Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Steve Welzer's Challenge to the cohousing 'system'

[Steve Welzer (stevenwelzer]

Katie McCamant wrote:
> all new projects that have successfully launched
> are by people who fronted their own funds to find land
> and pay for all the development costs until they could
> get to a construction loan…. And yes, that is a big lift!

Well, I believe that the restoration of ecological and social sanity
depends upon people getting back to living in an eco-communitarian way.
That's the way human beings lived sustainably and satisfactorily for 99% of
our species history prior to the modern-era withering of community life.

So we just must find ways to scale up and generalize what we, in our
movement, know to be "best practices."

Steve Welzer
Altair EcoVillage project participant