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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. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

SHOW NOTES

CoronaVirus is reshaping life and society, moving in the direction of ecological living. We acknowledge the intense resistance to that move as many powers want to get back to normal.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic some want to go back to normal. But that normal is an illusion of unlimited growth on a planet with great, but limited, resources. The illusion elevated the lives of many in the 20th century. It worked so well for many in the U.S. and elsewhere that we’ve come to think of it as the way things are meant to be. But in the 21st century, it’s failing life on the planet. It has given us the Great Recession of 2008-09. It insists on growth economics that is piling up one natural disaster after another. And it has unleashed a global pandemic that the much heralded market economy did not prepare for. Indeed, it could not prepare for it because profits and power blinded wisdom.

It’s nothing we want to go back to. Many people are hearing quite clearly the call of the Creator and all of creation to join her in generating new societies that respect science, integrate spirit, and embrace the economy able to shape life in this decade. The industrialized world has fought against her for far too many decades. As we listen deeply to Earth and her Spirit, let’s frame what we learn around a global worldview and act locally with what we learn to generate local, living communities.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for International Mother Earth Day, 4/22/20 — six climate-related actions to shape the recovery and the work ahead.

Pandemic side-effects offer glimpse of alternative future on Earth Day 2020: Coronavirus has led to reduced pollution, re-emerging wildlife and plunging oil prices and shown the size of the task facing humanity — by Oliver Milman from The Guardian

COVID-19: Crisis and Call to Humanity for a Better Way Forward

By T. Larsen in Green America, 4/16/20

• Move to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030
• Shift to regenerative agriculture. 
• Create a pathway to free public college education and address crushing student loan debt and medical debts. 
• Shape a story of America that is finally being honest about “the all” words in “liberty and justice for all.”

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Richard Heinberg – Transition Towns: a great unraveling is underway. Transition towns are visionary and focus in community instead of corporations. A sane way as globalization unravels–from MuseLetter 326, 4/20
Episode 109: Richard Heinberg on Choosing to Get Off Fossil Energy—Our Best Local Choices
http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1887

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0420::CoronaVirus: A Devastating Nature Disaster with a Message–Live Differently!

So much desolation has been caused by human incursion. We’ve even given it holy sounding names like Manifest Destiny. In some cases humans carry disease to other cultures that have not developed immunity, such as Europeans invading the Americas.

“Perhaps the most important message the coronavirus offers is that the natural world is conspiring to save us from ourselves, to slow our materialistic greed and reign in our aggressive, self-centered, short-term, and xenophobic tendencies.” –John Perkins, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance

Lee and Jerry talk about what the virus has to teach us and share pertinent thoughts from experts.

Hear the Letter from Covid-19 to Humans in its original language with art/illustrations at: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/a-letter-from-the-virus-listen/ [from Psychology Today, 3/24/20]

The UN Environmental Chief, Inger Andersen,  was reported on Commondreams by Damian Carrington, 3/25/20, entitled, Coronavirus: ‘Nature is sending us a message.’

David Korten, 3/29/20, in Yes! Magazine (also on Commondreams), entitled, “Why Coronavirus Is Humanity’s Wakeup Call.”

“Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back from 2050,” by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets Media. Hazel was our guest: Part 1, Episode 91; Part 2, Episode 92.

6 Lessons CoronaVirus Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas and Leah D. Schade are co-editors of the book Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), an anthology of essays from religious environmental activists on finding the spiritual wisdom for facing the difficult days ahead.

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, guest on this podcast, Ep.10/19

# # #

Ep. 0329–Dave Gardner on three major efforts he has developed—all designed to bring change from the present: (1) GrowthBusters, (2) World Population Balance and (3) the One Planet/One Child Campaign.

