We taped a lively non-stop conversation today with authors Paul and Sarah Edwards. In the summer of 2008 they joined us for a conversation about their recent book Middle Class Lifeboat: Careers and Lifestyles for Navigating a Changing Economy. The economy crashed two months … [Read more...]

We pulled up to the pleasant blue house in north Oakland (CA). Built about a century ago, it's residents call it HAUT house: House of Appropriate Urban Technology. The technology we came to videotape wasn't its generous rainwater and the greywater systems, whose pipes … [Read more...]

For months now, I've wanted to videotape a conversation with Keith Farnish, British author of Time's Up: An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis, and this week showed up as the right time. In the meantime, Sean Brodrick, Florida author of The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist … [Read more...]

Here's a behind-the-scenes view of our first Peak Moment Conversation taped with a remote guest — Carolyn Baker in Boulder, Colorado — with Janaia in our home "studio" in the kitchen (chosen for the interesting background). What you're seeing is Janaia talking with Carolyn … [Read more...]

We just videotaped a conversation with Carolyn Baker in Boulder, Colorado from our home in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I've wanted to tape Carolyn for over a year, hoping to do so when we traveled east, but it wasn't meant to be. Fortunately for us, software has recently … [Read more...]

As a matter of community food security, what if on every street, in every neighborhood, people had a cache of dried foods stored? Not just for their family, but to share with their neighbors if the trucks stopped rolling. Such sharing brings more security and community than … [Read more...]