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“As the climate crisis worsens, and the window to solve it is quickly closing, we have a choice to make: we can shut down in fear or lean in and open our hearts even more.”

Tynette is editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. You can read her article on Medium

In November 2019 Gaia House teachers Yanai Postelnik, Catherine McGee, Rob Burbea, and Kirsten Kratz, along with many Dharma practitioners from the wider Gaia House community, participated in a series of planned actions of non-violent civil disobedience in London, part of an attempt to galvanize the UK government to urgently implement a truly appropriate response to the emergencies of climate change and mass species extinction.

Read more about it here: here

Three years ago Bob and Jules wrote What Would Buddha Siddharta Do About Climate Change? (Part 1), and suggested that he would organise and establish a means for ordinary people to walk away from the economic system that is driving the harm.

Now, in Part 2, Bob and Jules present a possible action plan, and since the first installment have created the charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) ‘Climate and Community’ as the legal structure necessary to making this a reality. Have a read, and see the post below too, with their invitation to organise a climate conservation camp.

You can contact Bob and Jules on climateandcommunity@btinternet.com

Are you interested in a land-based dharma work camp focused on social impact and environmental change? It could help wake people up to the dangers of climate change through practical actions and common sense. The proverb says ‘Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water’. There are challenges to be dealt with and we can learn to use the practical tools and skills to deal with them. Turn the wheel for the environment.

Why a camp? Experience from the climate camps, other projects such as the Sarvodaya village project in Sri Lanka and the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1930’s America teach us that camps are a humanising bigger-than-self experience which ground a person and encourage cooperation.

We have the tools for chopping wood and some containers with a trolley for carrying water…

For more information see What Would Buddha Siddharta Do About Climate Change? (Part 2) or contact Bob and Jules on climateandcommunity@btinternet.com