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
Upcoming
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.
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
Interview with Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill
- Ajahn Pasanno, Julia Butterfly Hill and Inquiring Mind
Interviewed here in 2005, a monk and tree-sitting activist reflect on the lengths they were willing to go, and the lessons they learned along the way, in the effort to abide by their fierce commitment to their beloved old-growth trees.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
Creative
Creative
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
For everyone who aches for peace, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares this poem.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
A Sense of Belonging
- April 6, 2026
- — April 27, 2026
- Tricycle
Online
This year’s theme, A Sense of Belonging, explores how sensory perception can restore our relationship with the earth, featuring conversations with Buddhist teachers, environmentalists, and writers. In addition to daily events from April 20–23, teachers from Spirit Rock’s EcoDharma Program will lead us in meditations that will take place every Monday in April, beginning April 6.
Awakening as the Earth
- April 1, 2026
- — April 30, 2026
- Mountain Cloud Zen Center
Online
This April, we’ll explore what it means to live with a deep sense of connection to the natural world. Drawing from the canon of Zen Masters, contemporary Ecodharma thinkers, and animist wisdom—with a clear Zen foundation—we’ll gently investigate the idea that our “inner” life and the “outer” world are not separate.
With Kazu Haga and Guests
- April 2, 2026
- — June 9, 2026
- Kazu Haga
Online
This three-month program offers a deeply immersive journey into the practices of Fierce Vulnerability. Together, we’ll deepen into the book’s principles through embodiment practices, guest speaker interviews and small-group conversations to support learning and transformation.
Indigenous World-Views & Buddhist Teachings
- April 2, 2026
- — April 3, 2026
- Naropa University's Joanna Macy Center
Online
Join Ian Sanderson (Mohawk Nation Turtle Clan) for this workshop that invites participants to explore the rich confluences between Indigenous world-views and Buddhist teachings, particularly as they relate to the idea of liberation: individual, communal, ecological and ancestral.
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
- “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
