Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Role for national co-housing organizion in disaster prep?

[Catya Belfer-Shevett (catya]

Hi Don,

I've created a space here to collect this information as you get it: 
http://www.cohousing.org/ma/forums/documents#comment-1217

Once we have a lot of information there, I'll work with Donna, our 
fabulous editor, to make it into a comprehensive reference document.

(Of course, this info could also go in the wiki :)

        - catya
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www.catya.org   ~   Cohousing in MA! www.mosaic-commons.org

Donald J Westlight wrote, On 9/2/2008 3:38 PM:
> Hello all,
>
> We've been talking in our community about disaster prep, and it turns out that 
> there are some things which might be done at a national level more effectively.
>
> I can think of three:
>
> (1) Maintain an archive of "cohousing best practices" for disaster 
> preparedness.  [personal-case and community-case are different.]
>
> (2) Provide out-of-state communications by pairing up co-housing projects 
> across the country.  Each community would agree to provide a voicemail box, and 
> one or more people to regularly check the box and update the message with 
> status information of people in the affected community.  This would be 
> pre-arranged, so that everyone would know in advance who (out of state) to call 
> to leave word.
>
> (3) Shelter destinations: e.g. if a co-ho community in a neighboring area/state 
> faces catastrophic problems, send them (or some of them) to us, or vice-versa.
> This one might be more tricky to set up and coordinate, but I think we 
> co-housers might have sufficient resources to take care of our own.
>
>
> I'm curious if anybody else out there thinks along these lines -- if there is 
> sufficient interest, perhaps we can hash some of this out in this forum.
>
>
> Don Westlight
> Cascadia Commons Cohousing
> Portland Oregon
>
>
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