If there’s a response to taking part in domination of people and planet, let it be humility and resolve.
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
A New Certificate Training from One Earth Sangha
Offering Dharma at the Threshold
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
EcoDharma
Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
- Lin Wang Gordon
What if “nature” is right here in the experience of being alive? A lifelong city dweller reflects on how mindfulness of the everyday elements of water, breath, food, and fire can dissolve the illusion of separation between ourselves and the living Earth community.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
Creative
Creative
- Carolyn Chilton Casas
This world is signaling to us constantly, both inviting us out of complacency and, in the same moment, offering endless gifts.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
A Retreat for Earth Workers
- June 7, 2026
- — June 10, 2026
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
We invite people working on all the front lines of our climate movements – farmers, rematriation workers, educators, eco-chaplains, researchers, organizers, activists, healers (and, and, and!) to apply. This retreat will be led by, and will lift up the voices and priorities of BIPOC, trans, queer, disabled, and/or immigrant practitioners and is partially supported by the Kripalu Center and the BESS Family Foundation.
With Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD; Roxanne Swentzell; Wendy Johnson, Sensei; Porter Swentzell; Keido Troy Fernandez; and Alonso Méndez
- May 29, 2026
- — May 31, 2026
- Upaya Zen Center
Online
This is a powerful and close time with the earth, sangha, and our cherished Planting Life faculty, guided by a renowned team of Indigenous activist-scholars, artists, and Native farmers. Planting Life is grounded in daily meditation and socially engaged Buddhist perspectives, infused with the dynamic teachings of Native seedways and Traditional Ecological Knowledges.
A Year in the Practice & Ritual of Breaking our Hearts Open
- May 31, 2026
- — March 20, 2027
- Lama Rod Owens
Online
The next few years of our collective experience will be heavy with grief as we tend to the dying of our old world to open to the birth of a world anew. Grief work will be the next stage of healing activism. Starts March 29, registration open until May 31. Discount for 1ES community.
with Ayya Santacitta and Sumedha
- May 31, 2026
- — June 21, 2026
- Big Bear Retreat Center
Online
With Buddha, Dharma and Sangha as our guides, this series explores re-cognizing and re-membering ourselves as part of a living, intelligent Earth and cosmos. By practicing to know ourselves differently, we uncover a sense of reverence for the Web of Life that opens us to the sacred, self-regenerative capacity of the biosphere we belong to. Changing from the ground up rather than from the head down will inform our ways of showing up in the world.
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.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Resources for Engagement
- Buddhist Action Month (BAM) Handbook from The Network of Buddhist Organisations UK (NBO)
- What Counts as Action? by Renee Lertzman
- Mapping Militarism from World BEYOND War
- How to invest ethically from Ethical Consumer
- We Banned Cigarette Ads. So Why Not Oil? by Miranda Green
- The Jet Fuel Crisis: What’s next for aviation? from Outrage + Optimism
- Rare Joanna Macy by Drew Dellinger
