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Learn the essentials of how to create diverse, inclusive and thriving communities with Crystal Farmer, educator, writer and active member of both cohousing and polyamorous communities. This session is ideal for anyone who is thinking about starting an intentional community or is currently living in one.
As someone interested in intentional communities, you want to welcome people from all walks of life, but how do you do it? Where do you find them? In this interactive workshop, we’ll discuss some of the obstacles to recruiting people of different backgrounds. Whether you are a community leader or an interested seeker, this workshop will help you lay the foundation for a diverse and inclusive community.
Key points to be covered:
About Crystal:
Crystal Byrd Farmer is a North Carolina native active in the cohousing and polyamorous communities. An engineer turned educator, she speaks and writes about ways communities can be more welcoming to people of all kinds of backgrounds. Crystal is the website editor for Black & Poly, an organization promoting healthy polyamorous relationships for people of color. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. Her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization will be published in late 2020. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity, relationships, and the world.+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
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Register to Join on June 23rd from 1 to 3pm PDT
GO HERE TO REGISTER: https://www.ic.org/event/diverse-communities/
FIC Members and residents of Communities listed in our Directory are warmly welcome to join our free monthly Community Connect online gathering. Not yet a FIC Member? Become a member at ic.org/membership.
Community Connect is a fun, informative, free, virtual mini-conference and online celebration for people who love intentional community. Imagine the most fun community meeting you have ever attended (a potluck meal, rounds consensus… whatever’s your fancy). Now imagine the same thing happening online with communitarians across the continent, and even the world! Possible? We think so! This online event is an opportunity for communitarians to meet each other, share knowledge, news, and projects, and have fun. It’s something between a virtual mini conference and a sweet evening in the common house. There will be opportunities for you to share about your project, community-themed games, networking activities, and super secret surprises.
(You’ll receive the recording even if you can’t attend the live event, so please sign-up!)
Sponsored by the Foundation for Intentional Community: ic.org
Join this timely and relevant session on intentional community economics to learn strategies for jump starting local economies, designing economic systems into the founding documents for intentional communities, income alternatives and exchange mechanisms that can keep people meeting their basic needs even in hard times.
Here’s how we can create local economies that work for everyone!
Sliding scale registration starting at $5.00
Find out more and register here
Sponsored by the Foundation for Intentional Community: www.ic.org
Workshop back by popular demand! Join us on June 2nd at 1-3pm PDT
Starting a community has never been more compelling than it is right now, in a time of crisis. This workshop draws on years of knowledge from community founders, and Yana’s own 23 years of cooperative living, including four community start-ups, to lay out the most important considerations for making a new community a success.
Blending practical advice with opportunities for self-reflection, this online workshop can help you set your feet on the right path for your group to thrive.
Sliding scale fee.
Go here for details and registration:
https://www.ic.org/event/start-intentional-community/
Event sponsored by the Foundation for Intentional Community: ic.org
Join us on May 27th at 1pm-3pm PDT (See your local time)
Are you an elder seeking more community? Considering joining a senior cohousing or an inter-generational community? Have questions about aging in community? This session is designed with you in mind! Join us for an interactive session featuring leaders in the movement and residents of senior-inclusive intentional communities.
Takeaways will include:
– Get resources and advice specifically useful for elders wanting to join an intentional community
– View virtual mini-tours of a few senior-focused communities
– Ask questions and get answers from intentional community experts
– Meet and share with fellow community seekers in breakout groups
👉Register even if you can’t attend the live session to receive a recording that you can listen or watch anytime!
SPONSORED BY: Foundation for Intentional Community www.ic.org
Do you want to create more community and that “village feel” wherever you are living right now? This online workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how we can re-design our public spaces for more community, especially in the city.
From new public gathering places to urban homesteads, multi-generational farms, vertical co-housing, and huge climate resilience initiatives — we will explore how permaculture approaches are being applied at larger, more diverse and interesting scales. Register below to join Mark for the workshop on zoom this Wednesday, May 20, from 4-6pm Eastern (click here for your local time).
Mark is a national leader in the development of regenerative public places. Through his leadership in Communitecture, inc., and it’s various affiliates including the The City Repair Project (501(c)3), The Village Building Convergence, and the Planet Repair Institute, he has been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory organizations and urban permaculture design projects across the United States and Canada. Stories of Mr. Lakeman’s projects have been told widely, including in such publications as Dwell, Architecture Magazine, New Village Journal, Yes magazine, The Utne Reader, Permaculture Activist and many more. With City Repair, in 2003 Mark was awarded the National Lewis Mumford Award by the international organization Architects & Planners for Social Responsibility for his work with Dignity Village, one of the United States’ first self-developed, permanent communities by and for previously homeless people.
Participatory Place Design for This Century – SPONSORED BY: Foundation for Intentional Community www.ic.org
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Participatory Place Design for This Century – Foundation for Intentional Community
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California cities have been leading the way with new policies to promote clean and healthy buildings that reduce costs for owners and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last Spring the City of Carlsbad was the first city to pass a 2019 Reach Code reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thirty cities or counties have now approved a range of ordinances. Come learn about the rationale for these policies, the different approaches various cities have taken, and how you can get involved.
