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
The Common Good Podcast
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
The Common Good Podcast
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
The Common Good Podcast
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
The Common Good Podcast
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
The Common Good Podcast
Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises
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Episode 0721--Matt Brennan
The Common Good Podcast
Matt Brennan: An Advocate for Your Congregation and Nonprofit on How to Install Solar Power
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Ep.0621-Carrie Radloff
The Common Good Podcast
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
The Common Good Podcast
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_outlineJubilee OneEarth Economics is not focused on just one issue, but on a worldview—a way of viewing the world and living in it. That is a strength, because we need this worldview to save us from the devastation of life happening from the practice of the MultiEarth worldview that prevails today. But worldviews are big and reach into all areas of life. That makes them challenging to describe.
This worldview of OneEarth Jubilee guides us in ways similar to how Indigenous peoples have been guided to live sustainably on the Earth for millennia. The Bible also presents this worldview as an alternative to kings and empires. In the Bible, it goes by various names—the Kingdom of God, living acceptable to God, and Jubilee. But in the name of progress, civilization came along and proposed improvements. Some of the ways of progress worked in close interdependence with nature, but most have violated nature and the evolved systems of creation, bringing us death and repeated disregard for life. And now it’s taken us to within a few years of destroying our planet’s capacities to sustain life. Scientists are alarmed. Yet, corporations from pharmaceuticals to banks and meat producers race ahead, valuing billions of dollars over life itself. Indigenous ways continue to suffer, being thought of as in the past or outdated, and the Jubilee worldview has been forgotten from the biblical narrative.
But not everyone.
In this episode, four people understand that the situation of life is dire and that just as surely there is a worldview that saves life. Two of the four are from Mexico; two from the U.S. They are part of circles of other people who share a devotion to living the OneEarth Jubilee worldview in radical contrast to the reckless gamble the powers in charge are making with life on the planet.
Angelica Juarez is a physician and artist in the village of San Mateo, Puebla, MX.
Lindsey Mercer-Robledo is a community organizer in the city of San Cristobal, Chiapas, MX.
John Michno is a former IT person who now directs Jubilee Economics Ministries in San Diego, California, USA.
Lee Van Ham is a co-founder of the nonprofit OneEarth Jubilee Economics, and has worked to deepen his understanding and practice of the Jubilee worldview for over 20 years.
They tell how the Jubilee worldview came to appeal to them, and how they’re devoted to put it into practice daily. For them, it is a spiritual path for living in the midst of the breakdowns happening in the current crises.
Notable Quote: "Immigration. When people see how people live day by day, sometimes they don’t have enough even to eat, you can be touched. Tools for people to develop their income. You don’t have to go to other places. They can live here, and stay together as a family. In the pandemic, in this time fewer people have gone to the United States."
OneEarthJubilee.com -- Living Within Our One Planet's Capacities
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