More Meetings!

Okay, folks, this might be the one (group we work with).

On Sunday the 25th of November I attended a meeting with about a dozen other potential ecovillagers. I was afraid they might be flighty, unwilling to adopt decision-making structures or best-practices funding solutions -- but in fact, they are a grounded bunch, wanting to move quickly and adopt the forms that work in order to achieve their visions. I am very happy to be involved with them. Charlie and I will attend another meeting on December 9th. In the meantime, Matthew (one of their/our number) has agreed to set up a wiki for the group's process. I'll post the link when I get it.

On Monday the 26th, our 2nd marriage anniversary, we went to a cooperative housing meeting that described a remarkable development program that builds nearly zero-carbon houses at governmentally certified affordable housing prices for people who lease (and eventually may own) them through housing cooperatives. Brilliant! For more information on the project, Google Redditch Cooperative Homes or click there.

Meetings

I have enjoyed meeting several interesting people lately; these folks include the Brighton Co-Housing folks, who've been going for about a year now, Anne Wirstad and Richard Nelson of SolaRoof (spent more time talking with Anne, who intends to move into an ecovillage in Norway, but first is coordinating SolaRoof development in the UK and trying to set up another Hub. I also made the acquaintance of Jon Bootland of the Good Homes Alliance, who are a charitable organization bringing together green builders, architects, planners, and various resources. I'll be tapping Jon to help me find the other professionals we need to do our ecovillage!

Anyway, the process goes on... I'll post more when the survey is complete in two weeks.

I've created a survey

If you're interested in ecovillage, please take this survey!

You will aid me in research I am doing at the moment for university, and I will give you a report on your "ideal village" preferences and the range of preferences of other potential ecovillagers (if you want to get such a report).

More posts soon on interesting meetings...