Icicles are rare enough here that I just had to share Robyn’s picture. Sunday's snow was followed by a hard freeze, decorating our house with icicles on all sides (the sun never reaches the house in winter). The next morning, no hot water! Pipes had frozen in the house's … [Read more...]
Our Community Going Local
December 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
When we brought Richard Heinberg to introduce our community to Peak Oil late in 2005, we promised him an update on community responses. It's four years later, and I'm amazed and gratified at what's happening in western Nevada County. Here are a few of the sprouts since … [Read more...]
Reflections while Sewing a Raincover
November 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I have spent the last three days sewing three 100-inch zippers on a raincover for the mobile studio/RV. They'll let us be active inside the vehicle -- running generator and heaters -- while protecting it from rain and snow. As I work, I think of the factory workers in … [Read more...]
No Insurance? No Healthcare. Paying Cash? No Healthcare
November 11, 2009 by 5 Comments
No insurance? No healthcare. Paying cash? No healthcare. Got insurance? Won't cover your condition. Heads you win, tails I lose. In some tests for her chronic lyme disease last June, Robyn's thyroid got contradictory results. Wanting to see an endocrinologist about this, we … [Read more...]
A Family Farm Growing Heritage Fruit and Olives
October 11, 2009 by 3 Comments
Watch video "Innovation Bears Fruit for Family Farm" (Peak Moment episode 162). In the northeastern Sacramento valley between Paradise and Oroville, gigantic Table Mountain overlooks more than 2000 acres of green in a sea of brown grasslands. Up close, that green turns out … [Read more...]
Handy Guy Transforms an Edible Landscape
October 6, 2009 by 2 Comments
Saturday we taped a long-awaited tour of Mark Cooper's homestead. Over the past decade he has transformed a run-down house and 4 acres into an amazingly diverse, ever-evolving food-producing landscape (at left, Mark shows a mushroom log). A sidehill which was covered by … [Read more...]
A Day in the Life
September 10, 2009 by 4 Comments
A viewer asked how we live. I've written about how we planned for our off-grid solar-electric system. From a different angle: here are some of today's activities preparing for winter. Dry fruit and vegies. My frugal gleaner self picked figs a week ago, and then a new … [Read more...]
Water Resilience – A Necessity
August 26, 2009 by 8 Comments
I haven't gotten around to sending a Peak Moment newsletter this past couple of months because all our energy has been consumed with necessities: Infrastructure. In particular, our water systems. The requirement for water resilience has been underscored by Reality this … [Read more...]
Simple Living Supreme
August 11, 2009 by 7 Comments
Watch video "A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living" (Peak Moment episode 160). Simple Living: it was my dream when we moved to our house at Lone Bobcat Woods in 1990. Walking into Tammy and Logan's apartment the first time, I saw how beautifully they'd … [Read more...]
Everything You Know (About the Future) May Be Wrong
August 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Watch video "Peak Oil — Adapting for Changes Ahead" (Peak Moment episode 155). Taped a Peak Moment Conversation yesterday with Bart Anderson, for five years the dedicated full-time volunteer editor of EnergyBulletin.net, a reliable online source of information and … [Read more...]
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