Enviro Change-Makers community
the Environmental Change-Makers community group in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles
Artisan Bread Tasting (and raffle!)
Imagine: hand-baked artisan bread, fresh from the oven. Would you like to sample a diverse assortment of flavors and textures? …and enjoy a fun afternoon with great company? …and possibly WIN special loaves to take home? …or win the 50/50 pot at the…
The cob oven at RootSimple homestead
Mr Homegrown of RootSimple shared this video of their construction process. He is part of the team, advising us as we plan how to build the cob oven at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity.
Featured on the RootSimple podcast
Catch the conversation between me (Joanne P) and Erik Knutzen of RootSimple as we talk about the GMO-Free Zone in L.A., what it means, the backstory, and what happened in December. (I don’t talk about future strategy, intentionally, since I…
A community bread oven
Last Saturday we had the kickoff meeting for a new project: building a community bread oven out of cob. What’s cob? For us in Southern California, the easiest comparison is to think about the adobe bricks used for the missions;…
What happened to the GMO-Free Zone?
Not everything we do comes out successful. Sometimes we have some rather spectacular failures. Hopefully, we learn from them, we dust ourselves off, and we continue on. When you’re fighting GMOs, you know that at some point you’ll encounter opposition.…
Toxic lawns
If you thought a “GMO-Free Zone” in Los Angeles wasn’t too important because there aren’t a lot of farmers inside the City, think again. Scotts and Monsanto are getting ready to surround you with genetic modification: genetically engineered lawn grass.…
New directions in Change-Making
Happy Earth Day! As you’ve undoubtedly heard a million times before, “Earth Day is every day.” And at ECM that’s certainly the case. That’s why today is a great day to highlight change-making projects that you can be a part…
Why ECM is indifferent to traditional politics
Sometimes a few paragraphs from an article seem to bolt off the screen at you. A section from an article by Kurt Cobb summed up nicely why ECM isn’t into traditional politics. Why, since ECM’s inception, we have made every…
Like what we do?
Don’t let it stop here. In keeping with Charles Eisenstein’s gift culture, versions of this booklet are being offered to the public free of charge.Eisenstein reminds us “a gift transaction is open-ended, creating an ongoing tie between the participants.”We have…