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Lee Van Ham, Director of The OneEarth Project and Jubilee Economics; author of Blinded by Progress
Show Notes
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We are co-producing this episode with Jubilee OneEarth Economics. A slightly different version is being released this month on
TheCommonGoodPodcast.com (TCGP).
The impetus for this podcast came when TCGP cohost Lee Van Ham was one of the presenters at “Seeking Simplicity: A Workshop for the Soul and the Planet,” hosted at St. Paul’s Cathedral in January, 2016. The search for simplicity, not austerity, can get us closer to using only the capacities of our one planet instead of several. Yet, just what simplicity is varies widely; what size fits you? And does your size fit the planet?
WE UNPACK SIX IDEAS IN THIS CONVERSATION:
- Live more simply by reducing our consuming.
- Live more simply by pruning our possessions.
- Live more simply by pruning our busyness.
- To live more simply requires a spiritual attitude and practice.
- To live more simply an intentional community of practitioners helps.
- Our efforts to live more simply converge with our efforts to live using only the resources of one planet.
Regular listeners to TCGP will be familiar with the co-housing arrangement of the Van Hams and the Watkins. Listeners of SLW! Podcast can get some background by listening to my TCGP Episode 56 :: Carol Watkins: Shared Housing – a Step Toward OneEarth Living. Read Lee Van Ham’s fascinating blog “2 Households in 1 House: Can Shared Housing Help You?” Harry Watkins has several entries to his Shared Housing blog.
You’ll find other blogs of interest by Lee on OneEarth Living at TheOneEarthProject.com.
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John de Graaf’s Lenten sermon series
Lee’s book Blinded by Progress at TheOneEarthProject.com | REVIEWS. See Kritika Narula’s (Delhi, India) essay/review on Goodreads.com. |
The Five Life Standards of Living More with Less: TCGP Episode 27 :: Gerald Iversen, Simple Living, and The Common Good Podcast developments
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Lenten disciplines:
- Prayer. Visit Prayer and Politiks (Ken Sehested)
- Almsgiving. Add something positive and helpful, as well as eliminating something negative and unhelpful from our lives.
- Fasting. Broaden our view of food. Listen to Lee’s conversation with Mel Lions–Why Food Choices Are Our Best Portal to Making Differences Ecologically. Play the Food Swap Game.
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“My colleagues and I have found that when people believe materialistic values are important, they report less happiness and more distress, have poorer interpersonal relationships, contribute less to the community, and engage in more ecologically damaging behaviors. My research has recently been investigating how values relate to well-being in various nations around the world, as well as what leads some people to become especially focused on different types of values.”
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Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s book Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, part of The OneEarth Project. Also, hear The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce. || NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham, including TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 || Lee’s recent Slide Show
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