While in Berkeley recently, we scoped out a future Peak Moment show with the innovative folks at All Power Labs. They produce (and, with their online forum of local tinkerers, are continuing to improve) a low-cost, open source design, "wood gasifiers experimentation kit" … [Read more...]

I've wanted to tape a conversation with Chris Martenson since I viewed his Crash Course last spring. Chris opens the Crash Course by saying the next twenty years will be totally unlike the last twenty: we'll face "the greatest economic and physical challenge ever seen by … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Peak Moment Television was on the scene at ASPO-USA, the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil - USA,  September 21-23, 2008 in Sacramento, California. Upcoming episodes will include personal interviews along with excerpts from presentations. First … [Read more...]

Richard Heinberg and I sit on the straw bales forming the corner of our newly-prepared compost pile here at Lone Bobcat Woods. I was really pleased to have Richard and his partner Janet Barocco come here to tape this Peak Moment Conversation. It felt like we were deepening … [Read more...]