Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sustainable urban housing

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Jessie -- this is a fabulous idea.  Thanks for alerting all of us!

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church VA
703 663 3911

On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Jessie wrote:

> 
> 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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