Shareable
By Mira Luna
August 31st, 2014

As a founding member of the Sharing Cities Network (SCN), Shareable interviewed Arroyo Sustainable Economies Organization (ASECO) to get the scoop on their recently released plan to create Share LA. It's a bold plan to turn notoriously unequal and sprawling Los Angeles into a community-oriented, resource sharing city for all. To read the full plan for Share LA and vote for them, visit the LA 2050 GOOD Challenge.

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Join us at 1642, an intimate beer and wine bar owned by ASNTB member Liz Fichsbach, on Saturday, September 6th for a critical mass voting party!

Arroyo S.E.C.O. has entered to win $100,000 from the Goldhirsch Foundation to show why Los Angeles will be the best place to connect by 2050. Emphasizing what we know works (TIMEBANKING!) and visioning new ways to bring more sharing economy solutions to LA communities, we hope to produce a fully open-source blueprint that can show any city how to become a Sharing City. In partnership with Shareable's Sharing City Network, we hope to make LA the nation's sharing leader.

So come have an ice cold one or a glass of your favorite vintage with us! High-five your fellow time bankers! And definitely vote for our ShareLA campaign! The organization with the most online votes wins a hundred grand! Let's make sure it's us!

Saturday, September 6th
6-9PM
1642 Bar
1642 W. Temple St
L.A. CA 90026

Everyone is welcome, so bring a friend or three!

Voting runs September 2nd-16th. But you don't have to wait for our party. Go ahead and vote for us NOW!
www.myLA2050connect.maker.good.is/projects/ShareLA

Meet your fellow members and eat some delicious food. Bring your own plate, cup and utensil. Everyone welcome!

July 27th, 2014 from 12:30-4 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1020 N. Brand Blvd. Glendale CA 91202

Please join us for an afternoon of food, conversation, learning and FUN!

 




 • Silver Lake Neighborhood Council member and timebanker John Wingler will be our grillmaster for a summer barbeque on the patio.

• Bring a dish to share (as organic as possible!) and your own cup, plate and utensils…it’s a zero-waste event!

• There will be presentations from community garden experts SYLVIA HOLMES and JANUARY NORDMAN, special guests LILI SINGER and LISA NOVICK from the Theodore Payne Foundation and volunteer bee activists from Honeylove.org.

• Indoor and outdoor tables, fun activities for the kids and music from pianist David Cutter.

• Clean out your closets by bringing something to the FREE BOUTIQUE, where everything is free! (no junk please!)

• Parking in the church lot, on the street and the nearby bank. Metro bus number 92 stops one block south of the church on Brand Blvd and Glenoaks.

Meet your fellow members and eat some delicious food. Bring your own plate, cup and utensil. Everyone welcome!

Sunday, April 13th, 2014 from 5-7PM

Debs Park 4235 Monterey Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90032 Meet at picnic tables at the top of main entrance driveway off Monterey Road. Member Leanne Pedante will also share info about Trade School LA, the barter-based school she is starting in Highland Park. 
facebook.com/tradeschoolLA

This event will kick-off a new "First Fridays" event series. This is organized by the Echo Park chapter of the Arroyo S.E.C.O Network of Time Banks. The First Friday of April we will meet at the Echo Park Film Center and watch some short films made by members of the community and have a chance to meet members from the community. This event is open to everyone of all ages, including non-timebank members..

There will be Potluck snacks before the films, and Questions & Ansers after. Socializing is encouraged. We ask for 1 Timedollar from Timebankers and a donation of your choice from non-Timebankers. Any money raised will be split between the ASNTB and the Echo Park Film Center. If you bring food to share or help with the event, you will get your Timedollar back!

If you have a short film to show, the deadline for submissions has has passed, but we plan to hold this event again in the future so look out for the next call for submissions!

There will are more First Friday events, including Food Culture Night, Timebank Dance and a Cabaret Art Show. To keep informed on these events:
LIKE the echo park time bank page: https://www.facebook.com/echoparktimebank
or consider joining the timebank: http://arroyoseco.timebanks.org/welcome

For more information, e-mail echoparktimebank@gmail.com

Let's pack El Cholo Cafe Pasadena on Wednesday, February 26th! 15% of your purchase will go directly to the Time Bank to help support our administrative expenses for 2014. Have a burrito and a margarita AND help the Time Bank thrive. It's a win win. be sure to bring the attached flyer. If you can't make it to this fundraiser we will do another one in March at El Cholo Cafe Los Angeles.


DATE: Wednesday, February 26, 2014

WHERE: El Cholo Cafe Pasadena 260 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena
(Inside the Paseo Colorado) http://elcholopasadena.com/

TIME: All Day Long! Bring this flyer!!!!

The Louisville TimeBank was featured on ABC News with Diane Sawyer. Watch the story here,

L.A. Eco Village: 20 Years as a Model of Sustainable Living By George Villanueva | KCET on December 19, 2013

Born in 1993, in the same 90004 zip code where I was born and raised, the Los Angeles Eco Village (LAEV) has embodied what cooperative living can be when a collective of people commit to ideals of community and sustainable urban space. Last week the LAEV celebrated its 20 year anniversary with a fundraiser event, marking their enduring pledge to sustainable living. LAEV is nestled within a two block stretch of Bimini Place and White House Place, off of First Street, just east of Vermont Avenue. The space includes cooperative affordable housing, native landscape, on-site food growth, micro social enterprises, a community land trust, pedestrian-friendly streetscape, bike-friendly amenities, and a host of democratic community-building activities. To visit is to not only feel the history of community transformation, but also be inspired about what a more livable L.A. can exemplify.

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Join us for an exciting event with local currency pioneer, Paul Glover founder of Ithaca HOURS, a successful local paper currency in Ithaca NY. Launched in 1991, Ithaca Hours promote local economic strength and community self-reliance by keeping the wealth circulating within the region. http://www.paulglover.org/

Paul is also author of, Los Angles: A History of the Future. Available for free on-line http://www.issuu.com/metroeco/docs/lahof Originally published in 1982, Los Angeles: A History of the Future envisions a permaculture city that is ecologically stable and locally managed on a human scale.

Bio: Paul Glover is founder of 18 organizations and campaigns, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Health Democracy, the Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), and the League of Uninsured Voters (LUV). He is author of six books on grassroots economies, and a former professor of urban studies at Temple University. He also consults as Greenplanners.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn about how we can rebuild the economy together!

Date: Sunday, October 6th, 2013
Time: Potluck from 6-7PM talk from 7-8:30PM
Location: Armory Center for the Arts 145 North Raymond Avenue Pasadena, California 91103 http://www.armoryarts.org/
Off the Gold Line, Memorial Park stop.
Entry: $5 for Time Bank members $10 for non-members. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds go towards Paul's travel expenses and the Time Bank Community Revolving Loan Fund.
http://www.asntb.com/revolving-loan-fund.html
Purchase tickets at the door or at this link:  http://paulglover.bpt.me
Details: The potluck is a zero waste event. Please bring your own plate, cup and utensil. Carpooling encouraged.

Special thanks to The Metabolic Studio, CRSP,  The L.A. Eco Village and the Armory Center for the Arts!

*Paul will also be speaking at the L.A. Eco Village on Friday, Oct 4th at 7:30PM. http://laecovillage.org/2013/09/12/paul-glover-author-activist-founder-gives-a-public-talk-at-l-a-eco-village-friday-october-4-2013-at-730pm/