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Ep. 0121–Grace Dyrness: Planning Economic Revitalization WITH Poor People instead of FOR Them: Wow!

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index at  SimpleLivingWorks.org (window #3) or OneEarthJubilee.com/podcast. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

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SHOW NOTES

Working with people in poverty is central to spiritual practices, but how we do it challenges us all, poor and non-poor alike. When you see poverty in a neighborhood, whether it’s urban or rural, do you assume that the people living there just don’t have what it takes to improve their lives? Most cities develop a poor neighborhood by gentrifying it with lots of financial investment and new buildings. But that displaces the people and businesses who were there before. Where do they go? There’s also the argument that poor people simply have to help themselves; that aid takes away their incentive to improve their situation. What approach do you believe works best? Stay with us to hear an approach that really does change people as well as their situations.

What a treat it is for us in these podcast episodes to talk with people who really show that another world is possible. And that treat compounds, like compounding interest, because we get to share these conversations with listeners.

 We kick off our 2021 podcasting with Grace Dyrness [DUR-ness] as our guest. Grace has been a great advocate for Jubilee in recent years. Lee first met her a decade ago while she was still at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Since then, our friendship has grown and she’s visited the Jubilee Circles in San Mateo, Mexico, and San Cristobal, Mexico. She’ll tell us about that in this conversation.

She will also tell us a highly successful way to engage poverty. It’s a topic that makes many people throw up their hands in hopelessness. It’s also true that many nonprofits engage poverty through forms of relief that do not change either the people or their situation. Grace will tell us a different way—one that is also being practiced in the Jubilee Circles in San Mateo and San Cristobal.

You will find Grace at the website of HUB: Urban Initiatives — Urban-Initiatives.org.

Grace Roberts Dyrness is a community development consultant and professor. She has taught at the University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific University, and Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as institutions in Philippines, Indonesia and Kenya, with a focus on public service in an urban setting, social context of planning, community and transformational development, and sustainable tourism. Her approach has been to use advocacy planning and participatory approaches to engage people in communities in order to envision their own future and chart a path towards it.

She has a graduate degree in urban anthropology from the Ateneo (ah-ten-A-o) de Manila University and a doctorate in urban planning and development studies from the University of Southern California. Her doctoral work focused on the growth of the informal sector of the Los Angeles economy, particularly on a project with the city’s street vendors.

Grace has had many years of experience working in the nonprofit sector in developing nations and inner cities within the United States. For eight years she lived in Manila, Philippines, where she lived among urban squatter women in order to better understand how they cope with life at the margins.

For the past 20 years she has been engaged in participatory action research and development in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Djibouti and Philippines. It has been through these international and local experiences that she has gained a deeper understanding of what conditions are needed in order for communities to thrive and forge a sustainable future for the next generation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. Though it’s January, a really good read is still Lee’s book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils.” It clearly shows how the birth stories of the gospels can make a big difference in reversing what’s happening on our planet and to all of life.   Read more here // Hear more here,  and at TheOneEarthProject.com/books.  Order a copy directly from Jubilee or from various suppliers on the internet. The first five orders Jubilee receives from listeners will be free. Just ask.
  2. In 2021, OneEarthJubilee will increase opportunities for meeting the people in the Jubilee Circles in Mexico and to create solidarity with them in their amazing work of empowering women, educating underserved peoples, and protecting the planet. Ask to be included in a Solidarity Call or plan to be part of courses in the new Jubilee School. You can find more information on the website oneearthjubilee.com.

Please tell us your thoughts on these subjects. Leave a message on Jubilee OneEarth Economics and/or Simple Living Works! Facebook pages.

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 1220: Will O’Brien: Peace on Earth and the Politics of Christmas. Much of what we assume about the birth of Jesus has to be unlearned if we are to get at how that birth posed a threat to empires and superpowers everywhere. Will O’Brien speaks to the politics and economic alternatives to empire that were announced in the birth stories of Jesus.

He’s able to take apart ideas presented to us by our culture, and find, instead, the nuggets of truth that subvert the cultural understanding. He continually shapes a discipleship in the way of Jesus that is daring in how it seeks justice in politics and economics. That’s what we’ll hear in this episode.

