The Regenerative Co-op of Pomona, Regen, is an intentional community located in a quiet suburb east of Los Angeles. Founded by graduates of Cal Poly Pomona’s Center for Regenerative Studies in 1999, we strive to incorporate sustainable and regenerative principles in our urban/suburban environment.
The food in the co-op is vegan/vegetarian, although the co-op includes residents who are non-vegetarian away from home. We have community meals 5 nights a week and always include a vegan option. We use solar power, maintain a gray water system, edible landscaping and organic gardening. Community decisions are consensed upon during our monthly community meetings.
We organize a Sustainability Seminar every Spring with workshops and speakers on topics from solar power and making bio-diesel to activism and social justice. In addition we host various workshops of social and environmental interests as well as skill shares throughout the year.
Currently we can accommodate approximately 30 residents distributed among four homes. Some of us are active in local peace and environmental issues; others are not. We have had residents from as far away as Germany and as local as Orange County. We are organizers, teachers, technicians, students, business people, philosophers, artists, and many other things. Most members are students or recent graduates of various local colleges. We do have openings from time to time. If you are interested in applying please contact us about openings.
The Pomona Regenerative Cooperative seeks to establish, develop, and maintain viable, community-friendly, environmentally-oriented shared-housing. We understand environmentalism to include the pursuit of ecological, economic, racial, gender, and social justice.
Our process to become a resident member involves two visits to the co-op, both including a vegetarian dinner. The first visit is informal, involving a tour followed by dinner time to meet some current members and interact casually. The second visit has a more formal interview where both we and the applicant ask questions to get to know if we are a good fit, after which the community comes to a consensus on the applicant’s acceptance. Applicants are notified 48 hours after the community’s decision.
Visits can be arranged around our regular shared meals (weeknight dinners) or short tours during the day. We do not offer overnight-stay visits.
To arrange a visit, please reach out to our Housing Coordinator at re*********@***il.com.
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Everyone must agree before moving forward.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Regular fees: Yes
Labor: Yes
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
Resident members contribute to a house-level food fund for shared food staples that most, if not all, house-members use. Residents of the same house may also decide to chip-in for some shared house projects or items (e.g. a printer and ink).
On a community level, members are expected to contribute monetarily to our two annual events; monetary contribution is on average $15 per event.
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