Cohousing-L Mailing List: HOPES conference in Eugene this weekend features coho

[Raines Cohen (rc2-coho-L]

Wow, I just found out about this -- starting in less than 24 hours! 
Features Katie, Jim Leach, Tree, Lois, Geoph's video - lots of great coho 
folks, many hours of coho-related sessions! Had I known I might have made 
arrangements to hop a train up there. Anybody who does, please do report 
back on the list!

Raines
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APRIL 10-13
HOPES Conference (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability),
sponsored by the Ecological Design Center at the University of Oregon
(http://edc.uoregon.edu/ )

Community Events at this conference include:

Thursday, April 10
"Visions of Utopia" documentary by Geoph Kozeny, profiles of 7 different
types of intentional communities (ecovillage, cohousing, commune, urban
co-op, and more).
Lawrence Hall, room 177
Video showing 7:00-8:30pm, followed by discussion facilitated by Tree

Friday, April 11
9:00am-2:00pm
Lawrence Hall, room 231
Lois Arkin from Los Angeles Eco-Village available for networking and 
advice.
LA Eco-Village has been creating an urban retrofit ecovillage in multiple
apartment buildings in a rundown section of LA since 1993, as a positive
response to the '92 riots--it is a really great project and Lois is a 
major
expert, this is a great opportunity.

Saturday, April 12
9:00-10:30am
Lawrence Hall, room 177
Keynote speaker: Lois Arkin (see above)

Saturday
11:00am-1:00pm
Lawrence Hall, room 206
Cohousing workshop with Jim Leach
Jim Leach is the president of Wonderland Hill, the company that has been
the developer of more cohousing projects than any other.

Saturday
6:00-7:30pm
Lawrence Hall, room 177
Keynote speaker: Katie McCamant, co-author of the book Co-Housing, the 
book
that introduced the US to the cohousing concept.  Katie's architectural
firm has worked on more cohousing projects than any other firm in the past
decade.

Check out the website for more info on other HOPES conference events.


Raines Cohen <my initials,2,dash,coho,dash,L at my first name .com>

  Member, Swan's Market Coho [Oakland, CA] <http://www.swansway.com/>
Last chance to rent an adjoining studio unit for $995/mo.

  Member, Berkeley [CA] Cohousing (settling in)
Where the shed committee is trying to find places for things.

  Facilitator, East Bay Cohousing [on hiatus] <http://www.ebcoho.org/>
Steering people to transit villages and "Coho with a Clubhouse" efforts.

  Boardmember, The Cohousing Network <http://www.cohousing.org/>
Preparing another e-newsletter: got news?


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