Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sustainable urban housing

[Jessie (jehako]

Hi-

Might want to nominate some cohousing communities for this. 
Http://www.changemakers.com/sustainableurbanhousing .

Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, Maryland


Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] olympus.net> wrote:

>
>I agree with Sharon-- you can't count on individuals to be sanitary  
>enough to protect future users of dishes. The Zen Center approach  
>works in that context, with a steady population and everyone using  
>their dedicated dishes. But it's so different with assorted diners,  
>some of whom may be ill, some of whom may be immune-compromised: one  
>can't know.
>
>With our sanitizer, most people don't have to get their hands in  
>dishwater, either. Or line up to have a turn.
>
>One area where we do it more like the Zen Center is napkins. We have  
>two drawers below the serving counter. One has clean cloth napkins.  
>The other has assorted diverse napkin rings. Anyone who wishes to  
>reuse their cloth napkin can tuck it in "their" napkin ring and store  
>it in that drawer. And those who don't like that system can take a  
>clean napkin and just put it in the laundry at the end of the meal.  
>(We don't have community clothes washers, but have one unit in the  
>pantry for kitchen and dining laundry.)
>
>Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
>RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA
>www.rosewind.org
>where autumn rain is leaving everything emerald green, and the  
>blueberry bushes have flame red leaves
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