Mar 17, 2025

About this Documentary Short: A scholar, activist, and Buddhist thinker, Joanna Macy, PhD, (1929-2025) has shaped movements worldwide. This short film highlights her

 Mar 17, 2025

About this Documentary Short: A scholar, activist, and Buddhist thinker, Joanna Macy, PhD, (1929-2025) has shaped movements worldwide. This short film highlights her impact on activism, nuclear guardianship, and personal transformation, and showcases how the Joanna Macy Center at Naropa continues to inspire hope and responsibility for future generations, both locally and beyond. About the Joanna Macy Center for Resilience & Regeneration: Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center seeks to advance Joanna Macy’s work and vision by empowering present and future generations to build a more resilient world that works for all. Our goal at the Center is to help Naropa students, faculty, and the broader community develop deep and loving relationships with themselves, each other, and nature. These healing connections inspire us to join together in collaborative action. As Dr. Macy reminds us, we are all interconnected, and this interconnectedness is the key to our healing. Join us for Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future, a powerful three-day conference at Naropa University, celebrating 50 years of visionary learning and action inspired by the legacy of Joanna Macy's The Work that Reconnects. In a time of deep social and ecological crisis, this gathering brings together frontline leaders from environmental activism, social justice, ecopsychology, Indigenous decolonization work, and more to reimagine what’s possible. Documentary Short Sponsors: This video is made possible by the incredible generosity and support of Christopher & LuAnne Hormel. Production: River North Media & Naropa University staff. 

'Active Hope," is the title of a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. In it, they eschew feel good denial, cynical disengagement and baseless optimism. In this talk, Macy summarized

'Active Hope," is the title of a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. In it, they eschew feel good denial, cynical disengagement and baseless optimism. In this talk, Macy summarized their message. As Macy and Johnstone wisely acknowledge, there are no comforting certainties involved in opting to work for change with ‘active hope:’ “…there are no guarantees that we’ll be able to turn things far or fast enough to safeguard our civilization, or indeed, to ensure the continued existence of conscious life on Earth. We will probably not know in our lifetimes whether we are serving as deathbed attendants to a dying world or as midwives to the next stage of human evolution.” But, act we must on the issues we care about. Taking their lead from Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone's new book Active Hope, Cynthia Papermaster and Harvey Wasserman organized this evening of multi-issue presentations, Januare 10, 2016 at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists.

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Joanna Macy (1929-2025) in Conversation with Jonathan F. P. Rose. January 14, 2021

Overview of Joanna's work with her husband beginning in government service through to

Joanna Macy (1929-2025) in Conversation with Jonathan F. P. Rose. January 14, 2021

Overview of Joanna's work with her husband beginning in government service through to today.

Excellent introduction to Joanna Macy. She is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is the author of twelve books. She was married to the late Francis Underhill Macy, the activist and Russian scholar who founded the Center for Safe Energy.

Joanna Macy (1929-2025) stresses that the Earth itself can teach us how to live within the limits of earth and do no harm. Visit the Joanna

Joanna Macy (1929-2025) stresses that the Earth itself can teach us how to live within the limits of earth and do no harm. Visit the Joanna Macy Website.

Eco-philospher Joanna Macy (1929-2025) from "The Work That Reconnects", talking about the concept of a Great Turning, the third major revolution, following agricultural and industrial ages. Ms.

Eco-philospher Joanna Macy (1929-2025) from "The Work That Reconnects", talking about the concept of a Great Turning, the third major revolution, following agricultural and industrial ages. Ms. Macy discusses in 2005 why our out-of-balance emphasis on profits is a doomed economic system.  Our values of what is worthwhile is bases for a necessary for a shift in consciousness. This is an incredible time to be alive. Visit Ms. Macy's Website.