East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

October 31, 2009 8:30 AM - 21 attended

Cohousing Bus Tour: Discounted for EBCOHO members

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NEW! We are pleased to announce EBCOHO member discounts on the Halloween Cohousing bus tour, organized by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US). These tours remain the best way to visit several cohousing neighborhoods and meet other seekers, in an intensive all-day workshop-format.

This tour, the last of the year, visits:

Swan's Market (Oakland)
Muir Commons (Davis) - first new-build community in the U.S.
N Street Cohousing (Davis) - first 'retrofit' community in the U.S.
Southside Park Cohousing (Sacramento) - urban infill mixed-income
Pleasant Hill Cohousing (Pleasant Hill) - only 'classic' new-build development in the East Bay
Doyle Street Cohousing (Emeryville) - first cohousing neighborhood in the Bay Area

IF you register and pay right here through the East Bay Cohousing MeetUp group, you can save $5 (vegetarian box lunch included); supporting members save $20! (supporting members, contact us to get the discount). Dues are as little as $20 a month ($100 a year is the best deal, and includes other discounts and a cohousing book some exclusive invitations to gatherings with serious cohousing seekers and professionals). This makes the tour cost as little as $85, and gets you extra connections and follow-up coaching as part of your membership. JOIN TODAY to take advantage of this great deal.

An experienced cohouser or cohousing professional will take you to visit five to seven communities. As you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the tour leader will give participants a chance to introduce themselves, share general information about cohousing, answer questions, provide fact sheets and site plans, and prepare you for your 40-minute visit to each community.

At each stop, a community host (often a long-time resident) will guide your group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions. Mid-day, you will receive a gourmet box lunch.

Sponsored by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US). Remember, to get the discount, Reserve Your Seat by RSVPing here.

Betsy Morris
Hey, folks, this is the last bus tour of the year. If you've already got a ticket directly, please let us know and we'll update the RSVP list. Are folks here seriously interested in learning from existing sustainable communities?

Posted October 30, 2009 at 3:21 AM
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21 attended

Neil Planchon
Swan's Market Cohousing member and national tours coordinator

+20 guests

Your organizer's refund policy for Cohousing Bus Tour: Discounted for EBCOHO members

Refunds offered if:

the Meetup is cancelled
the Meetup is rescheduled

Additional notes: You can get a retail-price (no discount) ticket directly from Coho/US, subject to their own tour policies.

Payments you make go to the organizer, not to Meetup. You must make refund requests to the organizer.

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.