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

[Donna Freiermuth (editor]

Don, I think that's a great idea and it's a valuable contribution 
Coho/U.S. could make.

Once you've gauged the interest, and there are several of you that
need to discuss it in greater detail than other Coho-L readers may want 
to see, I created a forum in the Members Area to discuss it in as much 
depth as you need. It's here: http://www.cohousing.org/node/1336

You do need to be registered as a member (to control the spammers) but 
that's free. Registration is here: 
https://www.cohousing.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10.

Hope this goes. It would be great.

donna
editor
Cohousing Magazine
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:38:50 -0700
> From: "Donald J Westlight" <westligh [at] ohsu.edu>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Role for national co-housing organizion in disaster
>         prep?
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
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> 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