LOS ANGELES ECO-VILLAGE:
“Working toward the possibilitiesâ€
THE L.A. ECO-VILLAGE PURPOSE AND CONTEXT
We are a neighborhood in the built-out Wilshire Center/Koreatown area working toward becoming a demonstration of healthy urban community. Our whole-systems approach to community development tries to integrate the social, economic and physical aspects of neighborhood life to be sustainable over the long term. Eco-villagers intend to achieve and demonstrate high-fulfillment, low-impact living patterns, to reduce the burden of government, and to increase neighborhood self-reliance in a variety of areas such as livelihood, food production, energy and water use, affordable housing, transit, recreation, waste reduction and education. We also plan to convert the housing in the neighborhood from rental to permanently affordable cooperative ownership.
WHY AN ECOVILLAGE IN LOS ANGELES?
As Los Angeles continues to expand to accommodate ever larger and more diverse populations, how can we achieve a decent standard of living without sacrificing a better quality of life? What will be the response of political and grass roots leadership as it begins to deeply understand the relationships among environmental, social and economic degradation? How will communities of need respond as their funding gaps grow ever larger? And as more people in less developed areas worldwide aspire to Los Angeles lifestyles, what responsibility will our city take to model living patterns in balance with the planet's life support systems? The L.A. Eco-Village seeks to address these complex issues by demonstrating a different way of being in our city.
The Los Angeles Eco-Village demonstrates lower impact, higher quality living patterns within the city. We seek to effectively integrate the social, economic and ecological systems of our two block neighborhood, working with one another, our neighbors and the city at large.
Visit our website for more information on making a difference in your neigborhood, volunteer opportunities at LAEV & contact information: (HERE)
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