Hello, I'm Vicky Wason and live at Wasatch Commons in Salt Lake City. I had an interesting conversation on the phone with Colleen Dyrud, a woman from CoHO...
UVCC Friends: Check out this article! Charles. Kids in Cohousing Raise your kids in a beautiful complex where sustainable lifestyles and building designs...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the utahvalleycohousing group: Should the UVCC seek a location big enough to build a cohousing...
Dear UVCC, Thanks for your inquiry, and my apologies for taking a while to respond. There is so much interest in our project that it is very hard for me (the...
Thank you for starting that listerserv-poll. It has really been getting me thinking. When I contemplate working with others to start up an IC/coho in Provo,...
Dear Olympia, Thanks very much for your thoughts! Much appreciated. You make several important points: if the community locates itself in the hinterland,...
Here at Takoma Village in Washington D.C, we do a similar thing for childcare as Terri's community does. All membership meetings have paid childcare, and...
12th Annual ASES National Solar Tour Set to Begin -- Be part of the largest sustainable energy event in the U.S. The American Solar Energy Society's National...
Hey everyone, Come visit my new blog which I write with Raquel and our friend Jason. It is about living locally, within our "Bioregion". Find out more ...
UVCC Friends: Come to PIONEER PARK (Provo) tomorrow for the Living Green Expo, between 9 and 2. There will be lots of FANTASTIC exhibits and speakers, all...
UVCC Friends: You bet! A Vancouver cohousing community uses grey water recycling for the whole community. What an achievement! Take a look at this video:...
UVCC Friends: Today I had the opportunity to share some ideas on cohousing with people attending Provo's first Living Green Expo. Here are some of things I...
I'm new to the list and we are considering living in some type of cohousing or intentional community some day. We are looking for many of the things on the...
Dear UVCC Friends: We experienced our first instance of spamming this morning. My apologies. Up to now we have been free of it. I took action immediately,...
One of the things I take very seriously in terms of cohousing is that I truly believe we were never meant to live as single, nuclear families. The human race...
Dear Shannon, How absolutely true! I, too, see the primary goal of cohousing as a social one. The design and construction of the community are simply means...
I agree with the statements on the social function of cohousing. I'd like to repeat the adage "It takes a village to raise a child". In elementary school, I...
Yes, we certainly get some looks when people find out that we are tandem nursing our 2 1/2 year old and our newborn! And coincidentally, I'm an anthropology...
Dear Joy, Thanks so much for your post! Yes, I think most people on this list would agree with you. Low-impact building materials and construction styles are...
UVCC Friends: What do you think of the valley's air quality??? The Utah Valley Sierra Forum will meet Wednesday night, and that's the topic. See the...
In "economic" systems --- in which concepts of exchange, based on ownership, are so incredibly central --- there is the tendency to resultantly break...
Dear UVCC: The following message is from Zev Paiss, with whom I am in contact about the design and building of a cohousing community. Please read, and check...
Begin forwarded message: (*Please circulate widely*) All, Governor Huntsman is asking all Utahns to turn off all lights tonight between 9 and 10 p.m. The...
UVCC Friends: I thought I'd send this out, just to show folks what a cohousing development looks like at a certain point, early on, in the process of...
"Utah Valley's Air Quality Crisis" Utah Valley's poor air quality has reached the level of a public health crisis. Provo consistently ranks in the top ten US...
Charles, I just joined the group and wanted to start at the beginning. It would be easier to follow if new topics weren't started each time (can the ...
Olympia, I agree with your analysis of the urban vs rural fit, and also Charles comments on land prices (the term land "value" probably isn't appropriate here)...
Wow, Raquel has the blog bug! That's a lot of writing! My wife convinced me that I needed to spend less time blogging and more time with homework (and with the...
