If you haven’t gotten a chance to read through the full “Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011″, produced by the Cohousing Association of the United States, I wanted to share some of my favorite facts from it with you. I’m going to post one of these facts each Monday for the next five weeks, so check back in before you settle into the office (or wherever you happen to be Monday mornings if you’re lucky enough to not be in an office!)

Catherine Allen hosted and interviewed the Women of WOlf Creek Lodge Cohousing on the Women’s Show on KVMR . The show was on Aug 29th. Click the link below to hear the program. BE patient, depending on your internet speed, it may take a minute or two to load up. Have fun and happy listening!

Here is a fabulous video of Katie McCamant and members of Wolf Creek Lodge accepting the California State 2011 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Sustainable Communities. We are so proud!

WOLF CREEK LODGE SENIOR COHOUSING COMMUNITY WINS GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP

The neighborhood in northwest Washington D.C. looks like a typical American townhouse development, but Takoma Village Cohousing is anything but ordinary.

The privately-owned units cluster around a shared open space, and the 80 or so residents share a common building with a kids’ playroom, study room, laundry, kitchen and huge living area, and they have meals together there several times a week.

Northwoods Magazine, “Serving Truckee and North Lake Tahoe” includes an article “A Dynamic Balance of Privacy and Community” by our own member Magdalene Jaeckel. What an awesome story about cohousing and Wolf Creek Lodge Senior cohousing. It even has some great construction pictures.

Judy Collins

Wolf Creek Lodge is a proud sponsor of:
The Center for the Arts presents
Sunday, September 25
at Veterans Memorial Auditorium
255 S. Auburn Street, Grass Valley

View this slideshow to get an idea of the very start of Wolf Creek Lodge senior cohousing. It has taken a long time to get this project off the ground and now that it is, is is fun to look back a little bit at the process and the fun that happened when it first started.

Here is what Cheryl Noble, producer of the local, award winning program “Cafe Community” wrote to WCL members Dick Shannon and Magdalene Jaeckle after their appearance on the show:

You and Magdalene were brilliant! Thank you so much. You were great guests, and did a great job.

Read this great story about senior cohousing in The New York Times: The New Old Age Column, published on Aug. 22.