Cohousing-L Mailing List: "What if your campus housing looked like this?" - Ithaca Eco-Village

[Hope Dundas (suhopdu]

Hi folks,

I work in the IT department for University of Michigan Housing, and this 
came across my inbox via a newsletter geared towards campus housing staff. 
I also live in Great Oak Cohousing, a newish cohousing community that's 
part of a larger cluster of three (!) cohousing communities just west of 
Ann Arbor, MI.

It's an interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about a 
visit to Ithaca Eco-Village that took place during a community college 
conference.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/385/what-if-your-campus-housing-looked-like-this

It showcases some of the very nice, and sensible, things that intentional
communities can offer, though it doesn't really explore the 'what if...?'
so much. Still, nice press for intentional communities as a whole, and
good to be getting the word out to more and different regions of interest.
:) I think an intentional-community campus housing unit could be really,
really cool - I mean, they're halfway there with campus housing
cooperatives.

        ~ Hope, longtime fan of the Inter-Cooperative Council
        (see http://www.icc.coop/ for more info)

Info on the Little Lake cluster of cohousing communities:

        Great Oak Cohousing
                http://www.greatoakcohousing.org/

        Touchstone Cohousing - our new(er) neighbors to the south
                http://www.touchstonecohousing.org/

        Sunward Cohousing -
        our predecessors and neighbors to the north, across the pond
                http://www.sunward.org/


~~
"In the spaces and taking road trips. Later, than before."
'05 Kawasaki Z750S, as yet unnamed
R.I.P. '83 Honda Shadow VT500C, 'DarkAngel'

http://home.intranet.org/~hope/riding/
http://shadowriderhope.livejournal.com
hope.dundas [at] umich.edu