We need not shrink from this world. We can be in meaningful relationship with Earth, taking what is wholesome and joyfully reciprocating.
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
Investigating the Intersection of Ecology, Dharma and Justice
- July 17, 2022
One Earth Sangha director Kristin Barker leads this EcoDharma Exploration on July 17.
The Dharma as Antidote to Climate Grief and Activist Burnout
- August 21, 2022
Featured EcoDharma
The Arrow Journal Interviews Kristin Barker
- Gabriel Dayley
- June 27, 2022
How can deep attention help us counter ecological violence? In this interview with The Arrow, Kristin Barker explores the roots of the crisis and the remedies at hand.
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
- Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John
- May 31, 2022
In this guided practice, Vimalasara invites you to ground yourself, quite literally, and feel your connection with Earth.
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
A New Possibility for Taking Action with Nico Cary
- July 9, 2022
- Garrison Institute
Online
Weaving mindfulness, creative storytelling, and self-compassion practices along with music and a digital altar, in this 2 hour workshop, we’ll co-create a ritual space dedicated to honoring grief, while lifting up some of the questions that often go unattended in a rush for solutions to climate collapse.
A Hybrid Retreat with Zohar Lavie
- July 2, 2022
Residential Retreat With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Sarah Buie
- July 15, 2022
- — July 19, 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.
- Sign and Send a Comment Supporting the SEC’s Proposed Disclosure Rule on Corporations’ Climate-related Financial Risks
- Ask your representative to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
- Endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. You can endorse it as an individual, organization, corporation, or even as a city or spiritual community.
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.
- Check out WECAN’s recommended actions for governments and financial institutions that came out of Stockholm+50. Reach out to your local governments and financial institutions and urge them to adopt these changes swiftly. More resources from the conference here.
- 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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