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.
Announcing a new offering for 2024:
Provocations and Possibilities for Practitioners
- August 30
- — September 4, 2024
How does the Dharma call us to respond to our ecological reality? Kristin Barker and Adam Lobel lead this in-person retreat for practitioners who wish to discover and develop their own EcoDharma.
Updated for 2023/2024
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.”
Registration is now open for groups and individuals.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month
Upcoming
The Dynamic Balance of Yin and Yang, Emptiness and Action, Rest and Engagement, on the Path of Change-Making
- April 28
- Deborah Eden Tull
What strength might we discover when we connect to often-overlooked virtues such as stillness, rest, and receptivity? On April 28, Deborah Eden Tull leads this investigation into the sacred balance of light and dark within Nature and our own minds.
Upcoming
How might we nourish the ecological self and support its maturation? On May 26, join John Seed and Br. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson) to explore the interwoven teachings and practices of Deep Ecology and Buddhadharma.
Featured EcoDharma
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Talking About our Earth and Ecological Crises
- Katie Benvenuti
One week before Earth Day, we share this article from our archives in hopes of helping you with what can be difficult conversations.
Featured Practice
Practice
Practice
- Mark Coleman
For the cultivation of our own responsivity, Mark takes us on a guided journey outward into rich ecosystems and inward to the natural reverberations of our hearts.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
With Thanissara, Elaine Yeh, Djuna Devereaux and Yong Oh
- May 6
- — May 10, 2024
- Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center
Join us as we co-create a Dharma culture capable of meeting the world’s challenges with resilience, compassion, and unwavering commitment to justice, healing, and mutual liberation.
Restoring True Health for Ourselves and Our Planet
- April 18
- — April 21, 2024
- Plum Village Monastic Community, USA
Through the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and practices of the Plum Village tradition, our intention is to support attendees’ mindfulness practices that not only fortify their resolve to address the planetary crisis but also nurture their personal well-being and happiness.
Faith Climate Action Week
- April 19
- — April 28, 2024
- Interfaith Power and Light
Online
Faith Climate Action Week is IPL’s annual program of climate-themed worship services and sermons that spans ten days of activities celebrating Earth Month. The week is IPL’s premier event to create a mass movement of people of faith and conscience preaching, teaching, and acting to heal the climate.
Inspiring Buddhist Wisdom for Compassionate Climate Action
- April 19
- — April 21, 2024
- Kwan Um Zen
Online
Please join us for a three-day virtual gathering focused on the intersection of Dharma and the climate crisis. Insights will be offered by leading Buddhist teachers and practitioners who are also writers, artists, and advocates engaged in climate action.
Campaigns for Action
Campaign
Campaign
Faith Climate Action Week 2024
- Katie Benvenuti
Our partners at Interfaith Power and Light are inviting people of diverse faith backgrounds to learn about and examine our relationship to our faith, food and climate this upcoming Earth Day.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Featured Action Organizations
- Jaguar Siembra is a community regenerative agriculture initiative for and by indigenous people in Colombia. Through the arts, storytelling, and education, they co-create natural and cultural projects with indigenous people’s wisdom to preserve their local ecosystems and cultural heritage wisdom.
- Blue Ocean Law is an international law firm based in Guam, specializing in human and indigenous rights, self-determination, and environmental justice in the Pacific. They adopt a grassroots orientation that privileges civil society and marginalized voices and work on issues of pressing concern to Pacific peoples.
- Force of Nature helps young people turn climate anxiety into action, and work with leaders to drive intergenerational solutions. Through student programmes, teacher trainings, resources and events, they help young people translate climate anxiety into action, and enable educators to support them in their journey.
Explore Buddhist and Interfaith Organizations
“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 Calls to Action
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to unfold, urge your government, especially if you are in the United States, to call for an immediate ceasefire.
- Support Standing Together and Combatants for Peace, two grassroots movements mobilizing Jewish and Palestinians for peace, equality, and justice.
- Support Jewish Voice for Peace (JWP), a US-based, grassroots organization seeking to organize a multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of US Jews into solidarity with Palestinian liberation.
- This Earth Day on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is advocating for the end of plastics. Check out their action toolkit offering suggestions for ways to get involved
- US: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to devote 22 million acres of public lands across the West to solar development. Tell the BLM to pick a plan that doesn’t destroy public lands to expand renewable energy.
- Canada: Share your input and help Canada determine and achieve its 2035 emissions reduction target (open until April 5, 2024).
- See all action opportunities.
