Cohousing-L Mailing List: Green House Projects vs greenhouses

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Joelyn Malone from Monterey Cohousing in Minneapolis, MN ** wrote:

>I love it that the title "Greenhouses and Eden Alternative" has
>spawned two separate discussions, one about the small-sized homes for
>folks who need nursing-houe level care, and the other about urban
>farming and the use of greenhouses to extend the season for growing
>our own food.

I very much regret the two directions the discussion has taken.

The root of the problem is the, IMHO, the unfortunate use of the term
"Green House Project" to refer to an
>American national non-profit organization dedicated to creating
>alternative living environments to traditional nursing home care
>facilities.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_House_Project

This is easily confused with the tradditional use of the term
greenhouse (no space) to refer to:
>a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of transparent material,
>such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions
>are grown
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse

I suggest we use "Green Home" or Green House (home) [once per article]
to help avoid confusion.

Thomas Lofft's post:
http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/msg40118.html
quote's Katie McCamant's post in which I think she is refering to
Green Home efforts in cohousing.  Tom refers to glass houses
(we visited the one at Hundredfold Farm after last year's conference)
it is indeed very interesting since it solves a shortage of fresh water
on the site by reusing some water for sanitation.

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I agree with Joelyn that using "Greenhouses and Urban Farming"
for comments about glass houses would be helpful.  In any case,
please try make it clear which you are commenting about.

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