"This is a very important piece of music, a very powerful piece of music," says Ken Hardin, conductor of Sierra Master Chorale. In advance of their performances on May 17 and 20, 2012, he provides a musical guided tour of this contemporary work by Karl Jenkins, commissioned … [Read more...]
Dreams by Derrick Jensen
March 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
Dear Derrick, Over the past several months, I've read your book Dreams not just once, but twice. It has been more than an intellectual foray. It has been an experiencing, a journeying, a nightly rendezvous for communications from "other sides." I didn't want … [Read more...]
Best of 2011 – Pushing the Boundaries (vol 1)
January 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Our top choices from the 2011 Peak Moment TV conversations (volume 1 of 2). The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith How the West Has Won, Derrick Jensen Awakening the Village Heart and Mind, Brandy McPherson Portable House, Simple Life, Dee Williams Four conversations, … [Read more...]
Best of 2011 – Innovations and Insights (vol 2)
January 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Our top choices from the 2011 Peak Moment conversations (volume 2 of 2). Peak Oil Blues - We're All Bozos on This Bus, Kathy McMahon Oil Puts the Squeeze on the Economy, Chris Martenson Local Investing Made Easy, James Frazier, Kees Kolff, Matthew Daly How to Boil A … [Read more...]
How the West Has Won (200)
August 28, 2011 By 14 Comments
"Is the world a better place because you were born?" asks author Derrick Jensen. He contrasts sustainable indigenous cultures who enrich their habitat with the current "dominant culture destroying everything." He explores how industrial civilization is inherently violent, … [Read more...]
Arrival of the Post-Petroleum Human (196)
June 24, 2011 By 4 Comments
"Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive," announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging "species" know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial … [Read more...]
The Vegetarian Myth (191)
March 14, 2011 By 41 Comments
What we eat is destroying both our bodies and the planet, according to author Lierre Keith, a recovering twenty-year vegan and author of The Vegetarian Myth. While she passionately opposes factory farming of animals, she maintains that humans require nutrient-dense animal … [Read more...]
Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution (175)
July 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
What kind of life do you want, and what are you willing to do to get it? Keith Farnish, author of Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis, sees industrial civilization as the most destructive way of living yet devised by humans. And it's over: environmental … [Read more...]
Taping authors Keith Farnish (Time’s Up) and Kathy Harrison (Just in Case)
June 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today we taped two lively long distance conversations. We retaped a conversation with Keith Farnish, since the earlier show we'd taped — our first using skype on a friend's DSL line — had technical difficulties that made it unusable. Computer-savvy Keith gave us the fix for … [Read more...]
The Twilight of an Age (138)
December 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
In his book, The Long Descent, John Michael Greer observes that our culture has two primary stories: "Infinite Progress" or "Catastrophe". On the contrary, he sees history as cyclic: civilizations rise and fall. Like others, ours is exhausting its resource base. Cheap energy … [Read more...]
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