We are a circle of people who are …

Positive
* We fold the new approaches of Sustainability into our lives and lead by example. (Alan AtKisson’s Transformers)
* We actively bring the new techniques of Sustainability from the inventors out to the Mainstream. (Alan AtKisson’s Change Agents)

Supportive
* encourage action
* help you stay on track
* nurture the courage to be different from the Mainstream

* a peer group of people who are greening their lives together

Local
* today, the Westchester area of Los Angeles; tomorrow your neighborhood and backyard (find out how)

       "ReLocalization is not an if but a when" -- Aaron Nuline

Both grassroots and top-down
* concerned with both “where are we getting our groceries?” and “what are we encouraging our political representatives to do on our behalf?”

Sustainability-focused
* help each other distinguish true course from green-washing
* stay on track using Sustainability as the measuring stick

Come join us!

Poyourow's novel describes a ficticious support group where members encourage each other in positive environmental action. Rood had long wished to encourage environmental action in his parish. Thus Environmental Change-Makers came into being.

Rood's parish provided a site, while Poyourow provided program direction. Early core membership came from the local Westchester neighborhood - church parishioners and Westchester neighbors combined.

The Environmental Change-Makers continue to hold monthly meetings on a wide variety of topics (calendar ... past meetings).  These meetings often explore urban Permaculture and post-petroleum concepts, and draw environmentally-minded people from the greater Los Angeles area.

The Environmental Change-Makers also participate in other activities.  They sponsored an action as part of the national Step It Up campaign for climate action.  They have appeared at many Los Angeles "green" events including Culver City's "Going Green" Sustainable Community Plan events, EcoFabulous at Santa Monica College, Loyola Marymount University's Bellarmine Forum on Environmental Responsibility and the California Resource Recovery Association's annual conference. 

The Environmental Change-Makers have been local support for the Union of Concerned Scientists' efforts toward global warming legislation.  The Environmental Change-Makers collaborated with Holy Nativity Parish, creating an Earth Care Fair as an enrichment of the annual Blessing of the Animals event which Holy Nativity had offered to the community for many years. 

Read the story of the Environmental Change-Makers in the introduction to our book.  And read more about the accomplishments of our group.