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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 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

Most people feel on the outside of extreme wealth. Some aspire to it. Many are offended by it and consider it immoral—even evil. For most of us it’s a sideshow. But Chuck Collins, our guest today, says, “No! It’s not a sideshow. It’s the main show. It affects all of us.” We pay the taxes that build what everyone uses. They avoid taxes, sometimes paying none, taking no responsibility for the common good though they benefit from it. Who makes all this work? That’s what our guest today explains. Definitely worth staying with us. We hope you can.

Our guest, Chuck Collins, is Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, co-editor of Inequality.org at Institute for Policy Studies. I first became familiar with him through the book, Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change, co-authored by Chuck in 2000. Then I was greatly impacted by a book he wrote with Felice Yeskel, Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (2005). That book so clearly explains how the economic system can lessen the economic divides in our society and how it can increase them. Subsequently, I established a relationship with Chuck at the Solidarity Economic Forum in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2009. When I wrote my first book, Blinded by Progress, Chuck agreed to write the “Foreword.” I’m grateful for that.

A good way to appreciate why Chuck can speak with authority to our topic today, inequality and the radical wealth divide, is to scan titles of his writings.

• He is author of the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green)
• There’s also: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? (Oxford, UK-based Polity Press).
• He’s also written 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.
• He is co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. Chuck’s work with wealthy persons led to co-founding Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation. This network merged in 2015 with the Patriotic Millionaires.

Most recently, Chuck has written, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions. And a short article appeared in “YES! Magazine” entitled, “Helping the Rich Give Away Their Wealth.”

Numerous additional references to Chuck’s writings:

He co-authored “The Moral Measure of the Economy,” with Mary Wright, a book about Christian ethics and economic life.

He’s also co-author of several Institute for Policy Studies reports including “The Road To Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class,” “Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us” and “Gilded Giving: Top Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality.”

Also WORTH READING: YES! Magazine #88, Winter, 2019–“5 Opportunities to Solve Inequality.” Ask Jubilee for a free copy.

Earlier Ep. 3/19: http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=2164

Chuck lives with his partner in Vermont.

More LINKS from Chuck. Stephanie Browbee: Good Ancestor Movement(?)

As 2022 begins, we urge you to read the revised Covenant for OneEarth Jubilee Living. It gives you strong, practical guidance for living in 2022 as we experience the growing attacks on democracy and Earth’s environment. None of the emerging disasters is being handled at the scale that is needed to end the 6th Mass Extinction or our own demise as a species. So, what can we do? The Covenant defines core practices that assure us we are participating in the growing and massive grassroots powers resisting the ways of death, and instead, living the path of life. Earth is our ally in this great endeavor.

Nearly every holiday needs to be reinterpreted in light of the climate breakdown underway. We have resources to help reinterpret the holidays. First there’s 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 today and to all of life. You can hear Lee interviewed about the book in an earlier episode.

Read reviews 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.

Also, Simple Living Works! Offers hundreds of free resources for individuals, families and congregations to have a more generous, much less consumer-oriented Christmas. Just visit SimpleLivingWorks.org and click on free resources in window #1.

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

Earlier Episodes

12/21–Della Duncan, Renegade Economist, Tells about Doughnut Economics and Other Economic Models Being Put to Work

So many voices tell us that saving life on our planet requires a whole different economy. A whole different way of thinking. Consider renegade economics and doughnut economics? How might staying in the dough of the doughnut be a model for us in our work in the world?

In the Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast we’re committed to living well AND not to exceed the capacities of our one planet home. We want to live in full interdependence with trees, soils, plants, water, animals–all the eco-systems that sustain life. We experience the sacred in all that is. Humanity needs a lot of help to get to such OneEarth living. So we seek out others with a similar commitment and invite them to be guests on this Podcast.

Della Duncan describes herself as a renegade economist. Her goal is to create islands of alternative economics in the ocean of capitalism. We hosts think of ourselves as being one of those islands.
Della hosts the Upstream Podcast about economic systems change. She is also a Right Livelihood coach, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute in the London School of Economics, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof-Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a co-founder of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, and an Alternative Economics Consultant.

VISIT:

• Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points essay
• Doughnut Economics Action Lab
• Upstream Podcast 
• Article – How to Implement Doughnut Economics in your Community by Della Duncan

# # #

Ep.11/21—-Lauren Van Ham: Radical Inter-religious Cooperation Is Working to Save Life on Our Planet

Is competition more important than cooperation in evolving a better world? Or is it the other way around? Does cooperation lead the way with competition playing a secondary role? We often hear that life is about the survival of the fittest. But maybe that’s too narrow. Perhaps life survives and thrives best through the most cooperative. We are talking today about the extraordinary results when we shift from competing to cooperating, from defining ourselves by differences to recognizing our interconnection. 

An essential difference between MultiEarth and OneEarth living regards the role of cooperation. In the MultiEarth way, competition is more highly regarded. The argument is that competition drives the economy, fosters innovation, and brings some of the best efforts from people. But the MultiEarth way is also driving us beyond the capacities of our planet. Over-emphasizing competition has moved us into a multitude of crises and disasters. Contrast that with the OneEarth way in which cooperation is more important. Whereas competition was once thought to be at the heart of nature, driving evolution, the life sciences now teach that cooperation exceeds competition in importance to evolve life in a most amazing web of interdependence and connectedness in all forms of life. We’re only beginning to understand just how extraordinary and far-reaching interconnectedness is in nature. Clearly, an emphasis on cooperation is essential to saving life on our planet.

Religions around the world are joining in this recognition that interconnectedness is deep among spiritual paths. Not to gloss over the fighting and violence between religious groups—it’s deadly— but to focus only there we will miss the cooperation that’s rapidly increasing in the past few decades and bringing great results.

This episode of the OneEarth Simpler Living Podcast tells how religions are working together to forge new possibilities in ecology, economics, and women’s empowerment—all are making real difference in their communities. Listen too for the importance of organizing as circles in the practice of cooperation. Our previous podcast episode presented the circles of Jubilee. This time we present the circles of cooperation in United Religions Initiative as we talk with Lauren Van Ham in her work with United Religions Initiatives to form and empower Cooperation Circles around the world.

