L.A. Area Resources
- The Los Angeles Eco-Village/CRSP website <http://www.laecovillage.org/>
- For information and activities associated with the Los Angeles Permaculture Guild, contact Camille Cimino at <camcim@yahoo.com> or Joan Stevens at <mamabotanica@sbcglobal.net> or join the LAPG listserve at <https://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/lapg>
- For coverage of all things ecological and permacultural in Southern California, visit and subscribe to Hope Dance Magazine <http://www.hopedance.org>
- To subscribe to the City Repair LA Listserve, go to <http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/cityrepairla>
- To learn about the Eco-Home Network, go to <http://www.ecohome.org>
- To learn about environmental and community issues affecting the Latino community, subscribe to Latino Urban Forum at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latinourbanforum/>
- Green Building Resource Center in Santa Monica to make sure you’re using the least polluting, least toxic, most local, most recycled content materials available <http://www.globalgreen.org/gbrc/>.
- Founded by Jules Dervaes in 2001, Path to Freedom <http://www.pathtofreedom.com/> is a not for profit, family operated, viable urban homesteading project in Pasadena,CA established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family’s “footprint” on the earth’s dwindling resources.
- Los Angeles Urban Rangers <http://www.laurbanrangers.org> are a group of LA-based geographers, environmental and art historians, artists, curators, architects, and others – who aim to facilitate creative and critical investigations into our sprawling metropolis and its various ecologies through educational campfire programs and hikes throughout Los Angeles.
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation <http://www.clui.org/> is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools.
Climate Change, Peak Oil...
Ecovillages
Other Urban Ecovillages in Process
General Intentional Community and Cohousing Resources
- To learn about intentional communities or find one that might be right for you, go to <http://www.ic.org> and click on Communities Directory. Subscribe to Communities Magazine, the most comprehensive source of information on intentional communities. Most back issues available at CRSP at L.A. Eco-Village..
- To learn more about cohousing, go to <http://www.cohousing.org> and subscribe to the CoHousing? Journal.
- Community Tool Box promotes community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources: http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/tools_toc.htm
Intentional Community Resource for Single Moms
Living Car Free
- The Bicycle Kitchen <http://www.bicyclekitchen.com> continues to provide a variety of services to L.A. area bicycle lovers. They’ve expanded their hours and are conveniently located at 706 Heliotrope @ Melrose (2 blks west of Vermont) just south of the L.A. City College campus. The Bicycle Kitchen was incubated at LA Eco-Village
- World Carfree Network <http://www.worldcarfree.net/> the hub of the global carfree movement, promoting alternatives to car dependence and automobile-based planning at the international level and working to reduce the human impact on the natural environment while improving the quality of life for all. Worldcarfree.net offers resources for architects, planners, teachers/professors, students, decision-makers and engaged citizens.
- Carfree Cities <http://www.carfree.com> proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.
- Car-Free Housing Developments: Toward Sustainable Smart Growth
<http://www.enhr2004.org/files/papers/kushner-Car-freeHousword%5B1%5D.pdf > This interesting paper presented at last year’s ENHR International New Housing Researchers Conference, Cambridge is based on research in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria on urban car-free housing by James Kushner of Southwestern - International Bicycle Fund <http://www.ibike.org/> A non-governmental, nonprofit, advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport and international understanding. Major areas of activity are non-motorized urban planning, economic development, bike safety education, responsible travel and bicycle tourism, and cross-cultural, educational programs.
Food
- Fallen Fruit <http://www.fallenfruit.org> Fallen Fruit. is an artist project about mapping of all the ‘public fruit’ planted on private property that overhangs public space. This project encourages people to harvest, plant and share public fruit.
Saving energy
- Flex Your Power’s website is a resource for energy efficiency and conservation information in California. You can find incentives/rebates, technical assistance, retailers, product guides, case studies and more. Link: <http://www.fypower.org/>
