You’re a Buddhist and looking for ways to talk to your sangha about climate change and activism? Or you’re interested in learning more about climate change and ideas about how we might be able to build a more sustainable future? Below you can find some resources that we have found helpful.
Guided Meditation (for actions or prior to actions)
Online Talks
- Faith for the Climate series of seminars including Buddhist speakers
- David Loy Teachings on the Precipice
- Joanna Macy on ‘Befriending our despair’ (2006)
- Ecodharma workshop: Yanai postelnik
- Ecodharma workshop: Satya Robyn
- Ecodharma workshop: Juliet Hackney
- David Loy answers ‘What is Buddhism For’ (2019)
- Vaddhaka on ‘Going Beyond Capitalism’ (2014)
- Buddhafield Festival: Evolution or extinction (YouTube playlist)
Online Articles
- Buddhist Q & A: responding to dharmic objections to protesting, by Joe Mishan and Andy Wistreich
- Rob Burbea: Buddha and the Sacred Earth
- Climate Change, Ethics and the Field of Greed by Victor von der Heyde
- A Stand of Alder Trees by Rev. Wilfrid Powell of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey
- Do we hear the call? by Rev. Elinore Agnew of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey
Online Courses
Free Book to download
Yogaratna, 2018. ‘Breaking the silence, changing the story: Buddhism versus neoliberalism‘
Books
| Synder, Gary, 1990. The Practice of The Wild. Counterpoint |
| The Karmapa. 2017. Interconnected. Wisdom |
| The Dalai Lama. 2008. Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence. Wisdom |
| Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh etc. 2009. A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency. Wisdom |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat. 2013. ‘Love Letter to the Earth’. Parallax Press. |
| Kaza, S. 2008. ‘Mindfully Green‘ Shambhala. |
| Macy, J. 2007. ‘The Work that Reconnects’ |
| Plotkin, B. 2007. ‘Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World’. New World Library. |
| Eisenberg, E. 2000 ‘Ecology of Eden‘ Picador. |
| Macy, J. 2010. ‘Pass It on: Five Stories That Can Change the World’. Parallax Press. |
| Figures, C and Rivett-Carnac, T 2020 ‘The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis’ Manilla Press |
| Macy, J. & Johnstone, C. 2012. ‘Active hope’ New World Library |
| Abram, D. 1997. ‘The Spell of the Sensuous‘ Vintage. |
| Macy, J. 1991. ‘World as Lover, World as Self’. Parallax Press. |
| Loy, D. ‘Ecodarma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis‘ 2019 Wisdom Publications,U.S. |
| Yogaratna, 2018. ‘Breaking the silence, changing the story: Buddhism versus neoliberalism’ Self-published. Currently available for free download () |
| Raworth, K. 2018. ‘Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist’. Cornerstone. |
| Monbiot, G. 2017. ‘Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis’. Verso. |
| Evans, A. 2016. ‘Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth’ Cameron. |
| Vaddhaka. 2015. ‘The Buddha on Wall Street’. Windhorse publications. |
| Marshall, G. 2014. ‘Don’t even think about it: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change’. Bloomsbury. |
| Graeber, D. 2013. ‘The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement’. Spiegel & Grau. |
| Doppelt, Bob. 2012 ‘From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life’. Greenleaf Publishing. |
| Rust, MJ & Totton, N. (eds) 2012 ‘Vital Signs‘ Karnac Books |
| Singer, P. 2010. ‘The Life you can save: how to play your part in ending world poverty’. Picador. |
| Jackson, T. 2009. ‘Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a finite Planet’ Routledge. |
| Kessel, B. 2009. ‘It’s not about the money’. HarperCollins publishers. |
| Loy, D. 2008. ‘Money, sex, war, karma: Notes for a Buddhist revolution’. Wisdom publications. |
| Klein, N. 2006. ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’. Metropolitan Books. |
| Klein, N. 2019. ‘On Fire: The Burning Case For a New Green Deal’ Penguin |
| Schumacher, EF. 1993. ‘Small is Beautiful’. Vintage publishing. |
| Macy, J. 1991. ‘Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems’. State University of New York Press. |
| Hunt Badiner, A. (ed)1990 ‘Dharma Gaia‘ Parallax Press. |