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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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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Dateline LAEV: Greywater Article in CSMonitor

There’s a good greywater (or “gray water” ) article by Gloria Goodale in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor online newspaper, entitled “Gray water’s grass roots.” It’s mostly about the 5-day training course that was taught at eco-village recently. The folks who taught the course were the Greywater Guerillas, er… now called Greywater Action, but still equally phenomenal people. [...]

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Short Videos on Space, Gardens and Greywater

Here are three short videos showing and telling some of the aspects of Los Angeles Eco-Village. If you’re looking for a good well-edited video overview, I recommend this Streetfilm or this documentary by Tamika Thompson.

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This week: TV Appearance and Sustainability Talk

Los Angeles Eco-Village appeared briefly on yesterday’s network news (6pm KABC Channel 7), in coveage of California’s changing greywater laws. Click here for an earlier longer blog entry on one of our washing machine greywater systems. The TV clip focuses more on complicated high-tech high-cost systems… but it does show the equally dependable low-tech low-cost unpermitted Greywater [...]

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Upcoming Events: Chris Carlsson, Greywater Guerillas

This Friday, February 6, 2009 at 7:30 pm at Los Angeles Eco-Village presents a talk by Chris Carlson, speaking on topics from his new book Nowtopia:  How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today.  The requested donation is $5 at the door.  Plenty of bike parking.  LA Eco-Village is located at 117 Bimini Place, LA 90004.   Reservations recommended [...]

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