An Improbable Eco-Village in L.A.

In the heart of Koreatown in Los Angeles, an experimental community took over 2 apartment complexes in the '90s. Today, it's a thriving group of folks trying to live greenly in the big city.

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January 28, 2011, 9:00 AM PST

By Tim Halbur

The project is funded through a parent non-profit that owns the buildings and gives microloans to the inhabitants.

Carren Jao writes:

"Over the years, its thirty or so residents have eco-retrofitted the decades-old facilities in their units, repainting the walls with low-VOC paints, and refurbishing the floors to more insulating materials. Their once thirsty lawn is now an edible landscape that grows bananas, peaches, cherimoyas, chard, and lettuce, and even conduct permaculture workshops on site (below). Most units also have solar and gray water systems."

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