permaculture

[Jody Troupe <jodyt2@mac.com>]

Hello-

I don't know if anyone else out there has connections to Santa Fe?  
This is what I learned from a friend of mine that lives out there.

She bought a house in an area of Santa Fe that is called The Agua Fria  
Traditional Historic Community. She said it has been very interesting  
living in that neighborhood because there is a LOT of sharing between  
families. It's my understanding that the houses are primarily held by  
a spanish-speaking community and entire generations of families may  
own the houses down the length of a road, so they will build one  
garage on someone's land that is designated for some significant tool,  
like a snow plow, or back hoe, and then whenever someone needs it,  
they have it available to the community. Everyone chips in to build  
the garage, and then there is sharing amongst them when that tool is  
needed. (I believe they are also annexed from the city such that they  
don't receive city services such as snow plowing. Don't quote me on  
that though, but that's what I remember hearing.)

I live in the FL keys, and there is a group that studies metaphysics,  
spiritual, and other information that you don't readily find in  
libraries. Two women have organized a weekly meeting of people  
covering a wide range of topics that's been ongoing for about 8 years,  
and they include a lending library within this structure. Any of my  
rather 'fringe' information may make it to their library so others may  
benefit from it, and then I still know where I can go back to find it  
again if I want to reference it. We had been taking books to our  
library with the idea we could always check them out if we wanted, and  
then found out that the library culls anything they don't consider  
very relevant to their location and has a book sale each year. This  
more 'specific' lending library is a much better location for our  
reference material.

JodyT


On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:03 AM, wenshidi@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> In my research on the keys to successful resilient communities, two  
> important elements seem to be complementary currencies and lending  
> libraries.
>
> In the 21st century, a lending library should be about a whole lot  
> more than books.  We have all seen CDs and DVDs of course, and this  
> will continue to grow as the internet spreads audio and video files,  
> and hard drive capacity continues to grow.  But what about the  
> lending of more physical items, such as tools and equipment.
>
> Has anybody seen any good examples of extended lending, or have any  
> good ideas about what else could be commonly owned in a community,  
> and lent out to its memebrs?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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