Dave Ewoldt Envisions A Sustainable Future

I always appreciate Dave Ewoldt's inclusion of reconnecting with the natural world as an essential element in creating a sustainable future. It's there in almost everything he writes. It makes sense. As this psychologist noted in our conversation, what goes on inside us is … [Read more...]

May News from Peak Moment TV

  Things are moving!! And they're moving with an overriding theme of Sharing. It's not just our recent conversations on a sharing garden and tool libraries. Or the conversation we just taped with two lawyers working to make sharing commonplace. We're renting our … [Read more...]

Meeting up with Mike Ruppert and Dmitry Orlov

At the GreenLife EcoFest on May 22, 2011 in Grass Valley, California, Dmitry Orlov presented "The Twilight of the Antipodes and the Cultural Flip" about swapping the market economy for gift economies, as humans have done throughout most of history. He was followed by … [Read more...]

Two Lawyers Empower Sharing and Sustainable Economies

Wednesday, May 18, 2011. We taped a lively chat with Janelle Orsi and Jenny Kassan, co-directors of the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) in Oakland, California. These passionate women are using their lawyerly skills to help people form sharing organizations like … [Read more...]

This Old House — Rethink, Reuse, Remodel (195)

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This Old House — Rethink, Reuse, Remodel (195)

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Transforming Communities Through Local Business

Helping Local Food Businesses Thrive,Wendy Siporen The Small-Mart Revolution, Michael Shuman Sustainable Connections — Transforming a Community Through Local Business, Michelle Long Local Living Economies — Protecting What We Love, Judy Wicks Four conversations, about … [Read more...]

Portland’s Neighborhood Tool Sharing Libraries (194)

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Letter from Hokkaido, Japan: Yes to Resilience!

This letter is from an American living in Hokkaido, Japan. I asked this longtime Peak Moment viewer and supporter what it was like after the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami. He replied: Dear Janaia, We are fine here in Hokkaido. The tsunami didn't do much harm … [Read more...]

Sharing Gardens — Giving and Receiving (193)

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