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Los Angeles Green Festival Friday Sept 12 thru Sun Sept 14, 2014 at L.A. Convention Center

About the Green Festival.

Check out the 40 page: Preview Guide.

Volunteer Opportunities:  here.

More than 20,000 attended the L.A. Green Festival last year.

Great kids activities too!

Come visit the Los Angeles Eco-Village booth (#550), and so many other organizations you may want to catch up with.

Lots of interesting speakers, demonstrations of all kinds, and a place to run into old friends and colleagues and meet new ones.

FESTIVAL HOURS:
Friday, September 12th from noon to 6:00pm
Saturday, September 13th from 10am to 6:00pm
Sunday, September 14th from 10am to 6:00pm

AT

Los Angeles Convention Center – South Hall G
1201 S Figueroa St
 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Buy discounted tickets on-line here:  http://greenfestivals.org/

and Get In Free if:

You come by bike and use the LACBC Bike Valet service
You come by Metro and show your Tap Card.

Green Festival® is a vibrant, dynamic marketplace where companies and organizations come to showcase their green products and services, and where people go to learn how to live healthier, more sustainable lives.

Green Festival is America’s largest and longest-running sustainability and green living event. We bring together the world’s most trusted companies, innovative brands, national and local businesses, pioneering thinkers, and conscious consumers in one place to promote the best in sustainability and green living.

Green Festival offers something for everyone, with the widest selection of products and services to work green, play green and live green from food, fashion and health to energy, construction and design. People can shop and enjoy vegan, vegetarian, organic foods, hands-on demos, educational activities and inspirational speakers.

Mission and Vision:

Green Festival is inspiring and empowering consumers, communities and businesses to work green, play green and live green.

At Green Festival, we are committed to:

  • Showcasing the best and latest green products and services in the market
  • Making ‘green’ practical, viable and accessible to everyone by promoting sustainability in everyday life choices and actions
  • Providing the ultimate marketplace for green brands and consumers who want to integrate sustainability into their lives
  • Striving to be a zero-waste marketplace where consumers can be assured that companies are committed to environmental sustainability
  • Representing a diverse, sustainable community that is socially and environmentally responsible
  • Encouraging companies to adopt green and fair trade principles through Green America’s certification process
  • Supporting vegan-vegetarian diets that are focused on organic, non-GMO and local artisanal foods as part of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle
  • Serving as a launching pad for Corporate Social Responsibility efforts and consumer programs in sustainability

Much more info about Green Festivals here:   http://www.greenfestivals.org/

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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.

 

 

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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.

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Los Angeles Green Festival at the LA Mart Downtown Los Angeles, Sat. & Sun. October 19-20, 2013

What:       Los Angeles Green Festival

Where:    L.A. Mart, 1933 S. Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles 90007

When:     Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 10am to 6pm, and Sunday, October 20, 2013 from 11am to 5pm

 

Now in it’s third year, the Los Angeles  Green Festival welcomed over 22,000 enthusiastic participants last year.

Plan to attend this year’s event and enjoy dozens of workshops, music, art, fashion shows, yoga, kids’ activities, organic beer and wine, visionary speakers,  wide assortment of environmentally sensitive green products, and more.

And to get your free weekend pass to the Festival worth $25, go to www.greenfestivals.org/latickets13 and enter the code <lagreenfest2013>.   Note this pass is only available on-line, not at the door.

ALSO FREE AT THE DOOR FOR
– Youth 18 and under
– Bicyclists using Clif Bar Bike Valet
– Green America and Global Exchange members
– Sierra Club Members
– 2 for 1 admission for Natural Solutions subscribers (must present magazine as proof of subscription)
– 2 for 1 admission for all Yoga Journal / Vegetarian Times readers (must present magazine as proof of subscription)

For more details, visit here.

Do take special note that the Festival location has changed this year to the:
LA Mart
1933 S. Broadway
Downtown Los Angeles 90007.

For more info on admission if you don’t get a free weekend pass, go here:
http://www.greenfestivals.org/la/admission

Visit the Los Angeles Eco-Village booth at the Festival
and
Please help spread the word to your local Los Angeles networks.

Green Festivals are sponsored by Green America and Global Exchange

 

City Repair’s Mark Lakeman from Portland at L.A. Eco-Village Fri. Nov, 1 at 7:30pm

Learn more about City Repair here:  www.cityrepair.org

VISIONARY ARCHITECT AND PORTLAND’S CITY REPAIR FOUNDER MARK LAKEMAN
RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES ECO-VILLAGE

Friday Evening November 1, 2013 at 7:30pm for his inspiring Slideshow and talk

at L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004, directions

Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons with Portland’s City Repair Project <www.cityrepair.org>.

