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An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1552 seconds Peak Moment 51: 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 a significant portion of its own food supply?" Composting, a water-conserving greenhouse, and seed-saving are all facets of this beautiful work in progress. [www.whitesagegarden s.com] Related: garden, gardening, renter, saving, seed, sustainability, sustainable |
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Learning from Cuba's Response to Peak Oil Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1656 seconds Peak Moment #27: Megan Quinn of The Community Solution discusses her visit to Cuba, and the movie "The Power of Community". This young woman sees Peak Oil as an opportunity to create the communities we want, but notes that we must reduce our consumption despite environmentalists' assurances that biofuels will save us. Related: community, cuba, economy, farming, food, local, localization, moment, oil, peak |
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How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1672 seconds Peak Moment 87: 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 homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the bees, the chickens and the worms. And catch her joy in producing so much food for so little effort. Related: bees, catchment, chickens, composting, donella, food, gardening, home, irrigation, meadows, rainwater, vermiculture, worms |
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Self-sufficient Small Farms Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1733 seconds Peak Moment 6: Small acreages can produce a lot! Janet Brisson shows the home-canned and dried vegetables, fruit, and beans she cultivates along with chickens and bees. Renee Wade talks about practices that suit the land: her drier property is better suited to raising goats. Related: farm, farmer, food, local, self, small, sufficiency |
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Suburban Renewal - One Backyard at a Time Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1456 seconds Peak Moment 37: Jan Spencer shows his quarter-acre permaculture project transforming a typical suburban lot. Lawn and driveway were replaced with fruit and nut trees, vegetables, brambles, and native habitat, plus a 3500 gallon rainwater catchment system, a sunroom heating the house, and a small detached bungalow to increase residential density. Related: food, garden, gardening, jan, permaculture, renewal, spencer, suburb, suburban |
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A Natural Builder Creates an Ecovillage Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1323 seconds Peak Moment 38: Tour an urban ecovillage on less than two acres only five minutes by bicycle from the center of Eugene, Oregon. Builder Robert Bolman uses natural materials like sensitively-harveste d wood, earth and straw in the several beautiful, well-insulated, non-toxic structures surrounding the central shared gardens. Related: bolman, builder, building, community, ecovillage, intentional, maitreya, natural, robert |
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MagneGas: From Sewage to Fuel Tank Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1743 seconds Peak Moment 25: Watch Ron Cole demonstrate converting any water-based liquid to a gas similar to natural gas--and then drive off in the compressed-gas vehicle so fueled! He envisions its use in sewage treatment and neighborhood 'gas production' units that could plug into the natural gas grid. Related: energy, flex, fuel, gas, magnegas, natural, oil, peak, sewage, treatment |
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MOBY - An Inner City Community Garden Project Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1641 seconds Peak Moment 33: This Vancouver, B.C. neighborhood is building community while transforming an abandoned lot in a crack neighborhood into a flourishing community garden. Join MOBY-lizer Jason O'Brien and folks of all ages for cob clay-stomping fun accompanied by music in an inner-city urban garden below the elevated skytrain. Related: back, city, cob, community, crack, garden, inner, moby, my, own, urban, vancouver, yard |
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Waking Up to Peak Oil Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1714 seconds Peak Moment 10: After sisters Loretta and Karen O'Brien learned of Peak Oil, their lives became transformed as they worked to gather their family, learn permaculture, move towards more self-sufficiency, and deal with emotional challenges. Related: action, emotional, oil, peak, permaculture, personal, response, women |
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It's the Compost! Creating Abundance at K-JO Farm Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1678 seconds Peak Moment 55: Karen Biondo and Joe Walling take us on a tour of their incredible backyard farm on Vashon Island, Washington. Pet the goats, see chickens dusting in divots, and crunch a carrot. See how Karen's colorful paintbrush combined with Joe's creativity with salvaged materials and hot compost are creating playful beauty and plentiful harvests. Related: backyard, compost, farm, island, k-jo, reuse, salvage, small, vashon |
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A Defining Moment in History Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1674 seconds Peak Moment 48: 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 The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, implores us to replace dominator-control stories with new stories -- affirming life values of cooperation, community and interdependence. Related: change, climate, community, david, earth, empire, great, korten, oil, peak, the, turning |
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Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1675 seconds Peak Moment 67: 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 Speed's off-grid homestead where they work at "the speed of living," using hand tools that reconnect them to the earth. Related: and, hand, mercantile, smith, speed, sustainability, tools |
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Alcohol Can Be a Gas, Part 2 Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1679 seconds Peak Moment 79: David Blume, Founder, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, Soquel, California Related: alcohol, biodiesel, ethynol, fuel, liquid |
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Peak Oil, Peak Coal, and Beyond Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1679 seconds Peak Moment 63: Hot topics from Richard Heinberg: record-high U.S. fuel prices; the ethanol big-business boondoggle; coal projected to peak about a hundred years early (around 2020); what the climate change discussion is missing; and the benefits of "going local." [www.richardheinberg .com] Related: change, climate, coal, ethanol, gasoline, oil, peak, prices |
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The Worm Guy Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1673 seconds Peak Moment 58: Watch a worm birth from a cocoon. See compost produced from food scraps, horse manure, and lots of worms. See the machine that separates castings (worm poop)from compost. The Worm Guy, Mark Yelken, says that worms are "the intestines of the Earth", fertilizing and activating microbial activity. Stick around to learn about the "Worm Wigwam" and "Worm Tea". [www.thewormguy.org] Related: compost, food, island, local, sustainability, vashon, vermiculture, worms |
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Social Effects of Peak Oil Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1676 seconds Peak Moment 69: 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 increasingly strained. A member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, she discusses relocalizing our economies, to counter globalization based on an unsupportable grow-or-die economic model. Related: disenfranchised, economies, globalization, local, oil, peak, poor, social |
