Scroll down here for work party schedule. at the LA Ecovillage Community Hub
For LA Ecovillage tour schedule, go here
WHAT: Bimini Block Party
WHEN: Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 2pm to 6pm
WHERE: LA Ecovillage on Bimini Place from W. 1st St. to White House Place
in front of117 Bimini Pl., Los Angeles 90004
WHY: Earthday Celebration and meet the neighbors in the two
block LA Ecovillage neighborhood.
FREE: Food, free nice stuff, mariachi music, Repair Cafe, meet our
Neighborhood Council candidates, Bicycle Karaoke, meet
our neighbors, fun!
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!.
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WHAT: David Drum, author, LAEV friend and neighbor, gives a talk on
his latest book Final Warning: Return of the Neanderthals*
WHEN: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 7:30pm
WHERE: The LA Ecovillage Community Hub
3554 W. 1st St., LA 90004 (enter thru chain link gate on Bimini Pl)
Fee: Free but books for sale and autographing will be available.
RSVP: to crsp@igc.org with name, zip code, phone number
*Final Warning is a satirical, fast-moving eco-thriller that centers around a cell phone technology going hog wild, and many efforts to stop it. Kirkus Reviews says Final Warning “fires death-ray volleys at the media and corporate greed.
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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
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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
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute
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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
