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Ep.06/19: Carrie Radloff–Working for Environmental Progress in the Politically Regressive Midwest

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Today we feature a conversation with Carrie Radloff, a Sierra Club activist and member of the Sioux City, IA, Environmental Advisory Board

When one looks at the tri-state area on the Missouri River that includes Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska, one wonders is anything positive is happening in an area that is so regressive politically. This episode answers a resounding YES! Despite anti-environment corporations and Republican-held legislatures and governors’ offices, activists in the Sierra Club and with local city governments are working to keep their environment clean and healthy.

She currently serves as Chair of the Northwest Iowa Group of Sierra Club and works tirelessly and without pay to research issues, reach out to other groups, and communicate clearly.

Carrie is driven to help make good things happen, and has a pleasant temperament and humorous honesty that makes her the first person many turn to on environmental issues.

In addition to chairing the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board, Carrie is PR/Membership chair of the Loess Hills Wild Ones chapter, and many other organizations and endeavors close to her heart.

You may recall my conversation a few episodes back with Adam Mason of ICCI, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. ICCI is working state-wide to gain a moratorium on new and expanded hog confinements, which pollute the air and water ways, making Iowa the second greatest polluter of the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, all those poisons end-up down stream! Do listen to that episode too.

In a future episode we’ll be talking about Michael Patrick “Spotted Eagle” O’Connor, a Native American artist and activist.

OneEarth Jubilee can now help you offset the carbon you put into the atmosphere.Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more. Click BLOG in the menu at the top of the page.

DONATE to Jubilee OneEarth Economics

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Ep.05/19: Steven Cornett: Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming

By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. He makes a living farming 5000 square feet in a couple of large backyards. His company, web site, FaceBook page and You Tube channel are called Nature’s Always Right. Here are his own words from his website:

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In episode 04/19, banker Pat Trahan speaks about growth economics, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Wall Street, and investing in our neighborhood. His perspective differs from many in the banking world.

After our session, Pat wrote to us with the following short postscript to our conversation. “I think Jubilee is the antidote to the growth-for-the-sake-of-growth model where all the lines in all the graphs move only up and to the right. My reading of the Jubilee passages is that the means of production should be redistributed and democratized on occasion. Our system only redistributes some of the fruit of production. Meanwhile, wealth and power become more and more concentrated.”

Pat has written a series of short, thought-provoking responses to the book Creative Capitalism. 
References: Richard Rohrer–Center for Action and Contemplation // James Howard Kunstler // CNU-Congress for New Urbanism // Chuck Marone–Strong Towns

Ep. 03/19: Chuck Collins of the InEquality Project, Inequality.org from IPS-dc.org (Institute for Policy Studies)

For better clarity, you may want to listen to this episode on headphones or earbuds.

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue that trend—something many of us will notice as we file 2018 tax returns. In this moment of GREAT INEQUALITY, we’re excited that we get to share the voice and thought of Chuck Collins with our listeners. I (Lee) 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.

As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter. In fact, a good way to appreciate why Chuck can speak with authority to inequality and the racial wealth divide is to scan titles of his writings.

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills—Stephen Bezruchka

Ep.02/19: “No!” to More Factory Farms—Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

We talk with Adam Mason about a strategic campaign in Iowa led by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). They want a moratorium on any new and expanded hog farms where thousands of hogs are confined in very small pens. AND, if you love eating a meal with some tasty pulled pork or bacon, or frequently pick up some quick food at fast food chains, you’ll want that campaign to succeed. Be sure to listen to this podcast. This podcast links those food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.

# # #

Episode 01/19 features Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world–Tijuana to San Diego.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. ICE also processes some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly 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. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Ep.05/19 :: Steven Cornett, Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming

General, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:36 — 23.3MB)

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

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

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service, under the names Simple Living Works! or The Common Good Podcast. Urge your friends to do the same.

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By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. He makes a living farming 5000 square feet in a couple of large backyards. His company, web site, FaceBook page and You Tube channel are called Nature’s Always Right. Here are his own words from his website:

“Growing food is my passion but I have two higher goals beyond just farming:

#1: I want to help as many people learn to grow food as I can. So they can experience the joy and health benefits of raising their own produce, and if it’s right for them, make a living enjoying this amazing lifestyle.

#2: I believe that radically changing our food system can achieve massive economic and social change that will help breakdown many government monopolized services and replace them with legitimate and efficient private service providers.

If 100,000s of new farmers start small scale regenerative agriculture businesses it will have many effects:

-Increases local economic growth
-Reduces healthcare costs
-Reduces overall environmental and health impacts of conventional farming
-Reduces use of pharmaceutical drugs and many conventional treatments
-Localizes community, scales back and replaces federal government services
-Food security
-Makes government subsidies of agriculture/gmo less frequent
-Reduces transportation of food reducing emissions
-Restores more power and freedom to individuals and their communities

Helping to change our current large scale degenerative food system to a small scale regenerative agriculture system will have a major influence over the future of our world and society. In my opinion, this is the best solution to all of the environmental, health, cultural, and economic crises we currently face. We can use the positive incentives of the market to drive ethical behavior and farm using natural systems that are highly efficient and mutually beneficial to all involved.