Our guest Lauren Van Ham is deeply dedicated to living sustainably on Earth, our only home. She was born and raised beneath the big sky of the Midwest, and holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Naropa University, and The Chaplaincy Institute. After completing a B.F.A. in music theatre, Lauren pursued her childhood dream of living in New York City and worked off-Broadway. She moved to the Bay Area in 1998 for graduate studies in psychology, creation spirituality, and interfaith worldviews. Following her ordination in 1999, and until 2007, Lauren worked as an interfaith hospital chaplain, serving St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, where she specialized in adolescent psychiatry, palliative care and bereavement support.  

In 2007, recognizing that caring for the Earth had become her deep love, Lauren declared herself an eco-chaplain. With necessary naiveté and determination, she entered corporate America and went to work at Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability consultancy in San Francisco. There she became the Director of Consulting Services. She was a member of the founding team that designed and facilitated over 200 day-long sustainability workshops for the 1.2 million associates of Walmart Stores, Inc. She has worked with a range of Fortune 1000 clients, combining her passion and skills to custom-design curriculum and facilitate trainings to increase awareness, encourage behavior change and build new bridges between the inner/outer ecology of individuals and organizations, one person at a time.

After a few years in this corporate setting, Lauren became Dean at The Chaplaincy Institute for interfaith ministries in Berkeley, California. Leaving her position as Dean after nine years, her passion for spirituality, art and Earth’s teachings construct her focus in eco-ministry, grief & loss, and sacred activism. She is a guest writer for “Progressing Spirit,” an online publication exploring theology, spirituality and public events. Currently, Lauren is Climate Action Coordinator with United Religions Initiatives. She is also an interfaith spiritual director and serves as guest faculty for several schools in the Bay Area.

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Ep. 10/21–Encuentro: A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee

# # #

Ep. 09/21–Eric LeCompte: Forgive Us Our Debts—Woes and Wins in Canceling Student Debt

As we pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And for all who pray the other version, which is “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” remember that the greatest trespasses are the structural ones that separate people from one another, dividing us into categories like have-gots and have-nots. With either version of the prayer, we’re praying to forgive economic evils that separate us from one another and from our souls.

# # #

08/21–Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

# # #

Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

Visit CollectiveSun.com

# # #

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

# # #

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

(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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:30 — 24.9MB)

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

12/21–Della Duncan, Renegade Economist, Tells about Doughnut Economics and Other Economic Models Being Put to Work

So many voices tell us that saving life on our planet requires a whole different economy. A whole different way of thinking. Consider renegade economics and doughnut economics? How might staying in the dough of the doughnut be a model for us in our work in the world?

In the Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast we’re committed to living well AND not to exceed the capacities of our one planet home. We want to live in full interdependence with trees, soils, plants, water, animals–all the eco-systems that sustain life. We experience the sacred in all that is. Humanity needs a lot of help to get to such OneEarth living. So we seek out others with a similar commitment and invite them to be guests on this Podcast.

Della Duncan describes herself as a renegade economist. Her goal is to create islands of alternative economics in the ocean of capitalism. We hosts think of ourselves as being one of those islands.
Della hosts the Upstream Podcast about economic systems change. She is also a Right Livelihood coach, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute in the London School of Economics, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof [FRIT-hof]-Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a co-founder of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, and an Alternative Economics Consultant.

VISIT:

• Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points essay
• Doughnut Economics Action Lab
• Upstream Podcast 
• Article – How to Implement Doughnut Economics in your Community by Della Duncan

Nearly every holiday needs to be reinterpreted in light of the climate breakdown underway. We have resources to help reinterpret the holidays. First there’s 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 today and to all of life. You can hear Lee interviewed about the book in an earlier episode.

Read reviews 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.

Also, Simple Living Works! Offers hundreds of free resources for individuals, families and congregations to have a more generous, much less consumer-oriented Christmas. Just visit SimpleLivingWorks.org and click on free resources in window #1.

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

Previous Episodes

Ep.11/21—-Lauren Van Ham: Radical Inter-religious Cooperation Is Working to Save Life on Our Planet

Is competition more important than cooperation in evolving a better world? Or is it the other way around? Does cooperation lead the way with competition playing a secondary role? We often hear that life is about the survival of the fittest. But maybe that’s too narrow. Perhaps life survives and thrives best through the most cooperative. We are talking today about the extraordinary results when we shift from competing to cooperating, from defining ourselves by differences to recognizing our interconnection. 

An essential difference between MultiEarth and OneEarth living regards the role of cooperation. In the MultiEarth way, competition is more highly regarded. The argument is that competition drives the economy, fosters innovation, and brings some of the best efforts from people. But the MultiEarth way is also driving us beyond the capacities of our planet. Over-emphasizing competition has moved us into a multitude of crises and disasters. Contrast that with the OneEarth way in which cooperation is more important. Whereas competition was once thought to be at the heart of nature, driving evolution, the life sciences now teach that cooperation exceeds competition in importance to evolve life in a most amazing web of interdependence and connectedness in all forms of life. We’re only beginning to understand just how extraordinary and far-reaching interconnectedness is in nature. Clearly, an emphasis on cooperation is essential to saving life on our planet.

Religions around the world are joining in this recognition that interconnectedness is deep among spiritual paths. Not to gloss over the fighting and violence between religious groups—it’s deadly— but to focus only there we will miss the cooperation that’s rapidly increasing in the past few decades and bringing great results.

This episode of the OneEarth Simpler Living Podcast tells how religions are working together to forge new possibilities in ecology, economics, and women’s empowerment—all are making real difference in their communities. Listen too for the importance of organizing as circles in the practice of cooperation. Our previous podcast episode presented the circles of Jubilee. This time we present the circles of cooperation in United Religions Initiative as we talk with Lauren Van Ham in her work with United Religions Initiatives to form and empower Cooperation Circles around the world.

Our guest Lauren Van Ham is deeply dedicated to living sustainably on Earth, our only home. She was born and raised beneath the big sky of the Midwest, and holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Naropa University, and The Chaplaincy Institute. After completing a B.F.A. in music theatre, Lauren pursued her childhood dream of living in New York City and worked off-Broadway. She moved to the Bay Area in 1998 for graduate studies in psychology, creation spirituality, and interfaith worldviews. Following her ordination in 1999, and until 2007, Lauren worked as an interfaith hospital chaplain, serving St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, where she specialized in adolescent psychiatry, palliative care and bereavement support.  

