Scroll down here for work party schedule. at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub
Go here for tour schedule
For LA Ecovillage tour schedule, go here
WHAT: CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE 2024 CONVENTION
WHEN: July 27, 2024 from 9am to 5:30pm
WHERE: Los Angeles Trade Technical-College
400 West Washington Boulevard, LA CA 90015
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY
The day each year on which humanity’s resource consumption for the
year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year.
WHEN: August 1, 2024
WHERE: the whole Planet
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: ANNUAL COHOUSING CONFERENCE IN DENVER COLORADO
WHEN: August 2 – 4, 2024
WHERE: Denver Colorado
DETAILS: Go here
LA Ecovillage founder Lois Arkin will be participating in a panel on “What Could Go Wrong” with Caitlin Cameron from Ecovillage at Ithaca and others.
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WHAT: CICLAVIA
WHEN: August 18, 2024 from 9am to 4pm
WHERE: Hollywood Blvd. from Virgil to San Vicente along Hollywood Blvd., then Highland to Santa Monica and on to San Vicente for 6.6 miles
DETAILS: Free family fun on open car-free streets for bicyclists, roller skaters, walkers, scooters. Go here for route and details
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WHAT: VIRGINIA ECOVILLAGE TOUR
WHEN: August 29 – September 6, 2024
WHERE: Various ecovillages in Virginia and includes the Twin Oaks
communities Conference noted below
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: ANNUAL TWIN OAKS COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE
For people seeking to learn about intentional communities
from those living in them.
WHEN: August 30 – September 2, 2024
WHERE: Twin Oaks Community in rural Central Virginia
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: CONVERGENCE OF INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES
targeted for those who live in intentional communities, including
cohousing, ecovillages, co-ops and other types of cooperative
living arrangements.
WHEN: September 2-4, 2024
WHERE: Twin Oaks Community in rural Central Virginia
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: NORTH CAROLINA ECOVILLAGE TOUR
WHEN: Setptember 8 – 15, 2024
WHERE: Various ecovillage in North Carolina
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: NET ZERO CONFERENCE, ANNUAL
WHEN: September 17-18, 2024
WHERE: Anaheim Convention Center
DETAILS: Here
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WHAT: Degrowth and the State, a six session series Aim High – Degrow.
MORE INFO AND REGISTER:
https://euc.yorku.ca/euc-seminar-series-2023/2024
or find recordings
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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:
Saturdays 6-7am Pacific time on KPFK, or streaming
Sundays 11am or Tuesdays 3pm Eastern time on Valley Free Radio.
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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WILD WOLF CYCLING COLLECTIVE: more about this group here
Wild Wolf Cycling Collective is fiscally sponsored by the Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute/CRSP
JULY – AUGUST 2024
WORK PARTIES AT THE LA ECOVILLAGE COMMUNITY HUB;
Please let me know a few hours before on the day you’d like to participate: Lois@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Thur., July 25 from 5 to 7pm
Thur., Aug. 8 from 5 to 7pm
Wed., Aug. 14 from 5 to 7pm
Fri. Aug. 16 from 5 to 7pm
Wed. Aug. 21 from 5 to 7pm
Fri. Aug. 23 from 5 to 7pm
Wed. Aug. 28 from 5 to 7pm
What to wear and bring:
Closed ttoe 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
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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 2024-2025 at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub:
3554 W. 1st St. Los Angeles 90004
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
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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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Lastly, if you are familiar with our work over the past few decades and think you would be an ideal 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, long hours and opportunity to become an LAEV resident