Ecojustice Resources

• Sowing Seeds of Hope: A Buddhist Call for Courageous Action for Climate Justice, Soka Gakkai International, 2021.
• The Dalai Lama’s Messages
• Statement of Support and Commitment in Solidarity with Racial and Earth Justice,  Earth Holder Community, 2020.
• The Earth as Witness: International Dharma Teachers’ Statement on Climate Change, 2014
• 16 Core Principles Important to Address Climate Change and How Practitioners Can Engage, 2013

Multimedia

• Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture, Jay Garfield, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, 2023
• A Buddhist approach to Climate Justice,  Rodashruti, The Buddhist Centre, 2021
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama: G7 Speakers' Conference, Addressing the Climate Crisis with Economic and Environmental Justice for All, 2020
• For The Earth: The Environment and Social Justice, Buddhist Centre, 2020
• Earth Justice, Earth Holder Community, 2020
• Fight for Areng Valley + Lost World, Directed by Kalyanee E. Mam, 2018
• “Compassion in Action—Buddhism and the Environment: A Conversation with the 17th Karmapa,” 2015
• Why Buddhism and the Modern World Need Each Other, David Loy, Harvard Divinity School, 2015
• Searching for Sacred Mountain, Directed by Gary Marcuse and Lihong Shi, 2014
• Eco-Buddhism & Mindfulness: Building a Climate Justice Movement, Mill Valley Library/Marin TV, 2013
• “Forest Monks,” PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 2010

Links 

• Live to Love
• Plot to Save the Earth Facebook group
• Dharma of Resistance: Climate, Justice, Nonviolence and Regenerative Social Change course, One Earth Sangha

Books/Reports/Monographs/Dissertations

• Gyatso, Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama and Franz Alt. Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World. New York: Harper Collins, 2020. 
• Loy, David. Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019.
• Darlington, Susan Marie. The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.
• Buddhist Approach to Environmental Crisis: UNDV Conference Volume. The International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak Celebrations, 4 - 6 May 2552/2009.
• Martin, Julia, ed. Ecological Responsibility: A Dialogue with Buddhism. New Delhi: Tibet House, 1997.
• Jones, Ken. Beyond Optimism: A Buddhist Political Ecology. Oxford: Jon Carpenter, 1993.

 

 

Journals & Articles
Organized chronologically; includes both academic articles and a selection of recent news articles

• Capper, Daniel. “Space Debris and Environmental Justice,” in Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space: A Guide for Sustainable Off-Earth Travel (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), 19-38.
• Jefferson, Nikayla. “How Buddhism can inform climate activism: a conversation with Kritee Kanko.” Yale Climate Connections. March 29, 2023.
  James, Simon P. “Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics,”  Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2020.
• Harris, Melanie L. “Ecowomanism: Buddhist–Christian Dialogue from a Womanist and Ecological Perspective.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 36, no. 1 (2020): 123-29. doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.36.1.11. 
• Guru-Murthy, Krishnan. “'Buddha would be green’: Dalai Lama calls for urgent climate action.“ The Guardian. November 11, 2020.
• Bhante, Sujato. “Things as they are: A Buddhist monk’s view of the climate emergency.” The Monastery at the End of the World. February 22, 2020.
• Yonnetti, Eben. “How Buddhist monks in Ladakh are fighting climate change.” Lion's Roar. February 11, 2020. 
• Hayashi, Rayna Ramolete. “Why Buddhists Should Rise for Mauna Kea.” Buddhist Peace Fellowship. August 1, 2019. 
• “Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work.”  Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation. Summer 2019.
• Darlington, Susan Marie. “Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change.”  In Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Barbara Schuler. Leiden, NL and Boston: Brill Publishing, 2016. 
• Darlington, Susan Marie. “Sacred Protests and Buddhist Environmental Knowledge.” In Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement, edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Pattana Kittiarsa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Li, Cheng and Yanjun Liu. “Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature.” In Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development : Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism, edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 
• Queen, Christopher S. “Engaged Buddhism as a Unifying Philosophy.” In Unifying Buddhist Philosophical Views: Academic Papers presented at the 2nd IABU Conference. Wang Noi, Thailand: International Association of Buddhist Universities, 2012. 
• Swearer, Donald K. “Sulak Sivaraksa: Engaged Buddhist Activist and Environmentalist.” In Social Engaged Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Sulak Sivaraksa on His 70th Birthday. Ed. David W. Chappell. Bangkok: The Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, 2003.
• Kaza, Stephanie. “To Save All Beings: Buddhist Environmental Activism.” In Engaged Buddhism in the West. Ed. Christopher S. Queen, 159–83. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
• Kaza, Stephanie. “The Gridlock of Domination: A Buddhist Response to Environmental Suffering.” In The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life, edited by John E. Carroll, 141–57. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
• Habito, Ruben L.F. “Mountains and Rivers and the Great Earth: Zen and Ecology.” In Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, 165-175. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 
• Kaza, Stephanie. “American Buddhist Response to the Land: Ecological Practice at Two West coats Retreat Centers.” In Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, 219-248. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 
• Kraft, Kenneth. “Nuclear Ecology and Engaged Buddhism.” In Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, 269-290. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 
• Rockefeller, Steven C. “Buddhism, Global Ethics, and the Earth Charter.” In Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, 313-324. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 
• Yamauchi, Jeff. “The Greening of Zen Mountain Center: A Case Study.” In Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, 249-265. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Sponsel, Leslie E., and Porance Natadecha-Sponsel. “Nonviolent Ecology: The Possibilities of Buddhism.” In Buddhism and Nonviolent Global Problem-Solving: Ulan Bator Explorations. edited by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt. Honolulu, Hawaii: Center for Global Nonviolence Planning Project, 1991.
• Shepard, Philip T. “Turning On the Environment Without Turning Off Other People.” Buddhism at the Crossroads, Fall 1990.