Community Building: Overview
For lots of reasons, Dancing Rabbit needed a building to serve a number of functions. The non-profit needs a place to carry on its business (meetings, answering email, outreach activities). Some people reside in simple homes and need basic facilities (toilets, telephone lines, indoor showers). We need a gathering place for the whole community (dances, birthday parties, holiday celebrations).
Planning out the building, raising funds and doing the actual construction has been a learning experience for us. Coming to consensus on these and other issues about the community building was extremely challenging. Members, residents, work exchangers and visitors used their skills (or acquired them) throughout the process. Our community building, or "Common House", as we often call it, was designed and built to be eco-friendly. We had to balance cost, time and eco-friendliness, which wasn't always easy, and come to peace with some compromises, of course always in accordance with our covenants. To learn more about our Common House and see pictures of it throughout the various construction phases, click on the categories below or at the top of each page in this section.
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