Things are moving!! And they’re moving with an overriding theme of Sharing. It’s not just our recent conversations on a sharing garden and tool libraries. Or the conversation we just taped with two lawyers working to make sharing commonplace.

We’re renting our house at Lone Bobcat Woods (shown above, complete with visitors like the one at left, who stopped by a couple days ago).

We’re renting it furnished. So in reality we’ll be sharing our furnishings and kitchenware, while using the laundry and a room to store our belongings. We’ve begun the Giveway, with our emergency food stores going to a friend. Freecycle, here we come!

Perhaps you’ll join in our sharing and giveway? Over the next few months, we may share with you items we hope to pass along, some perhaps in your direction. Like Janaia’s art needing loving homes.

Mark the moment: We were behind the cameras with the CollapseNet media team on May 22nd when Michael C. Ruppert announced the arrival of a new human species, “Post-Petroleum Human” and Dmitry Orlov envisioned “The Twilight of the Antipodes.” More on my blog including links to both presentations.

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 The news of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear crisis shook me. I share my very personal inner and outer responses in “Shaken.”Inner response? I keep “getting” that a no-growth economy and increasing chaos are the New Normal. Industrial civilization is collapsing under the weight of complexity, bigger populations and harder-to-get resources.

Outer response? Build resilience for this New Normal. Maybe use the Japan crisis to start the conversation with our neighbors. One preparedness model: a Japanese community who survived because they’d rehearsed for tsunamis for years. Another from Port Townsend: “Partners in Preparedness: Neighborhoods and Emergency Responders” (episode 181).

Wow! A firestorm of comments on Lierre Keith’s “The Vegetarian Myth” (episode 191), centering around vegetarian vs. omnivore diets. But commentors are bypassing her bigger issue: agriculture is destroying the planet. What do you think? Chime in on YouTube, or the Peak Moment TV website.

Chip in on a replacement laptop. We mourn the death of Robyn’s macbook “Titania”. This sweetheart has dedicatedly produced Peak Moment and other videos for nine years. (Fortunately Robyn has a temporary backup).

Donate now towards a refurbished replacement. Consider a monthly contribution — from as little as $1/month. Affordable for you, and a base we can count on.

Thank you for your notes, dollars and spirit of support~

Janaia & Robyn

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It’s been a quiet month as we recover from our marathon Pacific Northwest tour before returning to Lone Bobcat Woods in Nevada City. So I’ll keep this newsletter short and sweet. (photo: life in the mobile studio/RV).

Food seems to be the hot topic du jour. Our latest show is “Menu for the Future - Bringing Farmers to the Table”  and the prior one was about a Community-Supported Bakery.

Robyn and I are reading The Vegetarian Myth. Author Lierre Keith was a vegan for twenty years — and then learned how agriculture was destroying both the planet and human bodies, including hers.”Eating to Save the World” is my blog about the conversation we recently taped with Lierre. For us personally, the book is transforming our own eating another notch: reducing the grains.

And food is in the headlines: the recent Egyptian revolution was fueled in part by rising food prices. One commentator asks “Is a food crisis coming?” (and not just outside the U.S.) A longtime observer notes that “The World is One Poor Harvest Away from Chaos” because of the way we grow food.

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Here are the “stars” of the 185 Peak Moment programs produced through December 2010. We are bowled over to really see all the programs — not as an abstract number, but in the shining faces of our guests.

And there are more to come — we taped 58 shows with 118 guests in the Pacific Northwest last fall.  Read our January 2011 newsletter with behind-the-scenes news, the new Peak Moment Best of 2010 DVD, and programs now available through iTunes (episodes 168 onwards).