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Janaia Donaldson

Janaia Donaldson is the host and producer of Peak Moment TV conversations showcasing grass roots entrepreneurs pioneering locally reliant, resilient communities during these challenging times of energy and resource decline, ecological limits, and economic turbulence. We tour North America in our mobile studio, taping on location. Peak Moment Conversations are online at www.peakmoment.tv/conversations. Produced bi-weekly, there are over 200 half hour programs as of 2012.

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Light posting from 30 June through 11 July

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from Thursday, 30 June, through Friday 8  July. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 11 July.

  • June 30, 2022

Living Abundantly in the Sharing Economy: A Voice of Experience

By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television

“I ask the groups that hire me to pay me what feels good and right and fair to them, an amount they can afford, and that they can give joyfully… I basically trust them. And it works out really well.” Freelance group facilitator Tree Bressen has made her livelihood in the sharing economy for over a decade. She has also participated in a neighborhood Gift Circle and an online version called Kindista.

  • August 8, 2017

Local Currency — Money for Us, Not the Bankers

By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moments Television

The biggest challenge is changing our mindset from the scarcity built into the existing monetary system to one based on relationships, cooperation and plenty.

  • July 24, 2015
Society

Grow Your Food in a Nook and Cranny Garden, Part 2

By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moments Television

Nook and cranny gardens optimize micro-climates — water catchment for perennial plants, rocks that retain warmth to extend the growing period, and trees providing fuel, food and shade.

  • June 29, 2015
Society

Grow Your Food in a Nook and Cranny Garden

By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moments Television

A tour of Gord and Ann Baird’s edible landscape starts at the off-grid chicken house and yard, containing fruit trees that provide a protective canopy against flying predators.

  • June 22, 2015
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