One Earth Wisdom

Our Response

As a Virtual EcoDharma Center, our principal offering is the wisdom teachings and practices that support turning towards the reality of our situation and cultivating appropriate response. Guided by a teaching council representing several Buddhist traditions, we offer core programs such as the EcoSattva Training as well as EcoDharma articles curated from around the web by our editorial team.

Our offerings regularly integrate an understanding of how other social movements including racial and economic justice inform, support and compliment ecological concerns. Through a steady flow of insights, reflections, practices and fresh perspectives, we support our membership in developing a stable, rational and compassionate response to our collective challenges.

We invite you to explore and take part in our EcoDharma offerings, highlighted below.

To learn more about our response to this ever-changing and enormous challenge, see About Us.

We can meet our eco-anxiety and soothe the suffering we find there. Yet we need not be ruled by fear.

Cornerstone EcoDharma

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Practice
Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a set of practices to help us cultivate individual calm and support community connection, and encourages us not to give up on our collective capacity to effect social change.
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EcoDharma
Fear over climate disruption often spurs denial and ends in panic or mental paralysis. Yet it may equally well give rise to samvega, a sense of urgency leading to wise action. In this essay, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi argues that everything depends on how we metabolize our fear.
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EcoDharma

A Conversation with Dekila Chungyalpa

What might be ecodharma’s unique and essential contribution to the environmental movement? Dekila Chungyalpa braids her Buddhist, Indigenous, and scientific traditions in this timely interview with the Dharmadatta community.

Updated for 2024/2025

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

At Home with the Trouble, Together
“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.”

Featured EcoDharma

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EcoDharma

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?

Recent EcoDharma

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EcoDharma

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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EcoDharma

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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EcoDharma

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.

Practices

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Practice
Our bodies are built to be in conversation with our ecosystem, responding to the world around us via internal clocks. When we attune to the pulses within and around us, time can become an experience of kinship.
Practice
Practice

A Guided Meditation with Diana Winston

How do we find our collective path forward? Perhaps we begin with an exploration through the untamed imagination.
Practice
Practice
On this, the shortest day of the year, we offer this contemplation on the dark.
Practice
Practice

A Guided Meditation with Konda Mason

Breathe. Let go. There is nowhere to go, nothing to do, but to become aware of all that is and is possible in this moment.

Rather than merely giving up something we want, renunciation chooses what is more valuable.

Creative Offerings

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Creative
This world is signaling to us constantly, both inviting us out of complacency and, in the same moment, offering endless gifts.
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Creative
What does life ask from us? How might we inhabit it more fully?
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Creative
Perhaps the question isn’t, are we alone? But rather, who are we alone with?
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Creative
“Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly. Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.”