In 2007, recognizing that caring for the Earth had become her deep love, Lauren declared herself an eco-chaplain. With necessary naiveté and determination, she entered corporate America and went to work at Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability consultancy in San Francisco. There she became the Director of Consulting Services. She was a member of the founding team that designed and facilitated over 200 day-long sustainability workshops for the 1.2 million associates of Walmart Stores, Inc. She has worked with a range of Fortune 1000 clients, combining her passion and skills to custom-design curriculum and facilitate trainings to increase awareness, encourage behavior change and build new bridges between the inner/outer ecology of individuals and organizations, one person at a time.

After a few years in this corporate setting, Lauren became Dean at The Chaplaincy Institute for interfaith ministries in Berkeley, California. Leaving her position as Dean after nine years, her passion for spirituality, art and Earth’s teachings construct her focus in eco-ministry, grief & loss, and sacred activism. She is a guest writer for “Progressing Spirit,” an online publication exploring theology, spirituality and public events. Currently, Lauren is Climate Action Coordinator with United Religions Initiatives. She is also an interfaith spiritual director and serves as guest faculty for several schools in the Bay Area.

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Ep. 10/21–Encuentro: A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee

# # #

Ep. 09/21–Eric LeCompte: Forgive Us Our Debts—Woes and Wins in Canceling Student Debt

As we pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And for all who pray the other version, which is “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” remember that the greatest trespasses are the structural ones that separate people from one another, dividing us into categories like have-gots and have-nots. With either version of the prayer, we’re praying to forgive economic evils that separate us from one another and from our souls.

# # #

08/21–Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

# # #

Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

Visit CollectiveSun.com

# # #

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

# # #

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

(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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:23 — 26.5MB)

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

Is competition more important than cooperation in evolving a better world? Or is it the other way around? Does cooperation lead the way with competition playing a secondary role? We often hear that life is about the survival of the fittest. But maybe that’s too narrow. Perhaps life survives and thrives best through the most cooperative. We are talking today about the extraordinary results when we shift from competing to cooperating, from defining ourselves by differences to recognizing our interconnection. 

An essential difference between MultiEarth and OneEarth living regards the role of cooperation. In the MultiEarth way, competition is more highly regarded. The argument is that competition drives the economy, fosters innovation, and brings some of the best efforts from people. But the MultiEarth way is also driving us beyond the capacities of our planet. Over-emphasizing competition has moved us into a multitude of crises and disasters. Contrast that with the OneEarth way in which cooperation is more important. Whereas competition was once thought to be at the heart of nature, driving evolution, the life sciences now teach that cooperation exceeds competition in importance to evolve life in a most amazing web of interdependence and connectedness in all forms of life. We’re only beginning to understand just how extraordinary and far-reaching interconnectedness is in nature. Clearly, an emphasis on cooperation is essential to saving life on our planet.

Religions around the world are joining in this recognition that interconnectedness is deep among spiritual paths. Not to gloss over the fighting and violence between religious groups—it’s deadly— but to focus only there we will miss the cooperation that’s rapidly increasing in the past few decades and bringing great results.

This episode of the OneEarth Simpler Living Podcast tells how religions are working together to forge new possibilities in ecology, economics, and women’s empowerment—all are making real difference in their communities. Listen too for the importance of organizing as circles in the practice of cooperation. Our previous podcast episode presented the circles of Jubilee. This time we present the circles of cooperation in United Religions Initiative as we talk with Lauren Van Ham in her work with United Religions Initiatives to form and empower Cooperation Circles around the world.

Our guest Lauren Van Ham is deeply dedicated to living sustainably on Earth, our only home. She was born and raised beneath the big sky of the Midwest, and holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Naropa University, and The Chaplaincy Institute. After completing a B.F.A. in music theatre, Lauren pursued her childhood dream of living in New York City and worked off-Broadway. She moved to the Bay Area in 1998 for graduate studies in psychology, creation spirituality, and interfaith worldviews. Following her ordination in 1999, and until 2007, Lauren worked as an interfaith hospital chaplain, serving St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, where she specialized in adolescent psychiatry, palliative care and bereavement support.  

In 2007, recognizing that caring for the Earth had become her deep love, Lauren declared herself an eco-chaplain. With necessary naiveté and determination, she entered corporate America and went to work at Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability consultancy in San Francisco. There she became the Director of Consulting Services. She was a member of the founding team that designed and facilitated over 200 day-long sustainability workshops for the 1.2 million associates of Walmart Stores, Inc. She has worked with a range of Fortune 1000 clients, combining her passion and skills to custom-design curriculum and facilitate trainings to increase awareness, encourage behavior change and build new bridges between the inner/outer ecology of individuals and organizations, one person at a time.

After a few years in this corporate setting, Lauren became Dean at The Chaplaincy Institute for interfaith ministries in Berkeley, California. Leaving her position as Dean after nine years, her passion for spirituality, art and Earth’s teachings construct her focus in eco-ministry, grief & loss, and sacred activism. She is a guest writer for “Progressing Spirit,” an online publication exploring theology, spirituality and public events. Currently, Lauren is Climate Action Coordinator with United Religions Initiatives. She is also an interfaith spiritual director and serves as guest faculty for several schools in the Bay Area.

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With November comes the start of the holidays of the fourth quarter of the year. Nearly every holiday needs to be reinterpreted in light of the climate breakdown underway. We have resources to help reinterpret the holidays. First there’s 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 today and to all of life. You can hear Lee interviewed about the book in an earlier episode.

Read reviews 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.

Also, Simple Living Works! Offers hundreds of free resources for individuals, families and congregations to have a more generous, much less consumer-oriented Christmas. Just visit SimpleLivingWorks.org and click on free resources in window #1.

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

Previous Episodes

Ep. 10/21–Encuentro: A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee

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Ep. 09/21–Eric LeCompte: Forgive Us Our Debts—Woes and Wins in Canceling Student Debt

As we pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And for all who pray the other version, which is “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” remember that the greatest trespasses are the structural ones that separate people from one another, dividing us into categories like have-gots and have-nots. With either version of the prayer, we’re praying to forgive economic evils that separate us from one another and from our souls.

