Author: Lois

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Scroll down here for work party schedule at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub
For LA Ecovillage tour schedule, go here
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Sunday, August 10, 2025 from 10:00am to 2:00pm.
BIOCHAR WORKSHOP
with Michael Wittman

Where : 
LA Ecovillage Community Hub, 3554 W. 1st St., Los Angeles 90004 (enter thru chain link gate on Bimini Pl)

More about Biochar. and what we’ll do and learn.
We’ll be making biochar!  Plus topics covered include:
– Why biochar is a good soil amendment for gardens.
– Forever No More: Biochar and PFAS Mitigation; Biochar Closes the Plastic Circle
– The 10,000 Year Question: Biochar Greenhouse Permanence (and Climate Cooling Services)
– Concrete Decarbonization: A Roadmap to Green Roads and Cities
– Biochar & Ecosystem Cleanup: Mopping Up after Oil & Gas, Coal Brownfields, Melted Nukes & Contaminated Water
– Biochar as a carbon sink in construction materials.

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

Fee: $15 to $30 sliding scale (veggie or vegan lunch included)

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Foundation for Intentional Community.
Many low cost and free workshops, talks, books and other resources 
 Check it out.

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Hear the Bike Talk podcast:
Check for current time on KPFK,  or streaming at Biketalk.org and other stations around the U.S.
Website: biketalk.org
You can stream back talks here too or on kpfk.org
Extra interviews going back over a decade at Soundcloud.com/biketalk.
Please join our Facebook Group
Twitter: BikeTalKPFK
Instagram: Biketalking
Click to SUBSCRIBE

 BikeTalk is fiscally sponsored by the Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute/CRSP

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MORE ABOUT RE:CICLOS’ many cargo bike building projects  HERE,
and still more here

Re:Ciclos is fiscally sponsored by the Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute/CRSP
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ONE WORLD ONE NATION COMMUNITY GARDEN in Hollywood.
Learn more here
LA Ecovillage/CRSP is the fiscal sponsor for the Garden’s Garden Shed Project.

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WILD WOLF CYCLING COLLECTIVE:  more about this group here

Wild Wolf Cycling Collective was a fiscally sponsored project by the Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute/CRSP during 2024

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July-August-September 2025 WORK PARTIES AT THE
LA ECOVILLAGE COMMUNITY HUB: 

If you have been on a tour of the LA Ecovillage, you’re invited to participate in our work parties at the LAEVI Community Hub, happening each Wednesday and Friday from 5 to 7:30pm in July, August and September, 2025. Please let Lois know a few hours before on the day you’d like to participate:  crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

What to wear and bring:
Closed toe shoes, water bottle, hat, your good energy, long sleeved shirts and pants,  snacks to share if you’d like.

What we’ll be doing.  Choose your interests:
–  Preparing/Staffing our new Diversity Park
–  Maintaining Aquaponics system
–  Transplanting plants that have outgrown their pots
–  Spreading compost and mulch
–  Cutting weeds back.
–  Watering plants
–  Pruning suckers from neighborhood trees
–  Seed planting
–  Making compost
–  Redesigning/rearranging  our potted plant nursery
–  Re-organizing our shed
–  More…..

Thanks,
Lois, crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254 or cell 323/251-7224
but email may be best:

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MORE RESOURCES FOR:

Ecovillages/Cohousing, Intentional Communities
For a variety of talks, workshops, conferences, books, articles and other resources on these topics, see:
www.gen-us.net (publisher of “Communities Magazine”)
www.ic.org  – many low cost and free workshops and resources
www.cohousing.org
www.ecovillage.org

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_{OTHER PUBLIC TALKS, PANELS AND  EVENTS COMING
IN 2025 – 2026 at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub: 
3554 W. 1st St.   Los Angeles 90004
Let us know what interests you the most of the following possibilities:}

Stay tuned for details:

Francis Anderton, author, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, Angel City Press, 2022.  Writer, broadcaster, speaker on LA design and architecture, with a focus on housing.

Dennis Hathaway, author, The Battle of Lincoln Place: an epic fight by tenants to save their homes, Crania Press, 2022

The State of the Tenant Union Movement in Los Angeles,  speakers to be announced

Olivia Barham, founder Sacred Crossings Green Funerals, Death Midwifery.  Olivia was among the first to train and help people plan for their passing, and ensure that their wishes were carried out for a green funeral.

Worker Co-ops Panel

Starting an Aquaponics System 

Repair Cafe

Polyamory: Is it on its way or already in the mainstream?

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES FOR LOS ANGELES BASED
SUSTAINABILITY/RESILIENCY ADVOCATES WHO WANT
TO STAY IN-THE-KNOW

 Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance: www.ncsa.org

 Neighborhood Council Tree Committee

L.A. Compost  

StreetsblogLA  

 Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust 

 Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute 

Gardening in LA.  Though this site is no longer current, there is a wealth of gardening info on it, thanks to Yvonne Savio.

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LA Ecovillage Volunteer Opportunities:
If you have been on an LAEV tour and would like to be invited to our work parties:
–  For the LAEV Institute Community Hub, contact Lois at crsp@igc.org
–  For the Solar Cooking and Garden In-Depth workshops, contact Carol
–  For the BVCLT White House Place Learning Garden, contact  kasey@bvclt.org
–  For Street Librarians bi-monthly Bike Ride, contact Jennifer at geneffer@pacbell.net
– For BikeTalk.  Experienced or training offered for audio editors (using Audacity), journalists, producers, conversationalists, mailers.  Contact Bike Talk Nick Richert
–  For Re:Ciclos, contact Jimmy Lizama

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 See LA Ecovillage Tour schedule here
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Lessons for modern times:  search <degrowth and why is it important?>
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Lastly, if you are familiar with our work over the past few decades and think you would be a candidate for carrying on the work of the LAEV Institute as an administrative/personal assistant, to start with, please send letter and resume to Lois at crsp@igc.org.  Low pay, and part time to begin with.  Also, potential opportunity to become an LAEV resident.

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See tour schedule below or here

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CANCELED:  WATCH FOR NEW DATE.  Sat., April 9, 2022 from 12:30 to 3pm: Karaoke Bike Ride to a local central city neighborhood. Folks on bikes meet at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub, 3554 W. 1st Street at 12:30pm for biking to a nearby neighborhood to be announced.  Register here and watch for details.

This workshop made possible by a grant from the LADWP

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Sat, April 23, 2022 from 1 to 2:30 pm.  Save Energy, Save Money and Win free workshop.  Virtual.  Our special speaker will be a representative from the sunrise movement.  Register here:  bit.ly/3dJmKRY

This workshop made possible by a grant from the LADWP

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Fri & Sat May 20-21, 2022, the 21st Municipal Green Building Conference at LA Trade Technical College – Live and in-person.  Los Angeles Ecovillage will be hosting a booth on Community Day May 21, and the conference is free and open to the public that day.   Get a glimpse of what will be happening here.  And save the date and watch for more registration details

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LA Eco-Village Tours on the following dates from 10:30am to 1pm.  Registration and vaccinations required. 
Saturday, April 2, 2022 from 10:30am to 1pm CANCELED
Saturday, April 16, 2022 from 10:30am to 1pm
Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 10:30am to 1pm
Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 10:30am to 1pm
Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 10:30am to 1pm

Details  here