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
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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: What is Engaged Buddhism Missing? with David Loy
Saturday, March 30, 2024: 8:30 am — 10:00 am
Offered by David Loy
Why is it that we as a civilization find it so difficult to respond appropriately to the ecological crisis — the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced? One of the main reasons is that the eco-crisis is also an economic crisis—a class problem. Between 1990 and 2015, the wealthiest one percent of the world’s population was responsible for twice the carbon emissions of the bottom 50 percent. And the wealth gap between rich and poor continues to grow. By some measures, the top one percent in the US is wealthier than the bottom 92 percent. A 2017 Oxfam study found that only eight people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race.
Inequality in the United States has become greater than in France, Germany, or Japan, or in any other country that we think of as democratic. The U.S. is a democracy in form, in the sense that we (well, most of us) can still vote. But the reality is that the U.S. better described as a plutocracy: a society that’s controlled, directly and indirectly, by people with great wealth. Wealthy individuals and corporations influence the government through legal and illegal methods such as lobbying, funding election campaigns, bribing, and dark money—all of which are common today. And most of them don’t want significant change because they benefit so much from the way things work now.
What does Buddhism have to say about plutocracy?
If you have any questions, please contact the Earth Care group at EarthCare.Dharma@gmail.com
Join Zoom Meeting
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Earth Care Meeting with Tim Ream
Saturday, April 27, 2024: 8:30 am — 10:00 am
Offered by Tim Ream
If you have any questions, please contact the Earth Care group at EarthCare.Dharma@gmail.com
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89645479739?pwd=cG50SmViQ1hpaEFTSzdWNUY0Ky9PZz09
Meeting ID: 896 4547 9739
Passcode: 786010
One tap mobile
+16699009128,,89645479739#,,,,*786010# US (San Jose)
+16694449171,,89645479739#,,,,*786010# US