Dallas-Fort Worth Ecovillage and Cohousing Site Plan

DFW Ecovillage/Cohousing Home Page

Ecovillages in Dallas-Fort Worth

• What Is an Ecovillage?
• Locate an Ecovillage in Dallas-Fort Worth
• The Ecovillage Network
• Developer-Driven Ecovillages

Cohousing in Dallas-Fort Worth

• What Is Cohousing?
• Benefits of Cohousing
• Universal Concepts in Cohousing
• Features of Cohousing 
• Designed by Residents 

What is Ecohousing?

Green Building and Energy-Efficiency in DFW 

Community in Dallas-Fort Worth

• What Is Community?
• Why Does DFW Need Sustainability and Community?
• The Movement Back to Community

The Benefits of Cohousing/Ecovillage Combined

The Diminished Role of the Automobile in Ecovillages

Safety of Children in an Ecovillage or Cohousing

Common Areas of Cohousing & Ecovillages:

• The Common House
• Attributes/Features of Common House
• Other Common Areas
• Community Gardens
• Outdoor Common Areas

Developer 

• Role of Developer 
• Why Hire a Developer?
• Choosing a Developer 
• Define Developer Driven 
• Do Developers Help or Hinder Community-Building? 

What Affects Affordability?

• General Affordability
• Alternative & New Building Materials
• Land Costs
• What Is Enough?

Senior Cohousing/Ecovillages

• Unique Features 
• Benefits Unique to Seniors 
• Active Lifestyles 
• Retirement Housing

Lack of Loneliness

Confusion Between Cohousing and Ecovillages

Conceptual Site-Plan for Cohousing

Combat Rising Utility Bills in DFW

The First Cohousing and Ecovillage in DFW  

Enough

What Is a Home?

Mortgages for Energy-Efficient Homes

Meetings

News

Cohousing Is Fun!

Origins Cohousing, Ecohousing, How Did It Start?

USDA Rural Loan Program

Scheduled meetings