Cohousing Seminars An Introduction to Cohousing, with overheads and slides. Cohousing is a resident-initiated housing development process, common in Scandanavia, which aims to recreate strong neighbourhood, with groups of 12-30 houses sharing some facilities and weekly meals. Contact Sharryn Muir tel 9416 8812 or http://www.MerriCohousing.org Venue: Australian Concservation Foundation, 340 Gore St Fitzroy Cohousing Information Seminars are held by Cohousing Melbourne each month on different days of the week: Sun 3 Sep 2000, 11am-1pm Sat 14 Oct 2000, 2pm-4pm Thu 16 Nov 2000, 7pm-9pm - byo dinner snack - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For an overview of the social and environmental issues addressed by Cohousing in an Australian context, see http://www.aiid.bee.qut.edu.au/~meltzer/ Also, see "What is Cohousing?" at http://www.cohousing.org/whatis.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cohousing... Addressing the problem of social alienation and isolation in the suburbs Cohousing is a resident-initiated and designed method of housing development with the singular aim of enhancing neighbourhood life. The street-scape of a 25-house cohousing neighbourhood is based around a paved pedestrian path instead of a wide asphalt roadway. Putting carparks at the end of the "street" creates a safe place for kids to play and room for gardens and shared open space. The "common house" is locus of shared facilities established by the residents, and is where the weekly meal is shared by all residents of the cohousing neighbourhood. Modern Cohousing began in Scandanvia, where it is now common, and now there are 100s of groups in USA and Europe, and groups forming all over Australia. But really, cohousing just recreates the roles that neighbourhoods performed a few decades ago. A cohousing is established when a group forms through notices and ads in local newspaper, with one thing in common: the desire to live in a strong and healthy neighbourhood. Merri Cohousing is one such group, formed to set up a cohousing in the inner-Northern suburbs of Melbourne. We have an Eco-village theme, so the houses will be built to best-practice environmental design, with maximum winter sun access, solar hot water, etc. Cohousing is one of the key steps towards Sustainability that our society must take. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brought to you by Cohousing Melbourne http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cohouse/ Adam Tiller 03 9416 8812 0413 835 173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Cohousing Melbourne has a web page at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cohouse/ done by Hans Tilstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And there is an open discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list, send any email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the list, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archive: http://www.egroups.com/messages/CohousingMelbourne or: http://www.mail-archive.com/cohousingmelbourne%40egroups.com/ Merri Cohousing has the beginnings of a web page at http://www.MerriCohousing.org LL.VI LL.VJ LL.VK -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
