Enviro Change-Makers community
the Environmental Change-Makers community group in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles
Cob repair days – March and April
Want to play in the mud? Are you interested in building with cob? (straw + mud combination, a sustainable building method) A small team will be repairing the Westchester Community Oven during selected workdays in March and April. Damage to the…
How to keep fighting – the 2017 version
It’s a new year. But even moreso, it’s a completely new era. The ground rules have all changed – from what is fact, to what is science, to what is news – to the point that many of us hardly…
Positive environmental news
Get the kind of news you want, in the format you want! We offer many different types of message-delivery. Please sign up for your favorites! Events and Classes. Join the Environmental Change-Makers email list to get news of events, classes,…
Placemaking and City Repair in Los Angeles
Are you interested in this kind of fun? Here’s a marvelous video about Mark Lakeman’s City Repair work in Portland. We’re putting together a project in Los Angeles! If you’re interested (or curious), contact the Environmental Change-Makers. The initial planning…
Join people around the world calling for climate action
Thousands of people are marching this weekend in cities everywhere to call for climate action at this coming week’s Paris negotiations. The photos are now streaming in from around the world. (Check 350.org or the #climatemarch hashtag) In Paris —…
Green Friday – Nov 27 – an alternative to consumerism
Be a producer, rather than a consumer. Are you sick of all the ads and consumerism that now invade our lives even before Halloween? …the deluge of STUFF that you know is so bad for our planet, its climate, and…
Reflections on 10 Years of Change-Making
In November 2005 we held a small gathering — a book launch party for Legacy: A Story of Hope. We didn’t know it at the time, but that small gathering was the first for a group that would become the…
Ten years!
I’ve just finished up the photo slideshow for Saturday’s 10 year anniversary party at Environmental Change-Makers. It’s great to see all the changes! Do you remember when the wall behind the Garden was still white? Before the sunflower mural? Do…
ECM 10th Anniversary Party – Nov 14
Yes, the Change-Makers have been stirring up trouble for 10 years now! And in that time, we’ve done lots of cool projects in Westchester and beyond. Come celebrate ECM’s 10th anniversary, on Saturday Nov. 14. Enjoy wood-fired pizza at the…
Cactus juice preservative for the cob oven
I’m “cooking up” a batch of Opuntia juice preservative. It is a traditional weather coating used on adobe and cob structures. We will be adding it to the final coat on the Westchester Community Oven when we re-surface it next…