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This Month in the Earth Year: April
The last bits of snow have disappeared from the piles we plowed this winter and the daffodils have poked up through the defrosting topsoil, so it’s relatively easy to get a sense of time passing in...
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From the Being Blog
This piece is cross-posted on Krista Tippett’s Being blog Plugged In to the Outer Cape by Jill Schneiderman, guest contributor Sand dunes at Wellfleet. (photo: Joshua Bousel/Flickr, cc by-nc-sa 2.0)...
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Oxygen in My Bones
This piece is cross-posted on Shambhala SunSpace. In his book A Path With Heart Jack Kornfield asserted that great spiritual traditions “are used as means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our...
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Cherishing Living Beings — Seen and Unseen
This piece is cross-posted at Shambhala SunSpace. (Image from the first-ever video footage of the newly found Yeti Crab.) The first time I chanted the Metta Sutta — the Buddha’s teaching on...
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What Pema Chödrön (Unwittingly) Taught Me About Climate Change
This piece is cross-posted on Shambhala SunSpace. Recently, when I opened my copy of Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day for a bit of early morning inspiration, as has become my habit, I found the...
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After Earth Day, Active Hope
This piece is cross-posted on Shambhala Sunspace and truthout.org With its numbered teachings, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy (2012), a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris...
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Militaries, Mammals and Spiritual Science
This piece is cross-posted at Truthout.orgThough not as closely related as they are to hippos, whales have much in common with elephants. Speaking scientifically, they belong to different taxonomic...
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Predictably Unpredictable Earthquakes Require Compassion, Not Conviction
Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 by Common Dreams and October 25 by Truthout. Like many scientists, I am aghast at an Italian court’s conviction of geoscientists on criminal charges for their...
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Listen! The Earth Breathes!
This piece appears in Shambhala SunSpace. Like many millions of people around the world, I was captivated by President Barack Obama’s election night victory speech. And my heart cheered when I heard...
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Once an ocean, now one of the driest, most desolate places on earth
Vassar freshman Aaron Jones probably wasn’t the first visitor to Death Valley to observe it looks a lot like the surface of Mars. But the future earth science major says if he hadn’t seen it for...
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