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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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August 2025 Communities with Openings:
Thanks to the Communities Matchmaker Cynthia
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Thursday, August 21, 2025 from 10am to 1pm Pacific Time
Unpacking Power in Community: Move from Default to Deliberate Dynamics with Yana Ludwig
This event is a part of the Liberation Learning Series which runs bi-weekly on Tuesdays from June 10 to September 30, 2025.
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Join our free info session about ecovillages in Costa Rica happening
Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern.
✔️ What life is like in Costa Rica’s 30+ ecovillages
✔️ Next steps if you’re dreaming of moving to Costa Rica or finding a community to join
✔️ Answers to your questions about travel and expat life
✔️ Differences among our 4 Costa Rica Ecovillage Tours
👉 RSVP to join the free info session
Can’t make it live? No worries, register anyway and I’ll send you the replay.
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Sept. 4 – Oct. 9, 2025 Thursdays from 4 to 6:30pm Pacific
Sociocracy Part I re proposal Forming; Consent Decision-Making; and Effective, Enjoyable Meetings.
Click here for more information and to register.
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Sept. 19-21, Oct. 4-5 and 16-19 at Ray Cirino’s Jack Rabbit community south of Lone Pine CA .
Hands on learning to build with cob plus fun and food.
Contact for more info: cobanation@yahoo.com
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October 31 – November 2, 2025
In person Cohousing tours of some of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. (the northwest and California) plus the Cohousing Summit in Sacramento. See details and Register Now
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Watch for Biochar workshop in October or November 2025
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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WHEN: On-going workshops and resources from the
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
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 August and September, 2025 (unless otherwise noted here). 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, sunscreen, 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
– Pulling/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
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.