Downloads

• Are We a Match? — New Cohousing FAQ — New Member Process
• Membership Levels — Resource List — Aerial View of the Site — Imagining Belfast in 2021
• Career Transition Guide

Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage News

• Back issues of our eNewsletter
• Bangor Daily News 05-10-09
• Bangor Daily News 04-03-11
• Maine Insights
• Maine Home + Design
• WERU Community Radio

Belfast Area Organizations

• Belfast Area Public Schools (RSU #20)
• Ashwood Waldorf School
• Cornerspring Montessori School (Paula Johnson @ 207-338-5800 or email cornerspring@tidewater.net)
• Belfast Area Children’s Center
• University of Maine Hutchinson Center
• Waterfall Arts
• Belfast Maskers (community theater)
• Belfast Co-op (Maine’s oldest!)
• Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
• Belfast Area Transition Initiative
• Belfast Farmers’ Market
• Camden Hills State Park
• Camden Snow Bowl
• Maine Windjammer Association
• Waldo County YMCA
• Waldo County General Hospital
• Mid-Coast Mental Health Center
• RehabInfo Maine
• Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce
• Belfast Municipal Airport
• City of Belfast Harbor Services
• Midcoast Magnet — culture, entrepreneurship, and social & professional connections
• Pop!Tech — world-changing people, projects and ideas
• REALIZE!Maine — social, civic, and career opportunities for young people (20-40)

Cohousing Resources

• Cohousing Association of the US
• The Cohousing Company
• Communities Directory
• Helping Your Community Thrive: Part 1 — featuring Diana Leafe Christian

Other Regional Cohousing Communities

• Champlain Valley Cohousing, Charlotte, Vermont
• Cobb Hill Cohousing, Hartland, Vermont
• Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York
• Mosaic Commons, Berlin, Massachusetts
• Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm, Peterborough, New Hampshire
• Pioneer Valley Cohousing, Amherst, Massachusetts
• Two Echo Cohousing, Brunswick, Maine

Print Resources

Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett — 2011
There’s a chapter on our community and a photo of our site-planning workshop on the cover!

The Cohousing Handbook - Building a Place for Community
Chris and Kelly Scott-Hanson — 2005

The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living
Charles Durrett — 2009

Sustainable Community - Learning from the Cohousing model
Graham Meltzer PhD — 2005

Reinventing Community - Stories from the walkways of cohousing
David Wann — 2005

Creating a Life Together - Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
Diana Leafe Christian — 2003

Head, Heart, and Hands: Lessons in Community Building - Shari Leach

Other Sites of Interest

The Story of Stuff — how all the stuff in our lives affects communities here and abroad
The Wombat: “All Is One” — cute piece on being good stewards of the Earth (kids love it).
Eden Alternative — transforming elder care environments into habitats that promote quality of life
Share Some Sugar — Why buy when you can borrow from a neighbor?
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