Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author of eight books, and a scholar of Buddhism and deep ecology. Her latest book is Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of our Time, edited by Stephanie Kaza.

Trike Daily Society & Environment

No Time To Lose

We have to accept the reality that climate change is already here and learn to live in our new world—a world on fire.

By Joanna Macy

Nov 05, 2019

illustration of people on a mountain for story on sustainable human culture

Magazine Meditation & Practice

The Work That Reconnects

Mapping the transition to a sustainable human culture

By Joanna Macy and Sam Mowe, Illustration by Kevin Whipple

Spring 2015

Magazine Society & Environment

Allegiance to Life

Staying steady through the mess we’re in

An interview with Joanna Macy | Photographs by Douglas Beasley

Summer 2012

Magazine Society & Environment

The Greatest Danger

To open the doorway to realization we must first confront our despair

By Joanna Macy

Winter 2011

Magazine

Widening Circles

An interview with Joanna Macy and an excerpt from her new book

An interview with Joanna Macy by Tricycle

Winter 2000

Magazine Society & Environment

In the Time of Waste

Joanna Macy, author, activist, and Buddhist teacher, looks at time from the perspective of our nuclear legacy.

By Joanna Macy

Winter 1999

photo of trash on a beach for story about intentional ecology

Magazine Society & Environment

Schooling Our Intention

A Talk by Joanna Macy

By Joanna Macy

Winter 1993

Magazine Society & Environment

Positive Disintegration

An Interview with Joanna Macy

An interview with Joanna Macy by David Schneider

Spring 1993

Magazine

Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka

Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992. 238 pp. $14.95 (paperback). In the desperation sweeping our world today, religion plays an increasing role in civil conflict. Yet the case of Sri Lanka seems particularly, tragically puzzling. For this is Dhammadvipa, isle of the dharma, home of teachings that enshrine nonviolence. […]

By Joanna Macy

Winter 1992