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WindSong Marks Its 10th Anniversary
July 21, 2006
The first architecturally-designed cohousing community in Canada, WindSong Cohousing of Walnut Grove, marks its 10th anniversary on Sunday. WindSong Cohousing is situated on six acres, with a salmon stream protected on four acres of the property. These environmental aspects are some of the reasons for WindSong... Read More
So Happy Together: A Cohousing Story
June 2, 2003
I first discovered cohousing when it was already too late. I had already bought my leaky condominium. When I responded to a cohousing advertisement in the Shared Vision magazine, I immediately connected with the stranger on the other end of the phone - Alan Carpenter from the Canadian Cohousing Network (CCN). Both... Read More
Living in Community
April 1, 2003
Several years ago, a group of people from different walks of life with no building experience formed a development company to oversee the design, financing, and construction of a five million dollar cohousing project in Burnaby. The result was Cranberry Commons, an urban village built to meet its residents’... Read More
Living in Harmony
April 1, 2003
There may be war in Iraq, global warming all around us, and cruel poverty that persists in the world’s most prosperous nations and yet amid it all, we have to go on living. For as long as we have been mammals, humans have lived in close, neighbourly, mammalian villages, helping and supporting each other through... Read More
Going Green In The Burbs
January 1, 2003
ALAN CARPENTER HAD BEEN A BUILDER and developer in Vancouver for more than a decade when he decided in the early 1990s to pursue "a better way to live." The now 54-year-old native of Grande Prairie, Alta., envis-aged a community in which the residents themselves made all the important decisions, from where to... Read More
Building The Dream
April 15, 2002
Imagine a community that’s designed by the people who live there. Where residents live in the privacy of their own homes but gather in the community’s common house to share meals and socialize several nights a week. Where all decisions are made by consensus. Where children roam freely under the watchful eye... Read More
Communes for the middle class
February 16, 2002
On the West Coast of Canada, 100 people live together and share their cars, meals, chores, an organic vegetable garden, child care and holidays. They live on six acres of land (which they purchased together) in beautiful Langley, B.C., and have designed their own neighbourhood (which they all collaborated on). If... Read More
Happy Together
November 21, 2001
To own your own home is the North American dream. But all too often it comes with a price: isolation. Ask the average suburban homeowner about the folks next door, and frequently they won't even know their neighbours' first names. Now imagine a community where everyone knows not just the people next door, but... Read More
Under One Roof
September 1, 1997
Drive up to it unaware, and you'd have a hard time distinguishing WindSong from any of the other upscale condominium complexes in the Walnut Grove section of Langley, British Columbia. Here, developments with names like Chelsea Garden and Derby Hills spring from the earth like two-story, picture-windowed cash... Read More