How to stop a pipeline: notify ‘abutters’ that a fracked gas pipeline is about to go through their backyard. Not as dramatic or exciting as camping out at the Sacred Stone Camp in North Dakota. Wouldn’t make headlines on Democracy Now. But it’s small acts like this—notifying residents, writing letters to town councillors, holding ‘no pipeline’ signs and handing… Read More Your Standing Rock, Your Pipeline
[Editor: An interesting response to the tension of the US election.} Join us as we Elevate the Vote Tomorrow, 11/8, Aryaloka sangha members will be participating in Elevate the Vote’s meditation flash mob. This is a nationwide synchronized event, taking place at polling places across the country. It is intended to bring inner and outer… Read More Elevate the Vote with Meditation Flash Mobs
originally posted at Open Culture: Just last month, the U.K. announced the so-called “Turing Law,” a policy U.K.’s justice minister Sam Gyimah describes as pardoning “people convicted of historical sexual offenses who would be innocent of any crime today.” The law is named for Alan Turing, the brilliant gay computer scientist whose work on A.I. gave the artificial… Read More Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis at Reading Prison
https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/greenfaith/donation.jsp?campaign=58 Click Here to Sign To: LORETTA LYNCH, ATTORNEY GENERAL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE JACK DALRYMPLE, GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA KELCY WARREN, CEO AND BOARD CHAIR, ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS RE: OPPOSITION TO THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE AND ANTI-DEMONSTRATION ACTIONS AT STANDING ROCK DATE: 1 NOVEMBER 2016 As leaders and lay members of faith communities… Read More Open Interfaith Letter on Standing Rock
In the last One Earth Sangha online training (Oct. 2016), Bhiku Bodhi presented the global picture of climate change and how Buddhists can take action at every level, from personal to political to global arenas: Simple and Practical Steps to Combat Climate Change I. To abstain from all evil (application of the stick) 1. Rescind… Read More Bhikhu Bodhi’s Simple Steps for Climate Change
[Editor: The following interview with Lama Rod Owen was published in Insight Journal, a monthly publication of the Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts. There is no author listed for this article.] Lama Rod Owens was officially recognized by the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism after receiving teaching authorization from his root teacher,… Read More Lama Rod Owens: The Work of Diversity: Getting Messy, Getting Uncomfortable
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
