EVENTS:  JULY-AUGUST-SEPT 2024

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

DETAILSHere
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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
DETAILSHere

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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 homesCrania 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

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

 

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Rampart Village Neighborhood Council Meeting. 3rd Tue of each month at 6:00 pm.

What:     Rampart Village Neighborhood Council Meeting
Where:  155 No. Occidental Blvd., LA 90026 or via Zoom during Covid-19
                crisis.  Check website for agendas/details:  www.rvnc.org   
                Currently meetings are held on-line at
                https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84399345554

When:   Third Tuesday each month s at 6pm 

More information:  http://www.rvnc.org

The Rampart Village Neighborhood Council meets the 3rd Tuesday each month at 6 pm.  The 11 member Council frequently takes up issues of urban sustainability in the L.A. Eco-Village and adjacent neighborhoods.  This is a great opportunity to support more inner city sustainability initiatives.  You can join committees, give public input, run for the Board.  Not a citizen, no problem, your input is invited, and you CAN VOTE!

 

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