You might be surprised to learn that I actually use 0 pesticides on my farm. Birds, ladybugs, hover flies, predatory wasps, spiders, lacewings, etc. are my pest control. I always have dozen of species of plants growing on my farm to promote biodiversity, which brings a high level of balance to the micro ecosystem of my market garden. I even make 75% of my own soils, fertilizers, and amendments. I am aiming to have my property be 95% sustainable by the end of the year including feeding my chickens for free using free inputs. Everything I do will be displayed for all to see on my YouTube.

Nature is already perfect and we can use its systems to an incredible advantage. Or we can meddle with its perfect systems, destroying it arrogantly in the process. These universal patterns and rules of nature apply across all aspects of life. Nature is an endless teacher.”

What Steven says tells you why I’m more committed than ever to developing relationships with the people growing our food. Farmers markets are one of the best ways to do that. Almost every Friday, in the late afternoon, I head for the Farmers Market that’s just two miles away in the nextdoor town of La Mesa. Steven’s farm is within a bicycle ride from where I live. So I loaded my microphone and computer into my backpack and pedaled off to find him. After viewing his farm, we settled into conversation in his garage. Our conversation was rich with insight, inspiration, and knowledge for the health of our planet, which, of course, is a top priority for all of us who want to do everything possible to keep our planet livable beyond 2030.

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OneEarth Jubilee can now help us offset the carbon we put into the atmosphere. Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more.

Earlier Episodes

In episode 04/19, banker Pat Trahan speaks about growth economics, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Wall Street, and investing in our neighborhood. His perspective differs from many in the banking world.

After our session, Pat wrote to us with the following short postscript to our conversation. “I think Jubilee is the antidote to the growth-for-the-sake-of-growth model where all the lines in all the graphs move only up and to the right. My reading of the Jubilee passages is that the means of production should be redistributed and democratized on occasion. Our system only redistributes some of the fruit of production. Meanwhile, wealth and power become more and more concentrated.”

Pat has written a series of short, thought-provoking responses to the book Creative Capitalism. 
References: Richard Rohrer–Center for Action and Contemplation // James Howard Kunstler // CNU-Congress for New Urbanism // Chuck Marone–Strong Towns

Ep. 03/19: Chuck Collins of the InEquality Project, Inequality.org from IPS-dc.org (Institute for Policy Studies)

For better clarity, you may want to listen to this episode on headphones or earbuds.

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue that trend—something many of us will notice as we file 2018 tax returns. In this moment of GREAT INEQUALITY, we’re excited that we get to share the voice and thought of Chuck Collins with our listeners. I (Lee) 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.

As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter. In fact, a good way to appreciate why Chuck can speak with authority to inequality and the racial wealth divide is to scan titles of his writings.

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills—Stephen Bezruchka

Ep.02/19: “No!” to More Factory Farms—Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

We talk with Adam Mason about a strategic campaign in Iowa led by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). They want a moratorium on any new and expanded hog farms where thousands of hogs are confined in very small pens. AND, if you love eating a meal with some tasty pulled pork or bacon, or frequently pick up some quick food at fast food chains, you’ll want that campaign to succeed. Be sure to listen to this podcast. This podcast links those food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.

I (Lee) grew up on an Iowa farm and I remember the first time I saw a cattle lot that went on and on as we drove by it. The manure was pooled at one end. We rolled up the car windows to keep out the smell. But after that boyhood experience, it would be years later before I understood how farms were increasingly being run like industrial businesses, and the more that agriculture became agribusiness, the more the farm animals took a hit. Increasingly, beef, dairy, pigs, and chickens were moved off open pastures and free ranges. Instead, they were confined to feedlots and small pens on supersized factory farms, meaning that just as a factory puts together its product piece by piece, step by step, so the animals were fed and treated in a machine-like, computerized process that produces a marketable product in a set number of days.

As you listen to this podcast think about how you participate in this food supply system that is ruining the health of both planet and people. What it does to the animals is acutely unnatural and abusive. AND consider how what you eat gives you leverage to bring positive change.

We may just be on the cusp of a major revolution in how food is grown, both plants and animals, and what people eat. A commission called EAT-Lancet Commission came out this January with the “planetary health diet.” It’s called that because it’s a diet that simultaneously describes for us food that is healthy for the planet to grow and for people to eat. This commission says that a global agricultural revolution is as necessary as the reduction of fossil fuel use in our work to reduce Earth’s fever and engage all causes of climate change. The Commission also said: “Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” This podcast helps us use that lever better.

