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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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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 Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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MagneGas: From Sewage to Fuel Tank Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1743 seconds 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 sewage treatment and neighborhood 'gas production' units that could plug into the natural gas grid. Related: energy, flex, fuel, gas, magnegas, natural, oil, peak, sewage, treatment Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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MOBY - An Inner City Community Garden Project Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1641 seconds Peak Moment 33: This Vancouver, B.C. neighborhood is building community while transforming an abandoned lot in a crack neighborhood into a flourishing community garden. Join MOBY-lizer Jason O'Brien and folks of all ages for cob clay-stomping fun accompanied by music in an inner-city urban garden below the elevated skytrain. Related: back, city, cob, community, crack, garden, inner, moby, my, own, urban, vancouver, yard Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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Waking Up to Peak Oil Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1714 seconds 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-sufficiency, and deal with emotional challenges. Related: action, emotional, oil, peak, permaculture, personal, response, women Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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The Portland Peak Oil Task Force Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1677 seconds 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 Commissioner of Public Affairs, and task force member Randy White. Their recommendations summary and full report are at www.portlandonline.c om/osd/index.cfm?c=4 2894. Related: decline, energy, force, oil, oregon, peak, portland, resolution, task Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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It's the Compost! Creating Abundance at K-JO Farm Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1678 seconds Peak Moment 55: Karen Biondo and Joe Walling take us on a tour of their incredible backyard farm on Vashon Island, Washington. Pet the goats, see chickens dusting in divots, and crunch a carrot. See how Karen's colorful paintbrush combined with Joe's creativity with salvaged materials and hot compost are creating playful beauty and plentiful harvests. Related: backyard, compost, farm, island, k-jo, reuse, salvage, small, vashon Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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The Elephant in the Peak Oil Living Room Posted by: peakmoment
Video duration: 1669 seconds 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. Overpopulation exceeding the planet's carrying capacity. Potential collapse. But wait! they close with ideas for positive individual responses. [www.sfbayoil.org/sf oa] Related: awareness, energy, francisco, oil, overshoot, peak, population, san Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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By: davidziva. on 20 Nov 08, 23:32:57
Let me understand: it's an electric vehicle, but she needs to carry a whole set of extra batteries for all the lamps? And riding in the rain is ok when the value of life is less than the batteries, but not adviceable if your death would be a tragedy for your loved ones.
By: TRUMPHENT. on 19 Oct 08, 16:45:27
That's one heavy bike for a commuter. Things I didn't see for commuting. Spare tubes, you will get flats even with kevlar belted tires. No pump or CO2 inflater. Those may have been in the backpack or milk crate. The trailer is a neat idea. My commuter is a 27 speed "cyclocross" type bike with front disc brake. I am the motor. I am just getting warmed up at the end of my 11 mile ride to work.
By: peakmoment. on 05 Oct 08, 05:47:46
What ABOUT bears and e-bikes?
By: woofwoofbone. on 03 Oct 08, 22:17:55
What about bears?
By: peakmoment. on 28 Sep 08, 05:29:06
You bet it does! I (Janaia, host) was disappointed not to get to ride it...we squeezed in taping this Peak Moment show as the light was fading, so I didn't get to take a trial ride. But I got to ride another e-bike (see Peak Moment #88 "Making Way for Bikes.")
By: luc59457. on 27 Sep 08, 23:48:43
Does it go??? Ours does! Nice video!
By: paula4u. on 21 Sep 08, 08:23:02
But screwing in a light onto a helmet means you weakened the shell structure thus no point wearing it. Even sticking on to carbon shells may damage the structure, the whole purpose of a head protection is thus defeated!
By: ArielCaboob. on 07 Sep 08, 04:56:12
Congratulations u failed to ride it what a shitty review
By: maychen. on 15 Aug 08, 21:17:35
Sweet set-up! I am moving from Las Vegas to Seattle in a couple months and am hoping to sell my car and buy an electric bike. Very informative video.
By: optijazz. on 15 Aug 08, 05:24:19
I just stumbled on this video while looking for electric bikes in a Google search and have to say I love the video. I have to echo the comment on the helmet structual compromise should you screw anything into it. For those new to the lighting world on bikes you can get helmet mounted bike lights which have quick releases and attach via a velcro strap. The tiny front light she has is a Dinotte light. I love the guest and how she elaborates on things which can relate to some viewers.
By: roger30001. on 27 Jul 08, 18:56:22
Great vid. Hubbie afraid of dogs is hilarious. I too wear a hat under helmet so that is cool. Trailor was awesome also.
By: Dot2TheLock. on 21 Jul 08, 11:10:37
this would be awesome shes in washington as well so im guessing works well in the rain!
By: JUKIO01. on 13 Jul 08, 07:42:21
very very soon people will be riding bikes or walking or running, or what ever else instead of using gas vehicles, cause america is headed towards a depretion very very soon. this september/october is when it will happen. people buy alot of can foods and water. this august 13th of 2008 america might attack iran to. just expect it to happen
By: nikond70fan. on 07 Jul 08, 06:09:40
Lots of good tips for practical e-bike commuting. I agree that it isn't wise to screw anything into the helmet. I'd superglue or epoxy it on instead.
By: rere998877. on 06 Jul 08, 03:54:13
Glue it instead!
By: techforumz. on 25 Jun 08, 06:03:43
How many lights do you need?!?!?!
By: kilimats02. on 24 Jun 08, 08:10:31
Nickel Metal Hydride battery IS NOT a new technology, it is the old type. The new version is now Lithium Ion. It will last 800 charges instead of 500 for NiMH
By: liquidfire9. on 21 Jun 08, 18:27:57
PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS! Screwing anything into a helmet compromises the integrity of the helmet and puts you (the helmet-wearer) at greater risk. Bicycle helmets are designed to be single-use: they are made of closed-cell foam that shatters and breaks on impact to dissipate energy. If you've already shattered that foam with a screw (pointing straight towards your head, no less!), you've reduced the crash-protecting abilities of that helmet significantly. Don't screw stuff into helmets!!!
By: peakmoment. on 06 Jun 08, 05:58:59
Thanks. Our guest was really knowledgeable and articulate, and she packed a lot of practical info in! A perfect orientation...
By: tony1orourke. on 05 Jun 08, 09:49:48
That was the first decent interview on the subject I've heard, very informative.
By: oldetavern. on 07 May 08, 05:51:13
Really interesting, informative and inspiring video. Thanks.
By: Palifiox. on 06 May 08, 10:58:39
Thanks to Ms. Lovell, she knows her stuff. Where I work (Canberra Australia) has a bike cage with power outlets for bike chargers and there are two electric bikes there regularly. I'm still pedalling.
By: rottenveiller. on 26 Apr 08, 05:48:32
execellent video, nice lady, shame her mum and dad wouldent let her join the boy scouts, its all coming out. Bless
By: gusmacoz. on 25 Apr 08, 13:25:31
you can retrofit a mountain bike for around $500
By: cdltpx. on 24 Apr 08, 03:37:10
My situation is I am over weight the electric allows me to go on a trip and do all I can when I need help motor up as soon as I can I pedal I can average 16 mph on a 12 mile run for someone that is not an advid biker that is great. At the end of that 12 miles urban ride the bike needs a charge but most folks work 8 hours a day charge while you work the trip home is faster than a car we have congestion at rush hour.