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Derrick Jensen: How the West Has Won 28 min
Derrick Jensen: How the West Has Won
28 min · Peak Moment 200: "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...
101 Solutions to Global Climate Change 27 min
101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
27 min · Peak Moment 26: Author Guy Dauncey's lively, optimistic solutions for Peak Oil and climate crisis are do-able here and now. Conservation, efficiency, proven technologies, and emerging...
How to Boil a Frog (Interview with the Filmmaker) 27 min
How to Boil a Frog (Interview with the Filmmaker)
27 min · Peak Moment 187: 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...
Guy Dauncey on Solving the Environmental Crises: We Can Do It! 27 min
Guy Dauncey on Solving the Environmental Crises: We Can Do It!
27 min · Peak Moment 218: Futurist Guy Dauncey's enthusiastic determination is absolutely infectious! The author of Climate Change: 101 Solutions to Global Warming sees multiple environmental...
The Straight Poop on Sustainable Farming 26 min
The Straight Poop on Sustainable Farming
26 min · Innovative farmer Joel Salatin says sustainable agriculture requires both perennials (like native grasses) and herbivores (like cattle) to build soil. Mimicking patterns from nature...
Awakening the Village Heart and Mind 27 min
Awakening the Village Heart and Mind
27 min · From their “Zero Mile Meal Eatery” to zoning and financing innovations, O.U.R. Ecovillage in BC, Canada has paved the way for many communities worldwide. For Brandy Gallagher, the story...
Arrival of the Post-Petroleum Human 27 min
Arrival of the Post-Petroleum Human
27 min · “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...
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard 27 min
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard
27 min · 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...
Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time 28 min
Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time
28 min · 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...
A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living 27 min
A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living
27 min · Rather than follow the customary American dream, Tammy and Logan sold their home and car, and moved to a bikeable/walkable neighborhood in Sacramento, California. After reading Derrick...
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love 28 min
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love
28 min · Judy Wicks’ love of place has made widening ripples on a global scale. She’s the founder of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), a national network of sustainable, small...
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists 25 min
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists
25 min · Asking “wouldn’t it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?” Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate...
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People 28 min
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
28 min · What if a community owned its electric utility cooperatively, rather than paying a for-profit company? Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative could be a model. Energy Services manager...
Creating a Home Graywater System 27 min
Creating a Home Graywater System
27 min · Trathen Heckman takes us on a step-by-step tour of how to make a safe, ecological and legal suburban home graywater system. Follow the water as it drains from the bathroom tub (and sink...
The Transition Movement Comes to America 27 min
The Transition Movement Comes to America
27 min · One response to the global crisis that is gaining enthusiastic momentum is the Transition Towns movement. Jennifer Gray, a pioneer in the Transition Initiative in the UK and cofounder of...
The Twilight of an Age 25 min
The Twilight of an Age
25 min · 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...
Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown? 27 min
Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown?
27 min · Drawing parallels with the current financial meltdown, Matthew Simmons expresses his alarm about gasoline stocks being the lowest in several decades and refinery production down...
Calm Before the Storm 27 min
Calm Before the Storm
27 min · Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most...
An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future 27 min
An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future
27 min · How much energy does a town consume? Brian Corzilius sleuthed that out for Willits, California, and got a big surprise: in this community of 13,000 people, nearly 25% of personal...
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg 27 min
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
27 min · Tour Janet and Richard’s quarter acre for an example of what’s possible in suburbia. Their front yard of edible plants also provides habitat for birds and insects. The backyard radiates...
Energy and Climate Initiatives in Santa Barbara 27 min
Energy and Climate Initiatives in Santa Barbara
27 min · Santa Barbara is serious about lowering carbon emissions. Guided by a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions study, they’re adding solar panels to city buildings, requiring lower energy...
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul 27 min
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul
27 min · Linda Buzzell-Saltzman and Larry Saltzman of Santa Barbara share a love for their garden in more ways than one. Larry is creating a lush food forest and teaches permaculture to promote...
A Sustainability Renaissance Man 27 min
A Sustainability Renaissance Man
27 min · Earth needs humans to figure out our shared destiny, says Alan Seid, whose interest is both the outer and inner dimensions of sustainability. Outside there's ecology, social systems and...
Making Way for Bikes 28 min
Making Way for Bikes
28 min · City Councilor Scott Walker of Port Townsend, Washington is working to build a walkable, bikeable community where the car is not essential. As a result, the town has designated many...
The San Francisco Peak Oil Resolution 28 min
The San Francisco Peak Oil Resolution
28 min · San Francisco is the first American city to formally address the challenges of oil depletion. Dennis Brumm and Alyse Heartwell recount how members of SF Oil Awareness envisioned, wrote...
Energetic Students Empower CA Policy 27 min
Energetic Students Empower CA Policy
27 min · The future's environmental leaders are here now! Student leader Tylor Middlestadt recounts how Empower Poly (San Luis Obispo, CA) is bringing students to the table--with staff, faculty...
A Defining Moment in History 27 min
A Defining Moment in History
27 min · The planet is quickly confronting us with limits to the exploitative, dominator system of the past 5000 years. David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, and more recently...
Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust 27 min
Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust
27 min · Francis Ayley established over a dozen local currencies in the UK before moving to the U.S. He contrasts our standard, scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in...
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability 28 min
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability
28 min · Tour Scott McGuire's "White Sage Gardens" in the back yard of his rental home -- a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, "How might a household produce and preserve...
Community Responses to Peak Oil 27 min
Community Responses to Peak Oil
27 min · Peak oil educator and author Richard Heinberg discusses what communities can do to prepare for peak oil. He covers transportation, including a novel ride-sharing scheme, assessing...
Fossil Free by '33 27 min
Fossil Free by '33
27 min · Tam Hunt of the Community Environmental Council in Santa Barbara, California outlines a strategy for regional independence from fossil fuels -- and it centers around electricity. Start...
BriarPatch Co-op - Building for the New Century 28 min
BriarPatch Co-op - Building for the New Century
28 min · Manager Paul Harton welcomes us to the newly-built BriarPatch Co-op Natural Foods Community Market. It's built to qualify for LEED™ certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental...
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? 28 min
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
28 min · In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her...
A Cutting-Edge Architect's Eco-Friendly Home 28 min
A Cutting-Edge Architect's Eco-Friendly Home
28 min · As an organizer in the American Institute of Architects, Chris Stafford has long promoted sustainable design. As a natural builder, he worked with straw bale and clay in Greece and Saudi...
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy 28 min
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy
28 min · Take a whirlwind tour of the one-acre Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops...
Boulder County Going Local! 28 min
Boulder County Going Local!
28 min · Michael Brownlee didn't stop after creating the Boulder Valley Relocalization group. He's catalyzing Boulder County's Going Local! campaign, encouraging residents to buy local first, eat...
Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World 28 min
Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World
28 min · At Smith and Speed Mercantile on Orcas Island, hand tools line the walls and tables along with organic wool comforters and non-toxic paints. It's an extension of Kathleen Smith and Errol...
Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project 28 min
Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project
28 min · Take a tour with Joe, Doug and Sam Bullock on their Orcas Island homestead, site of a yearly Permaculture design course. Using nature as their model, they create edges and wildlife...
Social Effects of Peak Oil 28 min
Social Effects of Peak Oil
28 min · How will rising oil prices affect low- and middle-class lives? Sociologist and professor Rowan Wolf sees at-risk populations growing while government services and class divides are...
Restoring Native Landscapes - From a Dump to a Park 28 min
Restoring Native Landscapes - From a Dump to a Park
28 min · A closed landfill in Santa Barbara county is not just being restored with native plants. It also has a pilot project growing oil-rich jatropha for biodiesel. Restoration horticulturists...
"What a Way to Go" - Meet the Filmmakers 28 min
"What a Way to Go" - Meet the Filmmakers
28 min · Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson discuss the influences behind this heartfelt and riveting documentary on "Life at the End of Empire." Framed in Tim's personal story of awakening to the...
Post Carbon Cities - Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty 28 min
Post Carbon Cities - Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
28 min · Smart municipalities are planning and preparing for energy vulnerability and climate change. Daniel Lerch, manager of the Post Carbon Cities project, has prepared a guidebook including...
San Francisco Takes Action on Climate Change 28 min
San Francisco Takes Action on Climate Change
28 min · Cal Broomhead and Melissa Capria of the Energy & Climate Program discuss the rationale, aggressive plans, and activities for city-wide energy self-reliance and greenhouse gas reduction...
Sustainable Connections - Transforming a Community Through Local Business 28 min
Sustainable Connections - Transforming a Community Through Local Business
28 min · Michelle Long shows us how a highly successful local independent business network has transformed Bellingham, WA, while inspiring other communities. From an initial "Think Local First"...
City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces 28 min
City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces
28 min · What happens when citizens apply permaculture principles to a city grid? They create friendly places within the grid that invite people to come together. Mark Lakeman, co-founder of...
Climate Change Despair and Empowerment - A Roadshow from "Down Under" 27 min
Climate Change Despair and Empowerment - A Roadshow from "Down Under"
27 min · After summarizing the facts of deepening global climate chaos, Australian Kelly Tudhope notes that our psychological response is often overlooked. Feeling powerless, many people stay in...
A No-Nonsense Look at Climate Change and Petrocollapse 27 min
A No-Nonsense Look at Climate Change and Petrocollapse
27 min · Former energy analyst Jan Lundberg opens by singing "Have A Global Warming Day" and closes with "The Depaver's Song." In between is an unabashed look at climate distortion, peak oil, and...
People-Centered Developments for Reduced-Energy Living 28 min
People-Centered Developments for Reduced-Energy Living
28 min · Developer Steven Ribeiro is re-creating traditional towns, that put "waste" resources to good use. A mixed-use three-story building augments power from its solar panels (which provide...
Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community 27 min
Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community
27 min · Peak Moment TV: Communities Magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian concisely spells out what the successful 10% of intentional communities do: common vision and purpose, fair...
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