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Ep. 1120How Empowering Women Changes the World. Women are being empowered toward fuller personhood through the work of Jubilee Circles. Women in Mexico are learning their rights instead of obeying patriarchal norms shaped by machismo. Some are being trained in the power of civic action and political candidacy. Others in economic self-reliance. These examples from Jubilee in Mexico relate to all of us, wherever you are listening. Hear strong real life stories told by Angelica and Lindsey.

Ep. 1020Scott Klinger: Maximizing Justice Over Profits Is Possible
We can talk about legal barriers to a just world, and some concrete ways that listeners can invest their own assets, and ask questions of pots of money they influence, with their employers, with their churches, with their community foundations.

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Ep. 0920–So Much We Learn from Outsiders; Immigrant Advocacy. Lane Van Ham, author of Composite Nation: A History of Immigrant Advocacy in the U.S.

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Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGEs
How Do It Get It (for free): Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a  SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our monthly podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour monthly podcast, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

SLW! does not solicit or accept donations for itself, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge at SimpleLivingWorks.org. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations–Christmas, birthdays, etc.–to local, national and international causes.

Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Ep. 1220–Will O’Brien: Peace on Earth and the Politics of Christmas

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index at  SimpleLivingWorks.org (window #3) or OneEarthJubilee.com/podcast. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

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SHOW NOTES

Much of what we assume about the birth of Jesus has to be unlearned if we are to get at how that birth posed a threat to empires and superpowers everywhere. Will O’Brien speaks to the politics and economic alternatives to empire that were announced in the birth stories of Jesus.

He’s able to take apart ideas presented to us by our culture, and find, instead, the nuggets of truth that subvert the cultural understanding. He continually shapes a discipleship in the way of Jesus that is daring in how it seeks justice in politics and economics. That’s what we’ll hear in this episode.

Also learn about the Alternative Seminary he hosts in Philadelphia and what he means by the politics of Christmas.

You can register for Will O’Brien’s  upcoming online class (Dec. 5) on the  “Peace on Earth and the Politics of Christmas”  at AlternativeSeminary.net.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. It’s December. A really good read for this month is Lee’s book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils.” It clearly shows how the birth stories of the gospels can make a big difference in reversing what’s happening on our planet and to all of life.   Read more here // Hear more here,  and at TheOneEarthProject.com/books.  Order a copy directly from Jubilee or from various suppliers on the internet. The first five orders Jubilee receives from listeners will be free. Just ask.
  2. In 2021, OneEarthJubilee will increase opportunities for meeting the people in the Jubilee Circles in Mexico and to create solidarity with them in their amazing work of empowering women, educating underserved peoples, and protecting the planet. Ask to be included in a Solidarity Call or plan to be part of courses in the new Jubilee School. You can find more information on the website oneearthjubilee.com.

Please tell us your thoughts on these subjects. Leave a message on Jubilee OneEarth Economics and/or Simple Living Works! Facebook pages.

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 1120How Empowering Women Changes the World. Women are being empowered toward fuller personhood through the work of Jubilee Circles. Women in Mexico are learning their rights instead of obeying patriarchal norms shaped by machismo. Some are being trained in the power of civic action and political candidacy. Others in economic self-reliance. These examples from Jubilee in Mexico relate to all of us, wherever you are listening. Hear strong real life stories told by Angelica and Lindsey.

Ep. 1020Scott Klinger: Maximizing Justice Over Profits Is Possible
Have you ever considered that maximizing profits could be a really selfish way of investing your money? And, do you know where to bank to make the most difference in the world? 

Among Indigenous Peoples, wealth is held collectively….there are usage rights to the Earth, not ownership as white society thinks of it. 

We can talk about legal barriers to bringing this sort of world about, and some concrete ways that listeners can invest their own assets, and ask questions of pots of money they influence, with their employers, with their churches, with their community foundations.

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Ep. 0920–So Much We Learn from Outsiders; Immigrant Advocacy

Today we talk about courageous people in the controversial arena of immigration. Immigration has come to affect more human lives today than at anytime in the history of the world.

Thousands of people and organizations advocate for immigrants. Even so, the best advocates are the immigrants themselves. Our guest, Lane Van Ham, points out that immigrants are archetype of the “strangers in a strange land.” Enormous creativity is generated by these strangers—today and throughout human history. It is the strangers, far more than the privileged in the land, who envision the world that makes space for all of us; the only world that can save life on our planet today. Immigrant advocates change systems from the bottom up. From the margins outside of borders. They force rethinking of what “border” means and how it gets used politically, racially and religiously.

