1. T
New Chaut
The New Chautauqua Project provides small, independent, equity cooperative
transitional shelter communities within the intersection of the needs for both
personal space and community belonging for the homeless, low and moderate-
income families and young adults.
We create human design-centric cooperative intentional communities within a self-
governing cooperative ownership financial structure, in a sharing, local economy.
The New Chautauqua
Project
Mission Statemen
3. The
New Chautauqua
Project Eco-Villages
The Tiny Home Eco-Villages become more
sustainable as regulatory roadblocks are
removed by interdisciplinary teams of city
planners and utility providers who work
expeditiously under health emergency
mandates to implement appropriate health,
safety and welfare standards appropriate to
the need to reduce homelessness. Economies
of scale will also improve as many Colorado
based tiny home manufacturing plants scale
up to meet the increased demand for the
homes.
Although a synergy of support from existing
homeless and community housing providers is
necessary and encouraged, as the eco-villages
become more internally self-governed the
need for traditional social service provider
support will be minimized as residents build
their resiliency and self-supportive personal
responsibility and ownership skills.
Several cities nationwide have declared states of
emergencies to deal with the crisis of homelessness in
anticipation of the need for new solutions for housing the
homeless. We are engaging Boulder’s Human Rights
Commission and City Council to follow suit in Boulder. Many
successful tiny home communities are sprouting up
nationwide. This solution complements existing affordable
housing solutions.
4. The
New Chautauqua
Project Eco-Villages
This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on the recently abandoned Boulder Community Hospital site near
Mapleton and 9th Streets. It includes all the essential ingredients of an eco-village, including an active commons, public
promenade, community center, and Agora information kiosk. It also features pop-up campers that may be used as temporary
summer housing for tiny home owners/renters as housing while their homes are rented to Airbnb guests, providing an
important source of income for village residents.
5. The
New Chautauqua
Project Eco-Villages
This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on Pine Street between 13th and 14th Street on a smail parcel owned
by Boulder County, currently used for parking. Assuming that the City and County can cooperatively utilize nearby parking
structures for the County vehicles to make room for this Eco-Village created to provide homes for the homeless community
now living downtown. As with other villages, this community will include a commons, community center and public
promenade. The particular character of this village might revolve around art and artists, providing gallery space and public art
space as well as an interactive kiosk displaying works of art for sale and for rent.
6. The
New Chautauqua
Project Eco-Villages
This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on a parcel owned by a small Boulder faith community. Most of the
essential physical ingredients of the Eco-Village are shown, including the commons, greenhouse community center, jobs and
information kiosk, promenade and of course tiny homes, small dignified hermitages for individuals to live temporarily in
prayer, reflection and safety.
7. The
New Chautauqua
Balsam Eco-Village
This is an aerial perspective rendering of the Balsam Eco-Village, looking southeast. North Boulder Park and 9th Street are in
the lower-right foreground, Balsam Street in the lower-left foreground and the existing soon to be abandoned Boulder
Community hospital buildings. There is a wonderful evergreen hedge located along the northern, Balsam Street boundary of
the village that will provide a good separation from the adjacent neighborhood. Note that the village will have its own
heliport.
8. The
New Chautauqua Project
Balsam Eco-Village
This is a conceptual rendering of the Balsam eco-village located on a parcel owned by the City of Boulder, on the site of the
former Boulder Community Hospital. The site is west of Broadway, adjacent to North Boulder Park. The colorful campers can
be located on the site during the warm summer season, intended for the occupants of the village’s tiny homes to rent their
homes via an Airbnb type platform, providing them some income to help get them through tough, high energy bill winters.
This will also make room for summer New Chautauqua guests who come to Boulder to enjoy our mountain summers
9. The
New Chautauqua
Project Eco-Villages
Named in response to the typical “Not In My Backyard” response to new development, Y!MBY stands for “YES! In My
Backyard”. One of the primary barriers to the implementation of these Eco-Villages is the unfounded fear of the neighbors
that will be residing in these intentional communities. Concerned citizens living near and adjacent to the projects are
justifiably concerned about the presence of those who are homeless living in their neighborhoods. Considerable
neighborhood education is required to allay these fears, including neighbors of other communities who now house homeless
who understand their plight and are confident that the self-governing villages can actually be a wonderful addition to their
neighborhood.
