How to turn neighborhoods Into hubs of resilience Taj James originally published at Resilience Photo: PUSH Buffalo is working to transform a 25-block area of the city into the beginning of a new community-driven sustainable economy. (Photo courtesy of PUSH Buffalo.) Think of it as a silver lining to the gathering dark clouds. We live… Read More Climate Justice in the City
In this post, I’m contrasting two perspectives on practice. The first is a recollection of one person’s experience with 10-day and 30-day Vipassana retreats, vs. Shinzen Young’s Life Practice Program. Shinzen Young is a self-described ‘Buddhist Geek’ who is pursuing networked virtual practice with his Life Practice Program. I’m not endorsing Shinzen Young’s program, but I… Read More Buddhist Futures: Retreat System vs. Integrated Life Practice
Just came back Sunday morning at 2 AM from Washington, DC, from the Peoples Climate March, The Mother of All Marches. It was 36 hours of continuous movement, no sleep, no food, lots of bottled water, 90° F temps in steamy-hot DC. I went on a bus with 350 Central Mass. I’ll have more to… Read More PCM/DC: The Mother of All Marches
The Precarious Question and the Climate Struggle Alex Gourmet originally published at http://www.greatrecession.info/2009/11/03/the-precarious-question-and-the-climate-struggle/ Fighting for Social and Ecological Justice. Because Climate Change Makes All of Us Precarious. Precarity in the Great Recession The Great Recession is making millions of precarious workers unemployed. Millions of precarious youth, women, immigrants are being made redundant. The crisis is swelling the… Read More The Precariat and Climate Justice
Climate Change and Migration Have Everything to do with Each Other; That’s Why I’ll March at the Peoples Climate March and May Day Thanu Yakupitiyage, Contributor U.S Communications Manager at 350.org PHOTO BY CHRISTINE IRVINEPeoplesClimate March 2014 It’s pretty ironic that among Donald Trump’s first policies in his agenda was a crackdown on immigrant communities,… Read More Migration and Climate: the Peoples Climate March
David George Haskell April 4, 20173:40 AM ET, originally published at NPR.org. I reach up into a sugar maple tree’s low branches and pluck a leaf. My fingers hold a seemingly unremarkable leaf, grown on a tree next to a suburban driveway. This leaf is not what it seems. I dip the leaf in alcohol, then… Read More Life Is The Network, Not The Self
It’s important to understand Buddhism’s relationship with the State throughout its 2600 year history. Early Buddhism may have been a populist revolt of the tribal Sramana against monarchist city-states aligned with the Brahmins. (I say “may” because such a premise requires much more historical evidence than I can present in this brief outline). One website… Read More Buddhist Futures: Beyond Class, Capital and State
