Welcome back to our guide on how to green-up your lifestyle through making more environmentally conscious decisions each day. This article will focus on easy changes you can make within your community to reduce your carbon footprint, alongside saving money.
Read MoreIt is millennials and Generation Z who are leading the charge of the coliving movement around the world. After graduating from tertiary education and entering the workforce, millennials have come up against barriers to creating a happy living life for themselves. With high student debts and earning incomes much lower than their parents, it is nigh impossible to buy a house and rental prices are soaring. In what rooms are available, the wider living situations lack a sense of community. Coliving has arisen to address these problems.
Read MoreSeveral academics, developed a series of articles investigating how socially-organised housing models, such as coliving, establish emotional ownership. “Residents are attached to their built environment,” which indicates coliving is a successful way of evolving urban areas into more meaningful communities.
Read MoreUrban regeneration is action taken to reverse the economic decline, unemployment, poor infrastructure, and social equity being experienced in certain areas of our country and in countries around the world. It is carried out through revamping physical structures, creating innovative communities and improving the economy in those areas.
Read MoreThe way we live has changed over time; homes evolving to adjust to the different needs and wants of people.
Ada Zeng, wrote an article discussing the future of our urban communities and the role coliving has to play. I will discuss some of the key points she made below.
Read MoreA small little pink Piglet once wondered along next to his much taller, bear-shaped friend Winnie the Pooh. “We’ll be friends forever, won’t we Pooh?” he asked. “Even longer,” Pooh replied.
A real life example of a Piglet and Pooh friendship is the story of four couples, who have been best friends for 20 years, and who wanted to ensure they’d always have a place where they could escape everyday life and holiday together, especially as they got older.
Read MoreJohn Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States of America wrote, “When your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more - then you are a leader.”
Leadership is one of the most empowering and important traits you can possess and anyone can be a leader. But what does it take to be a strong and effective leader?
Read MoreIn 2016, an urban neighbourhood in Detroit set up America’s first organic, self-sustainable neighbourhood, providing fresh and healthy, homegrown food for the community. The garden is two acres in size and grows over 300 organic varieties of vegetables, from chromatic orange carrots to zesty green spinach. Alongside this, it has an orchard of 200 fruit trees, including magenta coloured plums, blooming red cherries and juicy pears. From this vast array of earth’s treats, 2000 homes in the area, as well as local restaurants and markets are provided with fresh produce each season.
Read MoreThe Holstee Manifesto writes “Life is all about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.”
First we had coworking, now coliving has evolved out of the human desire to create better social networks and nurture more fulfilling personal relationships. It is a place where everyone is treated as unique, with great skills and attributes they can bring to the community table.
Living communally not only creates an open community where you can bloom in your own personal well-being, but it also has numerous positive impacts that can greatly benefit the environment.
Read MoreHelen Keller once wrote, “Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.” When people form a community, one finds a sense of belonging, and you’re also provided with the support, tools and backing to make a positive change in your world.
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