Online: Socially Engaged Buddhist Approaches to the Climate Crisis
with Tom Carling, Mark Graham, Mike Slott and Karsten Struhl
Thursday, October 19th, 2023 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
In this workshop, we’ll explore how a socially engaged dharma can contribute to addressing the climate crisis in a just and equitable way. We’ll discuss how the climate crisis is rooted in a broader systemic crisis and identify a variety of dharmic responses to the climate crisis, including forms of non-violent, direct action, community action, and the creation of broad, popular movements.
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Teacher(s)
Tom Carling
Tom Carling is an NYC-based publication designer with twin passions for environmental activism and building Dharma communities. Tom has been active with Extinction Rebellion NY since its beginning, holding multiple roles with the action working group. He is also a long-standing community member of NYIMC, serving in many capacities, currently as board president. In 2019, Tom co-founded the Sacred Earth Sangha at NYIMC, a practice group devoted to consciously engaging in the challenges of the climate crisis.
Mark Graham
Mark Graham joined the climate change activist group, Extinction Rebellion NYC in 2019 and has played a leadership role in that group. Mark began his activism at Radical Dharma Camp and was one of the founding organizers of Buddhist Action Coalition, a coalition of New York City area Buddhists dedicated to bringing Buddhist ethics into action in order to bring about true justice.
Prior to his life as an activist, he was an entrepreneur, an investment banker for 18 years and a stay-at-home dad for twins since leaving banking. Mark began his dharma practice at Shambhala in 2012 and now primarily practices in sanghas with Gala Narezo, David Perrin, Brooklyn Zen and Bodhi College.
Mike Slott
Mike Slott is a long-time political and labor movement activist who has focused on exploring the intersection of a secular approach to the dharma with a socially engaged Buddhism oriented toward
systemic change. He is a practice leader of two New York Insight sanghas: the New Jersey sangha and the recently formed Secular sangha. Mike is active in the secular Buddhist community. He is the editor of the Secular Buddhist Network (SBN) website and its monthly newsletter, Rethinking the Dharma/Reimagining Community.
A part-time lecturer at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, Mike has published a number of articles on the development of labor unions, philosophy, and Buddhism. His “Can You Be a Buddhist and a
Marxist?” (2011) and “Secular, Radically Engaged Buddhism” (2015) both appeared in the journal Contemporary Buddhism.
Karsten Struhl
Karsten J. Struhl teaches political philosophy and cross-cultural philosophy at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City. He also taught for many years at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and at Adelphi University. In addition, he has taught in a number of adult education programs and at the Queens House of Detention. He has co-edited Philosophy Now, Ethics in Perspective, The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader, and When Young People Break the Law: Debating Issues on Punishment for Juveniles. He writes about Buddhist philosophy, human nature, problems of revenge and punishment, eco-philosophy, just war theory, philosophy of nonviolence, global ethics, and Marxism. He has a special interest in the intersection of Buddhism and Marxism and the possibility of a radically engaged Buddhism. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, books, and encyclopedias. He is currently writing a book entitled Interrogating Buddhist Philosophy: A Sympathetic Reconstruction. He has practiced vipassana meditation for the last 35 years.