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

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

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?

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. 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.

Barry Shelley is senior lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He went to that work after three decades of experience as a practitioner, teacher, and researcher focusing on the political economy of international development and the environment, particularly in rural areas of the Global South.  Most recently, he served as Global Advisor for Agriculture and Climate Change for Oxfam America.  There he contributed to organization-wide strategy and research and traveled often to support national teams in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.  Previously, he taught in the MA program in sustainable development at Brandeis University and undergraduate courses at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts; conducted research in Mongolia and Latin America; and worked in El Salvador with both U.S.-based and national NGO’s or non-governmental organizations.  His shift to international work followed jobs as an organizer and program leader in U.S. domestic social-change programs.

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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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.

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

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.

# # #

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

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

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 about assumptions that underlie the current national economy and initiatives people are taking that show different assumptions and economic models are possible.

This episode took me into conversation with economist, Barry Shelley, senior lecturer at Boston University. 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.

Barry Shelley is senior lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He went to that work after three decades of experience as a practitioner, teacher, and researcher focusing on the political economy of international development and the environment, particularly in rural areas of the Global South.  Most recently, he served as Global Advisor for Agriculture and Climate Change for Oxfam America.  There he contributed to organization-wide strategy and research and traveled often to support national teams in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.  Previously, he taught in the MA program in sustainable development at Brandeis University and undergraduate courses at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts; conducted research in Mongolia and Latin America; and worked in El Salvador with both U.S.-based and national NGO’s or non-governmental organizations.  His shift to international work followed jobs as an organizer and program leader in U.S. domestic social-change programs.

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. 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.

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.

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

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
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# # #

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. 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.

# # #

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.

# # #

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. 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. 11/20–How Empowering Women Changes the World

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

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 these strong real life stories as told by Angelica and Lindsey.

Again we zero in on the changes we need in the 2020’s. The changes are huge in scale. And they can’t happen without women living into their full, divinely-given power! As that happens, in many places around the globe, societies shift out of patriarchal dominance. The inspiring stories of Jubilee in this episode illustrate this.

 We observe that the right wing of politics repeatedly undercuts the laws that empower women. Though they may say words claiming they esteem women, their actions, all too frequently, tell a story of limiting women’s rights.

Guests: Angelica Juarez Jimenez is a physician and artist, who works with Jubilee through the Jubilee Circle in San Mateo, Mexico, in the state of Puebla. Lindsey Mercer-Robledo is an organizer working with Jubilee through the Jubilee Circle in San Cristobal in the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas. These conversations were recorded in mid-October.

Important Announcement

Lee’s new book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils” clearly shows that the Christmas story is a different story from the birth story of the gospels. And knowing that 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 will be free.

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. 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.

# # #

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.

# # #

Ep. 0820–Leaving Superpower Ways for Earth-Size Living

Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s

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Ep. 0720–As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

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Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices

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Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World

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

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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 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. 1020–Scott Klinger: Maximizing Justice Over Profits Is Possible

Scott-Klinger

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.

SHOW NOTES

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? We address these questions and more with Scott Klinger.

We continue in this episode to focus on how to live amid the multiple crises of the 2020s. We accept the guidance of over 200 scientists globally who tell us plainly that we must keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. And that to do so, massive changes in our economic and social systems must happen. Our guest, Scott Klinger, shares some of what he has learned about these systems and how to change them.

From an email Scott sent Lee to prepare for this episode: My current thinking is about how the world could be different, if we all invested in creating the world we want to live in, rather than investing to maximize our financial returns. What would maximizing our justice returns look like?

We can contrast it with Indigenous Peoples values around money. Wealth is held collectively….there are usage rights to the Earth, not ownership as white society thinks of it. 

When you go to an Indigenous community, the leader may well be one of the materially worse off people, that’s because the principal responsibility of leadership is to look after the well-being of the people. We’ve turned that model upside down. The role of a leader is to send money up the financial food chain, not down.

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.”

Watch for articles by Scott on the Common Dreams news outlet. You’ll see them there from time to time.

Fascinating Announcements

  1. Jubilee OneEarth Economics has begun to post short videos for free on YouTube at “OneEarth Jubilee.”
  2. You can be a promoter of Jubilee living. Watch for information about a new Jubilee School and a certification course.
  3. In our previous podcast episode we interviewed Lane Van Ham on the power of immigrant advocacy. You can get his new book “Composite Nation: A History of Immigrant Advocacy in the United States,” directly from OneEarth Publishing, a service of Jubilee OneEarth Economics. 
  4. During Advent, the four week period before Christmas, read and use Lee’s new book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils.” Read more here // Hear more here,  and at TheOneEarthProject.com/books. Order a copy directly from Jubilee or from various suppliers on the internet.

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. 0920–Leaving Superpower Ways for Earth-Size Living

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. The World Health Organization: More people are on the move now than ever before. There are an estimated 1 billion migrants in the world today of whom 258 million are international migrants and 763 million internal migrants – one in seven of the world’s population. 68 million of the world’s internal and international migrants are forcibly displaced today.  https://www.who.int/migrants/en/#:~:text=More%20people%20are%20on%20the,seven%20of%20the%20world’s%20population.

