East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

April 24, 2010 12:00 PM - 3 attended

Berkeley Earth Day: Cohousing Table THIS AFTERNOON

Berkeley Earth Day is an annual event held in April to celebrate the environmental movement and creatively challenge the destruction of our planet. It features cultural performers, speakers and resources to link individuals and groups with each other in community based ecological activities. This year once again we are doing an East Bay Cohousing booth. That you can be a part of today.

At our very own cohousing booth, near the corner of MLK and Addison, not far from the stage:

Meet other EBCOHO members: North Oakland cohousing organizers (the most active core group in the area), residents, and seekers from around the East Bay
See the latest in cohousing books: Audacious Aging featuring an Aging In Community chapter by our very own Raines covering cohousing and village-model communities, and the new edition of Senior Cohousing by Chuck Durrett
Learn about new and potential cohousing projects underway and how you can get involved
Get info on the upcoming Oakland-to-the-North Bay cohousing bus tour May 22
Learn about potential cohousing on San Francisco's Potrero Hill, Pacifica, Grass Valley, Fresno, and beyond

And of course, it's all free, and we'll be extra nice for anyone willing to help at the booth for a bit, with extra hands-on cohousing coaching, introductions, connections, and referrals.
The whole event runs 12-5 PM, and is always a blast.
When RSVPing, please indicate when you can be by the booth, if you can; setup and breakdown help also appreciated .
Please don't drive. Take BART to the Downtown Berkeley station, walk one block west. Or hop one of the many AC Transit buses; plan your route at 511. Valet Bike Parking by Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition (BFBC).

Raines Cohen
Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot: Sharing Solution co-author Janelle Orsi has a booth right around the corner from ours.

Posted April 24, 2010 at 6:48 AM
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3 attended

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Raines Cohen
Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer
Janelle Orsi
Sharing Solution co-author, attorney, and cohouser
Joan Lichterman
North Oakland Cohousing co-founder

Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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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.