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

Directions

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.

Conference Kitchen Plan

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.

Resource Sharing

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.

Conference Kitchen Plan

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.

West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gathering, Seattle area, September 18-21 2014 Fall Equinox weekend

Join Permaculture’s Finest Women for a Weekend in the Woods!

Welcome to the West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gathering September 18-21 2014! This is our 4th year and we are gracing the greater Seattle area! Join us at Camp Hamilton near Monroe/Duvall for a long weekend together sharing skills, ideas and collaborating! Contributing & Collecting in Collaboration!
Where ‘Full Steam Ahead’ melds with ‘Relax and Receive’ for Continuous Thrivability
Considering how much permaculture activity is brewing in our respective regions these days, from public food forests to natural buildings and successful kickstarter campaigns, the subject of permaculture is upfront and growing! We will take a central focus of taking permaculture beyond an interest or hobby to inspiring women with permaculture examples to find their path to right-livelihood and thrive! Thivelihood!! This years Gathering will feature exciting presentations, skill-building opportunities and our first ever Saturday Market Place to support your right-livelihoods, followed by our first ever Dance Party around the fire near the lake! Tickets are available for the entire three days, Saturday only, children at a reduced rate, child care is FREE with ticket for whole weekend. See ticketing page for details.Spend a weekend with strong, committed women who share Permaculture ethics and vocabulary. Come connect, learn, and laugh! In a breathtaking space, surrounded by nature and amazing women, you will be inspired and invigorated.

Presenters for 2014 include:
We have an amazing line up of extraordinary speakers!
Jessi Bloom – Best-selling permaculture author, green industry advisor, & owner of design/build N.W. Bloom
Marisha Auerbach – International advanced permaculture educator & consultant to environmental non-profits
EagleSong – Founder of RavenCroft Gardens and Healing From the Ground Up herbal apprentice program
Jacqueline Freeman – Biodynamic Beekeeper and owner of Friendly Haven Rise Farm in Venersborg, WA
Jeanette Acosta – Author and composer raised by traditional indigenous healers, designer and ethnobotanist
Emet Degirmenci – International urban and indigenous permaculture community design
Honored Guest Starhawk – The Fifth Sacred Thing,The Last Wild Witch & Earth Activist Training

Join this amazing opportunity to gather with other revolutionary women!

We are delighted to be creating this gathering and look forward to sharing it with YOU!
Help us spread the word, “Like” and share us on Facebook!

To get up-to-date announcements about the gathering and to be part of the biggest (maybe the only!) online group of permaculture women please sign up for the google group: http://groups.google.com/group/westcoastwomenspermaculture

Exploring Your Senses: Introduction for Parents & Educators, Tuesday June 17, 2014 from 7 to 9 pm

When: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 from 7 to 9pm
Where: 117 Bimini Place, Room #201, Los Angeles Eco-Village (directions)

Fee: $20 (sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds)
Please register by June 12, 2014 (more info below)

Claire Bergen and Carol Springer invite you to playfully engage with sensory gateways to self-regulation – for children and adults – through sight, sound, taste, touch and body-centered awareness.

Carol is a Massage & Trauma Touch Therapist™ and teacher.

More details about Carol here, Contact Carol here: carol@mtcwc.com

About Claire:
Claire is a K-5 teacher, music and movement educator. Learn more about
Claire here:

Contact Claire here:
claire.bergen@gmail.com

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:Please send an email to carol@mtcwc.com with the following information:

Name
Phone #
Occupation(s) include parenting
How are you involved with children? what ages? how many?
Is the suggested donation affordable for you? If not, how much is?

Optional meal: If you would like to join us for a 1/2 hour of mindful eating, you may bring your own food or pre-order tamales/rice/beans ($9 additional).

After we accept your application, we’ll send you a pay-pal invoice with logistical details. The paid receipt is your registration confirmation.

For more information see http://www.mtcwc.com/exploringyoursen.html

Thank you!!

Happy Hour in the Courtyard Garden at L.A. Eco-Village Friday, May 23, 2014 from 5 to 7pm

May 18, 2014May 28, 2014
by Lois

The Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Garden Group invites you to:

Happy Hour in the Garden!

Friday, May 23, 2014 from 5 to 7pm
at
Los Angeles Eco-Village in the Courtyard
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004

Directions

Garden inspired drinks and snacks.

Meet interesting people engaged in world changing activities!

Your donations help us create more edible gardens.

Suggested donation: $5 to $20 sliding scale

Reservations please: 213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

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