Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: We are soon making the decision to bring or not bring gas to the community

[Henning Mortensen (hmortensen]

Thank you for the book report Sharon. I have ordered it from amazon and
look forward to reading it. I am a longtime follower of carfree.com (no
longer exists) and the carfree movement. Especially the ideas for car free
cities such as that developed by Joel Crawford.
Henning Mortensen

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 3:18 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Nov 30, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Jenny Guy <jenstermeister [at] gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
>
> > Here's something else I wonder about: our buildings have been here for 80
> > years without air conditioning. [snip] When I was a kid, it was
> unthinkable that anyone
> > would have air conditioning in San Francisco, but now it's full
>
> Pollution. Air pollution. Noise pollution. Not just from exhausts, from
> all the activity that keeps the “cement dust” moving. Changes in planting
> for the convenience of cleaners but produce higher pollution.
>
> Stuff like that.
>
> I think it also has to do with higher stress levels. Or ambition. We put
> in AC so we can work harder and faster even when it is 100 degrees out
> there. We don’t have to get up early to avoid the heat. We don’t take
> siestas.
>
> One of the book reports I haven’t written is on “Carjacked: The Culture of
> the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives,” It is cowritten by a professor
> of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University and her
> analysis is from a totally different direction than we usually hear. She
> examines how expectations of children have been changed. It isn’t just that
> cars made more activities available but we expect kids to "take advantage"
> of all those activities. I used to sit in a big elm tree and read books for
> hours. How many parents worry about children who don’t have any
> “activities" this week?
>
> Carjacked shows how our lives have changed without our being aware of it
> once we have a car.
>
> Sharon
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