The factory farms of Iowa destroy environments all the way from the soils and waterways of the state to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its location between the two great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi, Iowa is the second greatest polluter of the Gulf. Agricultural chemicals and manure from factory farms run off the land into waterways, end up in one of the two big rivers, and eventually in the Gulf of Mexico where they create an enormous dead zone in the Gulf. No marine life can live in those zones.

For clean air and water, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is teaming up with the Sierra Club, as well as county and city governments. This matters to anyone who eats pork or chicken or cares about the Earth. Adam Mason serves as the State Policy Organizing Director for ICCI.

# # #

Episode 01/19 features Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world–Tijuana to San Diego.

They’ve crossed into the U.S. through the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, just 17 miles south of Safe Harbor’s facilities in the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center where Jubilee OneEarth Economics also has an office.

Safe Harbors is the organization which does this amazing work of receiving immigrants who arrive with a host of unmet needs—so many needs everyday that you may well be able to help. Check out their website https://www.safeharbors.net/.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. ICE also processes some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly 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. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Ep.04/19 :: Banker Pat Trahan–Leaving Suburb Isolation for Urban Diversity; Leaving Wall Street to Invest in Neighborhood

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:26 — 16.8MB)

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

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

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service, as Simple Living Works. You can subscribe to this podcast under the names TCGP and SLW! at iTunes or your favorite podcast service. Urge your friends to do the same.

PatTrahan

In this episode, banker Pat Trahan speaks about growth economics, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Wall Street, and investing in our neighborhood. His perspective differs from many in the banking world.

Pat tells why his family sold their suburban home in a gated community of Lafayette, Louisiana (city of 127,000) and moved into a mixed neighborhood in the city’s urban sector. As a continual student of what a functional city does, he puts to work the findings of “new urbanism.” After his family moved into an urban neighborhood, and he took his money out of Wall Street, he was able to buy a cluster of homes and create a “pocket neighborhood”—a neighborhood that fosters a sense of human community and makes the neighborhood stronger. Listen, too, to learn where a banker who takes his money out of Wall Street for reasons of conscience, ethics, and spiritual conviction invests it instead. And like so many of us, Pat wonders aloud whether that investment will sustain his household in retirement. These fascinating questions are boldly addressed in this episode.

After our session, Pat wrote to us with the following short postscript to our conversation. “I think Jubilee is the antidote to the growth-for-the-sake-of-growth model where all the lines in all the graphs move only up and to the right. My reading of the Jubilee passages is that the means of production should be redistributed and democratized on occasion. Our system only redistributes some of the fruit of production. Meanwhile, wealth and power become more and more concentrated.”

Pat has written a series of short, thought-provoking responses to the book Creative Capitalism. 
References:
Richard Rohrer–Center for Action and Contemplation
James Howard Kunstler
CNU-Congress for New Urbanism
Chuck Marone–Strong Towns

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Join the next Jubilee Delegation to Mexico, June 1-9! Going to see is the best way to understand ways that resistance to unsustainable MultiEarth living is being practiced by people in the Mexican states of Puebla and Chiapas. It’s inspiring to see the ways OneEarth living is being shaped by many low-income and Indigenous peoples. Rachel Miller-Haughton will be leading the Delegation. Let us know of your interest. You’ll go to fascinating places tourists never go … and a few they do. $1275 covers everything round trip from San Diego all the way to Chiapas and back again by way of San Mateo in Puebla. Let us hear from you. (Adjustments in costs if you cannot leave from San Diego.)

Earlier Episodes

Chuck Collins of the InEquality Project, Inequality.org from IPS-dc.org (Institute for Policy Studies)

For better clarity, you may want to listen to this episode on headphones or earbuds.

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue that trend—something many of us will notice as we file 2018 tax returns. In this moment of GREAT INEQUALITY, we’re excited that we get to share the voice and thought of Chuck Collins with our listeners. I (Lee) 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.

As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter. In fact, a good way to appreciate why Chuck can speak with authority to inequality and the racial wealth divide is to scan titles of his writings.

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills—Stephen Bezruchka

Ep.02/19: “No!” to More Factory Farms—Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

We talk with Adam Mason about a strategic campaign in Iowa led by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). They want a moratorium on any new and expanded hog farms where thousands of hogs are confined in very small pens. AND, if you love eating a meal with some tasty pulled pork or bacon, or frequently pick up some quick food at fast food chains, you’ll want that campaign to succeed. Be sure to listen to this podcast. This podcast links those food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.

I (Lee) grew up on an Iowa farm and I remember the first time I saw a cattle lot that went on and on as we drove by it. The manure was pooled at one end. We rolled up the car windows to keep out the smell. But after that boyhood experience, it would be years later before I understood how farms were increasingly being run like industrial businesses, and the more that agriculture became agribusiness, the more the farm animals took a hit. Increasingly, beef, dairy, pigs, and chickens were moved off open pastures and free ranges. Instead, they were confined to feedlots and small pens on supersized factory farms, meaning that just as a factory puts together its product piece by piece, step by step, so the animals were fed and treated in a machine-like, computerized process that produces a marketable product in a set number of days.

