Author: Lois

EVENTS:  Watch for upcoming events

Scroll down here for work party schedule. at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub
For LA Ecovillage tour schedule, go 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 was a fiscally sponsored project by the Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute/CRSP during 2024

MAY-JUNE  2025 WORK PARTIES AT THE
LA ECOVILLAGE COMMUNITY HUB;

Please let Lois know a few hours before on the day you’d like to participate:  crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

Work parties at the LAEVI Community Hub will be happening each Wednesday
during May and June from 5 to 7:30pm

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
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 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

L.A. Compost  

StreetsblogLA  

 Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust 

 Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute 

Gardening in LA

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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

Talent Show at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub: Sat. Dec. 11, 2021 from 2 to 4:30pm Free

C’mon out and enjoy some music, poetry, comedy, fun and schmoozing:

WHAT:   Talent Show.  A variety of acts with talented neighbors.

WHEN:   Sat., Dec. 11, 2021 from 2 to 4:30pm (show starts at 2:30)

WHERE:  LA Ecovillage Community Hub, 3554 W. 1st St. at the corner of Bimini Place

WHY:  For fun and connection, event is held outdoors, but please be vaccinated, We’ll also share some of the latest tips for saving energy and water.

FREE EVENT

brought to you by a grant from the LADWP

 

NEW COHORT STARTS APR. 8, 2021: Courses,Upcoming Radio Calls and News from Gaia University

A new vision of higher education: Gaia U is an on-line university training leadership for ecosocial regeneration
As we celebrate the turn of the new year, it has also become apparent that the challenges highlighted by 2020 are not over yet. At Gaia U we have weathered the storms, and been able to provide guidance, inspiration and mentorship to our communities; in large part due to the designed-in resiliencies that have made us more adaptable to the pandemic and economic crisis. The design tools that we teach have served us well, but each day brings new challenges as we are reminded that we need to remain mindful, open and flexible if we are to remain helpful to this Great Turning.    More than ever, the past year has made me believe in the power of Gaia U and organizations like it to help communities transition by design. With this vision of uncertainty ahead and the tools of Gaia U in hand; I invite you, our community once more to this years February Cohort. I hope that many more of you will join us and pass it on to those who need it. I invite you to a journey we will co-design in reclaiming our power as citizens and custodians of our planet and communities; through getting in touch with our head, heart and hands capacities. 

I look forward to seeing and meeting many of you at our Gaia Radio Calls, our Open Houses and our courses. We have some exciting news to share in the coming weeks about our bigger projects unfolding! Indeed some of you reading this may become peers, collaborators and friends in this year. Many more of you will continue to quietly but effectively do the work of planting, healing, educating, designing, imagining and building which is so needed for our planet and our people. I give thanks for it all!

For a Regenerative Future!

Vida 
Gaia U Outreach Coordinator
Gaia University – Transition by Design

4-Week Online Plant Medicine Class starts Feb 11, 2021 at The Birdhouse Los Angeles

A Brand New Plant Medicine Series from Elegant Alchemy
Exclusively for the BirdHouse!



The BirdHouse Community Apothecary Presents

Plant Speak, Winter 2021: Rooted
Working with the Earth & Medicine for Your Root
with Clinical Herbalist, Roxanne

Thursday evenings, starting February 11th, 7 – 8:30  PM PST

Suited for beginners and experienced plant lovers alike,
this virtual 4-week series will be held on Zoom.

This Winter we can create opportunities to fall in LOVE with the Earth.

As a participant, you’ll have access to the class recordings and the private Plant Speak online community where you can post pictures, ask questions, and get to know your classmates. 

  • Week 1: The Language of Plants
  • Week 2: The Root Chakra
  • Week 3: Medicinal Plants for Your Root
  • Week 4: More on Roots & Closing Circle

Cost (includes materials)
$115 for BirdHouse Members // $140 for non-members

SIGN UP BY FEBRUARY 4TH!

More info on The Treehouse: Home – At The BirdHouse

Sociocracy for Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Other Kinds of Intentional Communities start Mon. Feb 8, 2021with Diana Leafe Christian

10-week online Sociocracy Webinar, Mondays, Feb 8 – Apr 12, 2021, with short watch-ahead videos & handouts, live sessions for practice. Register here. My mission is to help intentional communities get started successfully, function effectively, and achieve their goals.

I have learned what works well from founders and long-time members of more than 170 communities worldwide — ecovillages, cohousing neighborhoods, housing co-ops, shared group households, income-sharing communes, and more.

Here are two videos I’d love you to see. First, an 11-minute presentation, Three Aspects of a Healthy, Thrivng Community. Second, a 45-minute slide show (with slides embedded in the video) How Ecovillages Benefit the Wider Culture. My books are Creating a Life Together, (2003), (now translated into six languages) and Finding Community (2007) Here’s a 1-minute video from Bay Area Permaculture trainer Kevin Bayuk recommending my work.    

I teach workshops, offer consultations, and present keynote addresses and breakout workshops for conferences internationally. In 2017 I received the Fellowship for Intentional Community’s Kozeny Communitarian Award, a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the US communities movement.

     My workshops and webinars include Starting a Successful Ecovillage or Intentional Community, Helping Your Community Thrive, and Sociocracy for Intentional Communities. I’m an Associate Member of The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG).  I also teach the N St. Consensus Method for groups who like to use consensus. 

