Is Cohousing a way to reduce our wasteful ways and also to recover a sense of community?
If the plan offered by Alex Marshall a journalist and senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association named Brooklyn Cohousing works it might enable some of us to make progress in that direction.
They are not going back to the communes of hippies days.
Each of the 30 or so families will have their own living space while being able to share communal spaces such as a kitchen and dining area.
They plan (I quote) "to share resources & interests (for example share child care, cook together some weekly community meals, share tools, garden together etc) while each having our own fully equipped apartments, a balance between privacy and community."
There will be efforts as well to be energy efficient. The details are still being worked out it seems from what Alex Marshall shared in his Living Together interview on the Brian Lehrer Show (December 23, 2008). This New York venture should open in 2010.
Other practitioners in the US such as Cambridge Cohousing (Massachussets) show they did not leave their sense of humor at the door with CoHo Comics.
Some go back to the farm like Cobb Hill Cohousing in Hartland (Vermont).
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