Sharing: A radical, sustainable Act
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Sustainability Sharing is the status quo within housing cooperatives. Cooperatives are defined by people sharing space, decision-making power, buying power, and chores. Oftentimes, cooperative housemates share much more – emotional support, skills, good (and bad) times, and food. Sharing is truly amazing. It is sustainable and affordable. I’d go […]
Down with Commuting
By: Sarah Ditton — Development & Operations According to a 2019 Boulder Community Profile, “an estimated 58,000 people travel into the city of Boulder every day for work, as commuters make up 60% of the local workforce.” More than half the people that work in the City of Boulder don’t live in the City. Boulder’s […]
The Benefits of Living in an Intentional Cooperative Community During a Pandemic
By: Brian Klocke – Masala Resident and Board Rep. I know several people that have struggled to deal with some combination of feelings of isolation, loneliness, depression, despair or anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic. All of them have one thing in common, none of them live in an intentional community and a couple of them […]
Co-op Sustainability – By the Numbers
By: Jordan Mann – BHC co-op alum and engineer. As a co-op resident and general energy nerd, I decided to do a brief study of the per capita energy consumption of co-op residents vs. the typical Coloradan consumer. I collected data from all of the co-ops I know about in town and charted their electricity, […]
Masala Cooperative Goes Solar!
Thanks to a generous grant from the City of Boulder ClimateSmart Grant Program, the BHC was able to install photovoltaic panels at the Masala cooperative in 2010. The Boulder Housing Coalition would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of this project: City of Boulder ClimateSmart Grant Program Standard Renewable Energy This […]
Chrysalis Co-op Goes Solar
Thanks to a series of generous grants from local and regional sources, the BHC was able to install photovoltaic panels at the Chrysalis cooperative in early 2009. The Boulder Housing Coalition would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of this project: Energy Outreach Colorado City of Boulder ClimateSmart Solar Grant Program […]