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.

When we speak of immigrant advocates, we’re talking about a lot of people. Intelligent people. People who know how to live on very little of Earth’s resources. Our own country can learn a lot from them, but we have to listen instead of exclude. Many immigrants have a spirituality that sustains them through the impossible. When we lock them up in torturous prisons and cages, or send them back to the pain they are fleeing—these actions are to our own detriment, not our benefit. To treat immigrants as human is far more than morally right. It is recognizing their gifts, seeing them as invaluable to our efforts to reverse climate change, correct injustices of white privilege, shape the creation-based economy that works for all, and taking care of one another amid the pandemic. They know the traumatic grief of leaving family, home and country, fleeing under threats from joblessness to torture and death. Where in the world can they be seen for their true value? 

Author Lane Van Ham’s resume: http://www.lanevanhamws.com/resume. He currently teaches in the writing and the applied humanities programs at the University of Arizona where he also earned his PhD. He’s written two books on the topic we’re discussing with him plus articles in professional journals.

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Ep. 0820–Leaving Superpower Ways for Earth-Size Living

Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s
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Ep. 0720–As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

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Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices

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Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World

# # #

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

# # #

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.

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

Composite Nation

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.

SHOW NOTES

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. The World Health Organization: More people are on the move now than ever before. There are an estimated 1 billion migrants in the world today of whom 258 million are international migrants and 763 million internal migrants – one in seven of the world’s population. 68 million of the world’s internal and international migrants are forcibly displaced today.  https://www.who.int/migrants/en/#:~:text=More%20people%20are%20on%20the,seven%20of%20the%20world’s%20population.

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.

When we speak of immigrant advocates, we’re talking about a lot of people. Intelligent people. People who know how to live on very little of Earth’s resources. Our own country can learn a lot from them, but we have to listen instead of exclude. Many immigrants have a spirituality that sustains them through the impossible. When we lock them up in torturous prisons and cages, or send them back to the pain they are fleeing—these actions are to our own detriment, not our benefit. To treat immigrants as human is far more than morally right. It is recognizing their gifts, seeing them as invaluable to our efforts to reverse climate change, correct injustices of white privilege, shape the creation-based economy that works for all, and taking care of one another amid the pandemic. They know the traumatic grief of leaving family, home and country, fleeing under threats from joblessness to torture and death. Where in the world can they be seen for their true value? 

Author Lane Van Ham’s resume: http://www.lanevanhamws.com/resume. He currently teaches in the writing and the applied humanities programs at the University of Arizona where he also earned his PhD. He’s written two books on the topic we’re discussing with him plus articles in professional journals.

Fascinating Announcements

  1. During Advent, the four week period before Christmas, read and use Lee’s new book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse the Earth’s Perils.” Read more here. // Hear more here, and at TheOneEarthProject.com/books. Order a copy directly from Jubilee or from various suppliers on the internet.
  2. Watch for news about an upcoming series of new, short videos from Jubilee OneEarth Economics. They’ll be posted for free on YouTube.
  3. You can be a promoter of Jubilee living. Watch for information about a new certification course.
  4. Order a copy of Lane Van Ham’s new book “Composite Nation: A History of Immigrant Advocacy in the United States,” directly from OneEarth Publishing, a service of Jubilee OneEarth Economics. 

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. 0820–Leaving Superpower Ways for Earth-Size Living

Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s

# # #

Ep. 0720–As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

# # #

Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices

# # #
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Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World

# # #

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

# # #

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.

Ep. 0820–Leaving Superpower Ways for Earth-Size Living

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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

Can the current economy handle the global pandemic that increasingly shows it will be with us for a long time? Month by month signs intensify to unveil the economy’s weaknesses, leaving many to conclude that this economy is not flexible enough to bring wellbeing, but is delivering suffering instead. How, then, can we live according to a new economy? That’s the conversation we are into today. Stay with us.

This podcast episode is built around the presentation Lee gave recently to a Zoom gathering of the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace in the Pasadena-Los Angeles area. Visit the ICUJP website for further information. It formed quickly following 9/11 in 2001. They’ve held a forum nearly every Friday since. A truly amazing interfaith coalition of learning and action!

They asked Lee to speak about a new economy because “You’ve been working on a jubilee economy for a long time in both the U.S. and Mexico.” They recognized that the space we’ve been ushered into, not just by the coronavirus, but by multiple dynamics, requires a new economic model from what we have. The current economy shows a weak capacity to handle the coronavirus. It’s working for fewer and fewer people. And all the while, climate heating continues without governments applying the brakes. 

Lee’s presentation was called “Our Exodus from Superpower to a Creation-Size Economy.” A new economy doesn’t work inside a superpower worldview focused on domination of others and extracting whatever we want from nature as cheaply as we can get it. Instead, we need to recognize creation as our frame of reference for all economic decisions.

Speaking to interfaith communities means that people of faith can explicitly act from our various faiths to bear startling witness to the needed transformation to a creation-size economy.  We have begun a most critical decade–the 2020s. By 2030, the needed transformations will be too late. We have to act now. This decade has an apocalyptic reality. It is filled with breakdowns of systems familiar to us. It also reveals the breakthrough to what is new. So, at this time, we feel the anxiety of enormous tension between (1) powers and big money clinging to what privileges them and (2) thousands of grassroots efforts working from the bottom up to show us how to live a new creation-based economy. That’s where the Jubilee economy fits in so well.

