About Janaia

Janaia Donaldson is the host and producer of Peak Moment TV. After her peak oil a-ha moment in 2005, she co-founded Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE of Nevada County, CA). She has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, and educator; and a user interface designer at Xerox.

Road Trip Planned for Summer 2013

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We're embarking on the next Peak Moment tour this summer!  We're heading to the Pacific Northwest. Our return route may be via the Canadian Rockies to Colorado and New Mexico. We'll see. If you can offer a safe place to park not far from the I-5 corridor in Oregon or … [Read more...]

An Artist’s View from Coyote Overlook

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This is where we live. What inspires us. Just a short walk around Round Mountain, Coyote Overlook boasts a vista extending across the Rock Creek watershed to the South Yuba River canyon. Beyond is the Sacramento Valley and on clear days, we can see the coastal range.  … [Read more...]

Living with the Predicament – Ivey and Me

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You asked for it! After we had our Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse video panel discussion, some Peak Moment TV viewers asked to hear more of my perspectives. Host and producer Ivey Cone said sure, so she and I did Take Two. Ivey and I got on a roll in Living with … [Read more...]

Gnarly Ancestral Oak Going Strong after Three Centuries

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Like a guardian spirit (do you see her watchful eye?), this Ancestral Black Oak welcomes us as we enter Bearhaven Meadow at Lone Bobcat Woods near Round Mountain in the South Yuba River watershed. She is nearly hollow, perhaps from a long-ago wildfire. If you look up … [Read more...]

Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse (Video)

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Our close friend Ivey Cone hosted and produced Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse, a panel discussion with Nevada City, CA activists Terra Nyssa, Tom Grundy and myself in late March, 2013. It's a courageous discussion about some of the issues we face at this time of … [Read more...]

Cooking Primal Cuisine with Chef Pauli Halstead

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April 16, 2013. Today we enjoyed taping and tasting a Peak Moment show with Pauli Halstead, author of Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet. We met Pauli last fall 2012 at my talk on our ketogenic diet, Celebrating a Lighter, Leaner Janaia. Later she invited us to … [Read more...]

Enforced Advertising? Not for Peak Moment TV!

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In an advertising-saturated culture, what's another ad? For us at Peak Moment TV, it would be capitulation to the wrong forces: It might imply that we choose to make—or not make—particular shows because of advertiser influence. It might imply that we support an … [Read more...]

Tool Sharing Library – with French Subtitles

Peak Moment TV in French! Thanks to Sylvie Robert, Portland's Neighborhood Tool Sharing Libraries has been produced with French subtitles. La bibliothèque d'outils de Portland is on Quebec Transition Network's YouTube channel.  La bibliothèque d'outils de … [Read more...]

Climate Change – The Big Picture, Illustrated

After you've viewed this infographic from learnstuff.com, read Guy McPherson's update of climate change timing projections as of January 2013.   Okay, now read Guy McPherson's update of climate change timing projections as of January 2013. It brings us … [Read more...]

Chris Hedges: The Destroyers

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And I add: Big Ag destroys food, and Monsanto destroys life … [Read more...]