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Peak Moment 129: Richard Heinberg, author of Powerdown, makes plain the dire situation we're in as declining oil supplies fail to meet demand. He notes there are no easy "supply side" solutions (li...
Peak Moment 128: Molly Brown sees Peak Oil as both a challenge and an invitation to create a better world. After awakening to Peak Oil, she explored her own responses -- inner attitude and outer ac...
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Peak Moment 112: According to Professor Guy Prouty, every civilization rises, evolves, and then collapses to a simpler structure -- and this will include our own. Comparing America with the Western...
Peak Moment 110: As a mom of two teenagers, Deborah Lindsay is deeply concerned about their future. As a peak oil educator, she paints a vivid picture of a post-petroleum world, with an emphasis on...
[Superseded by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKhHQTw_dY. This version has poor audio/video synchronization, but remains here so you can read comments from earlier viewers.] Peak Moment 110: As ...
Hi, I'm Janaia Donaldson, host of Peak Moment Conversations. I gave this presentation about living sustainably and how that has affected who I am, at Gather the Women, Nevada County in March 2008. ...
Peak Moment 104: From an early start producing biodiesel from used cooking oil in his garage, Ian Hill, was instrumental in creating a market for biofuels in the state of Oregon. Now Managing Partn...
Peak Moment 101: 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 e...
Peak Moment 99: For over a decade, Bob Banner has brought documentary films to his region, and published a bimonthly magazine, HopeDance, "Radical solutions inspiring hope." Ahead of many, he bring...
Peak Moment 98: Energy researcher Glenn Rambach's charts show how America budgeted for energy independence following the OPEC embargo in 1973. Then the Reagan administration switched to having "the...
Peak Moment 94: Jason Bradford and Brian Weller, co-founders of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL), discuss their group's approach to educating and enrolling their townsfolk about declining oil a...
Peak Moment 83: Communities Magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian concisely spells out what the successful 10% of intentional communities do: common vision and purpose, fair participatory decision-...
Peak Moment 81: Former energy analyst Jan Lundgren 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...
Peak Moment 79: David Blume, Founder, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, Soquel, California
Peak Moment 73: 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 includ...
Peak Moment 71: 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 horticultur...
Peak Moment 70: Russ Teall has developed biodiesel production equipment since the industry was in its infancy. He discusses biodiesel's advantages over petroleum diesel, and the land-for-food vs. f...
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 divides are increa...
Peak Moment 65: Enjoy toe-tapping tunes as environmental educators Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz regale us with songs like "Penguins on Thin Ice." Their shared goal is for education to be fun an...
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 clima...
Peak Moment 62: Take a whirlwind tour of the Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (gra...
Peak Moment 60: Richard Katz and Dennis Brumm burst the technofix dream-bubble by naming the hard stuff: the lack of sufficient alternatives to oil and gas at the enormous scale needed. Overpopulat...
Peak Moment 56: Tam Hunt of Santa Barbara, California outlines a strategy for regional independence from fossil fuels -- and it centers around electricity. Start with efficiency & conservation, add...
Peak Moment 53: 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 m...
Peak Moment 13: Rick Hartmann covers the data about global oil production and consumption, while Michael Thompson envisions a healthier, better world on the other side of the peak.
Peak Moment 20: Matt Stevens chairs the group formed to assess Sebastopol's electricity use and its ability to respond to price increases and supply disruptions, and to make recommendations to redu...
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 rec...
Peak Moment 47: 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, wr...
Peak Moment 42: Yes! magazine counters mainstream media by giving us stories of people creating sustainable, just and positive futures. Executive Editor, Sarah Van Gelder discusses healthcare for a...
Peak Moment 14: Celine Rich and Julian Darley, co-directors of Post Carbon Institute, discuss their rapidly-growing Relocalization network supporting small groups worldwide to reduce consumption an...
Peak Moment 41: Ken Smokoska, Director, Energy & Climate Change Initiatives, California Sierra Club, Aeron Arlin Genet, Chair, Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition, Nick Alter, Chair, Government Co...
Peak Moment 39: Facilitator and musician Melanie Rios believes life can be much richer after peak oil -- with lighter living that gives back time and joy. She facilitates communication skills to he...
Peak Moment 11: Loretta and Karen O'Brien explore women's emotional responses; concerns for children, family and health; nurturing activities like food-growing and building social networks in commu...
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-suffici...
Peak Moment 45: Joanna Gabriel feels the challenge of peak oil is an opportunity "forcing us to create the kind of world we wanted all the time anyway." The coordinator for Post Carbon Ashland expl...
Peak Moment 19: City councilman Larry Robinson discusses how rising energy prices and availability might affect services like fire, water, wastewater, law enforcement--and the citizen's advisory gr...
Peak Moment 34: A superb urban transport solution whose time has come. Founder Tracey Axelsson recounts the ins-and-outs of North America's oldest and largest car-sharing cooperative--membership, o...
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 sew...
Peak Moment 5: Mary Nelson reflects on a "brewing perfect storm" as oil supplies diminish and people are mortgaged to the hilt. She suggests that first understanding what's going on will help us pr...
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 innovations w...
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 communitie...
Peak Moment #31: Propelled by passage of the Portland Peak Oil Resolution in May 2006, a citizen's task force is developing recommendations for the city. With Brendan Finn, chief of staff to Commis...
Peak Moment 28: Michael Ruppert, publisher of FromTheWilderness.com, has made connections between money, Peak Oil, and geopolitics for years. He discusses his move to Ashland and offers specific to...
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