Los Angeles Eco-VillageDemonstrating higher quality living patterns at a lower environmental impact

UPDATED: July 2, 2008

Upcoming Events sponsored by CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillage at Los Angeles Eco-Village    

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Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-Village Directions
May East of Findhorn Ecovillage
Gives a talk on Transition Towns and updates on Findhorn and
Gaia Education                                                 
Details
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-village   Directions
Greywater Guerillas from Oakland          Details

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Coming in August: Graham
BURNETT
Permaculture Trainer/Author from the U.K.
Slide Show and Talk
watch for details
http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/

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Wed, Sept. 17 at 6 pm at LAEV    
Growing Healthy Neighborhoods: An Introduction
with Ron Milam and Lois Arkin 
watch for details
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Exciting Related Events, including permaculture activities:
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Update on L.A. Eco-Village Struggles with L.A. Unified School District

On May 29, 2008 at a community meeting sponsored by LAUSD, the District re-confirmed that it is planning to develop a parking lot for 137 cars on the current 1.75 acre site of White House Place Primary Center, a kindergarten school that will no longer be needed with the new Elementary School #20 is developed on the current Virgil Middle School playing field.  The initial plan also called for relocation of the 100 year old... Read more

On April 22, 2008, the LAUSD Board voted to build a new elementary school (ES#20) for 800 kids on the east end of the Virgil middle School playing field, also known as Site #11   Read more

 

*The Los Angeles Eco-Village Intentional Community
(LAEV-IC), located in the older two block LAEV neighborhood, demonstrates processes for  
lower impact  higher quality living patterns.
more info

**CRSP is an education, 
training and resource center for small 
ecological cooperative communities.   Located 
in L.A. Eco-Village, CRSP and its emerging Institute 
for Urban  Ecovillages collaborates with the LAEV-IC and 
other organizations to present workshops and special events to
expand public awareness for living more cooperatively and ecologically.
more info

Upcoming Events at LA Eco-Village    for Related Events:  go here

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TOURS of L.A. Eco-Village:      details
Saturday, June 21 from 10:30 am - 1 pm
Saturday, July 5 from 10:30 am - 1 pm

Reservations required: 
213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village
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Creating a healthier, more sustainable future:

Envision!      
            Plan & Be Flexible! 
                             Stay Grounded!         
                                                   Persevere!
     

You have reached the website of the: 

Los Angeles
Eco-Village*
reinventing how we
live in cities

      AND  
  
 CRSP** 
(Cooperative 
Resources &
Services
Project)
education, training
& development
for
small urban ecological
 cooperative communities

News from CRSP and LAEV


Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village

See index below for lots more stuff on this site. 

N E W !

Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)
Next 7 members free.  After that, $10 per year annual membership.  More info here

not to be missed:
Diana Leafe Christian's new
Ecovillages Newsletter
http://www.ecovillagenews.org

Updated: July 2, 2008

For news and views and the more
intimate aspects of life in the L.A.
Eco-Village intentional community,
Click here for the wiki

At the LAEV wiki, you can contribute to the dialogue about
your experiences with us and visions for LAEV and your own neighborhoods.  If you've never participated on a wiki before,
no problem.  See easy instructions on the wiki site.

LAEV CORE VALUES:

-  Celebrate & include joy in all our endeavors

-  Take responsibility for each other & the planet through local environmental & social action.

-  Learn from nature & live ecologically.

