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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

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

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

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

Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World Posted by: peakmoment Video duration: 1675 seconds Peak Moment 67: At Smith and Speed Mercantile on Orcas Island, hand tools line the walls and tables along with organic wool comforters and non-toxic paints. It's an extension of Kathleen Smith and Errol Speed's off-grid homestead where they work at "the speed of living," using hand tools that reconnect them to the earth. Related: and, hand, mercantile, smith, speed, sustainability, tools

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

	Alcohol Can Be a Gas, Part 2 Posted by: peakmoment Video duration: 1679 seconds Peak Moment 79: David Blume, Founder, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, Soquel, California Related: alcohol, biodiesel, ethynol, fuel, liquid

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