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08/21–Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

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Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

Visit CollectiveSun.com

# # #

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

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

(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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:20 — 26.0MB)

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

Jubilee OneEarth Economics is not focused on just one issue, but on a worldview–a way of viewing the world and living in it. That is a strength, because we need this worldview to save us from the devastation of life happening from the practice of the MultiEarth worldview that prevails today. But worldviews are big and reach into all areas of life. That makes them challenging to describe.

This worldview of OneEarth Jubilee guides us in ways similar to how Indigenous peoples have been guided to live sustainably on the Earth for millennia. The Bible also presents this worldview as an alternative to kings and empires. In the Bible, it goes by various names–the Kingdom of God, living acceptable to God, and Jubilee. But in the name of progress, civilization came along and proposed improvements. Some of the ways of progress worked in close interdependence with nature, but most have violated nature and the evolved systems of creation, bringing us death and repeated disregard for life. And now it’s taken us to within a few years of destroying our planet’s capacities to sustain life. Scientists are alarmed. Yet, corporations from pharmaceuticals to banks and meat producers race ahead, valuing billions of dollars over life itself. Indigenous ways continue to suffer, being thought of as in the past or outdated, and the Jubilee worldview has been forgotten from the biblical narrative.

But not everyone.

In this episode, four people understand that the situation of life is dire and that just as surely there is a worldview that saves life. Two of the four are from Mexico; two from the U.S. They are part of circles of other people who share a devotion to living the OneEarth Jubilee worldview in radical contrast to the reckless gamble the powers in charge are making with life on the planet.

Angelica Juarez is a physician and artist in the village of San Mateo, Puebla, MX.

Lindsey Mercer-Robledo is a community organizer in the city of San Cristobal, Chiapas, MX.

John Michno is a former IT person who now directs Jubilee Economics Ministries in San Diego, California, USA.

Lee Van Ham is a co-founder of the nonprofit OneEarth Jubilee Economics, and has worked to deepen his understanding and practice of the Jubilee worldview for over 20 years.

They tell how the Jubilee worldview came to appeal to them, and how they’re devoted to put it into practice daily. For them, it is a spiritual path for living in the midst of the breakdowns happening in the current crises. Notable Quote: ‘Immigration. When people see how people live day by day, sometimes they don’t have enough even to eat, you can be touched. Tools for people to develop their income. You don’t have to go to other places. They can live here, and stay together as a family. In the pandemic, in this time fewer people have gone to the United States.’

OneEarthJubilee.com — Living Within Our One Planet’s Capacities

SimpleLivingWorks.org

Previous Episodes

Ep. 09/21–Eric LeCompte: Forgive Us Our Debts—Woes and Wins in Canceling Student Debt

Student debt is in the news somewhere every day. Betsy DeVos, U.S. Secretary of Education the past four years, relentlessly followed the notion that every individual is responsible for the debt they incurred. But, so far this year student loan forgiveness has benefitted two groups: Americans with permanent disabilities and borrowers who attended now-defunct institutions such as ITT. 

• For disabled students, $5.8 billion in student loan debt has been forgiven for 323,000 borrowers with a “total and permanent disability.” 
• For students who went to for-profit schools, $3.7 billion has forgiven the debt of these borrowers. 
• But these figures are less than 1% of the 1.7 trillion dollars of all student debt. What is being done for the students who still feel the weight of 99% of student debt?

That’s what we’re talking about today with Eric LeCompte, director of Jubilee USA Network: https://www.jubileeusa.org/

Eric aims to apply Jubilee economics at the policy level of how student debt is structured at the federal level. In OneEarth Jubilee and Simpler Living Works we aim to  practice Jubilee economics with the powers of grassroots organizing. Speaking personally, Lee’s personality and call are with grassroots practices. That’s what stirs his passion. Policy work, except at the most local level, drains my energy really fast. So it’s good to talk with a Jubilee colleague who gets energized by policy work with national and international debt policy makers.

If you are part of a family struggling with student debt, you likely know that student debt now totals nearly $1.7 trillion, exceeding both total car loans and credit card loans. Only mortgage loans are a bigger part of economic debt. Rugged individualism holds that I must pay off the debt I incur. But that fails to recognize the structures of debt. Debt is not structured by individuals, but by powerful financial and political groups that make repayment strenuously difficult. For many, impossible. Such debt is immoral and destroys creativity to the extent that all, not just the debtor, suffer. That’s why, in a Jubilee worldview, debt is forgiven after a reasonable period of time. Jubilee refuses to marginalize people in perpetuity because of debt. All people must be treated as kin in the human family and that disallows any perpetual separation into loan makers and borrowers.

So we continue to pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And for all who pray the other version, which is “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” remember that the greatest trespasses are the structural ones that separate people from one another, dividing us into categories like have-gots and have-nots. With either version of the prayer, we’re praying to forgive economic evils that separate us from one another and from our souls.

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

# # #

08/21–Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises

With every year that passes, evidence mounts that the current economic and political systems cannot deliver the social and ecological justice that is necessary to sustain life on our planet.

Where then do we turn? Women are an obvious and undervalued source—an answer hiding in plain sight. Women are creating systems that are far more just, and far more life-giving than the ones which currently stress the planet and most people. Let me clarify one point. Today’s podcast conversation is not about women elevated to positions of leadership in male oriented paradigms. Rather, our conversation is about women who can act boldly in expressing the wisdom of the feminist ways of running households, businesses, societies, economies, and political policies. Today you’ll hear such a woman—a feminist economist who focuses on economic justice as a primary measure of a healthy economy. She recognizes that focusing on economic growth can never get us to the economy we need in the 21st century. So with hundreds of other women in the economy who are intent on feminist economics, Dr. Brenda Wyss [weess], our guest, points us to the way through, where currently there seems to be no way.

