Around the JEM World in Thirty Days—Learning More about Living the Sustainable Economic Model Called Jubilee

The 30-Day Immersion into the world of Jubilee Economics seems to be a winner. Instead of getting buried in the blog, we decided to make a page out of it so it would be readily available. So if you’re bold, drop in and spend a month to get to know all about Jubilee Economics—the organization and the alternative model we stand for.

Cafe Virtuoso Slideshows

Jubilee Economics’ podcast The Common Good went on the road to San Diego’s Cafe Virtuoso where everything is organic, as much as possible is Fair Trade, and the goods are top quality. (Episode 18 is the main audio interview.)

This series of slideshows is an extension to the podcast interview with Steve von Kolkow and Laurie Britton, the principal owner-partners at Virtuoso. 

INTERdependence Day

INTERDEPENDENCE is a key reality of all of nature and the cosmos.  Because a jubilee, one-Earth economy copies nature’s wisdom of how to make exchanges that mutually benefit all involved, interdependence is at the heart of it. That’s why jubilee likes the Declaration of Interdependence and its 9/12 annual celebration.

JEM in Brief

I just found this through Parker Palmer's Facebook posting. Go to Wordle and input a bunch of text to see how it picks the most vital words and creates a word cloud that artistically emphasizes the words that are most common. You can use any text you like, or submit your blog feed. Here are a few from different bits of text and feeds here on JE.org. Click to enlarge each.

From our podcast feed:

From our About Us page:

From our recent entries feed:

The license to use the output is pretty liberal. We could use the random designs as the basis for outputting to any media we like, maybe T-shirts, mugs, and all sorts of other stuff you don't need! Otherwise, it is a fun time waster!

Guilt-free at Jubilee

Okay, we didn’t research every darned page before we picked a server/host company for this site. We were duly impressed with the feature set and ease of use that our new host, Squarespace, offers. They do hosting a bit differently. But today I was looking around their company pages and it seems they are, at least according to the literature, in line with some of the aims of our organization. It seems our website is wind powered. Nice. You can see by that last link that they are giving it a noble try at being green.

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