ECOLOGICAL REVOLVING LOAN FUND (ELF)

Intentional Community Networking Page
Greater Los Angeles Area

updated 7/1/10

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What you will find on this Page:
    - Introduction
    - Disclaimer
    - Living in Los Angeles Eco-Village
    - Listings, including apartment Units available in and adjacent to the Los Angeles Eco-Village| neighborhood, and
           other LA Area Intentional Communities with Openings
    - Directory: L.A. Area Intentional Communities
    - Homesharers' Check List

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Introduction
This page is primarily for those in the greater Los Angeles area (and/or Southern California) who have openings in their intentional communities or are seeking to be part of an intentional community. You may have or be seeking to be part of a shared house, a cohousing group, a cooperatively owned or organized apartment building or neighborhood, a start-up ecovillage or the retrofitting of an existing neighborhood to an ecovillage. It is also a place to post your green livelihood opportunities or requests, close to where you live.

You may also be looking for people to loan or invest money in yours or another eco community project. Or you may be interested in finding persons with discretionary money to use in your socially responsible eco community project. For more information and Directories on intentional communities, cohousing and ecovillages throughout the country and the world, please see www.ic.org and www.cohousing.org and www.ecovillage.org.

We will try to update this page on a regular basis, and work toward making it interactive.

For guidelines on home-sharing, see "Homesharers' Checklist" below or google <homesharers' checklist> for more guidelines.

The listings here are in no particular order except that the most recent listings will be at the top of the list. Please let us know when you have found one another through this page and/or when you would like to have your listing deleted or revised.

Disclaimer--
Postings on this page may not necessarily reflect the values of CRSP or the Los Angeles Eco-Village. Since this page is available to the public, neither CRSP nor the Los Angeles Eco-Village can assume any responsibility for how the information is used. We always recommend that you thoroughly check out and require references that you trust if you are considering any type of investment or loan or house sharing.

From time to time, apartments are available in the Los Angeles Eco-Village neighborhood that are not owned by CRSP. Rents are at market rates for the area. Sizes range from singles to two and sometimes three bedroom units. You do not have to be a member of the LAEV Intentional Community to live in the buildings not owned by CRSP. Nonetheless, there are numerous opportunities for neighbors to be involved with LAEV activities and work.

People who are interested in becoming a member of the L.A. Eco-Village Intentional Community go through a complex process which may or may not be a mutual fit for membership. During this process period some candidates may want to live in the LAEV neighborhood alone or with a roommate who also has an affinity for cooperative ecological living. Please be sure you are on our mailing list and get notified of our network gatherings. Contact crsp@igc.org to be added. See listings below for contact information for these LAEV neighborhood housing opportunities.

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LISTINGS
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Updated 7/1/10:

Possible sublet in L.A. Eco-Village* in main building (117 Bimini Pl) for August 2010 and possibly July. Corner single apt. unit, about 435 square feet, full kitchen, loud brief noise from trash truck early mornings.   Approximately $550. Participate in community dinners, meetings, Food Co-op, and more. Subletter must be approved by weekly community meeting, but LAEV membership process not required. Contact Brad Mowers <bdmowers10@yahoo.com> 213/382-2228 (posted 6/3/10)
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Singles available at the Rayfield**(south end of LAEV Neighborhood). Full kitchens, courtyard, across from Bimini Slough Ecology Park and adjacent to Vons at Second and Bimini. Starting $625. One year lease. 213/368-1328 (posted 7/1/10)
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The Chadwich at 209 South Westmoreland Avenue** (LAEV adjacent). Mainstream resort living: swimming pools, gyms, lighted tennis and basketball
        courts, Jacuzzi, and more, adjacent to Bimini Slough Ecology Park and Vons, Ralphs, Rite-Aid, and, of course LA Eco-Village.
        Studios starting at $900. Check it out at: http://www.forrent.com/apartment-community-profile/1004381.php    (posted 4/12/10)
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(posted late May, 2010):

My friend, Paul Livingstone, and I are looking for one or two housemates to share a large house in Pasadena. The place we are considering at the moment is a 5 bedroom house on Garfield Ave in Pasadena, just south of Mountain. We negotiated the rent for all five bedrooms down to $2250, or $400-$500 per room..

We are hoping to find someone that is responsible, cleans up after themselves, and is OK with young/teenage kids in the house. Only one teenager would be living their full-time, but we have 3 other kids that would sometimes visit.

If our housemate has some common values with Paul and myself that would also be a big plus.

I am very interested in permaculture, environmental issues, social issues and simple living. I've been getting all of my food by dumpster diving, as so much good food is thrown out by local supermarkets and I hate to see it go to waste (free food for housemates!). We also like to host occasionally small parties, musical jam sessions, discussions or video potlucks or (perhaps a few times a month). So our housemates would need to be OK with that.

There is a yard, and some possibility for a garden and application of permaculture principles.

From an email from Paul (who is an amazing musician and a great friend):

"If you know good reliable folks who may be inclined to live in a collective situation with freegans, around creative artists in a co-operative, spiritually inclined & musical home please let us know! Thank you - paul

Paul Z. Livingstone
performer/composer/world music educator
http://www.tanpura.com"

If you are interested are know of someone, let me know.

