Episode 17 :: Michael Johnson: The Eden We Can Choose

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. The book is Lee’s definitive call for an economics that is suited to and answers to the possibilities available on one Earth. This is of course in contrast to the economics model that disregards the natural limits and promises growth, growth, growth even as that is becoming a clearly outlived and impossibly dangerous model. Michael’s desire to aid the process of guiding society back to safer shores of economic and cultural activity led him to be ready for a lecture that Lee gave a few years back. His background in multimedia and learning technology will help take the message Lee is bringing in his book to a wider audience. This show itself is part of the creative process as they discuss some of the options available. Their enthusiasm for this project is palpable throughout. Michael Johnson’s main production company is Industrial Strength Television. Look on this blog for some samples of the book and related thoughts in the One Earth category.