Greetings at the dawn of a new decade, which already looks like a major departure from the past several decades.
In this newsletter, we set our sights on a 2010 trip, announce a Permaculture Best of Peak Moment DVD, and share a computer inside screen cleaner. But first (drum roll)...
Heartfelt thanks to all who responded to our "One in a Thousand" fundraising campaign! We're one-quarter of the way to our $1000/month goal, thanks to you.
We still need 777 more volunteers to contribute $1 a month or more. If you've been undecided, now's the time! You'll help us cover costs for taping shows along the west coast.
Contribute whatever works for your heart and pocketbook.
(Just for a tickler, watch Janaia's self-taped "One in a Thousand" video nicely edited down by Robyn, who snapped Janaia at left at a fascinating Berkeley spot where we researched a future show.)
Thanks for joining us on the journey ~
Janaia & Robyn
Third in our popular Best of Peak Moment series, 4 programs, $20
(The other Best of Peak Moment sets are Backyard Gardens and Local Business.)
Bullock Brothers Homestead — a 25 Year Permaculture Project
How Do I Invite You to Grow Food, Jenny Pell
High on Permaculture in the Rocky Mountains, Kris Holstrom
The Heart of Permaculture, Bill Wilson (more from Bill below)
A good companion DVD set is Introduction to Permaculture, a weekend-long course packed with information and great graphics. 6-DVD set, $99.
Order between now and March 31st, we'll give you either a Peak Oil DVD with Richard Heinberg or The Great Turning with David Korten. Tell us your choice in the PayPal text box. Offer good while supplies last.
2010 West Coast Trip. While our intention is still strong for a cross-county trip, we've scaled down our plans for this year to meet budget realities. There's lot's going on on the West Coast. We intend to visit a number of new folks doing great things, and get updates on some projects we've visited in the past.
As always, we welcome your program suggestions. We're especially looking for programs about city-dwellers, and projects building community resilience. Email janaia@peakmoment.tv.
Blogs about recent tapings. Recently we headed to Berkeley to videotape Chris Martenson, creator of the "Crash Course." In an easy-to-understand yet revealing way, he connects the dots between the economy, energy and environment (resource declines). He notes the likely impacts of these three E's on our future, about which he says "The next twenty years will be very unlike the last twenty."
While there, we scoped out a future show on wood gasifiers that are models of democratic technology and look like Rube Goldberg's delight (see the fun picture.)
Right here in Nevada City, we taped a how-to show on longterm bulk food storage with equipment available free to the community. With a vision of bulk food caches in every neighborhood, the project visionary Loraine Webb wants to increase local resilience and food security.
Personal note. We held off traveling last year as we bolstered our homestead resilience by adding to our water system, and dealing with Robyn's heart symptoms. Good news is that, after a challenging journey through standard medical and alternative healing systems, the naturopathic supplements seem to be bringing her back to "normal." A personal journey underscoring the need for healthcare resilience along with other areas of our lives.
Low-cost downloads for your local TV station. Our friends at PegMedia.org have been so wildly successful in making many programs downloadable to CATV stations nationwide that they now need to charge stations a small amount for server space. Downloading each Peak Moment show costs about 50 cents — still a fabulous deal. Over 65 stations have downloaded our shows from PegMedia.
If your station only accepts DVDs, subscriptions start at $100 a year and we'll send you three months free. Email janaia@peakmoment.tv.
Help keep Peak Moment TV airing in Santa Cruz, Port Townsend, and New York City (who are unable to use PegMedia). When you contribute, add a note about which station it's for. $10 a month covers each station.
Watch our friend Bill Wilson's free online videos from his Introduction to Permaculture course. His presentation "A Permaculture Perspective: Living in Authenticity During Energy Descent" is online and on DVD.
After you read Richard Heinberg's stunning museletter on The Last Nation Standing or John Michael Greer's blog Endgame, you might sign Post Carbon Institute's call to action to President Obama urging him to tell the hard truths on energy, and to take appropriate action. We're not holding our breath, mind you, but getting energy into the public conversation is a first step.
We appreciate the film Avatar's envisioning of a culture deeply connected with the natural world, nicely described in this review. Perhaps the depression reported by many movie goers who long to live on Pandora reflects a homesickness for our own roots in the natural world before civilization began disconnecting us. That's one of the gifts in the demise of industrial cvilization that we're witnessing.
And lastly, both my computer screen and our day were brightened by this screen cleaner. Enjoy!
Peak Oil — Adapting for Big Changes Ahead
Bart Anderson, former editor of Energy Bulletin.net, envisions a very different society in five years and offers advice for post-oil living (episode 155).
High on Permaculture in the Rocky Mountains
Kris Holstrom's off-grid permaculture farm and greenhouse at 9000 feet high is living proof that food can be grown nearly anywhere (episode 156).
Permaculture educator Bill Wilson sees permaculture as a viable, realistic way to use nature to provide the abundance we really need (episode 157).
A New Paradigm for Development
Jason Schreiner and Ravi Logan envision cooperative regional alternatives to the corporate capitalist system (episode 158).
Reflections on the End of the World As We Know It
William Stewart reflects on the shadow side of the fossil fuel bonanza, which enabled shredding our connections to community and place (episode 159).
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