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EcoDharma

No Time to Lose

Joanna Macy
June 30, 2020

One of our treasured teachers and elders, Joanna Macy, guides us in considering how cultivation of resilience, relinquishment, restoration, and reconciliation can help us find a way through the civilizational collapse we see all around us.

Joanna Macy

EcoDharma

Awakening to the Suffering of Animals

Thanissara
June 26, 2020

Throughout the pandemic, the slaughterhouse has been a hotbed of virus transmission among its workers. But our compassion can't stop there. We are called to confront and remedy the horrific treatment of animals raised to feed us.

Thanissara

EcoDharma

The Crab Grass and the Wave

Kristin Barker
June 5, 2020

Recent events of racial violence by state actors reveal but one aspect of the tendency towards domination that is latent in our culture. Our work to end ecological devastation then necessarily includes the eradication of the persistent, shape-shifting, and devastating pattern of white supremacy, starting with our own minds.

Kristin Barker

EcoDharma

Eco-Chaplaincy

In Service to a Suffering World

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam
June 1, 2020

"The growing field of eco-chaplaincy reflects the increasing awareness that our care and attention must extend beyond the human.” The directors of a new Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies aspire to cultivate the chaplains who bring compassionate response to all of nature.

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam

EcoDharma

Whose Lives Matter?

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

EcoDharma

The Great Adaptation

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

EcoDharma

Use This Time Well

Joan Halifax
April 2, 2020

With pervasive uncertainty and heightened fear surrounding COVID-19, Roshi Joan Halifax’s reflections on the occasion of her climate protest offer useful wisdom: “this situation was the perfect time and place to practice.”

Joan Halifax

EcoDharma

Luxurious Lifestyles Are Killing the Earth

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

EcoDharma

From Disruption’s Front Line

Mark Øvland's Courtroom Statement

Mark Øvland
October 2, 2019

What will it take to change a society's confused stories that have been building over millennia? The embodied practice of a few protesters at the heart of Extinction Rebellion UK positions non-violent civil disobedience as disruptive response to business-as-usual.

Mark Øvland

EcoDharma

A Buddhist Perspective on Climate Engineering

Bhikkhu Vivekānanda
September 4, 2019

Climate engineering is now a serious scientific and political conversation. Ven. Bhikkhu Vivekānanda explores the Dharma foundations that can inform our response to this daunting but increasingly real possibility.

Bhikkhu Vivekānanda

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