Watch baker Jen Ownbey whip up a batch of zucchini bread while she talks with Janaia about doing what she loves. Every week, members of her bakery CSA (community supported agriculture) get a handmade, local, mostly organic, and even personalized box of breads and bakery … [Read more...]
How to Boil a Frog – Meet the Filmmaker (187)
January 16, 2011 by 4 Comments
Filmmaker Jon Cooksey is one funny guy, even while presenting the most serious problems facing humanity. In this fast-paced conversation, he gallops all over the map with five big problems, five big solutions, and a playful and heartfelt approach. Wacky, sobering, full of … [Read more...]
Your Money, Your Life, Your Happiness (186)
December 30, 2010 by 8 Comments
Published 20 years ago, Your Money or Your Life was written for these times, asserts co-author Vicki Robin. Following its nine steps has transformed our own lives and those of some of our Peak Moment guests, just like the subtitle says: Transforming Your Relationship with … [Read more...]
Claiming the Commons — Food for All on Haultain Boulevard (185)
November 21, 2010 by 6 Comments
Rainey Hopewell's crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking — to anyone, anytime — with messages chalked on the sidewalk … [Read more...]
Haultain Common: A Garden on Public Land Where All May Harvest
November 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
September 12, 2010. Beware the subversives on Haultain Boulevard in Victoria, B.C. The friendly women gardening in their edible front yard greet all passers-by with conversation and invitations to harvest food. Guerrilla gardeners Rainey Hopewell (photo top) and Margot … [Read more...]
YES! Ready for Anything (184)
November 7, 2010 by 1 Comment
"An awful lot of what we've taken for granted about the future can't continue," says executive editor Sarah van Gelder of YES! Magazine, whose Fall 2010 issue is about people creatively building resilient families and communities. Publisher Fran Korten (at left in photo) … [Read more...]
Navigating the Decline (183)
October 28, 2010 by 1 Comment
This time Janaia's in the hot seat! In this interview by Jim Fritz on Port Townsend Television, she tackles corporate control and a dysfunctional system that profits from increasing unhealthiness and consuming the planet. She points to Peak Moment guests as models for the … [Read more...]
Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time (182)
October 17, 2010 by 4 Comments
A weekly free bike coop where you can use mechanics' tools and expertise to fix your bike? Free clinics where schoolkids or neighbors learn to maintain or build their own bikes from used parts? Chauncey and Dash Tudhope-Locklear make a living repairing bicycles, but … [Read more...]
Partners in Preparedness – Neighborhoods and Emergency Responders (181)
October 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
The last thing "Dr. Doom" Bob Hamlin expected was citizens offering to help his county Emergency Management Department. But when Deborah Stinson from Port Townsend's Local 20/20 came to Bob's office after Hurricane Katrina, they formed a partnership. Citizens are organizing … [Read more...]
Taking Back Our Lives from the Wall Street Mafia (180)
September 24, 2010 by 10 Comments
"Get rid of Wall Street!" says David C. Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and The Great Turning. Wall Street is about phantom wealth — real wealth is about happy, healthy families, local living economies in balance with Earth’s resources, and caring, resilient … [Read more...]
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