Because this tension exceeds understanding by rational means alone, we need a framework in which to handle the emotions and thoughts triggered by the current apocalyptic experiences.

Apocalyptic can be a frightening word. It feels surreal. Yet, what we are experiencing today are existential events that do not have an end in sight. I’m thinking of Covid-19, of over-consuming,  of overpopulation, of industrial farming, of authoritarian and fascist government, and of global heating. A lot of energies feed into this storm. Current systems are being overwhelmed when we assess them honestly. I guess that’s what apocalyptic means. How we live in this apocalyptic time?

Lee used something from our previous podcast episode–the “adaptive cycle” developed by the late ecological economist C.S. Holling. It really helps us think about the rise and fall of human systems. They grow, then they conserve their success, then they weaken and decline, and finally a regeneration of a new system happens.

That’s the life cycle of the current systems that are the building blocks of a superpower. These systems are not eternal. They have not always been with us. Nor will they be with us forever.

So, where are we in that life cycle now? The growth phase happened as the industrial age grew and grew. Then in the 20th century policies and corporations conserved the gains made and urged people to buy our way into great living. But already in the 20th century, early signs of decline began to appear as scientists warned of greenhouse gases and many economists saw that growth economics was outstripping the planet’s resources. Now in the decade of the 2020s we are fully into what Holling called the release phase, meaning, large powers of creation are forcing humans to let go of civilization’s systems that are killing life on the planet. Thousands of people have already let go; others are being coerced to do so. And those clinging to the privileges of the past are moving into ever greater violence against change. But even as the top-down structures collapse, small scale enterprises expressing creation-size living rise into the consciousness of thousands.

The pandemic is hurrying the process along. A year ago, none of us were planning that within one year the economy would be contracting and the healthcare systems would be overworked. Or that millions of people would understand with new clarity that people of color have been forced by our systems to build the U.S. economy. They continue to be systemically repressed and deprived by every system of civilization. Now, the pandemic has exploded our consciousness about this systemic unfairness. We feel the wrenching struggle of good and evil in this moment as the death struggle of what has been and the birthing of what is to be. What has been unimaginable is now inevitable.

And that’s why faith communities need to claim quite boldly and explicitly the economics and practices of creation living. The time is right for us to rediscover the power of an economic message.

Right-wing authoritarianism is ever a threat in this unstable, apocalyptic situation. But if such authoritarianism prevails, that tyranny too will fail, though the toll upon life will be devastating. 

 How does one describe the world that is being revealed as the breakthrough—that which we move toward?

All of of our podcast episodes present aspects of the OneEarth Jubilee economy and worldview—an economy rooted in creation and taught in sacred texts.

The name comes from the Bible. In the Bible, it is not a matter of a few obscure texts that we strain to make work in today’s world. Jubilee is a worldview that precedes the Bible, is active in the biblical narratives, and continues to the present. The worldview is akin to what Indigenous people often call the “Original Instructions.”

Both in the Bible and today, Jubilee actions resist empires and monarchies and their economies and offer alternatives to them. The worldview is rooted in the organic structures of creation, not the corporate structures of civilization.

OneEarth vs. MultiEarth from Lee’s book Blinded by Progress, pp. 8-11

What specifics do you recommend given the strong grip that past ways have on us? It certainly is a time for lots of unlearning much of what we’ve been doing and thinking. Faith-based actions—I’m thinking here of what congregations of all beliefs have taught as discipleship, mission, or spiritual practices—need redefinition. So, how do people of faith learn and teach discipleship that matters for the 2020s?

  • We need to read sacred texts economically
  • Jubilee in the Bible comes from different authors over a millennium of time. It’s not a one-shot effort that didn’t work and was given up.
  • Jubilee passages are in parts of the Bible that prefer a worldview that makes Creation the context and measure of all life, from economics to religion.
  • Jubilee rises from below and is most accurately understood from the perspective of oppressed people. 
  • Get away from capitalism vs socialism which is fruitless and non-transforming. We do have an economic message that is able to transform people and societies.

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Invitation to Sign OneEarth Jubilee Covenant for the 2020’s

Have you listened to our recent episodes? In April we shared some of the most thought-provoking interpretations of the pandemic, entitled CoronaVirus: A Devastating Natural Disaster with a Message–Live Differently. In May, Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World. In June, Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices. In July, As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

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

NOTES: Consider using Lee’s new book “The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story to Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Perils” this Advent.

Watch for details on the new ZOOM series in September by Wes Howard Brook for OneEarth Economics.

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Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0720–As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

In this episode we give a better way to think about life after the pandemic than getting back to doing what we did before. How do we get from this stage of life with the pandemic and other multiple crises to a better world than we had before. We need new systems that support life for all instead of hyper profits for some that grow the punishing disparities everywhere we look in our societies.

As you listen, the questions are, “How can I now choose for the future instead of choosing to get back to how I was doing it? How can I choose for a planet in balance for the wellbeing of all beings?”

