Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: guidlines on consensus acceptance - communities movement

[balaji (balaji]

A good place for free and open discussion on intentional community
building is a new site: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intentional-community/

A description follows:

The purpose of this group is to discuss all issues related to group
formation and construction, without fear of intimidation by the moderator
or list-owner. The list is not limited to intentional communities as such,
but also includes and encourages discussion of historical and contemporary
"traditional" social structures, village-based cultures, and kinship
social organizations, on the assumption that we can learn from them. Other
topics include: co-housing, community-supported agriculture, and
cooperative associations.

Charles
Tuscaloosa Cooperative Association







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> On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Tree Bressen wrote:
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>> Hey now!  The rules and administration of that particular list (for new
>> communities starting up) that you cite seem rather peculiar to me too,
>> and
>> i doubt the list will have a long life.  But please don't take that
>> list
>> vs. Coho-L as a valid comparison of cohousing vs. the broader
>> intentional
>> communities movement--it's not fair to pick out one offputting example
>> to
>> discredit a vast set of communities.
>
> It wasn't my intention to discredit a vast set of communities but to
> offer an extreme in my view, but not in theirs, example of the kind of
> rule ladened "building of community" that may account for the lack of a
> general list on intentional communities. Perhaps it is because when the
> intention is to create very focused and thus narrow communities that a
> broader discussion is difficult.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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