Valid response to ecological destruction doesn’t look one way. Like healthy ecosystems, we can invest in diverse, wild, and creative forms.
Welcome to One Earth Sangha, a virtual EcoDharma center supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.
As ten thousand years of climate stability is ending, the call to develop inner stability has never been more clear.
Announcing a new offering for 2024:
Provocations and Possibilities for Practitioners
- August 30
- — September 4, 2024
How does the Dharma call us to respond to our ecological reality? Kristin Barker and Adam Lobel lead this in-person retreat for practitioners who wish to discover and develop their own EcoDharma.
Updated for 2023/2024
The EcoSattva Training
Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action
“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.”
Registration is now open for groups and individuals.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month
Upcoming
The Dynamic Balance of Yin and Yang, Emptiness and Action, Rest and Engagement, on the Path of Change-Making
- April 28
- Deborah Eden Tull
What strength might we discover when we connect to often-overlooked virtues such as stillness, rest, and receptivity? On April 28, Deborah Eden Tull leads this investigation into the sacred balance of light and dark within Nature and our own minds.
Upcoming
How might we nourish the ecological self and support its maturation? On May 26, join John Seed and Br. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson) to explore the interwoven teachings and practices of Deep Ecology and Buddhadharma.
Featured EcoDharma
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Talking About our Earth and Ecological Crises
- Katie Benvenuti
One week before Earth Day, we share this article from our archives in hopes of helping you with what can be difficult conversations.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
Creative
Creative
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
In honour of Earth Day 2024, we share this exquisite poem reminding us that we utterly belong to this world, its beauty and its losses.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
With Thanissara, Elaine Yeh, Djuna Devereaux and Yong Oh
- May 6
- — May 10, 2024
- Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center
Join us as we co-create a Dharma culture capable of meeting the world’s challenges with resilience, compassion, and unwavering commitment to justice, healing, and mutual liberation.
Everything Changes; Everything is Connected; Pay Attention
- April 24
- Zen Peacemakers International
Online
Jane Hirshfield and Geoff Shōun O'Keeffe will be talking about the Three Tenets, the way poems carry the values of right speech in their marrow, right action in the realms of both biosphere and social compact, and compassionate attention as the ground of change.
An Animal Blessing
- April 25
- The Lotus Institute
Online
Led by Kaira Jewel Lingo, Adam Bucko, Larry Ward, and Peggy Ward, we'll share wisdom from our animal friends, while exploring our reciprocity and interconnectedness with the natural world as a whole.
- April 25
- — April 30, 2024
- Zen Peacemakers International
This year we plan on walking the grounds of a deep history in the expansion of slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movement – Selma and Montgomery. We intend our Plunge in Alabama to be personal and transformative, with attendees coming away with an emotional and heart connection with the people, places, and events we witness.
Campaigns for Action
Campaign
Campaign
Faith Climate Action Week 2024
- Katie Benvenuti
Our partners at Interfaith Power and Light are inviting people of diverse faith backgrounds to learn about and examine our relationship to our faith, food and climate this upcoming Earth Day.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Featured Action Organizations
- EcoMadres mission is to empower and mobilize Latino communities to fight for clean air, equitable climate change solutions, and protections from toxic chemicals.
- The Eco-anxiety in Africa Project (TEAP) seeks to understand and validate the experiences of eco-anxiety and environmental-related emotions in Africans.
- The Leftovers Foundation is a Canada-based organization seeking to ensure that good food does not get wasted.
Explore Buddhist and Interfaith Organizations
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis
Featured Calls to Action
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, urge your government, especially if you are in the United States, to insist on an immediate ceasefire. If you are in Canada, call for an immediate arms embargo. You can also support Support Standing Together, Combatants for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), all grassroots movements mobilizing for peace, equality, and justice.
- Green Faith will be holding the Faith for Climate Justice in May 3 – 12 2024. Join the community-building training call in April for tools and resources to plan your action, check out the action guide (focusing on North America) offering resources to help you create powerful and meaningful action in your community, and sign up to receive updates about getting involved.
- This Earth Day on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is advocating for the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health. Check out their action toolkit, join or host a clean up, or visit their Earth Hub for resources and more ways to get involved.
- Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance is conducting virtual focus group sessions to inform the development of tools and resources to facilitate communications about climate change and climate-related feelings. Learn more and sign up for these sessions here.
- US: Both the Eastern and Western migratory monarch populations have declined by more than 90% in recent years. Send a message to your local leaders encouraging them to take the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and commit to monarch conservation.
- Canada: Despite plans to transition away from coal, Canada still exports millions of tonnes of Canadian and American thermal coal every year. Urge your MP and key cabinet ministers to support Bill C-383, calling for the ban on thermal coal exports.
- See all action opportunities.