We depend heavily on the work of Nafeez Ahmed as presented in an article in YES! magazine, summer 2020 edition.
“The Light at the End” Nafeez Ahmed in YES! magazine, summer 2020
issue.  https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/coronavirus-community-
power/2020/05/11/coronavirus-community-power-survival/

NAFEEZ AHMED is executive director of the System Shift Lab, editor of the crowdfunded platform INSURGE intelligence, and research fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems.

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Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices
CoronaVirus is revealing breakdowns and lack of resilience in our food supply systems. Which links in the chain are broken? Rather than fixing them, what are new and better choices for us in how we bring food from soil to savory, healthy eating? 

This is the third successive podcast episode in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 abruptly stopped the fragile food supply system we’ve been depending on. The system that’s broken down is driven by industrial agriculture, global markets, trade breakdowns and corporate control.

At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are ‘Not At All Confident’ They’ll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds.

Excellent sources that (1) explain the breakdown and (2) help us identify the systems we need going forward.  

Richard Heinberg wrote The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. The final chapter is loaded with things people are doing to adopt practices of OneEarth living and economics measured by wellbeing, not growth. He is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and continues to share the wisdom of that think and action group in his Museletter on his website, https://richardheinberg.com.

I interviewed Richard for this podcast, Ep. 109.

 In 4/20 Museletter #326, “Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis” summarizes flaws in the current system. 

https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-326-pandemic-response-requires-post-growth-economic-thinking

“Experts who study what makes societies sustainable (or unsustainable) have been warning for decades that our modern food system is packed with ticking bombs. The ways we grow, process, package, and distribute food depend overwhelmingly on finite, depleting, and polluting fossil fuels. Industrial agriculture contributes to climate change, and results in soil erosion and salinization. Ammonia-based fertilizers create “dead zones” near river deltas while petrochemical pesticides and herbicides pollute air and water. Modern agriculture also contributes to deforestation and biodiversity loss. Monocrops—huge fields of genetically uniform corn and soybeans—are especially vulnerable to pests and diseases. Long supply chains make localities increasingly dependent on distant suppliers. The system tends to exploit low-wage workers. And food is often unequally distributed and even unhealthful, contributing to poor nutrition as well as diabetes and other diseases.”

Heinberg: five of the links that are breaking down currently in the food supply chain’s “wicked complexity.” 

These five give us a big picture of what corporations and globalization have been creating in recent decades. 

1. Vulnerable Food Workers 

2. Fragile Distribution Networks 

3. Broken Global Supply Chains 

4. Bankrupt Farmers 

5. Vanishing Affordability 

Solutions We Suggest

1. Growing more of our own. —  growing more of their own food. //  Baker Creek seed company, 

2. Rationing. — At the national level, food price controls have an uneven history of success. Stan Cox: Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing //  Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program 

3.  Shorten supply chains. LINKS: capture atmospheric carbon and sequester it in soil, that build healthy and biologically rich topsoil // nutritious and affordable food // fair to farmers and farmworkers.

4. Guides for how Our Choices can reconfigure food supply post-Covid-19 (mid-Covid-19) 

From the Reader Supported News website, an article on young adults turning their grief to action: Anna McClurkan

a. Local supply—growers, retailers, markets. Focus in communities instead of corporations.

b. Reduce Meat by at least 50%

c. Organic—no pesticides, herbicides

5. The Land Institute, Salina, KS, — reconfiguring farming (notes from Panel with Stan Cox, 5/23/20)

  1. Stop thinking that economic growth is good and takes care of everything else. Limits is the replacement word. Generate a community of learning around new thinking. Do it soon.
  2. Disconnect food from fossil fuel use.
  3. Value local crops, perennial crops.
  4. Resettle small farms and small towns. Not because of nostalgia, but because that is how Homo sapiens function better.

Other Links for this episode

Published on Friday, May 22, 2020 by Common Dreams
Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis by Jessica Corbett, staff writer

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/22/fridays-future-europe-calls-transforming-agricultural-policy-tackle-climate-crisis

Fasting From Food Waste in a Season of Hoarding

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement — ICCI — IowaCCI.org
The Food & Farm System We Need and Deserve: A Webinar Series – for farmers, workers, eaters and the land. Our food and farm system belongs in the hands of more diverse base of farmers and workers, not under the control of a small handful of giant corporations. (SLW! Podcast ep. 02/19)

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Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World
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. 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. But in the 21st century, it’s failing life on the planet.

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.”

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

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

“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

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 91Part 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

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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.

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Ep. 0720–As This World Ends, the Light at the End…

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Brief Show Notes

In this episode we give a better way to think about life after the pandemic than getting back to doing what we did before. How do we get from this stage of life with the pandemic and other multiple crises to a better world than we had before. We need new systems that support life for all instead of hyper profits for some that grow the punishing disparities everywhere we look in our societies.

As you listen, the questions are, “How can I now choose for the future instead of choosing to get back to how I was doing it? How can I choose for a planet in balance for the wellbeing of all beings?”

