Episode 23 of the Western Friend Podcast features a conversation with teacher, speaker, author, scholar, and activist Philip Clayton. He is president of the Institute for Ecological Civilization ("EcoCiv") and the Institute for Postmodern Development of China. On this Episode with community, he examines questions like: Is it simple to live simply? And just how complicated, or simple, it is to attain ecological civilization?
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The “chapters” in this podcast:
00:00 -- introduction
1:30 -- What are “ecological civilization” and “EcoCiv”?
5:05 -- Quaker values and ecological civilization
8:50 -- Towards an ecological civilization
11:30 -- The business point-of-view
18:06 -- Counter-cultural practices and values of Friends
28:18 -- Why are Friends so slow to protect the planet?
33:28 -- About “truth to power” and partnering with industry
35:55 -- Mainline reform versus radical action
45:14 -- Individual change versus policy change
48:48 -- Potential patterns of global change . . . and local change
58:25 -- Closing comments
Click here to read Philip Clayton's article, "What Friends Can Bring."