Now a national movement (just google it to get a sense of it), City Repair is about cities, towns, grids and the intersections where our lives can converge.

Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform public space.

Intersection Repair is the citizen-led conversion of an urban street intersection into a public square.  It is a form of grassroots city planning that can nurture art, public gathering and volunteerism in your neighborhood.

“Mark is among  the most inspiring speakers I have seen in my more than 30 years of local activism,” says Lois Arkin.

FEE:
Friday Nov 1 at 7:30pm:   $5 to $15 (self selected sliding scale)
Reservations required:  crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

*Note:  Saturday morning November 2nd public forum with Mark was canceled.  Check our website for future forums on progressive city planning issues.

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WANNA BE IN THE KNOW ABOUT CITY PLANNING ISSUES IN LOS ANGELES?
CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES:

For an excellent introduction to current City Planning in Los Angeles, visit:  http://cityplanning.lacity.org/

To review recent community  input on the updating of the City’s Mobility Element, go here:  http://ideas.la2b.org/

To review the draft Housing Element for the City of Los Angeles for 2013 –  2021, go here:
https://sites.google.com/site/lahousingelement/home/draft-plan

To follow the Updates on the City’s codes, go here:
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8dfee8dbbd1900ea3b2a89244&id=9f1e16cf24&e=5309617c39

To keep updated on some of the most progressive city planning policies, proposals and actions from throughout the world, check out these websites:

http://www.SustainableCityNews.com

http://www.losangeleswalks.org/

http://la.streetsblog.org/

http://www.carfree.com/

OTHER UPCOMING LOS ANGELES AREA/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA  EVENTS WITH MARK LAKEMAN

Date: Sat Nov. 2   Time: Doors open @ 5 pm

Place: The Shed 1355 Lincoln Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103
Place Making Workshop w/ Mark Lakeman & James Rojas
Special Performance by Moses Sumney @ 7 pm
Tickets $12 advance/ $20 at the door
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Date: Sun Nov 3  Time: 9 am – 1 pm
Place: Venice Learning Garden – 13000 Venice Blvd. 90066. Enter on Walgrove.
Cob Bench Workshop at the Venice Learning Garden
Donation: $15 – $20
Contact: melbowerman@gmail.com, 310 869-5607
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Date:  Sat Nov 3   Time: 1 pm – 5 pm
Place: WRHAP 12401 Slauson Ave, Unit G Whittier, CA 90606
2nd Annual Pizza Party for City Repair feat. Mark Lakeman
Admission is $15 ($10 pre-sale tickets available); children 12 and under $5.
Contact: Megan meganhobza@gmail.com (562) 457-0450
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Date: Mon Nov 4   Time: 6 – 9 pm
Place: Casa Coracao 1742 Deerhill Trail Topanga 90290
Community Building Topanga with Mark Lakeman
$10 donation, no one turned away at the door.
Light beverages and snacks will be provided
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Date: Tue Nov 5  Time: 1 – 5 pm
Place: Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd, Venice
Community Building on Venice Blvd.
FREE Event
RSVP and Contact Info: Lauren Tucker laurenfrancestucker@gmail.com
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Date: Tue Nov 5  Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Place:  Private Residence 805 Brooks Ave, Venice 90291
City Repair Slideshow and Potluck
Donation: $10
Contact: Lauren Tucker  laurenfrancestucker@gmail.com
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Thanks to Camille Cimino for coordinating this tour schedule:
Camille Cimino
“The Nature of Things”
(213) 924-5238

 

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Paul Glover: Author, Activist, Founder gives a Public talk at L.A. Eco-Village Friday, October 4, 2013 at 7:30pm

What:       Paul Glover, Founder Ithaca Hours, Citizen Planners Los Angeles, Health Democracy; Author; Community Organizer and Activist gives a talk.

Where:     L.A. Eco-Village (directions)

When:      Friday, October 4, 2013; veggie potluck at 6:30pm; talk at 7:30 pm;

Join us for an exciting event with local currency pioneer, Paul Glover founder of Ithaca HOURS, a successful local paper currency in Ithaca NY. Launched in 1991, Ithaca Hours promotes local economic strength and community self-reliance by keeping the wealth circulating within the region. http://www.ithacahours.org/

Paul is also founder of the grass roots association known as Citizen Planners, publisher of  Sensual Cities, in the 1970s which inspired a variety of other early sustainability oriented organizations in Los Angeles.  He authored the little book  Los Angles: A History of the Future which is available on-line http://www.issuu.com/metroeco/docs/lahof   (free).  Originally published in 1982,  this little book envisions a permaculture city that is ecologically stable and locally managed on a human scale.

