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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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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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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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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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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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