Lee met Brenda 15 or so years ago. He was staying in her home because her husband, Barry Shelley, and Lee were attending and leading a workshop in the Solidarity Economy Network conference happening in Amherst, Massachusetts. Lee’s introduction to feminist economics was just beginning at the time. In this podcast conversation Lee asks Brenda, “What is feminist economics?” She gives us a thorough answer. It’s clearly her passion. Lee also asks her about evaluating an economy by measures other than growth. Her answers are really important.

Brenda Wyss is professor of Economics and Coordinator of Development Studies at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

In her own words, Brenda says: I am particularly interested in issues of economic justice and I bring that commitment to my research, teaching, college service, and my life off campus. I strive to make economics exciting and accessible and to introduce students to a range of viewpoints, issues and questions often left out of economics courses. I’ve been teaching a course about women in the U.S. economy for 30 years. I also teach Foundations of Political Economy which highlights how power shapes the economy and economic outcomes.

Lee’s worked with the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) since the 1980s, providing economic literacy training and analysis to social change activists and grassroots organizations. 

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

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Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

SOLAR POWER. Over the past century, industries have determined how we live. And fossil fuels have provided the energy these industries need. But now these fossil-fueled industries have taken us into an ecological crisis—a crisis that’s become an emergency. People are losing livelihoods. Health. Humans have now joined other species on the endangered list. We’ve got to find a different way—one that uses less energy that’s also clean and renewable. We need to change FAST. Life is rapidly becoming apocalyptic. Many congregations and nonprofits want to make the change to clean, solar energy, but face discouraging obstacles. Our guest today, Matt Brennan, VP of sales with CollectiveSun, LLC, a company that helps congregations and nonprofits switch to solar.

 Apropos to this show, Juanita and Lee have just decided to install ten more solar panels on our home. It’s part of a program by which California plans to get 50% of its energy from the sun by 2025.

Visit CollectiveSun.com

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Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

It’s far too easy to assume that not much good is happening in states that are fertile ground for the growth of right-wing ways of doing things. The states of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota have been just such fertile soils. And yet, precisely in the area where those three states come together along the Missouri River, this effective activist on environmental concerns helps us break through this stereotype that not much good can happen in areas dominated by right-wing politicians and profit-hungry corporations. 

Carrie Radloff is an unassuming, persistent Iowan devoted to saving life in the environment of her area. She grew up in northwest Iowa on an acreage that has since been certified as a Century Farm. Her family was very involved in Boy Scouts, and by exploring the land and being raised under the “Scout Law,” she developed appreciation and respect for the environment and all living things. She attended Westmar University in her hometown of Le Mars, and was selected to be a Melton Fellow which allowed her to travel extensively and work with and learn from people from other cultures, including Europe, Africa, China, India, and Chile. Volunteering is the center of Carrie’s life. In addition to the decades-long involvement with the Melton Foundation, her previous service includes terms on the Leadership Siouxland* board and Iowa State University Extension’s Council for Woodbury County. She now focuses on environmental issues. She helped found Loess Hills Wild Ones in 2017. She chairs the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and serves as its delegate to the Iowa Chapter’s Executive Committee. She’s a current member and former chair of the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board. Carrie worked for 15 years in higher education at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Tri-State Graduate Center, where she helped coordinate training for nonprofit employees and leaders. After that, she was an ACA health insurance navigator and a wind energy advocate. Carrie earned a B.A. in International Communication and Mass Communication, an M.A. in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Development… She completed Leadership Siouxland* and Climate Reality Project training, and is a Master Gardener and Master Conservationist. She enjoys connecting and coordinating ideas, information, and people in order to achieve shared goals as efficiently as possible, and is proud of the many things she and her colleagues have accomplished over the years. Carrie lives in Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband.

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

*Siouxland is the name for greater metropolitan Sioux City, IA, including South Sioux City, NE, and North Sioux City, SD.

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Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

# # #

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

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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:41 — 26.7MB)

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

 Student debt is in the news somewhere every day. Betsy DeVos, U.S. Secretary of Education the past four years, relentlessly followed the notion that every individual is responsible for the debt they incurred. But, so far this year student loan forgiveness has benefitted two groups: Americans with permanent disabilities and borrowers who attended now-defunct institutions such as ITT. 

• For disabled students, $5.8 billion in student loan debt has been forgiven for 323,000 borrowers with a “total and permanent disability.” 
• For students who went to for-profit schools, $3.7 billion has forgiven the debt of these borrowers. 
• But these figures are less than 1% of the 1.7 trillion dollars of all student debt. What is being done for the students who still feel the weight of 99% of student debt?

That’s what we’re talking about today with Eric LeCompte, director of Jubilee USA Network: https://www.jubileeusa.org/

Eric aims to apply Jubilee economics at the policy level of how student debt is structured at the federal level. In OneEarth Jubilee and Simpler Living Works we aim to  practice Jubilee economics with the powers of grassroots organizing. Speaking personally, Lee’s personality and call are with grassroots practices. That’s what stirs his passion. Policy work, except at the most local level, drains my energy really fast. So it’s good to talk with a Jubilee colleague who gets energized by policy work with national and international debt policy makers.

If you are part of a family struggling with student debt, you likely know that student debt now totals nearly $1.7 trillion, exceeding both total car loans and credit card loans. Only mortgage loans are a bigger part of economic debt. Rugged individualism holds that I must pay off the debt I incur. But that fails to recognize the structures of debt. Debt is not structured by individuals, but by powerful financial and political groups that make repayment strenuously difficult. For many, impossible. Such debt is immoral and destroys creativity to the extent that all, not just the debtor, suffer. That’s why, in a Jubilee worldview, debt is forgiven after a reasonable period of time. Jubilee refuses to marginalize people in perpetuity because of debt. All people must be treated as kin in the human family and that disallows any perpetual separation into loan makers and borrowers.

So we continue to pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And for all who pray the other version, which is “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” remember that the greatest trespasses are the structural ones that separate people from one another, dividing us into categories like have-gots and have-nots. With either version of the prayer, we’re praying to forgive economic evils that separate us from one another and from our souls.

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

# # #

Previous Episodes

08/21–Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises

With every year that passes, evidence mounts that the current economic and political systems cannot deliver the social and ecological justice that is necessary to sustain life on our planet.

