The Power of Neighbors

[VideoGameCoupons]

I have saved this channel and I really plan on visiting the site in the next few days.

[ACIMessentials]

good job, jan! 

[MatthewCravatt]

The atmosphere of this conversation fosters a sense of hope. No doom and gloom, get the guns and run for the hills apocalyptic visions of a lost world, but an examination of progress through change. Sure we may be looking at an end to life as we know it, but likely an new beginning also. Individual efforts to grow local community are the first steps in this long journey. Hope lives on in each of us.

[westkan]

Interesting program, but the comments are more so. Fact of the matter is the fuel that currently fuels industrial food production will run out at some point. I'm no fear monger, cuz I understand, while diet will change, there is no reason why the population need suffer hunger/malnutrition. Beasts of burden just may become important to food production again moving more food production closer to the consumer.

[MrGreenbudha]

i am always inspired by your videos and your desire to help other like minded people! keep up the good work!! Many blessings to all who are involved in the production of there video!!

[jadams2212]

Not so hard as you'd think if you do just one thing a month.

Get a food dehydrator this month. Get a solar oven the next month. Look into solar PV or hot water the month after that. Read and self-educate. Watch several of these peak moment videos. Listen to the weekly interview/conversations on the podcast "Two Beers with Steve

[VonLeachim]

all good - aint easy to achieve though

[RelyOnYourselfTV]

Fantastic video, networking is very important I feel. I try my best but country people the world over seem to be very similar. Insular, untrusting and under educated. It's hard to know what to do with them. They literally turn away when you look at them.

[whiskerchild]

Sad to say, my neighbors are a bunch of belligerent Mexicans only interested in taking care of "la raza". I don't know what I'm going to do.

[RelyOnYourselfTV]

@whiskerchild move, it's the only way. My neighbours are all ignorant idiots.

[mos6507]

@whiskerchild Move.

[westkan]

@whiskerchild of course the easy answer is to move, but that is generally impractical, with no guarantee your new neighbors feel the same as U. unless U search out an intentional community

[marchbabymimi]

Thanks for continuing to interview people who are "walking the talk". Love it!

[vention4wh]

I fired off an order for the dvd. I look forward to seeing more of what he has to say.

Of course I live in a condo, and I'm 3 months away from finally paying this place off so I don't know when I'll actually have a back yard to work with. A house with the same square footage as my condo would cost me an extra 130 thousand, at the least. I can buy a lot of produce at PCC (an organic grocery co-op) or a farm produce subscription I'm looking at, for one hundred and thirty thousand friggen dollars.

[scarmenl]

Don't be in such a hurry to make us into little villages. Little villages are easier to control by big government. I think the cleaner way to grow food and live is a good thing but don't get to closed in.

[mos6507]

@scarmenl What is that supposed to mean?  What's so bad about "little villages"? And what would you rather see?

[scarmenl]

@mos6507 What I mean is two things. One is that if we allow ourselves to broken into little groups it is much easier for anybody with bad intent to do something. Second the drive towards a simpler life that plans for less or no oil should not move us back wards in industry and tech. For all the bad that is out there now there is a great deal of good that could be brought forward.

[mos6507]

@scarmenl

Broken into little groups? Think of it as decentralization. You know what one of the most resilient decentralized organizations is in the world? Al-Qaeda! I hate terrorism, but the fact that we can't completely win the game of whack-a-mole with Al-Qaeda is testament to the notion of decentralization. Not having a single point of failure is what it's all about.

So I really think you haven't thought through some of these concepts fully.

[scarmenl]

@mos6507 What! You mean that group created and supported by the CIA. The exact kind of thing that your lying government should have to answer for.

I despise terrorism as well and when your government stops causing so much of it the world will be a better place.

In the mean time, allowing all tech and industry to be dismantled and taken away or over is insane. It leaves us helpless and hopeless. Imagine trying to grown food and keep the population feed with out machines and heavy equipment.

[mos6507]

@scarmenl "Imagine trying to grown food and keep the population feed with out machines and heavy equipment."

Yes, you better imagine this, because the whole premise behind this show (if you cared to watch the title sequence) is the notion that technology will fail whether we like it or not, due to limits to growth. If you want to cling to the notion that the government is the root of all our problems, you should go back to Alex Jones where you belong and let the rest of us get on with it.

[scarmenl]

@mos6507 Done fool.

[mos6507]

@scarmenl

Nobody's forcing you to watch these videos. If you don't buy into the visions experessed here, stay out. Buy your Glenn Beck survival seeds, your #10 cans of dried foods, and hoard your guns waiting for the jack boot thugs. That's not what this is all about.

[scarmenl]

@mos6507 What! Now I can't watch a video because I don't agree with all words said in it? I think the video series is great, I have watched them all.

I just don't think that a mentality that allows the removal of all industry is good thing.

[mos6507]

@scarmenl "I just don't think that a mentality that allows the removal of all industry is good thing."

I don't like the attitude that the second you pick up a shovel people think you're dying for the return of the middle-ages. Even michelle obama has a victory garden. If nothing else, it's an insurance policy if the system fails. It doesn't mean we've all actively turned our back on technology. If you've watched all the videos you should know all this by now.

[scarmenl]

@mos6507 Not saying that. Just pointing out that while doing your own is good don't get fooled into thinking that going all the way back to plowing fields by hand or by animal is a good thing either.

If you are talking about a home garden by all means have fun and enjoy the bounty of same.

[westkan]

@scarmenl I believe the discussion is how we will feed a population when the fuel to run the machines becomes limited, not the purposeful dismantling of an industry. There is no reason for those even in metropolitan area to go hungry. Diets will change, & the luxury of out of season foods will exist, the portion of income that goes to buy food will become more in line with realty. The threat to industry is end of cheap fuel, tho that may lead to on farm biofuel Prod. to grow certain items.

[westkan]

@scarmenl Respectfully I believe U R mis-applying conquer & divide to what the man is suggesting. When facing peak oil multiple little communities will mean food security, when transport over as little as a 100 miles may pose a problem.

I also see U R concerned about moving backward. Backwards may be only a frame of mind, though we will finally be forced to make choices of what is important or essential. cuz having it all was never really sustainable.