Altair should strive for media exposure
I’m involved with the Altair EcoVillage project in Kimberton, PA:
We’re hoping to start construction next year. Then we’ll have to focus on marketing the units. Some media exposure would help us in that respect.
A couple of days ago NPR’s nightly news show All Things Considered had a 4-minute segment on cohousing:
That segment happens to highlight the advantages for parents. Relevant to Altair there are many articles about the advantages for seniors:
https://www.aarp.org/home-family/your-home/info-2018/cohousing-community-fd.html
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cohabitation-cohousing-older-baby-boomers-140345869.html
We know that living in more of a supportive community setting has wide appeal. There are many, many articles about “the loneliness epidemic” (and many more about the climate-ecology-habitat crisis). Meanwhile, 30 million people live in the NYC-NJ-Philadelphia corridor! With creative marketing we ought to have hundreds applying to live at Altair. Thirty lucky households will “get in” and then we’ll probably have a waiting list clamoring to hear about future openings. Living ecologically in community is surely the wave of the future and we’ll be the first true ecovillage in our area.
