Los Angeles Green Festival
Friday Sept 12 thru Sunday Sept 14, 2014
at L.A. Convention Center  

http://greenfestivals.org/   

FESTIVAL HOURS:
Friday, September 12th from noon to 6:00pm
Saturday, September 13th from 10am to 6:00pm
Sunday, September 14th from 10am to 6:00pm  

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Buy discounted tickets on-line here:  http://greenfestivals.org/   

and Get In Free if:

You come by bike and use the LACBC Bike Valet service
You come by Metro and show your Tap Card.

Check out the 40 page: Preview Guide.   

More than 20,000 attended the L.A. Green Festival last year.   

Great kids' activities too!     

Come visit the Los Angeles Eco-Village booth (#550), and so many other organizations you may want to catch up with.      

Lots of interesting speakers (including Lois Arkin from L.A. Eco-Village), demonstrations of all kinds, and a place to run into old friends and colleagues and meet new ones.  

Green Festival® is a vibrant, dynamic marketplace where companies and organizations come to showcase their green products and services, and where people go to learn how to live healthier, more sustainable lives.     

Green Festival is America's largest and longest-running sustainability and green living event. We bring together the world's most trusted companies, innovative brands, national and local businesses, pioneering thinkers, and conscious consumers in one place to promote the best in sustainability and green living.   

Green Festival offers something for everyone, with the widest selection of products and services to work green, play green and live green from food, fashion and health to energy, construction and design. People can shop and enjoy vegan, vegetarian, organic foods, hands-on demos, educational activities and inspirational speakers.

Mission and Vision:

Green Festival is inspiring and empowering consumers, communities and businesses to work green, play green and live green.

At Green Festival, we are committed to:

• Showcasing the best and latest green products and services in the market
• Making 'green' practical, viable and accessible to everyone by promoting sustainability in everyday life choices and actions
• Providing the ultimate marketplace for green brands and consumers who want to integrate sustainability into their lives
• Striving to be a zero-waste marketplace where consumers can be assured that companies are committed to environmental sustainability
• Representing a diverse, sustainable community that is socially and environmentally responsible
• Encouraging companies to adopt green and fair trade principles through Green America's certification process
• Supporting vegan-vegetarian diets that are focused on organic, non-GMO and local artisanal foods as part of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle
• Serving as a launching pad for Corporate Social Responsibility efforts and consumer programs in sustainability

Much more info about Green Festivals here:   http://www.greenfestivals.org/  

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PERMACULTURE EVENTS AND CONVERGENCES      

To keep informed of Los Angeles area permaculture activities, join the listserves:
http://www.permaculture-guilds.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/los-angeles-permaculture    

 
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Meredith McKenzie talking about water in the White House Place Learning Garden at L.A. Eco-Village: Saturday September 27, 2014 at 11:00am
 

WHEN:      Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 11am 
 

WHERE:    White House Place Learning Garden at Los Angeles Eco-Village, northeast corner of Bimini and White House Place.  Directions  

FEE:  Free and open event.  (Donations always welcome)   

FOOD:  Feel free to bring a brown bag snack or lunch.   

EVENT SPONSOR: Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust 
 

MORE INFO:  laraeco@hotmail.com   213/383-8684  or
crsp@igc.org   213/738-1254

CICLAVIA SUNDAY OCTOBER 5, 2014 FROM 9AM TO 4PM 

Go here for the great Los Angeles CicLAvia event:  www.cicLAvia.org 

Maps
Hub locations
Volunteer opportunities

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MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES FOR LIVING IN ECOVILLAGES, COHOUSING, AND INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES   

 -  For information on the Membership Process for joining the L.A. Eco-Village intentional community, write to: 

www.ecovillage.org  

For a quickie 30 minute L.A. Eco-Village tour, check out this recently released YouTube video     

Not sure if you're suited for cooperative ecological living.  Check out Ma'ikwe's TEDx talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8YeDKKBcUÂ  

The times call for deep and radical changes in our attitudes and behavior.  No time like the urgent present for re-inventing how we live on this planet!  Share what you are doing differently, or planning to do, with friends, relatives, acquaintances, even strangers in friendly and helpful ways. 
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Lessons from living in community:
Don't let a little dispute injure what is, or could be, a great friendship.  Agree to disagree and still express authentic congeniality.   

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Time Banking builds relationships by connecting untapped resources with unmet needs. Through reciprocity we celebrate that everyone has unique gifts to share.  More info here:  http://www.asntb.com/ 

AND: YOU CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN TIMEBANKING HERE IN LOS ANGELES BY  VOTING FOR THE GOOD $100,000 AWARD UNDER THE SHARING CATEGORY HERE:
 http://myla2050connect.maker.good.is/projects/ShareLA  

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