Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing briefly mentioned on some NPR/public radio stations this week on today's West Coast Live

[Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L]

On the Bay Area-originating show "West Coast Live" here at Yoshi's
sushi restaurant and jazz club in Jack London Square in Oakland, CA, I
submitted my audience adventure, and host Sedge Thompson read it on
the air, a little past an hour into the 2-hour program recorded and
live-broadcast this morning (Sat 3/17).

I've been a longtime fan of the weekly variety show, and some friends
have volunteered there, so the host knows me and knows to expect
something a little unusual when he comes across my audience-adventure
cards (in which audience members "describe an adventure on the way to
the show -- legibility and plausibility count").

The show is like a San Francisco Bay Area-regional version of "Prairie
Home Companion," but with just one on-air host and a pianist, no band
or performance troupe (and produced at a fraction of the cost), airing
on a few dozen stations nationally.

I managed to work in a mention of the upcoming national cohousing
conference, to be held up the street at the hotel and conference
center across from my former home in community, Swan's Market
Cohousing. And I submitted my adventure on a card from a tool used for
building community and practicing consensus in cohousing and other
groups working together -- but more on that in a separate post.

Some stations air it delayed, so you can listen on your radio (at
around 4 PM in the Southwest Oregon area today, for example... next
Saturday morning in parts of Colorado) ... for others, tune in via the
web link on the KALW website, with live streaming this week starting
this afternoon/evening, by following links at:

http://www.calcoho.org/cohousing-events/cohousing-on-the-radio.html

Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach & Cohousing California community organizer

P.P.S. I really didn't advise, consult, or pass notes with my visiting
50th-anniversary-celebrating friends, Barbara and Richard Kohlhaas
from Casa Verde Commons in Colorado Springs, who also promoted
cohousing in their adventure (written by Barbara) and included an
asterisked explanation of the concept that got read on the air -- it
just goes with the territory! A delightful surprise at the end of the
segment.

On Twitter, follow: @CohousingCoach, @CalCoho (for Cohousing
California), and @Cohousing

Fun last week: a cohousing talk in Dallas (TX) and an "(Un)Common
Meal" Cohousing Experience at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing

Featuring this week for the over 1500 members of East Bay Cohousing: A
games potluck, a talk about senior cohousing at an Ecovillage under
development in South Africa, a cohousing conference preview, and more.
Follow @ebcoho or visit http://www.ebcoho.org/