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If there’s a response to taking part in domination of people and planet, let it be humility and resolve.

Go Deeper
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 two new offerings for 2024:
Earth Activism and Empowerment for Dharma Practitioners
From March 5 through April 18, 2024, Earth activist and Zen practitioner Tim Ream leads this six-part course on activism grounded in care, community, and empowerment.
Provocations and Possibilities for Practitioners
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

EST Tree
A Brave and Tender Reckoning

“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.

The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.

Featured Online Course

from Our Networks

Climate, Justice, Nonviolence and Regenerative social change
Can we take the inconvenient and risky actions necessary to minimize suffering? How might taking such actions become more normal, healing, holistic, and beautiful? Can they authentically express our deepest spiritual truths?

Led by Boundless in Motion and hosted by One Earth Sangha, this course begins May 15. Applications open now.

Events

from our Networks

With Lama Rod Owens
We will explore themes around climate anxiety, the harm of individual and collective narcissism, connecting to the awakened consciousness of the earth as well as the sky, and developing renewed visions for climate change organizing and activism based on the recognition that all systems of violence intersect with climate change work. We will be relying on Lama Rod’s newest book, The New Saints, along with ancient Buddhist based practices.

Statements

from Leaders and Practitioners

There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.

— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)

Campaigns for Action

Faith Climate Action Week 2024
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.

“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 Action Organizations

  • Jaguar Siembra is a community regenerative agriculture initiative for and by indigenous people in Colombia. Through the arts, storytelling, and education, they co-create natural and cultural projects with indigenous people’s wisdom to preserve their local ecosystems and cultural heritage wisdom.​
  • Blue Ocean Law is an international law firm based in Guam, specializing in human and indigenous rights, self-determination, and environmental justice in the Pacific. They adopt a grassroots orientation that privileges civil society and marginalized voices and work on issues of pressing concern to Pacific peoples.
  • Force of Nature helps young people turn climate anxiety into action, and work with leaders to drive intergenerational solutions. Through student programmes, teacher trainings, resources and events, they help young people translate climate anxiety into action, and enable educators to support them in their journey.

Explore Buddhist and Interfaith Organizations

 

Featured Calls to Action

Upcoming

Global

  • This Earth Day on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is advocating for the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of plastics by 2040 and an ultimate goal of building a plastic-free future for generations to come. Check out their action toolkit offering suggestions for ways to get involved, access planning resources to host your own events, or join events happening near you.
  • Ecocide, committed repeatedly over decades, is a root cause of the climate and ecological emergency that we now face. Unlike suing and fining corporations, making ecocide a crime creates an arrestable offense which may deter harmful conduct and provide remediation. Explore ways to get involved and amplify the call to make ecocide an international crime.

 

United States

  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to announce its newest set of heavy-duty vehicle standards, which reduce climate pollution from buses, trucks, and tractor-trailers. Urge the Biden Administration to enact the strongest possible heavy-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards that protects frontline communities, public health, and our environment.
  • Both the Eastern and Western migratory monarch populations have declined by more than 90% in recent years. Your local leaders can help by joining a network of cities and communities that are investing in habitat restoration, community science, environmental education, and local policy change to benefit monarch butterflies. Send a message to your local leaders encouraging them to take the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and commit to monarch conservation.
  • The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to devote 22 million acres of public lands across the West to solar development, including sensitive areas like the Arizona Strip, the shores of Malheur Lake in Oregon, adjacent to Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, and the Mojave Desert. Tell the BLM to pick a plan that doesn’t destroy public lands in a rush to expand renewable energy.

 

Canada 

  • Share your ideas and input on different topics related to climate change as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s engagement on the 2035 emissions reduction target. Your feedback is integral to helping Canada determine and achieve its climate change goals under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act.
  • Shift’s 2nd annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, released February 27, 2024, finds that despite incremental progress, Canadian pension funds remain off track in its alignment  with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C. Your retirement security depends on a safe climate. Send a letter to your pension manager telling them that you want your retirement savings invested in a safe climate future for yourself, your family, and your community.
  • The National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act (Bill C-226) requires the federal government to establish a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and advance environmental justice – areas which are often overlooked in Canadian law. The House of Commons passed this bill in March 2023, but the Senate has yet to approve it. Call on the Senate to prioritize and pass Bill C-226 as soon as possible in 2024 to help keep the important work of tackling environmental racism and environmental injustice on track.

 

Ongoing Opportunities & Action Resources

Stories of Engagement

Buddhist Monastics Practice Forest Protection
Moved by intimate awareness of dependent co-arising, monastics in Southeast Asia have become leaders in protecting their local environment.