One Earth Sangha

Valid response to ecological destruction doesn’t look one way. Like healthy ecosystems, we can invest in diverse, wild, and creative forms.

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

The Requirements for Real Change

The Quiet, Unglamorous Work of Our Time

Sahaja Serpent
April 6, 2026

To organize at scale amidst chaos and extreme climate events, we need to build real trust as we face collective vulnerability.

Sahaja Serpent

EcoDharma

The Bhikkhu and the Butterfly

Interview with Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill

Ajahn Pasanno, Julia Butterfly Hill and Inquiring Mind
March 30, 2026

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.

Ajahn Pasanno, Julia Butterfly Hill and Inquiring Mind

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 Art, Poetry, and Imagery

Creative

Coming Together

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 27, 2023

For everyone who aches for peace, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares this poem.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

ONE EARTH COMMUNITY

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

Events from Our Networks

EARTHing

Days of Contemplation and Action

April 17, 2026
— April 22, 2026
Zen Peacemakers International

Online

Spanning six days towards EARTH DAY, we invite you to join us in deepening our practice as Earth Stewards – meditating together, sharing in Circles, and getting down to Earth in the places we live. Please join Chris Goto-Jones, Kathleen Hoêtsu Battke, Martin Pradel, Sensei Jorge Koho Mello, Olga Falceto and Geoff Shoun O'Keeffe for this series event.

The Measure of Our Humanity: Rehumanization

with John Paul Lederach

April 12, 2026
Upaya Zen Center

Online

Lederach is widely known for the development of culturally based approaches to conflict transformation and the design and implementation of integrative and strategic approaches to peacebuilding.

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.

Walking the Ancestors Home

Returning the Body to Nature

April 15, 2026
Insight Western Mass

Online

Practice together with other sangha members in a relaxed atmosphere and enjoy a dharma talk with Melanie Cherng.

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