I’m working on my third and forth books now: one on how groups can use Sociocracy for better meetings, get more done, be better organized, and feel more connected; the other on helping your community become more healthy and thrivng.

I’m a certified as a trainer for Gaia Education’s Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course, a Board Member of GEN-US (Global Ecovillage Network-US) and formerly a board member of GENNA (GEN-North America). I contributed chapters to the Gaia Education/EDE books Beyond You and Me and Gaian Economics, and the GEN book Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet. I’ve written articles for Communities magazine, GEN Newsletter, the Communities Directory, GEN Newsletter, Permaculture Activist, Permculture Design, and Permaculture magazines. I was editor of Communities magazine (1994-2007) and publisher of Ecovillages newsletter (2010-2012). I live at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

Please email me here.

“Your workshop was fantastic! You truly are a master at taking complex material and making it simple — at putting together workshops, teaching, and facilitating. The way you engage participants is brilliant.” —Gaya Erlandson, co-founder, Lotus Lodge Community, North Carolina

“Your presentation at the Permaculture Voices conference was one of the best I’ve seen. . . . down-to-earth, humble, extremely knowledgeable, realistic, practical, insightful, inspiring (and funny). I learned so much!”  —Laura Allen, Los Angeles Eco-Village; author, The Water-Wise Home

“You are a sparkling trainer and a joy to work with. L.A. Eco-Village was energized for a year following your workshop.”  —Lois Arkin, co-founder, Los Angeles Eco-Village

“I love the way you teach — supporting the questioner and question, being totally honest, and keeping a smile and positive, hopeful attitude about everything!”  —Dave Henson, co-founder, OAEC Community, Sonoma County, California

“I was riveted — your conference keynote was an awesome presentation. You hit the fundamental, untold truths about cohousing and decision-making.  I 100% recommend time with you as obligatory for any forming cohousing community.” —Mark Westcombe, Chairperson, UK Cohousing Network, and co-founder, Forge Bank Cohousing, Lancaster, England

Please join us for the fifth of eight Zoom Conversations with Jim Schenk, founder of Enright Ridge Urban Eco Village Cincinnati, Ohio and Jan Spencer for A Preferred Future on March 18, 2021 at 3pm PST plus others thru Apr. 29, 2021

Join Zoom Meeting
LOG IN GOOD FOR ALL CONVERSATIONS
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89553673085
Meeting ID: 895 5367 3085
Passcode: 990252

 

 
Jim Schenk
Enright Ridge Urban Eco Village  Cincinnati, Ohio		Mar 18 Thursday
3 PM Pacific
6 PM Eastern


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Bio, Enright Ridge, various projects, inspiration, outlookwebsite Enright Ridge
videos of Enright Ridge
  Sunil Patel
Patchwork Farms
Asheville, NC		Mar 26 Friday
1 PM Pacific
4 PM Eastern
__________		Bio, Patchwork Farms, local food projects in Asheville, inspiration, outlookwebsite Patchwork Urban Farms
video Patchwork Urban Farms
Jan Spencer
Suburban Permaculture
Eugene, Oregon
Apr 22, Thursday
5 PM Pacific
8 PM Eastern
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Bio, transforming suburbia, eco footprints, paradigm shift, inspiration, outlookwebsite Suburban Permaculture
Series of 7 zoom presentations
video tour of Jan’s place
 
Panel Conversation
Lois Arkin
Jim Schenk
Jan Spencer
Bob Randall		Apr 29, Thursday
5 PM Pacific
8 PM Eastern		Panelists interact, Positive stories, challenges, inspirations, outlook  Join Zoom Meeting LOG IN GOOD FOR ALL CONVERSATIONS https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89553673085 Meeting ID: 895 5367 3085
Passcode: 990252




Upcoming events April – May 2022

See tour schedule below or here

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Sat.,  April  23, 9:30 – 11:30 am.  Learn about using solar cookers and regenerative gardening in Los Angeles Eco Village.   – IN PERSON
Demonstration of three types of solar cookers. While food is cooking (weather permitting),  walk through and talk about the different types of gardens and- composting.  We will finish with a taste of sun-cooked gluten free vegan food.
This is an outdoor event. Please wear enclosed shoes and comfortable clothes – work clothes if you want to help with compost.  Wear mask, bring sunscreen, bug spray, plate and eating utensils.  Space limited to 15.  Tickets $17.  Reserve and pay here.  Limited number of complimentary tickets with promo code “FreeGuest”

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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

 

19th Annual Municipal Green Building Conference and Expo – Fri & Sat August 21-22, 2020 from 8am to 6pm – This event & Expo – VIRTUAL

SATURDAY – AUGUST 22, 2020 FROM 8AM TO 6PM:
Community Green Day – All workshops and Expo:
      F R E E   T O   T H E   P U B L I C !
Register here:  https://whova.com/web/mgbca_202008

And be sure to visit our booth:
Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute (formerly CRSP)

and our panel on Saturday, 8/21/20 from 12:30pm to 1:20pm
The topic:
Los Angeles Eco-Village: 2050
A Model for Sustainable Communities

with
Ashley Stoner, Perkins & Will Architects
Devika Tandon, Perkins & Will Architects
Diane Brown, BuroHappold Engineering
Gideon Susman, LAEVI Board (formerly CRSP)
Lois Arkin, LAEVI (formerly CRSP) Board and LAEV co-founder

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