The
New Chautauqua Project
Y!MBY Campaign
10. The
New Chautauqua
Project
We are currently seeking impact investors to each purchase one Class A Membership Share for $5,000, which will provide
them with membership in the cooperative and access to our members-only investment website. The initial funds will be used
for start-up expenses, including up-front costs for our first event. Revenue from the events and projects will be retained for a
savings account of all Class A Shares and expected operating expenses for the next year. If profit is generated from programs
each year, it may be paid out equally to members.
Members will then have the opportunity to further invest in The NCP through the purchase of Class B Preferred Shares. The
NCP will make investments in New Chautauqua projects. Repayment of loans, interest, and profit sharing will be
consolidated. Some will be reinvested and some disbursed to members with each Class B share earning an equal amount.
Members will be given the opportunity to sell their shares to other members including residents of the New Chautauqua
Communities, which may sell for more than the original share price.
Besides the potential for yearly profit disbursements, members will be largely investing in New Chautauqua community held
assets including well-constructed homes, while spreading their risk over multiple projects. Members will also be part of a
statewide community, getting an inside look at how projects are progressing, and having the opportunity to partake in
amazing educational programs.
11. The
New Chautauqua
Project
The New Chautauqua Eco-Villages reignite the social DNA found in the original Colorado Chautauqua communities, founded with the largess of philanthropists and
supported financially by Chautauqua programs and housing rent, which combined the arts and humanities in intentional communities. Likewise, New Chautauqua
communities will celebrate the growth self-sustainability of the common person in a commons oriented eco-village, self-governed by its residents.
Using MIT’s Presencing Institute’s Theory U and its local ULab prototyping structure, the collective wisdom of community residents is being solicited to provide a
cooperative financial system that better serves a generative sharing economy. Democratic Internet based platforms such as Airbnb, Loconomics, a shared
ownership platform for freelancing professionals, Fairmondo, a cooperative owned alternative to eBay and Amazon and Stocksy, an artist owned cooperative are
to be utilized. A Pattern Language for the design and implementation of these communities is currently being developed.
This project’s energy and influence is based on the convergence of a current real estate market fascination with tiny homes, the current crisis in homelessness, the
availability of underutilized city-owned parking lots, and the spiritual underpinnings of a society yearning to be engaged in providing care for the less fortunate.
12. The
New Chautauqua Project
Call To Action
It is the recommendation of The New Chautauqua Project that the City and County of Boulder declare a state of emergency,
allowing for staff and financial resources to be made available immediately to allow the quick implementation of these important
intentional communities.
13. New
Chautauqua
Arts & Culture
The New Chautauqua
Project
Tree of Life
New
Chautauqua
Eco-Villages
New
Chautauqua
Wellness &
Spiritual Life
New
Chautauqua
Governance
New
Chautauqua
Jobs,
Exchange &
Finance
New
Chautauqua
Design
Guild
New Chautauqua Communities
Public Benefit Cooperative (PBC)
New
Chautauqua
Education &
Programs
14. Arts & Culture
• The arts and cultural
expression are an
essential pattern of
community life
The New Chautauqua
Project
Pattern Language
Eco-Villages
• Energetic community is a
source of individual
health
• Aesthetics are a symbol
and indication of
community health
• Villages must be
accessible to all those
with disabilities
• Active common spaces
are an essential pattern
of community design
Wellness &
Spiritual Life
• Mindfulness,
meditation and prayer
practiced personally
and in community
develops both.
• Welcoming all faith
practices is essential in
living a healthy,
spiritual life.
• Spiritual life needs to
be celebrated with
liturgy and song.
Governance
• Participatory democracy
is essential in creating
and sustaining
successful village life.
