East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

EBCOHO Happy Hour this evening & General Meeting/brunch Sunday (Old Oakland)

From:	Raines Cohen
Sent on:	Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:56 AM

Announcing TWO new Meetups for East Bay Cohousing!

First: EBCOHO Happy Hour (Old Oakland)
When: THIS EVENING Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:45 - 5:30 PM

Where:
Pacific Coast Brewing Company
906 Washington St @ 9th St (across from Swan's Market Cohousing)
Oakland, CA 94607

Sometimes, in the search for sustainable community living in the East Bay, it's time to say "Enough with all the business meetings, fire-drills around potential cohousing homes for sale, potential foreclosures, short sales, and divorce forced-sales, briefings, explorations, and tours."

Sometimes, a social is really what we need, a chance to hang out and get to know one another in ways that can lead to unexpected connections and community.

After the North Oakland Cohousing orientation this afternoon at Swan's Market Cohousing (whether or not you're going to or interested in that event), let's meet across the street to just hang out and catch up. No-host bar, but we may go in together on some munchies. They make a mean root beer, and have some decent pub grub.

Learn more and RSVP here (we'll probably get some last-minute additions from the North Oakland orientation):
http://www.ebcoho.org/calendar/12467949/

Second: EBCOHO General Meeting and Potluck Brunch
When: Sunday (tomorrow), 11:30 for brunch, 12:30 for meeting
Where: Swan's Market Cohousing common house (RSVP below for address & info)

And then tomorrow (Sunday), longtime EBCOHO member Dave K., who rents at Swan's, has invited us back to have an East Bay Cohousing General Meeting there in the Common House, starting at 11:30 AM with a potluck brunch, followed by a chance to learn about all the different groups, openings, and potential sites around the area.

Get more info and RSVP here for Sunday:
http://www.ebcoho.org/calendar/12468098/

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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.