Reader Input. One blog to rule them all?

Dear readers: As some of you might know we also keep a Garden Weblog.  At this point some of the authors of the blog you are reading would like to stop maintaining that site and merge the content with this one.   The expected effect would be to have a single blog with more varied [...]

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Quick LA Eco-Village video introduction

Here is a nice quick video that features Lois Arkin doing a great job in front of the camera. Looks like we are on the news.

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L.A. Weekly Bike Article features Eco-Villagers

Check it out: several mentions of  Eco-Villagers Joe Linton, Jimmy Lizama, Adonia Lugo,  Ron Milam and Eco-Village, too, plus many bicycle activist friends of LAEV.  This is a lengthy article which will hold the interest of bike folks all the way through.  Focusing on the upsurge in bicycle activism the past few years, it culminates [...]

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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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A Good article

This article is not bad. “A Village Grows in Los Angeles“  was featured at good.is the website of Good magazine. Your basic summary with a couple of quotes thrown for good measure and the common reference to fashionable L.A.  It paints the picture in broad strokes, that’s good. Explore other L.A. Eco-Village media here.  

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L.A. Eco-Village Home Birth Interview

Here’s a nice short documentary entitled There’s No Place Like Home: A Home-birth at the Los Angeles Eco-Village. It was created by Sophie Gosper and features Josey, Jimmy and Joaquin – discussing how Josey gave birth last year at L.A. Eco-Village.

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KPCC Video Showcases L.A. Eco-Village

KPCC’s Pacific Swell website acknowledged Eco-Villager Joe Linton (me) as an everyday hero. Click for KPCC video showing off Los Angeles Eco-Village’s fruit trees, chickens, greywater, las trincheras (terraced water harvesting garden looking neglected), and more!

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Living Eco Visits and Videos

“The first phase of the eco-village solution is using lots of mulch” A video crew from Living Eco created these two 15-minute videos showcasing a recent visit to LAEV. The above video covers chickens, composting, greywater, the bicycle morgue, the “multiple centers of initiative” gate, and las trincheras. The below video covers stacking functions, permeable [...]

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Posted on Green Building Blog

The Green Building blog wrote a nice informative post about us. it feels concise and to the point and it packs a fair amount of data. it’s a good “about us” link i wouldn’t mind having people read to get an idea of the project. the pictures are cool too.   the colorful bits are in [...]

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Video featuring Julio “Eco-Maya” Santizo

there is something charming about this video.  my favorite parts are the music and the shots of Joe’s garden. update: this is part of a series, here is another one:

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Documentary Fundraiser for “Seen Also In Men” Friday, July 30, 2010 7:00 pm

“Seen Also In Men” needs funds! We are showing (unofficially) the film and asking for your support to help us send it to festivals! This film tells the story of three black fathers who are choosing to be there for their kids even though their fathers weren’t there for them. It’s about a growing movement [...]

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BBC Mundo and what is the L.A Eco-Village anyway

here is short video about the LA Eco-Village recently published by BBC Mundo (embedded video below) .    it’s not that bad. i certainly commend the makers for packing that much into just 2 minutes – a palatable format for the attention deficit humans of this century.  but  as you compress things (specially information) you loose [...]

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Melba on the Tavis Smiley radio show

our very own l.a. eco-villager melba thorn was interviewed last week on the tavis smiley show promoting her delicious vegan chocolates in time for mother’s day. click here to check out the interview. great job, melba!

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Food Lobby’s Jaime Farms in the news

people often ask me “where do the veggies come from?” when i talk excitedly about the delivery of abundant, locally grown, organic, affordable produce that gets sorted in our lobby for distribution every sunday. i say “Jaime Farms, a local farm”, but can’t say much more.  so i was happy to see that Jaime Farms’ [...]

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a taste of Hardcore Punk

this really took me by surprise.   last weekend we had an event called Eco-Maya and some bands came over and played in our lobby.   it wasn’t organized by ecovillagers but some of us were very amused by the sudden and unexpected transformation of our normally tame space into a sort of mini venue.  there were [...]

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Healing an Inner-City Neighborhood by Lois Arkin

Our dear Lois wrote this article in 1996, and although it is currently hosted at the “Fellowship for Intentional Community” website i decided to put it here as part of our hErstorical records. Eco-Village is a state of mind. You think; you play around; you talk about and work on all these interactive systems; then [...]

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A visit from the San Francisco Equitable Pioneers Society

an excerpt: So, for starters, what exactly is an “eco-village”? It brings to mind Swiss Family Robinson-style living. Drinking out of coconuts and living in trees. In reality, it’s different (though the vibe is similar). According to the Los Angeles Eco-Village website, an “eco-village” is “a human scale neighborhood where people know their neighbors and [...]

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Brian Watt visits our Eco-Village in L.A.

So the radio to the left might be dead but Radio Radio is not.  Here is a piece produced by Brian Watts for the Tavis Smiley Show, which airs Friday nights on KPCC.  If you visit the site you can hear the streaming audio or you can download an mp3 (and this explains, partly why [...]

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Photoshow, Article and Sound by Daniel Doperalski

Here is an article about the L.A. Eco-Village titled An Eco-Village In The Urban Jungle. It features a nice black and white slide show with our own Lara talking about living here for the last 11 years.  I think it makes a good 900 word little window into our place. If you want to see [...]

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LAEV Article at Shareable

The website Shareable has a new article about Los Angeles Eco-Village. It’s by Danielle Davis, and the title is Happy Together? It features LAEV and another local intentional community called Synchronicity Los Angeles. Here’s an excerpt, go to Shareable for the full article.  Living in community, while it may pose unique challenges, never fails to inspire. In fact, [...]

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