Simpler OneEarth Living Episode 0122—Chuck Collins
The Common Good Podcast
Chuck Collins on the Industry That Protects Wealth and How It Hurts Everyone--Most people feel on the outside of extreme wealth. Some aspire to it. Many consider it immoral. For most of us it’s a sideshow. But Chuck 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. Chuck explains who makes all this work.
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Ep. 1221--Della Duncan
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As a renegade economist, Della Duncan creates islands of alternative economics in the ocean of capitalism.
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Simpler OneEarth Living Episode 1121--Lauren Van Ham
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This episode tells how religions are working together to forge new possibilities in ecology, economics and women’s empowerment—all making real difference in their communities. Listen too for the importance of organizing as circles in the practice of cooperation. Previously, the circles of Jubilee. This time, United Religions Initiative's Lauren Van Ham in her work with United Religions Initiatives to form and empower Cooperation Circles around the world.
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Ep.1021-Encuentro
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A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee
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Ep.0921-- Eric LeCompte, Jubilee USA Network
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Ep.0921-- Eric LeCompte, director of Jubilee USA Network: : Forgive Us Our Debts—Woes and Wins in Canceling Student Debt
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Ep.0821-Brenda Wyss
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Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises
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Episode 0721--Matt Brennan
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Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power
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Ep.0621-Carrie Radloff
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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 meet on 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.
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Ep.0521-Neddy Astudillo
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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.
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Ep.0421-Robin Rivet
The Common Good Podcast
Reversing Climate Crises through Informed Tree Actions
info_outlineWith 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.
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