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Let’s Free Ourselves from the Story of Economic Growth

October 16, 2023

Nikayla Jefferson
October 16, 2023

The institutionalized demand for endless growth is pushing us past safe planetary boundaries. How might we liberate ourselves from this disastrous collective dream?

Nikayla Jefferson

Canada Birthed a Mining Industry in Chinese-Occupied Tibet

March 13, 2023

Kalden Rangdrol Dhatsenpa
March 13, 2023

Over the past 15 years, Canadian mining companies have quite literally paved the way to increased exploitation of Tibet's people and landscape. Now Chinese industries are reaping the benefits.

Kalden Rangdrol Dhatsenpa

Take Action, but Do It Kindly

October 12, 2022

Claudia Zhang
October 12, 2022

How can we respond effectively to suffering, enmeshed as we are within the very systems that perpetuate it?

Claudia Zhang

The Buddha on Poverty and Plutocracy

August 23, 2022

David Loy
August 23, 2022

Wealth inequality is not merely unjust—it's a threat to the fabric of society and the web of life. What would a Dharma response to institutional greed look like?

David Loy

Consume Less, Share More

Giving Radically

November 26, 2021

Guhyapati
November 26, 2021

The foundational Buddhist principle of dana, or generosity, poses a profound challenge to our separative, extractive relationship with Earth. What forms of ecological, economic, and social renewal might be possible if we see through the delusion of endless acquisition?

Guhyapati

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

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Giving Radically

No Mud, No Lotus