We depend heavily on the work of Nafeez Ahmed as presented in an article in YES! magazine, summer 2020 edition.
“The Light at the End” Nafeez Ahmed in YES! magazine, summer 2020
issue.  https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/coronavirus-community-
power/2020/05/11/coronavirus-community-power-survival/

NAFEEZ AHMED is executive director of the System Shift Lab, editor of the crowdfunded platform INSURGE intelligence, and research fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems.

Expanded Show Notes

“The Light at the End” Nafeez Ahmed in YES! magazine, summer 2020 issue. https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/coronavirus-community-power/2020/05/11/coronavirus-community-power-survival/

NAFEEZ AHMED is executive director of the System Shift Lab, editor of the crowdfunded platform INSURGE intelligence, and research fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems. 

Ahmed’s opening sentence to his article, “The Light at the End” reads

“Within just a few weeks—faster than the blink of an eye in geological time—a tiny, microscopic entity brought the global monolith of human civilization, the captains of industry, the might of the world’s militaries, the financial juggernauts of money and manufacturing, to their knees.”

Systems are being exposed. leading to profound transformation.

  • Healthcare systems
  • Farming and food systems
  • Economic systems depending on growth, fossil fuels
  • Political systems and intergovernmental systems
  • Trade and travel systems
  • Social systems structured for racial inequalities and class

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These are the systems that shape our civilization. Most people count on them to perform well. But now, in the moment of great crises, they aren’t performing well. Is our society so driven by profits in the short term that we have refused to invest $$$ in building wellbeing for the long term? It appears so. But other than greed and corruption, how did this happen? Nafeez Ahmed names industrialization as the arena where our crises originate, including the coronavirus.

“According to a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the very same process of industrial expansion behind the collapse of biodiversity (the variety and abundance of life on earth)—putting a million species at risk of extinction—is also responsible for the heightened risk of major disease outbreaks. 

The global expansion of human activities, the study finds, has caused escalating “losses in wildlife habitat quality,” leading to “increased opportunities for animal-human interactions.” These in turn have “facilitated zoonotic disease transmission”—that is, the jumping of diseases found in certain animals to human populations.

Scientists have warned for decades that a pandemic would be inevitable this century, and very likely within decades. Even hardened national security experts now warn that the current pandemic is “probably a dry-run” for a worse one next time.

This predicament has placed the global system—structurally hardwired for endless exponential economic growth simply to retain stability—into a state of unprecedented uncertainty: Allowing the virus to run through the population will maximize the number of deaths, cause overwhelmed health care facilities to collapse, and crash our economies; locking down to slow or stop the spread of the virus to minimize fatalities will also crash our economies. 

So there’s a nerve-wracking dilemma in which this virus has put the systems of civilization: We know what actions control the spread, but when we implement them, they crash the growth-dependent economy. But if we don’t control the spread, then the infections overwhelm the healthcare and other systems. Once again, the growth-dependent economy will crash.

Whatever option we take in this pandemic, signs indicate “the inevitability of a long-term economic contraction of some kind. The human species has hit a roadblock—a structural impasse of our own creation.

End of a Paradigm — Prior to the pandemic, we were wildly spearheading near-exponential increases in energy consumption, public debt, popul​ation growth, greenhouse gas emiss​ions, and spe​cies extinctions.

This unsustainable heyday was bound to grind to a halt.

Fossil Fuels — In February, as the virus began to metastasize across the world, I reported on an extensive study by the Geological Survey of Finland. It concluded that the global economy was on the brink of another financial crash triggered by the collapse of the oil industry. Global conventional oil production has plateaued since around 2005, driving a shift to more expensive and difficult sources of energy—in particular U.S. shale oil and gas which has accounted for over 70% of global oil supply growth in recent years. 

As we pass through the threshold, will we extinguish everything in our desperation to cling to a past that has run its course?

U.S. shale firms have gone billions of dollars deeper into debt as operational and production costs have rocketed. At some point, study author Simon Michaux [Mih-SHOW] explained, these unsustainable economics would trigger a crisis across the shale industry, undermining global oil supply and, in turn, global economic growth. 

Debt — “Debt levels and other kinds of promises have been growing more rapidly than their physical collateral,” concluded [a] Finnish report. Growth in GDP has amounted to little more than a “debtfueled mirage.” And as we have not properly planned to phase out fossil fuel energy, the contraction of energy systems, oil in particular, could bring on “the peak of industrial output per capita sometime in the next few years.”

When understood in its full global systemic context, the COVID-19 crisis reveals the fundamental limits of the paradigm that defines industrial civilization in its current form—its assumptions about human nature, conception of the natural world, economic theory of the relationship between the two, overriding value-system, and associated nexus of collective behavioral patterns.

That last sentence is worth looking at carefully. 

  • Human nature
  • Concept we have of the natural world
  • How the economy relates to these two 

“COVID-19, then, was both a direct consequence of the paradigm of endless growth, and the pin that burst that bubble of growth. As such, its systemic consequences have been widely underestimated—largely because the true contours of that paradigm are not widely understood.”

In the next segment of Ahmed’s article, Gateway to the Next World, he introduces a systems framework that helps us look at the problem (1) to better conceptualize what has happened, (2) how it could continue to unfold, and (3) what role we can play.

