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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.

Topics will include:

• the reasons to start a community… and not to
• understanding the breadth of work and skills involved with a start-up
• creating a good vision statement
• what successful founders have in common
• the relationship between decision-making, conflict resolution, and membership process
• 15 spectrums that help define what kind of a community you are creating
• social dynamics you need to know about
• economic choices and their implication for sustainability and group cohesion
• what you should– and shouldn’t– freak out about
• key questions for making your community a sustainable one
• balancing holding the vision with attracting new members

👉Please register even if you can’t attend the live workshop, you will receive a session recording to listen or watch anytime!

$28 U.S. Go here to register:
https://www.ic.org/event/start-intentional-community/

• Kosha Joubert is the Executive Director of the Global Eco-Village Network (GEN) housed at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland. This is a rare visit to the U.S. and a great opportunity to learn first hand at how the ecovillage movement is expanding across the globe and participate in workshops and processes developed by GEN to support higher quality living patterns at lower environmental impacts.
  
  PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK WITH EACH EVENT TO ENSURE THAT IT IS HAPPENING.
  
• March 11 – 13: Talks and visits in the Bay Area, California
• March 13: Evening presentation Marin County – Communities For Future : The Global Ecovillage Network
• March 14: One day workshop, West Marin County – Ecovillage Design Practices : Introduction to the Ecovillage Design Cards by GEN
• March 15: One day workshop, West Marin County – Community Healing Practices : Skills for Trauma Recognition, Conflict Resolution and Integration
• March 16: CANCELLED: Potluck and evening presentation at Los Angeles Ecovillage – Meet the Global Ecovillage Network : Community-led development from the Local to the Global
• March 17: CANCELLED. Presentation at Los Angeles City Hall – Urban Ecovillages and Community-led Approaches to Regeneration –
• March 19: Presentation at Unitarian Church, Ithaca – Ecovillages as a community-led response to the climate emergency
• March 20: Ecovillage Tour and Conversation – Regenerative Community Living in Ecovillage at Ithaca, the US and Around the World
• March 20 – 22: Two day workshop at EcoVillage at Ithaca – Communities for Future : Our Response to the Climate Emergency
• March 24: Mini workshop, Ithaca – Building Climate-Resilient Communities – Exploring Tompkins County Through an Ecovillage Lens

People across California and across the country are fighting for more political representation than offered by the two-party duopoly.

How can we get to a multi-party democracy?  What does the experience of the Green Party in the U.S. and around the world tell us about this challenge? How would politics in California and the United States be different under a multi-party democracy, that included proportional representation, ranked choice voting and public financing of elections?

EVENT DETAILS
Date and time:
Friday, April 10, 2020
*Veggie potluck: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Mike’s talk, Q&A: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
* Please bring your own eating ware and minimize plastics to make this a zero waste event.

Location:
Songs in L.A. Eco-Village
3554 W. First St. (enter on Bimini Pl)
Los Angeles 90004

Fee:
$5 to $10 (sliding scale, no one turned away)

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

About Mike Feinstein
Between 1996 and 2004 Mike was elected to the City Council of Santa Monica, and served a term as Mayor. Mike was also active on a number of committees with the Southern California Association of Governments, including Energy & Environment, Growth Visioning Task Force, Regional Comprehensive Plan Task Force and Integrated Policy Task Force, as well as the Westside Council of Governments, Local Government Commission, California League of Cities, National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors and International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI).

Active in Green politics, from the local to the international, for nearly 30 years, Mike also founded the national Green newspaper, Green Pages, published a number of papers and co-hosted “Green Perspectives” on Pacifica’s KPFK.

More details on Mike’s activities here
and here: www.feinstein4sos.org/issues

Nance Klehm is an ecological systems designer who has worked to heal degraded soil around the world, from her home neighborhood of Little Village, Chicago to the rain forests of Ecuador. Timebankers Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen have booked her to give this FREE talk.

Nance will talk about the deep connection between soil health and social justice, and the importance of healthy soil in troubled times along with the connection between the health of our soil and our own health and the health of our communities.

Following the talk, you can join her for an optional workshop on vermicomposting—you will go home with your own worm bin. Lecture is free, but the worm-bin is $30, and you must preregister so we can provide your materials. Financial aid available.

When: Sunday March 8, 2020 12:30 PM
Where: St. John’s Cathedral, 514 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles 90007
More info
Questions: churchoffice@stjohnsla.org
Reservations please via Eventbrite

EVENT DETAILS:
Date & Time: Sunday, March 8, 12:30PM
Location:
St. John’s Cathedral
514 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles 90007
Registration: churchoffice@stjohnsla.org
FREE

It’s here! All-member veggie potluck! Open to all. Sat., Feb. 22, 1:30PM. Hosted by the Koreatown Time Bank at Songs Hall, Los Angeles Eco-Village, 3554 W First St, Los Angeles 90004. Enter on Bimini Place. 

P-L-E-A-S-E Help make this a zero waste event: Bring your own eating ware. Minimize plastics.

This potluck has been especially arranged to welcome Team TimeTrio: three students of the social welfare department at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul, South Korea. They will be visiting Los Angeles to research timebanking and will be touring LAEV immediately prior to the potluck!

Free event.

More info on TimeBanking here:
Phone: (213) 973-2265 Email: hourworldtemp@gmail.com

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.

Speakers include:
NEAL ANDERSON, USGBC-LA
MUD BARON, Flowers on Your Head
SIMONE BARTH, Omgivning
SAMANTHA BODE, Filmmaker, The Longest Straw
SABRINA BORNSTEIN, BuroHappold
JOSHUA FOSTER, KFA Architects
AMANDA GROSSMA, City of Santa Monica
NICK KARNO, Climate Cents
ANDY MANNLE, Promise Energy
ERIK NARHI, BuroHappold
TULSI PATEL, Estolano Advisors
AUDREY SATO, Sato Architects
MELANI SMITH, Metro

Register here

Event held at:
BuroHappold Engineering 800 Wilshire Blvd, 16th Floor (no validated parking. One block from 7th St. Metro!) , Downtown Los Angeles 

In collaboration with: L.A. Eco-Village and many other organizations.  Learn about them here plus fancier viewing.

SO SORRY TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO CAUTION REGARDING COVID-19. We will be informing you of other opportunities to hear from Kosha via videos.

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Kosha introduces the Global Ecovillage Network’s (GEN) work in catalyzing the power of community to inspire governments around the world to include Ecovillage Development Programs in their strategies for implementing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Agreements. Together, we can explore how Los Angeles can be more fully and effectively involved in this movement.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date & Time:
Monday, March 16, 2020  
5:30 to 6:30 pm: Veggie potluck (zero waste event; please bring your own
                               eating ware)                                                    
6:30 to 8:30pm:   Talk, Q&A, discussion with Kosha

Location:
3554 W. First Street at Bimini Place (enter on Bimini)
Songs in the north end of L.A. Eco-Village
Los Angeles 90004
Please note: If it is raining, we will meet next door
at 117 Bimini Place in the Lobby

Fee:
$5 to $20 sliding scale

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

About Kosha
Kosha Joubert, MSc, Executive Director of the Global Ecovillage Network, has many years of experience as an international facilitator, trainer, and consultant and has worked extensively in the fields of community empowerment, intercultural collaboration and sustainable development. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to building bridges across divides ever since. She has lived in ecovillages for the past 25 years. Kosha is also a co-founder of Gaia Education, which develops trainings at the cutting-edge of sustainability, and co-author of the internationally applied curriculum of the Ecovillage Design Education. In 2016, Kosha received the Dadi Janki Award – 100 Women of Spirit – For engaging spirituality in life and work and for making a difference in the world.
More info on Kosha’s U.S. Tour here: https://ecovillage.org/ustour2020/
More info on the Global Ecovillage Network: www.ecovillage.org