Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: communities of communities

[Sandi Brockway (brockway]

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>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.
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>>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!)
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>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.
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>Rob Sandelin
>Sharingwood
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