“The “adaptive cycle” framework [was] developed by the late ecologist C.S. Holling, it provides powerful insights when applied to the rise and fall of human social systems. Systems tend to grow, decline, and renew themselves over four phases: growth—defining the 200 or so years of rapid industrial growth since the 19th century; conservation—encompassing a period of consolidation in which the system stabilizes; release—a period of uncertainty and chaos as the system begins to weaken and decline; and finally reorganization, when the system undergoes a fundamental re-ordering which can pave the way for a new systemic life cycle. 

Industrial civilization appears to have entered the last stages of its systemic life cycle long before the pandemic. While this “release” stage reveals the alarming results of previously entrenched social, political, economic, and cultural structures collapsing under the weight of their own incoherence, it also opens up unprecedented opportunities for radical change. At this point in a system’s life cycle, the weakening of top-down structures allows small perturbations to have wider re-ordering impacts across structures within the system. 

This has two major implications. The pandemic has emerged as a long-predicted symptom of a system in slow collapse. It is already rapidly accelerating the process of decline and emerging chaos. Simultaneously, it indicates that we have stepped much deeper into the release phase, opening up previously unthinkable possibilities for outsized change and systemic transformation. 

Arundhati Roy described it poignantly: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” 

More than that, the pandemic is a crucible, burning away and altering the structures that comprise the old paradigm, remaking who and what we are. 

Before we get to the metaphor of the crucible, let’s review the four phases of the “adaptive cycle.”

  1. Growth
  2. Conservation
  3. Release
  4. Reorganization

“When we emerge, we will have crossed a permanent threshold, from which there is no return, because there is simply no more “normal” to which to return. The question before us is this: As we pass through the threshold, will we extinguish everything in our desperation to cling to a past that has run its course? Or will we recover the courage to embrace the strange uncertainty of a different paradigm?”

Now onto the metaphor of the crucible. The crucible gives a clear image to each of us of the pains, chaos in the release phase en route to the life-buds of reorganization. The crucible invokes the truth that The Only Way Is Through. We need to cross the threshold and step into the crucible rather than fight to hold on to what we had.

“A basic precondition for being able to cross the threshold is acceptance: recognizing that the system as we know it, including many established structures taken for granted, is now bound to fall away. There may well be much to salvage, but it is futile to expect that the neoliberal “normality” of endless growth from which the pandemic erupted can simply continue unimpeded. It cannot—and efforts to revive it will be systemically self-defeating.

When we emerge, we will have crossed a permanent threshold, from which there is no return, because there is simply no more “normal” to which to return.

That much is clear from the works of anthropology professor Joseph Tainter of Utah State University, whose seminal study, The Collapse of Complex Societies, showed how every new layer of complexity a civilization generates to solve its problems tends to generate its own new layer of problems, resulting in a vicious cycle of diminishing returns. 

Eventually, a civilization gets too complex to sustain itself, and cannot but collapse.

Exactly how that collapse takes place—and the opportunities for renewal it brings—varies depending on the context. Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, university research chair in the faculty of environment at the University of Waterloo, has shown how global industrial civilization is particularly vulnerable due to the tightly coupled nature of its highly complex financial, food, economic, and energy systems. This complexity heightens the probability that different “stressors” interact within the system to generate a system-wide “synchronous failure,” whereby multiple interconnected elements end up failing simultaneously.

Today, the economic slump accompanying national lockdowns has yielded massive destruction in the fossil fuel industry. As global demand plummets, the crash in oil market prices has driven profitability to an all-time low—too low, arguably, for many U.S. shale companies previously skimming the edges of bankruptcy. 

This is not a temporary blip. A dramatic contraction of economic activity will now be unavoidable over the coming 18 months at minimum—either due to relaxing restrictions and driving up death rates to a degree that collapses social and health care systems, or maintaining restrictions that keep economies flat. This means prices will likely be too low for the oil industry as we know it to survive. By the time supply constraints allow prices to rise, which would only happen when demand is able to rise substantially after the pandemic, much of the fossil fuel sector as we know it will be beyond repair. 

This disruption of a global system dependent on fossil fuels poses a serious risk to food, manufacturing, and other supply chains that sustain business as usual. The devastating impacts are being experienced most acutely by the world’s most vulnerable communities. Poorer countries in Africa with health care systems debilitated by years of ill-conceived Western structural adjustment programs are caught between trying to implement lockdowns to save lives while staving off health infrastructure collapse, and the prospect of prolonged unemployment and food and water scarcity. The pandemic is exposing the massive structural inequalities in the global system that have remained invisible for so long.

Yet the only way forward is through.

Even as this process of systemic decline steepens and accelerates, we are already seeing the signals of what an adaptive, systemic reorganization might look like.

Worldwide, a sense of communal solidarity has emerged as humans everywhere cancel everything to protect the most vulnerable. When the UK government called for 250,000 volunteers to assist the NHS, they got three quarters of a million. WhatsApp groups and tech platforms are offering people new ways to connect with and help their neighbors.

Suddenly, old rules don’t matter.

As we realize that our priority is not more material production and consumption for its own sake, but life itself, the unthinkable has not just become possible, but essential for survival. 

