Valid response to ecological destruction doesn’t look one way. Like healthy ecosystems, we can invest in diverse, wild, and creative forms.
Welcome to One Earth Sangha, a virtual EcoDharma center supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.
As ten thousand years of climate stability is ending, the call to develop inner stability has never been more clear.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Third Sunday of Each Month
An EcoDharma Exploration with James Baraz
- June 19, 2022
James Baraz, meditation teacher and co-founder Spirit Rock Meditation Center, leads this EcoDharma Exploration on June 19.
The Dharma as Antidote to Climate Grief and Activist Burnout
- August 21, 2022
Featured EcoDharma
- Alice Millington
- May 23, 2022
In northeastern Nepal, a destabilizing climate brings escalating uncertainty, economic hardship, and local tensions.
The EcoSattva Training
A Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and an Unwavering Response
“The Dharma is a terrific lens through which to view ecoactivism. This has helped me think about ways to help others who are either overwhelmed or think no action can be sufficiently effective and have given up.”
Registration for individuals and groups is now open.
Featured Practice
- Dekila Chungyalpa
- April 19, 2022
Dekila Chungyalpa offers a brief Tonglen practice that nourishes well-being in the face of eco-distress.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
A Poem in Honor of Endangered Species Day
- Mark Coleman
- May 20, 2022
If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, our guiding teacher Mark Coleman shares this original poem.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Featured Online Course
from Our Networks
Climate, Justice, Nonviolence and Regenerative social change
Can we take the inconvenient and risky actions necessary to minimize suffering? How might taking such actions become more normal, healing, holistic, and beautiful? Can they authentically express our deepest spiritual truths?
Led by Boundless in Motion and hosted by One Earth Sangha, this course begins May 15. Applications open now.
Led by Boundless in Motion and hosted by One Earth Sangha, this course begins May 15. Applications open now.
Events
from our Networks
Offered by Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington, Ram Appalaraju, and Kirsten Rudestam
- July 22, 2022
- — January 16, 2024
- Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
Online
Applications are now open for the 3rd Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program, an online and residential program. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 1st, 2022.
Residential Retreat With Stephanie Kaza and William Edelglass
- May 27, 2022
- — May 31, 2022
With Barry Gillespie
- May 31, 2022
- — June 5, 2022
Statements
from Leaders and Practitioners
A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change
The Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change. On November 28th, 2015 in Paris, this statement was presented to UN climate negotiators with other faith statements around the world.
Authentic repair begins with restoring our relationships ... with ourselves, one another as well as lands, waters, and the living Earth community.
Featured Calls to Action
Upcoming
- Take one of the many steps listed on Stop the Money Pipeline’s current calls to action. Some of these are ongoing and some are time-sensitive; check back regularly for updates or join their newsletter (linked at the bottom of the page) to stay current.
- U.S.-based Interfaith Power and Light shares upcoming actions on their Public Policy Page.
- Save Oak Flat: Check out BJC’s website for up-to-date ways to get involved.
Ongoing Opportunities
- The David Suzuki Foundation offers comprehensive resources for engagement at the local government level. View guides on assessing your local government’s climate plan and working with local leaders on climate action. You can also check out their Act Locally page.
- Take a step from Don’t Look Up’s resource page. Click on a step and scroll down to see some helpful tips for each one.
- Explore options for taking action. Earthday.org has compiled a resource catalogue of educational, artistic, activist, spiritual, and citizen science actions, from registering to vote to joining a cleanup.
- Stop the Money Pipeline:
- Move your money and divest from fossil fuels
- If you are a college student, learn about and launch a reinvestment campaign
- Tell your government representatives and local financial institutions to put people and planet before polluters
Stories of Engagement
Buddhist Monastics Practice Forest Protection
- Dipen Barua
- March 19, 2021
Moved by intimate awareness of dependent co-arising, monastics in Southeast Asia have become leaders in protecting their local environment.
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