Cohousing-L Mailing List: Potential cohousing mention on NPR Morning Edition Friday

[Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L]

There may be a couple of cohousers on it! Mentioning cohousing! (or
Betsy and I could end up on the cutting room floor or be taken totally
out of context, who knows!) We were interviewed just after driving all
night to get here to Las Vegas for the "first annual" YearlyKos
conference (the rest of this message is slightly off-topic but stay
tuned, there IS a cohousing connection):

http://www.yearlykos.org/

I expect some Bay Area stories since the Daily Kos blog was started
there, plus the attendees all participate in this, so they'll all be
posting about it:
http://www.dailykos.com/

and Air America is setting up a whole newsroom here (for $10 via the
website or free if you're a premium subscriber, you can get
gavel-to-gavel video coverage with three feeds), C-Span will be doing
live shows from here, and expect lots of coverage on political and
news shows elsewhere.

The mood here is VERY cohousing-spirited and exciting (like starting a
new group or finding a site), I'm running into friends from decades
ago -- Mac developers and people from other realms of connection....
basically, this little grassroots progressive blog  has ended up with
half a million daily readers and five million monthly unique readers
(more than the combined population of New Hampshire and Iowa) and
thousands of contributors (a thousand are here) and has become a major
organizing and fundraising resource, to the point where serious
contenders for the 2008 Dem Presidential nomination are wining and
dining US -- we the people -- and engaging us, not just as cash
registers for fundraising in the broken $-needed-for-media-exposure
system of campaign finance, but to understand what the heck  we want
in order to get us engaged (in our inimitable cranky independent D-I-Y
way) and networked and connected and changing the system, from the
inside out. I'll post some reports if I can, but the
network-effect-multipliers of all this mean that this may the
most-thoroughly-documented event ANYWHERE this year, with hundreds of
unique perspectives and modes of communication and analysis all
interacting in real time.

Raines
 wearing an official National Security Agency red, white, and blue
tie-dye T-shirt (really!) and watching an advance team come in to the
ballroom and figure out timings and directions for DNC chair Senator
Reid's appearance here Saturday while Air America broadcasts live from
the skybox suites above me.

P.S. I almost rented a biodiesel car from a friend to get here, but
the logistics didn't quite work out (we're looking at the potential of
biodiesel car-sharing within our community), so I'm going to do lots
of penance to reduce my contribution to our net carbon footprint. I'm
doing a table here talking about community, cohousing, aging in
community (senior/elder cohousing), and if any coho-L readers are in
the area and interested in helping, I'd be delighted to help connect
you with goings-on here; we're sharing a great Peak Oil educational
tool made by some Bay Area folks who are looking at cohousing as a
tool for relocalization, Peak Oil-related:

http://www.oilposter.org/