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Post Carbon Exchange #1: Richard Heinberg & Lester Brown (transcript added)
Richard Heinberg and Lester Brown, Post Carbon Institute
In this premier Post Carbon Exchange, Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg talks with Lester Brown, Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, about hopeful developments in alternative energy, as well as the importance of Brown's updated path toward a sustainable future, "Plan B 4.0".
archived March 16, 2010
A Conversation About Energy with Howard Lindzon
Chris Nelder, Getreallist
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a freewheeling, videotaped chat with StockTwits founder Howard Lindzon on the present and future realities of energy...Topics included peak oil, the end of economic growth, reversing globalization, oil prices, alternatives, and lots of other topics.
archived March 19, 2010
Conscientious Cooks VII (Sooke Harbour House)/ Carlo Petrini & Slow Food Canada
Jon Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner
The Sooke Harbour House is a 28-room inn in Sooke, British Columbia which has been owned and operated by Frederique and Sinclair Philip since 1979. The inn is home to a restaurant that has led the way in Canada (if not North America) in the practice of sourcing local and wild-crafted foods...Deconstructing Dinner's Jon Steinman visited the restaurant to learn more about the restaurant's unique approach...(Also) in this segment we hear a talk from Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini and discuss the Slow Food Canada organization with Canada's international representative Sinclair Philip.
archived March 18, 2010
Peak Moment 165: Finding Excitement Creating a Life-Sustaining Society
Yuba Gals Independent Media, Peak Moment Television
Lavendar farmer Dana Illo and her partner Catherine Johnson will infect you with enthusiasm. They’ve turned their initial response to resource declines from “it’s horrible and overwhelming” into “we can create new ways of doing.” Dana is bringing Dragon Dreaming to her community. This organizing model starts by having a group totally buy into a specific dream, like being locally food self-sufficient. Then in every cycle of implementation, members Dream, Plan, Do and — just as importantly — Celebrate! Why not have fun while we build community and security?
archived March 16, 2010
Tiny Yellow House - Episode 1
Derek Diedrickson, Relaxshacks.com
Host Derek "Deek" Diedricksen explores a "Hickshaw" he built, as the pilot episode kicks off a look into the world of tiny structures that can be used for a variety of purposes.
archived March 15, 2010
Garden Girl TV: Raised beds in the city
Patti Moreno, Garden Girl TV
Using raised beds in the city is essential for Urban Sustainable Living. The use of raised beds in my system allows you to maximize your growing space. It also modularizes the garden and brings the garden to you, taking the back breaking work out of gardening.
archived March 11, 2010
Living Hero interview with Vandana Shiva
Living Hero, podbean.com
Around the world civilian rights to food and water are being eroded by the patenting of life forms and by privatization of water systems. Some farmers have been hit with law suits for patent infringement, while they were planting heritage seeds. The outspoken, multi-talented Vandana Shiva, joins us to talk about these and other issues of capitalist globalization. She is a celebrated ecofeminist, grassroots activist, research physicist, author, and international advocate for alternatives to global corporate hegemony.
archived March 10, 2010
Peak Moment 164: The World of Ecovillages
Yuba Gals Independent Media, Peak Moment Television
The ecovillage movement is gaining a lot of traction and in some surprising forms, says Diana Leafe Christian, the author of Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. Drawing from ecovillages worldwide, she describes many examples of these “human-scaled, full-featured settlements.” Ecovillages aim to integrate human activities harmlessly into the natural world and be sustainable indefinitely. To succeed, they need to have multiple centers of initiative (e.g., business enterprises), and support healthy human development (like cooperation and having fun). (www.EcovillageNews.org).
archived March 9, 2010
Collaboratively We Are Really, Really Smart
KrisCan, KrisCan.com
KrisCan talks with designer Ken Eklund, the creator of World Without Oil, an online game that dealt with the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis where players were encouraged to contribute stories, podcasts or videos that chronicled their experience of an imagined reality...
archived March 8, 2010
Recalcitrant Carbon
KMO, C-Realm Podcast
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KMO welcomes Albert K. Bates back to the program to talk about the themes of his forthcoming book, The Biochar Solution. Could a form of homebrewed carbon sequestration provide a stopgap measure that could buy us time to implement effective atmospheric remediation? Should biochar be considered a form of geo-engineering? How do we prevent carbon credits from becoming the new credit default swaps? All this and music by Zarathrutra.
archived March 5, 2010