Eric Einem
626-388-0046
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Technicolor Tree Tribe (A house on 28th and Vermont near USC in LA) (posted 4/12/10)

We're looking for people to move into our space. We think people connected or interested in the eco-village might be interested in living with us. Would it be possible to post a blurb to your list server or on your website? We are hoping to find people within two weeks so the quicker we can get this out the better. We would send out the following:

We strive to be an anti-racist, environmentally conscious, political, inclusive group of people. Originally, we formed through students involved in labor rights group SCALE (Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation), Environment First, and eventually worked to form Campus and Community United, to form an alliance between USC students and non-student community members to stop the displacement of working-class families. Now many of us are part of the Progressive Alliance that is a larger coalition of these groups and more.

We live a coop lifestyle eating communal dinners, promoting and hosting political activities such as the Anti-Columbus day/Indigenous People's week parade, a Vegan Brunch for the community, Food Not Bombs cooking, and a frequent meeting ground for Women's Creative Collective for Change (activist artists teaching tools of healing and storytelling).

We welcome anyone interested in our goals and integrating a coop lifestyle as part of their own. We're focusing on 2 types of living situations for next year- for the summer months, and beyond (like Fall).

Any interested folks, please filled out application and send it to technicolortreetribe@gmail.com, or ekboir@usc.edu by this coming Sunday (Sunday the 18th),

Modern hippie love,

For more info

you can email us at technicolortreetribe@gmail.com

join our Facebook group "The Technicolor Tree Tribe",

check out our blog "Life in Technicolor"

http://technicolortreetribe.wordpress.com/

and check us out on the Intentional Communities website

http://directory.ic.org/21814/Technicolor_Tree_Tribe !

*If you choose to follow up on any of the above housing opportunities, we hope that you will be enthusiastic about living without private car ownership (we're very bike and transit oriented; there are close by car rentals, and the possibility of informal car sharing when one is really in need). We hope you will share LAEV values www.laecovillage.org/values.html and that you want to live more cooperatively and ecologically and that you already have, or are enthusiastic about getting, the knowledge and skills to do so.
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Community Opportunity at the Brewery north of Downtown LA posted 1/8/10
Come Join our Community. Room for rent in the Brewery Artists Colony in Down Town L.A. Industrial loft. Colorful, spacious (20x20). Looking for people who want to form community. Share some meals, chores, and hold special events in our loft like house concerts, cinema salons and discussion groups, poetry readings, comedy nights. Non smokers please. Rent is $775.00. Includes all utilites. Second floor. We want to create a space where people love to live, and love to come home. Call Ananda @ 323-720-9993. Avail Feb 1st, 2010
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* If you choose to follow up on living within the LAEV two block neighborhood, we hope that you will be enthusiastic about living without private car ownership (we're very bike and transit oriented; there are close by car rentals, and the possibility of informal car sharing when one is really in need). We hope you will share LAEV values www.laecovillage.org/values.html and that you want to live more cooperatively and ecologically and that you already have, or are enthusiastic about getting, the knowledge and skills to do so.

**Although these listings are not within an intentional community, they are close enough to LAEV that some participation opportunities may be available to you.

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LA Area Intentional Communities Directory (posted 4/12/10)

If you are an intentional community and want to be added to this list, please email me with your contact info: Lois: crsp@igc.org
I know there are many more intentional communities right here in the LA area, especially in Silverlake, Echo Park, Highland Park and Pasadena.
Let's start getting together more regularly, sharing stories, policies, problems, referrals. For a comprehensive directory of intentional communities throughout the U.S. and the world, see www.ic.org

Here are the communities I am familiar with:

Los Angeles, West Adams District: Synchronicity LA: http://www.synchronicityla.com/

Los Angeles, Koreatown/Wilshire Center/East Hollywood: Los Angeles Eco-Village: www.laecovillage.org

Homesharers Checklist (posted 4/12/10)

At a minimum, the following should be discussed before you make a commitment to a home sharing arrangement:

- Likes and dislikes

- Smoking and drinking

- Division of household expenses

- Recycling and composting knowledge/commitments

- Conservation consciousness: electric, gas, water, auto use

- Consumer orientation: light, medium, heavy shopper, shopaholic tendencies?

- Visitors (friends, relatives, lovers: how often? late or overnight? Children? Adults?)

- TV habits (hours watched, programs watched, how many, if any, TVs)

- Late night or early morning person

- Music (volume and type)

- Food (eating habits, cooking responsibilities, food expenses)

- Storage (furniture, personal items)

- Sleep habits

- Methods of dealing with conflict or disagreements

- Cars (how many, what arrangements, parking situation)

Bikes (how many, what arrangements, parking situation)

- Active-homebody

- Talkative-quiet

- Time needed alone

- Hobbies

- Religious or spiritual affiliation/orientation

- Organizational memberships - range of activism

- Division of household chores

- Division of yard work

- Financial responsibility (willing to share mutual credit checks; how much debt, if any, does person have)?

- Pets

- Transportation

- Traveling (weekend visiting, time spent away from home)

Shared by CRSP 117 Bimini Pl. #221 Los Angeles CA 90004 213/738-1254 crsp@igc.org www.laev.org