The pandemic is wreaking unmitigated destruction on the old paradigm, and dragging us kicking and screaming into a world where our capacity to love each other has become integral to our survival. 

We are peering through Arundhati Roy’s portal. But we have not yet stepped into the crucible.

To navigate and mitigate escalating societal risks while laying the foundations for the next life cycle of civilization, we will need to fundamentally transform the industries recognized as critical to global economic activity, and to restructure the deep sinews of that activity along the way. 

This requires a radical reshaping of our frame of orientation, from endless material growth and the valorization of markets, to a new life-oriented system explicitly designed for the protection and flourishing of the human species and all living beings. 

Or will we recover the courage to embrace the strange uncertainty of a different paradigm?

More than 20 years ago, former senior USAID official and Harvard Business School professor (and YES! co-founder) David Korten was offering small groups of people a profound vision to “restore democracy and create mindful market economies. We can create cultures and the institutions of the just, sustainable, and compassionate world of which we all dream,” he told his audiences. “And it is our right to do so.”

Fundamentally, it is human beings across these disparate structures and organizations, particularly those in decision-making positions, that will need to reflect and reconsider what their role is at this threshold moment. Can they steer the systems they are connected with into a life-supporting configuration? Or will they remain hell-bent on protecting narrow, dislocated systems of self-maximization and material accumulation?

This is an evolutionary moment—for each of us. You and I are now faced with a pivotal life choice for what comes next, what we devote ourselves to, where our alignments lie, what our real commitments are. This choice will make history.

Only the choice that considers all and not a few will get us across the threshold, into the crucible, and through the portal to the other side. Many of us are already taking that leap. We are stronger when we take it together. I’ll meet you there.

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Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices
CoronaVirus is revealing breakdowns and lack of resilience in our food supply systems. Which links in the chain are broken? Rather than fixing them, what are new and better choices for us in how we bring food from soil to savory, healthy eating? 

This is the third successive podcast episode in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 abruptly stopped the fragile food supply system we’ve been depending on. The system that’s broken down is driven by industrial agriculture, global markets, trade breakdowns and corporate control.

At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are ‘Not At All Confident’ They’ll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds.

Excellent sources that (1) explain the breakdown and (2) help us identify the systems we need going forward.  

Richard Heinberg wrote The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. The final chapter is loaded with things people are doing to adopt practices of OneEarth living and economics measured by wellbeing, not growth. He is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and continues to share the wisdom of that think and action group in his Museletter on his website, https://richardheinberg.com.

I interviewed Richard for this podcast, Ep. 109.

 In 4/20 Museletter #326, “Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis” summarizes flaws in the current system. 

https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-326-pandemic-response-requires-post-growth-economic-thinking

“Experts who study what makes societies sustainable (or unsustainable) have been warning for decades that our modern food system is packed with ticking bombs. The ways we grow, process, package, and distribute food depend overwhelmingly on finite, depleting, and polluting fossil fuels. Industrial agriculture contributes to climate change, and results in soil erosion and salinization. Ammonia-based fertilizers create “dead zones” near river deltas while petrochemical pesticides and herbicides pollute air and water. Modern agriculture also contributes to deforestation and biodiversity loss. Monocrops—huge fields of genetically uniform corn and soybeans—are especially vulnerable to pests and diseases. Long supply chains make localities increasingly dependent on distant suppliers. The system tends to exploit low-wage workers. And food is often unequally distributed and even unhealthful, contributing to poor nutrition as well as diabetes and other diseases.”

Heinberg: five of the links that are breaking down currently in the food supply chain’s “wicked complexity.” 

These five give us a big picture of what corporations and globalization have been creating in recent decades. 

1. Vulnerable Food Workers 

2. Fragile Distribution Networks 

3. Broken Global Supply Chains 

4. Bankrupt Farmers 

5. Vanishing Affordability 

Solutions We Suggest

1. Growing more of our own. —  growing more of their own food. //  Baker Creek seed company, 

2. Rationing. — At the national level, food price controls have an uneven history of success. Stan Cox: Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing //  Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program 

3.  Shorten supply chains. LINKS: capture atmospheric carbon and sequester it in soil, that build healthy and biologically rich topsoil // nutritious and affordable food // fair to farmers and farmworkers.

4. Guides for how Our Choices can reconfigure food supply post-Covid-19 (mid-Covid-19) 

From the Reader Supported News website, an article on young adults turning their grief to action: Anna McClurkan

a. Local supply—growers, retailers, markets. Focus in communities instead of corporations.

b. Reduce Meat by at least 50%

c. Organic—no pesticides, herbicides

5. The Land Institute, Salina, KS, — reconfiguring farming (notes from Panel with Stan Cox, 5/23/20)

  1. Stop thinking that economic growth is good and takes care of everything else. Limits is the replacement word. Generate a community of learning around new thinking. Do it soon.
  2. Disconnect food from fossil fuel use.
  3. Value local crops, perennial crops.
  4. Resettle small farms and small towns. Not because of nostalgia, but because that is how Homo sapiens function better.

