Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing is a permeable membrane

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

Re folks who don't feel the strawbale controversy should rage on in our
little corner of cyberspace:

Yes, when it gets into arguing about the minutiaie (sp?) and/or ad infinitum,
I feel the arguers should email each other and not bounce it off the server.

However, where two people strongly differ on a subject - they should feel
free to make a succinct rebuttal or counter position to the list server.  Use
your judgement about what is too lengthy or too esoteric for the 500 folks
monitoring this forum.

I'm very interested in Straw Bale concepts/viability and many other building
materials.  Building the typical suburban house is *not* sustainable - not
even close.  I urge you all to look into the many alternatives.  Ken Norwood
lists them very succinctly in his book i mentioned earlier.

I feel the coho server should take the widest possible view of what is of
interest to cohousers because it is such a new movement (in N. America
anyway).  Furthermore, we should err on the side of too much info, rather
than too little or too narrow. 

Personally I find it very easy to hit my delete key when I'm not interested.
 Haven't developed carpel tunnel syndrome from it yet, though i do it often!

Rave on,

Mike M