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7 days ago
4 min

Highlights from the Cohousing Roundtable

About 30 people attended the Cohousing Roundtable on February 27. It was a great 90 minutes of conversation with the panel handling a ser...

Watch: PBS News Hour Weekend segment on cohousing

Mike Brown

Feb 22
1 min

Watch: PBS News Hour Weekend segment on cohousing

Feb 12, 2017 1:22 PM EST This PBS New House Weekend segment from February 2017 visits the cohousing community in Denmark that started the...

Mike Brown

Feb 22
1 min

Read: "My Big Cohousing Adventure in Langley[, B.C.]"

Elizabeth Rosenau has written a great summary of the genesis and ongoing work of building a 40-unit, dense cohousing project in Vancouver...

Mike Brown

Feb 15
1 min

Watch: Cohousing.org Web Chats

If you're researching cohousing and intentional communities, a great resource is Cohousing.org. Of special interest is the site's page of...

Cohousing Roundtable Virtual Event: Facilitator Teri Beckman on the Experience of Cohousing

BCC

Jan 23
3 min

Cohousing Roundtable Virtual Event: Facilitator Teri Beckman on the Experience of Cohousing

"I hope that people leave with a broader sense of what living in community might be, and what is really the potential of that."

The Long March: Growing Community During a Pandemic

Mike Brown

Oct 28, 2020
3 min

The Long March: Growing Community During a Pandemic

Editor's note: some of the pictures in this article were taken before the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. Since March 2020, BCC (like the rest...

Mike Brown

Oct 28, 2020
2 min

Jackie's Story

Jackie MacLeod is a metal artist whose work graces both institutions and private collections. She and her husband David, an anesthesiolog...

BCC

Nov 25, 2019
1 min

Cohousing's Affinity with Unitarian Universalist Seniors

The 2019 Winter Issue of UU World, the magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, features a great article on cohousing and its ...

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