Re: Fire - RE: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 252, Issue 14
From: Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancoleme.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:47:05 -0800 (PST)
I appreciate all the comments thus far to Ty’s (who is a big supporter of 
Cohousing and served on the board of CohoUS for some years - thank you Ty) 
original comment suggesting (if I understood him correctly) that climate change 
is not the cause of the LA wildfires. Of course it is not the only factor, but 
I have not found a single trustworthy source that suggests that the changes we 
are seeing are not in any way a contributing factor.  Even here in green New 
England we are thinking about how to build to be safer in the event of fire.

One of the benefits of community (the ones we live in/work with and the larger 
national community of intentional communities) is that we have the opportunity 
to communicate with people we otherwise know and trust and to learn from each 
other. I hope you find my thoughts below helpful. Always happy to talk. (And if 
this prompts more email than most people want we can always create a side 
discussion).

My preferred term is Climate Chaos.  See this article from 2020 about naming 
what is going on. 

https://www.siegelgale.com/renaming-climate-change-can-a-new-name-finally-make-us-take-action/;
Renaming climate change: Can a new name finally make us take action?
siegelgale.com


And my favorite movie these days especially ("Drill Baby Dril"l)  is “Don’t 
Look Up”.  If you haven’t seen it, you might like to organize a community 
viewing and discussion.  You can learn more about the movie by putting the name 
into Wikipedia. 

Hoping that the rains in southern CA this week will put out the fires and not 
cause devastating avalanches. 

liz

Liz Ryan Cole
She/hers

Planning Commission, Thetford, VT
CohoUS, Board Member (these thoughts are mine alone and not those of the Board)
Vermont Law School Professor Emerita
Pinnacle Project Cohousing
Loch Lyme Lodge and Cabins, Lyme, NH

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire 
to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

> On Jan 25, 2025, at 10:26 AM, R Philip Dowds via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> Over-development of problematic terrain, and under-management of attendant 
> risks, are certainly problems.  So long as we’re looking to transfer risk 
> from the public at large to localities and properties making bad choices, we 
> should also consider canceling FEMA’s NFIP (National Flood Insurance 
> Program), which definitely encourages over-optimistic over-development of 
> coastal lands and flood plains.  (But this might make Mar-A-Lago uninsurable, 
> and thus is not likely to gain traction as a federal priority.)
> 
> ———————————
> Thanks,
> Philip Dowds
> Cornerstone Cohousing (28 ft above MSL <Mean Sea Level>)
> Cambridge, MA
> 
>> On Jan 23, 2025, at 3:40 PM, Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] 
>> cohousing-solutions.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My community does exactly that… we have done so much fire resistance work 
>> over the last 5 years, removing fuels, and rethinking our landscaping. So 
>> glad I have a community, with much internal expertise, to work on it with.
>> 
>> Katie
>> Kathryn McCamant , President
>> CoHousing Solutions
>> www.cohousing-solutions.com 
>> <http://www.cohousing-solutions.com/><http://www.cohousing-solutions.com 
>> <http://www.cohousing-solutions.com/>>
>> 916.798.4755
>> And Nevada City Cohousing
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com 
>> [at] cohousing.org 
>> <mailto:cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] 
>> cohousing.org>> on behalf of Ty Albright via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
>> cohousing.org <mailto:cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>>
>> Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
>> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <mailto:cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> 
>> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <mailto:cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>>
>> Cc: tmalbright [at] verizon.net <mailto:tmalbright [at] verizon.net> 
>> <tmalbright [at] verizon.net <mailto:tmalbright [at] verizon.net>>
>> Subject: [C-L]_ Fire - RE: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 252, Issue 14
>> As a land steward / rancher - and having watched the LA fires - I'll make a
>> suggestion.
>> 
>> The fires in California are the result of poor land management - not some
>> "climate disasters".
>> 
>> Existing communities can best protect themselves by removing stuff that
>> catches on fire from their immediate area - and campaigning for their local
>> municipality to also clean up public lands / compel others to implement fire
>> safety.
>> 
>> Such things as prescribed fire on a regular basis will remove excessive fuel
>> from forest floors, dead wood can be removed and disposed on in a safe
>> centralized location (if prescribed fire is not an option) - and you should
>> consider forced removal of and banning the future planting of dangeriuos
>> tress and plants - such as Eucalyptus tress - which have flammable oil in
>> their leaves and act like a fire bomb.
>> 
>> Public policy about forest management will do much to save California -
>> unfortunately the state now suffers from many years of misguided and poor
>> management and there are lots of fires just waiting to happen.
>> 
>> 
>> Ty
>> 
>> Ty Albright Project Management
>> Little Red Hen LLC
>> 214-336-7952
>> tmalbright [at] verizon.net
>> www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright 
>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright><http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright>
>> 
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:16:16 +0000
>> From: Trish Becker-Hafnor <trish [at] cohous.org>
>> To: "cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>> Subject: [C-L]_ Seeking presenters on crisis preparedness
>> Message-ID: <129C93DF-AC30-4D19-AB37-0DB9C06C3AB8 [at] cohous.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> 
>> Does your community have a solid plan for climate disasters and other
>> emergencies?
>> 
>> CohoUS is seeking members from cohousing communities to lead a 1-2 hour
>> webinar on The Cohousing Institute, sharing your community?s crisis
>> preparedness plans. This is an opportunity to support resiliency across the
>> movement in the face of climate disasters and other emergencies by helping
>> others learn from your experiences.
>> 
>> If you?re interested, please email trish [at] cohous.org.
>> 
>> Thank you for helping build stronger, safer communities!
>> 
>> Trish Becker
>> Cohousing Association of the US
>> 
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