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
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.
Upcoming
On Right Relations with Deniers, Delayers, and Destroyers
- June 23
- Kevin Gallagher
How might we relate to the "bad guys" as advocates and activists attempting to reduce suffering in the world at large? On June 23, Kevin Gallagher leads this exploration on how we might relate on behalf of both people and planet, to those who cause harm.
Featured EcoDharma
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
- Buddhistdoor Global
One of Earth’s most significant circulatory systems is on the verge of breakdown. The impact is unknown but certainly world changing. Buddhistdoor Global urges us to not look away and instead act with great urgency.
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.
A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown
- April 29
- Pacific Zen Institute
Online
Pacific Zen Institute is pleased to bring Governor Jerry Brown to our Online Temple for a conversation about his life in politics and Zen with co-hosts Jon Joseph, John Tarrant, and David Weinstein.
Join the mobilization: May 3-12, 2024
- May 3
- — May 12, 2024
- GreenFaith
On 3-12 May, people of faith around the world will be mobilizing for a week of action calling for an end to fossil fuels, a sustainable future, and a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.
With Ayya Ananadabodhi, Ayya Santacitta, and Ayya Santussika
- May 5
- — May 10, 2024
- Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center
As we find ourselves moving into an increasing ecological crisis and witnessing its impact on the planet and our lives, the Buddha’s teaching becomes ever more relevant and essential. During this retreat, teachings will be on this theme with an emphasis on bringing the path to the whole of our experience.
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.
