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The Communities Conference at Twin Oaks, Virginia, Sept 2-5, 2016

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.

More info about Twin Oaks here: http://www.twinoaks.org/

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Restoring Water and Healing Love as Keys for a New Culture, Thursday, September 24th, 7:00 pm at Agape International Spiritual Center, Culver City, CA 90230

A rare opportunity to meet and hear some of the pioneering internationally renown people  from Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal plus the “Water Gandhi” from India.  Details below.

Thursday, September 24th, 7:00 pm
Agape International Spiritual Center
5700 Buckingham Parkway
Culver City, CA 90230
Tickets in advance:  $15 at Eventbrite. Or for $20 at the door.

Our ability to create a future worth living essentially depends on rediscovering our sacred relationship with two basic sources of life: healthy water and vivid love. What water is to nature, love is to humanity. Our modern culture has been following systems incompatible with the true nature of both water and love. Today’s world is marked by progressive desertification and thirst – in nature as well as within people’s hearts – which poses a serious threat to our common future. However, this is not the way our future has to be!

We are excited to announce that two global pioneers will be speaking in Los Angeles, who have been working for decades on revolutionary answers for these pressing crises, showcasing concrete models for the future:

Rajendra Singh, also known as “Water Gandhi.” is a well-known water conservationist from Rajasthan, India. Using a traditional method for retaining rainwater, Rajendra led a popular initiative that transformed approximately 8,600 square km of India’s Thar Desert into fertile land, providing a hundred thousand people with a decent living, and causing dried-up rivers to flow throughout the year again. As a result of this project, regional weather patterns changed causing overall precipitation to increase and extreme storms and droughts to dramatically decrease. The principles used are not limited to India, but tackle the global roots of our current water crisis and could be applied in California as well. Honoring his outstanding initiative, Rajendra just received the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize, an award commonly referred to as “the Nobel Prize for water.”

To him, water is more than only a chemical substance; he sees it as an ensouled being with which we can communicate.

Sabine Lichtenfels, is peace activist, spiritual teacher and co-founder of Tamera Peace Research Center in Portugal, where she heads the “Global Love School.” She is a source of profound feminine wisdom and peace knowledge, grounded in nearly forty years of experience co-leading one of the most radical experiments in community building and healing love of our times. She is the author of many books (among them Temple of Love and Grace. Pilgrimage for a Future without War) and has led international peace pilgrimages through Israel-Palestine and Colombia. Sabine was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the “1000 Women for Peace” in 2005.

The event will be introduced and accompanied by Benjamin von Mendelssohn, director of The Grace Foundation and one of the next-generation leaders of Tamera, offering a brief insight into the “Healing Biotopes Plan,” the global peace strategy of the heart of Tamera’s work. Operating in the frame of holistic sciences, the plan starts from the premise that a few highly complex model centers around the world might suffice in replacing the informational matrix of violence that steers this planet within a relatively short time with a new global matrix of trust, compassion, and peace; creating a new morphogenetic field of global peace.

More info on Tamera Ecovillage here:  http://www.tamera.org/index.html

For more events with Tamera Team in California, go here:
http://terranova.tamera.org/#events

 

 

 

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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.

 

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“The Hand That Feeds” – a film, Friday, May 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm at L.A. Eco-Village

FILM SCREENING: “The Hand That Feeds” Friday, May 22, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village 

About the award-winning documentary “The Hand that Feeds”—

‘Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma Lopez sets out to end abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The epic power struggle that ensues turns a single city block into a battlefield in America’s new wage wars.’

More info on the film:
http://thehandthatfeedsfilm.com

Official trailer for the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6604tfm-k

EVENT DETAILS:

  • Date:             Friday, May 22, 2015
  • Time:             7:00pm
  • Location:       Los Angeles Eco-Village
  • Address:        117 Bimini Pl, Los Angeles 90004
  • Donation:     $5 to $10 sliding scale (no one turned away)

The film was created by New York based film makers Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick. See their website here:  http://jubileefilms.org

Reservations if you’d like or just c’mon over: 
213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

 

 

 

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Antena Los Angeles Launch Event Friday, January 23, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm at L.A. Eco-Village

Antena Los Ángeles is dedicated to language justice advocacy and organizing locally in Los Angeles. We work with individuals and organizations doing interpretation, translation, and workshops on language justice and interpreting for the social justice context. We believe that language justice is part of social justice.