Where then do we turn? Women are an obvious and undervalued source—an answer hiding in plain sight. Women are creating systems that are far more just, and far more life-giving than the ones which currently stress the planet and most people. Let me clarify one point. Today’s podcast conversation is not about women elevated to positions of leadership in male oriented paradigms. Rather, our conversation is about women who can act boldly in expressing the wisdom of the feminist ways of running households, businesses, societies, economies, and political policies. Today you’ll hear such a woman—a feminist economist who focuses on economic justice as a primary measure of a healthy economy. She recognizes that focusing on economic growth can never get us to the economy we need in the 21st century. So with hundreds of other women in the economy who are intent on feminist economics, Dr. Brenda Wyss [weess], our guest, points us to the way through, where currently there seems to be no way.

Lee met Brenda 15 or so years ago. He was staying in her home because her husband, Barry Shelley, and Lee were attending and leading a workshop in the Solidarity Economy Network conference happening in Amherst, Massachusetts. Lee’s introduction to feminist economics was just beginning at the time. In this podcast conversation Lee asks Brenda, “What is feminist economics?” She gives us a thorough answer. It’s clearly her passion. Lee also asks her about evaluating an economy by measures other than growth. Her answers are really important.

Brenda Wyss is professor of Economics and Coordinator of Development Studies at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

In her own words, Brenda says: I am particularly interested in issues of economic justice and I bring that commitment to my research, teaching, college service, and my life off campus. I strive to make economics exciting and accessible and to introduce students to a range of viewpoints, issues and questions often left out of economics courses. I’ve been teaching a course about women in the U.S. economy for 30 years. I also teach Foundations of Political Economy which highlights how power shapes the economy and economic outcomes.

Lee’s worked with the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) since the 1980s, providing economic literacy training and analysis to social change activists and grassroots organizations. 

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

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Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

SOLAR POWER. Over the past century, industries have determined how we live. And fossil fuels have provided the energy these industries need. But now these fossil-fueled industries have taken us into an ecological crisis—a crisis that’s become an emergency. People are losing livelihoods. Health. Humans have now joined other species on the endangered list. We’ve got to find a different way—one that uses less energy that’s also clean and renewable. We need to change FAST. Life is rapidly becoming apocalyptic. Many congregations and nonprofits want to make the change to clean, solar energy, but face discouraging obstacles. Our guest today, Matt Brennan, VP of sales with CollectiveSun, LLC, a company that helps congregations and nonprofits switch to solar.

 Apropos to this show, Juanita and Lee have just decided to install ten more solar panels on our home. It’s part of a program by which California plans to get 50% of its energy from the sun by 2025.

Visit CollectiveSun.com

# # #

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

It’s far too easy to assume that not much good is happening in states that are fertile ground for the growth of right-wing ways of doing things. The states of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota have been just such fertile soils. And yet, precisely in the area where those three states come together along the Missouri River, this effective activist on environmental concerns helps us break through this stereotype that not much good can happen in areas dominated by right-wing politicians and profit-hungry corporations. 

Carrie Radloff is an unassuming, persistent Iowan devoted to saving life in the environment of her area. She grew up in northwest Iowa on an acreage that has since been certified as a Century Farm. Her family was very involved in Boy Scouts, and by exploring the land and being raised under the “Scout Law,” she developed appreciation and respect for the environment and all living things. She attended Westmar University in her hometown of Le Mars, and was selected to be a Melton Fellow which allowed her to travel extensively and work with and learn from people from other cultures, including Europe, Africa, China, India, and Chile. Volunteering is the center of Carrie’s life. In addition to the decades-long involvement with the Melton Foundation, her previous service includes terms on the Leadership Siouxland* board and Iowa State University Extension’s Council for Woodbury County. She now focuses on environmental issues. She helped found Loess Hills Wild Ones in 2017. She chairs the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and serves as its delegate to the Iowa Chapter’s Executive Committee. She’s a current member and former chair of the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board. Carrie worked for 15 years in higher education at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Tri-State Graduate Center, where she helped coordinate training for nonprofit employees and leaders. After that, she was an ACA health insurance navigator and a wind energy advocate. Carrie earned a B.A. in International Communication and Mass Communication, an M.A. in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Development… She completed Leadership Siouxland* and Climate Reality Project training, and is a Master Gardener and Master Conservationist. She enjoys connecting and coordinating ideas, information, and people in order to achieve shared goals as efficiently as possible, and is proud of the many things she and her colleagues have accomplished over the years. Carrie lives in Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband.

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

*Siouxland is the name for greater metropolitan Sioux City, IA, including South Sioux City, NE, and North Sioux City, SD.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

# # #

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

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.

# # #

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

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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.

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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 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

With every year that passes, evidence mounts that the current economic and political systems cannot deliver the social and ecological justice that is necessary to sustain life on our planet.

Where then do we turn? Women are an obvious and undervalued source—an answer hiding in plain sight. Women are creating systems that are far more just, and far more life-giving than the ones which currently stress the planet and most people. Let me clarify one point. Today’s podcast conversation is not about women elevated to positions of leadership in male oriented paradigms. Rather, our conversation is about women who can act boldly in expressing the wisdom of the feminist ways of running households, businesses, societies, economies, and political policies. Today you’ll hear such a woman—a feminist economist who focuses on economic justice as a primary measure of a healthy economy. She recognizes that focusing on economic growth can never get us to the economy we need in the 21st century. So with hundreds of other women in the economy who are intent on feminist economics, Dr. Brenda Wyss [weess], our guest, points us to the way through, where currently there seems to be no way.

Lee met Brenda 15 or so years ago. He was staying in her home because her husband, Barry Shelley, and Lee were attending and leading a workshop in the Solidarity Economy Network conference happening in Amherst, Massachusetts. Lee’s introduction to feminist economics was just beginning at the time. In this podcast conversation Lee asks Brenda, “What is feminist economics?” She gives us a thorough answer. It’s clearly her passion. Lee also asks her about evaluating an economy by measures other than growth. Her answers are really important.

Brenda Wyss is professor of Economics and Coordinator of Development Studies at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

In her own words, Brenda says: I am particularly interested in issues of economic justice and I bring that commitment to my research, teaching, college service, and my life off campus. I strive to make economics exciting and accessible and to introduce students to a range of viewpoints, issues and questions often left out of economics courses. I’ve been teaching a course about women in the U.S. economy for 30 years. I also teach Foundations of Political Economy which highlights how power shapes the economy and economic outcomes.

