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Author(s): John Bower
Publisher: The Healthy House Institute (1992)
ISBN: 0963715615
ISBN-13: 978-0963715616
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Learn how to build a house that will enhance health rather than compromise it. As you tour a model healthy house, John Bower explains all these features. 27-minute video.
Author(s): A. Gayle Hudgens, Ph.D., MCC
Publisher: SOS Press
Paperback: 312 pages
ISBN: 0972308407
ISBN-13: 978-0972308403
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An exciting, powerful, and sound alternative to the personal, social, ecological, and economic violence plaguing our world, COLLABORATIVE SPUNK empowers ordinary people to become “leaderful” and co-create joyful, just, and viable communities wherever they are “planeted.” Readers will discover they can have fun and find meaning in the process.
Midwest Book Review:
Collaborative Spunk: The Feisty Guide For Reviving People And Our Planet by Cultural Creative Coach A. Gayle Hudgens is an impressive and “reader friendly” guide to harnessing personal energy as well as the energy of co-workers or collaborators for maximum drive and efficiency. A variety of invaluable tips, tricks, and techniques for improving personal coaching skills, getting into synch with the framework surrounding personal life situations, revitalizing personal energy for mental and emotional growth, and much, much more are deftly covered in this zesty, go-getting and highly recommended self-help, self-improvement guide.
Author(s): Chris Hanson
Publisher: Hartley & Marks
Paperback: 278 pages
ISBN: 0881791261
ISBN-13: 978-0881791266
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Cohousing offers an end to the isolation of the single-family suburban home. Balancing community and personal privacy, cohousing is a chance to create a modern village in an urban or rural setting. Residents own their own homes and can gather in common areas to share meals and socialize. An increasingly popular form of housing in both Europe and North America, cohousing addresses and alleviates many of the demands and pressures of modern life-everything from day care to aging at home is easier with the help of your neighbors.
As pioneers in the development of cohousing in North America, Chris and Kelly ScottHanson offer individuals and new groups a wealth of information and practical hints on how the process works. The Cohousing Handbook covers every element that goes into the creation of a cohousing project, including group processes, land acquisition, finance and budgets, construction, development professionals, design considerations, permits, approvals and membership. This revised and updated edition includes an expanded marketing chapter, as well as a foreword by Gifford Pinchot.
A source of comfort and inspiration for those who want to create their ideal community, The Cohousing Handbook is a groundbreaking and practical guide to building a better society one neighborhood at a time-a must-have for the growing number of people who want to create a cohousing community.
Chris and Kelly ScottHanson are acknowledged leaders in the development of cohousing, and are co-owners of Cohousing Resources, LLC. Chris is also president and CEO of Seattle-based Construction & Development Services, Inc., responsible for overseeing numerous cohousing projects from land acquisition through construction throughout North America. Kelly is CEO of Eco-Development, LLC, providing marketing, startup guidance and membership advice for numerous cohousing and ecovillage projects. They both live and work on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Table of Contents
Foreword By Zev Paiss
1. Introduction
2. Forming a Group
3. The Development Process
4. Working with Professionals
5. Buying Land
6. The Design Process
7. Design Considerations
8. Environment
9. Legal Issues
10. Finance and Budget
11. Marketing and Membership
12. Scheduling and Planning
13. Permits and Approvals
14. The Construction Process
15. Moving In
16. Resources
About the Author
Index
Author(s): Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett, Ellen Hertzman
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Paperback: 288 pages
ISBN: 0898155398
ISBN-13: 978-0898155396
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How-To Editor’s Recommended Book, 02/01/97:
Alright, you tried living in a commune in the 1970s, and people kept borrowing your toothbrush and leaving dishes in the sink. Then you set up house by yourself and felt lonely. You got married, started raising a family and ended up feeling isolated from your friends and the rest of the community. You go to work, wave to your neighbors over the fence now and then, and think there must be more to life than this. There is: a whole new concept of building a neighborhood and sense of community. This is the story of how and why cohousing works, and how to go about making it happen for yourself.
From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff , 02/01/97:
Does the idea of not having to cook meals for yourself or family every night, deal with traffic on your block, or worry when your children are out playing in the neighborhood appeal to you? If the answer is yes, you may want to consider exploring cohousing, a concept that originated in Denmark in the early 1970s and has spread throughout Europe. In Cohousing, a number of European cohousing communities are profiled. Although each community is a unique reflection of its members’ tastes and desires, there are some common components, such as parking lots on the perimeters of the community for pedestrian safety, a common house where meals can be shared, and recreational facilities housing various community activities and services. With all the responsibilities entailed in managing a home and/or a family, cohousing is a solution for finding sufficient time to relax and spend with the people who are important to us. (The authors have recently started The Cohousing Company, a design and development company formed specifically to assist groups interested in planning and implementing cohousing in this country.)
