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.
The EcoSattva Training
A Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and the Roots of Compassionate Action
“There is so much state-of-the-art knowledge and so much timeless wisdom in this Training – I deeply recommend it to everyone and every group willing to start their Ecosattva journey.”









Materials are available now. Start when you like and move at your own pace.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month
Eco-Chaplaincy as Compassion in Action
- June 25, 2023
What is it to chaplain one another through the eco-social crises of our time? Kirsten Rudestam leads this EcoDharma Exploration on June 25.
Featured EcoDharma
A Manifestation of Love in Action
- Rhonda Magee
- June 5, 2023
How might we remedy the core delusion that underlies world-spanning systems of exploitation, oppression, and devaluation?
EcoDharma
Reflections on an Eco-Advisory Retreat for Dharma Leaders
EcoDharma
An Open Letter from Rob Burbea
Featured Practice
Six Somatic Practices
- Heather Sundberg
- May 17, 2023
Somatic meditation teacher Heather Sundberg shares practices to help ground us as we navigate the overlapping trauma fields of ecological crises.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- March 21, 2023
In observance of World Poetry Day we offer “Big Lesson,” a poem from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. May it support your practice.
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
Finding Presence in an Earth-Based Lineage
- June 14, 2023
- — June 18, 2023
- Natural Dharma Fellowship
Online
With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Sarah Buie, join the community of Natural Dharma Fellowship to access our innate wisdom, deepen in our oneness with the natural world, nurture community and lean together into what might be possible. Hybrid retreat.
Statements
from Leaders and Practitioners
International Dharma Teachers' Statement on Climate Change
In 2014, the global sangha of Buddhist and mindfulness practitioners joined Dharma teachers from around the world in signing this statement on climate change.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Campaigns for Action
Faith Climate Action Week 2023
Our partners at Interfaith Power and Light are inviting people of diverse faith backgrounds to learn about and examine their relationships to food, farming, and the earth this upcoming Earth Day.
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis
Featured Action Organizations
This month, we’re featuring organizations who are working to stop the Willow Project and fossil fuel extraction across the Arctic.
- Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic – SILA’s mission is to create space for healthy communities—spiritually, mentally and physically—and foster the connection between people, culture and land.
- Alaska Wilderness League – AWL works to preserve Alaska’s wild lands and waters by engaging citizens and decision makers with a courageous, constant, victorious voice for Alaska.
- Trustees for Alaska – Trustees for Alaska protects Alaska’s lands, waters, animals, and communities impacted by government decisions, oil and mineral extraction, and the climate crisis by providing legal and strategic counsel within diverse coalitions of Alaskans.
- Earthjustice – Earthjustice was created to fight—and win—for our planet in court. They wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, preserve magnificent places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change.
Featured Calls to Action
Upcoming
Global
- Amazon Watch is proud to announce the publication of Respecting Indigenous Rights: An Actionable Toolkit for Institutional Investors. The Toolkit is an Indigenous-led guide for pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors on their responsibility to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples. The toolkit can be accessed at https://respectingindigenousrights.org/
- World Resource Institute’s complete guide to kelp offers myriad reasons why kelp’s conservation is critical to people, nature and the climate. Read more to find out why you should care about kelp.
- This World Environment Day, join in the global effort to beat plastic pollution. World Environment Day on June 5th is hosted by Cote d’Ivoire in partnership with the Netherlands.
- The Inclusion Imperative in Climate Change, a free webinar on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is taking place on Thursday, June 15th. The purpose of this webinar is to provide environmental practitioners, journalists and the wider community of sustainability professionals with knowledge and resources to make their climate advocacy initiatives more inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities.
- Save the Date: In Defense of Earth – June 21-25th in Basel, Switzerland. Join the People’s forum for climate justice and financial regulation in Basel to stand against fossil finance.
United States
- Send an email to the top decision-makers and executives at The Hartford and make it clear: if they want to be a climate leader, they must stop insuring new fossil fuel projects.
- Join WECAN for a national week of action June 8th – 11th to demand Biden use his executive powers to end the era of fossil fuels and declare a climate emergency. Starting this June, they’re mobilizing to turn up the heat and make Biden take real climate action – by ending the era of fossil fuels. Find an action here.
- With extreme weather threatening farmers and food supplies around the world, now is the time to speak up for climate-smart farming policies. Tell your Members of Congress to make climate a priority in the 2023 Farm Bill by preserving funding and maximizing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs’ impact.
- Submit a comment to the EPA to encourage them to adopt the most protective multipollutant rule possible and show your support for clean cars.
- Tell our representatives to heed the call of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition and protect the Grand Canyon’s watershed from toxic uranium mining.
- Urge the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to prioritize our water, wildlife, communities, and climate as they clean up Abandoned Mine Lands (AML).
Canada
- The Eco-Solar Home Tour – This tour of energy-efficient and solar homes shows what homeowners are accomplishing with energy-efficient technologies and will give participants a chance to talk to homeowners and hear about their experiences with them.
- Ocean Week Canada June 2-11, 2023. An annual national celebration of ocean events, learning, and engagement held during the week of World Ocean Day.
- We the Nuclear Free North – Plans are being made and studies conducted into burying radioactive nuclear fuel waste in Northwestern Ontario. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has revised the siting decision date to 2024. You can help raise awareness of these plans here.
- Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health provides resources for pension beneficiaries who want to engage with their pension managers on the climate crisis. Reach out to learn more about how your pension fund is handling climate-related risk, and to get involved.
Ongoing Opportunities
- The David Suzuki Foundation (Canada-based) 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 (U.S. and International). Click on a step and scroll down to see some helpful tips for each one.
- U.S.-based Interfaith Power and Light shares upcoming actions on their Public Policy Page.
- Take one of the many steps listed on Stop the Money Pipeline’s current calls to action (U.S. focused). 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.
- Specific Stop the Money Pipeline actions that can be applicable to people in many countries:
- Move your money and divest from fossil fuels.
- If you are a college student, learn about and launch a reinvestment campaign.
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.