Author: Lois

Downsizing & Decluttering workshop: Tue., Jan 22, 2019 at 7pm with Ashley Moon Stanfield in East Los Angeles

 

Downsizing & Decluttering
January 22ndAre you interested in simplifying your space? How about transitioning into a life filled more with meaning than materials? Or perhaps you are just looking for a few practical tips on decluttering & strategies for letting go?

Join LATCH Collective for an inspirational AND practical workshop on decluttering and downsizing, led by professional organizer Ashley Moon Stanfield from Creatively Neat! Ashley’s in-depth knowledge on sorting, arranging, downsizing, and letting go is especially helpful for those with Tiny House goals!.
Save your seat!

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Councilman Mitch O’Farrell in Your Corner: Sat., Jan 26, 2019 from 9:30am to noon in Silver Lake

Are you in L.A. City Council District 13?  See boundaries here  If so, c’mon out and meet your City Councilman, Mitch O’Farrell.  Walk the neighborhood.  Help clean up the streets, Meet neighbors and other staff from the CD13 office.  Give your input directly to Mitch and/or his staff folks, several of whom will be there.  What are your issues?
– Reducing traffic congestion?
– Free public transit?
– More road diets, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure?
– Fix the sidewalks but be sure to SAVE the TREES?
– Tiny house villages for any who need and want them, especially those living on the streets?
– More affordable housing at a fraction of the current $400 per square foot?
– Your creative ideas for expanding rent control after the devastating defeat of Prop 10?

Date and time:
Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 9:30am to noon

Location:
Meet at 1623 Allesandro Ave
Los Angeles 90039

FREE EVENT

Changing the world starts with being present in the places that can make a difference with the people you can work with to create change!

Visit Councilman O’Farrell’s website here: https://cd13.lacity.org/

Green City, Green Planet – The Crucial Issue of Water in L.A. – Forum Thur 1/24/19 from 6 to 8pm at Silver Lake Library

DATE AND TIME
Thur. 1/24/19 from 6 to 8pm
LOCATION:
Silver Lake Library
2411 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles 90039
FEE:  Free
ABOUT:
The first in a series of four talks presented by the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Green Committee and the Silver Lake Public Library. We’ll cover climate change, habitat restoration, and biodiversity in Silver Lake and beyond.

Panel for this event is on:
“Green City – Green Planet: The Crucial Issue of Water in LA, Greywater,
and Landscape: the Impact on Water Infrastructure with:

Samantha Bode* – Producer/Director, The Longest Straw Documentary
          Where Does Our Water Come From?

Leigh Jerrard – Principal, Greywater Corps
             Greywater: From House to Garden

Mia Lehrer – Landscape Architect, President, Studio-MLA
             Landscape: The Impact on Water Infrastructure

*The Longest Straw,

New Urbanism Film Festival 2017 - Saturday Oct. 21 (Day 3)

Filmmaker and L.A. Eco-Village member Samantha Bode’s (left) film of her 65-day trek along the 338-mile route of the Los Angeles aqueduct from the Mono Basin and Owens Valley, garnered the Best Healthy Cities Film award for its on-ground investigation of the people and places affected by the aqueduct in the 2017 New Urbanism Film Festival.

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Power of Community Summit Feb. 1-10, 2019: FREE on-line

Join the us for the Power of Community Summit!

The Power of Community Summit is an entirely free, online experience organized with the goal of catalyzing community, exploring the leading edge of the regenerative future movement and increasing our collective consciousness in a climate-changing world. It will take place February 1-10, 2019 and will feature three conversations per day shared and discussed worldwide on multiple platforms.  To see the full list of speakers and to see which interviews are live at any given time, visit summit.ecovillage.org.

The Power of Community Summit is the very first ever organized by the Global Ecovillage Network, in partnership with Pioneers for Change, an organization with proven success on past summits. The theme of the event is also in coordination with the upcoming Climate Change and Consciousness Conference 2019 to be held at Findhorn in April 2019.  For more on CCC19, visit their site here.

The Power of Community Online Summit aims to turn our conscious and compassionate attention towards a climate-changing world and inspire individual and community-led action for a regenerative future.
Sign up for the Summit now!
How it works

We will host a wonderful consortium of 30 leading edge thinkers and activists, sharing their thoughts, ideas and inspiration about how to work towards a community-led and regenerative future.  Our speakers include Charles Eisenstein, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Frédéric Laloux, Joanna Macy, William Ury, Christiana Figueres, Rob Hopkins, Satish Kumar and many grassroots leaders. Every day, 3 interviews will be shown online, which you can watch at the time most appropriate for you, free of charge. The Online Summit will be free and accessible to everyone.

