Time To Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth by Thanissara. (2015, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley California). I read this book with great anticipation that it might hold the answers to what is needed to connect Buddhism to a wider social movement to alter the path of global environmental destruction and climate change, and… Read More Brief Review of Time To Stand Up
Thousands of Wild Buffalo Appear Out of Nowhere at Standing Rock (VIDEO) originally published at US Uncut Tom CahillOctober 28, 2016 Native Americans attempting to stop a pipeline from being built on their land and water just got assistance from a large herd of wild buffalo. Indigenous culture honors American bison (known as Tatanka Oyate, or Buffalo… Read More Wild Buffalo Stampede at Standing Rock
10 years on from the Stern report: a low-carbon future is the ‘only one available’ Economist says green development is the only route to global economic growth and points to China leading the world on climate change action Damian Carrington Lord Nicholas Stern: ‘Any attempt to follow high-carbon growth will eventually be self destructive.’ Photograph:… Read More Stern Report 2: Renewables are the Only Path Forward
141 Water Protectors Arrested as Police Escalate Violent Militarized Response Ladonna Allard SacredStoneCamp.org On Saturday, hundreds of water protectors from different nations were met with violence by militarized police in riot gear, and approximately 141 were arrested. Four protectors locked themselves to a disabled car at an active construction site, stopping construction for approximately 7 hours.… Read More 141 Water Protectors Arrested At Standing Rock
In the vein of Non-Buddhism, I am proposing another interpretation of the traditional doctrine of “emptiness” as non-emptiness. Non-emptiness means that entities (systems) are composed of elements and defined by their boundaries. Yet boundaries also connect; all entities are connected at their boundaries. Thus, everything is connected, but everything is not the same. Systems theory shows us… Read More Non-Self as Non-Emptiness
and its Vagenda of Manocide! a twitter post from my friend Chris in NYC.
This article sets forth the argument for cosmo-localization, or networked localism: knowledge and design flows globally, while material production is situated locally, drawing from local resources and adapted to local conditions. This model should be adjusted to incorporate the localized or “indigenous” knowledge base, and local cultures. IOW: The Lilliputians string a globalized web of knowledge and localized… Read More The Local Goes Cosmic
