New College's Green Living Center
| House Info | |
|---|---|
| Coop Name | Casa Loma Co-op |
| Address | Hayes valley, on Filmore |
| San Fransico, CA | |
| Average monthly rent | $1000 |
| Parent organization | Independent |
| Geographical area | Filmore Jazz District |
| Contact | |
| House theme | Green Built - Green maintained Energy |
| Number of occupants | 45 -50 |
| Sex ratio | no rule |
| Students | Welcome |
| Food service | yes |
| Number of weekly communal meals | 3 |
| Food politics | mixed - Organic local Grown |
| Average weekly workshift | 5 hours |
| Paid positions available | none |
| Decision process | consensus |
| House meeting frequency | Monthly |
| Pets | small dogs/ w/additional deposite |
| Developing | Potential members Group |
| Expected next opening | January 2009 |
| Urban Green Living in a social environment! |
Description
The New College Green Living Center: Learning Together & Living Together for a More Just, Sacred and Sustainable World.Sowe are looking for investing members, as hoping to apply for a NASCO Loan early in the new Year. send us your ideas!
We believe that our very distinctiveness - innovative and challenging curricula, dedicated faculty of activists, artists, and rebellious thinkers, commitment to community experience and critical, ethically grounded learning - is both means and end.
New College's Green Living Center at Casa Loma will be a demonstration project and learning center showing how our existing urban environments can be transformed physically and socially into the integrated living systems our future will demand.
Located in historic Hayes Valley, on the edge of the Fillmore Jazz District, the Casa Loma Hotel is a state-registered historic building with 45 guestrooms on three floors, an unoccupied commercial ground floor, a partial basement, a flat sunny rooftop, and panoramic views of San Francisco from many parts of the building.
This new center at the Casa Loma will be a unique living practicum for our students, offering affordable housing and an ecologically integrated community lifestyle. It will be an environment where students learn the art and science of urban and communal ecological sustainability, integrating classroom learning with the “real world.” New College’s ideals of social justice and ecological sustainability will be at the root of our daily life.
In support of this, the Green Living Center will develop the upper three floors of the Casa Loma into housing for our students with communal areas on each floor and the roof. The roof will also be situated with solar panels and garden beds. The first floor will have a large community kitchen and multi-purpose space to be used for dining, classroom space, and as a neighborhood gathering place, providing opportunities for collaborative learning between students, neighbors, and the New College community. By building relationships with neighbors and with the cultural traditions of the neighborhood, students will develop their relationship to “place” and will have a greater understanding of community.