East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

SF Cohousing and Ecovillage Possibilities - Second Meeting 9/14

From:	Betsy Morris
Sent on:	Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:20 PM

Announcing a new Meetup for East Bay Cohousing - Serving the SF Bay Area's urban core, now with over 900 members ready to join you in seeking community!

What: SF Cohousing and Ecovillage Possibilities - Second Meeting

When: September 14, 2009 6:30 - 9:00 PM
(Q&A with cohousing and real-estate professionals from 6:30 to 7:15)
Suggested Donation: $2.00 and up

Where:
CPMC Davies Campus
601 Duboce Ave. at Castro St.,North Tower, Level B, Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94117

This is the second in a series of meetings intended to bring together people with similar visions of more cooperative and ecologically sustainable neighborhoods in San Francisco. The organizer, EBCOHO member Kelly Simpson, is hoping to find people interested in creating a Backyard Neighborhood and Learning Center in San Francisco, preferably with many permaculture aspects, but other attendees may wish to discuss other San Francisco cohousing and EcoVillage possibilities, such as senior cohousing or a green co-op with rental units modeled after L.A. Ecovillage.

After the Q&A with cohousing and real-estate professionals from 6:30 to 7:15, the agenda will be open-space format: Attendees with particular interests or information will announce subjects that will be open for discussion in various areas of the room, and then everyone will move to the areas where discussions that interest them are occurring.

There will be forms with optional survey questions about the attendees’ community visions and preferences, which could be used to help bring together people who might want to start an intentional neighborhood together. The questions are posted at sfbackyard.wordpress.com/survey, so you can email your answers to Kelly. (As of August 29, Kelly’s database has 59 names, including 24 people who attended the meeting on July 13.)

Suggested donation: $2 minimum per person suggested donation for Cal Pacific Medical Center.

For general questions about the meeting or concept, post them as comments on this event or the announcement on Kelly's blog.

Learn more here:
http://www.ebcoho.org/calendar/11262035/

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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.