Why Cohousing?

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J McCune Porter
  • April 5, 2016
  • Sustainability
Community members engaging in outdoor activities at cohousing event.

Community Bookstore Feature
Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop

Cohousing
by Kim Kanney, Community Bookstore Manager

Best of Communities Volume XII
Cohousing
A special selection of articles from Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture
$10 Digital, $15 Print

The Foundation for Intentional Community is pleased to offer you the cream of our crop―the very best articles that have appeared over the last 20 years in our flagship publications: Communities magazine and Communities Directory. We’ve distilled what we consider the most insightful and helpful articles on the topics that you―our readers―have told us you care about most, and have organized them into 15 scintillating collections.

The Cohousing issue casts a wide net on the topic of creating and living within a cohousing community. Receive resources for connection, learn how cohousing contributes to the wider communities movement and visa versa, and discover the risks and rewards of living in cohousing. Authors take on its relationship to ecovillages and sustainability, and many others discuss and share stories surrounding the sometimes fuzzy understanding of what it means to “live in community” or cohousing.

Explore for yourself, or compare stories to your own experience. The Cohousing compilation will get you started in a down-to-earth and personal way.

Order Volume XII today or get the entire set!

Want more on these topics? Order the print or digital version of these back issues of Communities magazine:

# 127 The Faces of Cohousing in 2005 (digital only)

# 158 Affordability and Self-Reliance (print and digital)

Or, get your hands on this important tool: Sustainable Community – Learning from the Cohousing Model

Providing information on successful examples of cohousing as a sustainable lifestyle, Sustainable Community is an invaluable resource. World-wide in its focus and illustrated with the author’s photographs, Sustainable Community is a source of knowledge for those wanting live their lives in a more ecological, less isolated way.

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