# # #

Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s

# # #

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGEs
How Do It Get It (for free): Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a  SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our monthly podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour monthly podcast, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

SLW! does not solicit or accept donations for itself, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge at SimpleLivingWorks.org. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations–Christmas, birthdays, etc.–to local, national and international causes.

Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Ep. 1219–Ruth Ann Angus: Yes We Can PeaceBuilders

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

Ruth Ann Portrait

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

Ep. 1219–Ruth Ann Angus: Yes We Can Peacemakers

YesWeCanPeaceBuilders.org, a member of the Non-Violent Cities Project and Pace e Bene

Jerry met Ruth Ann several years ago when she spoke to the Paso Peace Community here in Paso Robles. She is proving to be a mentor for us as we try to move the local City Council to adopt a resolution declaring Paso Robles a Non-Violent City, as she and her group did in Morro Bay on the Calif. Central Coast. We would be joining a national movement of Non-Violent Cities that work with police, schools, businesses and non-profit organizations for social and economic justice.

This episode is another example of how our podcast raises up the voices of many ordinary people working with ingenuity and great love to foster wellbeing in their communities and in the world. 

MISSION
Yes We Can Peacebuilders is dedicated to the education of individuals and communities on the path to nonviolence so as to inspire and engage people to make nonviolent living a part of their everyday lives.

VISION STATEMENT
We envision a culture of peace in a community that fosters respect for all individuals, collaborating to eliminate economic discrimination, poverty, homelessness, racial and sexual discrimination, stereotyping, harassment, bullying, gangs, killing, war, and environmental degradation.

Study Guide:
Engaging Nonviolence: Activating Nonviolent Change in Our Lives and Our World.

John Dear on SLW! Podcast
Ep. 114: John Dear on Peace & NonViolence, part 1
John Dear part 2–Making Nonviolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

John Dear Peace Podcast

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 1119–The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Perils.

In this episode Jerry interviews Lee about his new, 130+ pages book on how the perils of our planet can be reversed by the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Gospels. The Gospels give us a story of new creation. Matthew and Luke give us riffs on Genesis, a collection written to protest the Babylonian Empire. Genesis and the Gospels give us stories that radically counter the stories of superpowers. Their stories are about creation of the Earth and new life, and they do so in defiance of the superpower domination and death they were experiencing from Babylon and Rome respectively. Those stories give us what we need in 2020 to live by a different story from the superpowers of today’s world that are destroying life for so much of our planet.

The new book is available both on Amazon and Powell’s Books. It grows out of blogs Lee wrote in Christmas seasons during past years. This is Lee’s fourth book. See http://theoneearthproject.com/books/ for descriptions of his earlier books.

In Episode 1019 Margaret Bullitt-Jonas explains why Creation Care is a deeply spiritual matter and cannot be reduced to simply an environmental issue. She is an itinerant missioner to congregations on Creation Care, traveling to Episcopal and United Church of Christ congregations and other groups as well. Her book is Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Ecological Crisis. Her website is RevivingCreation.org.

Ep. 09/19–Having served on his school board and city council, George Gastil urges us to make an impact for good through our local governments.

Ep. 08/19Lori Payer, leader of Strong Women of the Four Directions

This native woman living in the Siouxland region of the U.S. where three states connect—Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska–exemplifies the willingness of indigenous peoples to collaborate on the way forward. 
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The traditional ways of Indigenous, low-technology worldviews continue to reveal wisdom for living today that is grounded in Earth’s knowledge on how to generate life. Worldviews dependent on technology are experience the darkside of technologies which repeatedly overwhelm the good it does and generate extinction of life. 

Do listen to Lori Payer’s soft-spoken wisdom in this interview. And if you are part of a congregation, campus, nonprofit, or business, do all you can be in a respectful alliance with the First Peoples who lived here first and continue to resist Western Civilization with their Earth-based ways.