Excerpted from Cohousing by Kathryn McCamant, et al (as appears in The WomanSource Catalog & Review). Copyright(c) 1993. Reprinted by permission, all rights reserved :
The dining room is located in the common house at the end of the hall. Here dinner is served four to six times a week, with 50 to 60 percent of the residents (25 to 35 people) typically taking part. The use of tokens, earned by cooking, assures that people prepare dinner in proportion to the number of times they eat. Each month residents sign up for when they will cook; and a few days beforehand, for when they will be there for dinner. This flexible system allows residents to participate as much or as little as they like.
Author(s): Leonard A. Jason
Publisher: Praeger Pub
Hardcover: 176 pages
ISBN: 0275958728
ISBN-13: 978-0275958725
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This work is a description of vulnerabilities that help account for many of the serious problems facing contemporary society in industrialized countries, including high rates of crime; homelessness; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addictions; and a breakdown of the psychological sense of community.
About the Author : LEONARD A. JASON is Professor of Psychology at DePaul University.
Table of Contents:
Forewords:
Communication and Community Building by Mara B. Adelman and Lawrence R. Frey
New Vistas for Community Psychology by John Moritsugu
Preface
Society at the Crossroads
Four Vulnerabilities
A New Paradigm for Hope
Religion and Spirituality
A Sense of Community
Partnerships with Communities
Wisdom Traditions as Our Guide
Afterword: An Eco-Transformational Application: Bridging the Macro to the Micro by Patricia A.Fennell
Notes
References
Index
Author(s): Michael H. Shuman
Publisher: The Free Press
Hardcover: 320 pages
ISBN: 0684830124
ISBN-13: 978-0684830124
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Communities throughout the world are losing control of their economies. Convinced by mainstream economists that globalization is inevitable, local leaders – whether liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican – are trying to attract outside investment by paying massive subsidies, slashing wages, and weakening environmental standards. Going Local details how dozens of communities are regaining control over their economies by employing three new kinds of strategies: investing not in outsiders, but in locally owned businesses like credit unions, cooperatives, community land trusts, municipally owned utilities, small worker-owned firms, community development corporations, and local shareholder-owned firms such as the Green Bay, Packers; focusing on import-replacing rather than export-led development, by reducing dependence on distant sources of energy, water, food, and basic materials; and asking the federal government for more power, not more pork, by eliminating many subsidies and changing tax and trade laws that disempower communities. Going Local challenges conservatives and liberals alike to rethink their views about markets, corporations, and devolution. It suggests novel ways in which businesses can blend private ownership and community responsibility, and innovative policies that can balance the virtues of a free market with the critical need – and special ability – of local government to address its shortcomings.
Author(s): Lester W. Milbrath
Publisher: State Univ of New York Press
Hardcover: 403 pages
ISBN: 0791401626
ISBN-13: 978-0791401620
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Envisioning : A Sustainable Society : Learning Our Way Out (Suny Series in Environmental Public Policy) Paperback 403 pages January 1990
Author(s): Nigel J. Roome (Editor)
Publisher: Island Press
Paperback: 332 pages
ISBN: 1559635991
ISBN-13: 978-1559635998
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This volume provides a multidisciplinary examination of the meaning of sustainability and its practical implications for industry. It defines sustainability in an industrial context and addresses how the shift to sustainability will affect the role of industry within society and its relationships with consumerism, employees and the community at large. Contributors examine industrial approaches and consider the key elements needed to achieve sustainable practice.
Author(s): Andrew Dobson (Editor)
Publisher: Mercury House
Paperback: 296 pages
ISBN: 1562790102
ISBN-13: 978-1562790103
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Green politicians and theoreticians argue that current, piecemeal responses to the environmental crisis now facing the world will not work. What is needed, they say, is a fundamental overhauling of the system and a new paradigm for viewing humankind’s place in the world. This book is an attempt to form such a worldview by extracting selections from dozens of previously published books and essays. Excerpted are authors such as Kirkpatrick Sale, E.F. Schumacher, Edward Abbey, and Rachel Carson. Each essay is short; most are two to five pages. By arranging the book into five sections (The Green Critique, The Green Society, Green Economics, Green Politics, and Green Philosophy), editor Dobson shows the Green movement to be more than environmentalism. For readers wishing an overview of Green thought, this book is an excellent starting point.
Author(s): William D. Browning, Joseph J. Romm
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Institute
ISBN: 9996358097
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Greening the Building and the Bottom Line
Paperback
Publication date: December 1994
This landmark study makes a new economic case for green design in the workplace. Its message to corporate managers: while energy-efficient design can pay for itself in reduced energy costs alone, it may also produce vastly greater benefits in higher worker productivity, lower absenteeism, fewer errors, better quality, and increased retail sales. Eight documented case studies show that productivity gains from green design can be as high as 16 percent.