Los Angeles Eco-Village Core Values
Note: these core values were established in an L.A.
Eco-Village retreat in March, 2001.
1. Celebrate & include joy in all our endeavors
2. Take responsibility for each other & the planet through local environmental & social action.
- Being responsible
- Learn, educate, challenge
- Non-conventional outside-the-box flexibility
- Social/environmental activism
- Demonstration/example
- Activism for earth & human healing
- Dance around obstacles with delight, hope & flexibility
3. Learn from nature and live ecologically
- Sustainability
- Demonstrate sustainable living
- Sustainability: cycling, composting, green issues
- Negentropy
- Bi-cycling
- Follow nature's example
- Self-sustenance (individual, community)
- Ecological concerns, interdependence
4. Build a dynamic community through diversity & cooperation
- Community: kids, knowing neighbors, healthy community interaction
- Extended "family"
- Political: Micro - Macro - Global
- Respect diversity
- Respect of others' views - open communication
- Compassion, respect for others
- Social & environmental justice
- Celebrate diversity allowing for idiosyncrasies
- Respect for diversity
- Community through diversity
- Inclusive
- Cooperation
- Communication
- Caring relationships balanced by giving & forgiving
5. Inspire compassionate, nurturing, & respectful relationships
- Nurture each other, community, planet
- No fighting (from the 9 year old attending)
- Hope
- Build, enhance, grow
- Harmony
- Non-violence, non-coercion
6. Create balanced opportunities for individual participation & collective stewardship
- Giving an equal voice
- Participation, empowerment, no couch potato, "I am the answer"
- Inclusiveness, belonging, ownership
- Balance of individual & community rights
- Consensus
7.
Engage our neighbors and broader communities in
mutual dialogue to learn, teach, and act.