Join us for the Los Angeles launch of this new collective:

EVENT DETAILS:

Time:         Friday, January 23, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm
Location:  Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004
Directions:  http://laecovillage.org/home/directions/
Refreshments and childcare provided.

Contacts:
antenalosangeles@gmail.com
antena@antenaantena.org

More info about Antena Los Angeles

In 2014, Antena Los Ángeles was founded as the first local branch of Antena, with the participation of Miguel Morales Cruz and Los Angeles Eco-Village member Ana Paula Noguez Mercado. Antena Los Ángeles  is specifically focused on building multilingual spaces locally in Southern California.

Antena views our aesthetic practice as part and parcel of our language justice work. Antena activates links between social justice work and artistic practice by exploring how critical views on language can help us to reimagine and rearticulate the worlds we inhabit. Antena works with organizations, communities and individuals to create dynamic, well-functioning multilingual spaces for small and large groups of people to foster open communication and attentive listening across languages and cultures.  We primarily work with Spanish and English but have experience coordinating more diverse language combinations.

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The Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland OR February 27 – March 1, 2015

Videos from our past conferences

The Portland area is a hotbed of localization initiatives and we will be joined by at least 50 partner organizations, offering workshops on everything from local investing to storytelling, alternative economic indicators to earth-based education. There will also be more than 20 speakers from around the US and the world, who will be covering a range of interconnected topics – local food, technology, healthcare, local business, indigenous rights, environmental justice and much, much more.

If you can’t make it yourself, invite your friends on Facebook and look out for the videos, which will be posted online after the conference.

Conference details and registration here

For more fascinating information on the Economics of Happiness, including videos and resources, go here.

Consensus, Collaboration & Conflict Resolution Free Workshop with Starhawk in Silverlake Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 6:30pm

 

It happens all the time: a group of well-intentioned neighbors come together fired up with passion to create change.  We come together and begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm–and then, with time passing, become trapped in the mire of conflict.  How do we work with those “irritating,” “self righteous,” “controlling,” “fluff brained,” “clueless” folks who are, in reality, our dear friends, neighbors and allies?

WE CAN DO BETTER!

All are invited to this free and open event: friends, neighbors, colleagues, Neighborhood Council volunteers and stakeholders from across LA, Neighborhood Watch Groups, City Agencies, non-profits, theater groups, art collectives , PTOs, PTAs, Business Associations and more.

All will find valuable skills for moving their own groups and neighborhoods forward.

ABOUT STARHAWK
Starhawk has authored or co-authored twelve books, including her classic tome The Spiral Dance and futuristic novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development as a feature film. A veteran of progressive movements, and deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, Starhawk directs and teaches Earth Activist Trainings, which combine a Permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. http://www.starhawk.org/

EVENT DETAILS:

Date & Time:  Thursday, December 4, 2014 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:
Holy virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral
650 Micheltoreana St.
Los Angeles 90026

Fee:                   This is a free event

BIKE PARKING & parking available; walking, public transit, and carpools encouraged.

Hosted by Amy Clarke & Charles Herman-Wurmfeld* scorpfaery@gmail.com

Additional events with Starhawk in the Los Angeles Area:

Saturday, Dec. 6. Pasadena Workshap TBA still getting organized, check back on the schedule page at www.starhawk.org/

Sunday, Dec. 7:   Los Angeles, noon to 7pm, Climate Action Workshop & Community Spiral Dance at Fais Do Do Los Angeles.  Attend part or all.  Time and fee details here

 

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Peoples Climate March in Los Angeles — September 20, 2014

People’s Climate March:
The World is Mobilizing for Climate Action

Los Angeles will demonstrate on September 20th in solidarity with the NYC March on September 21st.  Read all about it below.  Let your voice be heard with your marching feet!

