Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: My Bio

[David G Adams (dadams]

Tonya said
> Worst thing about community: We are all too busy with our professional liv
> and  socialize infrequently.
Sorry to be picky, but that's not the "worst thing about community".  It may 
be the worst thing about your development.  

It's like From cohousing-l [at] uci.com  Sat Jun 17 08:41:37 1995
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 08:34 CDT
Originator: cohousing-l [at] uci.com
From: dadams [at] world.std.com (David G Adams)
Subject: Re: Strawbale Construction More


Harry sez
> On The Cost of Construction, Suzanne said:
Note carefully that there are no direct quotes in Harry's summary.  Sounds 
like he asked very specific questions and paraphrased the most negative 
things he heard in response.  Not very scientific.

> - There is an Embodied Cost in the strawbales-and that no one as yet has
> studied these embodied costs (so goes the notion of the strawbales are
> inherently better than other methods of building walls when it comes to
> environmental impact).
Simply because the embodied costs have not been studied does not imply that 
they are larger than the embodied costs of other construction materials.  No 
one has shown me specifically the value of pi, so am I to assume that 
circles do not exist?

> 
> Building an
> entire neighborhood is enough of a challenge as it is-why make it more
> complicated?
One might well reply, "Buying a home is a difficult enough experience for 
the average family.  Why complicate it so by building your own neighborhood 
and finding your own neighbors?"

Dave Adams

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saying "the worst thing about democracy is that hardly anyone 
votes.  I think that is clearly not true about democracy in general, but 
certainly could be attributed to the US of A, which we also call a 
"democracy".

Dave

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  |\/\/\/|  David G. Adams           |  Homebrewer
  |____  |  U4 Consulting            |  
 OO    ) |  Arlington, MA            |  1995 Boston -> New York
 (       |  dadams [at] world.std.com     |     AIDS Ride cyclist
  |      |  CompuServe: 72630,1374   |    Please Sponsor Me!!
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