Fw: Legacy Farm Co-Housing meting and movie Mar. 2

[Fay L. Loomis]

Legacy Farm Co-Housing will be showing this movie after the regular meeting on March 2.  The General Circle Meeting is held from 12:30-4:00 at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston and begins with a potluck.

To RSVP (by the Thurday prior to the meeting) and for meeting site/directions contact Ilyse Simon at ilys...@yahoo.com or call 845 943 9005. Tell us who you are, how many of you will be attending, and if you will be needing childcare. If you will be bringing children.... childcare will be provided if you let us know with your RSVP.

The movie is described below and will be accompanied by popcorn.

Fay

 

"Developers, governing officials and the public need to see this film!" Alexis Karolides, AIA, Principal, Green Development Services, Rocky Mountain Institute

To people driving past the old Holiday Drive-In Theater site in Boulder, Colorado, it might seem like a new neighborhood has sprung out of the ground overnight. But those who worked on the project's development know better. Collectively, hundreds of thousands of decisions and choices were made to create the 330-home neighborhood, where affordability and sustainability are primary goals. It wasn't exactly a simple mission.

In DESIGNING A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD, director David Wann follows the progress of the Wild Sage Cohousing Community project, where future residents participate in the design of their own neighborhood. The stated architectural goal at the Wild Sage site in Boulder is a "zero emissions" neighborhood in which solar energy, energy efficiency, and changes in behavior eliminate the need for fossil fuels.

The master site developer, The Boulder Housing Partners (BHP), has a vision for creating affordable neighborhoods that are also lively, efficient and pedestrian friendly. More than 400 people with low and middle incomes will live at Holiday, many as first-time homeowners.

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