September 2011 news
Summer is gently turning into fall, with beautiful poison oak leaves fading to soft crimson and dusty yellow, and our first brrrrr crisp morning. In harmony with this seasonal contraction, we feel inclined to contract a bit ourselves after three years of extensive output.
We're taking a travel hiatus as we rent our off-grid house, live in our RV/mobile studio, downsize further, and produce shows we taped on our trip to the Pacific Northwest.
Help us keep lightening up! We've posted more books to share — art, nature and psyche, and Peak Moment-related topics. Donate $5 or more to Peak Moment TV and email Janaia which book(s) you want.
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We're so inspired by one community's localizing projects that we added it to the Best of Peak Moment series: Port Townsend Shapes a Locally Reliant Community. $20 plus shipping.
Local Investing Made Easy (episode 201)
How Many Community Gardens? (episode 198)
Menu for the Future — Bringing Farmers to the Table (episode 189)
Partners in Preparedness — Neighborhoods and Emergency Responders (episode 181)
Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save The Planet on Sunday November 13, 2011 Berkeley, CA. Derrick Jensen (How the West Has Won, episode 200) interviews visionaries and revolutionary activists, including Arundhati Roy, Chris Hedges, Thomas Lindsey (Reclaiming Democracy DVD ), Stephanie McMillan, Waziyatwin, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith (The Vegetarian Myth, episode 191). Jensen: "We have been too kind to those who are destroying the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind."
Chris Martenson "Where do we go from here?" presentations Sunday October 16, 2011 Grass Valley, CA. Chris will give a keynote speech (1:00-2:30 pm), and presentation "Where do we go from here?" (3:30-5:00 pm). Silver expert Jason Hommel will speak in between. Chris is presenting elsewhere in Northern California. For a preview, look/listen to The Crash Course — Exponential Growth Meets Reality, episode 166.
Friday, September 30, 2011 (4-5 pm Pacific time): A live call-in show on Penn State's Sustainability Now Radio. Janaia will be interviewed by co-host Peter Dawson Buckland. 1-2 pm Eastern, 4-5 pm Pacific. Listen in or catch the archive. Peter is the founder of Environment-Ecology-Education in the PSU Education Department.
Healing Times Radio on Oct 6 and 13, 2011 (12-1 pm): Janaia's interview by Dr. Emmett Miller goes back to her spiritual journey, living in community, life at Lone Bobcat Woods, concerns for the planet. Listen in at Healing Times Radio: Conversations with Extraordinary People. Broadcast live on Thursdays October 6 and 13, noon to 1 pm Pacific time.
"What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" full movie is now online. Ahead of its time, this stunning film underscores the forces at work in the multiple deepening collapses. Thanks to Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson for sharing it with the world. Meet them in What a Way to Go" - Meet the Filmmakers (episode 72).
Books to share
Peruse the pictures of books about art, nature and psyche, and Peak Moment-related topics. Donate to Peak Moment TV, and tell me which book(s) in the picture that you want me to mail to you. Suggested donation is $5-15 a book...
Janaia's Journal of essays and pictures is about people we're taping, life on the road and reflections. Get RSS notification when each entry goes online.
...with Treehugger reviews by Sami Grover:
How the West HAS Won
"Is the world a better place because you were born?" asks author Derrick Jensen. He contrasts sustainable indigenous cultures who enrich their habitat with the current "dominant culture destroying everything." He explores how industrial civilization is inherently violent, turning people into objects and the earth into stuff. His books include A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, What We Leave Behind and Endgame (episode 200).
Local Investing Made Easy
We're "keeping money flowing locally so we're more prosperous as a community," says James Frazier, co-founder of the Local Investment Opportunities Network (LION) in Port Townsend, WA. LION is a clearinghouse between business owners like Matthew Day and potential investors like Kees Kolff. A business owner presents an investment opportunity to LION members. It's all based on one-to-one personal relationships, so support can be more than monetary, says Kees — such as interest paid in locally-produced cheese and cider! (episode 201).
Collapse of the Titans
Learn from the Soviets — personal relationships are the best currency, says Russian-born Dmitry Orlov, the author of "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." The American empire is following the USSR into collapse, he asserts, with financial collapse happening first, followed by commercial and then political collapse. Dmitry, an America resident for several decades, suggests lowering our needs and expectations and replacing money transactions with barter and exchanges (episode 202).
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