Earth Care Group

Last Saturday of the month: 8:30 AM
on Zoom
All are welcome

The Earth Care group was formed to apply Buddhist teachings to care for our planet in a thoughtful and meaningful way. The group provides an opportunity to apply elements of the Eightfold Path — particularly Right Intention and Right Action — and to use Right Speech in the group engagements. The group meets every month on the last Saturday at 8:30 AM Pacific time. The meetings largely focus on a set of diverse topics relating to the right actions we can take to mitigate climate change. The actions can be related to lifestyle choices, civic engagements, community services or whatever is motivating the participants to contribute and share in the discussions. The group will also serve as a container to deepen our connection to the earth through guided meditations, and discussions. Typically meetings will have a speaker who will be educating and contributing to topics on climate change and meaningful actions we can take.

If you have any questions, please contact the Earth Care group at EarthCare.Dharma@gmail.com

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST

If you’d like to be added to the email distribution list of the Earth Care group, please send an email to EarthCare.Dharma@Gmail.com. We typically send one or two emails per month.

EARTH CARE RESOURCES

View a brief list of Earth Care Resources assembled for the 10th Anniversary of Vipassana Earth Care Week.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Earth Care Meeting with Carla Brennan

Saturday, May 25, 2024: 8:30 am — 10:00 am
Offered by Carla Brennan
Topic: Rewilding Our True Nature

Carla is offering a retreat in June:

Meditation, Embodiment and Awakening in Nature 
With Carla Brennan and Peter Williams
June 24 – 30, 2024
Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center, Ward, CO

If you have any questions about the Earth Care group at IMC, please contact us at EarthCare.Dharma@gmail.com

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Earth Care Meeting with Philip Heller

Saturday, June 29, 2024: 8:30 am — 10:00 am
Offered by Philip Heller
Topic: Artificial Intelligence for Reef Caretakers in a Century of Climate Change

Coral reefs, known as “rainforests of the ocean”, harbor rich biodiversity and support marine life. It is well known that reefs are degraded by ocean warming and acidification, which will increase through much of the 21st century. The Coral Vision project aims to improve reef health during climate change by using machine learning analysis of large photographic data sets to compute strategies for selectively breeding hardy corals and transplanting them onto threatened reefs. We hope that this treatment will produce reefs that will be resilient to the effects of climate change, and thus will continue to protect life on Earth. This talk will cover the present status and future directions of Coral Vision, from both scientific and dharmic perspectives.

Philip Heller is a native San Franciscan. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1977, and then moved to Silicon Valley. He worked as a programmer, author, and speaker for a few decades before deciding that a programmer should program about something beneficial. He entered graduate school, earning an M.S. degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from U.C. Santa Cruz in 2014. He spent a postdoctoral year at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories as a Smithsonian Scholar, and then joined the Computer Science faculty at San Jose State University in 2016. He has been meditating and participating in IMC activities since 2013.
If you have any questions about the Earth Care group at IMC, please contact us at EarthCare.Dharma@gmail.com