[Greenbuilding] Advice on heating in Tucson

[Rob Tom]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:52:28 -0400, Racheli Gai  
<racheli at sonoracohousing.com> wrote:

> cohousing community in Tucson AZ... common house

> there are times when people meet there (in the winter) and it's cold -

> What kind of heating would people recommend for a space which
> needs only intermittent heating, and not for long durations?

Racheli;

I've never been tu Tucson and know nothing about the climate so I am of  
course, eminently qualified to advise y'all on this matter.

This probably isn't the suggestion that you want to hear but I'm wondering  
if it might be appropriate to devise some sort of ritual that the people  
attending the meetings would perform just in advance of sitting down ?

Ostensibly, it might be some sort of pseudo-religious ritual that might  
involve a break-dancing/hip-hop/yoga/funky-chicken routine that is  
performed to rid the space of evil spirits but in reality, it would be a  
meeting space Green pre-heating strategy.

If the co-housers find it difficult to get into the "space cleansing  
ritual" out of the blue, it may require the inclusion of some props (just  
as most good religious rituals do).

If the break-dancing/hip-hop/yoga/funky-chicken routine is deemed too  
weird by some of the cohousers, then maybe the ritual is something where  
the meeting goers stack up some sort of bio-blocks to create an enclosure  
that is scaled to the size of the group .

The initial activity of the stacking would generate some heat and the  
bio-block enclosure would focus the body heat of the group in their  
immediate area.


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