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NEW BUDDHA WAY

 

Neither East nor West, but Here and Now

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MBW's practices of meditation, ethics and deep understanding are engaged with ordinary lives and the local and global society we live in now. The teachings of the Buddha were socially transformative in his own time: questioning gender roles, class and hierarchy, dogmatic religion and ritual, war and the meaning of work, and the treatment of animals. It can still be transformative at all levels. We can all think and do more about what we are, who we are, what kind of work we do and how it impacts on the lives of humans, animals and plants. These links on ethical living, peace initiatives and social justice reflect this engaged approach:

ETHICAL LIVING

The Alliance for Climate Protection
http://www.climateprotect.org/

Good Energy. Save the planet - Consume renewable energy at home
http://www.good-energy.co.uk

Friends of the Earth. Concerned about climate change, toxic chemicals, death of rainforests?
http://www.foe.co.uk

ECOVER
Less harmful detergent. 'Ecover' has minimal impact on aquatic life, only natural colouring, and cleans brilliantly!
http://www.ecover.com

WWF Toxics Campaign
Thousands of toxic chemicals everywhere, even in the blood of polar bears.
You can stop this.
http://www.wwf.org.uk

The Ethical Investment Cooperative
Invest only in what does not harm (or does the least harm)
For info email: info@ethicalmoney.org

Surrey WildLife Trust playing a vital local role in conservation and biodiversity
http://www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk

The Vegetarian Society
Eating meat brings mass cruelty to animals, damages your own health and is destroying the planet. See the scientific facts. The alternative is to eat nutritious and delicious vegetarian food, and grow vegetables.
http://www.vegsoc.org/

Centre for Alternative Technology
Practical solutions to environmental problems to carry us into the twenty-first century
http://www.cat.org.uk

National Car Share organisation
http://www.liftshare.org/uk

Slow food
http://www.slowfood.com/
Eco-gastronomy – a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet. Slow Food tastes good, produced in a way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health, and is produced by farmers that receive fair compensation for their work.

Slow Cities:
http://www.cittaslow.org.uk/
The Cittaslow approach involves living life at a human scale, respecting and supporting the environment and local traditions and preserving them for current and future generations to enjoy. Cittaslow UK is 'led' by Ludlow, the first town in the UK to be admitted to the Cittaslow network.

Slow Travel
http://www.slowtrav.com/
Travel slower, stay local, stay longer and get to know the locality.


PEACE INITIATIVES
Employment dependent on arms exports constitutes only 0.25 percent of the UK national labour force and far from providing jobs, it diverts skilled workers and investment away from more effective and sustainable job-creating activity in the civil economy. Any defence jobs lost could easily be accommodated within the overall job market, especially as the skilled manufacturing sector is currently facing shortages.

Arrow/Justice not Vengeance:
http://www.j-n-v.org/

Abolish War:
http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/home.shtml

Campaign Against the Arms Trade:
http://www.caat.org.uk/

Control Arms:
http://www.controlarms.org/index.htm

Peace workers:
http://www.peaceworkers.org.uk/

Scientists for Global Responsibility:
http://www.sgr.org.uk
(See SGR's 2005 downloadable report on UK military expenditure).

Oxford Research Group
Well-research reports on why arms exports are bad for Britain, etc.
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/

OneVoice MOvement
Grassroots, civil society movement that works in parallel within Israel and Palestine, seeking peace.
www.onevoicemovement.org

SOCIAL JUSTICE

AVAAZ.org - The World in Action
Peaceful action for economic justice, participatory democracy and disaster relief
http://www.avaaz.org/en/

RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD
Celebrates and supports people of vision: who have ideas and apply them in concrete initiatives for the public good
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/

OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL
Human and community development
http://www.outreach-international.org

THIRD WORLD NETWORK
http://www.twnside.org.sg/

NETZKRAFT
International network of persons and groups who commit themselves - socially, politically, ecologically or spiritually
http://netzkraft.net/en/index.php

IDEALIST.ORG
Action without borders
http://www.idealist.org


New Buddha Way     -      Neither East nor West, but Here and Now

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