As you listen to this podcast think about how you participate in this food supply system that is ruining the health of both planet and people. What it does to the animals is acutely unnatural and abusive. AND consider how what you eat gives you leverage to bring positive change.

We may just be on the cusp of a major revolution in how food is grown, both plants and animals, and what people eat. A commission called EAT-Lancet Commission came out this January with the “planetary health diet.” It’s called that because it’s a diet that simultaneously describes for us food that is healthy for the planet to grow and for people to eat. This commission says that a global agricultural revolution is as necessary as the reduction of fossil fuel use in our work to reduce Earth’s fever and engage all causes of climate change. The Commission also said: “Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” This podcast helps us use that lever better.

The factory farms of Iowa destroy environments all the way from the soils and waterways of the state to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its location between the two great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi, Iowa is the second greatest polluter of the Gulf. Agricultural chemicals and manure from factory farms run off the land into waterways, end up in one of the two big rivers, and eventually in the Gulf of Mexico where they create an enormous dead zone in the Gulf. No marine life can live in those zones.

For clean air and water, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is teaming up with the Sierra Club, as well as county and city governments. This matters to anyone who eats pork or chicken or cares about the Earth. Adam Mason serves as the State Policy Organizing Director for ICCI.

# # #

01/19 episode features Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world–Tijuana to San Diego.

They’ve crossed into the U.S. through the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, just 17 miles south of Safe Harbor’s facilities in the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center where Jubilee OneEarth Economics also has an office.

Safe Harbors is the organization which does this amazing work of receiving immigrants who arrive with a host of unmet needs—so many needs everyday that you may well be able to help. Check out their website https://www.safeharbors.net/.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. ICE also processes some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly 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. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Ep.03/19 :: Chuck Collins of the InEquality Project

General, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:40 — 22.1MB)

Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

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

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service, as Simple Living Works.

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Chuck Collins of the InEquality Project from IPS-dc.org (Institute for Policy Studies)

For better clarity, you may want to listen to this episode on headphones or earbuds.

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue that trend—something many of us will notice as we file 2018 tax returns. In this moment of GREAT INEQUALITY, we’re excited that we get to share the voice and thought of Chuck Collins with our listeners. I (Lee) 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.

As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter. In fact, a good way to appreciate why Chuck can speak with authority to inequality and the racial wealth divide is to scan titles of his writings.

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills—Stephen Bezruchka

Also WORTH READING: YES! Magazine #88, Winter, 2019–“5 Opportunities to Solve Inequality”

Earlier Episodes

Ep.02/19: “No!” to More Factory Farms—Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

Today we feature a conversation with Adam Mason about a strategic campaign in Iowa led by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). They want a moratorium on any new and expanded hog farms where thousands of hogs are confined in very small pens. AND, if you love eating a meal with some tasty pulled pork or bacon, or frequently pick up some quick food at fast food chains, you’ll want that campaign to succeed. Be sure to listen to this podcast. This podcast links those food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.

I (Lee) grew up on an Iowa farm and I remember the first time I saw a cattle lot that went on and on as we drove by it. The manure was pooled at one end. We rolled up the car windows to keep out the smell. But after that boyhood experience, it would be years later before I understood how farms were increasingly being run like industrial businesses, and the more that agriculture became agribusiness, the more the farm animals took a hit. Increasingly, beef, dairy, pigs, and chickens were moved off open pastures and free ranges. Instead, they were confined to feedlots and small pens on supersized factory farms, meaning that just as a factory puts together its product piece by piece, step by step, so the animals were fed and treated in a machine-like, computerized process that produces a marketable product in a set number of days.

As you listen to this podcast think about how you participate in this food supply system that is ruining the health of both planet and people. What it does to the animals is acutely unnatural and abusive. AND consider how what you eat gives you leverage to bring positive change.

We may just be on the cusp of a major revolution in how food is grown, both plants and animals, and what people eat. A commission called EAT-Lancet Commission came out this January with the “planetary health diet.” It’s called that because it’s a diet that simultaneously describes for us food that is healthy for the planet to grow and for people to eat. This commission says that a global agricultural revolution is as necessary as the reduction of fossil fuel use in our work to reduce Earth’s fever and engage all causes of climate change. The Commission also said: “Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” This podcast helps us use that lever better.

The factory farms of Iowa destroy environments all the way from the soils and waterways of the state to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its location between the two great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi, Iowa is the second greatest polluter of the Gulf. Agricultural chemicals and manure from factory farms run off the land into waterways, end up in one of the two big rivers, and eventually in the Gulf of Mexico where they create an enormous dead zone in the Gulf. No marine life can live in those zones.