Ep. 07/19Michael Patrick “White Eagle” O’Connor, native American artist and Earth activist

We are in the 7th Generation, according to a prophecy of Black Elk and other Native Americans, the time of healing. It’s a time when genuine partnerships develop among non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples. These two interviews push aside any residual thoughts in our minds that Indigenous peoples are peoples of the past or are fading into the past. No! The spiritual activism and perspectives of traditional Indigenous peoples lead the way for the OneEarth living we espouse on our podcast. Hear a 48 year old social worker and Native American in Sioux City, Iowa, speak to how he follows his spiritual path in addressing the issues of today.

He speaks so transparently about himself, his struggle to be on his spiritual path, his deep relationship with the energy of Earth, his work with Native American youth, and his readiness for partnership with non-Indigenous people who seek it authentically.

Reference: TCGP #84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1/17)

Reference: TCGP Ep. 77: Lee’s book From Egos to Eden

Ep.05/19: Steven Cornett–Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming

By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. Helping to change our current large scale degenerative food system to a small scale regenerative agriculture system will have a major influence over the future of our world and society.

Ep. 03/19–Inequality Hurts Everybody!–Talking to Chuck Collins of Inequality.org

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue the trend—something many of us noticed as we filed 2018 tax returns. As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter and has authored many books including the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green) and his new book: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? (Oxford, UK-based Polity Press).

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills–Stephen Bezruchka

OneEarth Jubilee can now help you offset the carbon you put into the atmosphere. Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more. Click BLOG in the menu at the top of the page at Jubilee-Economics.org.


The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE
How Do It Get It (for free): Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our monthly podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour monthly podcast, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

SLW! does not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge at SimpleLivingWorks.org. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations–Christmas, birthdays, etc.–to local, national and international causes.

Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Ep. 1119–The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Story Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Perils

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

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In this episode Jerry interviews Lee about his new, 130+ pages book on how the perils of our planet can be reversed by the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Gospels. The Gospels give us a story of new creation. Matthew and Luke give us riffs on Genesis, a collection written to protest the Babylonian Empire. Genesis and the Gospels give us stories that radically counter the stories of superpowers. Their stories are about creation of the Earth and new life, and they do so in defiance of the superpower domination and death they were experiencing from Babylon and Rome respectively. Those stories give us what we need in 2020 to live by a different story from the superpowers of today’s world that are destroying life for so much of our planet.

The interview flows through a series of topics:
why Lee wrote the book
how the birth story in the Gospels and the Christmas story exist in two different paradigms
the significance of the selective, mixed-gender genealogy Matthew gives us at the start of his gospel
the significance of dreams in the birth story and in our new creation story today
why cosmology keeps the creation story much larger than historical versions do
actions we can take to live in the new creation

The new book is The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Perils. It’s available both on Amazon and Powell’s Books. It grows out of blogs Lee wrote in Christmas seasons during past years. This is Lee’s fourth book. See http://theoneearthproject.com/books/ for descriptions of his earlier books.

Earlier Episodes

In Episode 1019 Margaret Bullitt-Jonas explains why Creation Care is a deeply spiritual matter and cannot be reduced to simply an environmental issue. She is an itinerant missioner to congregations on Creation Care, traveling to Episcopal and United Church of Christ congregations and other groups as well. Her book is Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Ecological Crisis. Her website is RevivingCreation.org.

Ep. 09/19–Having served on his school board and city council, George Gastil urges us to make an impact for good through our local governments.

Ep. 08/19Lori Payer, leader of Strong Women of the Four Directions

This native woman living in the Siouxland region of the U.S. where three states connect—Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska–exemplifies the willingness of indigenous peoples to collaborate on the way forward. 

The traditional ways of Indigenous, low-technology worldviews continue to reveal wisdom for living today that is grounded in Earth’s knowledge on how to generate life. Worldviews dependent on technology are experience the darkside of technologies which repeatedly overwhelm the good it does and generate extinction of life. 

Do listen to Lori Payer’s soft-spoken wisdom in this interview. And if you are part of a congregation, campus, nonprofit, or business, do all you can be in a respectful alliance with the First Peoples who lived here first and continue to resist Western Civilization with their Earth-based ways.

Ep. 07/19Michael Patrick “White Eagle” O’Connor, native American artist and Earth activist

We are in the 7th Generation, according to a prophecy of Black Elk and other Native Americans, the time of healing. It’s a time when genuine partnerships develop among non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples. These two interviews push aside any residual thoughts in our minds that Indigenous peoples are peoples of the past or are fading into the past. No! The spiritual activism and perspectives of traditional Indigenous peoples lead the way for the OneEarth living we espouse on our podcast. Hear a 48 year old social worker and Native American in Sioux City, Iowa, speak to how he follows his spiritual path in addressing the issues of today.

