Los Angeles Eco-Village: 
Demonstrating higher quality living patterns at a lower environmental impact

UPDATED:   June 20, 2009                               Visit L.A. Eco-Village at our wiki 

    CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages    A L E R T:  Help Save the L.A. Eco-Village Corner
Click here to write a letter
Click here to sign an electronic petition.  

Your letters and signatures count!  Your decide! 
60 more parking spaces or a horticultural program for thousands of inner city kids?  More info here
and a summary of our struggle with the LAUSD here

U p c o m i n g     E v e n t s :		  
Diana Leafe Christian's Ecovillages Newsletter:   May 2009 edition http://www.ecovillagenews.org

Ecovillage Radio:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Ecovillage-Radio 
Hear 90 minute interview with Lois Arkin plus other Ecovillage Founders and Activists
 

 

 

News from the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA)



 		  
     

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-Vilage     Directions
Diana Leafe Christian gives a talk and slide show on
Ecovillages: Where They Are, What They're Doing, Why They’re Important                                                                  details
Reservations required:  213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
$15 (sliding scale available)
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Sunday, July 26, 2009 from 10 am to 2 pm
 How to Start an Ecovillage in your Apartment Building, on your Block or in your Neighborhood  with Lois Arkin                         details
Pre-requisite:  LA Eco-Village Tour
Fee:  $40 per group of up to 4 persons, or $40 per person
Reservations required:  213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
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TOURS of L.A. Eco-Village:      details

Saturday, June 27, 2009 from 2:30 pm to 5 pm
Sunday, July 12, 2009 from 10:30 am to 1 pm
Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 10:30 am to 1 pm

Reservations required:  213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
Fee:  $10 per person (sliding scale ok)

Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village
 

 

          
    LA Eco-Village Blogs:
Garden Blog `blog
General LAEV blog
Food Lobby blog

Check out stuff from
L.A. Eco-Villagers here		            
                       
                                                         
Information on LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) for people in zip codes:
90004, 90005, 90006, 90010, 90012, 90014, 90015, 90019, 90020, 90026, 90027,  90028, 90036, 90038, 90052, 90057  
Creating a healthier, more sustainable future:
Envision!      
            Plan & Be Flexible! 
                             Stay Grounded!         
                                                   Persevere!

or if you're just going to go with the flow, make sure you remember where the floodplains are!

                                          

*The Los Angeles Eco-Village Intentional Community
(LAEV-IC), located in the older two block LAEV
neighborhood, demonstrates processes for 
lower impact  higher quality living patterns.
 more info

**CRSP is an education, 
training and resource center for small 
ecological cooperative communities.   Located 
in L.A. Eco-Village, CRSP and its emerging Institute 
for Urban  Ecovillages collaborates with the LAEV-IC and 
other organizations to present workshops and special events to
expand public awareness for living more cooperatively and ecologically.
 more info

What's new at LAEV & a few other ecovillages here (updated 3/7/09)

Exciting Related Events, including LA area
permaculture events (updated 3/7/09):
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You have reached the website of the: 

Los Angeles
Eco-Village*
reinventing how we
live in cities
      AND  
   CRSP** 
(Cooperative 
Resources &
Services
Project)
 education, training
& development for
small urban ecological
 cooperative communities
Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village

See index below for lots more stuff on this site. 

Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)
A local currency for people who live in or near LAEV  More info. 

Updated: June 20, 2009

For news and views and the more
intimate aspects of life in the L.A.
Eco-Village intentional community,
Click here for the LA Eco-Village wiki

At the LAEV wiki, you can contribute to the dialogue about
your experiences with us and visions for LAEV and your own neighborhoods.  If you've never participated on a wiki before,
no problem.  See easy instructions on the wiki site.

LAEV CORE VALUES:

-  Celebrate & include joy in all our endeavors

 -  Take responsibility for each other & the planet through local environmental & social action.

-  Learn from nature & live ecologically.

-  Build a dynamic community through diversity & cooperation

-  Inspire compassionate, nurturing, & respectful relationships

-  Create balanced opportunities for individual participation & collective steward

-  Engage our neighbors and broader communities in mutual dialog to  learn, teach and act 

An ecovillage is
human scale, has mixed land uses, strives to close the waste to resource loops, supports healthy human development, has multiple centers of initiative, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future. 
-Robert Gilman  

Most groups that call themselves ecovillages are striving toward these goals but are far from fully manifesting them.  This definition is the  common vision of ecovillages worldwide.
 
