Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing and car sharing

[Michael McIntyre (aragon]

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org wrote:

> From: Graham Meltzer <g.meltzer [at] qut.edu.au>
> I think cohousing has the potential to take car pooling a step further ...
> to the joint ownership of one or more vehicles that are available for use by
> all.  I have seen this work really well on Kibbutz and on a wonderful Danish
> commune called Svanholm ...

As a US example of the next level, Twin Oaks in VA has a well refined
carsharing system of a dozen+ cars & trucks for 85 people. They do
their own auto mechanics on these as well!  Very impressive and
inspiring use of auto resources. www.twinoaks.org.

-michael, Sunward Coho