October 13, Jeff will speak at the "Aging Successfully Seminar", an eight week series of lectures sponsored by Greater Phoenix Cohousing. Jeff, the founder of Prescott's Manzanita Village Cohousing Community and former director of COHOCOM, a company organized to foster the growth of cohousing communities in Northern Arizona and beyond, will be discussing Co-Development, Co-Design, and his concept for the "Village Green" (more about that later).

From October 26-28, the Navajo Housing Authority will be hosting the "Going Green in Native Communities" Green Building Conference in Flagstaff. Matt, who has given presentations on LEED as well as Sustainable Planning to groups as diverse as the American Planning Association and The League of Women Voters, will present on one or both of these topics. Jeff will speak to the issues surrounding 'green' development and the need to 'leapfrog' polluting and inefficient technologies, as we seek to improve quality of life in developing communities.