Colleagues: GrowthBusters (Dave Gardner)–film and podcast; World Population Balance // OverPopulation Podcast; Post-Carbon Institute programs + CrazyTown podcast (SLW! Ep. 109–Richard Heinberg); CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy (The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech); Center for Sustainable Economy;  and Population Connection (SLW! Ep. Ep. 72: John Seager of Population Connection, Part 1; Ep. 73, Part 2); Bill Ryerson of the Population Institute and Population Media Center (SLW! Ep. 113: Part 1–Population Crises; TCGP #97: Part 2–Reducing Population Using Methods that Work)

ESSAY: Overconsumption and Overpopulation as the primary drivers of the Climate Crisis

All of our Jubilee Circles are keenly aware that the 2020’s is last decade for major climate action to save life in the sacred creation where we live. May we live in the Spirit who is eager to partner with us all.

# # #

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, 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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:40 — 17.6MB)

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. SUBSCRIBE for free through your favorite podcast service, under the name Simple Living Works! Urge your friends to do the same.

SHOW NOTES

So much desolation has been caused by human incursion. We’ve even given it holy sounding names like Manifest Destiny. In some cases humans carry disease to other cultures that have not developed immunity, such as Europeans invading the Americas.

“Perhaps the most important message the coronavirus offers is that the natural world is conspiring to save us from ourselves, to slow our materialistic greed and reign in our aggressive, self-centered, short-term, and xenophobic tendencies.” –John Perkins, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance

Lee and Jerry talk about what the virus has to teach us and share pertinent thoughts from experts.

Hear the Letter from Covid-19 to Humans in its original language with art/illustrations at: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/a-letter-from-the-virus-listen/ [from Psychology Today, March 24, 2020]

The UN Environmental Chief, Inger Andersen,  was reported on Commondreams by Damian Carrington, 3/25/20, entitled, Coronavirus: ‘Nature is sending us a message.’

David Korten, 3/29/20, in Yes! Magazine (also on Commondreams), entitled, “Why Coronavirus Is Humanity’s Wakeup Call.”

“Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back from 2050,” by Fritjof [FRIT-hof] Capra and Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets Media. Hazel was our guest: Part 1, Episode 91 [4/15]; Part 2, Episode 92 [5/1].

6 LESSONS CORONAVIRUS CAN TEACH US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas and Leah D. Schade are co-editors of the book Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), an anthology of essays from religious environmental activists on finding the spiritual wisdom for facing the difficult days ahead.

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas guest on this podcast, Ep.10/19

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0329–Dave Gardner on three major efforts he has developed—all designed to bring change from the present: (1) GrowthBusters, (2) World Population Balance and (3) the One Planet/One Child Campaign.

I [Lee] write about this in my book, Blinded by Progress. I have a chapter on species imbalance. I find that approaching the topic in terms of Earth’s correction of imbalance leads to more fruitful conversation than speaking about human population control. In 1920, the world had only 1.8 billion people. Today, 7.8 billion.  

Regarding growth economics, I have come to understand that there are two major stories we can live by. We have to choose between them: either MultiEarth or OneEarth. Growth economics is the economics of the MultiEarth way of living. Steady-state, creation-based economics is inherent in OneEarth living,

Colleagues: GrowthBusters (Dave Gardner)–film and podcast; World Population Balance // OverPopulation Podcast; Post-Carbon Institute programs + CrazyTown podcast (SLW! Ep. 109–Richard Heinberg); CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy (The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech); Center for Sustainable Economy;  and Population Connection (SLW! Ep. Ep. 72: John Seager of Population Connection, Part 1; Ep. 73, Part 2); Bill Ryerson of the Population Institute and Population Media Center (SLW! Ep. 113: Part 1–Population Crises; TCGP #97: Part 2–Reducing Population Using Methods that Work)

ESSAY: Overconsumption and Overpopulation as the primary drivers of the Climate Crisis

A great sign carried by a young person in the Climate Action Strikes of Sep. 20 said: Our parents taught us to clean up after ourselves, so why’d you leave us this mess? OneEarth Jubilee has taken another step to help us all counter the CO2 we put into the air as we drive our cars, fly away to places, heat or cool our homes, and all the ways our lives release CO2 into the atmosphere. We can offset those tons of CO2 by planting trees. 

Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at https://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator. 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. The show notes to this podcast will give you the links to the newsletter and to the carbon calculator.

https://time.com/5620706/plant-trillion-trees-climate-change/]

All of our Circles are keenly aware that the 2020’s is last decade for major climate action to save life in the sacred creation where we live. May we live in the Spirit who is eager to partner with us all.

Ep. 0229–For Jubilee OneEarth Economics, part of positioning ourselves to meet the challenges of the 2020’s  is adding John Michno to the leadership team.
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Ep. 0129–David Hoferer, biology professor 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.

A New York Times article from 9/19, entitled “Birds Are Vanishing from North America” — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html

# # #

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

YesWeCanPeaceBuilders.org, a member of Pace e Bene and the Non-Violent Cities Project, a national movement of Non-Violent Cities that work with police, schools, businesses and non-profit organizations for social and economic justice.

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: Part 1 on Peace & NonViolence
Part 2–Making Nonviolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

John Dear Peace Podcast

# # #

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, 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.

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Dave Gardner, GrowthBusters and World Population Balance

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.

Today we’re talking to Dave Gardner about three major efforts he has developed—all designed to bring change from the present: (1) GrowthBusters, (2) World Population Balance and (3) the One Planet/One Child Campaign. 

I [Jerry] thank you, Lee, for coming up from San Diego to the Central Coast to speak recently.

[Lee} It was my pleasure to speak to two engaged groups at historic Bethel Lutheran Church in Templeton and then for a sizable gathering at St. James Episcopal Church in Paso Robles, sponsored by Paso Peace Community. They asked pertinent questions, bought a good number of my books and gave generously to the cause. 

I [Lee] love the conversation you had, Jerry, with our guest on this show. Both of us—you through Simple Living Works and I through OneEarth Jubilee—work on the crises caused by the explosion of human beings on the planet in the past century and on an economics of endless growth on our wonderful planet’s limited resources.

I [Lee] write about this in my book, Blinded by Progress. I have a chapter on species imbalance. I find that approaching the topic in terms of Earth’s correction of imbalance leads to more fruitful conversation than speaking about human population control. In 1920, the world had only 1.8 billion people. Today, 7.8 billion.  

Regarding growth economics, I have come to understand that there are two major stories we can live by. We have to choose between them: either MultiEarth or OneEarth. Growth economics is the economics of the MultiEarth way of living. Steady-state, creation-based economics is inherent in OneEarth living,

Simple Living Works!, Jubilee OneEarth Economics and GrowthBusters have so much in common! We have been promoting GrowthBusters in our blogs and listening to their podcasts for quite some time.

Colleagues: GrowthBusters (Dave Gardner)–film and podcast; World Population Balance // OverPopulation Podcast; Post-Carbon Institute programs + CrazyTown podcast (SLW! Ep. 109–Richard Heinberg); CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy (The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech); Center for Sustainable Economy;  and Population Connection (SLW! Ep. Ep. 72: John Seager of Population Connection, Part 1; Ep. 73, Part 2); Bill Ryerson of the Population Institute and Population Media Center (SLW! Ep. 113: Part 1–Population Crises; TCGP #97: Part 2–Reducing Population Using Methods that Work)

ESSAY: Overconsumption and Overpopulation as the primary drivers of the Climate Crisis

A great sign carried by a young person in the Climate Action Strikes of Sep. 20 said: Our parents taught us to clean up after ourselves, so why’d you leave us this mess? OneEarth Jubilee has taken another step to help us all counter the CO2 we put into the air as we drive our cars, fly away to places, heat or cool our homes, and all the ways our lives release CO2 into the atmosphere. We can offset those tons of CO2 by planting trees. 

Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at https://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator. 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. The show notes to this podcast will give you the links to the newsletter and to the carbon calculator.

https://time.com/5620706/plant-trillion-trees-climate-change/]

All of our Circles are keenly aware that the 2020’s is last decade for major climate action to save life in the sacred creation where we live. May we live in the Spirit who is eager to partner with us all.