For clean air and water, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is teaming up with the Sierra Club, as well as county and city governments. This matters to anyone who eats pork or chicken or cares about the Earth. Adam Mason serves as the State Policy Organizing Director for ICCI.

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01/19 episode features Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world–Tijuana to San Diego.

They’ve crossed into the U.S. through the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, just 17 miles south of Safe Harbor’s facilities in the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center where Jubilee OneEarth Economics also has an office.

Safe Harbors is the organization which does this amazing work of receiving immigrants who arrive with a host of unmet needs—so many needs everyday that you may well be able to help. Check out their website https://www.safeharbors.net/.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. ICE also processes some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

We invite you to travel with OneEarth Jubilee to the Jubilee Circles in Mexico. Rachel Miller-Haughton will be leading the next Delegation and we want you to be part of it. Going to see is the best way to understand ways that resistance to unsustainable MultiEarth living is being practiced by people in the Mexican states of Puebla and Chiapas. It’s inspiring to see the ways OneEarth living is being shaped by people in the Jubilee Circles and the many low-income and Indigenous peoples with whom they work. Let us know of your interest. You’re sure to have questions. We’ll give you the best answers we can so that you can make a decision that’s right for you. But for our part? We encourage you to come with us and see for yourself. You’ll go to fascinating places tourists never go … and a few they do. Let us hear from you.

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany  // Lent/HolyWeek/Easter — Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway?

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Ep.02/19 :: “No!” to More Factory Farms—Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

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

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service, as Simple Living Works.

Today we feature a conversation with Adam Mason about a strategic campaign in Iowa led by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI). They want a moratorium on any new and expanded hog farms where thousands of hogs are confined in very small pens. AND, if you love eating a meal with some tasty pulled pork or bacon, or frequently pick up some quick food at fast food chains, you’ll want that campaign to succeed. Be sure to listen to this podcast. This podcast links those food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.

I (Lee) grew up on an Iowa farm and I remember the first time I saw a cattle lot that went on and on as we drove by it. The manure was pooled at one end. We rolled up the car windows to keep out the smell. But after that boyhood experience, it would be years later before I understood how farms were increasingly being run like industrial businesses, and the more that agriculture became agribusiness, the more the farm animals took a hit. Increasingly, beef, dairy, pigs, and chickens were moved off open pastures and free ranges. Instead, they were confined to feedlots and small pens on supersized factory farms, meaning that just as a factory puts together its product piece by piece, step by step, so the animals were fed and treated in a machine-like, computerized process that produces a marketable product in a set number of days.

As you listen to this podcast think about how you participate in this food supply system that is ruining the health of both planet and people. What it does to the animals is acutely unnatural and abusive. AND consider how what you eat gives you leverage to bring positive change.

We may just be on the cusp of a major revolution in how food is grown, both plants and animals, and what people eat. A commission called EAT-Lancet Commission came out this January with the “planetary health diet.” It’s called that because it’s a diet that simultaneously describes for us food that is healthy for the planet to grow and for people to eat. This commission says that a global agricultural revolution is as necessary as the reduction of fossil fuel use in our work to reduce Earth’s fever and engage all causes of climate change. The Commission also said: “Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” This podcast helps us use that lever better.

The factory farms of Iowa destroy environments all the way from the soils and waterways of the state to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its location between the two great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi, Iowa is the second greatest polluter of the Gulf. Agricultural chemicals and manure from factory farms run off the land into waterways, end up in one of the two big rivers, and eventually in the Gulf of Mexico where they create an enormous dead zone in the Gulf. No marine life can live in those zones.

For clean air and water, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is teaming up with the Sierra Club, as well as county and city governments. This matters to anyone who eats pork or chicken or cares about the Earth. Adam Mason serves as the State Policy Organizing Director for ICCI.

Earlier Episodes

01/19 episode features Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world–Tijuana to San Diego.

They’ve crossed into the U.S. through the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, just 17 miles south of Safe Harbor’s facilities in the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center where Jubilee OneEarth Economics also has an office.

Safe Harbors is the organization which does this amazing work of receiving immigrants who arrive with a host of unmet needs—so many needs everyday that you may well be able to help. Check out their website https://www.safeharbors.net/.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. ICE also processes some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

We invite you to travel with OneEarth Jubilee to the Jubilee Circles in Mexico. Rachel Miller-Haughton will be leading the next Delegation and we want you to be part of it. Going to see is the best way to understand ways that resistance to unsustainable MultiEarth living is being practiced by people in the Mexican states of Puebla and Chiapas. It’s inspiring to see the ways OneEarth living is being shaped by people in the Jubilee Circles and the many low-income and Indigenous peoples with whom they work. Let us know of your interest. You’re sure to have questions. We’ll give you the best answers we can so that you can make a decision that’s right for you. But for our part? We encourage you to come with us and see for yourself. You’ll go to fascinating places tourists never go … and a few they do. Let us hear from you.

