The Common Good Podcast
By Jubilee Economics Ministries/ produced by Ed Lucas & Lee Van Ham
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Podcast Description
The Common Good Podcast is hosted by Lee Van Ham and Ed Lucas of Jubilee Economics Ministries, a non profit that advocates and educates in order to move toward an economics that suits life on the one planet we have to live upon. The economics we must live by from now on is preceded by practitioners of Indigenous societies all around the world, and especially for us, in the Jubilee of the Bible, an economic model that is not the plaything of Pharaoh and Caesar (and other dominative powers, like Wall Street now) but is instead a model built on a far larger cosmological reality available to all, all the time. The Common Good Podcast helps bridge the space between the old wisdom and the current practices that are heirs to those traditions that still have much to teach us. Interviews are with people who are practicing some this needed, new economy in their workplace, organization, congregation, or in their personal lives.
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Episode 26 :: Doug Clegg, JEM, and Music's Prophetic Power | Doug Clegg wields a mean guitar. And a mean fiddle. And a mean mandolin. And a mean piano. And a mean resonator guitar. And … well, just about any instrument in the folk music tool box. But even a bit more dangerously, he sports a formidable pen too | 6/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 25 :: Shifting to a Paradigm of Service | Deb Mitchell was quite like millions of her time and place, comfortable in a middle class life with a good job at a major corporation. Without meaning to, she held advantage that she didn’t even know she had over others. Eventually as her world gre | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 24 :: Jubilee Economics for the Uninitiated | Okay, we have to admit it. Jubilee Economics Ministries has a big idea that not everyone gets. When you’re trying (like we are) to take on a world class issue that encompasses a vast swath of history and attempts to deal with the microcosmic and mac | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 23 :: Challenges in Socially Responsible Investing | Jan Schalkwijk is a financial advisor with a specialty in targeting investment options for people who are looking at more than just the “old” bottom line of profits alone. Jan was introduced a year ago on Episode 11, but this time around we g | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 22 :: A Common Humanity | Lane Van Ham is our featured guest for this episode. (Okay, you figured it out. He’s related to Lee just like Lauren from episode 16 is. We’re a small organization!) Apparent nepotism not withstanding (no one is geting paid, ahem!), Lane’ | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 21 :: JEM, The Common Good, and Reciprocity | Now that The Common Good Podcast has been going on for about a year and a half now, and now that a new year is starting, Lee and Ed reflect on how JEM has worked reciprocally to serve content and to be shaped by our guests and friends who have left their | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20 :: Faith Presence at the Occupy Movement | Lots of stuff in this episode because there is much to report on. We plan to diversify content within each episode so as to keep you abreast of things in JEM-land, to reflect on some notable news, and to build community among our listeners and readers. W | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19 :: When a House is More Than a House | Eventually the American Dream proves itself to be otherwise. For Sung and Myra Sohn, arriving in the States from their native Korea, what awaited them was getting established in architectural studies (Sung—quite a renaissance man) and starting a ca | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18 :: Coffee As A Virtue | Stephan von Kolkow and Laurie Britton, co-owners of the cleverly named Cafe Virtuoso, believe in delivering quality coffee and tea products primarily to wholesale customers. Their product line is all organic, and since October is Fair Trade month, we wan | 10/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 17 :: The Eden We Can Choose | This month’s show is a conversation between Lee Van Ham and Michael Johnson. Lee and Michael are collaborating on a project based on Lee’s book-in-progress,The Eden We Can Choose: Moving to a One-Earth Economy and the Stories That Get Us There. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16 :: A Chaplain for a New Century | Lauren Van Ham has had a love affair with the natural world and has found renewal from being there. She has worked in nonprofit and for-profit settings, ministry settings, corporate settings, and has found herself instructing WalMart employees and manage | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15 :: Having Enough | Choosing to live on a budget of around $10,000 a year, Rick Zemlin tells how his consciousness has been shaped, how he determines what is enough for him. It isn’t a prescription for everyone else, but for those who are looking for ways to adjust to new | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14 :: Last Acts of Caring | This show features Eric Putt and Andrea Deerheart of Thresholds, a mortuary service that provides home- and family-directed funerals that put the human dimension back into taking care of the deceased—a real alternative to the commercial funeral industry | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13 :: Consciousness, Cosmology, and Sheep | Ed Lucas, usually the producer of this podcast, takes his seat on the couch, offering reflections on his recent trip to New Mexico and some of the layers of meaning it is wrapped in. Here are some stories about his time on a ranch, a visit to the Center f | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12 :: Teaching Triple Bottom Line | How are business majors being trained for the marketplace in the new context shaped by Earth’s pushback on unlimited growth business models? That’s where The Common Good goes in this episode with guest Harry Watkins, Professor of Strategy and Sustaina | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 :: Green Investing | Jan Schalkwijk kicked off his financial advisor career in the traditional mold. But after a sweeping tour of the world in 2005, he came back energized to approach his career life with new vision for how to keep moving people toward sound investments but | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 :: Cooperatives | This month our guest is Nancy Cassidy, the General Manager of the Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Market, a cooperatively owned retail store in San Diego. OB People’s concentrates in selling vegetarian food, but the cooperative as a business model c | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9 :: Sabbath, Solstice, and Spirit | This month, Lee and Ed go it alone and talk about a season that is filled with holidays in so many traditions, most related to the solstice and its cosmological implications of downtime and ultimate promise of renewal. The shorter days are nature’s way | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8 :: Community. Land. Trust. | This month’s episode features two guests from the San Diego Community Land Trust, where Lee Van Ham is the board chairman. Richard Lawrence, ordained in the Methodist Church, has a long history in social justice work, affordable housing efforts and comm | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7 :: Fair Trade for Dummies | David Funkhouser of Fair Trade USA (formerly TransFair USA) is our featured guest for this episode which coincides with Fair Trade month (October). David is Strategic Relations coordinator for FTUSA in Oakland and just finished a day of presenting at thre | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6 :: Education from the Ground Up | Lee’s spouse Juanita is now our first guest on the podcast programs, and in this show she is talking about her work at the San Diego Cooperative Charter School, where their grandson went to school. She liked the role of managing the “compost train” | 10/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4 :: Market as a Functional Religion | This show looks at how we can see the Market and the macroeconomic picture as a functional religion. That is, how it takes on deity-like qualities, and is supported by figures akin to high priests, and has with it a narrative mythology of progress, ultima | 8/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3 :: Prophetic Imagination, Envisioning a New Economy | -- | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2 :: Metanoia | -- | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1 :: Introducing Jubilee Economics | -- | 5/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
