Zen Ecology : Green and Engaged Living in Response to the Climate Crisis - Christopher Ives

Zen Ecology

Green and Engaged Living in Response to the Climate Crisis

By: Christopher Ives

Paperback | 11 March 2025

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Discover a way of living that can help you slow down, stay grounded, and deal with all that is flying at you--and at the same time can help you reduce your ecological impact and be more engaged in responding to the climate crisis.

It may often seem as though living ecologically and engaging in activism sacrifices our own enjoyment and happiness on the altar of doing the right thing. In this book, professor, hiker, and activist Christopher Ives offers an alternative: A way of living that can actually be more fulfilling than the modern consumer-driven lifestyle. Rather than deprivation, it can bring us richness.

In Zen Ecology, Chris outlines his environmental ethic as a series of concentric circles; we begin with ourselves and our core relationships, and move outward to the home, nature, local community, and broader arenas of activism, all the while focusing on spaciousness, mindfulness, generosity, and contentment.

- At the individual level, we deal with distraction, clutter, and ecological harm--Chris offers ways to help us pay attention, simplify our lives, and free up time and energy.

- In the next concentric circle, we explore how to envision our home as a "place of the Way," with the Zen monastic life as a model for this (without having to be a monk ).

- Then, we realize our embeddedness in nature and emplace ourselves in community with others, including other animals.

- Finally, we build on this basis to engage in activism to create a world that is more supportive of ecological health and spiritual fulfillment.

In this way, we avoid the two extremes of apathy and burnout, and uncover a way of living that is spacious, simple, embedded in nature, connected to others in community, and supportive of collective action.

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