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

WHOSE Birthday?

Our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign presented episodes mid-month during the last four months of 2018.

This four-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 is Simple Living Works’ annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany  // Lent/HolyWeek/Easter — Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway?

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Ep.01/19 :: Immigration and Borders: Horrors, Opportunities, and Needs—Talking with Jimmy Marcelin

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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

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

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service, as Simple Living Works.

This January podcast features an interview with Jimmy Marcelin, the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world, the Tijuana to San Diego crossing.

They’ve crossed into the U.S. through the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, just 17 miles south of Safe Harbor’s facilities in the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center where Jubilee OneEarth Economics also has an office. The San Diego-Tijuana crossing is currently the busiest anywhere in the world.

Safe Harbors is the organization which does this amazing work of receiving immigrants who arrive with a host of unmet needs—so many needs everyday that you may well be able to help. Check out their website https://www.safeharbors.net/.

Safe Harbors is part of the multicultural, multilingual ministry center called the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center. The immigrants who arrive are sometimes delivered by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and is part of the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security. ICE is much in the news for the horrors that happen to so many people in the name of enforcement of border security. These horrors are increasingly being stepped into by organizations determined to humanize the treatment of migrants. In addition to ICE’s inhumane and atrocious activities, they also process some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.

We invite you to travel with OneEarth Jubilee to the Jubilee Circles in Mexico. Rachel Miller-Haughton will be leading the next Delegation and we want you to be part of it. Going to see is the best way to understand ways that resistance to unsustainable MultiEarth living is being practiced by people in the Mexican states of Puebla and Chiapas. It’s inspiring to see the ways OneEarth living is being shaped by people in the Jubilee Circles and the many low-income and Indigenous peoples with whom they work. Let us know of your interest. You’re sure to have questions. We’ll give you the best answers we can so that you can make a decision that’s right for you. But for our part? We encourage you to come with us and see for yourself. You’ll go to fascinating places tourists never go … and a few they do. Let us hear from you.

Earlier Episodes

12/1/18–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

11/1/18–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

WHOSE Birthday?

Our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign presented episodes mid-month during the last four months of 2018.

This four-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 is Simple Living Works’ annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Part 1 (9/15/18)–“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

Part 2 (10/15/18)–INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

Part 3 (11/15/18)–Inspiring Reflections & Fun Activities

Part 4 (12/15/18)–Fun Activities

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

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WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

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Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

*Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Episode 119 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 4

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:20 — 15.1MB)

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We started our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

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1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

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AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

Preview Part 4

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21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano. Complete texts, audio examples, source for booklet &/or CD.

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Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley audio || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

12/1/18 Bonus :: Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

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To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

The Common Good Podcast #102–Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations

This episode features Lee’s conversation with Anne Pacheco and Diane Hartley on how they brought the Fair Trade campaigns to their school and congregation.

For most of us the news about free trade agreements, tariffs and trade wars feel quite beyond our control. But in this episode we talk about a different paradigm of trade, and it’s the kind of trade over which we have lots of control. We’re talking about the trade structures known as FAIR TRADE. And just how do we exercise our power regarding trade that is fair? In elementary schools, high schools, colleges and congregations.

We’ve done several episodes on Fair Trade. But they’re not redundant. FT has so many aspects, so each episode is different. Today is no exception as we focus on campaigns to bring FT to schools. Think of the schools where children of your friends and family go—elementary, middle, senior high schools and colleges. That means that actions on trade aren’t just for economic ministers and presidents of countries, whose actions are about the structures of FREE Trade. They are fraught with injustices and bringing favors to corporations and the wealthiest. You and I can protest those, but even better, we can implement FAIR Trade, a completely different set of structures that make trade agreements fair and just for all involved and for the planet.

The FT movement continues to grow. When I moved to San Diego in 2002, I tried to get FT coffee, tea, and chocolate into an exhibit at an alternative holiday market. The person running the market hadn’t heard of it and was skeptical. But she let me display. Well, in the next few years FT began catching on in this area. Leaping ahead, somewhere in the movement toward FT here in this region, FT took hold in Anne Pacheco and Nancy Ryan. They educated businesses in La Mesa about FT and on the second attempt, the La Mesa City Council approved the proposal to declare LaMesa a Fair Trade town, having met the requirements for such. Anne and Nancy have championed FT tirelessly and continue to have such an impact. Today I interview Anne, and because we’re focusing on FT schools, we include Diane Hartley, principal at St. Martin of Tours Academy, a FT School.

