General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: How will YOU survive global warming? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)"intentional living" by some, also co-housing, but the participants engage in evergreen management of a collaboratively engineered set of living processes, so there'd be solutions in place and choices with agreed upon consequences. One of the drivers I hope to see is new ways of developing actual real value equity in the co-operative enterprise. That would be equity that could be sold, bought, leased and inherited according to the basic terms of the collaborative living agreements. There are possible solutions in that kind of real value, especially if it is adaptable to the needs of those involved, that could be ways of solving for "the laugh of a certain female relative" or whatever like conditions violate the basic agreements.
And I have lived temporarily, only for a summer, in a "co-operative" environment that wasn't really co-operative at all, but since I had alternatives, I guess that doesn't count. I also grew up in a huge family, so I do know a thing or two about INTOLERABLE relatives.
There are solutions, my experience is that people make imperfect commitments to them, beginning with the fact that most of us rarely put DISCOVERING the solutions in the position of the primary priority in all things.