Cohousing-L Mailing List: Ecovillage Faceoff

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

Joel: 
This is a great suggestion, hopefully not just to create bragging rights, but 
to adopt the scientific method to evaluate the effectiveness of the 120+ 
different permutations based on best intentions, limited budgets, personal 
preferences and even misguided rumormongering.
 
How would the evaluations be conducted?
 
Tom Lofft
Liberty village, MD


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:13:45 -0500
From: Joel Plotkin <joel [at] sunyit.edu>
Subject: [C-L]_ Ecovillage Faceoff
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I've proposed to the National Coho Conf group an Ecovillage Face-Off, a
humorous game show format to compare Hundredfold Farm's energy savings with
other ecovillages. Categories could include Electricity Generation, BTUs or
Therms produced, R-value Construction, Water Efficiency, maybe a Wild Card
category? Could be fun...
 
We're issuing the challenge. Any takers?
 
Joel Plotkin
Hundredfold Farm Cohousing
Orrtanna, PA