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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2015/08/21) The shift in culture we need (Climate)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Edition #948

Today we take a look at a variety of aspects of a new culture we should all be aspiring to where health, happiness and environmental sustainability are all in line with each other
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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object? - Tragedy & Hope (@TragedyandHopes) - Air Date: 8-30-13

Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A


00:03:23 Ch. 4: Act 2: Examining the real concept of prosperity - The biggest story in the world (a @guardian podcast) - Air Date: 4-17-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Untitled - Zoe Keating


00:11:47 Ch. 6: Act 3: Josh Farley explains some of the tenets of degrowth - Extraenvironmentalist (@xenvironmental) - Air Date: 5-20-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: The Confrontation - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin


00:22:48 Ch. 8: Act 4: Nature Rx - @nature_rx

Ch. 9: Song 4: N/A


00:24:12 Ch. 10: Act 5: A city goes ecomobile - The Urban Idea - Air Date: 12-24-13

Ch. 11: Song 5: N/A


00:36:57 Ch. 12: Act 6: A 3-Day Work Week Could Save Humanity - @RedactedTonight w/ @LeeCamp - Air Date: 12-23-14

Ch. 13: Song 6: No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys


00:39:12 Ch. 14: Act 7: David Suzuki explains how we would look to an alien studying us - Extraenvironmentalist (@xenvironmental) - Air Date: 5-20-15

Ch. 15: Song 7: Call of the Wild Ones: A Theme - Black Prairie


00:48:35 Ch. 16: Act 8: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy - Center for a New American Dream (@newdream) - Air Date: 9-15-11


Voicemails

00:53:25 Ch. 17: Free will and Liberalism - Gretchen from Minnesota

00:55:43 Ch. 18: A couple of things people don't understand about racism - Anthony from Illinois

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


00:58:09 Ch. 19: Final comments on Plenitude, Mr. Money Mustache and my story of health, happiness, frugality and the environment

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


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0:00.0

This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit the

0:06.4

Contribute tab at BestableF.com.

0:08.9

Now welcome to the award winning BestableF.com podcast with clips today from tragedy and

0:13.1

hope, the biggest story in the world, extra environmentalist, prescription nature,

0:18.5

adapted tonight with Lee Camp and the Center for a New American Dream.

0:25.5

What do you design?

0:32.4

What makes you itch?

0:35.3

What sort of a situation would you like?

0:41.1

Let's suppose I do this often in vocational guidance of students.

0:45.8

They come to me and say, well, we're getting out of college and we have the same

0:50.4

to study what we want to do.

0:54.0

So I always ask the question, what would you like to do with money when a object?

1:00.6

What would you really enjoy spending your life?

1:04.6

Well, it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students

1:09.7

say, well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers, but

1:14.2

as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way.

1:17.0

Well, now the person says, well, I'd like to live an hour of doors life and write horses.

1:20.8

I say, do you want to teach in a writing school?

1:26.8

Let's go through with it.

1:27.8

What do you want to do?

1:29.6

When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do,

1:33.4

I will say to him, you do that and forget the money because if you say that getting the

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