• Visionary Cooperativism
is a primary source of
community abundance
and wellbeing
• Community wisdom
should be elicited at
every turn
Jobs, Exchange
& Finance
• Trade will be accomplished
within the ethos of sharing
and abundance, not greed
and scarcity.
Design
Guild
• Good design and
design thinking are
fundamental to the
success of
sustainable
community
New Chautauqua Communities
Public Benefit Cooperative (PBC)
Education &
Programs
• Life long learning and
community programs
enrich lives and foster
village evolution
• Face-to-face Learning in
community is important
15. The
New Chautauqua
Project Team
Our team is conducting a housing design charrette to thoughtfully solicit (and pay for) the
advice from folks who are currently homeless. We are planning our first neighborhood
gathering to solicit ideas from the Boulder community for our first prototype New Chautauqua
Eco-Village community on a city owned parcel of land in Boulder at the request of a Boulder City
Councilperson.
Ariane Burgess
coaches and consults
with organizations and
individuals on
community based
projects including cohousing initiatives.
She teaches integrative design on Gaia
Education’s Design for Sustainability and
Eco-village Design Education. She
currently lives in the Findhorn Eco-
Village, Scotland. Ariane is NCP’s
teacher, consultant, and advisor.
Alexis Neely is a
new economy finance
expert and serial
entrepreneur.
Alexis appears as a
financial counselor on numerous top-
rated television shows, and lives a
new economy life in community with
her former husband, kids and
extended family. Alexis is NCP’s
economic consultant and advisor.
Morey Bean, Serving as the
New Chautauqua Project Co-
founder and Director,
honored as Colorado’s
Architect of the Year in 1999
for his service to community, has over 30 years
of experience in community design and real
estate development, including his role as real
estate development partner in the $60 Million
Lowell Neighborhood, a New Urbanism,
Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND)
in a Downtown Colorado Springs Urban
Renewal area. He has conducted several
community design Charrettes and is
developing NCP’s Eco-Village Pattern
Language.
Jacki Saorsail is an Event Planner,
Community Organizer, and
Cooperative Consultant. She has
been working with cooperatives
and community organizations for
over a decade. She founded a non-profit that
established three housing cooperatives and was
the Vice President for Producers of the Oklahoma
Food Cooperative.
Jason Weiner is an attorney
providing expertise to social
enterprises and mission-
driven business. Jason’s
specialty is in sharing
economy law, social and regenerative
enterprise, public benefit corporations,
employee-ownership and cooperatives.
Jason is NCP’s cooperative governance
advisor.
Mekayla Ichneumon Beaver is a
design thinker and researcher for
project teams, helping coach
organizations to build new
processes and skills around
human-centered innovation. Her focus is on
bringing positive change to the world through the
design of services, programs, spaces, and products.
Bret Noecker is a
tech junkie who lived in a
Winnebago for most
of the 90’s. “I love tiny
homes and tiny lifestyles and there is
something special about cooking a
lasagna at 65mph.” He is a serial
entrepreneur deploying a unique
wastewater treatment facility and
designing vertical farming systems to
support local food production.
16. New
Chautauqua
Communities,
Public Benefit Cooperative (PBC)
New
Chautauqua
Design
Guild
New
Chautauqua
Wellness &
Spiritual Life
New
Chautauqua
Arts &
Culture
The
New Chautauqua--Boulder
Tree of Life New
Chautauqua
Eco-Villages
Exchange & Finance
Mark
Emma
Thomas Gerber
Neshama
Bret
Arts & Culture
Kara
Emma
Shannon
Morey Bean
Eco-Villages
Morey Bean
Scott
Jim
Zane
Mike
Governance
Nathan Schneider
Jason Martha
Laurel
Jacki Saorsail
Aaron
Becky
Criss
Wellness & Spiritual
Life
Deborah
Len
Greg
Pedro
Michael
Judy
Darren
Sarah
Stephanie
Design Guild
Morey Bean
Jacki Saorsail
Mekayla Beaver
Sam
Norbert
Cooperative
Co-Founders
Morey Bean
Jacki Saorsail
Education, Outreach &
Programs
Jacki Saorsail
Ariane Burgess
Ali Shanti