Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: labor credit / Twin Oaks

[Ann (annz]

At 04:41 PM 1/16/98 -0600, Robert Schrader wrote:
>At 04:04 PM 1/16/98 -0600, SKerr wrote:
>>I am interested to know if anyone has tried using a labour credit system in
>>trying to equalize the work and responsibilities of daily maintainance.  I
>>know that some of the more 'traditional' intentional communities (is that an
>>oxymoron?) like Twin Oaks use something like that,but I don't know much
about
>>it.
>>
>Kathleen Kincade covers some of it in chapter 4 of her book "A Walden Two
>Experiment: the First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community"
>
She covers this in some detail in the second book about Twin Oaks "Is it
Utopia Yet?"

Ann Zabaldo -- partner in developing Liberty Village -- 35 households on a
little piece of Utopia outside Libertytown Maryland.