Joanna Macy & Sulak Sivaraksa: BPF Keynote Aug 2014
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Let the Revolution Begin: Climate Action Camp NS
Climate Action Camp: Training for strategic community-led creative resistance Join us for a training camp on how to take direct action against environmental degradation and climate chaos. Led by a team of Greenpeace trainers and local organizers, the camp will offer both a basic and advanced training on non-violent direct action, campaign strategy, and creative… Read More Let the Revolution Begin: Climate Action Camp NS
A Short March by One Person in a Small Town for Climate Justice
Most of my fellow enviro guerrillas went to the People’s March for Climate Justice in New York City on Sept. 21. I could have been on the bus with them, but I decided to stay local. Not that I had any problem with 300,000 people going on a bus or carpooling to New York to… Read More A Short March by One Person in a Small Town for Climate Justice
Refuge Recovery: Tricycle Interview with Noah Levine
Buddhist teacher Noah Levine’s punk rocker past, social advocacy, and straight-talking, subversive books like Dharma Punx and Against the Stream have earned him an avid following among the young and disaffected. Now he can add a subset of Buddhists who, like Noah, are in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. A fan of the Twelve Step program but not… Read More Refuge Recovery: Tricycle Interview with Noah Levine
People’s Climate March
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
Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the 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
What’s Possible
What’s Possible, a new film narrated by Morgan Freeman, for World Leaders on the Urgency of Global Warming, was presented to world leaders at the UN Summit on Climate Change,
