Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Standing Aside

[Nitsan Vardi (emi_nv]

Not all actions of a community MUST involve all members. Quite a few of
the projects run here are limited to 'interest groups'. That includes
'luxury' acquisitions, such as a summerhouse in sweden - acquired by the
members who were interested and could afford it, or 'labour-intensive'
projects such as the chicken-house where the community financed the
building, but it is run by the 20 interested members, and balances
economically by selling the produced eggs, mainly within the community.
This model is used here, where appropriate, - and helps avoiding
unnecessary conflicts. 

Nitsan Vardi 
Saettedammen, Denmark.

Mac wrote:

>If,by consensus decision, the community decides to buy a roto-tiller at a
>cost of $600 ($30 per household), it would only seem fair that all members
>would have to share the cost equally.  A consensus decision is after all a
>community decision and the community should act as a whole in its
>implementation.