One Earth Sangha

We can repair our relationship not only with one another but with lands, waters and the living Earth community.

Go Deeper

Welcome to One Earth Sangha, an EcoDharma network 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 Fourth Sunday of the Month

Upcoming

Letting Love Widen

Earth Day Reflections on Fluid Perception, Kinship, and Humble Participation

April 26, 2026
Brian Lesage

Where does 'me' end and 'Earth' begin? Come glimpse a perspective wider than the distinction.

Brian Lesage

A New Certificate Training from One Earth Sangha

A groundbreaking training for modern Buddhist and mindfulness teachers who wish to bring the living Earth, climate realities, and the polycrises of colonial modernity into their teaching and communities with wisdom, courage, and care.

Updated for 2025/2026

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”

Featured EcoDharma

EcoDharma

A Path to Love and Regeneration

Losing the Taste for Destruction

Konda Mason
March 23, 2026

Life gives onto life, what does one call this but love? What does the truest impulse of life itself have to teach us?

Konda Mason

EcoDharma

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

Staying Home as a Necessity and a Right

Rebecca Solnit
March 17, 2026

That ‘simpler, slower time’ that so many long for may just be a matter of making the simpler, slower choice.

Rebecca Solnit

EcoDharma

The Practice of Staying With

The Invitation of Our Times

Nikayla Jefferson
March 9, 2026

What might become apparent when we neither cling to nor run from? If we accompany the experience, whether painful and pleasant, where might it lead us?

Nikayla Jefferson

EcoDharma

The Dharma Is About Collective Liberation

An Interview with Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens and Nikayla Jefferson
March 3, 2026

What happens to the Dharma when it meets the Black radical, prophetic traditions? It’s got everything to do with love.

Lama Rod Owens and Nikayla Jefferson

EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery

Creative

For This, I Walk Outside

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
February 17, 2026

What does life ask from us? How might we inhabit it more fully?

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

ONE EARTH COMMUNITY

The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.

Events from Our Networks

Teaching Dharma in a Dramatically Changing World

With Adam Lobel and Kristin Barker

April 15, 2026
— April 19, 2026
Insight Meditation Community of Washington

Buddhist teachers, facilitators, and community leaders are being called to a new level of presence and response. Join Adam Lobel and Kristin Barker for this application-based retreat offering a space of collective inquiry, practice, and renewal for those who wish to integrate ecological truth into their teaching and leadership. With support of the BESS Family Foundation, qualified teachers need only pay the $100 deposit to attend.

Conscious Change Forum

An Inner Work, Outer Impact Retreat

March 24, 2026
— March 27, 2026
Garrison Institute

The Conscious Change Forum brings together practitioners from around the world who are integrating mindfulness, spiritual wisdom, and contemplative practice into social change work. Speakers include Deepak Bhargava, Michelle Alexander, Bayo Akomolafe, Rhonda Magee, and Gretchen Ki Steidle.

Ecological Questions, Buddhist Responses

The Dharma of the Natural World

March 26, 2026
New York Insight Meditation Center

Online

Join us for a special program with teacher David Loy, exploring forms of Buddhism that offer ways of nondual being with the natural world.

The Measure of Our Humanity: Transformation

with Valerie Brown

March 29, 2026
Upaya Zen Center

Online

This session will explore Courage and the capacity to face these uncertain and tangled times with steadiness and purposeful action.

Earth Awareness Community Retreats

Sponsored by the BESS Family Foundation, Earth Awareness Community Retreats are intended to foster community among those whose work and interests are focused on the intersection of mindfulness/meditation and climate change. Retreats will be held in 2025 – 2027 at four geographically dispersed retreat centers. Attendance at the retreats is free, but other costs are participant responsibilities.

ONE EARTH ACTION

There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.

— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)

Resources for Engagement

“The Three Tenets: The Intimacy of Taking Action” from the Peacemakers Podcast.
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
“Friendship as a Theory of Change” by Elisabeth Oldfield
“A Response to Minneapolis” from Tricycle
“Hope terminating cliche” by Jon Jon Wesolowski
“Black rain: the health and environmental risks from Tehran’s oil fires” by Conflict and Environment Observatory

Welcome to One Earth Sangha, an EcoDharma network supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.

ONE EARTH WISDOM

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 Fourth Sunday of the Month

A New Certificate Training from One Earth Sangha

The EcoDharma Teacher Course