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2006 Minnesota Solar Tour
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Island
Park Sustainable Cohousing
151 Island Park Drive NE
Minneapolis, MN
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The entire "Islands of Peace Park"
neighborhood is being "recycled" into a cohousing campus.
Their community center and custom-remodeled, upscale 1–3 bedroom
units in 12-unit buildings share an incredible cohousing campus.
Carpools take 10 minutes to downtown Minneapolis, and they are right
on the Mississippi River, with their own nature park and the Mississippi
Regional Pathway for biking or walking right outside the door. They
long to create the old kind of neighborhood, where everyone knows
each other. Through optional shared dinners, community decision-making,
cohousing, pedestrian-centered design, community permaculture projects,
private organic gardens, wind and solar power, green healthy-building
techniques, and some shared cars and facilities, they are creating
a sustainable community.
System Components
 
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Solar water heaters are installed
on the roof of building 151 |
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Recycling of 1960s apartment building with
green awareness |
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Enlarged southern windows with shade trees |
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92%-efficient furnaces |
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Low-flow toilets |
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11 acres of lawn to be transformed into
a three-level edible forest in spring of 2007. Wind turbine
approval goes to Fridley City Council on November 13, 2006
— come support us! |
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Click
here for more "Healthy Building" features |
Directions
Click
here for a Google map
From downtown Minneapolis, take I-94 north
to I-694, Go east just across the river, then north on East River
Road. Make a u-turn at Charles Street, turn right on Island Park
Drive, then proceed to #151.
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