There are two early essential ingredients to successfully being in the community: be on time, be thoughtful of others. Both are easy to gauge and measure, whether you do them or not.

It started with mindful discussion about why cohousing is such a great place to raise kids and to grow old. And went on to talk about how needs have changed, in particular mobility and some cognitive capabilities and the needs of the new and upcoming families.

Without the right books, the cohesiveness of the information about cohousing is gone. Random, incomplete, chaotic, and piecemeal would best describe the info on the net at best.

Perhaps if we capture as much carbon as possible, ennoble the wood, and ennoble our spaces, rather than burn it or let it rot, we can slow down global warming a tiny bit and buy ourselves some time, so that we can make serious progress to the other new technologies like carbon to clean energy so that we can then begin to cease global warming.