Growing the Gift Economy

Communities of faith, conscience, and spiritual or religious practice are uniquely poised to provide care and connection to their communities during major events like smoke, excessive heat, or this upcoming election. MNIPL's Community Climate Resilience Network (CCRN) brings together interested communities to learn more about what it takes to become a resilience hub or to coordinate with other resilience hubs before, during, and after times of need. These sessions offer training and conversation with other interested groups and are the first step towards becoming a place of refuge and support for your neighbors.

If you love the natural world, feel concerned about what is happening to our planet, wonder how Buddhist practice can respond, or simply want to explore how we might live more lightly and compassionately, you are warmly invited. Perhaps, in the face of such a vast crisis, one of the most important questions is not simply “What can I do?” but “How can I keep my heart open?”

We are in a time of tremendous endings, dissolution, and collapse, but something always comes after that. What does it mean to live in a time of such profound change? What needs to end for the next to begin? How do we recognize, support, and join the new possibilities rising out of the burned-over ground of our time? This program on socially engaged Buddhism will be led by Roshi Joan Halifax, Valerie Brown, Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Molly Crockett, and Christiana Figueres.