Global Oneness Project

A Tribe the Size of the Entire World

Is there a global mind? Can it awaken?

Food Systems

Calling for systemic change in the way food is grown ...

Calling for systemic change in the way food is grown and delivered.

Two Views

For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both ...

For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both suspicion and hope. Politically and economically, oneness has been used to justify the elimination of diversity. At the same time, achieving a sustainable future requires an awakening to our shared fate as one species on one earth. Can these opposing…

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Our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate.

The Ecological Footprint

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this ...

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure. Pointing to our current over-expenditure, he explains how the ecological footprint can help us avoid ecological bankruptcy.

Greed

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta contrasts protecting and inhabiting ...

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta contrasts protecting and inhabiting nature with exploiting and removing from nature. According to Mr. Mehta, this is a choice between oneness and greed.

The World is On Fire

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta makes an urgent plea ...

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta makes an urgent plea for oneness in light of the climate change crisis. Only if every nation contributes positively for the benefit of all nations can a true transformation occur.

The Greatest Threat

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest ...

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners. What will happen when we realize the planet simply cannot support that level of excess?

Selfishness is the Root Cause

Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la explains ...

Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la explains that on both global and individual scales self-centeredness underlies conflict and suffering.

How should spiritual leaders share their knowledge with the world?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa suggests ...

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa suggests that spiritual leaders connect to the general public. Rather than connecting solely to their own groups of students, the Karmapa says spiritual leaders must reach beyond them to engage the larger population, and asserts that…