Remembering the 1992 Uprisings and the start of LAEV

How LAEV came to be at Bimini and White House Place First fruit tree planting on northeast corner of Bimini & White House Place, Earth Day April 1993. Tree was named “Percy Persimmons.” It was a Wednesday afternoon. I was sitting in my living room with Lottie Cohen working on the book we were co-authoring: [...]

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Earth Day 2012 at the L.A. Eco-Village

by Michelle Wong, cross posted from White House Gardens @ LA Eco-Village blog: Even though Earth Day is everyday at the LA Eco-Village, villagers celebrated the occasion with an open house last Sunday. Friends & neighbors came out to enjoy the beautiful day that kicked off with Cachao chickens crossing the street and the sounds [...]

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LADOT Lies About Cypress Park Bike Lanes

Maybe some folks have already read about the Cypress Park bike lane issues that have been reported elsewhere… but it’s been sticking in my craw this week, I think it bears some attention. It’s been really disheartening to me to read city responses to implementing approved bike lanes on Cypress Avenue and Avenue 28 in [...]

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What is a hacker and why is it important to us?

i’m a big fan of Mitch Altman, and i’m a big fan of puppets interviewing people.  but these are not the only reasons i think you should watch this video that i found via the make blog.  i believe hacking (as described by Mitch)  is part of the life blood of environmental endeavors. you don’t even [...]

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Consensus Workshop with Eric Romann next Tuesday

From 6:30pm to 9pm next Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Eric Romann will be teaching a Facilitation and Consensus Training at Los Angeles Eco-Village. Requested fee is $10-20, with no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP requested. Full details after the jump.

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October Greywater and Composting Toilet Workshops at LAEV

Coming October 2011, Greywater Action are back! They’ll be teaching workshops at L.A. Eco-Village and elsewhere in Southern California. Greywater Action are the great folks formerly known as Greywater Guerillas, then they changed their names after the state of California went and made greywater legal. These are the folks who installed (and taught how to install) my home washing [...]

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FUN TO BE HAD & HELP NEEDED SUNDAY 8/21 FROM NOON TO 5

L.A. Eco-Village is repairing its cob lizard bench on Sunday 8/21 from noon to 5. If you are interested in natural building, take this opportunity to observe and work with Ray Cirino, artist/inventor/ permaculturist, and mosaic artist, Lee Adams. Ray will be bringing his Sparky, the dragon pizza oven to the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPSq9_QA4m0 so bring [...]

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Outline of the mediation process

When conflict happens inside a community mediation can help a lot.  Here at LA Eco-Village we have a group of folks that refer to themselves as the “Conflict Resolution Team” and among other things they offer mediation help.   I was trying to explain a part of the mediation process to a couple of friends and [...]

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Mature Ficus Trees Felled on First and on Westmoreland

The Los Angeles United School District is building a new school on what has historically been the Virgil Middle School playing fields. Those fields were recently relocated to a new site north of the school. The relocation and new construction are parts of a school project that initially proposed removing a great deal of housing [...]

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Youth Film Fest this Thursday at Bresee

You may have already read it at their blog, but 7pm this Thursday May 26th 2011 will be the Bresee Foundation’s 6th Annual Youth Film Festival! Who’s in??

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Complete Streets Conference Packed 2/25/11

Complete Streets are multi-use environments that enable safe and comfortable access for all users on both roadways and sidewalks in a way that promotes vibrant, healthy and active neighborhoods.  Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transportation users of all ages and abilities, including older people, children and people with disabilities, are able to safely move along [...]

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Dave Auerbach in the L.A. Times 2/2/11

Having a birthday lunch with my neighbor Dale today, he told me about this article that he caught in yesterday’s LA Times, and that he’d posted the hard copy on our bulletin board.  Couldn’t wait to get home to read it, especially when Dale indicated that he really understood what Dave’s research was about from [...]

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Diana Leafe Christian Ecovillage Talk Feb. 22

If you haven’t heard Diana’s talk before, don’t miss this one.  OR if you have heard it, you won’t want to miss this one either, because it’s new and better than ever! Ecovillages: Where They Are, What They’re Doing, Why They’re Important Diana Leafe Christian (in person) Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm at [...]

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Great News! Learning Garden Agreement Signed!

On January 20th 2011, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust (BVCLT) signed the joint use agreement that enables a new learning garden at Los Angeles Eco-Village! The site is the currently-vacant lot at the north east corner of the intersection of Bimini Place and White House Place.

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Introduction to Facilitation Training July 28th

Every week, different members of the LA Eco-Village facilitate meetings that lead to decisions that impact the community.  To learn how its done and improve the effectiveness of whatever group you meet with, I invite you to attend  an Introduction to Facilitation workshop I’m leading at the LA Eco-Village on Wednesday, July 28th from 7pm to [...]

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10 Tips for Running Effective Meetings

Tonight (Tuesday, June 15th), from 7pm to 9pm, I’m leading a Running Effective Meetings Workshop at the LA Eco-Village, and I invite you to attend.  To rsvp, contact crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254.  $35 sliding scale. Many of us spend much of our times in meetings.  Having attending numerous meetings as a facilitator and participant, I’m happy to share [...]

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Advanced Facilitation Training – June 9

Tomorrow night (June 9th), Ron Milam will lead an Advanced Facilitation training at the LA Eco-Village. The following week on June 15th, he’ll lead a Running Effective Meetings training.  You are welcome to attend one or both of these trainings. Here’s more information about the trainings: Wed, June 9, 2010 from 7 to 9 pm [...]

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Farewell to Eco-Home

After 22 years and hundreds of tours and countless inspirations, our near-neighbor Eco-Home will be closing its doors at the end of June 2010. Eco-Home has been a labor of love for its founder Julia Russell. Located a couple miles north of L.A. Eco-Village, Eco-Home is a single-family that has been retrofitted to conserve energy and water, grow food locally, and [...]

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Learn to Facilitate at the LA Eco-Village

As a resident of the LA Eco-Village and professional facilitator, I’m pleased to invite you to the following three trainings scheduled to take place at LA Eco-Village over the next few months: Introduction to Facilitation, April 1, 7pm to 9pm Facilitators play a key role in helping a group make decisions.  They help create a safe [...]

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Three Ways to Listen

Listening plays a key role in facilitating successful meetings, which is something residents do every week at our community meetings here at the L.A. Eco-Village.  Here’s a quick summary of three ways to actively listen as a faciliator: Mirroring: When someone says something, you repeat the words back verbatim to the person who said it. [...]

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