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Earth Week: Green Shopping and Services in Echo Park

There are a bunch of business in Echo Park that offer eco-friendly goods and services. Here are just a few:

  • E.P.I.C (Echo Park Independent Co-op) sells locally-made fashions and one of it’s co-founders, Rhianon Jones, is a huge supporter of eco-fashion.
  • Warwick on Sunset is all about recycling household items and re-styling vintage clothing.
  • Tavin boutique offers vintage collectibles and new local eco-designs. And through the end of the month, they’re offering free shipping on all Etsy orders.
  • Feeding Birds Boutique is a vintage store in Echo Park that carries unique clothing (including organic tees), accessories and decorative objects.
  • This week at Vons, they’ll deliver your groceries for free if you buy five earth-friendly products online.
  • Masa uses lots of organic, local produce in their foods, and they’ve started to use eco-friendly packaging and doing away with plastic bags for take out (unless you’re desperate).
  • The Echo Park Time Bank conserves energy in a very unique way: by getting rid of the middle man and the use of currency.
  • Aisling Walsh is the Maid on a Moped. She’s got both an online local vintage store and she offers eco-friendly cleaning services.
  • The Echo Park Film Center has an eco-friendly option for film education – the Echo Park Film Mobile is an old school bus transformed into an eco-friendly mobile cinema and educational facility, providing free documentary film screenings and filmmaking workshops in non-traditional venues.
  • Delilah’s Bakery recycles all of their food waste through a Los Angeles-based company called Athens Waste Management. The company also supplies Delilah’s with its compostable packaging for take-away orders, and offers an oil waste collection service as well.
  • The Green Beacon Foundation, located in Elysian Heights, focuses on environmental educational, teaching you how to lead more sustainable lives through workshops and lectures. The next workshop called “Intro to Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy” is in May, visit the website for more info.
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The Week In Music

For the week of April 5-10, 2010

Monday
Demo Team, Charlie Wadhams, Henry Wolfe at Bootleg Theater
Walking Sleep, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Sons of August, Carsick Cars at The Echo
Fangs, Rare Grooves, The Real Noriegas, Hello My Name Is Red at Pehrspace
The Numerators at L’KEG Gallery
David Scott Stone at Echo Curio

Tuesday
Nothing Yet

Wednesday
Miles Kurosky, Pancho-san, Sexy Jail at The Echo
Craig Wedren (of Shudder To Think) at Bootleg Theater

Thursday
We Are the World vs. We Are Wolves, Sir Heffington’s Fingered at The Echo
The Deluge, theendisthebeginning at Bootleg Theater

Friday
The Janks, Family of the Year at Bootleg Theater
Club Underground w/ Spirit Animal, Gray Kid at The Echo
Suki Ewers, Old Toy trains, Space Waves at Pehrspace
Ja Prawn at Origami Vinyl

Saturday
Saint Motel, Voxhaul Broadcast, The Pity Party, Mississippi Man at Echoplex
Wires In The Walls’ EP release, Olin and the Moon at Bootleg Theater
Old timey bluegrass from Walter Spencer and his crew – out on the patio drink some lemonade, some beer, embrace the spring time! 6pm At Stories bookstore.

Sunday
Grand Ole Echo w/ I See Hawks In L.A., Wheelhouse, Mars Arizona at The Echo
The Boats, Sharp Objects, Gestapo Khazi at Echo Curio

Thanks to LAist
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Echo Park in LA Times Gift Guide

The LA Times is doing neighborhood gift guides for the holidays and Echo Park establishments such as MediaNoche are mentioned. Echo Park is referred to as Silverlake’s “dicier sister to the east”. What do you think about that?

In Silver Lake and Echo Park, gift-giving is all grown up

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