Raines Cohen
Coworking Coach, Cohousing Coach, Aging-In-Community Networker. Connector. Evangelist. User Group Groupie.

Does money make you happy? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?

Roko Belic, multi award-winning director of the Oscar-nominated Genghis Blues now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more, taking us to over...

FREE ADMISSSION!

People are encouraged to bring food for themselves, or something to share if they really feel like it.

YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) (trailer at http://www.yert.com) are filmmaker friends of ours whom Ryan met early in the Within Reach journey. They are on a national screening tour with their now completed movie and they...

How can we encourage the reuse of historic buildings for housing? What are some of the challenges that developers and architects face when trying to adaptively reuse historic structures? Join us at a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) lunch forum to meet allies and learn how cohousing could work in this context.
Come hear...

Building Community in the Sharing Economy a conversation with panelists   Shelby Clark Founder + Chief Community Officer, RelayRides   Casey Fenton Founder + Chief Inspiration Officer, CouchSurfing   Paolo Parigi + Bogdan State Assistant Professor + Graduate Researcher Department of Sociology, Stanford University   A new collaborative economy...

What does intentional community have in common with the Occupy Wall Street Movement? Creative and deliberative consensus is possible - even among large groups of strangers, and Facilitators are trained not born --- This is what Democracy looks like!

Are you ready for BIL 2012?!

We have booked the Queen Mary for March 2-4th 2012 for our annual Unconference of Boisterous, Illustrious, and and somewhat Ludicrous denizens. Please join us for what is going to be an amazing event!

www.bilconference.com

BIL is an un-conference -- organized and observed by the participants. BIL emerged from a...

Most of you have heard of TED or watched the talks online, but do you know about BIL, the quirky, populist, unconference taking place nearby?  Open to the public and fully participant powered, BIL features a wild mix of technologists, scientists, artists, hackers, and those with a passion for community awareness.  Join us March 2-4 on the...

Welcome to the Future of Money & Technology Summit
April 23rd, 2012 | Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco

For more information, please visit http://www.futureofmoney.com

Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://futureofmoney3-efbevent.eventbrite.com

This Summit is going to be great, and we hope very much to see you there.

All the best, and thanks!
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We're thrilled to announce that Netroots Nation 2012 will take place in Providence, Rhode Island June 7-10, 2012.

Our introductory rate expires August 19th, so click here to register: http://bit.ly/q1YTw2

Hotel Information can be found at http://www.netrootsnation.org/location

Providence is a great city that shares our progressive values....

http://conference.cohousing.org/

Thanks to everyone who participated in Art of Community- you are all responsible for making this year's event a success that together we can build on and continue to share in....

News about next year's event is coming soon!

Art of Community is a production of:
The Fellowship for Intentional Community
www.ic.org

www.artofcmty.com

Yes, the time is upon us. Everyone knows pi day is March 14th, but any true nerd realizes pi is not 3.14, but rather an irrational constant which continues infinitely in decimal expansion. Starting at 9:26:53 (.589... sec) AM, the longest extended Pi Day of our lives will come into action. The date, at the AM and PM hours, will be " 3/14/15 at...