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"Touching the Earth"
A Buddhist Guide to Saving the
Planet
Akuppa
Windhorse Publications
Paperback 2002

 

"Dharma Rain"
A sourcebook of Buddhist environmentalism. Highly recommended.
Stephanie Kaza & Kenneth Kraft (Ed.) Shambhala, 2000

 

"Buddhism and Ecology"
Mary Tucker & Duncan Williams (Ed.) Harvard University Press, 1997
especially:
'Introduction'
'Buddhism and Ecology - Collective Cultural Perceptions'
'The Hermeneutics of Buddhist Ecology in Contemporary Thailand'
'The Precepts and the Environment'
'Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature?'

 

"Dharma Gaia"
by Allan Hunt Badiner, pub. Parallax
especially:
'The Greening of the Self' by Joanna Macy
'Ecocentric Sangha'
Part 5: 'Meditations on Earth as a Sentient Being'

 

Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis
K. Sandell

 

 

 

World As Lover, World As Self
Joanna R. Macy, Thich Nhat HanhFrw

 

 

"Coming Back to Life- practices to reconnect our lives, our world"by Joanna Macy,
pub New Society Publishers 1998
The fruit of years of working with activists: all sorts of group and individual exercises to help us to connect with yet not be overwhelmed by environmental issues

 

 

"Buddhism and Ecology"
Martine Batchelor and Kerry Brown Cassell, 1992. One of a series examining the ecological position of the major world religions.

"Buddhism and Animals: a Buddhist Vision of Humanity's Rightful Relationship with the Animal Kingdom"
Dr. Tony Page, UKAVIS publications 1999, ISBN 0 9534619 0 4
Full of excellent quotations from the full breadth of the Buddhist scriptures.
(not available at Amazon.com)
read an interview with Dr. Tony Page about Buddhism and Animal Rights

 

Ethical Consumerism

"The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices"
Michael Brower and Warren Leon, Three Rivers Press 1999, ISBN 0-609-80281-X

 

 

"Ethical Consumer Magazine"monthly investigations of all sorts of products from an ethical angle

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"Green Futures" magazine
quarterly good news on environmental advances by businesses

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