You may not realize this, but Alexandria Ocasio Cortez did not dream up the Green New Deal. The GND is a policy platform that was developed by the New Consensus, a foundation of labour-focused economists who are critical of financial capitalism. They are pro-industrialists who promote green manufacturing. AOC studied economics and does a great… Read More AOC and the Green New Deal
A proposal from DANCE-Atlantic (Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement): A Buddhist No-Fly Pledge. Buddhist teachers and practitioners take too many air-flights over long distances to teach, go on retreats, study or engage in ‘spiritual tourism’. These flights are taken by the very same people who claim to teach and practice environmental awareness. I am… Read More Decarbonize Buddhism
The Preface to Vandana Shiva’s latest book, Oneness v. the 1 Percent, is a hymn to Earth as One Family that either thrives together or goes extinct together. It comes from the phrase Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the Earth is One Family, (Sanskrit: वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्) which consists of several words: “vasudhā”, the earth; “ēva” = indeed; and “kutumbakam”, family. The… Read More Vandana Shiva: the Earth is One Family
via Adi Don Warning: this is Satire, like The Onion The point of this satire is that Trump spews the same kind of mindless, cockamamie bullshit that many contemporary televangelists, gurus and spiritual teachers spew today, only in political terms. Which is why it was so wildly successful with brain-dead elderly smack-addled white Americans who… Read More Adi Don
I’ve written a couple of articles on creating a ‘Complete Culture’ of Buddhism and the need for a multi-faceted movement. (Lead to Life will be next–stay tuned). Here’s #XR’s Spring Rebellion, with music, art, dance, skill workshops, political and ecological education, networking, fun play, everything you would need to create a new society. If our… Read More Complete Movements: XR Spring Uprising
This presentation is by Johanna from Ende Gelande, a German Climate Justice mass direct action movement. This presentation was a Zoom webinar recorded on Monday, March 8, 2019. I don’t know how long this video will be available on the Zoom site, so I suggest you watch it as soon as possible just in case… Read More Ende Gelande: Mass Direct Action for Climate Justice
Jeremy Rifkin is a sociologist who believes he always has the Next Big Idea that’s going to change everything. I’ve been following his work since I was first introduced to it at a lecture on ‘entropy as a societal phenomenon’ in 1980 in Youngstown, Ohio. (I was in college in Ohio for a couple of years).… Read More Rifkin: Social Economy and the Internet
