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Joanna Macy, PhD, teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. Interweavingher scholarship with six decades of activism, her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. Her group methods have been adopted and adapted widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing work. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises into constructive, collaborative action.As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change of seeing the world as our larger body. Macy's work on the Great Turning envisions a post-empire, post-corporate future for humanity based in sustainable, just, and caring communities. She continues to write and teach in Berkeley, California.
Praise for Joanna Macy This book ... invites readers into a thriving community of people who, like me, have been transformed by Joanna Macy's thought and practice. --Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case For a Green New Deal She was an environmentalist before that term was on every tongue.... Joanna Macy has come to embody a singular clarity of vision about the totality of what it means to be human--at this moment in time. Her wild love for the world is a beacon to us all. --Krista Tippett, host of On Being Joanna Macy is one of the planet's treasures. --Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
