Thich Nhat Hanh: we must look beyond our seperate selves to save Mother Earth from climate change. Photograph: AP Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s leading spiritual teachers, is a man at great peace even as he predicts the possible collapse of civilisation within 100 years as a result of runaway climate change.… Read More Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us from Climate Change
Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government: Tim Harper Canada and its politics, the former Ontario NDP leader says, are in free fall. MIKE CASSESE / AFP/GETTY IMAGES In his Friday speech, Stephen Lewis took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office. By: Tim Harper National Affairs, Published on Sun Nov 23 2014 At… Read More Stephen Lewis: Harper’s Nixonian Regime
Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned about the environmental damage a leak could cause on land they’ve never given up, they’ve constructed a protection camp to block pipeline companies. As opposition… Read More How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance
on her baby’s future impacted by climate change.
An estimated 700 Buddhists marched together in last week’s demonstration. Joshua Eaton “I know that my path to enlightenment will only come from being connected to the world around me,” Njeri Matheu, a member of Brooklyn Zen Center, explained as she marched through the streets of midtown Manhattan. “It’s not just about being centered inside; it’s… Read More People’s Climate March
Posted by: Kritee Posted date: September 26, 2014 In: Art, Articles, Dhamma, Eco Justice, Environment, Interfaith, International, Science, Take Action | comment : 2 For many years, the two preoccupations of my life, “meditation practice” and “environmental science”, were two streams that ran parallel to each other. The streams likely fed each other in underground unconscious ways but the two never interacted at the surface. The underlying notion was: if we… Read More Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People’s Climate March
