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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Rain Flows through Bimini Park

The Bimini Slough Ecology Park was flowing mightily under this week’s rains. Federico wrote about this park earlier at the Eco-Village Blog, referencing my long piece about it at L.A. Creek Freak. It’s located at the end of the Los Angeles Eco-Village block at the corner of Bimini Place and 2nd Street. It was created and is maintained by the [...]

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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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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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Why Don’t You Ride a Bike to Work Instead?

Ok, it’s Bike to Work Week… the catastrophic Earth Day Oil spill continues unabated… the city of L.A. continues to be one of the most car-centric places on the planet… so below are a couple of fun bikey things to share… to help cheer us Velocipedists up! These are both stolen from Streetsblog – one of wonderfullest places on [...]

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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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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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Intersection Repair Videos!

Portland City Repair’s Mark Lakeman will return to Eco-Village in two weeks. He’ll be speaking Friday September 11th at 7:30, then Saturday September 12th from 10am to 6pm he’ll be leading an intersection repair project here. For more event details, see this earlier post. Lakeman is an excellent speaker – whom I highly recommend. His [...]

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Action Alert: Please Write LAUSD to Preserve Our Corner

Many long-time friends of Los Angeles Eco-Village are aware that we’ve struggled with the Los Angeles Unified School District and its plans to demolish homes in our neighborhood to provide additional school space. Some of the past story is on-line here. We worked with the school district recently to modify plans for Central Region Elementary [...]

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