Each video will be accessible for a day, and then at the end of the Summit, we will offer a package of all the videos for purchase to be viewed at any time.  To receive free access to the Summit, you must register at summit@ecovillage.org. (NOTE: Even though you are signed up to this newsletter list you will need to register for the Summit list separately to participate and view the videos.)

In addition, everyone who signs up for the Summit will receive a link to a free ebook: “Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet”  Subscribers should expect to receive multiple email updates a day as the Summit begins. For further questions, you are welcome to write to summit@ecovillage.org
Local Hubs and Online Discussions

We also invite you and your community, neighbours, friends, colleagues to set up a Local Hub for this Global Event.

Your Local Hub can take many forms – watching together with friends; arranging dinner parties and sharing circles with neighbours;  public events in the local community hall; and other forms you might wish to create. You could choose to run one or two weekend events, from 1-3 February and/or 8-10 February. Or you could come together in your community to watch an interview every evening. You can shape your Hub into the form that suits you. Sign up here to show your interest in hosting a hub and we will follow up  with more information.

As GEN, we understand the power of community and see that each such meeting or event can become the seed for a transformational local action plan, a bold new project or the incubation of the next level of community solidarity. We will support you by sending out daily topics for conversation and facilitation guidelines.

We would love you to be a part of this! If you wish to engage, please sign up and you will be invited to host a hub as well.
Already signed up? Here’s 3 things you can do to support the Summit:

  1. Please SHARE and LIKE the posts about the Summit you’ll see GEN or your favorite speakers posting on social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter
  2. JOIN the Summit Facebook group where there will be space for discussion and sharing.
  3. Consider INVITING friends, colleagues or others to participate via social media or even by FORWARDING THIS MAIL to those who you think would be interested.

Tank you! We look forward to an inspiring event together!
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Friends of GEN

Would you like to support the ecovillage movement while receiving benefits like discounts on educational materials and one-on-one consulting?  Consider joining our Friends of GEN programme!
Learn More about Friends of GEN
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2019 National Cohousing Conference in Portland OR 5/30-6/2/2019

2019 National Cohousing Conference

May 30 – June 2, 2019 at the Downtown Portland Hilton

View Full Schedule here

This year’s conference theme:
Community for the Health of it

Learn how living in community can be healthier by raising the quality of life and reducing our environmental impacts, and yes! even combating loneliness and a sense of isolation! Whether you’re just starting to explore living in cohousing or have been for decades, this conference offers something for you.  Courtney Martin author of  The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream explores  how people are redefining the American dream (think more fulfillment, community, and fun, less debt, status, and stuff).  She draws from her personal experience living in cohousing with her family.

For a quick bio and Q&A article with Courtney in Diablo Magazine, go here

See book review for The New Better Off…  here

 

Courtney Martin, social, political and cohousing activist
Keynote speaker for Cohousing Conference 2019

 

 

Conference website:  here

Three Identical Strangers: the movie, Fri. 1/18/19 at 7pm at L.A. Eco-Village

The Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Limited Equity Co-op, Community Glue Committee, will screen:

“Three Identical Strangers”
made as a documentary in 2018

Bring food, treats, to share or hoard your choice, and after, we will discuss this moving and intriguing story.

RSVP or just show up.  Space limited.

Call Lois to enter gate: 213/235-7874

Fun Hands-On Compost Workshop Party Sat. Dec. 15 from 2 – 5pm Westwood

 
 
Spirit of the workshop
This workshop is meant to share my knowledge among family, friends, neighbors, friends and trusted circles. The intent is to learn, share experiences, build together in a collaborative manner… and have FUN! All the while learning something very down-to-earth and so useful for us to take responsibility and practice our stewardship of the bit of our beautiful planet earth we walk on.
What’s in the workshop?
  • Why compost?
  • Insight in understanding healthy soil
  • Hands-on activity (it’s more fun when you get your hands dirty!)
  • Different types of composting techniques (garden, wormcompost, hot compost…)
  • Specifics for Californian climate
  • What is the composting method adapted to your situation and use
  • Bonus : The workshop will end with a special in the making permaculture principle garden tour!
For whom?
As I am organizing the workshop at my family’s home I wish this workshop to stay rather intimate. I have only sent the invitation out to friends and trusted circles I know from LA. You are welcome to share the invitation among your interested friends and beloved family. Children are welcome if looked after by responsible bigger children. :-p
Maximum number of participants : 15
 
