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In this episode we raise up some mobilizing that is happening in faith communities to engage creation’s climate emergency. With spiritual roots deep in creation, faith communities need to quickly reconfigure their worship, training, and service to act boldly to care for creation. One way is to join the youth-led climate strike that most recently showed over seven million people bearing witness to the urgency and to their commitment to change.
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The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D., is an author, retreat leader, and Episcopal priest. In a pioneering ecumenical partnership, she serves as Missioner for Creation Care for both the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts and Mass. Conference, United Church of Christ. A long-time climate activist, she believes that the ecological crisis–from climate change to the extinction of species–calls us to claim our kinship with all creation, to look deeply into our sources of hope, and to work together to build a just and sustainable future.
Her website–RevivingCreation.org-
We pre-recorded this episode on the opening day of the UN Climate Action Summit, 9/23/19, in New York. That summit triggered a host of activities leading up to it. The Donald Trump made only a token appearance at the meeting even though two-thirds of the citizens of the U.S. now want action on climate change. The rest of the participants strategized on how to proceed without U.S. participation.
- Reporting on climate in the media has long been disappointing. Too little of it. Natural disasters have been covered without ever mention the connection to climate chaos. But no more! Over 250 news outlets around the world have agreed to change their reporting. The agreement is called “Covering Climate Now.” Newsrooms are in conversations about covering climate in a sustained way rather than an occasional report or special. The Guardian and CBS News are among these outlets. Together, they reach nearly a billion people globally. The Guardian is also changing its language. They’ll increase the use of descriptors like “climate disruption,” “climate breakdown” and “climate emergency.” Instead of global warming, they now prefer “global heating.”
- Youth led Climate Strikes—youth led the way in the largest global climate action in the history of the planet—over four million people were in the streets on the first Friday, even more the following Friday.
- Jerry’s report on the Central Coast Calif. strike in Paso Robles.
We at Simpler OneEarth Living podcast are joining in.
Earlier Episodes
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. 08/19–Lori 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. 07/19–Michael 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. 06/19–Carrie Radloff, Earth activist
Working for Environmental Progress in the Politically Regressive Midwest
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.
In episode 04/19, banker Pat Trahan
Pat speaks about growth economics, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Wall Street, and investing in our neighborhood. His perspective differs from many in the banking world. Pat says: “I think Jubilee is the antidote to the growth-for-the-sake-of-growth model where all the lines in all the graphs move only up and to the right. My reading of the Jubilee passages is that the means of production should be redistributed and democratized on occasion. Our system only redistributes some of the fruit of production. Meanwhile, wealth and power become more and more concentrated.”
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
Ep. 02/19–No! to Factory Farms–Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Be sure to listen to this podcast. Adam links our food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.
Ep. 01/19–Immigration and Borders: Horrors, Opportunities, and Needs—Talking with Jimmy Marcelin
Jimmy Marcelin is the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world, the Tijuana to San Diego crossing. In addition to ICE’s inhumane and atrocious activities, they also process some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.
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.
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