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Ecovillages and Human Design: Earth and Ceramic Architecture Workshop: Saturday August 16, 2014 at L.A. Eco-Village (OR Sunday August 17 in Santa Barbara )
In this day-long workshop we will look at how-to build your sustainable home, infrastructure, and ecovillage community with earth. The retreat focuses on principles of hands-on design, team-building, working with the human being and scale models.
Learn the secrets of ancient traditions and 21st century innovations in masonry and ceramics. Learn how to design with the freely available elements of earth, water, air, and fire and other systems of timeless principles and qualities. Become the medium for research and insearch to help with homelessness, refugees from war and climate change, pollution and deforestation.
The aim is to be able to go anywhere in the world, or even the universe, and improvise with what is around you to build sustainable, disaster-proof homes and ecovillages.
New Earth UK collaborates with ecovillage projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Home is Where the Heart is
WORKSHOP DATES AND TIMES:
Saturday, August 16th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at
Los Angeles Eco-Village*
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004
directions
OR
*Sunday, August 17th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
at the Ayni Gallery, Santa Barbara
INSTRUCTORS
Ashley Schwartz, Ceramics Master
Brooke Smiley, International Dancer/CA lic. Contractor
Iliona Outram Khalili, Architect (UK) / Master Builder
FEE:
$100 full tuition. $50 for students and low income.
LUNCH:
Veggie potluck or local cafe at L.A. Eco-Village event
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED:
newearthuk@gmail.com
Download a printable Registration Form
Here: NewEarthRegistration
MORE INFO:
ilionakhalili@gmail.com,
Earth is a Earth is a conscious being so be considerate, thankful and do not be wasteful. – Murshid Taner Ansari
Meredith McKenzie talking about water in the White House Place Learning Garden at L.A. Eco-Village: Saturday September 27, 2014 at 11:00am
Prof Meredith McKenzie is a thought leader challenging us to look at and utilize water with fresh eyes.
A Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona, Meredith specializes in revitalizing urban river neighborhoods, with a focus on stream restoration. She is a member of the Los Angeles Recycled Water Advisory Group and the EPA Los Angeles River Urban Waters Federal Partnership.
Given our current long-term drought and water shortage reality, her presentation is very timely.
WHEN: Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 11am
WHERE: White House Place Learning Garden at Los Angeles Eco-Village, northeast corner of Bimini and White House Place.
FEE: Free and open event. (Donations always welcome)
FOOD: Feel free to bring a brown bag snack or lunch.
EVENT SPONSOR: Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
MORE INFO:
laraeco@hotmail.com 213/383-8684
or
crsp@igc.org 213/738-1254
Declan Kennedy in Dialog: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 7:30pm at L.A. Eco-Village
Prof. Declan Kennedy is an Irish architect, urban planner, permaculture designer and ecologist. Founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe, he has been teaching and practicing urban design, landscape and agricultural planning since 1972.
Declan served as Professor of Urban Design at the Technical University of Berlin, Chairman of the Board of the Global Eco-village Network – www.gen-europe.org – and as Chairman of the Advisory Board at Gaia University International – www.gaiauniversity.org
Declan coauthored with his late wife, Prof. Margrit Kennedy, Designing Ecological Settlements – http://goo.gl/gy0nEe
At 80 years of age, Declan continues traveling the world and teaches ecovillage design from the ecological community which he co-founded and where he lives, Lebensgarten Steyerberg in Lower Saxony, Germany – www.lebensgarten.de (in English at: http://goo.gl/a4RktR ).
Some people say “It is 5 minutes to 12 – for the Earth and for the environment.”
Declan Kennedy says, “the situation on Earth has already tipped over – it is already 5 minutes after 12! But – the good thing about midnight is – it is the beginning of a new day! So – let’s start afresh!”
Please join us for this rare treat of hanging out with Declan.
WHEN: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 7:30pm*
WHERE: L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004
FEE: $5 to $15 sliding scale. No one turned away.
RESERVATIONS: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
*Join us for a veggie potluck in our courtyard at 6:30 pm, if you’d like. PLEASE bring your own non throwaway eating ware and make this a zero waste event.
