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2/1/20

In This Issue — Free SLW! Resources for Lent/Holy Week/Easter // Latest Podcast Episodes // Much More!

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Church Year Resources

The season of Lent begins Ash Wednesday, 2/26/20. Free SLW! Resources for Lent/Holy Week/Easter. Easter is 4/12/20. Who’s Risen from the Death, Anyway?

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2020 is the 20th anniversary year for our colleague organization, Jubilee OneEarth Economics. Jubilee is planning a travel seminar to Chiapas, Mexico, 6/6-13, and a symposium in San Diego, 9/19-20. Watch for details. Well worth your time!

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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast

COMING–Episode 02/20: John Michno, new Jubilee OneEarth staffer

Episode 01/20: David Hoferer of the Sierra Club and Audubon Society on Birds, Insects, Big Ag and Spirituality

Episode 12/19: Ruth Ann Angus of Yes We Can PeaceBuilders 

Episode 11/19: Lee Van Ham–The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Peril // Media Release

Episode 10/19: Margaret Bullitt-Jonas–Are Faith Communities Mobilizing for the Climate Emergency? — Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis

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Simpler Living Daily Nudges–Month 2*: Celebrating More Responsibly— Week 1: Music/Worship || Week 2: Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals || Week 3: Rites of Passage || Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?

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What’s Happened

Sign of the Times

Borden has filed for bankruptcy. This nationally known brand–founded in 1850!–is a sign of a shift in the dairy industry. Bankruptcy protects Borden from its creditors. It doesn’t mean Borden is going out of business. But this action has several important implications.

As U.S. consumers become more aware of the benefits of a plant-based diet, we are drinking less animal milk.

I’ve tried most of the alternatives–the best known, longest running soy milk and the newer ones: flax milk, almond milk and even hemp milk. If the unsweetened varieties don’t appeal to you, try a flavored one, such as vanilla.

Besides personal health benefits, the greatest appeal is that ruminant animals, such as cattle and sheep, produce a lot of methane. Methane produces 80 times more global warming effects than carbon dioxide (though it doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long). Because of the ruminants’ digestive system, the methane comes out of their mouths as “burps.” Yes, methane can be used to power dairies, but containing it is expensive and complicated. So, reducing the number of dairy cows is a positive in fighting the climate crisis.

Now if we could get humans to eat less red meat, primarily beef cattle!

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Implications of Brexit

After the 2016 “election,” I took some heat for suggesting that progressive-minded people might express their dissatisfaction by reducing interactions with “red” states. We may want to consider similar actions after Britain leaves the European Union soon.

Since Brexit is such a nationalistic effort to reclaim Britain’s empire status, we who believe in cooperation may want to cleanse ourselves of such go-it-alone, superior attitudes. We might do something as dramatic as choosing not to visit London or more simply weaning ourselves from the plethora of class-based British dramas on PBS, then letting the isolationist politicians in Britain know of our decisions and urging our friends to do the same. This is not a boycott. It is a call to rethink our relationships with wrong-headed policies.

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Solving the Climate Crisis with No-Growth Economics

To get a worldview very different from the greed and profit-oriented politicians and corporatists, visit these solution-oriented resources:

1. GrowthBusters
2. Post-Carbon Institute — SLW! Ep. 109–Richard Heinberg
3. CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy — The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech (use player)

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Snapshots: How Money is Turned into Jubilee Actions

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“Jubilee Circles” is now available also as an audiobook, at iTunes, Nook Audiobooks, Google Play, and Audiobooks.com, which offers a free sample. It includes 20 actions to take to help keep our planet livable.

https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/jubilee-circles/381421 THAT’S THE LINK to the audio version of the little book “Jubilee Circles: Help Save Life on the Planet.” Please share this audio version with all who’d like to listen while jogging, walking, etc.

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Offsetting the CO2 We Release in Our Lives by Planting Trees 

Here’s an Earth-Day-Everyday action OneEarth Jubilee recommends we all take to offset the CO2 we put into the air.

Some of us may be able to arrange life so that we use less energy produced by fossil fuels. Certainly, whatever way we can use less of that energy source is the way to go. But all of us have to travel some, heat or cool our homes, etc. Whatever amount we use, we can off-set the CO2 that fossil fuel puts into the atmosphere by planting trees to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. It’s not a perfect equation by any means. Trees take time to grow, and when they die they release CO2. But every day that trees grow they photosynthesize and remove CO2 from the air.

Here’s how it works. We use an internet calculator like http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm to calculate our monthly or annual emissions. By the way, that site will calculate our emissions from other sources in our lives, not only travel. It’s an Australian site that is dedicated to helping us find best choices in this era of rapid climate change. We know that without massive mobilization, the disasters we’re now experiencing only multiply.

The calculator will tell us how much to donate to off-set our fossil fuel use. We invite you to donate that amount to Jubilee OneEarth Economics Tree Fund. Where you donate is important. Truth is, not all entities receiving these off-set donations are trustworthy. Every cent donated to the Jubilee Tree Fund will go to tree planting projects in one of three regions—San Diego (CA), San Mateo (MX), San Cristobal (MX). You see, the Jubilee Circles in these areas are all committed as deeply as possible to OneEarth ways. Each one is connected to at least one tree-planting or reforestation project.

We need lots of actions to reduce CO2 in our atmosphere. In 2019, CO2 levels globally are at 415ppm (parts per million), well above the 350 ppm which is where we need to be to keep our planet stable. The last time CO2 in the air was as high as it is today was 3,000,000 years ago. It was a time when oceans were also 50 to 80 feet higher than today. Hard to imagine the flooding that such levels would bring to the world’s coasts today.

OneEarth Jubilee looks forward to partnering with you to value creation in this way.

For more information, contact Lee@Jubilee-Economics.org.

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We will protect ourselves from Climate Crisis deniers, through such series as:

• Healthy Political Practices & Spiritual Disciplines  // Banishing Fake News // Simple Living SANITY

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• Why We Podcast–We truly believe in the missions of SLW! and Jubilee OneEarth Economics! The mainstream corporate media — left, right or center — exist to sell us more stuff. Though we are only the tiniest whisper, we cannot stop offering an honest alternative to that MultiEarth message. There is no Planet B. Here’s a list of worthwhile media. And even more.
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