Category Archives: Cooperatives

Join an Action Circle to Grow an Ecovillage Near You

Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

Ecovillage NJ is forming Action Circles to actively plan and grow 1 to 4 cooperative communities in the Garden State in the next 2 years. We have 4 circles to choose from: urban, town, suburban, and rural. Our first meetings … Continue reading →

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Holiday Party & EcoVillagers Cooperative pre-Launch!

Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Come and celebrate our first Ecovillage NJ Holiday Party! We’ll start with our traditional potluck at noon — accompanied by live music — and then will convene sometime after 2 pm for news, sharing, learning and discussion. This may be … Continue reading →

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Nov 19 Meetup: Exploring Coops: What, Why and How They Work so Well

Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Saturday, November 19 at 12:00 PM, at Conservation Development LLC – Lise Thompson 626 Montgomery Road, Hillsborough, NJ (map) RSVP here Successful EcoVillages are built by people who understand what cooperative living is all about. Our coach in setting up … Continue reading →

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Ecovillagers Cooperative: who we are, where we are going

Posted on Friday, October 21, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

We are a new Real Estate Investment Cooperative (REIC) seeking to organize, incubate, and invest in shared-equity, cooperatively-owned neighborhoods across the United States, beginning with a 2017 phase focused on Mid-Atlantic cities. Before building ecovillages, we are building an investment and … Continue reading →

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Creating an Ecovillage Co-op

Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

As described elsewhere on this site, we have embraced a new approach to creating ecovillages in New Jersey, a cooperative proposal being led by a group of longtime activists and experts called the Ecovillagers Alliance. This post provides some of the key background … Continue reading →

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Taking a New Direction

Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Over the past several months we’ve been exploring a new approach to “ecovillaging,” founded on a sustainability-based cooperative model developed by Joel Rothschild and the Ecovillagers Alliance. Steve Welzer had reached out to Katie McCamant to find the closest “graduate” of the … Continue reading →

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