East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

March 20, 2010 8:00 AM - 55 attended

Bus Tour of East Bay Cohousing Neighborhoods - Discounted for EBCOHO members

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We are pleased to announce EBCOHO member discounts on the first 2010 Cohousing bus tour, organized by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US). We highly recommend the bus tours as still the best way to visit several cohousing neighborhoods and meet other seekers, in an intensive all-day workshop format. Register today, as these tours often sell out well before the tour date. For the first time, we're offering a discount to ALL EBCOHO members (as thanks for making us the largest Intentional Communities MeetUp in the world), not just our supporting members (but they get even more of a discount, so don't neglect to upgrade your membership for the most-affordable tours).

As you travel between each location on a comfortable bus, a Cohousing resident guide or two 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 will guide your group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions. We look forward to having you join us for a day full of learning, community building and fun.

This tour, the first of the year, visits:

Doyle Street (Emeryville)
Berkeley Cohousing (West Berkeley)
Temescal Commons (Temescal Neighborhood, Oakland)
Pleasant Hill Cohousing (Pleasant Hill)
Temescal Creek (Temescal Neighborhood, Oakland)
Swan's Market Cohousing (Old Oakland, Downtown Oakland)

IF you register and pay right here through the East Bay Cohousing MeetUp group, you can save $5; supporting members save $10! (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. UPDATE: You can also register directly via the cohousing association national website tours page if you want to pay the regular retail price -- remember, you get the discount with your FREE East Bay Cohousing membership only if you register via the ebcoho.org website.

This tour will be co-led by two knowledgeable cohousing residents, both local. We will eat lunch at Pleasant Hill Cohousing, one of our host communities. This tour will start and end at Swan's Market Cohousing - which is located near 12th Street BART and several parking lots. Specific location details will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Sponsored by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US).

Remember, to get the discount, Reserve Your Seat today by RSVPing and purchasing your ticket here on this page on the EBCOHO website. Supporting members, and anyone having trouble using Paypal (remember, you don't need to create a paypal account to use your credit card to pay) can contact us for assistance.

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55 attended

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Betsy Morris
Cohousing Coach, Organizer
gail

+1 guest

Excellent in every way, would be hard to suggest any improvements. Organized so well that an extraordinary amount of research was accomplished in only one day. All of the leaders and volunteers were helpful and well versed.
Neil Planchon
Swan's Market Cohousing member and national tours coordinator

+35 guests
Marnie Crawford Samuelson

Your organizer's refund policy for Bus Tour of East Bay Cohousing Neighborhoods - Discounted for EBCOHO members

Refunds offered if:

the Meetup is cancelled
the Meetup is rescheduled
you can cancel at least 0 day(s) before the Meetup

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.