Common Good Feature: Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to Travel, 1/19/15 blog

PAST FAIR TRADE EPISODES

Episode 7 :: David Funkhouser and Fair Trade for Dummies

Episode 18 :: Coffee As a Virtue

Episode 47 :: Diane Hesselhuf: Sharing the Dream—Fair Trade, a Tool for People and Planet vs. Free Trade, a Weapon of Domination

 

Earlier Episodes

The Common Good Podcast #101–The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change in Mexico (11/1/18)

Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

The Common Good Podcast #100–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough (10/1/18)

Listeners, you may have heard of the climate summit held this past Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco.  What happened there? Our conversation today is with two people who were there: Derek and Nancy Casady. Oh, and what’s Al Gore doing these days? Hopefully you saw his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”  We’ll also hear about Gore’s recent conference in Los Angeles.

This episode is entitled “Actions on Climate Science When National Leaders Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough.” Not only fail us, but work against us.

Even at the state level, in too many cases decision-makers are not acting to protect and serve the people. Take the example of North Carolina. Legislators there voted in 2012 to ban the use of a report that showed the ocean could rise as much as 39 inches by 2100.

Some governors, mayors, and businesses are living by a different, positive narrative.

Derek & Nancy Casady were our guests a year ago on TCGP #91 telling of their experience with The Climate Mobilization. Then they said. “Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They’re Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization.” In this episode they share their most recent experiences.

The Common Good Feature: GrowthBusters is a movie, a blog, a podcast, over 100 short YouTube videos–the products of Dave Gardner and his small staff. It has a lot in common with Jubilee OneEarth Economics and Simple Living Works! It deals with ECONOMIC GROWTH, OVERPOPULATION, URBAN GROWTH, OVERCONSUMPTION and Media Bias toward unsustainable growth. Visit GrowthBusters.org and consider sponsoring a showing the movie Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth (2013) in your community.

NOTE: the sound quality of the interview portion of this episode is subpar but the content is strong. Please be patient.

WHOSE Birthday?

We started our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)–“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18): INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)–Inspiring Reflections & Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)–Fun Activities [Preview Now]

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

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Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

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In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Episode 118 :: WHOSE Birthday? part 3

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:27 — 18.0MB)

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SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

WHOSE Birthday?

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

We started our non-consumer Christmas campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year. HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)

“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18)

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)

Inspiring Reflections

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden
*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)

Preview Part 4

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano. Complete texts, audio examples, source for booklet &/or CD.

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (complete text index + audio selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

Earlier Episodes

11/1/18 Bonus :: Jubilee Circles in Mexico

Advent/Christmas, General, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:49 — 23.9MB)

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Simple Living Works! Podcast

SHOW NOTES

To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom, or visit the Episode Index.  SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.

The Common Good Podcast #101–Jubilee Circles in Mexico

The Power of Small, Jubilee Circles to Bring Change

This is episode #101  of The Common Good Podcast with co-hosts Lee Van Ham and Jerry Iversen. Today we feature Lee’s conversation with Angelica Juarez de Swanson and Lindsey Mercer Robledo from the September gathering of three Jubilee Circles in San Cristobal de las Cases in Chiapas, Mexico.

See Circle Report in Jubileo Newsletter here.

Common Good Feature: Here’s a list of worthwhile alternative non-commercial media. And even more. ->

Earlier Episodes

The Common Good Podcast #100–Actions on Climate Science When National Decision-Makers Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough

Listeners, you may have heard of the climate summit held this past Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco.  What happened there? Our conversation today is with two people who were there: Derek and Nancy Casady. Oh, and what’s Al Gore doing these days? Hopefully you saw his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”  We’ll also hear about Gore’s recent conference in Los Angeles.

This program is entitled “Actions on Climate Science When National Leaders Are Hostile and Big Business Won’t Do Nearly Enough”

Not only fail us, but work against us.

Even at the state level, in too many cases decision-makers are not acting to protect and serve the people. Take the example of North Carolina. Legislators there voted in 2012 to ban the use of a report that showed the ocean could rise as much as 39 inches by 2100.

But then there are the stories coming out of San Francisco, Sep. 8 and then Sep 12-14.  Some governors, mayors, and businesses are living by a different narrative.

Article by Oliver Milman in The Guardian, Thur., 9/27/18: “It’s extraordinarily challenging to get to the 1.5C target and we are nowhere near on track to doing that,” said Drew Shindell, a Duke University climate scientist and a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which will be unveiled in South Korea next month.

“While it’s technically possible, it’s extremely improbable, absent a real sea change in the way we evaluate risk. We are nowhere near that.”

In the 2015 Paris climate pact, international leaders agreed to curb the global temperature rise to 2C above the era prior to mass industrialization, with an aspiration to limit this to 1.5C. The world has already warmed by around 1C over the past century, fueling sea level rises, heatwaves, storms and the decline of vulnerable ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Derek & Nancy Casady were our guests a year ago on TCGP #91 telling of their experience with The Climate Mobilization. Then they said. “Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They’re Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization.” In this episode they share their most recent experiences.

