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Peak Moment TV on Public Access Channel 10

• 178: Beyond Back Yard Sustainability August 30, 2010
  Four years ago (in episode 51, “An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability”), Scott McGuire asked “how much food can I grow in my back yard to feed my family?” In this episode, we learn the results, and that food supply is not an individual project — it takes a community to feed one another. Scott’s [...] […]
• 177: Hooked on Growth - Meet the Filmmaker August 8, 2010
  Dave Gardner’s upcoming documentary looks at modern society and asks, why are we behaving irrationally? There’s overwhelming evidence we’ve reached the limits to growth, yet we continue in our addiction. In searching for a cure, Dave starts with the need to tell different stories and shares examples from several folks he’s interviewed. He highlights an [...] […]
• 175: Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution July 23, 2010
  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 degradation and depletion tell us it can’t [...] […]
• Thirty-Seven Views from Lone Bobcat Woods July 20, 2010
  An artistic prologue to “How We Live at Lone Bobcat Woods” (Episode 176). Ever wonder how an artist sees the world? In 1998 Janaia created an image from each window in her Sierra Nevada home. Her paintings in many styles emerge from a photographic backdrop in a music video panorama created by Robyn in 2004. Sharing [...] […]
• 176: How We Live at Lone Bobcat Woods July 11, 2010
  Peek behind the scenes at Peak Moment TV’s home base. Janaia Donaldson shows guest host Ivey Cone the solar power system, woodstove for heat (and winter waffles), and super efficient refrigerator. Choosing to reduce their footprint, she and Robyn Mallgren, Peak Moment videographer, don’t feel deprived at all. Janaia discusses what led them to leave [...] […]
• 174: The Power of Neighbors June 27, 2010
  Jan Spencer didn’t stop with a permaculture makeover* of his suburban home in Eugene, Oregon. Now he’s taking on the neighborhood! As a result, his neighborhood association is teaming up with city programs like Neighborhood Watch and Emergency Response to empower neighbors to work together. They’re transforming lawns and abandoned lots into edible gardens, a […]
• 173: Transitioning to the Elm Street Economy June 15, 2010
  How can you contribute your skills towards meeting real needs now and in the future? Paul and Sarah Edwards, the authors of Home-Based Business for Dummies, focus on the “Elm Street Economy” of locally-owned businesses rather than “Main Street”, which we hear so much about, but is comprised mainly of franchises. [...] […]
• 172: The Pee and Poo Show May 31, 2010
  Laura Allen gives an intimate tour of a home-built composting toilet in her Bay Area urban home. The nutrient-rich composted “humanure” is used to enrich the lush, edible landscape, and doesn’t waste precious drinking water like flush toilets. The co-founder of Greywater Action shows the throne-like toilet compartment whose distinctive feature is a urine div […]
• 171: A Permaculture Course for Busy People May 21, 2010
  Bill Wilson and Wayne Weiseman pour their hearts into their permaculture design courses, changing lives as well as landscapes. In a unique format, students do initial course work online and then attend a one week hands-on course. In this chat along with Sivananda Yoga Farm sponsor Vidya Chaitanya, Wayne discusses principles starting with with observing eleme […]
• 170: Preparing for Disasters and Hard Times May 17, 2010
  In this animated dialogue, natural resource analyst Sean Brodrick provides a sharp-eyed perspective on what may be coming in this precarious economy and how to prepare for it. The author of The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, Sean is hip to peak oil and other resource declines as well as the Katrina hurricane lesson - don’t [...] […]

Blogroll

• New Eden Community Garden @ First Parish Church This is where TN has a permaculture demonstration plot.
• Transition Massachusetts on NING Community of Transition Initiators
• Transition Newburyport on NING A direct link to Transition Newburyports community forum. From here you can communicate directly with everyone

Local Groups

• New Eden Community Garden Blog bringing together organic community gardeners, eco artists,church congregants, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) growers and shareholders, and local food and environmental organizations in an experiment to model sustainable community through inspir