Where?
Sign up using the form to get the address!
What time?
Workshop is from 2 to 5pm. You are welcome to come starting 1:30pm in order to start on time. We have lots of things to do, and it starts getting dark early!
Workshop will last until 5pm and will be followed by a live music (karaoke) pot-luck!
How much does it cost?
That is up to you!
Give what you think is appropriate, I trust your judgment as to what you can afford and what is the workshop worth.
Know that the profits will be shared between me, the musicians and to help a permaculture project I will be starting in Togo next year.
What to bring:
– an outfit you don’t mind getting dirty
– gardening gloves
– things you’ve always wondered if you should put in your compost bin or not
– things people have always told you (not) to put in your compost
– outdoor chair (folding if possible)
– a water bottle
– food and drinks if you’re staying for the pot-luck
– warm clothes for the evening as we will be outside
– your inner curious laughing child
Optional :
– gardening tools : shovel, fork, hand shovel
– a wooden pallet
Who am I?
Julia Schindler, French-American, I studied in France and graduated with a master’s degree in development and agricultural sciences. I have always wanted to do something for the environment, and when I discovered permaculture*, I found my passion! Since I have been traveling around the world (Australia, France, Germany, USA, Cuba, India…) working on organic farms, landscaping companies, working for non-profits and training as a teacher with the permaculture pioneers.
My passion is to make people not only learn but experience permaculture, and inspire them to have fun while saving the world! Raised with a multi-cultural background, I love traveling the world exploring new cultures and exchanging knowledge wherever I go, especially in less industrialized countries which suffer the most from climate change and our crazy economic system.
*Permaculture is a system’s design approach to creating societies that work with rather than against nature.
I’m looking forward to seeing you all! 🙂
Julia Schindler
Joyful gleaner and sower of permaculture futures
+1 (424) 413 4151

Joyeuse permacultrice glaneuse et semeuse de possibles

+33 (0)7 68 77 31 84

Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust (BVCLT) seeks new interim Board Members: Annual meeting Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 at 7:30pm at L.A. Eco-Village

If you are familiar with the L.A. Eco-Village two block neighborhood of Bimini and White House Place, have been on a tour and would like to be considered for this rare opportunity to serve on the Board of one of the leading advocates for community land trusts in Southern California, please let us know who you are and we will send you details.

Meantime, do consider joining the BVCLT by writing to the corporate treasurer Lara Morrison at laraeco@hotmail.com and attending the annual meeting at L.A. Eco-Village on Monday evening January 21, 2019 at 7:30pm at L.A. Eco-village, 117 Bimini Pl, #201, LA 90004

Please rsvp to:
crsp@igc.org   or call 213/738-1254

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Karaoke at Songs from 6pm to Midnight Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, LA Eco-Village

Relampago Wheelery, a worker co-op in the making, led by long time bicycle activist Jimmy Lizama, sponsors a special Halloween season Karaoke event.

This is a fun and fund raiser for Ghost Bikes L.A. which does vital work to bring to light our fallen bicycle sisters and brothers out on the streets of Los Ángeles.  As Danny, the lead organizer of this organization explains, he hopes to one day have Ghost Bikes L.Á. not be needed, but for now locks, chains, paint and awareness are essential to continue their work.

And Re:Ciclos, a developing project out of Relámpago Wheelery helping to transform old steel bicycles into cargo bikes, bicimaquinas and bike art with the help of a few awesome youth.  We’re still just getting started, but we’re on our way and your support helps.

Date & Time: 
Saturday, November 3, 2018 from 6pm to midnight
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Location: 
Songs
3554 W. First St (at the corner of Bimini Pl.)
 L.A. Eco-Village
Los Angeles 90004
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AND AT MIDNIGHT:
Midnite ride with the BiciCharioke …
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SUGGESTED DONATION:
 $10
(but feel free to kick down more)
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FOOD:
Our wonderful neighbor Yolanda will be making vegan pozole.  Also BYOB and some to share.  $5 suggested donation for this and worth every penny!!!
PLEASE LET’S MAKE THIS A ZERO WASTE EVENT, SO BRING YOUR BOWL AND SPOON!
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This event sponsored by Relampago Wheelery  in association with the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust and CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages.
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Note from Jimmy Lizama:
Thank You to CRSP (http://laecovillage.org/crsp/), the L.Á. Eco Village, All the super rad volunteers (too many to name here) that help make this happen on a monthly basis.  Your love, your support, your visions, your conviction and your spirit continue to fuel our progress forward to build a city the we want and need to live in.

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