*CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages* at
the Los Angeles Eco-Village
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Workshops & Special Events
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(updated 8/14/08)
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 7 pm at L.A.
Eco-Village
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GRAHAM BURNETT, Permaculture Trainer from the U.K.,
Gives a slide show and talk
Fee: $10 (sliding scale ok)
Reservation recommended: 213/738-1254 or
crsp@igc.org
About Graham Burnett
Graham is a permaculture practitioner, designer and teacher. He is a member of
the Council of Management of the Permaculture Association (Britain), and holds
the Diploma in Permaculture Design (Dip Perm Des). Graham is a member of the
Permaculture Association's Designers Register, and has co-run Permaculture
Introductory courses, full design courses and specialist courses on
vegan-organic gardening and compost toilet building, as well as workshops for,
amongst others, Organiclea, Naturewise, Green Adventure, Birmingham Decoy, Vegan
Organic Network, Thrive (the therapeutic horticulture organisation), Transition
Town Brixton ABUNDANCE, South East Essex Organic Gardeners and Southend
Council’s Agenda 21 forum. Graham has been organising and teaching permaculture
introductory and full design courses since 1998. Currently he works as part of
the Naturewise team, running a variety of courses and events around North
London, and with long term collaborator Ron Bates at Dial House in West Essex. He
is visiting the Los Angeles area as a key trainer in the current
Permaculture Design Course at Animal Acres. For
more info on Graham and his work, see http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/ home
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 6 - 8:30 pm at LAEV
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Growing Healthy Neighborhoods: With A Little Help from your Friends or a big push!
with L.A. Eco-Villagers Lois Arkin and
Ron Milam
Have you already been on an LAEV tour? Felt inspired?
Heard a few ideas for getting started on retrofitting your own apartment
building or condo association or block or neighborhood council? Maybe you
need a bit more confidence or encouragement or concrete next steps.
Or maybe a little more understanding of how what you learned in the LAEV
neighborhood might transfer to your own neighborhood. Maybe you need
some help figuring out how to approach neighbors. What might be most
important among your neighbors? Energy retrofits? Consumption
reduction? Transportation transformation? Composting/recycling?
Water reduction strategies? Local food production? Affordable
housing? Small green business development? Neighborhood prioritizing
strategies? Decision making? Dealing with conflict? Maybe you
would like a support group, others you can call upon to help keep your personal
energy up and moving toward a more sustainable neighborhood.
If any of this applies to you, find one or two neighbors who share your concerns
and come learn from experienced Eco-Villagers. Lois and Ron will
facilitate a dialog among the groups and help you begin to develop a strategy
and plan that fits who you are in relation to your neighborhood or group.
Fee: $10 per person; $15 per group from the same association.
Reservations required: 213/738-1254 or
crsp@igc.org
OTHER RESOURCES. There are numerous possibilities
for face to face help and support for moving incrementally--or radically--toward
neighborhood sustainability. In addition to LAEV, a sampling of resources
in the L.A. area include:
Eco-Home Network in Los Feliz:
www.ecohome.org
All Shades of Green in Silverlake:
http://www.allshadesofgreen.net/
Sustainable Works in Santa Monica:
http://www.sustainableworks.org/
Environmental Change Makers in Westchester:
http://www.envirochangemakers.org/
Different locations throughout L.A.: Green Drinks:
http://lagreendrinks.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, October 4, 2008 evening at L.A. Eco-Village
directions
A Reception and Forum on:
Re-Imagining America
with
some of the
nation's most prominent community
artist-activists in person, including
AUTHORS
This event is co-sponsored by New Village Press
http://www.newvillagepress.net/authors.php
No charge for this event. Their books, and in-person
autographs, will be available for sale at the event.;
More details to come
Reservations recommended: 213/738-1254 or
crsp@igc.org home
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Coming in October
Environmental Artist
Freya Bardell -
Watch for Details
Freya is an artist who does garden/environmental work who is interested in
"vertical farming" - doing a living machine type installation growing up an
urban south-facing wall. Eco-Villagers may be exploring this concept with her
for an LAEV location. She'll introduce us to her environmental art at this
presentation.
http://www.greenmeme.com home
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Watch for these upcoming
events:
- Vegan cooking
- Writing for Social Change
- Installing a gray water system
- Rainwater harvesting with cisterns
- Practice in Creating a Mediative Culture
- Practice in Non-Violent Communications
- Introduction to Non-Violent Communications
- Case study tour of permaculture practices in Los Angeles
- Strategies for Creating Green Jobs in Your Neighborhood
- Strategies for helping neighbors transcend negative
Nimbyism
- Creating a Local Exchange Trading System in Your
Neighborhood
- Ten easy steps for starting ecovillage processes in your
neighborhood
- How to Form an Organic Food Buying Co-op in Your
Neighborhood home
