East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

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East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF http://www.ebcoho.org/ http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/a/1/0/global_87807152.jpeg 20031022

Berkeley, CA 94704

Location:

Richmond, CAUSA 94805
Hometown: Richmond

Member since:

December 20, 2011

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Introduction

I love creative collaboration and have taught city planning, landscape architecture and communication at Davis, Cal Poly, San Jose and Santa Clara, plus participation workshops, from Asilomar to Yosemite. See: www.greenplanning.org

How did you hear about East Bay Cohousing?

Your legend has spread far and wide in social circles

What does Cohousing mean to you?

It means a move in the right direction, toward more convivial living. But I want to do much more...akin to what St John's does in NY, like Mondragon Cooperatives, like Makers' Faires, and other settings where creativity energizes everyday environments and ripples to and from the surrounding context.

What's most likely: Rent, Buy, Share, Build, Co-create?

Co-create by being involved in every phase from conception to construction. I'm very skilled as a builder and a highly engaging facilitator of community planning and green design.

Where are you most interested in living?

Near transit if possible, and with healthy abundant water, as well as opportunity to upgrade property from the inside out.

Lauren Mendoza San Francisco Cohousing Group

Hey! Thank you for joining the group! It sounds like you have many talents that would be invaluable to this project! Hope you can make it to out next meetup, looking forward to talking more :)

Nov 09, 2011 6:04 PM
Jeannette Living in Community Network

Welcome, Allen. You certainly bring a lot of talent to the table! Are you still living in CA or are you relocating to the Sarasota area?

Nov 03, 2011 8:25 AM

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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.

East Bay Cohousing is a labor of love organized by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris, and a project of Planning for Sustainable Communities.