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Bicycle Kitchen Party – Friday October 30, 2015 from 8pm on at the Bike Kitchen Los Angeles

It’s a Halloween costume FunRaiser party at the Bicycle Kitchen with:
music           food            dancing           fun

R I D E     O V E R

EVENT DETAILS:

Suggested Donation:  $13

Date and Time:   

Friday, October 30, 2015 from 8pm to the Witchen Hour

Location: 
The Bicycle Kitchen 4429 Fountain Ave., LA 90029

Live Music by:   
– La Tumba
– Whale Shark
– Pedal Strike
– Telematique
(Go Old Skool Cooks!!!)
– DJ Diskoe
– AutoKraft

 

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Greywater Installer’s Course (6 day) November 9 – 14, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village

Interested in learning all about greywater or becoming a greywater installer for your area? This course is designed for people with either basic plumbing, landscaping, or permaculture skills who want to learn how to design and build simple, economical residential greywater systems.

You will learn about the theory behind simple and high-end systems including the indoor use of greywater. We’ll cover basic plumbing and landscaping skills needed for the four types of common simple greywater systems. You will learn how to conduct a site assessment, determine which system to install and how to maintain existing systems. Additionally you’ll learn about what plants do best with greywater and the do’s and don’t of residential greywater reuse. By the end of the course you will know about proper installation of code compliant washing machine, and simple systems under the CA state code.

There will be an optional exam and installation for people wishing to be certified and listed on our website. The “installer’s page” contains contact info for graduates who wish to be listed, as well as an internal list serve for installers to share info, experiences, and get support.

Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village (117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles, 90004)

Cost: $750 with limited work-trade positions available (To apply for a work-trade position click here)

Learn more about the content and see the week’s schedule here.

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Permaculture Design Course Certificate – Last weekend Mar 5-6, 2016

Can register for last  individual weekend upcoming March 5-6, 2016
Or get on mailing list for next completed Permaculture Design Certificate course:
http://www.permacultureacademy.com/pdc/
Where: Eastside and Westside locations.
In and Around LA -directions and more details with registration

Additional Hands-On Training locations will also be offered.

The Permaculture Design Course has truly transformed the lives and enhanced the careers of thousands of people around the world, including architects, developers, social workers, city planners, teachers, students, gardeners, landscapers, homeowners, business owners and others.

• Modern Homesteading
• Elegant, Ecological Home & Garden Design
• Natural Building & Property Development
• Resilient Community

• Green Business Models

THE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE EXPERIENCE
http://www.permacultureacademy.com/pdc/
Permaculture Design touches on all aspects of life, offering decision-making protocols based on nature, for problem-solving, critical thinkingTHE CURRICULUM
The learning focus will be to design a community project- and extracurricular hands-on opportunities for home and garden design. Team projects are showcased on the final weekend of the course.TEACHING TEAM 
Teaching team is led by Larry Santoyo and include Internationally Acclaimed Leaders in the Worldwide Sustainability Movement.REGISTRATION & PAYMENT
You can register for the day, the weekend or the full course
Work-trades and Payment plans still available

http://www.permacultureacademy.com/shop/fall-registration/

QUESTIONS?
email: info@PermacultureAcademy.com

(323) 206-5134

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Larry Santoyo, Program Director

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International Permaculture Conference & Convergence, September 8 to 16, 2015 in London, U.K.

IPCUK will bring together leading experts and practitioners from around the world.

We have everything we need to create a sustainable world and future. Together we will create a vision of a near future society that is caring, sustainable and fair, and explore how we can collectively design strategies and pathways to make it happen.

Conference, 8-9 September 2015, The Light, Euston Road, London.
Designing the World We Want – two days packed with presentations, workshops, academic papers, exhibitions, music, and art.

Convergence, 10-16 September 2015, Gilwell Park, Essex.
Designing the network we want – for people from around the world using permaculture in their everyday lives and communities.

Edge events, throughout the UK and Europe.
From tours and courses, to talks and more.

Book now for early bird tickets.

We’ve received a range of questions about the cost of the IPC in Britain – conference and convergence. This blog post gives some background information.

Like every other convergence, and permaculture conference, by far the biggest input is the time and labour of hundreds of volunteers, most of them also participants in the event. The permaculture movement has a strong tradition and ethic of everyone being active contributors. No one is just an attendee or delegate.

We have had lots of people working within one of the 13 IPCUK working groups, some for over a year. Without them it would be impossible to organise a coherent, engaging and inclusive event. Thank you to those dedicated individuals.

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Formidable Vegetable Sound System have released a new remix album Radish Beets!

You can see Charlie Mgee at the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in London, this September. See details of Charlie’s Conference workshop, Sing the Change You Want to See.

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The IPC is a truly global event with participation coming from at least 50 countries. Here is a snapshot analysis to give you a bit of a picture of who is going to be at the convergence. Next month we will show a similar break down for the conference.