Other Links for this episode

Published on Friday, May 22, 2020 by Common Dreams
Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis by Jessica Corbett, staff writer

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/22/fridays-future-europe-calls-transforming-agricultural-policy-tackle-climate-crisis

Fasting From Food Waste in a Season of Hoarding

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement — ICCI — IowaCCI.org
The Food & Farm System We Need and Deserve: A Webinar Series – for farmers, workers, eaters and the land. Our food and farm system belongs in the hands of more diverse base of farmers and workers, not under the control of a small handful of giant corporations. (SLW! Podcast ep. 02/19)

# # #

Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World
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. 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. But in the 21st century, it’s failing life on the planet.

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.”

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

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

“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

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 91Part 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

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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.

# # #

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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.

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Ep. 0620–Pandemic Shows Food System Broken, Opens Door to Better Choices


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SHOW NOTES

CoronaVirus is revealing breakdowns and lack of resilience in our food supply systems. Which links in the chain are broken? Rather than fixing them, what are new and better choices for us in how we bring food from soil to savory, healthy eating? 

This is the third successive podcast episode in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. By the end of May, over 100,000 people have died in the U.S.—a horrific, emotional and spiritual wrenching of lives, hundreds of thousands of people across the nation are hurting, grieving. Surely, this experience of death and suffering—the largest in our lifetimes—is releasing the commitment to new life in enough of us to take leaps in the direction of change—the changes that our planet says we must make in this decade of the 2020s. Not to do so will form calluses on our souls and decay in who we are.

Covid-19 abruptly stopped the fragile food supply system we’ve been depending on. The system that’s broken down is driven by industrial agriculture, global markets, trade breakdowns and corporate control.

At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are ‘Not At All Confident’ They’ll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds.

Excellent sources that (1) explain the breakdown and (2) help us identify the systems we need going forward.  

Richard Heinberg wrote The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. The final chapter is loaded with things people are doing to adopt practices of OneEarth living and economics measured by wellbeing, not growth. He is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and continues to share the wisdom of that think and action group in his Museletter on his website, https://richardheinberg.com.

I interviewed Richard for this podcast, Ep. 109.

 In 4/20 Museletter #326, “Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis” summarizes flaws in the current system. 

https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-326-pandemic-response-requires-post-growth-economic-thinking

“Experts who study what makes societies sustainable (or unsustainable) have been warning for decades that our modern food system is packed with ticking bombs. The ways we grow, process, package, and distribute food depend overwhelmingly on finite, depleting, and polluting fossil fuels. Industrial agriculture contributes to climate change, and results in soil erosion and salinization. Ammonia-based fertilizers create “dead zones” near river deltas while petrochemical pesticides and herbicides pollute air and water. Modern agriculture also contributes to deforestation and biodiversity loss. Monocrops—huge fields of genetically uniform corn and soybeans—are especially vulnerable to pests and diseases. Long supply chains make localities increasingly dependent on distant suppliers. The system tends to exploit low-wage workers. And food is often unequally distributed and even unhealthful, contributing to poor nutrition as well as diabetes and other diseases.”

Heinberg: five of the links that are breaking down currently in the food supply chain’s “wicked complexity.” 

These five give us a big picture of what corporations and globalization have been creating in recent decades. 

1. Vulnerable Food Workers 

2. Fragile Distribution Networks 

3. Broken Global Supply Chains 

4. Bankrupt Farmers 

5. Vanishing Affordability 

Solutions We Suggest

1. Growing more of our own. —  growing more of their own food. //  Baker Creek seed company, 

2. Rationing. — At the national level, food price controls have an uneven history of success. Stan Cox: Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing //  Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program 

3.  Shorten supply chains. LINKS: capture atmospheric carbon and sequester it in soil, that build healthy and biologically rich topsoil // nutritious and affordable food // fair to farmers and farmworkers.

4. Guides for how Our Choices can reconfigure food supply post-Covid-19 (mid-Covid-19) 

From the Reader Supported News website, an article on young adults turning their grief to action: Anna McClurkan

a. Local supply—growers, retailers, markets. Focus in communities instead of corporations.

b. Reduce Meat by at least 50%

c. Organic—no pesticides, herbicides

5. The Land Institute, Salina, KS, — reconfiguring farming (notes from Panel with Stan Cox, 5/23/20)

  1. Stop thinking that economic growth is good and takes care of everything else. Limits is the replacement word. Generate a community of learning around new thinking. Do it soon.
  2. Disconnect food from fossil fuel use.
  3. Value local crops, perennial crops.
  4. Resettle small farms and small towns. Not because of nostalgia, but because that is how Homo sapiens function better.

Other Links for this episode

Published on Friday, May 22, 2020 by Common Dreams
Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis by Jessica Corbett, staff writer

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/22/fridays-future-europe-calls-transforming-agricultural-policy-tackle-climate-crisis

Fasting From Food Waste in a Season of Hoarding

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement — ICCI — IowaCCI.org
The Food & Farm System We Need and Deserve: A Webinar Series – for farmers, workers, eaters and the land. Our food and farm system belongs in the hands of more diverse base of farmers and workers, not under the control of a small handful of giant corporations. (SLW! Podcast ep. 02/19)

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0520–Life with Covid-19: Heading Toward a More Ecological World
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. 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. But in the 21st century, it’s failing life on the planet.

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

 

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

“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

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 91Part 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.