There was a great article in the New York Times last Friday about a group in the Fort Greene neighborhood called Brooklyn Cohousing.  They were able to purchase an unbuilt condo development based on a rehabbed church property with a 7500sf central courtyard. 
They intend to turn it into a green, sustainable community with individual, fully equipped apartments as well as common space where members of the community can gather to share meals, gardening, and childcare. 
It looks like a great project and they are actually on track to move in early 2010! 

I (Abraham) finally finished my EcoBroker® coursework and officially certified!  You may or may not have heard of EcoBroker® but here’s the skinny:

Founded in 2002, EcoBroker® was the first, and remains the largest, green real estate training and communications program in the world.

EcoBroker® training is intended to help real estate agents address the newest topics in real estate, such as "green" home certification programs (ie: Energy Star® Qualified Homes, Chicago Green Homes, LEED for Homes, etc), energy-efficiency, and environmentally-sensitive design.

The EcoBroker® designation assists real estate agents in working through issues that may arise in any real estate transaction, such as mold, radon, and poor indoor air quality, and to provide real solutions.

If you are curious about how a property can provide greater affordability, comfort and a healthier environment please let me know!

Hey y’all, check out Thea Liberty Nichol’s thoughtful review of our current show, Philip Dembinski’s Nothing Just Happens/Along The Boulevards, at ArtSlant, and then come see the show for yourself if you haven’t already!

 Happy Accidents, Jeroen Nelemans

Please join us for a screening of single channel art works from the collection of Jefferson Godard on November 6th at 7:00.  Artists included in this screening will include Guy Ben-ner, Kate Gilmore, Jeroen Nelemans, Michael Phelan and Carlos Rigau.  The works shown will focus on themes of the body and struggle, humor and simulacra.

Jefferson, a native of Miami, FL and architecture graduate, came to Chicago 3 years ago and continued to develop his passion for art, video and the city.  Now stationed in Lakeview, he continues to collect video work and is actively involved in the Chicago arts scene.  In January, he will take some of the works from his collection to Berlin, where he is mounting a show titled "Our Great Show" at Nice and Fit Gallery.

7PM Thursday, November 6th
LivingRoom Gallery
1530 W Superior St
312.226.3020

We’re Obama’s rich!  Let me just say, we know how to throw a FUNdraiser!

We finally tallied up all the dollars and cents and thanks to a great many generous souls we raised a whopping total of $6,636 for the Obama/O’Biden campaign! 
Not only that but $4,481 of those dollars were matched by some anonymous donors on Obama’s web site, so one could say we contributed a total of $11,117! 

Thanks again to everyone who donated items, participated, shook their tail feathers, and cleaned up afterwards!