Cohousing - Australia And Around The World

Phil Bourne is a founding member of Commonground and has been an active participant in social change for 25 years. Commonground is a social change organization situated near Seymour Victoria. It is an organization with a vision to help create a just, nonviolent and environmentally sane world. It pursues this by supporting social change with the resources of a conference venue, groupwork skills, and an intentional community, all with an emphasis on collaborative endeavour.Commonground began in 1984. Phil is an active member of Communities Australia and Cohousing Australia and is keen on promoting ‘the next wave’ of intentional community in whatever form it best takes

Iain Walker is a cofounder of the Sustainable Living Foundation. He is a founder and continuing member for 24 years of Earth Co-op, a rental housing cooperative in Melbourne. He has vast experience in community development and housing, including forming the SLF subgroup that has grown into Communities Australia and Cohousing Australia. He has recently attended the International Cohousing conference in the USA and is keen to promote Cohousing as the viable triple bottom line plus sustainable housing option in Australia. He is the facilitator of Echo Cohousing of 18 Households in Heidelberg that is part of Earth Co-op. The project now has planning permit and is being developed by Common Equity Housing Ltd. and targeted to be built next year.