An interview with Douglas Woodring, founder and managing director of the Ocean Recovery Alliance, about a new festival to celebrate and protect the world’s largest lake
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Meditation & Awakening are Precious, Natural Resources for Facing Climate Crisis
BDG contributor Sarah C. Beasley discusses meditation and awakening to the climate crisis
The Buddhist Center Environmental Action Plan Toolkit
Publisher at The Sumeru Press John Negru presents an environmental toolkit for Buddhist activists and thinkers
The 8-Fold Path of Sustainability Transition
Sustainability and adaptation specialist Gabriel Durham discusses an eightfold model of sustainability transition
Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis – Day 2 of 2
Our stream from the online conference “Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis”
Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis – Day 1 of 2
Our stream from the online conference “Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis”
Earth Day 2022: Only So Many Chances
Today is Earth Day, a perfect opportunity to rethink our conventional paradigms that are dooming the planet’s livability for human beings. Today I would like to explore briefly several ideas alluded to in yesterday’s post. The first is Dr. María Elvira Ríos’ exploration of ganying, Dependent Origination in Óscar Carrera’s writing, and Jordi Solé Ollé’s exploration […]
Earth Day 2022: Assemble all Beings
22 April is Earth Day, and the occasion comes with renewed urgency as we now know that it is highly unlikely that we can stop the world from passing 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming in the next ten years. There is still hope that the world can keep the world from warming to 2.0 degrees […]
How Dharma-Gaia is steering Hispanic Buddhism on a course of ecological justice
Born after the landmark symposium of Sakyadhita Spain’s 2nd International Symposium of Spanish-Speaking Buddhist Women (“Dharma-Gaia: Buddhism, Women, and the Climate Crisis”), the Dharma-Gaia organization arose as an idea among Sakyadhita’s management that there should be a network of environmental feminism that could intersect with the Buddhist community. This group of “Buddhist eco-feminists” is an […]
Circles of Practice: Spanish-speaking Buddhist Women
In the previous entry on our series introducing Hispanophone Buddhism, we covered Montse Castellà Olivé, founding president of the Spain chapter of Sakyadhita. Sakyadhita is commonly known as one of Buddhism’s most prominent women’s advocacy and research organizations. Since 2020, Sakyadhita Spain has hosted ten “circles of practice,” known in Spanish as círculo de práctica […]