On September 21st people from around the nation will come together in an unprecedented citizen mobilization for the People’s Climate March in New York City. As world leaders meet at the United Nations climate change summit, tens of thousands of marchers will demand the world we know is within our reach: a global economy that works for people and the planet; a planet safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities. Solidarity demonstrations will take place around the world as we collectively call on our leaders to ACT on climate change.

As global CO2 levels (driven by fossil fuel use) hit 400 ppm for the first time in millions of years, signs of Earth’s disrupted biosphere abound, from rising temperatures and extreme weather to resource shortages and massive die-offs. All trajectories point to a dead planet if we do not bring radical change now.

Climate Action: What’s Happening in Los Angeles?

clean energy, Great March for Climate Action, SoCal 350

A growing coalition of Southern California organizations and individuals are working together to ensure that our local leaders know that Los Angelinos are also watching, and we too demand climate action now. We are working to bring hundreds of Southern Californians together for the People’s Climate March Los Angeles — Building Blocks Against Climate Change to support the marchers in New York and to call for immediate action on climate change here at home.

The People’s Climate March Los Angeles – Building Blocks Against Climate Change will be on Saturday, September 20, 2014. A SoCal Climate Action Coalition 350 Member, Converging Storms Action Network, has planned for a broad assortment of organizations and groups, friends and families, coworkers and communities to gather along LA’s iconic Wilshire Boulevard in a chain of interlinking block protests. Diverse groups and individuals will each create their part of a network of protests — like overlapping neighborhood vigils or sidewalk picket lines — extending block after adjacent block between Wilton Place and Alvarado Street at MacArthur Park.

BUILDING BLOCKS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE!

WHAT:    A Southern California Climate Change Demonstration!

WHEN:    Saturday, September 20, 2014, 1 – 5 pm

WHERE:  Wilshire Blvd, between Wilton Place and Alvarado Street

FLYER:  People’s Climate LA – Building Blocks Against Climate Change

FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/1zrOWuj

HOW:      Pick a corner! Pick a block! View the webpage map at http://againstclimatechange.org/  Choose a corner, intersection, or block along Wilshire, fill out the brief form, and hit Submit! Inform your members, make plans, signs, and materials, and outreach to everyone you know! Then meet up on Sept 20 at your chosen location! Multiple groups can choose the same site! You even can create a zone (e.g. an anti-fracking zone) or a joint activity (e.g. a bike caravan)! You also can just come down Sept 20 without signing up, joining everyone there! Or Endorse your support at the website if you can’t commit to coming to a given location! Sign up today!

WHY:       In solidarity with the People’s Climate March in New York City, demanding that world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit implement policies to Stop Climate Change Now!

WHO:      Launched by the Converging Storms Action Network. Sponsored by all participating groups and individuals. Information, contact: insyte22@gmail.com.

The Southern California Climate Action Coalition 350 will advance our Call to Action California: How to Solve the Climate Crisis for solutions that work for people and the planet – a rapid transition to a just and sustainable carbon-free economy based on an ambitious program of energy efficiency and conservation, coupled with an expansion of clean, renewable energy.

We will press our elected leaders to do the following:

  • Protect and strengthen California’s Global Warming Solutions Act [AB 32] and implement strong Climate Action Plans for SoCal cities;
  • Institute a program where polluters must pay rising fees for their carbon output, the dividends of which could be used to subsidize energy costs or alternative energy;
  • Impose an immediate moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, acidization, and gravel packing, as well as the transportation, storage and refining of heavy tar sands crude;
  • Reject multinational trade agreements that weaken environmental and public interest protections.

To change everything, we need everyone on board. Will you help?

STORY: Call to Action California: How to Solve the Climate Crisis

People's Climate March

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Writer, urban theorist, and environmental advocate, Jack Eidt careens down human-nature’s all consuming one-way highway to its inevitable conclusion – Wilder Utopia. He co-founded Wild Heritage Planners, based out of Los Angeles, California. He can be reached at jack (dot) eidt (at) wilderutopia (dot) com.

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