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How Does the Earth Wish to Move Through Me?

Meeting the Reality of the Climate

What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
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Mark Coleman
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Grief and Joy on a Planet in Crisis

Joanna Macy on the Best Time To Be Alive

Dominant culture has no map for the territory we are entering. Yet what if the grief we carry for profound ecological loss is not a burden to manage, but a doorway? What if the very intensity of your sorrow is proof of how deeply you belong to this Earth, and how much love is still moving through you?
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Can Buddhism Challenge Ongoing Colonialism?

Ecological Activism for the Global South

From the Bodhisattva vow to the deliberate design of injustice, this conversation asks what Buddhism has to offer a world undergoing dramatic change and lands on a simple truth: we may not get there in our lifetime, but we are called to build the path.
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Dekila Chungyalpa
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Mutual Belonging

Compassion and Social Responsibility

What is this Buddhism that we love? Is it merely a refuge from the world or a path into deeper intimacy with the world?
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The Quivering Heart

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Lou and Kristin explore the integration of Buddhist practice with climate action through the lens of the “quivering heart” — the capacity to hold climate grief, fear, and uncertainty with tenderness and courage.
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Is the Climate Movement Finally Growing Up?

Replacing the “Behavior Change” Playbook

For decades, climate and environmental advocates have tried to close the gap between what people know and what they do. Frustrated, our answer has been “more”: more information, more urgency, more compelling imagery. But what if the problem is our misunderstanding of the problem?
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Connecting to the Elements

Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary

What if “nature” is right here in the experience of being alive? A lifelong city dweller reflects on how mindfulness of the everyday elements of water, breath, food, and fire can dissolve the illusion of separation between ourselves and the living Earth community.
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Feeling Climate Grief?

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone

Situated somewhere between profession and spiritual practice, eco-chaplaincy is an emerging field rooted in contemplative traditions that is responding to the suffering arising from ecological crises. The handful of eco-chaplaincy programs, still small, signal a shift in how we understand care.
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Establishing Sacred Refuge

The Power of Sangha

We consider Joanna Macy to be a root teacher for One Earth Sangha. Going forward, we will honor her birthday in that light. On the first observance since her passing, we share Joanna's delightful conversation with Adam Lobel from 2015.
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Giving Nature Back to Itself

Seeing Consumption in its Subtle Forms

“How would you like to be in relationship?” One might ask this question to the river, the tree, or the glacier.
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