CicLAvia transforms streets into safe spaces for thousands of people to bike, walk, play and smile. CicLAvis is free and connects people to communities and each other.
Details here: www.cicLAvia.org
This CicLAvia goes form Panorama City to Pacoima
If you haven’t been yet, now’s a good time to experience it.
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In this presentation Curtis Stone will walk you through the process in which a 2100 square foot lawn can be converted to a productive mini farm.
He’ll discuss the technical process of conversion, and the economics of producing out of that plot once it has been converted.
Curtis will demonstrate that your average lawn can be a considerable source of revenue, generating $18,000, or a significant source of food for the community.
This talk will be useful for anyone who is curious about how much food can be harvested from an average lawn space, or anyone who is interested in commercial urban farming.
The presentation will be followed up by Q&A.
This talk is an introduction to the full day Profitable Urban Farming workshops which will take place in Pasadena on January 23 and San Diego on January 24. For more information on those workshops visit permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmertour
When and Where:
Thursday, January 21
7-9PM
The Shed
1355 Lincoln Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
Register in advance or pay at the door.
About Curtis Stone:
Curtis Stone is an urban farmer, author, speaker and consultant. His area of expertise is in quick growing, high value annual vegetables for direct consumer market streams. His book, The Urban Farmer, demonstrates organic intensive techniques with a focus on business and systems to stream line labor and production. He offers a new way to think about farming. One where quality of life and profitability coexist.
About The Urban Farmer book:There are over 40 million acres of lawn in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement.
The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else’s).
“The Urban Farmer is simply the best guide out there for anyone wanting to grow vegetables for market. Chock full of practical information on costs, business planning, the best crops to grow, how much land to farm, growing techniques, and how to develop markets, this book covers it all.” Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden and The Permaculture City
“I have no hesitation in saying that The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone is one of the most important, and overdue, books on urban agriculture ever published. It is simultaneously deeply visionary and immensely practical.” Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition Movement
Learn more about the 2016 Book Tour at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmertour
Questions?
Email info@permaculturevoices.com
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At this event, we’ll provide an update on current transportation projects in LA and share the history of carfree transportation culture and projects at L.A. Eco-Village. For many years, Eco-Villagers have worked to raise awareness about the destructive ecological effects driving has on our region. Now we are moving to develop a more inclusive approach to changing transportation culture that takes race, gender, class and more into account. Presentations with Q&A to follow.
Hosted and moderated by Eco-Village member and Streetsblog LA editor,
Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/
and
Eco-Village member and Street Anthropologist
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D. www.urbanadonia.com
EVENT DETAILS:
Date and time: Tue, November 17, 2015 from 7:30 to 9pm
Location: L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004
Cost: FREE
Reservations: Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
EVENT DETAILS:
Location:
Los Angeles EcoVillage
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004
Date/Time
Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 7:30 pm to 9pm
Cost:
$5 to $15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Reservations:
Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Sponsored by Greywater Action: info@greywateraction.
This will be the 4th annual Arroyo Seco/West Adams TimeBank crafts fair. All locally handmade items such as tea towels, bar soaps, jewelry, jams, arts and crafts, and more. This is one of the best ways to support local and independent artists, designers and crafters making great stuff out of local and recycled materials.
Items will be for sale for time dollars and combinations of time dollars and U.S. dollars.
EVENT DETAILS
Date and Time: Saturday, November 7, 2015 from Noon to 4pm
Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village Lobby, 117 Bimini Pl,
Los Angeles 90004
Food: Bring a snack to share or a brown bag if you’d like to
stay awhile and hang out in the gardens.
No charge to attend.
More info on the film
EVENT DETAILS
Location:
L.A. Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004
Schedule:
7 to 8pm: Veggie potluck*
8 to 8:30: Film screening
8:30 to 10: Dialog about our own experiences and questions with thefilmmaker Suzanna KnittelReservations please: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
* Please bring your own non throw-away eating ware to make this a zero waste event.More about Susanna Knittel:
Susanna’s career as a filmmaker, writer and photo journalist spans 30 years in Europe and in the United States. After working in somatics, she returned to her first medium, Impelled by the culture’s rapid loss of connection with nature and the body. Raised in Switzerland, she divides her time between Santa Monica and Switzerland. www.susannaknittel.com
It’s a Halloween costume FunRaiser party at the Bicycle Kitchen with:
music food dancing fun
R I D E O V E R
EVENT DETAILS:
Suggested Donation: $13
Date and Time:
Friday, October 30, 2015 from 8pm to the Witchen Hour
Location:
The Bicycle Kitchen 4429 Fountain Ave., LA 90029
Live Music by:
– La Tumba
– Whale Shark
– Pedal Strike
– Telematique
(Go Old Skool Cooks!!!)
– DJ Diskoe
– AutoKraft
Join You Are Here: Intentional Community Los Angeles and Lois Arkin, founder of the Los Angeles Eco-Village, for a panel discussion of what works and what doesn’t, in intentional communities.
Current and former residents of communities in Southern California will share their experiences with important issues like governance, shared space, decision-making, getting along, privacy, food and sharing.
Bring your questions and curiosities, this will be your chance to get a sense of what it might be like to live in a functioning community, navigate challenges and avoid common pitfalls.
The Los Angeles Eco-Village is one of the city’s largest and longest-running intentional community.
EVENT DETAILS:
Date and Time: Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 7 to 10pm
Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Lobby,
Los Angeles 90004 directions
No Charge: Donations accepted
Reservations or more info: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254 or just come.
Light Refreshments: Bring something to share if you’d like.
More info on “You Are Here Intentional Community”
MORE INFO ON PANELISTS:
Elektra Grant, Lecturer Otis College of Art and Design and associate of the The Regenerative Co-op of Pomona, an intentional community of approximately 30 residents distributed among 4 homes. The Community strives to incorporate sustainable and regenerative principles in an urban/suburban environment. Most members are students or recent graduates of various local colleges, including organizers, teachers, technicians, students, business people, philosophers and artists. The group has vegetarian community meals 5 nights a week, uses solar power, and maintains a gray water system, edible landscaping and organic gardens. Community decisions are consensed upon during monthly community meetings. In addition to hosting skill shares throughout the year, the Community organizes a Sustainability Seminar every Spring with workshops and speakers on topics from solar power and making bio-diesel to activism and social justice.
Watch for more details.
Workshop and Ritual. Tickets available on-line at:
http://StarhawkLA2015.eventbrite.com
Sponsors:
Reclaiming LA
Code Pink
Gaia Green
The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education
The Readmond Company
Cross Pollinate
Way2Much
Read about Starhawk here: http://starhawk.org/
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