Urban Food Security with Hop Hopkins in the White House Place Learning Garden at L.A. Eco-Village Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 3pm
Join Hop Hopkins to hear first-hand how to improve local food security.
This is a free and open event.
About Hop Hopkins
As a certified arborist, Master Gardener, Permaculture Designer, and CERT instructor, Hop’s guiding vision is to help establish a network of residential food forests that can support the development of stable, human-scale solar self-reliant neighborhood communities integrated with cooperative local economies. Grassroots environmental justice community organizing in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, along with several years staffing environmental programs with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust put Hop in the unique position of knowing a lot about a lot of things.
About the White House Place Learning Garden
After years of planning, fundraising, and building infrastructure for the Garden, there is a rich array of edible plants and fruit trees. And the planting continues.
We invite teachers, staff, friends and neighbors to tour the garden during the open garden hours listed below and to attend the talks.
When: Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Where: White House Place Learning Garden at the northeast corner of White House Place and Bimini Place in Los Angeles Eco-Village
Directions
Regular Garden Hours*:
*Saturdays: noon to 4pm
*Sunday: 8am to noon
*If you plan to come on days when no talk is scheduled, call or text Lara: 213/383-8684 or call Lois 213/738-1254 or Julio 323/377-0973
Also upcoming in the White House Learning Garden on Saturday September 27, 2014 at 11am: Meredith McKenzie “Shares the Ways of Watersheds”
The White House Place Learning Garden is a project of the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust in association with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Thanks to the Rampart Village Neighborhood Council for their financial support for the garden.
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)–Europe Conference July 9-13, 2014 at Zegg near Berlin Germany
Over time, GEN is becoming richer in fascinating tools, mutual support, interesting people, important connections and deep insights. Let’s celebrate what we have created as a strong network, carrying forth the power to live sustainably in a post-growth world.
This year we will focus on strengthening the bonds between the national and local networks as well as reaching out to the Global South in mutual support. Amongst other interesting presenters we are proud to welcome Anna Breytenbach, the „Animal Whisperer“ from South Africa. Experienced members from long-term communities will share and support your process in founding or strengthening your community initiative, we will look into the transition of traditional villages and urban neighbourhoods into living communities and more.
For more info and registration please go to our website at http://gen-europe.org/activities/gen-conference/gen-conference-2014/index.htm#c1325
GEN – Global Ecovillage Network
www.ecovillage.org
www.gen-europe.org
www.gen-africa.org
www.ena.ecovillage.org
www.genoa.ecovillage.org
www.casacontinental.org
Drought-Proof Your Landscape with Greywater July 2, 2014 at 7pm at L.A. Eco-Village with Laura Allen
Interested in Reusing Greywater?
Greywater is water from sinks, showers, and washing machines. Instead of sending it down the sewer it can be safely and simply redirected into the landscape for irrigation. Reusing household greywater saves water, saves time, and reduces water flowing into the sewer system. Find out if a greywater system is a good match for your home and landscape in our informative evening slideshow presentation “Drought-Proof Your Landscape with Greywater”.
Learn about
- Common types of systems
- Advantages and limitation of different systems
- Plant friendly soaps and products
- How much water you may save
- System costs
- Codes and regulations.
Location: 7pm-8:30pm at Los Angeles Eco Village 117 Bimini Place Los Angeles, CA 90004
Cost: $5 to $15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Come join this event, no RSVP required.
This talk sponsored by Greywater Action in association with Urban Soil/Tierra Urbana and CRSP.
About Laura Allen
Laura is a founding member of Greywater Action and a resident-member of Los Angeles Eco-Village. She has spent a decade exploring low-tech, urban sustainable water solutions. She has a BA in Environmental Science, a teaching credential and a masters in education from New College of CA. She is a co-editor of the anthology Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground. Laura leads classes and workshops on urban ecological sanitation technologies of rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse and composting toilets. Laura also works with the Greywater Alliance to help remove institutional barriers to sustainable water use.
Greywater Design and Installation Workshop, SUNDAY, July 13, 2014 from 10am – 12:30pm at L.A. Eco-Village
Learn how to install the popular “laundry to landscape” (L2L) greywater system in this design workshop.
