Welcome to Living Earth

Upcoming Events

July First Friday-on-Saturday July 4, 2009 Inter-Dependence Day Picnic Laurelhurst Park, SE 35th/Oak entrance 4:00-7:00 pm Join us for Living Earth's seventh annual July 4 Inter-Dependence Community Picnic, an afternoon in the park to celebrate creativity, cooperation, and inter-dependence... MORE» Friday, July 24, 2009 Explore the Bull Run Watershed 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Join us to hike and tour the old-growth forest of the Bull Run Watershed ... MORE» Joanna Macy's summer events in Oregon have been cancelled.

Our Featured Project Novozybkov Project Providing radiation monitors and education to Chernobyl downwinders. Help keep the world turning! Living Earth PO Box 86960 Portland, OR 97286 503/788-7311

Explore the Bull Run Watershed

Join us to hike and tour the old-growth forest of the Bull Run Watershed.

Naturally pure water flows into Portland's water system from the pristine protected Bull Run watershed on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. Generations of citizens have fought tirelessly since the 1880s to keep Bull Run protected.

From its breathtaking old growth forests, Bull Run provides some of the world's purest drinking water to 800,000 people in the Portland area. To ensure that the water is clean and uncontaminated, for more than 100 years human entry and activity in the watershed has been tightly restricted. Living Earth has scheduled a wonderful opportunity this summer to tour the water system and hike in the old-growth Bull Run forests. Read More»

The Heart of Change:
a conversation with Ram Dass

Living Earth has just completed production of the DVD, The Heart of Change: A Conversation with Ram Dass. Created with support from Werner Brandt at Netforest, this beautiful presentation is available for sale from Living Earth and ready to ship. Read More»

Living Earth Circles

Contemplative practice and social action

Living Earth Circles offer a framework to integrate contemplative inquiry and inner reflection into our lives, and into the actions we take on local and global concerns.

In a world facing unprecedented crises and change, transforming our own understanding of what it means to be human, of human purpose and potential, is central to our ability to positively influence conditions around us. Living Earth Circles provide a vehicle for integrating contemplative inquiry and reflection with skillful, effective social action on local and global issues. Read more»

Branches of the TreeLiving Earth is like a tree with strong branches and smaller twigs, greenery and blossoms that all grow from a solid trunk that is supported by a deep root system.

Part of our mission is to empower full-hearted action and activism, and this tree will help us do that. With this more cooperative, collective model, Living Earth will become a richer resource for our members and the greater community. Here's how it will look: Read more »

About Living Earth

Living Earth offers programs and events that challenge the long-standing cultural stories, models, and institutions that have brought our entire planet to a dangerous precipice. Our intention is to stimulate creative alternatives for conducting our personal, political, and cultural affairs and spark meaningful action for cultural change.

We convene community discussions, host visiting speakers, present public forums, and facilitate workshops that kindle an enlivened awareness of the rich opportunities and possibilities inherent in the human endeavor, possibilities for shaping our lives and human relationships to create a just, creative, sustainable, and peaceful world. We coordinate actions for peace and initiatives that support development of sustainable local communities.

We offer opportunities for deep reflection and spiritual grounding to cultivate spacious awareness and encourage a wide perspective on the social and global issues of our time. We believe wholeheartedly that when understanding changes, we begin to change the world. Read more »