, 2007 by1 Comment
Neighbors are suing the city of Boulder, CO for changing zoning to allow a cohousing development called Washington Village. The cohousing community is being planned by Wonderland Hill Development Company… Read More
Elder Cohousing in Southwest Florida
Posted on October 3, 2007 by1 Comment
The Southwest Florida Herald Tribune published an article on Elder Cohousing: A retirement community with a communal touch. The cohousing community is still in the forming stages but hopes to… Read More
IC article in Common Ground
Posted on October 2, 2007 byOur Town: Sick of single-family solitude? Craving an antidote to urban isolation? The new era of tribal living has arrived. Common Ground is published in LA, Seattle, San Fancisco, and… Read More
Communes in Vermont shape its culture
Posted on October 1, 2007 byThis article appeared in a collection of small papers in Vermont (http://www.rutlandherald.com, http://www.timesargus.com). They mostly talk about 60s communes but they acknowledge that a lot of intentional communities still make… Read More
Maine Today article on Belfast Area Ecovillage
Posted on September 30, 2007 byArticle about Belfast Area Ecovillage a forming cohousing group in Belfast, Maine. See Article Nice photos and article.
Cohousing in Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted on September 30, 2007 byAJC writes about green communities in the Home Finder section. One of them is East Lake Commons, a cohousing community in Decatur, GA. See the article.
Ecovillage Ithaca in TIME Magazine
Posted on September 6, 2007 byHere’s some great exposure for the movement. A multi-page article on on Ecovillage at Ithaca in TIME magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659708,00.html
