


The Greatest Gift: “For Our Long-lasting Benefit and Happiness”
Buddhist teachings on the environment

Fearlessness and Climate Change: A Better Way to Be in a Suffering World
In 2007, I took a multi-year sabbatical from my career as an environmental professional and set sail on a 15,000-nautical-mile ocean voyage in a small

Buddhistdoor View: Mitigating and Managing Local and Global Ecological Crises
With the exception of climate change deniers and those with a vested interest in rejecting any notion that the global ecology is under immense pressure

Planetary Healing: Buddhism and World Ecology
From biodiversity loss to desertification, from veganism and vegetarianism to green energy, environmental issues

Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 2016
What a year it’s been—brimming with economic and political upheavals that historians will be debating furiously for decades to come! Many joke (with a hint

Buddhistdoor View: The Dharma’s Place in the Global Climate Change Crisis
The Earth recently reached a grim milestone. On 24 October, the World Meteorological Organization reported in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that a strong El Niño weather

Art, Ecology, and Religion: Intersecting Landscapes on the 21st Century Silk Road
The themes of the Silk Road, spirituality, and the environment rarely come together in contemporary art, so I feel fortunate to have recently met an

Eco-wisdom and Effort
The scope of the environmental crisis may leave us feeling overwhelmed and helpless to do anything about it. According to Joanna Macy, it is necessary