alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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"The group’s vision might have stayed a dream had city hall not passed a plan for 15 to 20 cooperative housing projects within four years, half of them self-built. The aim eventually is for 10% of all new Amsterdam housing stock to be cooperatively owned." https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/14/what-if-we-built-our-own-young-amsterdammers-fight-housing-crisis-with-cooperative-build

And in #Brussels? If you dream of living in a #cohousing, maybe you want to consider joining our group. Presentation on 6th of June: https://thereef.brussels , then click on "Join us" to find the registration link.

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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I am part of a group building a in . We are getting ready to purchase a site, and are accepting new members. If you or someone you know is interested, come to an in'-person public presentation on April 17. Info and registration link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1526505357911161

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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Signal boost! I am part of a group building a in . We are getting ready to purchase a site, and are accepting new members. If you or someone you know is interested, come to a public presentation on April 17: https://www.facebook.com/events/1526505357911161

riotRhino, to random
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My wife and I have been discussing what it would look like to start an / project here in the area (US side). There are existing communities that I am looking forward to visiting, but we want to focus our efforts with folks who are cautious right now. Throwing the question into the fediverse- is this something folks are interested in?

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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Getting close to completing the founding group for The Reef, our #cohousing in #Brussels. If you, like me, dream of living in a cohousing in our beloved "charmingly dysfunctional" city, join us for a public presentation of the group on Jan 17. Go to https://thereef.brussels then click on "Join us" and find the registration form.

boris, to vancouver
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Thank you @jai for hosting a great #cohousing event tonight.

I really do want to make housing collaboration part of the community we build at #DWebYVR

I presented an intro of DWeb Vancouver, and Emily talked about what she wants out of CoFood Garden Living https://dwebyvr.org/wiki/Intro_to_DWeb_Vancouver_Housing_Synergies

Knowing that @brewsterkahle has also experimented for years makes me want to keep going https://brewster.kahle.org/2020/06/28/results-of-7-approaches-to-affordable-housing-for-non-profit-workers/

#Vancouver needs this.

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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I am part of a #cohousing group in #Brussels. As we get ready to acquire a sitefor our future home, we are still looking to enlarge the group. If you, too dream of living in a greener and friendlier way in our wonderfully dysfunctional city, come meet us. Public presentation on November 8 in Forest, all will be revealed! https://fb.me/e/1jNR5I4GW
More on the project: https://thereef.brussels

alberto_cottica, to random
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Mon habitat groupé à #Bruxelles est proche à acheter un site, et nous acceptons des nouveaux membres. Si vous rêvez d'un façon d'habiter écolo et amical, venez-vous nous connaître: présentation publique, 8 novembre à Forest: https://fb.me/e/1jNR5I4GW
Info sur le projet: https://thereef.brussels
#cohousing

eeejay, to community
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Come live in a thriving intentional in an oasis in the heart of . We are selling our home. yay.

https://redf.in/1oao4H

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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Nice! The upcoming presentation of our #cohousing is almost booked out (not "sold" out, because it is free, just the reservation is necessary). If you are in #Brussels and dream of living in a cohousing, talk to us: https://fb.me/e/3QvNiuGzx

alberto_cottica, (edited ) to random
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Today I learned a new word: "nowtopia", a social construct that really exist in the present, while embedding some of the characteristics of a radically different, better society.

I find it a powerful concept. I know personally several nowtopias, and am even working on building a (very small, very partial) one myself: a #cohousing. I learned the concept from the mighty @g_kallis in this paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2014.973803

#degrowth

Edited: remove the attribution of the idea of nowtopia to Kallis

eldelacajita,
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@alberto_cottica Don't sell your project short! 😁 #cohousing projects may be small, but I wouldn't say they are partial.

Beyond the housing and community practices they propose, they usually connect in a transformative way with so many aspects of life and society (energy, mobility, care, education, food, work, etc.) that I honestly think they are the ideal starting nodes for growing an interconnected and interdependent #nowtopia.

alberto_cottica, to Brussels
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My #cohousing group is gearing up to build a home in #Brussels. If you dream of living in a vibrant, modern city, but still be a part of a cohesive group where everyone looks out for each other and lives sustainably, you might want to consider joining us. Presentation coming up on September 13th:
https://thereef.brussels
Registration required! We hid the registration link in a Facebook event (I know), so that we do not get flooded by bot registrations: https://fb.me/e/3QvNiuGzx

sambutlerUS, to AirBNB
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Re: https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1690355594908110848

Have you considered using the property to explore living condition scenarios from "Decent living with minimum energy"? That's something I've frequently thought about since reading that paper (I just did a measurement now, to compare a 15 m² per capita benchmark.)

It could go hand-in-hand with a transfer to cooperative ownership, for people who could be interested in trying this.