-  Build a dynamic community through diversity & cooperation

-  Inspire compassionate, nurturing, & respectful relationships

-  Create balanced opportunities for individual participation & collective steward

-  Engage our neighbors and broader communities in mutual dialog to  learn, teach and act
 

     
 


Want to learn more about Intentional Communities?  Ecovillages?  Cohousing Communities?
Visit the following websites:


www.ic.org


www.ecovillage.org


www.cohousing.org

     
           
What you can do, or dream you can - begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it.  Goethe            

  
Index:  What you Can Find on This Site
News from LAEV   Upated 6/18/08

Resources    Upated 6/22/08

L.A. Eco-Village Tours: Dates and Times 7/2/08

Upcoming Events at L.A. Eco-Village  Upated 7/2/08

Related Events & Resources, including Permaculture Courses  Upated 7/2/08
 
Eco Job Opportunities here and there        
Upated 7/2/08   

Stuff from Eco-Villagers (updated 7/2/08)

L.A. Eco-Village Intentional Community Membership Info

The L.A. Eco-Village struggle to save its neighborhood from the Los Angeles Unified School District bulldozers  Updated 6/6/08

Concept for a Joint Use and Mixed Use Green Car-Free Development in L.A. Eco-Village 
4/18/08

Contact Us

Directions to L.A. Eco-Village

Overview of Los Angeles Eco-Village

Intentional Community Networking Page - Greater Los Angeles Area  (and/or Southern California) 

 
Our Basic Brochure 
Sampling of Goals for 2007 - 2008
Projects in Process
Some Neighborhood Issues and Eco-Village Responses
Articles about L.A. Eco-Village  
Founders' Eco-Village Visions
Photo Gallery
Context and History of Los Angeles Eco-Village
Introducing Some Eco-Villagers - Go to:  http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/LA_Eco-Villagers
Ecological Revolving Loan Fund (ELF)
Membership in CRSP and the CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages
Other Ecovillage Web Sites & Resources
Volunteer Opportunities with CRSP and/or L.A. Eco-Village
 
An ecovillage is human scale, has mixed land uses, strives to close the waste to resource loops, supports healthy human development, has multiple centers of initiative, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future-Robert Gilman

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MORE PICTURES OF LAEV COMING SOON:  THEY'LL BE BETTER AND UP-TO-DATE  as soon as someone volunteers to help us with our Front Page program.  The picture end of things just does not work consistently for us.  Thanks.
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The Los Angeles Eco-Village Neighborhood Project and its sponsoring organization, CRSP are affiliated with the Ecovillage Network of the Americas <http://ena.ecovillage.org/>, the Fellowship for Intentional Communities <www.ic.org>,  Eco-Home Network <www.ecohome.org>, the Los Angeles Permaculture Guild, City Repair Project <www.cityrepair.org>, the Global Village Institute <http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/> and others.
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To join a discussion group on urban ecovillages, see <http://urban.ecovillage.org/>.  To join a discussion group on ecovillages in general, go to http://ena.ecovillage.org/ and search for <ecobalance>. 
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Original Web site constructed by Mignon Belongie and revised by Jesse Moorman. Updated in 2002 by Jane Shevtsov.  Updated in 2004 by Alex Abbassi, Brad Mowers, and Lois Arkin.  Maintained in 2005-2009 by Lois Arkin.  Please send comments, complaints, suggestions, etc. about this page to crsp@igc.org.  Questions about the Los Angeles Eco-Village should also be sent to crsp@igc.org.  We hope to keep it current.  If you would like to be on our website committee, please contact us. 
Special thanks to Grant Schnebly for reserving our web domain and arranging for our web provider.

 imageEco-Village neighbors come together for potluck and celebration.   Archival photo, circa 1994


Maria Ariolla gives spontaneous flute recital for friend Paola Ramierez and John Lee of Mayor Riordan's office.
  Archival  photo, circa 1994

Membership in CRSP

Membership in CRSP and its Institute for Urban Ecovillages is $35 per year for individuals and $50 per year for organizations. Rates are on a sliding scale basis for both individuals and organizations. No one is turned away for lack of funds.  We are a 501.c.3 nonprofit corporation and invite tax deductible charitable contributions.  Contact Lois if you would like to make a tax deductible contribution.  Send checks to CRSP, 117 Bimini Place, #221, LA CA 90004.  Info?  213/738-1254 or <crsp@igc.org>.