He speaks so transparently about himself, his struggle to be on his spiritual path, his deep relationship with the energy of Earth, his work with Native American youth, and his readiness for partnership with non-Indigenous people who seek it authentically.

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Reference: TCGP Ep. 77: Lee’s book From Egos to Eden

Ep.05/19: Steven Cornett–Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming

By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. Helping to change our current large scale degenerative food system to a small scale regenerative agriculture system will have a major influence over the future of our world and society.

Ep. 03/19–Inequality Hurts Everybody!–Talking to Chuck Collins of Inequality.org

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue the trend—something many of us noticed as we filed 2018 tax returns. As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter and has authored many books including the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green) and his new book: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? (Oxford, UK-based Polity Press).

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills–Stephen Bezruchka

OneEarth Jubilee can now help you offset the carbon you put into the atmosphere. Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more. Click BLOG in the menu at the top of the page at Jubilee-Economics.org.


The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE
How Do It Get It (for free): Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our monthly podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode.

Share your thoughts on this podcast and this episode. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — listen to episodes #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour monthly podcast, to educate and inspire you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.

For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 * (847) 690-9410 * archives@elca.org

Click ABOUT for Music and Cover Art Credits.

SLW! does not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge at SimpleLivingWorks.org. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations–Christmas, birthdays, etc.–to local, national and international causes.

Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

Episode 119 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 4

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We started our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

Preview Part 4

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano. Complete texts, audio examples, source for booklet &/or CD.

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley audio || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

12/1/18 Bonus :: Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

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Diane Hartley and Anne Pacheco

Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

The Common Good Podcast #102–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

We’ve done several episodes on Fair Trade. But they’re not redundant. FT has so many aspects, so each episode is different. Today is no exception as we focus on campaigns to bring FT to schools. Think of the schools where children of your friends and family go—elementary, middle, senior high schools and colleges. That means that actions on trade aren’t just for economic ministers and presidents of countries, whose actions are about the structures of FREE Trade. They are fraught with injustices and bringing favors to corporations and the wealthiest. You and I can protest those, but even better, we can implement FAIR Trade, a completely different set of structures that make trade agreements fair and just for all involved and for the planet.

The FT movement continues to grow. When I moved to San Diego in 2002, I tried to get FT coffee, tea, and chocolate into an exhibit at an alternative holiday market. The person running the market hadn’t heard of it and was skeptical. But she let me display. Well, in the next few years FT began catching on in this area. Leaping ahead, somewhere in the movement toward FT here in this region, FT took hold in Anne Pacheco and Nancy Ryan. They educated businesses in La Mesa about FT and on the second attempt, the La Mesa City Council approved the proposal to declare LaMesa a Fair Trade town, having met the requirements for such. Anne and Nancy have championed FT tirelessly and continue to have such an impact. Today I interview Anne, and because we’re focusing on FT schools, we include Diane Hartley, principal at St. Martin of Tours Academy, a FT School.

Common Good Feature: Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to Travel, 1/19/15 blog

PAST FAIR TRADE EPISODES

Episode 7 :: David Funkhouser and Fair Trade for Dummies

Episode 18 :: Coffee As a Virtue

Episode 47 :: Diane Hesselhuf: Sharing the Dream—Fair Trade, a Tool for People and Planet vs. Free Trade, a Weapon of Domination

 

Earlier Episodes

The Common Good Podcast #101The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico (11/1/18)

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

The Common Good Podcast #100–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough (10/1/18)

Listeners, you may have heard of the climate summit held this past Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco.  What happened there? Our conversation today is with two people who were there: Derek and Nancy Casady. Oh, and what’s Al Gore doing these days? Hopefully you saw his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”  We’ll also hear about Gore’s recent conference in Los Angeles.

This episode is entitled “Actions on Climate Science When National Leaders Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough.” Not only fail us, but work against us.

Even at the state level, in too many cases decision-makers are not acting to protect and serve the people. Take the example of North Carolina. Legislators there voted in 2012 to ban the use of a report that showed the ocean could rise as much as 39 inches by 2100.

