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Blog item: 'Calm Before the Storm' with Janaia Donaldson and Richard Heinberg

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0 comments   Add a comment   Author:  peakmoment (Aug-24-2008)    Play a Video
Categories: Economic/Financial, Peak Oil/Gas & Energy Demand, Population Growth and Control, Sustainable Living

Richard Heinberg and Janaia Donaldson in a Peak Moment interviewIn this video Janaia Donaldson of PeakMoment.tv speaks with Richard Heinberg, author of "Peak Everything", who reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we've missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, "how far down the staircase of complexity will our global civilization have to go until we're sustainable?"

His answer: when managed properly, with deliberate simplification, not as far as we might otherwise. In addition to long term efforts to relocalize our economies, he advocates developing community "resilience" to withstand short-term catastrophic events like food shortages or extreme weather. Noting that healthy fear can move us into action, he encourages an attitude of clarity, concern and informed action in this "calm before the storm" that he feels is soon coming to an end.  See the video.

For a DVD of Richard's presentation that evening for "Kiss Your Gas Goodbye", go to peakmoment.tv.

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About author/contributor Member: peakmoment (Janaia Donaldson) peakmoment (Janaia Donaldson)
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Member: peakmoment (Janaia Donaldson) Yuba Gals Independent Media production partners Robyn Mallgren and Janaia Donaldson have been producing local video programs for community access television since 2002.

The Yuba Gals live in rural Nevada City and their business is named for the nearby South Yuba River, a part of the Wild and Scenic river system in California. They live on 160 acres of forest land, in a 1500 square-foot off-grid home using about 10% of the electricity of the average American home (including home office). Their home is heated by a wood stove using deadfall wood from their property. Propane heats the cookstove, on-demand water heater and backup generator (needed only during gray-day periods in winter). Not yet energy independent, but moving in that direction!

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