Bio: Paul Glover is founder of 18 organizations and campaigns, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Health Democracy, the Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), and the League of Uninsured Voters (LUV). He is author of six books on grassroots economies, and a former professor of urban studies at Temple University. He also consults as Greenplanners.

Bring a veggie dish and join us for a potluck, starting at 6:30pm.  Please bring your own non-throwaway eating ware.

Fee:  $5 to $15 sliding scale (no one turned away)

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

Note:
Paul will also be giving a talk at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena on Sunday October 6, 2013 sponsored by the Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks:  Potluck from 6-7PM     Talk from 7-8:00PM  Go here for details:
http://www.asntb.com/2/post/2013/09/paul-glover-of-ithaca-hours-in-los-angeles.html

 

 

 

The Three Secrets of Healthy Living with Dr. Jhasmin Santizo Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 7:30pm at LA Eco-Village

What:       The Three Secrets of Healthy Living with Dr. Jhasmin Santizo
Where:     L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004  (directions)
When:      Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 7:30 pm

 

More information:

Dr. Jhasmin Santizo decided to become a Chiropractor after her father, L.A. Eco-Village member and Eco Maya Festival producer Julio Santizo, was diagnosed with Stage 2 Colorectal cancer. From this experience, she decided to make a difference in the medical field, by educating people about health, wellness, and prevention. Chiropractic has shown her that it’s just not about low back and neck pain, but about teaching others how to live and maintain a healthy lifestyle. She is also an athlete, training in Krav Maga and Cross-fit 3-4 times a week.

Everyone invited.  No charge

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

 

 

Dr. Helen Caldicott: a public talk on “Medical Consequences of Fukushima and their relevance to America”

What:  Public talk with Dr. Helen Caldicott

Where:  Turning Point School, 8780 National Blvd., Culver City CA 90232

When:  Thursday, March 7th at 7:30pm

Dr. Helen Caldicott is a great hero in the environmental, peace and justice movements. She is considered to be the single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action as a response to the ongoing nuclear and environmental crises. As co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors worldwide committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war, she has strengthened the intellectual, scientific and political influence of the cause.

Dr. Caldicott’s lecture is titled “Medical Consequences of Fukushima and their relevance to America.”

Public transportation: Turning Point School is located adjacent to the Culver City Expo Line stop.

For more event information: contact Sarah Brin at Antioch University
Los Angeles 310-578-1080 (ext. 288) sbrin@antioch.edu

Reservations please: http://www.aula_sustainability.eventbrite.com/

Dr. Helen Caldicott

Update on Fukushima and the Skilled Veterans Corps Thursday, August 16 at 8 pm

What:       Update on Fukushima
Where:     L.A. Eco-Village (directions)
When:      Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 8 pm

Yastel Yamada, founder of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima gives a talk on the current crisis in Fukushima and the challenges to us all. The Skilled Veterans Corps are skilled elderly people prepared to give their lives to the clean-up effort.

Yastel and his associate “Tak” Okamoto are in the U. S. to promote this controversial, yet courageous proposal. Essentially, the SVCF is calling on the Japanese government and the Tokyo Energy Power Company (TEPCO), owners of the dangerously crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to permit retired, senior citizens with technical experience and know-how to be allowed immediately to contribute to the clean-up efforts at the plant, effectively putting their lives on the front lines in the battle to contain this unfolding disaster.

In addition, the distinguished gentlemen from the SVCF are calling for the TEPCO to relinquish its leadership role in the crisis clean-up and turn the project over to an “International Inspection Team” with a “centralized and unified Project Management”. The members of the SVCF argue that the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is too great for one corporation, with their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders, to protect the nation and the world from the real and potential dangers.

With Southern California Edison still planning to re-open San Onefre, we still have much work to do to prevent such a potentially disastrous energy direction.

Reservations please: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254 (space limited)

Free event but donations requested.

More info:    http://expatspost.com/creative/articles/japans-experts-call-for-u-s-pressure/

Sponsored by Urban Soil/Tierra Urbana limited equity housing co-op, the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust and CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages.

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