Simple Living Works! VIDEO: "The Five Life Standards"

This week Simple Living’s most recent free video appears on JEM’s new YouTube channel dedicated to voluntary simple living—Simple Living Works! from Gerald Iversen.

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Fair Trade or, How to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I attended a house meeting in Coronado on Sunday, May 13th, with at least two purposes in mind: to learn about Fair Trade and to meet a woman who directs a Fair Trade artisan group in western India. Our host was Dawn Stary, an influential local organizer of Fair Trade San Diego. The guest of honor was Lata Kachhawan, also an influential organizer in her own region of Barmer in the western state of Rajasthan, India.

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Nine Convictions in an Economy for One Planet

What are the Nine Convictions essential to living on our one Earth instead of requiring several planets as we do now?

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Campolo & Claiborne BONUS Videos Now Available

This week Simple Living’s most recent free video appears on JEM’s new YouTube channel dedicated to voluntary simple living—Simply Enough: Straight Talk from Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne on Simple, Just Living—eight BONUS segments (playlist with all 14 episodes viewable above). Ideal for group or individual use, especially for young adults, including Study/Action Guide. The video Simple Living: Struggles and Solutions is scheduled for release next week.

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Campolo & Claiborne Videos Now Available

This week Simple Living’s most recent free video appears on JEM’s new YouTube channel dedicated to voluntary simple living—Simply Enough: Straight Talk from Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne on Simple, Just Living—six ten-minute segments on Lifestyle, Food, Celebrations, Stuff, Money and Justice (playlist with all six episodes viewable above). Ideal for group or individual use, especially for young adults, including Study/Action Guide. The eight BONUS features are scheduled for next week.

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Jubilee Economy Thrives in Community

A jubilee economy thrives in community; withers in individualism. People living near one another who join in a common mission really, really get things done.

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Doug Clegg Strikes a Chord for Jubilee Economics

Actually, Doug struck a good many chords for JEM, and on a number of instruments! Doug’s a walking, talking study in American folk music, social justice work, and with at least a half dozen instruments with him for this show alone, a mighty talented performer. He says he plays 20 instruments. For a musical hack like me, that’s always an attractive thing!

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