Some governors, mayors, and businesses are living by a different, positive narrative.

Derek & Nancy Casady were our guests a year ago on TCGP #91 telling of their experience with The Climate Mobilization. Then they said. “Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They’re Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization.” In this episode they share their most recent experiences.

The Common Good Feature: GrowthBusters is a movie, a blog, a podcast, over 100 short YouTube videos–the products of Dave Gardner and his small staff. It has a lot in common with Jubilee OneEarth Economics and Simple Living Works! It deals with ECONOMIC GROWTH, OVERPOPULATION, URBAN GROWTH, OVERCONSUMPTION and Media Bias toward unsustainable growth. Visit GrowthBusters.org and consider sponsoring a showing the movie Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth (2013) in your community.

NOTE: the sound quality of the interview portion of this episode is subpar but the content is strong. Please be patient.

WHOSE Birthday?

We started our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)–“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18): INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)–Inspiring Reflections & Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)–Fun Activities [Preview Now]

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Episode 118 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 3

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We started our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

Preview Part 4

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano. Complete texts, audio examples, source for booklet &/or CD.

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

11/1/18 Bonus :: Jubilee Circles in Mexico

Angelica

Lindsey

Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

The Common Good Podcast #101–Jubilee Circles in Mexico

The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change

This is episode #101  of The Common Good Podcast with co-hosts Lee Van Ham and Jerry Iversen. Today we feature Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

Earlier Episodes

The Common Good Podcast #100–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough

Listeners, you may have heard of the climate summit held this past Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco.  What happened there? Our conversation today is with two people who were there: Derek and Nancy Casady. Oh, and what’s Al Gore doing these days? Hopefully you saw his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”  We’ll also hear about Gore’s recent conference in Los Angeles.

This program is entitled “Actions on Climate Science When National Leaders Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough”

Not only fail us, but work against us.

Even at the state level, in too many cases decision-makers are not acting to protect and serve the people. Take the example of North Carolina. Legislators there voted in 2012 to ban the use of a report that showed the ocean could rise as much as 39 inches by 2100.

But then there are the stories coming out of San Francisco, Sep. 8 and then Sep 12-14.  Some governors, mayors, and businesses are living by a different narrative.

Article by Oliver Milman in The Guardian, Thur., 9/27/18: “It’s extraordinarily challenging to get to the 1.5C target and we are nowhere near on track to doing that,” said Drew Shindell, a Duke University climate scientist and a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which will be unveiled in South Korea next month.

“While it’s technically possible, it’s extremely improbable, absent a real sea change in the way we evaluate risk. We are nowhere near that.”

In the 2015 Paris climate pact, international leaders agreed to curb the global temperature rise to 2C above the era prior to mass industrialization, with an aspiration to limit this to 1.5C. The world has already warmed by around 1C over the past century, fueling sea level rises, heatwaves, storms and the decline of vulnerable ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Derek & Nancy Casady were our guests a year ago on TCGP #91 telling of their experience with The Climate Mobilization. Then they said. “Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They’re Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization.” In this episode they share their most recent experiences.

The Common Good Feature: GrowthBusters is a movie, a blog, a podcast, over 100 short YouTube videos–the products of Dave Gardner and his small staff. It has a lot in common with Jubilee OneEarth Economics and Simple Living Works! It deals with ECONOMIC GROWTH, OVERPOPULATION, URBAN GROWTH, OVERCONSUMPTION and Media Bias toward unsustainable growth. Visit GrowthBusters.org and consider sponsoring a showing the movie Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth (2013) in your community.

NOTE: the sound quality of the interview portion of this episode is subpar but the content is strong. Please be patient.

WHOSE Birthday?

We’re starting our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)–“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18): INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)–Inspiring Reflections & Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)–Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

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Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

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  • Jay Moses–How a Local Church Invites in Multiple Faiths to Influence One Another
  • Grace Gyori, from Christian imperialism to liberation for all–a missionary’s journey (NOTE: Our new system plays automatically. To pause the audio, click pause on the player at the bottom of the Show Notes.)

Episode 117 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 2

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We’re starting our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

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WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

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Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

Episode 116 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 1

XB06cover

Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunesStitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We’re starting our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections IndexAdvent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes