Ep. 0421–Arborist Robin Rivet on Reversing Climate Crises Through Informed Tree Actions

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As we look for powerful allies in the continuing urgent work of reversing the climate crises, let’s call her Tree. What does Tree do? She is pulling CO2 out of the air, cooling where you live, saving energy, giving us healthy food, and that’s just some of what she does. You don’t need to pay lots of money to enlist Tree’s help either. Maybe none at all. In this podcast conversation, Robin Rivet gives us a do-it-yourself way to help save life on our planet.

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The content Robin gives us helps us know we—you and I and our organizations and congregations— CAN do something to reverse the multiple climate disasters by addressing the annual net loss of trees on our planet. If our banks lost that much wealth year after year, we’d be deeply concerned. Let’s see if we can match that level of concern when we learn of the tremendous loss of environmental wealth, or natural capital as it is also called, in the annual net loss of trees. Robin will tell us more about the wealth and treasure in our trees—a kind of wealth our systems and our eyes have not been trained to see.
Just to keep our conversation with arborist Robin Robin in perspective, listen for how it contrasts sharply with the news recently that billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Besos, and Elon Musk have committed to working on reversing climate change through grand technological and market-driven fixes. We do well to be wary of such promises. Markets have a history of being exploitive and technology’s history has extracted enormous amounts of resources from nature. They’ve gotten us to the climate mess we’re in. Gates, Besos, and Musk have all acquired extreme and excessive wealth from markets and technology. But they’ve taken nature’s wealth—commonwealth that belongs to all of us—to do so. No doubt there’s more money to be made from our planet’s climate crises. But will it be for the common good? The history of the industrial age gives little support to the thinking of the approach recommended by these high profile billionaires. And the conversation with Robin Rivet in this podcast episode takes us in a refreshing different direction.

We can all commit to do something really meaningful as we gratefully celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day. And, please, listeners, promote this important conversation to others.

If you’re not so sure you can plant or tend any trees, can you consider making a donation to the OneEarth Jubilee Tree Fund? In 2021, we will be getting trees in the ground in the San Diego region as well as two regions in Mexico. This  Fund also gives you a chance to compensate for the CO2 your travel and energy use put into the air. The trees you fund will take it out of the air. Either by planting or donating, we encourage action. The crises underway on our planet require us to act differently, to act in cooperation with nature as our ally. You can donate by check, payable to Jubilee Economics Ministries (designate that it’s for the Tree Fund), or online at www.oneearthjubilee.com/donations

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Earlier Episodes
Ep. 0321–Mike Little: The Power of Money—Making All Our Money Accountable to Our Faith

How Lee’s benefited from Faith & Money Network. Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

Remembering ways JEM and F&MN have collaborated

Linking money to faith, when it affects ALL our uses of money and not just our giving, is itself a radical position.

Having this conversation now while the U.S. economy is being exposed for its inability to deal with grotesque income and wealth gaps—to wit, the stock market is at all time highs but the people without work and others who are underpaid are much too high for our economy to meet the standards of faith, financial morality, or an economy to hold up as a model.

The education and training that F&MN does

Your signature quote: “A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.” — Wendell Berry. How is F&MN linking change of thinking values to change of practice?

Instances in which someone’s change of practice goes as far as  changing the economic and faith paradigms by which they live, e.g., is Christian faith naturally linked to the values of capitalism’s economic model? Do you see people shifting their faith and economic models?

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Ep. 0221–Economist Barry Shelley: Economic Assumptions and Initiatives for Change

The U.S. economy stumbled badly under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic. The new administration in Washington has inherited the worst jobs market in modern times. The challenge to find paths of recovery for households, small businesses, states, and more has been engaged. Here on the Simpler OneEarth Living podcast we pursue an economic model we call OneEarth Jubilee. Today we talk with an economist Barry Shelley, senior lecturer at Boston University, about assumptions that underlie the current national economy and initiatives people are taking that show different assumptions and economic models are possible.

In Jubilee Economics Ministries we benefit greatly from Barry because he is an economic advisor to JEM’s understanding and practice of an alternative economy rooted in creation more than wealth accumulation or maximization of profits. This conversation with Barry focuses in three areas: (1) the underlying assumptions of the prevailing economy and the challenges in moving our economy in new directions, (2) the discussions happening among professional economists about changes and different economic models, and (3) local initiatives he considers important in showing that alternative sub-economies can be created within the larger, prevailing economy.

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Ep. 0121: Grace Dyrness: Planning Economic Revitalization with Poor People instead of for Them. Wow!

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.

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