Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Communities of Communities

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Peter Starr STARTRAK [at] REDWOOD.NORTHCOAST.COM 
is the author of the message below but due
to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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Micheal,

Your vision of sustainable community is lovely and is a very important one.  
Just as individual cohousing members benefit from sharing their own 
community resources, communities and regional community networks will 
benefits from such exchange.  

What I find particularly exciting about your ideas is the interplay between 
the spiritual and economic.  Yes, not only would such a network benefit from 
what you call synchronicity and serendipity but from the exchange of 
professions, labor, and foodstuffs.


>I know there are  various regional assns. of cohousing and other communities
>which get to gether socially, share info, etc.
>
>But do any of you "moved-in" folks have a vision that includes fostering the
>birth/growth of other communities adjacent to or nearby yours?  I
>prognosticate that not only would the people in those "satellite" communities
>benefit within their own circle, but a group of communities could be more
>sustainable because you'd have a better mix of professions, and more chance
>for synchronicity and serendipity to happen.
>
>Some Boulder friends and I envision a community that had an urban site and a
>rural site.  People would buy into one or the other, but could trade or
>migrate to the other as economics or pleasure or ____ indicated.  If the
>rural site ran a "Community Supported Agriculture" operation, it would have a
>built-in market for farm products.  And, when somebody on the farm needed to
>ply their city-oriented job skills, they could visit/migrate to the urban
>site.
>
>Nifty, eh?
>
>I think we had a thread like this awhile ago, but there are new people, new
>lurkers and maybe new branches to the old tree.
>
>But, this is also a test to see if Cohousing-L is up and running - not much
>stuff hitting me mailbox this week.  Either everybody's on vacation or the
>server's down:
>
>
>Haaaalllllooooooooooooooooooo, anybody home?
>
>Michael M
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