The Soul of Soil / The Ecocity Future of Los Angeles
Hosted by Los Angeles Eco-Village
Saturday, July 14 at 10 AM - 11 PM
Los Angeles Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles, California 90004
Christian Arnsperger returns to Los Angeles Eco-Village for the third year. And we welcome Kreigh Hampel of the Burbank Recycle Center and Richard Register of Ecocity Builders to join him for a special two days of interacting with a few of the world’s most creative thinkers for healing and transforming our cities into resilient eco-systems where health and justice prevail. Plus other special guests. PLEASE NOTE:
THE START AND STOP TIMES INDICATED HERE ARE TENTATIVE. Watch for details!
About Christian Arnsperger
An economist by training, I’m a professor at the University of Lausanne. My affiliation is with the Faculty of Geoscience and Environment, and I am a member of the Institute for Geography and Sustainability. We are a multidisciplinary institute focused mainly on the human- and social-science aspects of environmental issues. My own teaching and research revolve around Sustainability and Economic Anthropology. That’s what my chair at the University of Lausanne is called. Yes, really …
Read more about Christian and see his blog here: arnsperger-perma-circular.com
About Kreigh Hampel
Kreigh Hampel digs under the mythologies of waste. Since 2003 he has served as the Recycling Coordinator for the City of Burbank while drawing on natural designs, simplicity and the community to engage regenerative thinking. He is a graduate of the UCLA Municipal Waste Management Program, a board member of the California Product Stewardship Council and has worked with nonprofits and public agencies on urban forestry, school gardens, solar energy, home composting and producer responsibility. He was recently named City Employee of the Year for his outstanding community service. His motto is, “plant more, manufacture less.”
About Richard Register
Founder: The International Ecocity Conferences. Author: "Ecocities – Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature" and "World Rescue – an Economics Built on what We Build"
Richard is one of the world’s great theorists and authors on ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with four decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running. Among his many “firsts,” he convened the first of the Ecocity International Conference Series in Berkeley, California, and coined the term “ecocity” as early as 1987.
He was founding president of Urban Ecology (1975) and founder and current president of Ecocity Builders (1992), both nonprofit educational organizations.
Richard illustrates his own writing, and his books are considered as pleasurable for his imaginative drawings as profound in their ecological urban philosophies and visions.
Richard is a frequent guest of organizations and conferences large and small in his home town, the San Francisco Bay Area, and around the world. He is a tireless advocate for the pedestrian city to save the world — by reducing automobile dependence, global warming, massive sprawl, ecological habitat fragmentation, air and water pollution and other harms.