400 people have already bought their tickets to the convergence, and they come from 6 continents: Africa (3%); Latin America (5%); Asia (7%), North America (10%), Australia & Aotearoa (9%); Europe (65%). Amongst the list of delegates are people from some countries that have never been into an IPC.

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A team of intrepid IPCUK convergence coordinators met up at Gilwell Park, the site of the IPCUK Convergence. We spent 3 days on site with a mission to come up with some design suggestions for the site layout of the IPCUK.

Part three of three.

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Los Angeles Green Festival, September 25 to 27, 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Now in its 5th year in Los Angeles, this festival attracted more than 20,000 folks last year.   The Festival is full of fun with more than 250 green exhibit booths, dozens of vegan and veggie food demonstrations, children’s activities, arts and crafts activities, a diversity of local and nationally prominent speakers, fashion shows, eco-technology displays.  You name it. 

Visit the CRSP/Los Angeles Eco-Village Booth #716 and read more below for free or discounted tickets.

Bike to the expo, park your bike at the Stromer Bike Valet and get in for FREE

CRSP/LA Eco-Village also earns $5 for every ticket sold using this special unique code XLA15Y28N but only when you buy your ticket on-line on the ticketing page!  And you get $5 off on your ticket.

Go here for more Festival info::
http://www.greenfestivals.org/la/los-angeles-2015

Apply to exhibit, to volunteer, to speak, or for the $5,000 special nonprofit organization award.

Festival Hours at the L.A. Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015:

FRI 9/25 noon-6pm
SAT 9/26 10am-6pm
SUN 9/27 10am-5pm

Easy to get there via bus or rail.  Go Metro!

See the preview guide here:
http://greenamerica.uberflip.com/t/175190-2015-la-preview-guide

If you’re a knowledgeable friend of Los Angeles Eco-Village and would like to help staff our booth, let me know ASAP.  Two to four hour shifts are available.  Contact Lois at 213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

Hope to see you there.

 

Quail Springs Permaculture Farm Tour, Sat., July 25, 2015 from 10am to 4pm

Visit Quail Springs Permaculture Farm, have a delicious lunch
prepared in our earthen ovens, and learn about growing food in the high
desert, tending a variety of wonderful food-giving animals, creating
shelter, and stewarding agricultural lands and wilderness.

The day will include a tour of our gardens, animal systems, natural
buildings, crafts display, and alternative technologies. The tour will be
followed by a farm cooked lunch and the day will conclude with a question
and answer session with our farm managers.

Entry Fee:  $40/person, $70/couple. Youth ages 13-18 yrs, $10-30 sliding
scale. Kids 12 and under free of charge.  Please inquire about group rates
and financial assistance for this tour.

Contact Information: Danielle, farmtour@quailsprings.org, 805-886-7239

Website:  http://www.quailsprings.org/farm-tour/

Registration:  http://bit.ly/1KvsEi5

Quail Springs Permaculture
www.quailsprings.org

Calendar of Courses & Workshops
www.quailsprings.org/calendar
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Mushroom Cultivation & Application course – Bi-Lingual – October 30-November 1, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village

With Radical Mycology founder Peter McCoy.
Bi-lingual:  English and Spanish (Spanish translations by Cris Sarabia).
     This Mushroom Cultivation & Application Course covers the essential principles and practices of high yield mushroom production for all budgets. 

      Starting with the fundamentals of cultivation, and progressively building in conceptual stages throughout the weekend, you will learn the powerful life skill of growing mushroom mycelium (spawn production) and fruiting mushrooms in any environment. And with an emphasis on techniques and tools that keep costs and complexity to a minimum, you will leave equipped to dive in right away.
     The approach Peter takes to working with fungi for food, medicine, and soil health not only goes deep into the skills of cultivation but also deep into the concepts and principles that underlie them. By understanding the how and why of cultivation, you can enhance your use of the most effective and inexpensive means to get high yields. This empowers you to think creatively in your cultivation design, leading to experiments that are consistently successful in the home, garden, or on the farm.
     Whether you are looking to grow your own edible and medicinal mushrooms for personal use or start a mushroom farm, this course will cover the core skills needed to hit the ground running.
3 day workshop fee:  $250
About Peter:

Peter McCoy speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. A self-taught mycologist with over 14 years of accumulated study and experience, Peter is an original founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and open-source movement that teaches the skills needed to work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. Peter is the lead cultivation expert for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and Open Source Ecology. Apart from his work with fungi, he is also a community organizer, street medic, zinester, artist, musician, lecturer, and teacher.

Peter’s work has been featured in various news and media outlets such as Grist, Vice’s Motherboard, Permaculture Voices, The Survival Podcast, and The Visionary Activist Show on KUPL. His unique approach to teaching accessible mycology has brought him to present at The Permaculture Voices Conference, The Village Building Convergence, The Northwest Permaculture Convergence, and The Telluride Mushroom Festival, Merritt College, as well as for countless community groups across North America.

Peter has written two publications on mycology and mushroom cultivation and he is the author of the upcoming book, Radical Mycology. His extended section on low-tech mushroom cultivation in the book Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes by Leila Darwish, has enabled countless community groups and bioremediators to begin practicing mycoremediation with a minimum of cost or complexity.

