Cohousing-L Mailing List: Silver Eco Community demise, need info on cooperative living

[ML Burke (ml_burke]

There is a growing movement toward this model of cooperative or collective
living arrangements.  Usually a few friends (3 - 6) get together, pool their
financial resources and move into a larger house to age together and support
each other along the way.  In France this movement was called the Baba
Yagas.  There is a very informative book called "My House Our House: Living
Far Better for Far Less in a Cooperative Household" written by three single
women who were long-time friends. They sold their own homes and bought a
large home to share in Philadelphia.  The authors are Karen Bush and Louise
Machinist..  The book is full of stories, insights, agreements, and little
things you wouldn't think of.  If you are serious about collective living,
this book is a "must read".  It will save you a lot of time and give you a
head-start on agreement-writing. Another example is where 3 or 4 couples who
were friends bought an acreage and built their own houses on it.  'My House
Our House' is available on Amazon for around $15.

I'm still a big fan of cohousing, but starting out with a bunch of strangers
to develop 20+ homes is a bit like trying to herd cats.  Maybe starting
smaller with people you already know is simpler way to go.  ML

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Preparing for electric cars on site (Chuck Harrison)
   2. Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
      households (Joanie Connors)
   3. Re: Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
      households (John Sechrest)
   4. Re: Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
      households (Alice Alexander)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:42:32 -0800
From: Chuck Harrison <cfharr [at] gmail.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Preparing for electric cars on site
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Thank you, Sharon, for sharing this with your experts, and I would
appreciate for others to do the same.

The included google docs link *should* open the document for anybody to view
and comment. If it doesn't open, please email me.

Best,
Chuck


On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Chuck Harrison <cfharr [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > At Duwamish Cohousing in Seattle we are also thinking about "amping up"
> our
> > EV charging capacity.
> >
> > I'm a geek, so there is a geeky proposal draft in progress:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s6DU1Zq-ZFny1LUZ3pU1gCTZKxb_RY_3oD
> YptKS1_ZE/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > I would be really happy to have some others come on board with us in
> making
> > a design that could be economically replicated in other places.
>
> I would like to distribute this to our community. We have an 
> electrical engineer and others who work in high level energy related 
> jobs who might be interested. This is an issue we will be facing soon 
> as electric cars become more accessible. I can?t promise they will be 
> interested but it?s worth an effort.
>
> Perhaps others could do the same.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:22:35 -0700
From: Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com>
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
        households
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It?s been quite a while since I?ve posted about the activities of the
planning group for the Silver EcoCommunity in Silver City, New Mexico. We
lost our land 4 years ago. Two of us have kept the project on life-support
for the last 3 years (we even looked at some nice land last fall), but we
are now officially dissolved and our IC webpage is closed.


Recently, as an individual, I have purchased a large house with a little
house to the side and 2 acres. More and more, it seems right to explore
cooperative households, where individuals own a property cooperatively.


Does anyone here know anything about such things? A good lawyer to consult?


Thanks for your inspiration and great information over the years! Do you
think I should leave this list now?


Joanie
Silver City, NM


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:26:18 -0800
From: John Sechrest <sechrest [at] gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on
        cooperative households
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No, I think you should stay on the list and post about your cooperative
experiences
On Mar 9, 2016 7:23 AM, "Joanie Connors" <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It?s been quite a while since I?ve posted about the activities of the
> planning group for the Silver EcoCommunity in Silver City, New Mexico. We
> lost our land 4 years ago. Two of us have kept the project on life-support
> for the last 3 years (we even looked at some nice land last fall), but we
> are now officially dissolved and our IC webpage is closed.
>
>
> Recently, as an individual, I have purchased a large house with a little
> house to the side and 2 acres. More and more, it seems right to explore
> cooperative households, where individuals own a property cooperatively.
>
>
> Does anyone here know anything about such things? A good lawyer to
consult?
>
>
> Thanks for your inspiration and great information over the years! Do you
> think I should leave this list now?
>
>
> Joanie
> Silver City, NM
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:26:13 -0500
From: Alice Alexander <alicecohous [at] gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on
        cooperative households
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Joanie, I agree with John; please stay on the list and share your
experiences!
I also encourage you to consider talking with Robert Jenkens at National
Cooperative Bank for financial services - they are all about cooperatives
(and also cohousing). Visit www.cohousing.org/ncb
Good for you for hanging in there with creative approaches to intentional
community.
Alice Alexander, Coho/US Executive Director

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:26 PM, John Sechrest <sechrest [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> No, I think you should stay on the list and post about your cooperative
> experiences
> On Mar 9, 2016 7:23 AM, "Joanie Connors" <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It?s been quite a while since I?ve posted about the activities of the
> > planning group for the Silver EcoCommunity in Silver City, New Mexico.
We
> > lost our land 4 years ago. Two of us have kept the project on
> life-support
> > for the last 3 years (we even looked at some nice land last fall), but
we
> > are now officially dissolved and our IC webpage is closed.
> >
> >
> > Recently, as an individual, I have purchased a large house with a little
> > house to the side and 2 acres. More and more, it seems right to explore
> > cooperative households, where individuals own a property cooperatively.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone here know anything about such things? A good lawyer to
> consult?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your inspiration and great information over the years! Do you
> > think I should leave this list now?
> >
> >
> > Joanie
> > Silver City, NM
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Alice Alexander
Executive Director
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