     
       
Want to learn more about Intentional Communities?  Ecovillages?  Cohousing Communities?
Visit the following websites:

www.ic.org                         www.ecovillagenews.org
www.ecovillage.org             http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Ecovillage-Radio 
www.cohousing.org             http://nica.ic.org/
http://www.thefec.org/

        
                                                 
                    Index:  What you Can Find on This Site
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                      Look, we know this website's a mess, but check it out in about four more months.  Hopefully:  Surprise! Surprise!                    
                                         
                                                 
                                         
                                               
                                                 
                  Los Angeles Eco-Village is looking for:

Handypersons with a green orientation, geographically close to LAEV, with skills in plumbing and carpentry to do moderate rehab work on an "as needed" basis.  Contact Lara at <laraeco@hotmail.com> or 213/386-8873  (posted 8/4/08)		    
               

Want to share housing with other like-minded folks in or near LAEV?  Let us know.  We may be able to connect you with others who share your interests.  Contact us at crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

 

                  
  Executive Summary:  CLIMATE LA
Municipal Program Implementing the GreenLA
Climate Action Plan

The City of Los Angeles invites your feedback on its Climate Action Plan.  Contact

                    
                                                 

  
Index:  What you Can Find on This Site
News from LAEV and Other Ecovillages  Upated  6/20/09
L.A. Eco-Village Tours: Dates and Times  6/20/09

Upcoming Events at L.A. Eco-Village        6/20/09

Related Events & Resources, including Permaculture Courses  Upated 5/15/09
 
Eco Job and Intern Opportunities here and there        Upated 1/24/09   

Stuff from Eco-Villagers (updated 4/20/09)

 Resources    Upated 4/20/09

L.A. Eco-Village Intentional Community Membership Info

The L.A. Eco-Village struggle to save its neighborhood from the Los Angeles Unified School District bulldozers  Updated 6/19/09
Concept for a Joint Use and Mixed Use Green Car-Free Development in L.A. Eco-Village  4/18/08

Contact Us   Upated 2/26/09

Directions to L.A. Eco-Village

Overview of Los Angeles Eco-Village

 Intentional Community Networking Page - Greater Los Angeles Area  (and/or Southern California) 

 
Our Basic Brochure 
Sampling of Goals for 2007 - 2008
Projects in Process
Some Neighborhood Issues and Eco-Village Responses
Articles about L.A. Eco-Village  
Founders' Eco-Village Visions
Photo Gallery
Context and History of Los Angeles Eco-Village
Introducing Some Eco-Villagers - Go to:  http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/LA_Eco-Villagers
Ecological Revolving Loan Fund (ELF)
Membership in CRSP and the CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages
Other Ecovillage Web Sites & Resources
Volunteer Opportunities with CRSP and/or L.A. Eco-Village
 
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MORE PICTURES OF LAEV COMING SOON:  THEY'LL BE BETTER AND UP-TO-DATE  as soon as someone volunteers to help us with our Front Page program.  The picture end of things just does not work consistently for us.  Thanks.
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The Los Angeles Eco-Village Neighborhood Project and its sponsoring organization, CRSP are affiliated with the Ecovillage Network of the Americas <http://ena.ecovillage.org/>, the Fellowship for Intentional Communities <www.ic.org>,  Eco-Home Network <www.ecohome.org>, the Los Angeles Permaculture Guild, City Repair Project <www.cityrepair.org>, the Global Village Institute <http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/> and others.
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To join a discussion group on urban ecovillages, see <http://urban.ecovillage.org/>.  To join a discussion group on ecovillages in general, go to http://ena.ecovillage.org/ and search for <ecobalance>. 
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Original Web site constructed by Mignon Belongie and revised by Jesse Moorman. Updated in 2002 by Jane Shevtsov.  Updated in 2004 by Alex Abbassi, Brad Mowers, and Lois Arkin.  Maintained in 2005-2009 by Lois Arkin.  Please send comments, complaints, suggestions, etc. about this page to crsp@igc.org.  Questions about the Los Angeles Eco-Village should also be sent to crsp@igc.org.  We hope to keep it current.  If you would like to be on our website committee, please contact us. 
Special thanks to Grant Schnebly for reserving our web domain and arranging for our web provider.

 imageEco-Village neighbors come together for potluck and celebration.   Archival photo, circa 1994

Maria Ariolla gives spontaneous flute recital for friend Paola Ramierez and John Lee of Mayor Riordan's office.  Archival  photo, circa 1994

Membership in CRSP

Membership in CRSP and its Institute for Urban Ecovillages is $35 per year for individuals and $50 per year for organizations. Rates are on a sliding scale basis for both individuals and organizations. No one is turned away for lack of funds.  We are a 501.c.3 nonprofit corporation and invite tax deductible charitable contributions.  Contact Lois if you would like to make a tax deductible contribution.  Send checks to CRSP, 117 Bimini Place, #221, LA CA 90004.  Info?  213/738-1254 or <crsp@igc.org>.