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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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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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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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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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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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101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1680 seconds
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 will take us through this critical planetary energy transition.
Related: change, climate, dauncey, energy, guy, moment, oil, peak
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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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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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