Laundry to landscape greywater systems are simple, affordable, and easy to maintain. With your own L2L system you can irrigate your landscape each time you do laundry, saving you water, time, and resources. Experienced instructors will lead you step-by-step through the design process, tailoring a system to fit your home. This system is legal to install without a permit, just follow 12 basic guidelines you’ll learn about in class.
Learn
- How to design a system for your home and landscape
- How to build a system- you’ll create a “mock-up” of a real system with real greywater parts
- What parts you’ll need for your home
- How much greywater you produce and how many plants you can water
- What soaps and detergents are “greywater friendly”
Tour
- Real L2L greywater system
- Gravity “branched drain” greywater system from sinks
Cost: Sliding scale $15 to $40, limited work trade positions available
Location: The Los Angeles EcoVillage 117 Bimini Place, LA, 90004
Register here.
Bring: Photographs of your laundry room and landscape. Site plan of your yard.
For more information on an L2L system refer to the SF Graywater Guide for Outdoor Irrigation, downloadable here or watch a video of an installation of this system on Ask This Old House.
Sponsored by Greywater Action in association with Urban Soil/Tierra Urbana and CRSP
Composting with Kreigh Hampel, June 22, 2014 at 10am
When: Sunday, June 22, 2014 from 10am to noon
Where: The White House Place Learning Garden, corner of Bimini and
White House Place in the Los Angeles Eco-Village
This is a free and open event.
Kreigh Hampel digs under the mythologies of waste. Since 2003 he has served as the Recycling Coordinator for the City of Burbank while drawing on natural designs, simplicity and the community to engage regenerative thinking. He is a graduate of the UCLA Municipal Waste Management Program, a board member of the California Product Stewardship Council and has worked with nonprofits and public agencies on urban forestry, school gardens, solar energy, home composting and producer responsibility. He was recently named City Employee of the Year for his outstanding community service. His motto is, “plant more, manufacture less.”
More info: 213/383-8684 or laraeco@hotmail.com
Also, coming up in the White House Place Learning Garden:
Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 1 pm: Hop Hopkins on Food Security
Sunday, July 27, 2014 at 11 am: Meredith McKenzie on Watersheds
Twin Oaks Communities Conference Aug 29 – Sept 1, 2014 in Louisa VA
Twin Oaks Communities Conference
Labor Day Weekend, Aug 29 – Sept 1, 2014
20th Anniversary!
Register Now!
Preparations are underway for the 2014 Communities Conference, and registration is open.
You can look forward to some improvements to the conference site. In addition to an upgraded kitchen we’ve purchased 4 geodesic domes for use as workshop locations and general rain-proof hang-out space.
Fundraiser Update!
As of mid-April we raised $6,000 to rebuild the kitchen at the conference site, including a $1,000 contribution from the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. Over 50 individuals contributed to the campaign; yay for crowdfunding! Twin Oaks matched the amount, giving us a budget of $12,000 to work with. This will allow us to do the minimum needed for this project, but is several thousand less than we’d hoped for.
Tax-deductible donations can still be made through the Fellowship for Intentional Community: look for the Donate button on the right-hand sidebar at the Communities Conference website.
Theme: Radical Resource Sharing
Sharing is no secret. It’s well known that sharing can make your life better, whether it’s from an economic, social, or environmental perspective. But sharing is daring. It requires trust. It requires communication. It requires a whole set of skills and attitudes not taught to us in our hyper-individualized, capitalist economy.
In the mainstream economy sharing is inconvenient, discouraged, or even illegal. Community is about sharing. It’s about changing to notion of ownership from one of control to one of access. Its about the systems and the culture that make sharing possible and make it a force that can solve the biggest problems facing the world today.
More exciting Conferences!
While you’re making plans to come to the Twin Oaks Communities Conference you should also plan on attending two other important events. The Farm in Tennessee is having its conference on Community and Sustainability May 23 – 25. The US Federation of Worker Co-operatives is hosting it’s bi-annual National Conference the next weekend, May 30 – Jun 1, in Chicago.
The Communities Conference at the Farm is a unique opportunity to tour Green Homes of all types, learn about Alternative Education, Conflict Resolution, Land Trusts, Midwifery and much more.
The Worker Co-op Conference will bring together the U.S.’s leading lenders, funders, educators, and businesses supporting the cooperative economy.