I’ve worked with the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) since the 1980s, providing economic literacy training and analysis to social change activists and grassroots organizations. 

For more information, visit these sites:

Center for Popular Economics  

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Previous Episodes

Ep.0721-Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power

SOLAR POWER. Over the past century, industries have determined how we live. And fossil fuels have provided the energy these industries need. But now these fossil-fueled industries have taken us into an ecological crisis—a crisis that’s become an emergency. People are losing livelihoods. Health. Humans have now joined other species on the endangered list. We’ve got to find a different way—one that uses less energy that’s also clean and renewable. We need to change FAST. Life is rapidly becoming apocalyptic. Many congregations and nonprofits want to make the change to clean, solar energy, but face discouraging obstacles. Our guest today, Matt Brennan, VP of sales with CollectiveSun, LLC, a company that helps congregations and nonprofits switch to solar.

 Apropos to this show, Juanita and Lee have just decided to install ten more solar panels on our home. It’s part of a program by which California plans to get 50% of its energy from the sun by 2025.

Visit CollectiveSun.com

# # #

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

It’s far too easy to assume that not much good is happening in states that are fertile ground for the growth of right-wing ways of doing things. The states of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota have been just such fertile soils. And yet, precisely in the area where those three states come together along the Missouri River, this effective activist on environmental concerns helps us break through this stereotype that not much good can happen in areas dominated by right-wing politicians and profit-hungry corporations. 

Carrie Radloff is an unassuming, persistent Iowan devoted to saving life in the environment of her area. She grew up in northwest Iowa on an acreage that has since been certified as a Century Farm. Her family was very involved in Boy Scouts, and by exploring the land and being raised under the “Scout Law,” she developed appreciation and respect for the environment and all living things. She attended Westmar University in her hometown of Le Mars, and was selected to be a Melton Fellow which allowed her to travel extensively and work with and learn from people from other cultures, including Europe, Africa, China, India, and Chile. Volunteering is the center of Carrie’s life. In addition to the decades-long involvement with the Melton Foundation, her previous service includes terms on the Leadership Siouxland* board and Iowa State University Extension’s Council for Woodbury County. She now focuses on environmental issues. She helped found Loess Hills Wild Ones in 2017. She chairs the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and serves as its delegate to the Iowa Chapter’s Executive Committee. She’s a current member and former chair of the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board. Carrie worked for 15 years in higher education at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Tri-State Graduate Center, where she helped coordinate training for nonprofit employees and leaders. After that, she was an ACA health insurance navigator and a wind energy advocate. Carrie earned a B.A. in International Communication and Mass Communication, an M.A. in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Development… She completed Leadership Siouxland* and Climate Reality Project training, and is a Master Gardener and Master Conservationist. She enjoys connecting and coordinating ideas, information, and people in order to achieve shared goals as efficiently as possible, and is proud of the many things she and her colleagues have accomplished over the years. Carrie lives in Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband.

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

*Siouxland is the name for greater metropolitan Sioux City, IA, including South Sioux City, NE, and North Sioux City, SD.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

Visit FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org

# # #

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

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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:38 — 24.4MB)

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

SOLAR POWER. Over the past century, industries have determined how we live. And fossil fuels have provided the energy these industries need. But now these fossil-fueled industries have taken us into an ecological crisis—a crisis that’s become an emergency. People are losing livelihoods. Health. Humans have now joined other species on the endangered list. We’ve got to find a different way—one that uses less energy that’s also clean and renewable. We need to change FAST. Life is rapidly becoming apocalyptic. Many congregations and nonprofits want to make the change to clean, solar energy, but face discouraging obstacles. Our guest today, Matt Brennan, VP of sales with CollectiveSun, a company that helps congregations and nonprofits switch to solar. 

 Apropos to this show, Juanita and Lee have just decided to install ten more solar panels on our home. It’s part of a program by which California plans to get 50% of its energy from the sun by 2025.

Lee met our guest because Jubilee OneEarth Economics offices in the same building with the CollectiveSun. The building, Christ United Methodist Ministry Center, includes the Collective Impact Center which is designed for the nonprofits who office in the building to share perspective and knowledge. It’s an attractive arrangement, and JEM is glad to be a partner there.

Matthew Brennan is the VP of Sales at CollectiveSun®, LLC. He is a solar installation expert with experience in both residential and commercial projects. In addition to being a talented entrepreneur, Matt has a strong engineering and technical background. His experience includes founding SanDiegoSolarPower.com, a solar sales and procurement company with extensive market reach. Prior to SanDiegoSolarPower.com, he worked as an industrial engineer for a network equipment manufacturer, a sales engineer for electronic equipment manufacturers and an operations manager for an industry-leading mechanical engineering magazine. Now he’s brought his passion for solar power to CollectiveSun®, where Matt manages all aspects of installer relationships and project development. Matthew received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

Visit CollectiveSun.com

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0621–Carrie Radloff: MidWest Environmental Activism

It’s far too easy to assume that not much good is happening in states that are fertile ground for the growth of right-wing ways of doing things. The states of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota have been just such fertile soils. And yet, precisely in the area where those three states come together along the Missouri River, this effective activist on environmental concerns helps us break through this stereotype that not much good can happen in areas dominated by right-wing politicians and profit-hungry corporations. 

Carrie Radloff is an unassuming, persistent Iowan devoted to saving life in the environment of her area. She grew up in northwest Iowa on an acreage that has since been certified as a Century Farm. Her family was very involved in Boy Scouts, and by exploring the land and being raised under the “Scout Law,” she developed appreciation and respect for the environment and all living things. She attended Westmar University in her hometown of Le Mars, and was selected to be a Melton Fellow which allowed her to travel extensively and work with and learn from people from other cultures, including Europe, Africa, China, India, and Chile. Volunteering is the center of Carrie’s life. In addition to the decades-long involvement with the Melton Foundation, her previous service includes terms on the Leadership Siouxland* board and Iowa State University Extension’s Council for Woodbury County. She now focuses on environmental issues. She helped found Loess Hills Wild Ones in 2017. She chairs the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and serves as its delegate to the Iowa Chapter’s Executive Committee. She’s a current member and former chair of the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board. Carrie worked for 15 years in higher education at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Tri-State Graduate Center, where she helped coordinate training for nonprofit employees and leaders. After that, she was an ACA health insurance navigator and a wind energy advocate. Carrie earned a B.A. in International Communication and Mass Communication, an M.A. in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Development… She completed Leadership Siouxland* and Climate Reality Project training, and is a Master Gardener and Master Conservationist. She enjoys connecting and coordinating ideas, information, and people in order to achieve shared goals as efficiently as possible, and is proud of the many things she and her colleagues have accomplished over the years. Carrie lives in Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband.

