Peak Moment Television presents five new online videos

Moment Television has produced five new online videos focusing on community localization topics from local currency to electric cars, plus a conversation with Richard Heinberg. You can watch or listen at www.peakmoment.tv. Peak Moment: Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future is a television series emphasizing positive responses to energy decline and climate change through local community action. The new programs are:

49 Local Currencies: Replacing Scarcity with Trust Francis Ayley contrasts our standard scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in which “there’s always as much as you need.” His local currency issues money when members trade goods and services. Communities with local currencies will be less affected when recession or depression hits the mainstream economy.


50 Land Trusts – Keeping Local Agriculture Alive Land trusts are an important part of the voluntary protection of working agricultural lands, water quality, habitat, and beauty. Land trust veterans Cheryl Belcher and Dan Macon, himself a farmer, discuss the critical role of small scale food producers in the local economy and the challenges they face — from misperceptions of farming to policies favoring big agriculture.

51 An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability 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.

52 Return of the Electric Car Otmar Ebenhoech has worked with electric vehicles for decades, watching as popular commercial EVs were developed, then recalled when their legal mandate was overturned. He sees improved battery technologies as the catalyst to enable widespread acceptance of EVs. Peek under the hood and watch a test drive of his hot electric Porsche race car conversion (0-60 in less than 5 seconds!).

53 Community Responses to Peak Oil Peak Oil educator and author Richard Heinberg discusses transportation, including a novel ride-sharing scheme, assessing municipal vulnerabilities, local food and energy production, short-term thinking, and the Hirsch report’s conclusion that 20 years is needed to make an energy transition–likely more than we’ll have.

These half-hour video conversations and on-site tours highlight individuals, businesses, organizations and communities working towards sustainability and economic localization: How can we thrive, build self-reliant communities, and help one another in the transition from a fossil fuel-based lifestyle?

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