Resources

Books

• Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages & Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe Christian.

Podcasts

• Inside Community Podcast

Co-housing in the News

• Sustainable co-housing community to be built in Canberra's north to meet downsizing needs without compromising environmental impact

• Communal living is growing in Australia. Residents say it can create community and reduce cost of living

Benefits of Cohousing

• https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/article/downloads/UTS_ISF_Cohousing_Sustainability_factsheet_WEB.pdf

Videos

• TED Talk by Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

• Co-housing explained by Belterra Cohousing in Canada: Cohousing Explained: "What is a Home?"

• Webinar: NENA Housing Week: Finding Solutions – Coop Housing, Tiny Houses and Citizen Led Co-Living

• Webinar: NENA Housing Week: Finding Solutions – Innovative Financing and Legal Models

• Documentary: A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016) - Free Full Documentary

• Webinar: Introduction to Intentional Communities

• Video tour: Christie Walk Eco-housing project in Adelaide

Directories & Associations

• Foundation for Intentional Community

• Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)

• GEN Australia

• Cohousing Australia

Examples of Australian Co-housing, Intentional Community & Ecovillage Projects

Here are some examples of cohousing and living together that we can explore and learn from. As far as we can tell, there aren't any vegan communities... YET!

• Murandaka (VIC) – https://www.murundakacohousing.org.au/

• Moora Moora (VIC) – https://mooramoora.org.au/

• Cascade (TAS) – https://www.cascadecohousing.com/

• Christie Walk (SA) – https://www.urbanecology.org.au/eco-cities/christie-walk/

• Deco Denmark (WA) – https://decohousingdenmark.wixsite.com/home

• Urban Coup (VIC) – https://www.urbancoup.org/ https://www.nightingalehousing.org/project/urban-coup

• Bellbunya (QLD) - https://www.ic.org/directory/bellbunya-community-association/

• Black Bulga (NSW) - https://www.ic.org/directory/black-bulga/

• Common Ground (VIC) - https://www.common-ground.org.au/

• Bend (NSW) - https://bend.org.au/

Vegan Ecovillages

Here are a few links to vegan ecovillages or networking groups:

• The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary - Wellington, New Zealand (established)

• Gaia Terra - Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (established)

• Giardino della Gioia - Puglia, Italy (established)

• Eotopia - France (established)

• Kuna Comuna - Tenerife (established)

• ZEGG - Germany (established)

• Aurora - Romania (established)

• Ahoxus - Portugal (established)

• Sadhana Forest - India (established)

• Peace Vegan Ecovillage / Peace Vegan School - Vietnam (established)

• Paradise Valley - Herefordshire, UK (established)

• Veganville - London, UK (forming)

• The Yellow Brick Road, Tiny House Vegan Ecovillage - New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, Canada (forming)

• Grønt Nabofellesskap - Oslo, Norway (forming)