East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Cohousing Intro Slideshow w/Katie McCamant & Swan's tour tomorrow (Wed) night

From:	Betsy Morris
Sent on:	Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:59 AM

Announcing a new Meetup for East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) - our last big gathering of the year!

What: Cohousing Intro Slideshow w/Katie McCamant & Swan's tour, meet cohousing seekers

When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 6-9 PM (w/optional drinks afterwards)

Suggested Donation: $10.00 per person for light refreshments
(or upgrade to a supporting EBCOHO membership and there's no charge for you)

Where: Swan's Market Cohousing, (RSVP for address - we really want to know you're coming)
Old Oakland

Learn more about the cohousing movement, its history, sustainability/green features, and communities in development, from area professionals and burning souls. Meet other people looking to live in and/or co-create cohousing neighborhoods - in the Bay Area and beyond. This will be the last, best opportunity of the year to connect to community in the urban East Bay.

We'll start with a 6 PM mini-tour of Swan's Market Cohousing, North America's 50th and most-urban cohousing neighborhood, led by member Neil Planchon, Coho/US tours coordinator, and Joani Blank, another founder of the community. See how innovative design approaches helped carve out green space and support a mix of privacy and community in a tight space in a nearly-a-century-old historic public market building, lovingly restored.

If you've already seen Swan's, you can arrive around 6:30 and get registered so you won't miss the fun that follows.

Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris (that's us!) will lead the group in an interactive activity designed to help us better get to know each other and get a taste of the cohousing group process that help us make (not just find) good neighbors.

Cohousing movement co-founder, Architect and Author Katie McCamant, will use a rich slideshow to discuss how cohousing reduces the size of your carbon footprint while increasing your quality of life, and how people all over the country. She'll talk about how you can be a part of community living opportunities her development firm, Cohousing Partners, is creating in Fresno and Grass Valley.

We'll all have lots of time to answer your questions and help connect you to resources and opportunities for community, in Oakland, Berkeley, Mountain View, San Mateo, San Francisco, and beyond.

And we'd love to introduce you to a surprise guest from Southern California who is helping people organize communities of all sorts online.

We organized this meeting for folks who visited our combined cohousing booth at the Green Festival, but it is open to all. Join us for the holiday spirit, to meet other cohousers and seekers, and

RSVP required. Just click here and log in.

6-9 PM, Wednesday evening, in the heart of Old Oakland, just 2 blocks from 12th street BART, using the "back door" to the Common House, on 10th street. Arrive before 6 if you would like to wander through on the 9th street side between Washington and Clay streets and explore the retail and public spaces of Swan's Market.

$10 at the door for light refreshments, but FREE for new EBCOHO supporting members, Green Festival cohousing booth volunteers, and Swan's Market Cohousing residents. Join today on the web (click "Pay Dues Online" on the East Bay Cohousing homepage) or bring a check payable to East Bay Cohousing and get a cohousing book, discounts on events we organize, and complimentary initial personalized Cohousing Coaching session designed to help you find or co-create the community that meets your needs.

Optional no-host drinks afterwards at Pacific Coast Brewery across the street -- they make a mean root beer.

If you can't make the event, please do RSVP "No" so we have you on the list of interested people and so you can answer the short follow-up survey to help us help you connect to community and tell us what kind of events would be most useful for you.

And you can go ahead and upgrade to a supporting EBCOHO membership anytime (We'll include next December for free when you pay for a year -- we take good care of our members) by clicking the "Pay Dues" button on the EBCOHO home page, or going to:
http://www.ebcoho.org/dues/

Thanks for being a part of East Bay Cohousing in 2009, whether for the past week, or the past year, or beyond. 2010 is shaping up as an exciting one for creating community in the area.

Learn more here:
http://www.ebcoho.org/calendar/11990023/

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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.