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Cohousing Magazine [Coho-L preview edition]
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/
Updated: Feb. 1, 2005

Published by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
http://www.cohousing.org/

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---
WELCOME

Happy new year, y'all!
By Evangeline Welch, Editor 

  My favorite New Year's tradition is to gather with friends and
neighbors to share a "good luck" feast of home-cooked black-eyed
peas, rice, cornbread and onions. Born and raised in Louisiana,
I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area nearly 20 years ago. I never
lost my southern accent - or my appreciation and longing for sharing
comfort food with people I'm comfortable with. That's just one of
the reasons why I'm an advocate for the cohousing movement across
America. Cohousing neighbors don't need a special holiday - or make
any extra effort at all - to gather in their common house to share
good food and friendships with neighbors.
  
  Read more:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/welcome.html

--- *NEW* CREATING COHOUSING
Retrofit cohousing - A different kind of "fixer-upper" 

 by Karen Hester
Temescal Creek Cohousing (Oakland, Calif.)

  In March 1999, after only three months of meetings, a group of five
families opened escrow on Temescal Creek Cohousing, a "retrofit"
cohousing neighborhood in Oakland, Calif. We're called a retrofit
community because we transformed an existing neighborhood into a
cohousing community, rather than building from the ground up.
  
 Read more:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/creating/temcreek.html
  
 Download (PDF):
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/creating/coho_creating_temcreek.pdf

--- *NEWS*
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/news.html

Cohousing in the news

        *       Elder cohousing in USA TODAY
        *       Cohousing news from Texas
        *       Two cohousing articles in Ohio
        *       Two Boston-area groups buy common site
        *       Eastern Village grand opening

Details:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/news.html#inthenews

Coho/US events and programs

        *       2005 bus tour dates: 
                March 19: SF Bay Area
            Next MA tour: April 22
                NEW: First CO tour: April 16
                
                Details:
                http://www.cohousing.org/news/tours.html
                
        *       Community Partners program
            http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/coho_us_community_partners.pdf
            
        *       Effective Practices In Cohousing (EPIC) library:
    share your documents!
        
        *       Regional Alliances: mutual support in SF Bay, CO, DC, MA groups
        
        *       Help us build the movement: Please contribute today
            http://www.cohousing.org/about/support.html

Cohousing Community Events

        *       Feb. 3 Thu: Ann Arbor, MI info mtg. 
        *       Feb. 4 Fri: Marlboro, MA slide show 
        *       Feb. 11 Fri: Boulder, CO slide show
        *       Feb. 12 Sat: Boulder, CO CH design workshop-Lyons Valley 
Village 

Read more:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/news.html#events

--- * CLASSIFIEDS *
Current Openings in Cohousing 

Many New Classified Ads
 For Sale, For Rent, Housemates
 Guest Rooms, Cohousers Serving Cohousers 

Details:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/classified.html

--- LIVING IN COHOUSING

A day in the life of a single-family house 

 By Chuck Durrett,  The CoHousing Company 

Details:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/living/singlefamily.html

Common Meal Systems: Effective Practices In Cohousing,
by Joani Blank (2001)

Details:
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/living/meals_blank.html

--- PROCESS

Communication, process and dealing with conflict:
 the heart of a healthy community
by Diana Christian

 Most of us don't realize that our wider society is dysfunctional
because it's just ourselves, doing what we habitually do, but
multiplied and magnified. When we see governments or corporations
using manipulative, controlling or punishing behaviors, it frightens
and disgusts us. But when we do the small-scale versions of these same
ploys ourselves, we don't see it. Those of us who think we do these
behaviors the least are often the ones who do them the most. The more
spiritual we imagine we are, the harder it is to see it.
 
 Read more:
 http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/process/communication_christian.html

 Download (PDF):
 http://www.cohousing.org/magazine/process/cohousing_comm_christian.pdf

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