Here are links to some articles about Los Angeles Eco-Village. Some of these were written long ago. The current manifestation of L.A. Eco-Village may be very different than written about in older articles. Nonetheless, the older articles will give you a sense of the vision and thinking that led us to where we are today or where we were at that point in time. If you need help finding any of these, inquire at <crsp@igc.org>. Copies of many of these articles are available at LAEV.
Ecovillage of the Near Future by Lois Arkin, Communities Magazine, Winter 2005 click here
"It Takes an Eco-Village: A Busy Downtown Intersection is the Unlikely Location of LA's Oldest Intentional Community" by Paul Tullis, Whole Life Times, September 2005 <http://www.wholelifetimes.com/2005/wlt2709/ecovillage2709.html> Note: Although we like this article alot, the title is misleading. There are several other intentional communities in Los Angeles that pre-date L.A. Eco-Village.
"Urban Renewal: Ecovillages and Intentional Communities," by Anya Yurchyshyn, "Lemonade Magazine," September 2005
"Blazing Trails to Urban Freedom," by John Balzar, L.A. Times, November 27, 2004, Calendar Section, Part I of a two-part series on L.A. Eco-Village's Bicycle Kitchen and its bicycling subculture.
"Los Angeles Eco-Village: A Model for Human and Planetary Survival" by Maggie Coulter, CalMax: California Materials Exchange Catalogue Fall 2004 <www.calmax.org>. Go to <Feature Articles>, then go to <Special Feature Inserts>.
"It's Kind of Easy Being Green" by Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times Calendar Weekend, July 22, 2004 <www.latimes.com>
"Hippie Communes Live on: ’60s Generation and Their Offspring Still Working for a Change" by Dean Schabner, ABC News on-line, July 22, 2004 <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/Living/hippie_communes_040722-1.html>
"Los Angeles Eco-Village: A conscious housing alternative," by Charlotte Gopinath, Trojan Horse (the alternative newspaper at the University of Southern California), November 25, 2003 (available at LAEV).
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live: A Bike Shop with a Recipe for Mobility," by Andrew John Ignatius Vontz, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 2, 2003 <www.latimes.com>
"Whip Up a Little Something to Ride" by Martin Herandez, L.A. Weekly, Sept. 27 - Oct. 3, 2002
"Seed of Change" by Stephanie Grob, L.A. Weekly, Sept. 27 - Oct. 3, 2002
"It Takes an Ecovillage" by Dan Chiras and Diana Leafe Christian, June/July 2003, Mother Earth News
"Bringing Life to the City," by Carol Venolia, Natural Home Magazine, Jan/Feb 2003 <www.naturalhomemagazine.com>
"Urban Ecovillage," Living on Earth by Alan Weisman, heard on NPR June 28, 2002. Can be audiostreamed from archives at <www.livingonearth.org>
"Eco-Village: An Outpost in Urban Core" by Sue Fox, Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2002, <www.latimes.com>. .
"Making Money Sustainable" by Lois Arkin, New Village Issue #2, 2002 <www.newvillage.net>
"The Los Angeles Eco-Village: Learning to Live the Changes" by Lois Arkin and Lara Morrison, HopeDance Magazine, July-August 2001, http://www.hopedance.org/issue29/articles/arkin.htm
"California Unplugged: Angelenos leave the grid behind and offer a look into the future" by James Blair, Christian Science Monitor, February 21, 2001 <www.christiansciencemonitor.com>
Prior to 1995
Transforming Inner-City
Los Angeles
by Lois Arkin
Published in In Context
Building Heaven In
The City Of Angels
by Lois Arkin
Published in In Context
Inner City Los Angeles:
It Can Be a Healthy Place to Raise Children
by Lois Arkin
Published in Communities Magazine: Journal of Cooperative Living.
Talking About Sustainability and Sustainable
Communities or What is an Ecovillage Anyway?
by Lois Arkin
Published in Communities Magazine: Journal of Cooperative Living.
An Ecovillage Retrofit
for Los Angeles: Healing an Inner-City Neighborhood
by Lois Arkin
Published in Communities Directory: A Guide To Cooperative Living