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0229–For Jubilee OneEarth Economics, part of positioning ourselves to meet the challenges of the 2020’s  is adding John Michno to the leadership team.

Ep. 0129–David Hoferer, biology professor 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
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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: Part 1 on Peace & NonViolence
Part 2–Making Nonviolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence

John Dear Peace Podcast

# # #

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. 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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:11 — 20.7MB)

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.

For Jubilee OneEarth Economics, part of positioning ourselves to meet the challenges of the 2020’s  is adding John Michno to the leadership team.

John’s Values

Environmental and human sustainability are so important. I can see that the Pearl of Great Price Jesus talks about — is the ecosystem — Earth, our home. Earth provides the right amount of oxygen, water and plant nutrients. This delicate balance is changing, due to the unconscious way that we over- consume. The Good News is, we are creating a new culture of sustainability.

John’s Work & Business

I started work as a Fellow with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, researching mathematical models of sea pollutants and overfishing. With a degree in Physics from UCSD, I worked as a software engineer for a former division of General Electric. I became a software sales consultant to Global 500 corporations, saving building & vehicle operations costs and energy use. Advising a leadership team at the Federal Aviation Administration, I facilitated a $5.2 million software purchase. As a project manager, I directed 44 software engineers, gathering requirements from thirty US Navy managers. I eventually headed a team of twelve software engineers working for the National Science Foundation. We were a $20 million program for earthquake and structural engineering research from a consortium of fifteen universities around the world.

John’s Human-Valued Mission

As this work drew to a close, I was weary of moving up the ladder. My ambition had always been to earn another promotion, challenging myself. But in the competitive world of business, I was wanting more kindness and coaching to develop my growth possibilities.

I had been an Intervarsity Bible Study leader and a camp counselor with inner city Latino and African American youth. I started to study Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a conflict intervention process with roots in the work of psychologist Carl Rodgers, who emphasized the beauty of the individual. I joined a circle of Unitarians, Buddhists and activists who hosted communication workshops. My friends invited me to co-facilitate a monthly NVC practice group. We added Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, mindfulness and Heart Math. I was invited to teach at various universities, synagogues and churches.

After the election of 2016, I became more aware of the bullying of Muslim, Hispanic and other school children. I joined an interfaith team and liaised to social workers at Trauma Informed Care Team. With the school district, we created new procedures and curriculum to protect kids from bullying.

As the climate emergency became apparent, I worked as the Interfaith Coordinator for 350, seeking to reduce the worst impacts of climate change. My job was to form relationships with clergy of all faiths, inviting them to take joint action on climate change, through education about the science of climate change, and through Creation Care circles in their faith communities. I worked with Catholics, Brethren, Episcopalians, Methodists, UCC, Religious Science and Ba’hai.

Through these experiences, I increasingly valued the diversity of spiritual practices, the insight of science, the preciousness of our environment, and of individual humans. We are bringing these gifts to nourish our planet and our peoples. 

In 2020, we’ll be holding special events recognizing the 20th year for Jubilee Economics Ministries — A delegation to southern Mexico to learn communitarian practices from the JEM Circles there, 6/6-13; a conference in San Diego, 9/19-20, featuring  scholar Wes Howard-Brooke; a 20th anniversary party in San Diego toward the end of the year.

The 2020’s

1. Hopes and challenges of OneEarth (low growth/no growth) economics in the face of unbridled capitalism. Using communitarian (not communist!) models exemplified among the Zapatistas.

Colleagues: GrowthBusters (Dave Gardner)–film and podcast; World Population Balance // OverPopulation Podcast; Post-Carbon Institute programs + CrazyTown podcast (SLW! Ep. 109–Richard Heinberg); CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy (The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech); Center for Sustainable Economy

2. Future of voluntary simplicity; being replaced by minimalism

Overconsumption and Overpopulation as the primary drivers of the Climate Crisis

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0129–David Hoferer, biology professor 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

# # #

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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  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.