Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about… Read More The Human Face of Climate Change: Pat McCabe and Indigenous Knowledge

On The Human Face of Climate Change: I am publishing this series of articles (written by others) to show that social justice issues are integral to the climate change crisis. Indeed, climate change is a primarily a social problem, not an environmental one. The climate change crisis we face today is a product of human… Read More The Human Face of Climate Change: Colonization and Climate

Buddhist Economics: The Beginnings of a Promising Approach Buddhistdoor Global | 2019-01-23 | The academic study of Buddhism is a relatively young field, originating in the mid- to late 19th century. As the discipline has matured, a number of sub-fields have emerged and taken on lives of their own. Often these have developed around regional… Read More Buddhist Economics: New Works

Noah Levine is a Buddhist asshole. When reports surfaced last year (2018) that Noah had allegedly sexually assaulted not one but several women (last count 7 to 10 women), observers like myself took the reports with a sense of caution. Although I believe the women who shared their stories, there was an ongoing investigation internally… Read More Levine Report: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

Kalle Lasn, founder and editor of Adbusters, is a Zen Buddhist. Yes, that’s right, and he still practices his particular form of critical Buddhism. His practice is culture jamming, producing Adbusters, the Magazine of the Mental Environment. I have often thought “wouldn’t it be great if Buddhists used dharma to critique society in a form… Read More The Dharma of Adbusters

This is where I think the future of progressive politics is headed, and it’s where I’m headed. Dual power is rooted in people’s everyday lives, in cities, towns and neighborhoods where they live locally, but it’s fully networked and thus scaled up the global level. That’s what is called ‘dual power.’ We must live and… Read More Buddhist Futures: Symbiosis