New Year's Eve Dinner at LAEV 12/31/08

Upcoming Events sponsored by CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillage at Los Angeles Eco-Village

L.A. Eco-Villagers greet each other: Lara Morrison & Nikki Henderson 12/30/08

Thursday, January 15, 2009 from 3:00 pm - 5 pm at Los Angeles City Hall, Room 350 Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley give a talk on Setting the New Planning Agenda       More info Friday, February 6, 2009 at 7:30pm at L.A. Eco-Village Chris Carlsson gives a talk on Nowtopia:  How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today              More info Friday, February 13, 2009 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-Village Greywater Guerrillas from Oakland   give a talk on "How to Disengage from the Water Grid"                                                                            More info

Creating a healthier, more sustainable future: Envision!                   Plan & Be Flexible!                               Stay Grounded!                                                             Persevere!

Exciting Related Events, including LA area permaculture design courses: ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOURS of L.A. Eco-Village:      details Saturday January 10, 2009 from 10:30 am - 1 pm Saturday , January 24, 2009 from 10:30 am - 1 pm Saturday, February 14, 2009 from 10:30 am - 1 pm Saturday, February 28, 2009 from 10:30 am - 1 pm Reservations required:  213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org Fee:  $10 per person (sliding scale ok) Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village ---------------- *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

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.  N E W ! Ecovillage Radio:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Ecovillage-Radio Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) Next 7 members free.  After that, $10 per year annual membership.  More info here Diana Leafe Christian's Ecovillages Newsletter:  http://www.ecovillagenews.org Updated: January 5, 2009 For news and views and the more intimate aspects of life in the L.A. Eco-Village intentional community, Click here for the 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

Want to learn more about Intentional Communities?  Ecovillages?  Cohousing Communities? Visit the following websites: www.ic.org www.ecovillage.org www.cohousing.org

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 213/738-1254

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

  
Index:  What you Can Find on This Site
News from LAEV   Upated 8/5/08

L.A. Eco-Village Tours: Dates and Times 1/2/09

Upcoming Events at L.A. Eco-Village  Upated 1/2/09

Related Events & Resources, including Permaculture Courses  Upated 8/9/08

 
Eco Job Opportunities here and there        Upated 7/16/08   

Stuff from Eco-Villagers (updated 8/5/08)

Resources    Upated 8/9/08

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 6/6/08

Concept for a Joint Use and Mixed Use Green Car-Free Development in L.A. Eco-Village  4/18/08

Contact Us

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.

 Eco-Village neighbors come together for potluck and celebration.

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

Membership in CRSP