"Faced with the state of the world and the depth of denial, faced with the data that keeps falling on us, faced with the sense that we are on a ship heading towards an abyss while the party on board gets louder and louder, I have found it necessary to develop an attitude and a …
Category: Climate Action
Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path | Joanna Macy
This 20-minute video of Joanna Macy is derived from previously unused outtakes for a film released in 2014, titled: The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community. Upon review of the original interview, we found certain statements even more relevant now, in answer to the most important and painful questions of our time: How can we …
Fritjof Capra Reflects on COP26 with Morag Gamble
Fritjof Capra - world renown scholar-activist, systems thinker, author, educator - joins Morag Gamble of the Permaculture Education Institute to share his reflections on COP26 and the shift in thinking and action needed to address the multiple crises humanity faces this decade. Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a Fellow of Schumacher …
Findhorn Ecovillage at COP26
Findhorn Ecovillage joined the Scottish Communities Action Network Stand at COP26, sharing the love and inspiring climate action! Global Ecovillage Network and Findhorn Ecovillage
What do we need to do to save our world?
When Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was once asked what we need to do to save our world, he simply said: βWhat we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.β May we support ourselves and each other to hear the sound of the Earth crying, and act …
A Blessing for the Challenges of Climate Change by Pierre Pradervand
All round the world, populations are leaving their ancestral lands due to climate change, for instance various populations in the highlands of Nepal. Innovative new measures and policies are urgently needed to face what could with time become huge challenges for hundreds of millions. I bless the people all round the world who are facing …
Collective Awakening to Climate Change by Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh suffered a stroke in 2014, and this text, based on a series of talks he gave in the years leading to COP 21, was prepared by his disciples.... We live in a time of collective awakening. We see many signs of that collective awakening all around us. One of the …