Partner Organizations
Organizations that we align and work closely with are listed below.
Awakening For Earth
Awakening For Earth invokes our mindfulness practice to hold the pain of this ecological and spiritual crisis. We bring silent sitting and walking meditation to public spaces to raise awareness to the devastating effects of our planetary emergency and the urgent need to take personal and collective action.
Recognizing the need for regeneration in this consuming effort, we invite pauses to be in community, to care for one another and nourish ourselves, bringing the energy of love and understanding to sustain this demanding effort.
Yoga for Climate Action
Yoga for Climate Action (YFCA) is a collective of instructors of yogic traditions (yoga, mindfulness, and meditation), committed to climate action. Members of the collective contribute classes (yoga, meditation, mindfulness, & qigong) in exchange for donations to a local and/or national non-profit climate organization. YFCA has a vision to expand internationally, bringing together contemplative and movement communities in an effort to save our precious planet.
In this interview, you will learn about YFCA’s founder, Linda Lamson, the inception and vision of YFCA, and how you can get involved. Enjoy!
Mind Our Democracy
Mind Our Democracy is a community of meditation, mindfulness, and yoga practitioners who recognize voting as an extension of contemplative practice. When we participate regularly and fully in our democracy, we protect its integrity and contribute to our collective well-being.
Aloka Earth Room
Aloka Earth Room is a contemporary temple-space synthesizing Dharma, ecology and art. Aloka Earth Room is inspired by Ajahn Buddhadasa’s ‘Spiritual Theatre’ at Wat Suan Mokkh, where Ayya Santacitta first encountered Buddhist meditation in 1988. If you’d like to get in touch, please write to Ayya Santacitta at alokadharmainfo@gmail.com.
People vs Fossil Fuels
People vs. Fossil Fuels is a coalition of over 1,200 climate justice, Indigenous, Black, Latino, social justice, economic justice, progressive, youth, faith, and other organizations working together towards a common goal of ending the era of fossil fuels. Together, we represent millions of people across the United States and are allied with millions more around the world.
People vs. Fossil Fuels laid out an Executive Action Blueprint for how Biden could become a “climate president” with three clear categories of demands: protect and invest in the Black, Indigenous, Brown, and working-class communities that have borne the brunt of fossil fuel pollution and climate disaster; reject new fossil projects, eliminate giveaways to oil, gas, and coal corporations, and end the era of fossil fuel production; and launch a national climate mobilization to Build Back Fossil Free, delivering jobs, justice, and opportunity for all.
Plant Based Treaty
As a companion to the UNFCCC/Paris Agreement, The Plant Based Treaty initiative is a grassroots campaign designed to put food systems at the forefront of combating the climate crisis. Modeled on the popular Fossil Fuel Treaty, the Plant Based Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture and to promote a shift to healthier, sustainable plant-based diets. We are urging scientists, individuals, groups, businesses and cities to endorse this call to action and put pressure on national governments to negotiate an international Plant Based Treaty.
Stop the Money Pipeline
The Stop the Money Pipeline coalition is over 200 organizations strong. Together we are holding the financial backers of climate chaos accountable.
In 2021 alone, Wall Street banks have provided $742 billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. Big asset managers are the world’s largest investors in the fossil fuel industry. Insurance companies provide essential insurance to new fossil fuel projects without which they could not be built. Pension funds and university endowments invest billions of dollars in companies that are wrecking our climate and violating human rights around the globe. Stop the Money Pipeline exists to change this.
Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems.
We strive for a movement of global solidarity rooted in interconnectedness and practices of decolonization to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples and to permanently protect the Amazon rainforest which is perilously close to a tipping point of ecological collapse. We believe that Indigenous self-determination is a critical component of any successful conservation strategy for the Amazon, and see that Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contribute greatly to sustainable and equitable stewardship of Mother Earth.
Dharma Vote
DharmaVote is a community of mindfulness practitioners dedicated to social political engagement.
As individuals brought together through meditation and the 2020 election cycle, we are dedicated to integrating our personal spiritual paths with a larger awareness of greater collective equity and social change.
We strive to maintain a space that supports a diverse community, honors all voices, and embeds civic engagement and liberation into shared meditation practice that ultimately guides us toward skillful collective action.
We consider ecological stewardship and health equity essential parts of democracy. We support thoughtful and innovative efforts that target environmental and health justice for all.
Ballot Bodhisattvas
Ballot Bodhisattvas held over a dozen letter-writing retreats in the months leading up to the 2020 General Election. Some 650 of us got together online and wrote more than 30,000 letters to voters in swing states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and others. We helped create a nationwide groundswell of support that elected a Democratic president, and later carried two Senatorial runoff elections in Georgia.
Join the Ballot Bodhisattvas Letter Writing Retreats to encourage voters in swing states to vote.