The Common Good Feature: GrowthBusters is a movie, a blog, a podcast, over 100 short YouTube videos–the products of Dave Gardner and his small staff. It has a lot in common with Jubilee OneEarth Economics and Simple Living Works! It deals with ECONOMIC GROWTH, OVERPOPULATION, URBAN GROWTH, OVERCONSUMPTION and Media Bias toward unsustainable growth. Visit GrowthBusters.org and consider sponsoring a showing the movie Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth (2013) in your community.

NOTE: the sound quality of the interview portion of this episode is subpar but the content is strong. Please be patient.

WHOSE Birthday?

We’re starting our Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign early this year with episodes mid-month during the last four months of the year.

HINT: If don’t want to wait, you can listen to and/or read each item at the links below.

This 4-episode series drawn from Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #19 (loosely based on lectionary cycle C) is Simple Living Works’s annual Advent/Christmas/Epiphany resource for individuals, families and congregations.

To find resources referenced in each episode, go to the links in the TEXT version of each item. All the items are linked below. Or use the search engine in window #4 at SimpleLivingWorks.org.

10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas | SPANISH: 10 puntas

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

#116, Part 1 (9/15/18)–“WHOSE Birthday?” How-to

TEXT

AUDIO

1. What Happened to Christmas? (p.4)
2. Why a Simpler Christmas? (p.4)
3. Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas (p.5)
4. Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities (p.5)
5. Top 10 Uses of Whose Birthday?– More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use Whose Birthday? – Going Beyond Whose Birthday? (p.2, or p.17 in some versions)
*6. Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn)

Read BONUS Items at Whose Birthday? #19. They are not recorded nor included in the booklet.

Also Mentioned–Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold)

#117, Part 2 (10/15/18): INSPIRING REFLECTIONS (with discussion questions)

TEXT

AUDIO

8. My Hand-Make Advent Wreath (p.7) – Amy Frykholm
9. I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater (p.8) – Jessica Stevens
10. Strangers Invited in for Christmas (p.9) – Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity and Founder and President of The Fuller Center for Housing
11. A Christmas Cow (p.10) – Walter Wink
12. Putting Christ in Christmas (p.11) – John Hagberg
13. Christmas Dinner (p.12) – Jamie Norwich-McLennan
14. “Posada sin Fronteras” (Shelter out Borders) (p.13) – Ched Myers

#118, Part 3 (11/15/18)–Inspiring Reflections & Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

7. The Spirit of St. Nicholas (p.6) – David Holden

*15. God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

FUN ACTIVITIES

16. There’s a Camel in our Bathroom! (p.14) – Nancy Christenson
17. Giving Circles (p.15) – Meg Cox.
18. Gifts of Kindness (p.18) – Becky White
19. Reducing Christmas Chaos (p.19) – Ann Dieleman
20. Enough, Already! (p.19) Mary Sharon Moore

#119, Part 4 (12/15/18)–Fun Activities

TEXT

AUDIO

21. Christmas Year-round (p.20) – Gail McDonough
22. Discover NO COST Gifts! (p.21) – Richard L. Haid
23. New Cards from Old (p.22) – Gretchen Denton
24. Peace in Any Language (p.23) – Jerry Wrenn
25. St. Nicholas on Parade (p.24) – Rev. Celine A. Burke
26. New Christmas Traditions You Can Share (p.24) – Karen Boe
*27. O Baby Born in Bethlehem (Christmas hymn)
28. About Alternatives (pp. 3 & 25)

* from Sing Justice! Do Justice! collection – Diana Wooley, vocalist; Richard Steinbach, piano

* * *

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

Spanish Advent-Christmas Resources

* * *

WHOSE Birthday? #30, online edition for 2018.

* * *

Carols with Justice – Entire collection of 15 carols (new words to familiar tunes) as text and audio || Jill Miller and DeeEtta Riley || Pageant based on these carols

Music: Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Hymn & Song Texts to Familiar & New Tunes (index + selections) | Source | Media Release | AUDIO: Hope Is a Candle (Advent candle lighting hymn) | O Baby Born in Bethlehem | God of Justice Everflowing (Advent hymn)

Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast

* * *

The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE

* * *

In addition to this podcast and its show notes, we post a weekly SLW! blog. We hope you’ll read and subscribe. The BLOG is the companion to our twice-a-month podcast. The content is different, though the subject is the same. Click on blog at the top of the show notes of any episode. Blog INDEX

Recent Responses to All SLW! Media

Welcome to the other podcast I co-host/produce, The Common Good Podcast.

More Earlier Episodes

  • Jay Moses–How a Local Church Invites in Multiple Faiths to Influence One Another
  • Grace Gyori, from Christian imperialism to liberation for all–a missionary’s journey (NOTE: Our new system plays automatically. To pause the audio, click pause on the player at the bottom of the Show Notes.)