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

*Siouxland is the name for greater metropolitan Sioux City, IA, including South Sioux City, NE, and North Sioux City, SD.

# # #

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

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

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

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

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

Remembering ways JEM and F&MN have collaborated

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

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

The education and training that F&MN does

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

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

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:22 — 19.1MB)

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

Carrie Radloff

It’s far too easy to assume that not much good is happening in states that are fertile ground for the growth of right-wing ways of doing things. The states of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota have been just such fertile soils. And yet, precisely in the area where those three states come together along the Missouri River, this effective activist on environmental concerns helps us break through this stereotype that not much good can happen in areas dominated by right-wing politicians and profit-hungry corporations. 

Carrie Radloff is an unassuming, persistent Iowan devoted to saving life in the environment of her area. She grew up in northwest Iowa on an acreage that has since been certified as a Century Farm. Her family was very involved in Boy Scouts, and by exploring the land and being raised under the “Scout Law,” she developed appreciation and respect for the environment and all living things. She attended Westmar University in her hometown of Le Mars, and was selected to be a Melton Fellow which allowed her to travel extensively and work with and learn from people from other cultures, including Europe, Africa, China, India, and Chile. Volunteering is the center of Carrie’s life. In addition to the decades-long involvement with the Melton Foundation, her previous service includes terms on the Leadership Siouxland* board and Iowa State University Extension’s Council for Woodbury County. She now focuses on environmental issues. She helped found Loess Hills Wild Ones in 2017. She chairs the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and serves as its delegate to the Iowa Chapter’s Executive Committee. She’s a current member and former chair of the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board. Carrie worked for 15 years in higher education at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Tri-State Graduate Center, where she helped coordinate training for nonprofit employees and leaders. After that, she was an ACA health insurance navigator and a wind energy advocate. Carrie earned a B.A. in International Communication and Mass Communication, an M.A. in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Development… She completed Leadership Siouxland* and Climate Reality Project training, and is a Master Gardener and Master Conservationist. She enjoys connecting and coordinating ideas, information, and people in order to achieve shared goals as efficiently as possible, and is proud of the many things she and her colleagues have accomplished over the years. Carrie lives in Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband.

The motto of WildOnes.org: Native Plants / Natural Landscapes — Healing the Earth one yard at a time. In contrast to her other environmental work, Wild Ones focuses on one thing: getting more native plants into the ground. Native plants are the Swiss Army Knife solution to so many issues, and more people need to hear that message.

*Siouxland is the name for greater metropolitan Sioux City, IA, including South Sioux City, NE, and North Sioux City, SD.

Earlier Episodes

Ep. 0521–Neddy Astudillo: Adding Environmental Actions to Our Spiritual Practices

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

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

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

# # #

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

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

# # #

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

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

Remembering ways JEM and F&MN have collaborated

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

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

The education and training that F&MN does

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

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

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:28 — 22.6MB)

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index 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

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/astudillo-receives-presbyterians-for-earth-care-annual-eco-justice-award/

https://justiceunbound.org/one-body-with-earth-a-wake-up-call/

SacredPeopleSacredEarth.org

GreenFaith.org

LivingTheChange.net

The climate emergency has been getting new attention from faith-based and spiritually-oriented organizations. As a result, a lot of environmental activism is enriched as spiritual practice. Eco-spirituality and eco-theology are rapidly connecting the language of faith and spirit to science and what’s happening in creation. The deep energies of spirituality are rising to face the dark energies of the destruction of life on our planet. And that’s the focus of our conversation in this episode of the Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast.

Learn here about the organization Green Faith and the special work of Neddy Astudillo, a pastor, farmer, and eco-theologian who works from a framework of faith to train groups of activists on specific steps by which they can help save life on our planet, and have it be part of their spiritual practices.

The climate emergency isn’t coming, it’s now … and it’s been with us for some time. Though slow at first, congregations, faith organizations, and faith-based campuses are now hurrying to develop actions that help save life on our planet. We see a growing awareness that creation is under enormous stress, induced by humans. The awareness includes that the huge changes that need to happen have a deadline. 2030, the year that hundreds of international scientists have agreed is the deadline for actions to keep Earth from heating over 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.

All faith-connected organizations need to lay out boldly that meeting the deadline requires costly discipleship. What we eat, where we bank, what we invest in—all of these are now spiritual practices. None of them is separate from faith. 

Our guest today understands the scope of what is needed. She’ll talk with us about how Green Faith is engaging the challenge.

We can all commit to do something really meaningful. . . And, please promote this important conversation to others.

Lee first met Neddy Astudillo on a farm in northern Illinois. This organic farm has a great story told in the movie, The Dirt on Farmer John. Neddy and her spouse, Tom Spaulding, started a Learning Center on the farm to teach all that goes into healthy soil, organic growing, and farming without pesticides or chemicals. That Learning Center has evolved to train new farmers in organic, regenerative methods. Revolutionary! But our conversation with Neddy today has a little different focus. 

As an eco-minister and eco-theologian, Neddy directs Green Faith in Florida and in Latin America. Be sure you go to the GreenFaith.org to learn far more about Neddy’s accomplishments and hopes. How they frame their work:

Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

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

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

Earlier Episodes

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

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

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

# # #

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

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

Remembering ways JEM and F&MN have collaborated

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

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

The education and training that F&MN does

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

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

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:06 — 21.8MB)

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

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

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

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

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

Remembering ways JEM and F&MN have collaborated

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

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

The education and training that F&MN does

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

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

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

# # #

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.

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