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

[Robert Heinich (robert]

I believe we should add another item: a cohousing-L alternative.   
Almost all of cohousing communication is done via this listserv.  If a  
community needs assistance, I am sure they could contact someone they  
know who is on listserv and send their request directly (via another  
individual).  However, all this is for naught if the cohousing-L  
listserv is down or, god forbid, something happens to Fred.

Are there any back-up plans for cohousing-L?

--
Robert Heinich
Eno Commons Cohousing Neighborhood
http://www.enocommons.org
Durham, NC
where last weekend we harvest the honey from the bee hives we have in  
the meadow


Quoting Donald J Westlight <westligh [at] ohsu.edu>:

> 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