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Nature uses as little as possible of
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Johannes Kepler
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Saturday,
May 10th, 2008 WORLDFEST AT WOODLEY PARK - ENCINO
10AM - 6:30PM • Admission: $7 • Seniors $5
• Kids under 12 - Free! • Pets Welcome •
http://www.worldfestevents.com
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Upcoming Events sponsored by CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillage at Los Angeles
Eco-Village
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Friday, May 16 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-Village
A Taste of Permaculture: Principles, Ethics
and Zones
with Tyrone LaFay
details
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Friday, May 16 from 8:30 am - 4:30 PM at UCLA
The Nuts & Bolts of Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives
details
Also see
http://www.cccd.coop/cccd_info_page/index.html
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Saturday, May 17 from 8:30 am - 5 pm at L.A. Eco-Village
A Taste of Permaculture Hands-On: Soils & Gardening, Orcharding, Seedball making
details
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Saturday, May 31
from 10 am - 5 pm at L.A. Eco-Village
Gardening Workshop with Brad Mowers
details
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Tuesday, June 3 at 6 pm at L.A. Eco-Village
How to Join and Use the Eco-Village LETSystem
or start one in your neighborhood
with Alison
Rosenblatt
details
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 from 9 am - 3 pm at L.A. Eco-Village
Water Catchment with Swales with Joe Linton
details
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Exciting
Related Events:
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Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative
Housing: Creating Sustainable, Affordable Home Ownership: Limited Equity Housing
Co-ops - May 16 from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm at UCLA
http://www.cccd.coop/cccd_info_page/index.html
Limited scholarships available
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Bresee Foundation 3rd Annual Youth Home
Sweet Home Film Festival: Stories of Urban Housing in the Big City - May 22 at 7
pm at Camino Nuevo High School, LA
http://www.bresee.org/afilmfestival/2008/index.php
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May Workshop Series on Storm water with All Shades of
Green and M&A in Silverlake
details
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FIC Art of Community Conference
Southwest 5/30-6/1
Cooperative Culture: Synergy at the Edges
in Albuquerque
http://fic.ic.org/aofc
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Update on
L.A. Eco-Village Struggles with L.A. Unified School District
On April 22, 2008, the LAUSD Board voted to build a new elementary
school for 800 kids on the east end of the Virgil middle School playing field,
also known as Site #11 Read more
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*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
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**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
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Upcoming
Events at LA Eco-Village
for Related Events: go
here
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TOURS
of L.A. Eco-Village:
details
Sunday, May 11 from 10:30am - 1pm
Saturday, May 24 from 10:30 am - 1 pm
Saturday, June 7 fro 10:30 am - 1 pm
Reservations
required:
213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
Directions to Los Angeles Eco-Village
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Creating a healthier, more sustainable future:
Envision!
Plan & Be
Flexible!
Stay Grounded!
Persevere! |
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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
News from CRSP and LAEV
Directions to Los Angeles
Eco-Village
See index below for lots more stuff on this site.
Updated: May 9, 2008
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
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What you can do, or dream you can -
begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind
grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.' -
Goethe |
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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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Eco-Village neighbors come together for potluck and celebration.
Archival photo, circa 1994
