Cohousing-L Mailing List: Building Green in Cohousing Workshop 6/3

[Tom Hammer (thammer302]

Just a reminder that Altair Cohousing and Concord Village, both of Chester 
County, PA and environs are hosting "Building Green in Cohousing" on June 3 
with Liz Walker and Jerry Weisburd, both associated with EcoVillage at Ithaca.
   
  Presenters:
   
  Liz Walker
   
  As the co-founder and executive director of EcoVillage at Ithaca (EVI) since 
1991, Liz Walker has dedicated her full-time work to bring this internationally 
acclaimed project from vision to reality. (http://www.ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us) 
Her new book, EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture, has 
helped to introduce the concept of ecovillages to a broad audience in the U.S. 
and other countries. The book will soon be published in Korea and Japan. 
Permaculture Magazine (published in the U.K.) said, "As the age of cheap oil 
draws to a close, we need living experiments in the reweaving of human-scale, 
locally-based social economies. As an illustration of how we can begin this 
process...EVI is without match."
   
  Liz Walker has been interviewed about EVI for special programs on CNN, PBS, 
NPR, Voice of America, and feature articles in The New York Times, Wall Street 
Journal, Popular Science, Residential Architect and Mother Earth News, as well 
as Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and Korean media. She is a contributing writer to 
the Cohousing Journal, Communities Magazine, and Green Horizon Quarterly.  
Walker is a founding member of the sustainability partnership between Ithaca 
College and EVI, and has lectured widely in academic and community settings. 
She is a co-founder and Board member of Gaia Education, a new international 
organization. Gaia Education has developed curriculum on creating sustainable 
communities that has been endorsed by the U.N. 
   
  Jerry Weisburd                  
  Starting in East Africa, during a Peace Corps stint, Jerry Weisburd has been 
planning, designing, and constructing sustainable, cooperative housing 
communities for over forty years.  In Tanzania, the work included the housing 
component of farming cooperatives and just after that, artist?s loft coops in 
what was then ungentrified Soho.  Later in Ithaca, NY, he created and 
constructed a number of new housing communities with elements of common shared 
space, very high energy efficiency and high affordability. This work included 
the overall plan for EcoVillage as well as the development, design, and 
construction of the first neighborhood.  More recently, he and his partner 
Claudia, did master planning, community development, and decentralized 
ecological sanitation for a new urban settlement of 10,000 inhabitants in 
Senegal, West Africa.  Currently he is building and working on several 
condominium projects in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia.
   
   
  Also presenting will be folks presently living in cohousing from Mid Atlantic 
Cohousing and a panel of local experts familiar with the challenges and 
opportunites for cohousing in southern PA.
   
  A registration form can be found at the website below.
   
  Tom Hammer
  for Concord Village
  http://www.concordvillage.org