Episode 35 :: Harry Watkins part 2: Green Business Is Better Business

How many businesses can you name that you use because they are on the sustainability journey? Harry Watkins, professor in the business school at Point Loma Nazaren University, returns to TCGP to tell us about a few businesses that he knows of PLUS a guide for online shopping that helps us pick the most sustainable version of whatever product it is that we’re looking for.  Businesses on the sustainability journey help us walk it too.

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Episode 34 :: Harry Watkins: Green Business Is Better Business

Harry Watkins, former marketing consultant to businesses, and currently teaching in the Fermanian School of Business at Point Loma Nazarene University, shares his conversion to sustainability, how generating sustainable businesses is part of what his evangelical faith requires, and how he’s joined with other faculty to change the curriculum to show that being sustainable in business is no longer a nice option if you can work it in, but is essential to good business.

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Episode 33 :: Voices for a Just Economy: Richard Lawrence, ML King, Other African-Americans & Our Planet

Martin L. King, Jr.’s speech “Where Do We Go from Here?” gives us inspiration to give voice to what others are remaining silent about. African-Americans have repeatedly raised their voices and marched their feet for right relationships in America when America’s too-white leadership kept silent, retaining their positions of power unfairly.

Richard Lawrence tells us of his experiences giving voice with King and others to how the economic system was ruled by whites in ways that acutely excluded blacks. Richard was present in Selma (1965) and led clergy in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood in an important business and bank boycott which King joined in.

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Episode 32 :: Vet for Peace, Barry Ladendorf: "Peace on Earth" Is Better Economics Too

Barry Ladendorf is a veteran of the VietNam War. But by the time he was into his third tour of duty, on a naval ship stationed off the coast, he no longer believed that the war was succeeding nor that it was making the world safe for democracy. The U.S. gov’t persisted in claiming both.

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Episode 31 :: How Actions for the Common Good Equal Spiritual Practice

This podcast features some of our thoughts about learning to live in the Presence of the sacred. JEM followers have urged us to talk about how we link the Common Good practices that we talk about on this show to our spirituality; to do it explicitly, not just vaguely. So in this episode we give it a go.

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Episode 30 :: Finding Common Cause with Bob Edgar to Resist Dollar Take-Over of Governments

The 2012 elections accentuate explicitly the overwhelming dollars pouring into government in the U.S., whithering democracy in the hot sun of their influence. This is what Bob Edgar actively resists in his work as President and CEO of Common Cause.

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Episode 29 :: Countering Advertising with Alternative Holiday Celebrations

Advertising is designed to keep us dissatisfied. How can we resist it’s pressure? How do we help children? Also, will Jubilee Economics or simple living make any real difference? What does the Future look like? And, Lee and Jerry give Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations. Plus the latest JEM updates.

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