Roundtable participants include:
James (Jed) Donaldson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C – Chair, AIA|LA Committee on the Environment & Principal, Johnson Fain (moderator)
Pierre Delforge – Senior Scientist, Building Decarbonization, Climate & Clean Energy Program, NRDC
Matthew Gough – Senior Campaign Representative, Sierra Club
Amy Rider, LEED AP – Principal Consultant, Archamy Consulting
Scott Shell, FAIA – AIA|CA COTE Advocacy Committee & Principal, EHDD
Resources:
Pierre Delforge’s blog: 2019 Set the Stage for Cleaner and Healthier Buildings
Matt Gough’s blog on the cities that have passed electrification reach codes
Pierre Delforge – Senior Scientist, Building Decarbonization, Climate & Clean Energy Program, NRDC
Pierre Delforge, a senior scientist, joined NRDC in 2010 after a 20-year career in the computer industry. At NRDC, he works on policies to accelerate the clean energy transition in buildings, with a focus on space and water heating, as well as plug-in equipment. Previously, Delforge was lead energy and climate strategist for HP’s sustainability group. He holds degrees in computer science from Cambridge University and École Centrale de Paris. He is based in San Francisco.
Scott Shell, FAIA – AIA|CA COTE Advocacy Committee & Principal, EHDD
Scott is a nationally recognized expert on high-performance buildings. For the past decade he has led the design of EHDD’s university buildings for science, ranging from the advanced Biomedical Sciences Research labs to new facilities for entire departments designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. He brings a strong integrated design approach to each project, partnering with clients, researchers, and the broader design and construction team to create facilities that excel in all aspects of their performance.
A pioneer in low energy and sustainable design, Scott serves on the National American Institute of Architects Advisory Group for the Committee on the Environment, where he is a frequent speaker. He has led the design of several of the nation’s first Net Zero Energy buildings. He has a particular focus on evidence-based design to verify actual performance and occupant satisfaction of the facilities to apply lessons learned on future projects to advance the practice of building.
Amy Rider, LEED AP – Principal Consultant, Archamy Consulting
Amy Rider is the Principal Consultant for Archamy Consulting who is acting as the Reach Code Coordinator for the Building Decarbonization Coalition. She has held positions with local government agencies and consulting firms for more than 15 years, working to optimize local climate change response through education, behavior change and technology implementation.
James (Jed) Donaldson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C – Chair, AIA|LA Committee on the Environment & Principal, Johnson Fain
James is a Principal with more than 17 years of professional experience in designing large scale projects. His experience includes the architectural design of diverse building typologies including office buildings, cathedrals, and large scale mixed-use developments.
James earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and a Master of Architecture Degree from Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Johnson Fain, James was practicing in San Francisco with a focus on high-end residential and tenant improvements during the ‘dot-com’ boom. James is a LEED Accredited Professional with a specialty in Building Design and Construction (AP BD+C).
James’ knowledge of the building industry is complemented with his interest in green building technologies and advanced computer modeling. James has co-taught architectural courses with Scott Johnson at both Berkeley and USC and has been a guest speaker at USC’s BIM symposium. His commitment to green building technologies has led to speaking engagements and leadership positions with a number of organizations including The Passive House Institute where he is a Board Member. He is involved in the US Green Building Council on the Abstract Review Committee for the 2018 Municipal Green Building Conference & Expo and was a Co-Chair on the Greening Committee for the 2016 Greenbuild Conference. In addition, James leads the Johnson Fain Sustainability and Resilience Lab within the firm.
Please credit: The William J. Worthen Foundation
| Now, more than ever Stand up and be a champion Share your impact Join us for our 2020 Collective Impact speaker series. We’re tackling subjects from the climate crisis, resilience, health and wellness, and diversity and inclusion to equity, economy and environment and much more. We’ve assembled forward-thinking thought leaders for a discussion on our collective impact on Los Angeles and beyond. Join us, offer your insights, and be part of the conversation to move us forward collectively. |
| WEDNESDAY, May 13, 5:00-6:30PM Register to receive a link to this Zoom event REGISTER Here are the speakers: ARIEL FAN GreenWealth Energy Partners ARIS HOVASAPIAN Los Angeles Community College District DREW JOHNSTONE City of Santa Monica GABE GUILLIAMS Buro Happold HEATHER GAYLE HOLDRIDGE Lake | Flato Architects IZUMI TANAKA HomeGreenHomes JOSE HERNANDEZ LACI JOSIAH CAIN Sherwood Design Engineers LISE BORNSTEIN KFA MANDY LEE NAACP SARAH DOMINGUEZ Southern California Association of Governments ZINAYDA REYES Ware Malcomb REGISTER SPONSORED BY BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING IN COLLABORATION WITH: Los Angeles Eco-Village/CRSP and LARC AIA Los Angeles City of Santa Monica U.S. Green Bldg. Council – LA Ari Simon Coaching & Convening Urban Land Institute – Los Angeles National Association of Minority Architects Association for Women in Architecture and Design |