From his mushroom homestead in Portland, OR, Peter’s daily practice centers on cultivating, researching, and foraging for new intersections between healthy human and fungal relations. Peter is available for consultation on mushroom cultivation and remediation design, site surveys, lectures, informal talks, and teaching assignments. He can be contacted at radmycology [at] gmail [dot] com.

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One Day Permaculture Classes in July 2015 with Warren Bush at Casitas Farm

Couldn’t make the full 30-Day PDC and Farm Apprenticeship this year? Then join us for one or more of our specialized day courses!

Throughout the month of July, we are pleased to offer an array of specialized day courses taught by Warren Brush and guest Instructors working in fields such as Beekeeping, Indigenous Permaculture, and more.
The schedule includes:

Tuesday, 7/7- Introduction to Permaculture and Design Methodologies with Warren Brush

Wednesday 7/8- Indigenous Permaculture and Herbal Medicine with Jeanette Acosta

Friday, 7/10- Earthworks for Resiliency with Warren Brush and Jesse Smith

Saturday 7/11- Living Soils and Compost Teas with Connor Jones

Sunday 7/12- Compost Making and Soil Building with Peter Ash

Thursday, 7/16- Broad Acre Permaculture, Forest Regeneration, and Keyline Systems with Warren Brush and Loren Luyendyk

Friday, 7/17- Food Forests, Orchard Care, and Grafting and Pruning with Loren Luyendyk

Saturday 7/18- Bee Systems and Enterprises with Nick Wigle

Monday 7/20- Aquaponics Basics with Andrew Clinard

Saturday 7/25- Urban Permaculture and Bio Intensive Kitchen Gardens with Warren Brush

Sunday 7/26- Greywater Basics with Warren Brush and Jesse Smith

Monday 7/27- Horticulture and nursery development with Mike Gonella

Cost: 
1 Day- $125
3 Days or more- $100/day
Sign up for 10 Days and get one day free- $1,000 (for 11 days)
*includes instruction and catered, healthy lunch
Register today! HERE or at www.casitasvalley.com.
Please contact Ana at ana@regenerativeearth.com or at 805-649-8179 with questions and for payment information.
We still have a couple of spaces in our full month long course for those who are looking to deepen their knowledge and experience of Permaculture on a working farm! Sign up online HERE. For more information, email ana@regenerativeearth.com
 
It’s a summer of learning at Casitas Valley Farm and we look forward to seeing you there! 

 

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Greywater Installers Five Day Workshop July 23, 25, 26,29, & Aug 1, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village

Watch for more details or go to GreywaterAction.org

Interested in learning all about greywater, installing your own system, or becoming a greywater installer for your area? This course is designed for people with either basic plumbing, landscaping, or permaculture skills who want to learn how to design and build simple, economical residential greywater systems.

You will learn about the theory behind simple and high-end systems including the indoor use of greywater. We’ll cover basic plumbing and landscaping skills needed for the four types of common simple greywater systems. You will learn how to conduct a site assessment, determine which system to install and how to maintain existing systems. Additionally you’ll learn about what plants do best with greywater and the do’s and don’t of residential greywater reuse. By the end of the course you will know about proper installation of code compliant washing machine, and simple systems under the CA state code.

There will be an optional exam and installation for people wishing to be certified and listed on our website. The “installer’s page” contains contact info for graduates who wish to be listed, as well as an internal list serve for installers to share info, experiences, and get support.

Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village 117 Bimini Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90004

Cost: $650 limited work trade available (send requests to info@greywateraction.org)

These workshops typically fill up, and we have to turn people away. Because of this, we are first opening registration for the following people: anyone with an existing landscaping, plumbing, or construction business, anyone working in a water utility (e.g. water conservation department). Register here.

If your main purpose of the course is to install a system in your own home, or the homes of your friends and family, please sign up here and we’ll get back in touch when we open this registration.

Learn more about the content and see the week’s schedule here.

This workshop sponsored by Greywater Action in association with Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Housing Co-op

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Sustainatopia 2015 May 27 – 30, 2015 in Beverly Hills CA

Sustainatopia is pleased to offer you free tickets as a follower of the Los Angeles Eco-Village.
Use code FIRST300 to claim a free ticket.
Please feel free to share with others.
About Sustainatopia:
SUSTAINATOPIA 2015 takes place at the Hyatt Regency in Century City/Beverly Hills from May 27th-30th. We welcome 400 global speakers and major media such as CNNMoney, Inc. Magazine, and Forbes.
New this year, SUSTAINATOPIA 2015 will be hosting the LOHAS MARKETPLACE – a special 12,000 sq. foot outdoor expo space (open to the general public over 3 days) and featuring dozens of companies from around the country in the areas of food, family products, consciousness, health & beauty, yoga-based products and other LOHAS categories.
The EXPO is a family friendly event with plenty of activities and vendors for both parents and kids to enjoy.

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