UVCC friends: Here is a rough draft of a very tentative structure for the housing development. Please --- you comments most appreciated! Charles This...
You might want to amend the home-page description to say more about where Utah Valley is so people joining know what they're getting into. And something about...
UVCC Friends: It is a plesure to welcome our new members, and to invite them to participate in what we hope will be series of lively discussiond on community,...
UVCC Folks: It is great so many have joined this list lately. And it would be better yet if we could initiate a discussion. So let me begin: how did you get...
By James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. Posted February 10, 2007. http://www.alternet .org/envirohealt h/47705/? comments= view&cID= 530623&pID =528525#c530623...
A BIG Texas Thank You, and Howdy to Moderators and group members. We are closing in on the Texas Intentional Communities gettogether. The response from the...
Here is a sample time-line, from our friends at the CoHousing list. I think we're still very much at the beginning, but that's OK. Any thoughts out there???...
Howdy Charles, The list appears as laboriously looooong, and cumbersome. Perhaps, by catagorizing similar tasks together in groups, that could make it all flow...
Mike, Yes, you are right. It is also a bit daunting. Still, it reflects a accurate to-do list as drawn from the communities that have been successful. Check...
We need to reach 20% of the projected development cost before we can get a construction loan to pay for the rest, and after that the mortgages repay the...
Hello Janis, Charles, and the rest of the UVCC members, My husband Oliver and I look forward to meeting with all of you and hearing about your ideas! Last...
My wife Raquel and I are ecstatic to have found you guys on here. It was a total fluke. We have been very interested in permaculture, urban homesteading,...
Dear Oliver and Raquel, Thank you very much for your note, and for describing your interests. They certainly seem to be in agreement with ours. My wife and I...
Charles, thanks for your reply, we would be happy to meet up with you to talk about the projects possibilities. I am very interested in hearing about the ...
I'm onboard an eastbound Amtrak train en route to Chicago to speak about cohousing at a conference and the train was 5 hours late this morning so it was light...
Charles, I've spent some time this morning researching available land around Utah Valley. I did come across a few parcels in the Payson/ Spanish Fork/ Lake ...
Oliver, Great ideas! I've sent you a response on another email account, simply because not everyone on the list is going to be interested in our dinner plans....
Thanks to the hard work of Fred H. Olsen, http://wiki.cohousing.org is nowlive! Wahoo!! With that, I have put up the page that we've all been waiting for: ...
Solar Action Network Alert – Tell Congress to Make the U.S. a Solar Leader Background: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005) was signed into law by ...
Last week my family and I spent a delightful couple of days at Wasatch Commons, the cohousing community located in west Salt Lake City. It was very rewarding,...
Dear UVCC Friends: You all know about SIPs? SIPs are high-performance building panels for floors, walls and roofs in residential and commercial buildings. ...
We thought we had identified a likely piece of land, not from UVSC and BYU, but someone bought it before we could act. I liked the property, especially since...
The "build it and they will come" strategy in cohousing does not seem to work, despite its obvious advantages in terms of design and initial start-up. Some of...
UVCC Friends: Is pre-fab worth considering? You bet! SIPs construction, flat-packed and ready for assembly. And quite beautiful, too, in my opinion. Take a...
UVCC Friends: At some point, sooner rather than latter (I hope,) we will begin to discuss the formation of a "core group" whose responsibility will be to...
Hi folks, I thought others might enjoy checking out this article, about how Corvallis Cohousing is raising money for a unit in their community to be home for a...
