Locally Reliant Living for Challenging Times
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...]
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...]
April 16, 2012. We taped a great conversation in Chico with Joel Salatin, whose Polyface Farm in Virginia actually builds soil, while raising beef, chickens, turkeys for sale. In 2006 we taped Joel's a full day of presentations (Holy Cows, Hog Heaven). We were totally … [Read more...]
These pictures complement "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg" taped in May 2007 (episode 100). Photo 1 is the back yard before they began work. Photos 2 and 3 are the backyard as of May 2007 (photo taken from the roof, showing solar panels). … [Read more...]
Chris Martenson, author of The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Energy, Economy and the Environment book and video course, just gave two engaging presentations to our community. I wanted an update from our Peak Moment Conversation in early 2010 The Crash Course … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Rowena was six years old when the stock market crashed in 1929. Her family had moved to southern California from British Columbia only four years before. Her father got occasional work in construction. The family scraped by. Soon thereafter her parents separated, and her … [Read more...]
Carolyn Baker stopped by for a Peak Moment conversation on her way back to Colorado after conducting a workshop based on her new book, Navigating the Coming Chaos: A Handbook for Inner Transition. In spring of 2010 we'd taped a long-distance conversation via skype about her … [Read more...]
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