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Joel Salatin and the straight poop on sustainable farming

By Staff Reports | July 6, 2012

Joel Salatin w pigs

A Pigaerator? What’s that? I’m glad you asked. Joel Salatin, Janaia Donaldson’s guest on this episode of Peak Moment TV, explains this, while providing many other fascinating insights Salatin's pasture-based agriculture on Polyface Farms in Virginia. To avoid the overgrazing so common in modern farm practices, animals are moved every day to fresh pasture, including their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: Joel Salatin, Peak Moment TV

Growing up in the first Great Depression

By Staff Reports | April 9, 2012

It seems that gone are the days of finding Grandma's thrifty old ways and viewpoints amusing and charmingly old fashioned. But are we missing out on not only a resource that's much needed today in hearing about how our grandparents used to live, but also simply tuning into and honoring the wisdom of the elders? As the US faces an uncertain future, financially as well as in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: conservation, DIY, economy, Great Recession, homesteading, local economy, Peak Moment TV, relocalization

The best of all possible worlds has no use for peak oil

By Staff Reports | March 7, 2012

optimism poster

Panglossian Disorder? What on earth is that? And how does it apply to peak oil? Inspired by the eternal optimist Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire's Candide, psychologist Kathy McMahon, who calls herself the "peak shrink," explains on Peak Moment TV (episode 199) that she invented Panglossian Disorder. It's a condition of people who view the post peak oil future with unrealistic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Kathy McMahon, Peak Moment TV

Peak oil, adapting for big changes ahead

By Staff Reports | February 22, 2012

Vintage Pump

Peak oil. What changes might it bring and what mind shifts may we have to make to prepare ourselves to face these challenges, both in a practical sense and psychologically? This is the basis for Peak Moment TV Conversation' 351 with Energy Bulletin co-editor Bart Anderson. With the possibility of such dramatic change to how we live, how we interact with the world, and even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films, Reviews Tagged With: communication, DIY, education, Peak Moment TV, peak oil

If you’re not overwhelmed, something’s wrong with you

By Erik Curren | August 16, 2011

It's all good illustration

"The shock, the anger, the sense of overwhelm are all understandable," says psychotherapist Kathy McMahon of the moment when someone first hears about peak oil and gets how scary it can be. McMahon, who practices therapy in Northhampton, MA as the "Peak Shrink," thinks that society needs to normalize the anxiety that people feel about ecological overshoot so that more people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Candide, futurology, Gottfried Leibniz, Kathy McMahon, Laurence Gonzales, overshoot, Peak Moment TV, Voltaire

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