Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: communities of communities

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

When I said "we" in the statement about we have created 18 communities, 
I was referring to all of us in the cohousing movement.  There are 18 
cohousing communities around America built and another 13 underway.  I 
did not mean we to refer to the Puget Sound Cohousing Network.  The 
PSCN only does a small amount of networking sorts of things.

>Have many new inter-community cooperative endeavors been initiated? -- beyond
>promoting the cause and having fun?  (Fun being highly worthwhile, of course
>-- not being derisive!)

None that I know of.  The only things PSCN and NICA do is create 
gatherings for people to get together, pass information around and a 
small amount of promotion as well, such as the cohousing fair.  The 
only inter-community endeavor I an aware of is one community has set up 
a food buying club which includes other communities and which gets 
large volumes of food from the sources, at a discount because of the 
volumes involved.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood