We’re putting on the second Los Angeles Intentional Community Summit this Sunday!
It’s for all folks who live in or are interested in community living to get together and create a larger network, to learn about how other communities operate, discuss the issues that affect community life, etc.
Let’s eat some snacks and drink some drinks and get to know one another and our city’s communities.
Where:Sugar Shack, 4402 W Pico Blvd, LA CA 90019
When:Sunday, April 23 at 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Bring: Veggie Snacks and/or drinks to share + non-throwaway plates, utensils, cup
This is a leave no trace event
Please read details to make sure you’re a fit for this event.
Please share it with anyone who might be interested!
imaginopolis brings us… Tiny House in My Backyard!
This creative demonstration event will help policymakers visualize the potential of tiny houses as backyard homes and villages, and your presence will show support for this housing option!
Come tour backyard homes in South LA during our open house hours.
Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together and a well-known speaker and workshop trainer in the communities and ecovillage movements. Three events with Diana coming up: Friday, March 3rd at 7 pm – slideshow, How Ecovillages Worldwide Have Influenced the Wider Culture. Sat, March 4, 10am-4 pm overview workshop, Introduction to Sociocracy for Ecovillages and Intentional Communities. Sociocracy, which means “governance by peers & colleagues” (also called Dynamic Governance), is a highly effective governance structure and decision-making method Diana now highly recommends instead of consensus. Sun March 5 from 2pm to 6pm workshop on The Three Aspects of a Healthy Thriving Community
Come to one or all three events. See what fits your passions.
RSVP required for all events: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
All events will be held at 117 Bimini Pl, Los Angeles 90004 in the Los Angeles Eco-Village:
Diana Leafe Christian and friend
Here are the options:
EVENT #1 Friday, March 3, 2017 from 7 to 10pm: Slideshow & talk about Ecovillages around the world: How Ecovillages Worldwide Have Influenced their Wider Culture.Diana’s tales and stories of beautiful ecovillages on four continents, many of which she’s visited, and how they are beneficially affecting their region, their country, or the Planet. See reviews here.
Fee: $5 to $20 sliding scale.
RSVP to: crsp@igc.org or 213-738-1254
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EVENT #2 Saturday, March 4, 2017 from 10am to 4pm*:
Introduction to Sociocracy for Ecovillages and Other Kinds of Intentional Communities. An overview of this effective governance structure and decision-making method, and one process, Selecting People for Roles (Sociocracy elections), a good-vibe meeting technique you can learn and use in your group. Learn more here
Fee $70 to $90 (sliding scale). Note that fees from been lowered for this event.
RSVP: crsp@igc.org or 213-738-1254
Please note that this is an introduction to, or review of Sociocratic principles and practices.
*Lunch break from 12:30 to 1:30pm: bring your own brownbag or visit one of our many “around-the-corner” cafes.
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EVENT #3
Sunday, March 5, 2017 from 2pm to 6pm:
The Three Aspects of a Healthy Thriving Community. Includes eight antidotes to structural conflict, and overviews of:
1 – the 19 steps people typically take to start successful ecovillages and intentional communities
2 – community vision and mission, and
3 – a clear, thorough membership process.
Fee: $60 to $75 sliding scale. Note that fees for this event have been raised.
RSVP to crsp@igc.org or 213-738-1254
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Reservations required for all events: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
All three events held at Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, Los Angeles 90004
Pay at the door (the old fashioned way); if paying by check, make out to CRSP
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More about Diana here: www.dianaleafechristian.org. Popular lecturer and trainer on diverse aspects of ecovillages, cohousing and intentional communities, Diana makes a rare visit to Southern California.
Diana’s expertise on community decision making and governance processes has brought international attention to “sociocracy.” Sociocracy is a governance for peers and colleagues using feedback loops to help an organization continuously improve.
Thursday Sept 29 ― Sunday Oct 2
at Groundswell Institute a queer ecovillage and retreat center
2 hours north of the San Francisco CA Bay Area Co-Sponsored by the Fellowship for Intentional Community
West Coast Communities Conference: Racial & Economic Justice
Whether old hat to intentional community or just diving in for the first time, join us at the second annual West Coast Communities Conference to get the boost in skills, connections, and wisdom that will take your engagement to the next level. A blend of workshops and interactive social activities, we will go deep into the topics that matter most to our communities while also making time for joyous connections.
The focus for this year’s conference will be on racial and economic justice. These struggles remain present in our lives and more evident than ever – so, we feel it is essential for us to focus on these issues within the communities movement. We have tremendous potential to be leaders in confronting racial and economic disparities, and we also have a long way to go before our own movement reflects the diversity of our country. Continued discussion is key, so we are encouraging all presenters to find ways to bring these subjects into their workshops or activities and for WCCC participants to come with both ideas and open minds.
We will be limiting attendance to around 100 in order to minimize impact on our land, so please register to ensure your spot. Registration fees are $100 for tenting and $150 for cabins, which includes access to all programs and three scrumptious hot meals a day. In addition, there are day passes for those who don’t wish to stay overnight. Plentiful scholarship and work trade options are available – we do not want economic status to be a barrier to attending this event.
The 6th annual LA Green Festival Expo is almost here!
Join us September 16-18 for America’s largest and longest-running sustainability event. Claim your free ticketusing free ticket code GAGF16.
Los Angeles presentations and mentoring sessions kick off on Friday, September 16 at the LA Convention Center.
Voting is now open for the Green Festival Community Award. Help your favorite non-profit working to improve the LA area win a $5,000 grant. Cast your vote »
Please vote now for “Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance”, an L.A. Eco-Village associated organization
LOCATION: Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall K.
1201 So. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles 90015
All public transit leads to the
Los Angeles Convention Center. No need to drive!
HOURS:
Friday 9/16 from 12 noon – 6pm
Saturday 9/17 from 10am – 6pm
Sunday, 9/18 from 10am – 5pm
Come visit L.A. Eco-Village at Booth #514
Enjoy the vibrant green marketplace and attend programming all weekend long on green business and green living.
Sign language interpreters are available on Saturday and Sunday.
Free Onsite B2B Mentoring Services Get the most out of Green Festival to grow your business. Sign up for a free 20 minute power session on topics critical to your success, from leading entrepreneur growth engine Expert DOJO. To register or for more information, contact Rob Butler at rbutler@greenfestivals.org.
Speakers at Green Festival Expo
Learn from leaders in social enterprise, and hear from sustainability experts. Check out some of the weekend’s inspiring speakers below or apply to become a speaker at an upcoming Green Festival.
Clean Energy, Agriculture & Climate Justice: The Three Essential Climate Strategies Alisa Gravitz, CEO/President, Green AmericaAfter the hottest summer on record, we need to ramp up climate solutions. Alisa Gravitz will discuss the trends and the most effective climate strategies. We can win—if we double down now. Find out how we can do it.
Join the nation’s leading sustainability event and reach new green customers.
Save 10% on exhibiting with your exclusive discount as a Green Business Network member.
Help your favorite non-profit working to improve the LA area win a $5,000 grant. Green Festival supports inspiring organizations that educate and benefit their local communities with the Green Festival Community Award. Voting is now open »
PLEASE VOTE FOR “NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL SUSTAINABILITY ALLIANCE,” an L.A. Eco-Village affiliated organization.
.Green Festival is back in LA for our 6th year! Join the Green Festival Marketplace by exploring over 250 exhibitors, learning from over 50 inspirational speakers, indulging in some delicious vegan or vegetarian food and learning all you need to know to live a more sustainable lifestyle! SHOP.TASTE.ENJOY
The Communities Conference is held Labor Day weekend, Sept 2 – 5, at Twin Oaks Community in Louisa County, Central Virginia. The event hosts between 150 and 200 participants, including people who are members of, interested in, and new to intentional communities and other kinds of cooperative living and working.
The focus of the event is on intentional communities, although workshops sometimes cover a broader array of topics in cooperative and alternative lifestyles, economics, and organizing. If the workshop is not specific to intentional communities the presenter will address the topic in relation to intentional communities.
The conference site is rustic and mostly outdoors.
Join us for an informative and provocative talk with Christian Arnsperger of the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. And a veggie potluck before the talk.
Christian will argue that the there is a serious imbalance when industrial societies promote wholesale recycling without also limiting economic growth, rendering such policies essentially useless for building resiliency. He’ll share with us a permaculture approach to the economy in which natural, human and cultural capital are primary over advancing technological and financial capital, and how this transition from capitalism can take shape.
This type of dialog and civic engagement can lead us to explore radical ideas about what tomorrow’s “sufficiency economy” might look like.”
EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Time: Veggie Potluck at 6pm in the courtyard*
Talk and discussion: 7 to 9 pm Where: Los Angeles Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles CA 90004 Directions
Reservations required: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Fee: $10 (self selected sliding scale)
* If attending the potluck, please bring a veggie dish to share and your own non-throwaway eating ware to make this a zero waste event
ABOUT CHRISTIAN ARNSPERGER
Christian Arnsperger is professor of sustainability and economic anthropology at the Institute for Geography and Sustainability (IGD) of the Faculty of Geoscience and Environmental Studies (FGSE). He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and has been teaching and researching for many years at the interface between economic analysis, human sciences, and existential philosophy. A specialist of post-consumerist/ post-growth economic alternatives and of the link between ecological transition and the change of mentalities and lifestyles, he is also a scientific adviser to the Alternative Bank Switzerland (ABS) and, in that capacity, he develops “action research” field projects and collaborations in the area of sustainable finance.At the IGD, Prof. Arnsperger more specifically centers his activities around the following areas:
Spatiality and territoriality as factors of ecological sustainability
Sustainability of lifestyles, sustainable consumption, and existential economics
Money, finance, and sustainability: Towards a “monetary eco-geography”
The cultural roots of unsustainability in the United States
Read Christian’s blog and more about Christian here
ARROYO S.E.C.O. & ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY
invite you to an afternoon of exploration and play about WORKER OWNED COOPERATIVES
This is a FREE event!
Please RSVP to reserve your space: nancyannneberlin@gmail.com(Donations are gratefully accepted at the door to help us continue our educational programming.)
Sunday, January 24 2-5 pm
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103click here forDIRECTIONS
OWN THE CHANGE is a short film that explains what worker cooperatives are through conversations with worker-owners from Union Cab, Ginger Moon, Arizmendi Bakery, AORTA, New Era Windows and more.
CO-OPOLY: The Game of Cooperatives
Participate in playing the world’s first jumbo version of this excellent board game. In Co-opoly, players start a cooperative, and then, in order to survive as individuals and strive for the success of their co-op, make tough choices regarding big and small challenges that put their teamwork to the test!
POTLUCK REFRESHMENTS will be served.
Bring something to share and receive a time credit for your contribution
Potluck contributions from non-members are also appreciated!
In this presentation Curtis Stone will walk you through the process in which a 2100 square foot lawn can be converted to a productive mini farm.
He’ll discuss the technical process of conversion, and the economics of producing out of that plot once it has been converted.
Curtis will demonstrate that your average lawn can be a considerable source of revenue, generating $18,000, or a significant source of food for the community.
This talk will be useful for anyone who is curious about how much food can be harvested from an average lawn space, or anyone who is interested in commercial urban farming.
The presentation will be followed up by Q&A.
This talk is an introduction to the full day Profitable Urban Farming workshops which will take place in Pasadena on January 23 and San Diego on January 24. For more information on those workshops visit permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmertour
When and Where: Thursday, January 21 7-9PM The Shed 1355 Lincoln Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
About Curtis Stone: Curtis Stone is an urban farmer, author, speaker and consultant. His area of expertise is in quick growing, high value annual vegetables for direct consumer market streams. His book, The Urban Farmer, demonstrates organic intensive techniques with a focus on business and systems to stream line labor and production. He offers a new way to think about farming. One where quality of life and profitability coexist.
You can learn more about Curtis in this interview, Profitable Urban Farming with Curtis Stone at: permaculturevoices.com/26
About The Urban Farmer book:There are over 40 million acres of lawn in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement.
The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else’s).
“The Urban Farmer is simply the best guide out there for anyone wanting to grow vegetables for market. Chock full of practical information on costs, business planning, the best crops to grow, how much land to farm, growing techniques, and how to develop markets, this book covers it all.” Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden and The Permaculture City
“I have no hesitation in saying that The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone is one of the most important, and overdue, books on urban agriculture ever published. It is simultaneously deeply visionary and immensely practical.” Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition Movement Learn more about the 2016 Book Tour at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmertour
This will be the 4th annual Arroyo Seco/West Adams TimeBank crafts fair. All locally handmade items such as tea towels, bar soaps, jewelry, jams, arts and crafts, and more. This is one of the best ways to support local and independent artists, designers and crafters making great stuff out of local and recycled materials.
Items will be for sale for time dollars and combinations of time dollars and U.S. dollars.
EVENT DETAILS
Date and Time: Saturday, November 7, 2015 from Noon to 4pm Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village Lobby, 117 Bimini Pl,
Los Angeles 90004 Food: Bring a snack to share or a brown bag if you’d like to
stay awhile and hang out in the gardens. No charge to attend.
level. A blend of workshops and interactive social activities, we will go deep into the topics that matter most to our communities while also making time for joyous connections.
The focus for this year’s conference will be on racial and economic justice. These struggles remain present in our lives and more evident than ever – so, we feel it is essential for us to focus on these issues within the communities movement. We have tremendous potential to be leaders in confronting racial and economic disparities, and we also have a long way to go before our own movement reflects the diversity of our country. Continued discussion is key, so we are encouraging all presenters to find ways to bring these subjects into their workshops or activities and for WCCC participants to come with both ideas and open minds.
Sign language interpreters are available on Saturday and Sunday.
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