Jan Schalkwijk is a financial advisor with a specialty in targeting investment options for people who are looking at more than just the “old” bottom line of profits alone. Jan was introduced a year ago on Episode 11, but this time around we g

Lane Van Ham is our featured guest for this episode. (Okay, you figured it out. He’s related to Lee just like Lauren from episode 16 is. We’re a small organization!) Apparent nepotism not withstanding (no one is geting paid, ahem!), Lane&#8217

Now that The Common Good Podcast has been going on for about a year and a half now, and now that a new year is starting, Lee and Ed reflect on how JEM has worked reciprocally to serve content and to be shaped by our guests and friends who have left their

Lots of stuff in this episode because there is much to report on. We plan to diversify content within each episode so as to keep you abreast of things in JEM-land, to reflect on some notable news, and to build community among our listeners and readers. W

Eventually the American Dream proves itself to be otherwise. For Sung and Myra Sohn, arriving in the States from their native Korea, what awaited them was getting established in architectural studies (Sung—quite a renaissance man) and starting a ca

Stephan von Kolkow and Laurie Britton, co-owners of the cleverly named Cafe Virtuoso, believe in delivering quality coffee and tea products primarily to wholesale customers. Their product line is all organic, and since October is Fair Trade month, we wan

This month’s show is a conversation between Lee Van Ham and Michael Johnson. Lee and Michael are collaborating on a project based on Lee’s book-in-progress,The Eden We Can Choose: Moving to a One-Earth Economy and the Stories That Get Us There.

Lauren Van Ham has had a love affair with the natural world and has found renewal from being there. She has worked in nonprofit and for-profit settings, ministry settings, corporate settings, and has found herself instructing WalMart employees and manage

Choosing to live on a budget of around $10,000 a year, Rick Zemlin tells how his consciousness has been shaped, how he determines what is enough for him. It isn’t a prescription for everyone else, but for those who are looking for ways to adjust to new

This show features Eric Putt and Andrea Deerheart of Thresholds, a mortuary service that provides home- and family-directed funerals that put the human dimension back into taking care of the deceased—a real alternative to the commercial funeral industry