@jks

Also posted on Groundtalk — the low-energy and low-data (#permacomputing) social network, that uses less energy than a single tweet: https://groundtalk.land/#2023-08-13T09:45:00.942+00:00

#Housing #Coop #Degrowth #Rent #Capitalism #SharedHousing #CoHousing #Cooperatives #Design #Postgrowth #Transitions #Sustainability #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Architecture #InteriorDesign #Planning #Construction #BuenVivir #LivingWell #Pluriverse

[Table from Julia Steinberger's "decent living for all with minimum energy" paper. DLS dimensions & Activity levels Energy Intensities services Default levels HD Default (direct) Default LAT (indirect) Nutrition Food 2000-2150kcal/cap/day 15% - 3K|/kilocalorie 30% Cooking appliances 1 cooker/household - 08K/kilocalorie 1GJfapp 50% Cold Storage 1 fridge- - 044GJfapp’lyr 4Glfapp” - freezer/household Shelter & living conditions Household size 4 personsfhousehold -25% - - - Sufficient space 15 meters? floor- 80% - 2-4GJ/m? 100% space/cap® Thermal comfort 15 meters? floor- 80% 20-60MJ/m2fyr - 300% space/cap® Illumination 25001m/house; 6 hrs/day 100% 150Im/W 14MJ/house/yr - Hygiene Water supply 50 Litres/cap/day 100% - 5-17 KJ/L - Water heating 20 Litres/cap/day 100% 96-220 KJ/L = 50% Waste management Provided to all - - 180MJjcaplyr 200% households™ Clothing Clothes 4kg of new clothing/year 33% - 100Mj/kg - Washing facilities 80kg of washing/year 33% 2.4M]/kg 2Glfapp” - Healthcare Hospitals 200 meters? floor- 50% 410- 14-23 GJjm? 130% space/bed S60M]/m2/yr Education Schools 10 meters? floor- 50% 100~ 45-7.5 GJ/m? 150% space/pupil 130MJ/m?yr Communication & information Phones 1 phone/person over - 28MJ/phone/yr 110MJ/phone 30% 10yrs old Computers 1 laptop/household - 220M)/laptop/yr 3 GJ/laptop 30% Networks & data High'* 1005 - -04G)jcaplyr - Mobility Vehicle production Consistent with pkm - - 01-0.3MJ/pkm 50% travelled” ](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/881/648/287/464/229/original/75b31862247201ad.jpg)

alberto_cottica, to random
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! Si vous, comme moi, revez de vivre dans un , pensez à rejoindre mon group. Nous sommes déjà une dizaine de foyers, mais il y a encore pas mal de la place. Presentation publique le 13 septembre.

! Als jullie, net als ik, ervan droomen om in een te leven, overwegen dan om lid te worden van mijn groep. We zijn al met tien huishoudens, maar er is nog wel plaats genoeg. Openbare presentatie om 13 september.

https://fb.me/e/3QvNiuGzx

ixtility, to random
@ixtility@urbanists.social avatar

“Every day, I experience great anxiety knowing my hard-earned pension is funding climate collapse.” https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/02/will-californias-largest-pensions-calpers-and-calstrs-divest-from-fossil-fuels/

The paradigm of “growth” underlies public and private pension provision: workers’ and employers’ contributions are invested in a way that grows the size of the pot so after several decades of work there is enough to fund retirement.

Is this still realistic? (It’s not moral in a world of limited resources)

ixtility,
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Besides advocating for political representatives who pledge to work for #sustainability and #degrowth, can we band together in meaningful ways to fund alternatives to the conventional individual “defined contribution” / 401(k) pension plans?

  • #Multigenerational #Cohousing, where dwellings/ lifestyles can be smaller / cheaper bc much (spare rooms, tool shops, vehicles, laundry facilities, gardens, care work etc) are shared?
  • Cooperative allotments for fruit/veg production?
  • What else?
sufficiency, to random

My #introduction! I’m looking for a good home in the fediverse. Have been on social media of some sort since the MUDs and Usenet of the 90s, and a participant in intentional communities on and offline, including #cohousing. I am interested in science and education topics as well as some light computer geekery, sustainability and organic ag, reskilling, and parenting. Currently parenting teens in #westernmass with my husband.

audrinabell, to boston

really amazed to see this new in Malden Massachusetts, designed by sisters Anda French and Jenny French
(More please!) and thanks to for sharing >> bostonpreservation.org

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-10/in-boston-a-colorful-cohousing-complex-is-built-for-sharing

alberto_cottica, to random
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We dream of a in . If you do, too, we should talk. We are holding a presentation of our cohousing project, The Reef, on May 30th. Info and registration link: https://thereef.brussels, then click on "Join us".

alberto_cottica, to random
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Onze droom: in een #cohousing in #Brussel wonen. Als dat ook jouw droom is, kom dan langs op 30 mei in Vorst. Info en inschrijving: https://thereef.brussels, klik vervolgens op "Join us"

alberto_cottica, to random
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