Intentional Communities Newsletter: May 31, 2010

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Although registrations for next month's national cohousing conference have already topped 220, there's still room for you. The theme for this year's event will be Sustainability through Community and it will take place June 18-20 on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, June 18-20, 2010. If you register before tomorrow June 1, you save $100 on your registration.

You can check out highlights of last year's event by viewing this video clip.

The sustainability theme will be developed by four featured speakers:

• Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
• Dave Wann, author Reinventing Community and Superbia!
• Chuck Durrett, authors of Cohousing, a contemporary approach to housing ourselves, and Senior Cohousing
• Katie McCamant, co-author with Chuck on Cohousing

All of these book titles can be purchased through Community Bookshelf.

In addition, there will be over 60 workshops on topics covering everything from Getting the Work done to Poetry, Music, and Beer; from Retrofitting Toward Net-Zero Energy to Singing in Community.

• Developing Cohousing: Soup to Nuts and a Few Lessons Learned
• Growing Community: Head. Heart, and Hands
• Research and Writers Workshop
• Senior Cohousing
• Sustainability: Environmental + Economic + Cultural

Help Coho/US, FIC, and clear out your attic.

FIC is a sponsoring organization for this event and we will be running the conference bookstore and helping with the benefit auction Saturday evening. If you have a product or service you'd like to donate to the auction--proceeds will be split between Coho/US and FIC--get in touch and we'll help make your gift count:

Laird Schaub, Auction Solicitor  laird -[at]- ic.org

To register online, or get more details on the conference, visit this link.