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The Future We Choose

October 30, 2020

Sam Mowe
October 30, 2020

With the U.S. poised to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, architects Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac describe how a Buddhist perspective still provides hope for its realization.

Sam Mowe

Changing Our Climate for the Better

October 16, 2020

Ajahn Sucitto
October 16, 2020

An economic growth paradigm that produces endless consumerism and waste can only end in ruined lives and a ruined planet. Ajahn Sucitto contends that a life lived more simply can lead not only to personal satisfaction, but to surprising systemic change.

Ajahn Sucitto

Buddhism and the End of Economic Growth

August 6, 2020

John Stanley and David Loy
August 6, 2020

Ecodharma leaders David Loy and John Stanley argue that today's global crises underscore the need to replace the economic growth models that favor big corporations over people.

John Stanley and David Loy

Why Bodhisattvas Need to Disrupt the Status Quo

July 7, 2020

Sensei Kritee Kanko
July 7, 2020

A scientist and Zen activist illuminates the systems of economic and social oppression at the root of the climate crisis and challenges us to stand up and say no to them.

Sensei Kritee Kanko

Whose Lives Matter?

May 15, 2020

Bhikkhu Bodhi
May 15, 2020

Workers in any industry ought not be forced to choose between physical and financial health. And within the meat-packing industry, what of the brutal cost to animals of returning this sector to "normal"? Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi examines the layers of perverted value in a recent Trump Administration decision.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Great Adaptation

May 12, 2020

Raymond Lam
May 12, 2020

How historic is this current moment of disruption? Will we forever talk about life BCV and ACV—before corona virus and after corona virus? And what does it teach us about climate change?

Raymond Lam

Luxurious Lifestyles Are Killing the Earth

November 12, 2019

Clair Brown
November 12, 2019

With Manjushri's sword of wisdom, we need not shy away from the connection between extravagant consumption and the climate crisis. In this article, economics scholar Clair Brown links vast wealth inequality with ecological breakdown in the context of dominant culture's errant values ... and then she offers a better Way.

Clair Brown

Vesak and Climate Crisis at the UN

May 21, 2019

Bhikkhu Bodhi
May 21, 2019

As part of the United Nation's observance of the International Day of Vesak, Bhikkhu Bodhi's keynote speech connected the Buddha's core teachings to the impending climate crisis.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Climate Change is Making us Crazy

Interview with Norman Fischer

July 8, 2017

Norman Fischer
July 8, 2017

Norman Fisher notes that because the challenge of climate change is a matter of "...human beings thinking and behaving in a way that’s guaranteed to compound our problems," Zen practices have something vital to offer.

Norman Fischer

Beyond “Small is Beautiful”

Buddhism and the Economics of Climate Change

March 31, 2017

Julie Nelson
March 31, 2017

If economies have no essential nature, could one path forward into our climate change reality be a kind of softening—to accept the economy as a koan that helps us focus on what is right in front of us right now.

Julie Nelson

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