Toronto Ecovillage @ YorkU Design Charette
By Mike Kenny, Arlene Gould
Date and time
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 · 9:30am - 4:30pm PDT
Location
York University
Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building Room 140 M3J 1P3 CanadaDescription
The Design for Sustainability Workshop course and Regenesis invite you to participate in the:
Cohousing Design Charrette: Building the Vision for a Community Eco Village at York University
Tuesday, July 15th, 2014
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
HNES 140, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Lunch and Continental Breakfast provided
RSVP Required: http://yorkuecovillage.eventbrite.com/
Dozens of students, professors, local architects, housing consultants, and community members will be on hand participating.
What is Cohousing?
Cohousing” is a concept for communities and housing from Denmark. The key principles of cohousing are that of a sense of community, participation, having some common shared facilities, affordability of the units and residents managing the building themselves. Everyone works together as a collective and shares ownership of common areas, but rents or owns their own unit. Most co-housing developments are designed to be environmentally friendly.
What is an Ecovillage?
An ecovillage is a sustainable community, committed to living in an ecologically, economically, and spiritually sound way. Astrophysicist and environmentalist Robert Gilman created the term ecovillage in 1991. Self-sufficiency, designed for community and well-being, local economy, minimal environmental impacts and growing organic food are features of an ecovillage. It is this commitment to the environment that differentiates ecovillages from other intentional communities.
Why is this important?
Cohousing and ecovillages are an emerging concept that addresses many of the problems of modern life in a post-modern society including: climate change, overconsumption, health crisis of the western diet and social isolation. Cohousing and ecovillages creates communities that are optimized for human well-bring, health and sustainability. Combining these concepts, this charrette examines the possibility of creating such a community here at York University.
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