Global
Village Institute
for
appropriate technology
Lois
Arkin
3551 White House Place
Los Angeles, CA 90004
213/738-1254
FAX 213/386-8873
email: crsp@igc.apc.org
website:
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~mignon/laev.html
Founded Los Angeles
Eco-Village Jan., 1993 where I've lived since 1980, a two block built-out
multi-ethnic lower income central city sustainable community in process. About
500 people live in the two block area. Eco-Village activities are coordinated
by a 10 member intentional community within the neighborhood. Just acquired our
first apartment building, a 40 unit two-story, courtyard building built in
1922. We're transit rich (within walking distance of 17 buslines and 2 subway
stations), very child friendly (K-2 school is in Eco-Village) and all other
urban amenities very closeby.
Co-authored/co-edited 2
books: "Sustainable Cities: Concepts and Strategies for Eco-City
Development" (Eco-Home Media, 1992) and "Cooperative Housing
Compendium: Resources for Collaborative Living" (UC Davis, Center for
Cooperatives, 1993). Coordinate the "Ecovillage" column in
"Communities Magazine." (See current ecovillage theme issue, Summer,
'96, which I guest edited with Lynne Elizabeth. Am on the board of the
Fellowship for Intentional Community.
Founded CRSP (Cooperative
Resources & Services Project) in 1980, a nonprofit organization committed
to small ecological cooperative communities located in Eco-Village. CRSP is a
membership organization providing a hotline, publications, referrals, library
and video loans, plus the Eco-Village Experience on most Saturdays (which
includes a dialogue, tour and veggie lunch in L.A. Eco-Village).
Co-founded Eco-Home
Network in Los Angeles, a demonstration home for ecological living in the city
whose visionary is Julia Russell; tours available each Sunday, 213/662-5207.
I like to hit tennis
balls, hang out on the street with neighbors, participate in community work
days, walk, bike for transportation, publicly advocate for a radically
different way of living in our cities! I enjoy being silly with other silly
folks who are in mutually caring relationships.
Ancient history: BA
Anthropology Cal State University at Northridge, born and raised in Detroit,
Michigan, was married for 12 years many years ago to a wonderful person (Bill
Arkin) now deceased, no children (by choice), I'm 59, worked as a probation
officer in L.A. County with troubled youth, co-founded Songwriters Resources
and Services in 1977 (now known as the National Academy of Songwriters),
travelled around the world on a cargo freighter, lived in Spain for a year,
blah, blah, blah.