Friends of the Echo Park Library

Home of the Echo Park/Historic Filipinotown Environmental Stewardship Program, Carlos Bulosan Book Club, and the Filipino Heritage Collection

We want to invite you to Part 6: Taking Action, of our Environmental Stewardship program on June 24, 2023 1pm-3pm.

This is the last part of our training series and will focus on taking action. After several months talking about different areas of sustainability, we want to now connect the dots and emphasize how the different dots or points of sustainability connect to our individual lives. From asking the question why does it matter to how can I make a difference, we want to make sure that people know that they can make a difference. Whether you are a Hollywood actor or a student, all of us have roles to play in the great sustainability transformation taking place right now.

Our guest speaker, Taylor Nichols, a Hollywood actor and sustainability advocate will share his thoughts on what it means to Take Action.

Mr. Nichols is a bicycle and sustainability advocate. He was appointed to the West Hollywood Bicycle Task Force in 2011. Since then he has worked as the co-chair of the Mid City West Neighborhood council’s Transportation committee where he has been responsible for promoting safe streets in and around West Hollywood. Most notably the Neighborhood Greenway on Rosewood and Bike lanes on Fairfax Ave. Currently he serves as the CD-5 Representative to the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a degree in Journalism from the UCLA specializing in Broadcast Journalism. He is co-host of the Podcast Bike Talk biketalk.org which also airs on KPFK in Los Angeles and Valley Free Radio in Mass. Mr. Nichols’s other life is as an actor, he has recently starred in the Emmy nominated Pen 15 and Perry Mason for HBO.

Join us virtually or in person on June 24 at the Los Angeles Public Library Echo Park Branch to learn more about our Sustainability Program and what you can do to be part of the solution and Take Action Now!

Register here: https://forms.gle/Tr7JsetkhE9U8rjUA

To learn more, go to http://friendsechopark.org/

Here is the link to join us virtually if you can’t make it in person:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84679755551?pwd=T0E0OGhURzFGOWRpRis1V3g1NkJqUT09 Meeting ID: 846 7975 5551 Passcode: 810847

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We want to invite you to Part 4: Infrastructure, of our Environmental Stewardship mentorship and training program on April 29, 2023 1pm-3pm. You can join us virtually or in person.

Part 1 focused on the big picture, the vision. Part 2 on biodiversity. Part 3 focused on climate. Our guest speaker for Part 4 which focuses on infrastructure is Ethel Rubio. She is a member of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) and one of the Sustain it or Explain it (SOE) task force members of the ISI.

Infrastructure is key to our quest to transform our world to become smarter and more sustainable. Our fossil fuel civilization has created a crisis that affects all of us. To get us out of this crisis, we will need to redesign our civilization to move away from the fossil fuel civilization and to a greener civilization that use renewable energy supported by sustainable infrastructure.

Join us virtually or in person on April 29 at the Los Angeles Public Library Echo Park Branch to learn more about our Sustainability Program and what you can do to be part of the solution.

Register here: https://forms.gle/Tr7JsetkhE9U8rjUA

To learn more, go to http://friendsechopark.org/

Dear Friends,

Part 3 of our Environmental Stewardship Program which focuses on Climate is this Saturday.

Here is the link to join us virtually if you can’t make it in person:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84679755551?pwd=T0E0OGhURzFGOWRpRis1V3g1NkJqUT09 Meeting ID: 846 7975 5551 Passcode: 810847

We hope you join us next week for a very important topic, biodiversity. The Community Garden in Echo Park/Historic Filipinotown will be a demonstration garden to show the concepts of sustainability and environmental stewardship. Help us build this garden to help us empower the next generation to be environmental stewards of our only home in the universe.

Here is a TEDx Boston talk from Tania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FAMEtVztY&t=605s

Here is the link to join us virtually this Saturday for Part 2 of the Environmental Stewardship Program if you can’t join us in person at the Echo Park Library: Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84679755551?pwd=T0E0OGhURzFGOWRpRis1V3g1NkJqUT09 Meeting ID: 846 7975 5551 Passcode: 810847

The link to register: https://forms.gle/jnW7CUffUW3rJNSG9

When #JFK said we will go to the moon, we made that goal happen. When #mlk shared his dream, we made it a reality. When the #UnitedNations said we would fix the ozone layer, we made it happen. Now is our time to make the #SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals a reality.

The library is located at:

1410 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, California 90026

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213-250-7808