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Biology professor David Hoferer at Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, IA, an activist with the Sierra Club and Audubon Society, talks about the reasons for and the effects of a huge, precipitous drop in bird populations.

David serves as an officer of the NorthWest Iowa Group of the Sierra Club. He also leads the local chapter of the Audubon Society. He knows birds–how important they are to the web of life and how threatened they are in the climate crisis.

Only a few months ago co-host Lee Van Ham began reading reports on the loss of birds, nearly ⅓ of all birds in 50 years. That’s less than his lifetime. The skies are emptier, the woods and our yards are quieter. Hanging bird feeders in our yards was once a kind of hobby. Now it’s radical, spiritual activism in resistance to the prevailing behavior of our species. 

A New York Times article from 9/19, entitled “Birds Are Vanishing from North America” reviews an article in the journal “Science” that reports on an exhaustive study of bird populations. It left scientists in sad astonishment at the rate of decline. They remind us with urgency of what we’re losing. It’s not only that many birds have nice songs and entertaining behaviors. Common bird species are vital to ecosystems, they control pests, pollinate flowers, spread seeds and regenerate forests. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html

NY Times article–Birds Are Vanishing from North America

Earlier Episodes

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
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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.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.

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